The Trump Conspiracy Unmasked

I find it so curious that the administration and all its supporters are crying foul about the process of the impeachment inquiry now going on in the Congress.  The fact of the matter is that all the members of the House Intelligence Committee are in these depositions that are occuring .  The Republican members of the committee are present and have the same opportunity to question the subpoenaed witnesses as the Democrats.  And yet, it turns out that during yesterday’s session with Ambassador Bill Taylor, all but one of the Republicans had left the deposition by the time it ended while the Democrats remained.  I wonder why?  They keep decrying the process, and yet when they have the opportunity to participate, they ask questions of the witnesses that have nothing to do with the apparent crime being investigated.  They would rather ask questions about Hillary Clinton’s emails, Benghazi,  or the spurious conspiracy theories concerning the Democrats and the 2016 election.  This is a sad situation. 

Nothing is coming out of these closed-door sessions as ‘leaks’ by the Republicans that would offer any information that was exculpatory for the President.  I wonder why?  Could it be that they cannot come up with anything given what they are hearing?  They would rather complain about process.

Here is the reality.  The evidence coming out of these depositions is clear, especially Taylor’s description of what happened and who the actors were/are.  Unless you are a cretin, there can be no doubt now that this scheme was pre-meditated, and the extortion and bribery plan was created by the President and supported by a cast of players: VP Pence; Rudolph Giuliani, Secretary Rick Perry, Amb. Sondland, Secretary Mike Pompeo, Special Envoy Kurt Volker, and the two Giuliani henchman Parnas and Furman.  They all knew it was going on and were silent on its criminality.  They are all implicated in its creation and deployment.

It is also clear from the statement by Taylor that on several occasions there were preconditions on the delivery of Congressionally approved military aid for the defense of Ukraine that included demands for a public announcement by the President of Ukraine that he was going to ‘investigate’ the Democrats and the Biden family.  According to the President, “we want him to be in a public box on this”.  This is a crime. 

It is clear now that Trump will be impeached.  The question now is what the President’s supporters in the Senate will do when the evidence is presented to them and the veracity of it is undeniable.  It will be a moment of truth for them.  We will discover whether we have elected patriots or sycophants to be our Senators. 

I think  what we will discover is an assortment of politicians who are more concerned about their careers than they are about our democracy and the rule of law.  There is a deficit of leadership and a deficit of character in these people.  If Trump is acquitted by them after the presentation of irrefutable evidence, then our democracy will have suffered a blow that we may not survive.  With his acquittal, we will see the rise of unbounded autocracy and decline of all that has made America a beacon of truth and integrity in the world.

Let us not forget that Ukraine is a fledgling democracy that is in direct military jeopardy from Russia.  America has been an energetic bi-partisan partner in supporting them politically and militarily.  For Trump and his conspirators to fritter that support away by withholding our military aid and support in the pursuit of Trump’s own political advantage is a crime.  Ukrainian lives are at stake and are being sacrificed for a political advantage.  That is unconscionable.

But more than that, this is a surrender of America’s righteousness.  All that we have stood for in the world with regard to being a champion of democracy and the rule of law will have been corrupted. 

That is the true danger of the Trump Presidency and why it must be ended.