Impeachment Trial Aftermath – Acquittal is Not Enough

With the Impeachment Trial acquittal of President Trump, the typical somewhat sane American is glad the Schiff Show is finally over, or at least this episode.  Further, it is gratifying that the acquittal was by a majority in spite of a certain RINO backstabber from Utah.  But, sadly, the impetus behind this travesty of an impeachment is not over and will not be over unless American voters make it end. 

To understand my unhappy viewpoint, we must back up and look at the bigger picture.  Democrats with a few RINO allies have been engaged in a coup against constitutional democracy since well before Trump’s inauguration.  To go through the entire coup would make this post almost as long as the Democrat Impeachment Managers’ 24 hour presentation.  But Jack Posobiec has a good summary of how the Russia hoax and the Mueller investigation part of the coup started.  And I have been following the coup since just after the election.

I noted efforts to pressure and subvert the Electoral College.

I noted the Obama Administration weaponizing the FBI, the CIA, and even the NSC against Trump and his election. 

The FBI even lied to FISA courts in order to spy on Trump. 

The coup against Trump has been going on long before Schiff and Co. used the plotting Fake Whistleblower to push the coup into impeachment.

Some Democrats have even sought to make it illegal to vote for Trump.  I am not exaggerating. Democrats in Washington State and New Jersey sought to block Trump from the 2020 ballot.   

I could go on and on, but the Democrat Party has never respected the election of Donald Trump in 2016, not even now after more than three years. Heck, with the partial exception of 2004, they haven’t respected a Republican Presidential victory since 1988.  And their modus operandi when they can’t get what they want through democratic Constitutional avenues has long been to go to Hacks in Black they’ve appointed as federal judges.  Now an additional method is a perpetual coup seeking gridlock, then impeachment.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually tearing up her copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address is only the cherry on the top of Democrat utter disrespect of us electing Donald Trump.

Did I mention I could go on?

In short, the Democratic Party has become an UN-democratic party that only respects elections when they win. 

It is hard to think of anything more dangerous to a Constitutional democracy than to have a major party that utterly disrespects Constitutional democracy.

History tells us that when such parties do win, there is no guarantee of another free, fair, and meaningful election in the lifetime of those foolish enough to elect them.  Democrats have already been brazen in their attempts to rig elections in any number of ways, including destroying election security and using the powers of the FBI and the IRS.  What would they now do to our elections should they gain power?  Make “racist” incorrect votes illegal? They have already shown a willingness to cancel out the votes of American citizens with the votes of illegals and of dead people.  

And even after Trump’s two appointments, the Supreme Court is only one or two appointments away from tearing up the Constitution at the behest of the Democrat Party.  To assume our Constitutional republic can survive another Democrat President is assuming something indeed.

Seeing that we cannot outlaw the Democrat Party as Germany outlawed the Nazi Party, there is only one way to deal with such a party. Americans must rise up and defeat the Democrat Party again and again and again until they either go the way of the Whigs or until they reform themselves and expel the quasi-totalitarians who refuse to respect our Constitutional democracy.

Yes, that may be wishful thinking on my part.  But we are too close to the point where we have no alternative.  We must never allow these anti-democratic DemocRATS to gain power in this country if we wish to remain a free, democratic, and Constitutional republic.

And even if I am overwrought and we can somehow survive Democrat victory, do we really want to reward them with our votes when they have so disrespected our votes again and again?  If you want more disrespect for constitutional democracy, then rewarding them is the surest way to get it.

Far more than policy differences are at stake.  Hey, believe it or not, I have frequently voted for Democrats and respect many of the Democrats of the past.  I still have policy differences with almost all of them, but many of them loved America and our Constitutional democracy. Today’s Democrats are a different breed altogether and one that smells of a totalitarianism that refuses to respect the Constitutional rights of political opponents.  Thanks to them, the integrity of our Constitutional democracy is indeed at stake this November.

We must punish this perpetual coup against Trump and, more importantly, against our constitutional democracy.  If we cherish our freedoms and our right to govern ourselves, we have no choice.

The Democrat Party MUST be punished in November and in Novembers to come.

The Whistleblower in Early 2017: “Take out” Trump

The current Impeachment Show Trial is not about some phone call to the Ukraine; it is about taking out Trump.  It has always been about a coup to “take out” Trump even when he was just inaugurated:

Barely two weeks after Donald Trump took office, Eric Ciaramella – the CIA analyst whose name was recently linked in a tweet by the president and mentioned by lawmakers as the anonymous “whistleblower" who touched off Trump's impeachment – was overheard in the White House discussing with another staffer how to remove the newly elected president from office, according to former colleagues….

Two former co-workers said they overheard Ciaramella and Misko, close friends and Democrats held over from the Obama administration, discussing how to “take out,” or remove, the new president from office within days of Trump’s inauguration. These co-workers said the president’s controversial Ukraine phone call in July 2019 provided the pretext they and their Democratic allies had been looking for.

“They didn’t like his policies,” another former White House official said. "They had a political vendetta against him from Day One.”

Read the Real Clear Investigations article for more on their mutinous conversation.  Again, Eric Ciaramella is alleged to be the “Whistleblower” who provided the pretext for the impeachment and Misko later worked for Adam Schiff, the ringleader of House impeachment efforts.  These Deep State Democrat buddies have been looking for a pretext to “take out” Trump practically from Day One.  And they are far from alone.  Oh, Adam Schiff and the other Democrat Impeachment Managers portray this cabal as principled and “non-partisan.”  They are lying.

I know some may think me conspiratorial for calling all this a coup.  But the more that comes out, the more I am proven correct.  

Trump will almost certainly be acquitted in the ongoing Impeachment Trial.  The question is will we make Democrats pay for their attacks on Constitutional democracy, for their perpetual attempts to nullify our votes, for their perpetual coup? 

Democrats Schiffing to Disaster?

As if Democrats are not courting disaster enough with their transparently partisan and flimsy impeachment as part of their perpetual coup, Speaker Pelosi has appointed Adam Schiff to be the lead Manager for the Senate impeachment trial.

I could not think of a worse appointment . . . from the Democrats’ point of view.  His lying, leaking, and bad faith, not to mention his general smarminess, will become exposed in a fair trial.  The average American will see right through him.

It will be Psalm 7:15 in action.

I will surely say more.

Here We Go Again...

One would think Leftists would learn that one way to lose the next election is to disrespect voters in the last election.  Disrespect for the 2016 Brexit Referendum certainly hurt both Labour and the LibDems in last week’s UK General Election.  One would think that would be a learning experience.

One would think.

But no.  The day after the election, Leftists took to UK streets to protest . . . what? Voters? Free elections? Those sort of anti-democratic temper tantrums might have sold in the Weimar Republic, but last I looked, most British prefer democracy with their Queen, thank you.

Oh, and here’s where Leftist whining gets beyond satire. The founders of Fusion GPS, purveyors of lies used in the perpetual coup against Trump, these scumbags are blaming . . . Russia.  No I am not kidding:

The founders of Fusion GPS, the Democrat-backed consulting firm behind the famously discredited Christopher Steele dossier at the heart of the Russia hoax, are blaming Russia for the liberal Labour Party’s loss in the U.K. elections Thursday. Seriously….

“Britain needs its own Mueller report on Russian ‘interference,’” [Guardian] editors titled the article.

“The British political system has become thoroughly compromised by Russian influence,” Simpson and Fritsch declared. “In 2016, both the United Kingdom and the United States were the targets of Russian efforts to swing their votes.

But us in The Colonies had better not laugh too hard.  For Democrats and Leftists (But I repeat myself.) are already making it known ahead of time that they have no intention of respecting the 2020 elections should Trump get re-elected.  California Democrat Rep. Karen Bass, for one, says they just might impeach Trump yet again after 2020.  And Democrat House Judiciary Chairman Nadler is openly saying the 2020 election will be rigged if Trump is not impeached and removed.

Yes, Americans might collude by voting to re-elect Trump. How dare they!

All this may amuse, but it should also disturb as well.  For a major party again and again so to disrespect elections they don’t win is dangerous to a country.  And that is the situation in the US and UK today.

This Leftist impulse against democracy and against the rights of political opponents makes me fear what will happen if and when Democrats or Labour do win.  We must not let that happen at least until they transform themselves into parties that actually respect constitutional democracy even when they don’t win.

Now we know who is the “Whistleblower” and why Democrats covered him up.

NOTE: Now the Whistleblowing Creep is using his lawyers to intimidate those who expose him and his partisan participation in the Coup against Trump and democracy. I don't want to deal with lawyers, so I've edited this post slightly.

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For weeks, a deep oh-so-important secret of the Democrats has been the identity of the “Whistleblower” against Trump. It’s for his protection don’tcha know.

Well, it is coming out that the secrecy was for the protection of the Democrats and their attempted coup. The “Whistleblower” by credible reports is [He Who Must Not Be Named].  And he is much more a back-stabbing, leaking, DemocRAT, Trump-hating little mole than a whistleblower:

Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old [He Who Must Not Be Named]  a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.

Further, [He Who Must Not Be Named] left his National Security Council posting in the White House’s West Wing in mid-2017 amid concerns about negative leaks to the media. He has since returned to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

“He was accused of working against Trump and leaking against Trump,” said a former NSC official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.

And on the basis of this sleezy Obama boy’s hit job, House Democrats have been running a kangaroo court “impeachment inquiry.” No wonder Democrats have been hiding [He Who Must Not Be Named].

Coup Update

Legal Insurrection has an excellent summary and update of the Democrat/Deep State Coup:

Using foreign-supplied fake intelligence, from a British spy who utilized Russian sources, to obtain surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition team didn’t work.

Intimidating Electoral College Electors to change their votes after the election didn’t work.

Having the Director of the FBI lie to, set up and try to entrap the president didn’t work.

Having that same FBI Director leak memos to the media to manufacture grounds for a Special Counsel didn’t work.

Trying to invoke the 25th Amendment to declare the president unable to perform the job didn’t work.

Two years of the Mueller Investigation didn’t work.

Three years of a permanent crisis news cycle meant to paralyze the administration didn’t work.

After all these failures to unwind the 2016 election, Democrats and the mainstream media are trying a new tactic: Create a Star Chamber “impeachment” process fueled by anonymous whistleblowers and selective leaks that is not so much designed to remove the president, though they would if they could, but to manipulate the 2020 election.

Yep. But there is more.  Do read the whole update.

I do want to note something else the article points out – that Democrats are less concerned about getting to the truth than they are about shutting out Republicans. That’s why the impeachment effort remains unofficial, and that’s why the latest accusers are working under the cloak of whistleblower rules.  House Republicans pretty much cannot cross-examine or do their own investigation.  It’s not fair play at all.

Ha! Fair play from Democrats and the Deep State.  Silly me.

Speaking of whistleblowers, last week I predicted more whistleblowers.  Right again.

Has the Deep State Coup Turned to “Whistleblowers”?

I posted yesterday about whistleblowing rules being changed to enable hearsay “whistleblowing.”  That story has now blown up as it should.  (Here is one good update.)  It is pretty much a smoking gun that the whistleblowing being used as a pretext to impeach Trump is manufactured by the Deep State.

Now that I’ve had time to digest this aspect of the ongoing and perpetual coup against Trump, something disturbing has occurred to me.  It is very possible that we will see more and more fake hearsay whistleblowers against Trump.  In fact, the Deep State is practically calling for that per former CIA director John Brennan’s tweet:

A reminder to federal officials: There is no limit on the number of individuals who can use the whistleblower statute. If you think you were involved in unlawful activity as a result of a directive from Mr. Trump or someone doing his bidding, now is the time to report it.

Thus the regs may have been changed to unleash not just one fake complaint but a wave of manufactured whistleblowing against Trump to create the illusion of massive wrongdoing.

If you think I am just being paranoid, I hope you are right. Trust me that I do.  If the ongoing coup is not abandoned but instead becomes more intense, I fear for this country.

The Big Picture

Hillary calling Trump’s election “illegitimate” and yesterday’s post about Deep State bureaucrats changing whistleblowing rules to enable hearsay whistleblowing against Trump prompt me to present the big picture of what is going on in American politics today.

That big picture was presented quite well by my alter ego and Daniel Greenfield in the first months of Trump’s presidency.  In short, the Left and the Democrat Party only accept election results when they win. You have to go back to 1988 to find a Republican presidential election victory that Democrats did not dispute.  And back then there were still some sane people in the Democrat Party or at least more than there are now.

And with the 2016 election of Trump, the first President since Reagan to actively oppose instead of enable Democrat designs on America, Democrats have doubled down on not accepting the result and, with the support of the Deep State, have been engaged in a continual coup against that election since before Trump’s inauguration.

If you want to get the really big picture, this is part of Leftist Democrats only accepting the Constitution and the Rule of Law when it serves their ends.

Obviously when a major political party does not accept elections, the Rule of Law, and the Constitution except when they serve the power of said party, you have a unhealthy situation.  After all, we have those institutions so we can peacefully rule ourselves.  We Americans prefer peacefully ruling ourselves to civil wars and dictatorships, thank you.

But instead of a political playing field we once all agreed on, we have the following choice thanks to today’s Democrat Party:

We can have a system of government based around the Constitution with democratically elected representatives. Or we can have one based on the ideological principles of the left in which all laws and processes, including elections and the Constitution, are fig leaves for enforcing social justice.

But we cannot have both.

Thus our country and our constitutional democracy itself are at stake.

I could say more, but that is the big picture.

Have a nice day.

Regs Changed to Enable Hearsay Whistleblowing … Right Before Hearsay Whistleblowing

Over the weekend Sean Davis of The Federalist revealed a bit of sneaky Deep State bureaucratic doings that merit more attention.  I will leave the details and documentation to Mr. Davis – for he does it very well.  But in short the rules for what sort of whistleblowing merits consideration were changed to no longer require that the whistleblower have direct knowledge.  So now hearsay whistleblowing, such as that now being perpetrated against Trump, is supposedly legit.

And when was this change secretly made?  Well that is a secret, however it apparently was done in May 2018 at the earliest.  And - now here’s where it really gets rich:

The internal properties of the newly revised “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” form, which the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) requires to be submitted under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), show that the document was uploaded on September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m., just days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public. The markings on the document state that it was revised in August 2019, but no specific date of revision is disclosed.

August 2019.  Hmmm.  Well I’m sure that has nothing to do with…

The complaint alleges that President Donald Trump broke the law during a phone call with the Ukrainian president. In his complaint, which was dated August 12, 2019, the complainant acknowledged he was “not a direct witness” to the wrongdoing he claims Trump committed. [Emphasis mine.]

Just a coincidence I’m sure.

Actually I am with Ace on this.  What we have here is Deep State operatives changing the rules to broaden the weapons they can use in their continuing coup against Trump to include hearsay whistleblowing.  And, thanks to House Democrats and the Democrat “News” Media, the Deep State is getting some mileage out of that bureaucratic switch, are they not?

Yes, I am putting that nicely. 

Your votes are respected only if you vote correctly. Just letting you know.

If you want a good summary of how democracy is disrespected by statists and globalists in the EU, the UK, and the US for that matter, this is a must read.

In short, your votes are respected only when you vote correctly. If you do something horrid like elect Donald Trump or vote for Brexit, then your vote must be nullified. And that is exactly what the establishment in the UK and the US has been trying to do for years.

And the Democrat, RINO, Remainer hacks claim to nullify your votes in the name of democracy, of course.

To understate the obvious, this is an unhealthy situation.  Americans and British are patient and tolerant peoples. But how long can and should we tolerate our votes being nullified by the establishment?

IMPORTANT NOTE: As I posted earlier this week, violence is not the answer even though the predations of Leftists and the establishment are certainly asking for it.

Gen. Michael Flynn Hires Sydney Powell As His Lawyer

Lawyer hires usually aren’t big news, and Gen. Michael Flynn hiring Sydney Powell is not getting a lot of attention. But it should.

Powell, a former federal prosecutor herself, is a foremost critic of prosecutorial misconduct amongst the Feds.  And among her past targets have been Robert Mueller and his no. 2 man Andrew Weissmann.  She has literally written the book on Weissmann, Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice.  Further, she is withering and no-nonsense in going over the facts of Fed prosecutorial misconduct and shady ethics.  She is not hyperbolic, emotional, or manipulative; she relies on presenting the facts in a manner very hard to dispute.

I am very encouraged Flynn has hired her. His case reeks of dirty play from Mueller, Weissmann and company.  If the bad cops don’t back off and soon, she will expose them.

The Michael Flynn case just got a lot more interesting.

The Appointment of John Durham is Encouraging

I did not have much hope that any justice would be done against the attempted Deep State coup against Donald Trump. (And if you think I am wearing a tin foil hat by saying there was a Deep State attempted coup, get your fat head out of the sand.)

But Attorney General Barr’s appointment of John Durham to investigate the investigation encourages me.  Durham has a well known record of blowing the cover on FBI corruption and is respected by people in both parties – although expect DemocRATS to scurry and scream if he gets too close to the truth and issues indictments.

What is not as well known is that St. Robert Mueller – that holy oh-so special prosecutor that MUST NOT be criticized – St. Robert was knee deep in the corruption of an infamous Boston FBI case Durham broke.  The FBI knowingly let four innocent men take the rap for murder to cover for their informant.  And Mueller worked to keep them in prison.

By the way, earlier this week I again had a situation in which information inconvenient to the Washington establishment was difficult to come by.  I could not find much on Mueller’s unethical Boston conduct until I came across this on Zero Hedge. Again, funny how the search engines can be unhelpful in such situations.

Anyway, S. Noble’s piece is eye opening, both on how St. Robert is not so saintly and on how Durham is not afraid to expose Deep State corruption:

…It was Mueller, first as an assistant US attorney then as the acting U.S. attorney in Boston, who wrote letters to the parole and pardons board throughout the 1980s opposing clemency for the four men framed by FBI lies. Of course, Mueller was also in that position while Whitey Bulger was helping the FBI cart off his criminal competitors even as he buried bodies in shallow graves along the Neponset…”

Durham got two surviving men released (The other two died in prison.), and he got an FBI crook put away for ten years. Sadly, Mueller continued his career as a corrupt prosecutor unhindered and went on to further corrupt the FBI as Director.

Do read the article for yourself.  And do keep an eye on John Durham.  He just might get two or more Deep State traitors fitted in orange after all.  It’s a shame one of them will probably not be Mueller.  

This is Damning: Comey and Co. Were Warned about Steele Dossier But They Lied to the FISA Court Anyway.

John Solomon’s report yesterday is damning.  In October 2016, James Comey's FBI was warned by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec that Christopher Steele and his Dodgy Dossier were not to be trusted. She warned that Steele was unreliable to the point of absurdity:

She quoted Steele as saying, “Payments to those recruited are made out of the Russian Consulate in Miami,” according to a copy of her summary memo obtained under open records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United. Kavalec bluntly debunked that assertion in a bracketed comment: “It is important to note that there is no Russian consulate in Miami.”

Kavalec, two days later and well before the FISA warrant was issued, forwarded her typed summary to other government officials. The State Department has redacted the names and agencies of everyone she alerted. It is unlikely that her concerns failed to reach the FBI.

Yet Comey and Co. in getting the okay to spy on Trump later swore to the FISA court that Steele’s “reporting has been corroborated” and that the FBI has determined him to be “reliable.” 

Now I guess it is possible that Comey and friends were so clueless that they missed Kavalec’s e-mail and really thought Steele was “reliable,” but that is very unlikely.

So what we probably have here is lying to a FISA court to get a warrant to spy on a U. S. citizen for political reasons.  If so, Comey belongs behind bars.

Yes, I said it.

Democrats are SHOCKED, SHOCKED That the FBI Spied on Trump Campaign

Or to be more exact than the headline, Democrats are shocked, shocked that Attorney General Barr actually had the candor to say “Yes, I think spying did occur” by the FBI against the Trump campaign in 2016:

“I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal,” Barr said during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Wednesday when asked by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) why he was investigating the FBI’s counterintelligence probe of the Trump campaign.

Incredulous, Shaheen asked Barr a follow-up question: “You’re not suggesting though that spying occurred?” she pressed.

“I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur," Barr replied matter-of-factly.

Now back in May of last year I told you the FBI spied on the Trump campaign.  But what do I know. I’m just a humble almost unknown blogger with tendencies toward sanity, common sense and other annoying traits.

The faux outrage from Democrats at Barr’s candor is amusing. So do go amuse yourself. But remember . . . 

I told you so.

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MORE: Mark Levin, as he can, got a bit worked up over this matter at the beginning of his show last night.

Post-Mueller Report Weekend Thoughts

I hesitate to post anything about this past weekend’s release of the Mueller Report.  So much has been said by others already.  But I’ve commented on the attempted coup against Trump in a number of venues, so I feel like I should say something.

First and most important, yes, there has been – and, as William Jacobson points out, will continue to be – an attempted coup against Trump and against constitutional democracy.  An alterego called it such very early, well before Trump was inaugurated, and events since have borne out that evaluation well.  Further the coup came from the depths of the FBI and the CIA in the Obama Administration.  As tinfoil hattish as that may all sound, there is hardly any denying it now.

For the sake of our future as a country, there has to be a price to pay for this.  I agree with Kimberly Strassel and others that the role of the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA among others must be investigated and am glad to see Sen. Lindsey Graham seems rather eager to do just that. But I am not holding my breath that justice will be done in Congress or the courts.  There is too much a two-tier justice system in place.  That there has not been one indictment for the corruption of the Obama Administration speaks volumes about that.

So justice will have to carried out at the ballot boxes in 2020 in both the primaries and general elections. Democrats and their RINO faux conservative enablers must be punished.  I fear for our future as a country if they are not.  The political punishment has to be so severe that in the future, the likes of Obama, Hillary, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Schiff etc. will think twice about attempting a coup against the people, their votes, and their constitutional democracy.  I suspect the current attempted coup will end only then.