Trump Impeachment Joke

Presidents Zelensky and Trump

At the end of my last post I engaged in a little conspiracy theorizing of my own. I admitted that I had been naive in hoping, after President Trump's inauguration over two and a half years ago, that people would look at the deeds of his administration and "not his words, or past behavior." Although opposition politicians and liberal commentators were claiming that the Trump Presidency would not last more than a few weeks, or that the country would go down the drain, I thought it best to wait and see. But now, 

  I have come to believe that the whole Russia collusion issue was just a smoke screen designed by the President’s opponents to drive any Trump achievements off the headlines. Now that the Mueller investigation has turned up nothing, the opposition has come up with other headline grabbing issues like Insanity, White Supremacy, and even Impeachment.

Sure enough, Impeachment has reared its head as a result of the leaking of a document from a whistleblower in the intelligence community about President Trump's conversation with the President of the Ukraine, himself a former popular comedian. Even though Progressives in the Democratic party have been clamoring for President Trump's impeachment from day one, Nancy Pelosi, their leader in the House of Representatives, had held out against impeachment. 

Apparently, she finally had to bow to the pressure. Immediately, the media had to jump on board. My local newspaper threw all caution to the winds with a long lead editorial supporting impeachment. I read the editorial and could not find among the verbiage any real grounds for impeachment. I wrote the following to the newspaper.

In a lengthy editorial the CT Post strongly supported the impeachment of President Trump. It claimed that since his inauguration the President has engaged in self-enrichment and obstruction of justice. I am a longtime subscriber but do not recall reading anything in the past two and a half years in the paper that details these charges.

Please provide the evidence for self-aggrandizement and obstruction of justice that amount to “high crimes and misdemeanors” especially since the exhaustive Mueller report found none. 

The paper printed the letter today under another lengthy editorial that included some of the President’s misdeeds. Although the paper did not mention “high crimes and misdemeanors,” it did claim “there is already a mountain of evidence implicating President Donald Trump with conduct far outside the accepted norms of a democratic leader.”

Here is the mountain of evidence. 

For instance, the U.S. Constitution forbids federal officeholders from receiving any gifts or payments from foreign entities, but in the same phone call with the Ukrainian President we see evidence that Trump is in violation. “I stayed in the Trump Tower,” President Volodyrmyr Zelensky says of his last trip to the U.S. Since Trump never divested himself from his business and continues to profit from it, he is in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause, according to many legal scholars, and it’s just one of countless examples on that score.”

Of course, not one of the countless examples is listed. Next, the editorial states that the Mueller report found “multiple occasions when the President apparently obstructed justice” but also fails to point out any of the occasions.

The mountain of evidence seems more like the proverbial molehill. A visiting dignitary checks into the Trump Tower and that represents a violation of the Constitution. I wonder if any foreign dignitaries put Heinz Ketchup on their hamburgers when visiting the country when John Kerry was Secretary of State. Would it have been a violation of the Constitution if President Trump had accepted an invitation from President Zelensky to watch him perform at a comedy club in Kiev?  

If the Democrats want to find self-aggrandizement in office holders, they just have to look in the mirror.  How did ex-President Obama, a former community organizer, manage to buy a $14 Million vacation home in trendy Martha’s Vineyard? How did former Vice-President Biden’s son manage to get a $50000 monthly salary from a Ukrainian gas company with no qualifications whatsoever? If President Zelensky ever returns to comedy, he probably has found plenty of material in American politics.

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