Down the Democrat Rabbit Hole of Impeachment.
There is little, if any, solid evidence beyond the evidence that the report is nothing but a one-sided indictment of the president because the Dems have yet to get past the fact they failed to win the 2016 election.
The report also reveals their plan to continue poking and prodding and digging until they find something they can use against Trump:
This report reflects the evidence gathered thus far by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in coordination with the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry. . ..”
Note the “thus far”. Whether Schiff meant to show his hand or not, he has. They will keep at it, no matter what the cost to the country. The only thing he serves is his own interests.
Elizabeth Vaughn brings up
something we should all be concerned with.
The most stunning aspect of the report, to me anyway, was the inclusion of telephone records of House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, Nunes’ aide David Harvey, President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and investigative reporter John Solomon. Schiff refused to say how he was able to obtain these records.”
These records show only that calls were made by these persons and two whom, how long the calls lasted and when they were placed. The content of the calls was not there. Not that it stopped Schiff or the media. The insinuations that there has to be something illicit, if not illegal, going on because they talked with one another are clear. But here’s the thing. It is nothing but speculation, just like so much of this report and the testimony leading up to it.
Paul Sperry, former D.C. bureau chief for Investor’s Business Daily, had more to say about the report and about Schiff.
Paul Sperry@paulsperry_
BREAKING: Schiff's just-released "Impeachment Inquiry Report" confirms that Eric Ciaramella's former NSC allies and fellow Obama holdovers "Sean A. Misko" and "Abigail C. Grace" are part of Schiff's "Impeachment Inquiry Investigative Staff" and "Oversight Staff," respectively.
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Hmm, it’s starting smell a bit fishy in here, isn’t it?
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https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1201973711307493376
BREAKING:In his Impeachment Report,Schiff insists Congress cannot publicly name the "whistleblower" b/c IDing him would put his personal safety @"grave risk."Yet Schiff can cite no actual threats made against WB anywhere in his 300pp report,even tho his name was published wks ago
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This is the Dems’ usual game plan. Claim the potential of harm in an effort to keep anyone from looking too closely at who set out the allegations against Trump–or anyone else–thereby denying them the right to face their accuser. It also denies the public the right to make an informed decision based on all the evidence.
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https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1201982785067651082
Schiff's 300pp report is DOA; fails to provide evidence to back up his "key finding of fact." Absence of witness testimony & evidence to support his central charge warranting impeachment is a major hole in Dems' overall case for impeachment. POTUS lawyers will drive truck thru it
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More than that, the Republicans will remember this. The time will come when they decide a sitting Democratic president has overstepped. They will not only take a page out of the Dems’ playbook, they will go a step further. Don’t believe me? Look at what has happened with the nuclear option in the Senate.
But it may be
Britt Hume who pokes the final hole in the Democrats’ stance that this report proves Trump is guilty of anything.
The failure to subpoena [national security adviser] John Bolton, who is widely believed to be potentially the most important witness they could call, the fact that they did not even subpoena him,” Hume said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum. “Why didn’t they? They didn’t because they thought it would take too much time to prevail to get him to testify because they’d have to go to court to enforce their subpoena. Well, that’s what you would do if you were very serious.”
He goes on to say the Democrats have failed to present their best case, not only on Capitol Hill, but to the American public. As a result, he calls the investigation “slightly unserious”. I call it a hatchet job done with only one goal in mind–getting Trump out of office. If they manage to use it to put more liberal butts in seats on the Hill, the better in their eyes.
The Fallout from the Investigation:
As mentioned above, if articles of impeachment are approved in the House, the proceedings move to the Senate. If anyone believes the Republicans (or at least most of them) won’t use the opportunity to not only strike down the allegations against Trump but to go after Biden et al, I suggest you reconsider. As Vaughn
noted, “Republicans should obtain Schiff’s phone records, those of the so-called whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, and the colleague with whom he had a “bro-like” relationship, you know, Sean Misko, the one Schiff hired as an aide the day after the whistleblower’s complaint was submitted.”
I can hear the squealing in protest already. Can’t you?
But there is
more that has happened, something the Democrats didn’t anticipate. The Republican National Committee and President Trump raised “a record-breaking $334 million” as of the last quarter. Compare that to the $8.6 million the DNC had on hand at the end of September.
According to Vaughn, the RNC has continued to see donations skyrocketing the last two months. This is directly related to the witch hunt–sorry, impeachment inquiry.
CNN is trying to convince itself and its viewers that the only reason the so-called evidence hasn’t led to a mass uprising of people demanding Trump’s resignation and incarceration is because “[p]ersuadable voters on impeachment aren’t paying close attention to the impeachment proceedings, and impeachment is a low priority for voters overall.” Wow, they must be taking lessons from Hillary Clinton on how to insult your viewers without really trying.
Perhaps they ought to be asking why people aren’t taking the Democrats’ story as gospel. But that would require them looking at the so-called evidence–not to mention the motivation of those bringing the charges against Trump–critically and actually reporting the news instead of acting as the propaganda arm of the DNC.
What Happens Next?
It should be no surprise that Queen Nancy has said not to expect the House to vote on impeachment before Christmas. They want to drag this out as long as they can. What they aren’t considering is that the longer it takes, the more time they give the Republicans in the Senate to not only tear into Schiff’s report, looking for anything they can find to show bad faith on his part.
