The day Speaker Nancy
Pelosi announced she would open up impeachment proceedings against President
Trump I called it a coup. It was obvious to me then
and more obvious to me today that we are headed to a dangerous place (a dangerous place).
Trump’s impeachment trial
in the Senate begins next week and it’s clear that this will not be a walk in
the park for the President. Anyone dismissing this because the Republicans hold
the Senate simply do not understand why this impeachment exists in the first
place.
It is the ultimate form
of leverage over a President whose desire to end the wars in the Middle East is
anathema to the entrenched powers in the D.C. Swamp.
This is what I said back in September:
The
Democrats would not be pushing for this if they didn’t think they have the
votes in the House and the Senate to get this done. Ignore the
conventional wisdom on this. They were wrong in the UK.[about
the courts upholding Johnson proroguing Parliament]
They will be wrong here, unless Trump has something else up his sleeve.
His removing John Bolton and refusal to attack Iran is driving the neoconservatives to apoplexy. They want their holy war against the apostate Shi’ites and they will get it. Mike Pence will be their avatar until such time as he can be removed through a sham election in 2020.
If this wasn’t the case they wouldn’t be risking what’s left of their political future defending a senile old man, Joe Biden, who they don’t actually want to be the candidate anyway.
It’s a coup folks.
They will be wrong here, unless Trump has something else up his sleeve.
His removing John Bolton and refusal to attack Iran is driving the neoconservatives to apoplexy. They want their holy war against the apostate Shi’ites and they will get it. Mike Pence will be their avatar until such time as he can be removed through a sham election in 2020.
If this wasn’t the case they wouldn’t be risking what’s left of their political future defending a senile old man, Joe Biden, who they don’t actually want to be the candidate anyway.
It’s a coup folks.
Take this one step farther. You don’t start this process if you
aren’t going to use what it gives you. Thinking only in terms of the Democrats’
horrific slate of challengers to Trump betrays the myopia of most political
analysts.
They see things, wrongly, in terms of partisanship. This isn’t
primarily about Democrat v. Republican. This isn’t even just about Clinton v.
Trump and a temper tantrum.
Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a
trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, “no pressure”
Impeachment Hoax, rather than an outright dismissal, it gives the partisan
Democrat Witch Hunt credibility that it otherwise does not have. I agree!
— Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2020
And you have to ask yourself the question why would Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell go along with a real trial unless the fix was in?
Because, as Trump rightly
points out, he’s got the approval rating nationally and within his own party.
He’s a lock for re-election. So, given the clear unconstitutionality of these
impeachment articles (which I discussed previously) why is this even
still a thing?
Because Trump is going to be taken out.
The events of the past twelve days since Trump murdered IRGC
General Qassem Soleimani prove this beyond any doubt. Impeachment was the
leverage point to drive open a wedge between Republicans and Trump through
Iran.
Pelosi slow-walking the articles of impeachment to the Senate was
all part of the pantomime, folks. She gets what she wants:
Congress asserting more power and the Democrats shoring up their base by taking
out an eyesore in Trump.
She waits just long
enough for Trump to do something questionable and for it to be made known
publicly.
The neocons in the Senate get what they want — further escalation of
pressure on Iran with the hope of destroying them. Moreover, they prove to Trump,
Israel, the MIC and the world that they are still fully in charge of U.S.
foreign policy.
The Swamp Strikes Back and puts Trump in a no-win situation.
The Wall St. Journal article from this
weekend which intimated that Trump made the decision to kill Soleimani was
motivated by shoring up his support in the Israeli
Occupied Senate is further proof.
“Mr. Trump,
after the strike, told associates he was under pressure to deal with Gen.
Soleimani from GOP senators he views as important supporters in his coming
impeachment trial in the Senate, associates said,” the newspaper reported.
It’s not like Trump hasn’t let
missiles fly to appease the Neocons in the past. He did it with the bombing of
the Al Shairat airbase in Syria back in April of 2017. Remember, that was the
night the MSM and Congress declared Trump suitably “Presidential.”
Then he did it again four months
later, doubling our presence in Afghanistan in the hopes of
getting Obamacare repealed. Oh, by the way, Lindsey Graham reneged
on that deal.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper doing the Sunday talk show
circuit to throw the President under the bus about his intelligence seals the
deal.
What an astoundingly embarrassing “defense” of President
Trump’s claim of bomb threats to four embassies.
“What the President said was he believed it probably could have been. He didn’t cite intelligence.”
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper pic.twitter.com/b5LwrlbC4K
“What the President said was he believed it probably could have been. He didn’t cite intelligence.”
– Defense Secretary Mark Esper pic.twitter.com/b5LwrlbC4K
— Ryan Goodman
(@rgoodlaw) January 12, 2020
Now Pelosi wants to add more charges to the docket and McConnell
is going for a trial, when he should just outright dismiss these charges. I
told you that this all comes down to McConnell and how he handles the terms of
the trial.
He sets the table for this. And if he’s not tilting it in
Trump’s favor, Donald is right to be worried.
Trump’s killing Soleimani
gives them plenty of cover to do so. His lack of consistency in defending the act
will be used against him. That’s why Esper told the world Trump didn’t have
proof of an imminent threat.
So,
Trump, often his own worst enemy, then defends himself by saying
Soleimani just needed killin’.
The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are
working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist
Soleimani was “imminent” or not, & was my team in agreement. The answer to
both is a strong YES., but it doesn’t really matter because of his horrible
past!
— Donald J. Trump
(@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2020
It’s all being stage-managed by a nearly rogue Secretary of State Mike Pompeoand
facilitated through Lindsey Graham. The events that led up to Iran’s missile
attack on our bases in Iraq should not be taken at face value.
Killing one U.S. oil contractor does not justify attacks on five
PMU bases ringing the Iraqi/Syrian border crossing between Al Qaim and Al
Bukamai.
It certainly doesn’t necessitate taking the conflict all the way
to the point of Iran firing missiles at our airbases in Iraq.
Don’t think for a second that if Graham feels Trump isn’t
sufficiently controlled at this point that he won’t, in the end, wring his
hands and vote for his removal from office because the President’s
decision-making skills are questionable.
If the Swamp truly wants Trump removed from office then this
impeachment trial is their best chance of getting that done. At this point we
have a handful of open Republican turncoats. Swelling that number to twenty in
the Senate is not that hard.
Remember, twenty is a helluva lot smaller than the millions of
voters that would have to turn against Trump to elect Hillary Clinton waiting
in the wings to emerge from a brokered Democratic convention this summer.
That’s what’s fundamentally wrong with representative forms of
government.
And even then, Pence v. Clinton would be a close affair because
of the deep divisions within the electorate and Hillary’s fundamental evil.
Either way, the Swamp wins.
Nothing happens in D.C. that doesn’t become a weapon in these
people’s hands.
To think Pelosi wouldn’t
use this to its fullest is terminally naive. To think Trump is savvy enough to
see the game board in all its complexity having not one truly loyal staff (or
family) member is also naive.
To
think McConnell is anything more than an order-taker from
those above him is the height of naivete.
I give Trump credit for navigating things to this point and
keeping the violence to a minimum, but if he’s going to go down, he better be
prepared to go scorched earth in the process.
It’s his only chance at survival and fulfilling even one of his
many campaign promises.
Either way, the U.S.
electorate will not stand for removing Trump over this. And they shouldn’t. I
may be angry with Trump for his recent actions, but this impeachment is the
height of lunacy. And when something this ludicrous goes this far, it means the
fix is in.
The Flying Monkeys have taken over the
asylum. The existence of this trial is itself an inflection point in history.
The rest is just a chase
scene.