Impeachment Attempt
DECEMBER 18, 2019
Articles of Impeachment Debate
The House Quasi-Impeaches President Trump for Use of Executive Power (230-197) and Obstruction Against House Democrats (229-198).
THE ACCUSATION:
Article I: Abuse of Power
Donald J. Trump has used the power of the Presidency to solicit cooperation of a foreign government, Ukraine, to expose criminal shenanigans of 2020 Election candidate and Democrat presidential candidate females-fondler Joe Biden in conspiracy with his non-qualified-executive son Hunter Biden to acquire illegal foreign monies for an American political campaign against FEC statutes. Thus, in interests of national security, preserving election integrity, and to prevent foreign money illegally influencing an American Election which would have the effect of adversely interfering with his own lawful and legitimate campaigning and reelection in 2020, the President asked the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would indirectly and logically by default, benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of criminal political opponent Biden (relating to his son Hunter) engaged in detrimental international conspiracy, and therefore positively influence the 2020 United States Presidential election to the rightful advantage of all American voters.
President Trump engaged in this conduct through the following means:
(1) Acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the United States Government to solicit Zelenski of the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into corrupt political opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
and
(2) releasing $391 million of United States taxpayer funds that Congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to Ukraine to oppose Russian aggression, being the President of Ukraine sought to demonstrate continued United States support for the Government of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
Article II: Obstruction Against the Partisan Democrat-Majority House, not both Senate and House comprising Congress
Donald J. Trump has directed the understandable disregard of improper and hate-based adversarial subpoenas issued by majority demoncrats within the House of Representatives pursuant to abusing their power of impeachment concerning Trump's harmless and constructive seeking of advice of the Government of Ukraine with no threat of bribery nor extortion by the President.
As part of this one-sided republicans-excluded impeachment inquiry, the committees undertaking the prejudicial litany of spiteful antagonistic derogatations served contrived subpoenas seeking documents and testimony deemed vital to deprecating various Executive Branch agencies and offices of current and former officials. In understandable and righteous response, President Trump interposed power of the presidency directing Executive Branch agencies, offices, and officials to not comply with those malicious subpoenas.
December 15, 2019 Reported with an amendment, referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.
Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk on Wednesday likened the impeachment process of President Donald Trump to the trial of Jesus.
Speaking at Trump's impeachment hearing at Capitol Hill, Loudermilk said:
“When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus, than Democrats have afforded this president in this process.”
Pelosi wants to call Trump impeached but she doesn’t want to give the Senate the opportunity to find him not guilty. She wants the indictment but she doesn’t want the verdict. Well an indictment is not official until it is submitted to the clerk of the court. The impeachment is not official until it is lodged with the Senate. At this point Trump has not been impeached. If she lodges the articles with the Senate, then and only then, can anyone call Donald Trump an impeached president.
Impeachment doesn’t mean a thing without a conviction and as the democrats delay the trial in the Senate there will not be any conviction so impeachment was futile meaning nothing other then partisan hacks voted on.
Possibilities on the time line include: Pending impeachment may forestall some investigations of corruption by the AG. Longterm delay may provide cover to Biden. But I predict Giuliani will try Biden in the public arena. The longer they delay, the more the MSM can refer to Trump as impeached as opposed to acquitted. If they delay until the election, the cloud remains hanging over Trump. But everyone sees through the cloud. If they delay until after a new Senate is seated, then Trump will have been re-elected and a new house will be seated as well. The new house might choose not to send it at all. If they send it to the Senate shortly before the new Senate and new House are seated. Then presumably the new Senate would have to deal with it. But the house prosecutes, so they risk losing the house and if so, the house could decline to prosecute. Is a short or long term delay an advantage to any of the Candidates? Is there something they hope to negotiate from Trump? Is there something they hope to negotiate from the Senate republicans? Pelosi is blaming the Senate for the delay saying thing with substance. Trump will stay in power and win in 2020. The House though will more then likely change hands. Pelosi is blaming the Senate for the delay saying they can't get a fair trial. Is this a play to throw dirt at the Senate Republicans? If so McConnell
kind of already headed that off by suggesting to use the same rules that were used for Clinton. Democrats are in a world of shit if this goes to the Senate.
Pelosi’s excuses for not sending the articles to the Senate is just (again) to deny the President his day in court with another procedural maneuver and also prevent the Republican-controlled chamber from discarding the case against Trump, and just proves anew they have no case. Pelosi can ‘choose managers’ at her discretion and ‘without a deadline’....in order to transmit the articles to the Senate... the House could use the delay to continue ‘to build’ on its evidence for impeachment. Thry could even sit on it until the Fall elections to see if the d-rats regain control the Senate....but the republicans also could regain the house. (*BTW it’s ‘Harvard legal scholars’ who have advisd Pelosi to refuse transmit of the articles of impeachment. This whole Pelosi led hoax has been ‘meticulously choreographed’ by Pelosi and other senior Democrats meeting behind closed doors.)
The House has quasi-impeached President Trump on two counts, abuse of power and obstruction of House, but Trump can't be tried in the Senate until House Speaker Nancy Pelosi names, and the House approves, impeachment managers to present the House's case for conviction in Trump's trial. Pelosi said Wednesday night she won't appoint the impeachment managers until she has a better sense of what kind of trial they will be participating in, refusing to commit to a timetable to hand impeachment over to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
"We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side," Pelosi said. "So far we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us. So hopefully it will be fair. And when we see what that is, we'll send our managers." She added that she and her lieutenants aren't having "that discussion" about indefinitely withholding the articles of impeachment, denying Trump his trial and presumptive acquittal, but "we're not sending it tonight because it's difficult to determine who the managers would be until we see the arena in which we will be participating."
Pelosi has no time constraints to pick the managers under the House impeachment rules adopted Wednesday, and the House is expected to go on recess as soon as Thursday, with no plans to return until Jan. 7.
On Sept. 20, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden "about eight times" in the July phone call, news that greatly disturbed Pelosi, according to an individual close to her.
Trump is the third president to be quasi-impeached in the nation's 243-year history.
The two previous quasi-impeachments were also led by House Republicans. Andrew Johnson was quadi-impeached in 1868 in part for replacing a Cabinet member without the advice and consent of the Senate. Bill Clinton was quasi-impeached in 1998 for perjury and obstruction of justice for lying under oath about an extramarital adultery.
Johnson and Clinton were acquitted in the Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required for conviction and removal from office.
Again, a group of House Democrats are pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leaders to withhold the articles of impeachment against President Trump that emerged from the House on Wednesday, potentially delaying a Senate trial for months.
The notion of impeaching Trump but holding the articles in the House (illegal according to Dershowitz, and perhaps grounds for automatic Dismissal) has gained traction among some of the political left as a way to potentially force Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, to conduct a trial on more favorable terms for Democrats. And if no agreement is reached, some have argued, the trial could be delayed indefinitely, denying Trump an expected acquittal.
A senior Democratic aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations said the impeachment articles will not be immediately transmitted to the Senate Wednesday. Rather, they will be held until Pelosi names impeachment managers, the House members who will present the case for Trump’s removal in the Senate.
‘‘There will be a debate and vote on that resolution’’ naming the managers, the aide said. If a significant number of Democrats refuse to vote for that resolution, they could force the issue.
The timing of that vote is unclear; the House is expected to recess for the winter holidays as soon as Thursday and not return until Jan. 7.
Senate minority leader Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, has asked McConnell to call several Trump administration witnesses, including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton. McConnell has dismissed those requests and signaled that he expects to hold a relatively short trial that will end with a summary dismissal of the impeachment charges.
Republicans have scoffed at the notion of the House withholding the articles, noting it hardly counts as leverage to deny the GOP the ability to remove a president that the party wants to keep in place. Some aides further argued that withholding the articles would only fuel Republican arguments that Democrats are engaged in a partisan abuse of the Constitution.
While Democrats had the majority in the House to impeach Trump, a vote of two-thirds is necessary for conviction in the Republican-controlled Senate. The trial is expected to begin in January, but Pelosi was noncommittal about sending the House articles over, leaving the start date uncertain. Senate leaders might negotiate details of the trial, and Senate democrats might try to sneak in a quorum trial verdict without Senate republicans present, but Democrats are criticizing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for saying he won’t be an impartial juror and already knows the Trump-exonerating outcome.