Removing Trump
Well, the impeachment hearings are over and it is clear that
the President violated his oath of office and should be impeached.
Every Republican response to the unequivocal evidence presented at the
hearings has been torn to shreds. But
Republicans refuse to recognize the truth when they see it, putting their party
unity over their American citizenship and its responsibilities. Today, being a Republican borders on not believing in the Constitution.
The House will impeach the President. The Senate, however, dominated by cowardly,
craven Republicans, will not convict him.
Most of his supporters are incapable of fully grasping what the President
did because of the ambiguous way he ordered laws to be violated and pressure
exerted on the new Ukrainian president.
Their “pitch” is that whatever the President did was within his authority
and no connection of wrongdoing can be directly linked to him. That straw is enough for Republicans, afraid of
losing their seats if the extreme right challenges them.
The hope for the survival of democracy in this country is based on the assumption
that enough Americans in crucial States can see through Trumpublican lies, abetted by continuing Russian interference in our election process, and
vote as patriots and not as tools of the President.
A few words about how Trump gets away with this: His claims are ambiguous (“A lot of people
are saying …,”) or refer to others (“Ask Rudy”) or based on fictional conspiracy
theories disproven by all of our intelligence agencies and believed only by the
gullible, of which there are many millions in the United States, who get their
news from unreliable sources such as Fox News or right wing sources. Trumpublican attacks on the rest of the media steer such dullards from the truth.
Summing up, nailing down Donald J. Trump so that he can not
only be impeached, but finally removed from office, is like wrestling with a
heavily greased pig.
Jack Lippman
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Russian Agents Unmasked
One thing the hearings proved is that the claim that it was Ukraine and not Russia
that meddled with our 2016 election is a total fabrication, a
"fiction" originated with Russian intelligence to
drive a wedge between Ukraine and the United States. This, of course, would benefit Russia
greatly. All our intelligence services have proven this to be a fiction
beyond a doubt. It only exists in the minds of those grasping at straws
in order to support the President.
Those who espouse this disproven theory are unwitting, but
nevertheless, useful agents of the Russian intelligence operation. They
serve Russia and hurt the United States by spreading this
"fiction." Fox News is equally guilty for allowing them to lie
on their programs. These unwitting Russian agents include comrades Jim
Jordan, Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham, and of course, Donald J.
Trump, all tools of the Russian intelligence operation, one and all, when they
give crediibility to lies originating with Vladimir Putin and his intelligence
operations.
JL
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