On Saturday, President Donald Trump’s legal team released a strong, formal rebuke of the House-led impeachment against the president, accusing Democrats of using the Constitutional process as a means to undermine the results of the 2016 election, when Trump managed to win against the heavily-favored Hillary Clinton.
According to Fox News, Trump’s legal team criticized the substance behind the two articles of impeachment passed last year against the president, for “obstruction of Congress” and “abuse of power.”
“This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election now just months away,” one of the sources familiar with the statement reportedly said was in the legal document.
A good friend of mine wrote a letter to their hometown newspaper which states the case for non-impeachment of Trump to the point. They said:
“This is all just an effort by the Democrat Socialists to subvert the will of the U.S. electorate; the Socialists don’t like the way we voted in 2016 so they’re attempting to invalidate our votes. We have a constitutional right to a freely elected government, this vile quixotic endeavor by the Socialists decimates that right.
These “articles of impeachment” do not include a single molecule of illegal activity or wrongdoing on Trump’s part. Trump is 100% innocent of the wrongdoing levied against him by the Democrat Socialists. He’s been charged with nothing, he’s been convicted of nothing. He and his entire staff have had their 4th Amendment rights egregiously violated. Yet, according to the Socialists, he has no constitutional presumption of innocence and has been tried and convicted.”
That is all so true and well said and now Trump’s approval numbers turned positive the day after Pelosi signs impeachment articles. Ahh, revenge will be sweet in November.
Recently on MSNBC’s “The Beat,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a member of Trump’s legal team, picked apart the two articles of impeachment House Democrats have impeached him for.
According to Breitbart, Dershowitz said that the obstruction of Congress charge against President Trump “is completely made up. The president invoked his executive authority, separation of powers, checks and balances.
Regarding abuse of power, Dershowitz stated, “virtually half of American presidents, from Adams, to Jefferson, to Lincoln, to Roosevelt, have been accused of abuse of power, and the framers explicitly rejected those kinds of broad, open-ended criteria. They were fearful that it would empower Congress to turn the presidency into the prime ministership of England, where the prime minister can have his tenure ended by a simple vote of no confidence. That’s not what the framers wanted. They wanted specific criteria for impeachment, and none of those criteria, in my view, have been met. And I will layout that argument.”
Dershowitz added that “abuse of power, even if proved, is not an impeachable offense. That’s exactly what the framers rejected. They didn’t want to give Congress the authority to remove a president because he abused his power.
Meanwhile, the socialist Democrats darling Quid Pro Joe Biden who is the real guilty party of what they are accusing Trump of walks unscathed. Trump just asked the Ukraine President to look into corruption on Biden’s part. Biden, on the other hand, threatened the Ukraine president with gangster style tactics by holding off on giving them a billion dollars in taxpayer-funded aid unless he fired the prosecutor investigating his son. “Fire the prosecutor and you get the billion dollars. Don’t fire him and you don’t get it. You’ve got six hours to do it,” Biden told him.
The Ukrainian president fired the prosecutor and he got the billion dollars. Biden is on tape bragging about it and the media does a 180 and turns a blind eye to it saying the tape doesn’t exist when it is right there in front of them and you can see it below.
The Dems also accuse Trump of withholding military aid to Ukraine when their guy Obama withheld it for three years. Trump just withheld it for 50 days until they could be sure to trust the new incoming president. They did get the aid that Obama never delivered, but Trump is the bad guy.
The Dems also want to include the fact that Trump didn’t inform them when he took out Solemeni in the impeachment articles. If he informed them I’m sure they would have leaked that out and Solemeni would have escaped continuing his reign of terror. Trump has taken out the two biggest terrorists with Al Bagdadi and Solemeni and the world is much better off without them, but the Dems oppose everything Trump does and therefore they and the media are truly the enemies of the people.
Where oh where are the indictments?
This impeachment scam is a personal vendetta PIGLOUSEY has against Trump Just so she could say I impeached you and that is forever.Impeachment?
This talk about impeachment of the our President is stupid inane and ludicrous. Not to mention infinitely more absurd than the following mendacities AKA corruption during the Øb☭m☭ bin lyin Administration.
1) The Iran Nuclear Deal courtesy of Øb☭m☭ and his equally idiotic Secretary of State , John Kerry. WHEN THE IRANIANS REFUSED INSPECTION OF TWO MILITARY INSTALLATIONS THAT OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN A RED FLAG STARING YOU AND THE IAEA INSPECTORS IN THE FACE AND SHOULD NEVER HAVE PROCEEDED TO PLAY STUPID FOOLS TO THE IRANIANS
2) What was that emergency airlift in the dead of night of that $400 million CASH, no doubt of taxpayer money in an unmarked aircraft bound for Teheran to the waiting arms of radical hateful Mullahs
and smiling faces of the IRG’s ( Iranian Revolutionary Guards). Didn’t you stupid LIEberals comprehend anticipate they were speaking Farsi, “Dumb Stupid Americans”?
3) Just as infuriating is the reported return of $1.6 (or is it $1.8 or worse $ 160 billion?) in frozen Iranian assets since 1979? Or was it a ransom payment for at least four American citizens held hostage in Iranian prisons? And Mr. John Kerry, you Sir (I cringe when I think of addressing you as sir or honorable for you are not even close to being honorable), like to fancy yourself as being an expert negotiator. Yet there was nary a word about a fifth American patriot, Barry Levinson a former intelligence officer held in Iran even far longer than any of the four who got released? There is no need to ask how you would you feel if you were him or a family member, as you like all LIEberals, only think and feel about yourselves. There is no closure nor will there be any. One might ask how the hell you are able to sleep at night. Then again, like ALL LIEberals you have no conscience
4) Let’s reflect upon that extremely stupid swap of five terrorists masterminds held at Guantanamo for one Traitorous Army deserter? And let’s not forget to consider the loss of life of those tasked to search for that POS TRAITOR!!! INTELLIGENCE informed you what would occur should those TERRORISTS be released, and true to form, just as reported, a number of them returned to the battlefield to kill Americans. You in the Øb☭m☭ bin lyin administration are so arrogant you never listened or learned your lesson. did you? – SHOCKING – SHOCKING indeed!
5) It has been well documented that the so-called, Uranium One Deal transacted during the Øb☭m☭ bin lyin administration ceded ownership and control of 20-25 percent of US- manufactured Uranium stockpile to
Kremlin oligarchs. How do you know cronies of Putin have not sold the Uranium or part of it to Iranians which fights a proxy war and either use it to bomb Israel or any other allies or worse even the USA?
I understand the deal required 9 signatories including the FBI when Mueller was DIRECTOR and the State Dept when HRC was Secretary. — If that was not high TREASON, I do not know what is. OBVIOUSLY you don’t either!!!
6) Why was there no emergency assistance rendered to the American Consulate staff in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 when radical terrorists of Al Qaeda persuasion stormed plundered and torched the compound despite a reported 600 or so frantic desperate calls or email messages from Ambassador Christopher Stevens begging for preventative measures to be taken? Other than blaming this “event” on an internet video, what do you say to the families of Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, Glenn Doherty and the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens?
Again if this was not malfeasance which is more like HIGH TREASON, nothing is!!!
7) Who should have been accountable for the murder of border agent, Officer Brian Terry during that stupidly idiotic “Fast and Furious'” sting operation set-up by the Eric Holder-led DOJ?
8) Madam Speaker, have you seen a copy of the bona fide birth certificate of Øb☭m☭ bin lyin lately? And you arrogant Democrats have even the gall and inane effrontery of talking about impeaching President Trump at a time of economic prosperity for the American people? – Unless of course unbeknownst to me, you are indeed truly more fatuous than I thought.
Impeachment? Madam Speaker, you are one administration too late!!!
Demorrhoids “CLAIM” that Trump Lies, is a Russian agent, a puppet for Putin etc. No one has been able to explain to me, in common and rational language, what it is that our President is doing that is so bad for America let alone committed ANY CRIME that motivates them to hate him and his supporters.
Has Trump proposed taking away any of our Constitutional rights? Have any of our rights disappeared? Has Trump proposed levying higher taxes? Has Trump caused the economy to fail? Has Trump started any new wars? Have minorities suffered more under Trump’s leadership than any previous Administrations?
Did Trump run guns into Mexico? Did Trump direct the IRS to target Leftists non-profit groups? Did Trump spy on journalists? No, I think Trump’s biggest sin was exposing the corruption of, and humiliating the Left as well as those in the entitlement culture since the 2016 Presidential election.
No one has been able to explain to me, in common and rational language, what it is that our President is doing that is so bad for America let alone committed ANY CRIME that motivates them to hate him and his supporters. Has Trump proposed taking away any of our Constitutional rights? Have any of our rights disappeared? Has Trump proposed levying higher taxes? Has Trump caused the economy to fail? Has Trump started any new wars? Have minorities suffered more under Trump’s leadership than any previous Administrations? Did Trump run guns into Mexico? Did Trump direct the IRS to target Leftists non-profit groups? Did Trump spy on journalists? No, I think Trump’s biggest sin was exposing the corruption of, and humiliating the Left as well as those in the entitlement culture since the 2016 Presidential election.
Which Øb☭m☭ accomplishments do you consider to be his best? Allowed men in the women’s room * Gave our enemy Iran billions of dollars * Failed to secure our southern border * Obstructed the construction of the Keystone Pipeline *Weaponizing the IRS using Lois Lerner to hinder conservative non-profit groups * Used the NSA and Clapper to spy on average American citizens and the Associated Press then LIE about it * Swapping five Taliban Commanders for Bowe Bergdhal a spineless Army deserter * Ran up the National Dept past $20 trillion * Using the U.S. government in the vast expansion of Racial Division * Disrespecting Law Enforcement to the point of being killed in ambushes * Failed economic stimulus plan * Caused the price of healthcare to rise drastically * Constant disregard the Rule of Law – our Constitution * Failed to stop housing foreclosures (the Clinton Legacy) * Failed to stop the erosion of the education system * Not only failed to curb but increased the cost of higher education * Highest percentage of people on food stamps both legal and illegal * Lowest GDP on record for eight years * Highest unemployment on record * Denied the idea of American Exceptionalism * Benghazi * Using his pen and phone to circumvent the U.S. Constitution. Went on an “Apology Tour” * All the LIES about the “Affordable Healthcare Act” Øb☭m☭care * Weaponizing the CIA and FBI then Submitting phony documentation to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign * Then top this all off boasting that there wasn’t a “smidgen” of corruption!!! Now that takes GALL!!!
Lying, Obfuscation, and Deflection are tools LIEberals use to promote their agenda and confuse suckers who believe these fabrications No lie is too egregious or action so outrageous to promote their agenda.
Any person interested in governance and/or in politics will always have a “side” in any discussion. In a civil society, there is debate and argument between holders of opposite points of view. Each will often vilify the others’ positions or assertions. But in an effective, working society, the vast majority confines that argument to the assertions and policies of the opponent, NOT the character or essence of that opponent. We are the sum of all our beliefs, traits and positions (and those are subject to change over the course of our lives). Our position on any one matter doesn’t automatically make us evil or a lawless psychopath. So…I disagree with the assessment of the Democrat party and its members…even though I am diametrically opposed to their policies (for reasons that are superfluous to this article). But I totally agree the TODAY’S MEDIA HAVE SHOWN THEMSELVES TO BE THE ENEMY OF DEMOCRATICALLY INTENDED GOVERNMENT and have acted treasonously in a) abandoned objective analysis and reporting of all political events, b) acted to censor and fail to report on newsworthy events when it did not suit their desired narrative, and c) created untruthful (and reported others’) “news” reports to serve their own (both their publishers’ and their) political agendas. They have also allowed their personal dislike and hatred to focus the editorial-tinged presentation of their stories.
It is true that most of these actions have also been taken by Democrat Party members. But that is to be expected when emotions run high. What is NOT expected is for the Media (what was described by our founding fathers as “the Press) to abandon their professional standards of reporting and not only take sides, but REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARE PARTISAN.
The Press used to have standards. I know. I, in the last century studies and prepared for a career in Journalism. I spent multiple semesters learning how to report the details of an event (the time-tested “who,” “when,” “where,” “what,” “why,” & “how.”) without using adjectives that could be interpreted by a reader or a listener as a signal of whether what was reported was “good,”…or “bad.” My professional obligation to the reader/listener AND myself, was to not only allow, but to MANDATE that the reader/listener decide for him or her self how to view the story. That is the essence of participatory government and civilization…to enable the people to decide, not to take that power away. And TODAY’S MEDIA IS ATTEMPTING TO DEPRIVE WE, THE PEOPLE, OF THE RIGHT AND PRIVILEGE TO DECIDE MATTERS FOR OURSELVES.
Any intelligent person should and will suspect assertions from various sources are self-serving and perhaps duplicitous. But we shouldn’t have to distrust a media that has been granted remarkably extensive Constitutional protections as they abuse and abandon the obligations concurrent with the protections. And yet that is exactly what the media has done and why we not only cannot trust them, but we should insist that their Constitutional protections be removed…they no longer warrant those privileges.
Trump’s halo may be lopsided and tarnished….at least he has one !!
Pity these wretched Americans that have been so consumed by greed and hate they lost all logic and sense of values that made their jobs possible…pity, but vote them out