th<\/sup>, 2019<\/i><\/p>\nSpeaker Nancy Pelosi has just announced that a full-blown impeachment inquiry will proceed against Donald J. Trump. Clearly, she believes that the evidence supports it, and that the House will support it.<\/p>\n
Republican resistance is beginning to crumble: The Senate voted unanimously to demand that the transcripts of the calls to the Ukraine be released. It\u2019s a small concession in a way: the transcripts are of one phone call to one leader, and all reports are that the complaint itself involves at least a half-dozen calls to several world leaders, including Putin and Kim Jong Un. But given the utter solidity of GOP intransigence in the Senate, this relatively small accommodation to the law represents a massive surrender.<\/p>\n
Trump himself reacted to this, characteristically, with a self pitying whine. \u201cSuch an important day at the United Nations, so much work and so much success, and the Democrats purposely had to ruin and demean it with more breaking news Witch Hunt garbage. So bad for our Country!\u201d<\/p>\n
Thank you, Mister President. You may sit down now.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re going to hear a lot about how the transcript may not show anything really bad and how Hunter Biden is the one who should be investigated, along with lots of other apologist gaslighting. Trump just said that the transcript will show \u201cno quid pro quo<\/i> unlike Hunter Biden.\u201d Hunter Biden isn\u2019t the president, and even if he was as corrupt in the Ukraine as Paul Manafort, he didn\u2019t violate the Constitution. Trump, however, did.<\/p>\n
By his own public statements, he withheld $400 million in military and foreign aid to the Ukraine while pressing the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden. The office of the president, Volodymyr Zelensky, indirectly confirmed this, issuing a statement that they would respond favorably to ally legal request through intelligence channels regarding any activities involving Biden, but not in response to extortion.<\/p>\n
There is absolutely no question that extorting a foreign power in order to dig up dirt on relatives of a possible political challenger qualifies as a \u201chigh crime or misdemeanor\u201d and there\u2019s no reasonable doubt that Trump did exactly that.<\/p>\n
The transcript, even if damning, is small potatoes. The whistleblower complaint addresses a pattern of corruption and subversion, you can be absolutely certain of that. I have my own suspicions as to who the whistleblower is, and when his identity is revealed, he will prove to be someone who did directly witness Trump acting in a feckless and even treasonous manner in his interactions with other world leaders. Voters will recognize treason when they see it.<\/p>\n
The complaint is part of a far larger pattern of corruption. Not just Trump, but his adult children, his vice president, and dozens of members of Congress. The fact that McConnell and others may be caught up in this mesh of villainy may result in them throwing Trump, his family, and Pence under the bus in an effort to save their own hides.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t think it will happen? I call your attention to today\u2019s unanimous resolution in the Senate. McConnell has finally realized he cannot stonewall his way out of this, and the known evidence suggests that he, too, is involved in corruption involving favoritism toward Ukraine gangsters. He isn\u2019t going to let himself go down with Trump.<\/p>\n
The GOP is disintegrating before our very eyes. Dozens of Congressmen are quitting, and dozens more will quit between now and the start of primary season. They know that the party will be utterly destroyed if they do not rid themselves of this cancer on America.<\/p>\n
The impeachment inquiries will produce a huge barrage of evidence showing duplicity and treason by a large segment of the leadership of the GOP, and it will be out there with the public watching, in in a form where Faux News can\u2019t pretend it isn\u2019t there, or that it can deflect the overwhelming evidence with whattaboutery.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unlikely, in my opinion, that we\u2019ll see impeachment come to a formal vote in the House. The GOP cannot afford to let that happen. Indeed, they need to stop this before the lurid public testimony begins, and the real and irreversible political damage sets in.<\/p>\n
The GOP cannot survive a full public inquiry into the multiple facets of Trump\u2019s criminality, and their own complicity. They know this. They can no longer stop it by stonewalling.<\/p>\n
So right now, behind the scenes, party leaders are debating how much of the Administration they have to destroy in hopes of cutting out the gangrenous parts of their party. They may already be considering forcing Trump to resign, or failing that, a 25th<\/sup> amendment move. They may have to sacrifice Pence (and thus the White House) if that\u2019s what it takes to convince the public they aren\u2019t really anti-American gangsters.<\/p>\nExcept a lot of GOP bluster over the next few days. But it\u2019s empty bluster meant to distract from the fact that Trump is finished, and threatens to take the entire party down with him.<\/p>\n
Trump is toast. The GOP need to concentrate on trying to save themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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