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• Trump Derangement Syndrome showing again
President Donald Trump has committed another of his “dastardly” acts.
Dastardly, that is, if you are a Democrat office-holder on the national scene, like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who finally gave in to far left members of the House of Representatives, against her better judgment, and approved a “formal impeachment inquiry” of President Trump.
The basis of the inquiry was a telephone call to the newly-elected Ukraine president by President Trump.
A “whistleblower,” who actually didn’t hear the call filed a complaint and the left-wing national media ran with it.
The whistleblower said that the president pressured the Ukrainian leader to investigate past-Vice President Joe Biden’s son, who works for a Ukrainian gas company, for criminal misconduct.
The left leaders used that as a trigger for the impeachment proceedings they have unsuccessfully pursued for three years.
Whoops.
President Trump released the full transcript of his call and it blew the latest impeachment scenario out of the water.
What the president asked for – without any pressure applied – was for the Ukraine justice department to look into re-opening an investigation of Hunter Biden that his dad, Joe, had stopped during the Obama-Biden years regarding possible wrongdoing by the company, including Junior Biden. The elder Biden had threatened the previous Ukrainian administration with the stoppage of a one billion dollar grant from the U.S.
The Trump administration is getting better at handling bogus leftist attacks.
It took a few years to prove the alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election to the benefit of President Trump was a hoax (and one of the deep state’s own, Robert Mueller, had to be the bearer of the bad news –nothing to it.)
The new fake allegation imploded in a matter of hours.
Can you imagine Mrs. Pelosi’s state of mind when she starts to read the transcript of the call at the beginning of the supposed impeachment inquiry hearing.
Will her first words be as she scans the transcript : “What the (expletive deleted)?”
An article by Free Press International explains the “scandal” more in detail as follows:
U.S. Democrats since at least 2016 have repeatedly “exerted pressure on Ukraine … to meddle in U.S. politics and elections,” The Hill’s John Solomon noted in a Sept. 23 report.
Democrats were turning the screws on Ukraine long before Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s discussions with Ukrainian officials, Solomon pointed out.
The Dems were exerting pressure on Ukraine well before President Donald Trump’s phone call in July to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump inquired about Ukraine formally investigating whether Joe Biden, while vice president, used a threat of canceling foreign aid to shut down an investigation into $3 million routed to the U.S. firm run by Biden’s son, Solomon noted.
Radio and TV host Mark Levin, in a Facebook post, noted: “Since Trump won election the Democrats and media have sought his impeachment. Less than 14 months until the next election, they use Biden’s lawlessness as a pretext to reportedly trigger it. This is unprecedented and unconscionable.”
Writing for The Epoch Times Brad Johnson, a retired CIA senior operations officer and current president of Americans for Intelligence Reform, called the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower situation “a very ‘here we go again’ moment,” in which “the president was initially accused of making a ‘promise’ to the Ukrainian leader that was very ‘troubling.’ We have since learned it was a request, not a promise, and that request was for the Ukrainian justice system to move forward.”
Biden has admitted that, when he was still vice president and visiting Ukraine, he insisted that Ukraine fire the prosecutor who was investigating his son in a criminal matter, or else he would block a desperately needed billion-dollar aid package. “This seems to be a textbook example of obstruction of justice, albeit in Ukraine,” Johnson wrote.
According to corporate media reporting, Johnson noted, “the implication is, of course, that the president did something that once again constitutes collusion with a foreign power or is in some way illegal or immoral. There is an immediate problem with this story and how it is being covered.”
Johnson continued: “As we all know, whistleblower is a term for someone on the inside who reports on illegal activity. Here is the rub: Foreign policy is set by the president, and he’s fully within the rights and responsibilities of his office to promise or request of a foreign leader anything he wants.
“I doubt we have ever had a U.S. president who hasn’t requested something of a foreign leader. To suggest that there is something inherently wrong with that is misleading at best and an outright lie at worst.”
Johnson continued: “Here is his conundrum: Biden admitted to pressuring Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who (was) investigating his son. Trump requested that the Ukrainian justice system be allowed to continue that investigation. To be clear, by all accounts, Trump didn’t request an outcome of the judicial process, only that it be allowed to continue after it was stopped in its tracks by Biden.”
How should investigators proceed with a “whistleblower” complaint? Johnson wrote, “that is about the person seeking justice and not the person who obstructed justice? How is this anything other than a politically motivated hit job by an anti-Trump individual who puts his personal political views above national interests?”
Given what has transpired between Democrats and Ukraine in the past three years, analysts are wondering who exactly should be targeted for impeachment.