Keeping the Truth in View

We can get lost in the weeds on all these impeachment distractions that we are hearing from those who can’t seem to find any real defenses for the actual alleged crimes.  Just listening to all the Republican’s harping on the ‘process’ that apparently was just fine for them during the Benghazi hearings; and the rules that they promulgated when they were the party in majority, and now for convenience sake are apparently invalid, is exhausting.  Now they want to call witnesses that have nothing to do with the actual alleged crime.  After complaining bitterly that the initial inquiry was held in secret (with Republican members of each committee present during the depositions), they now think that public hearings shouldn’t be held.  Good grief—the hypocrisy is stunning.

If you cut away all the bullshit and positioning, the fact is that a crime was committed here by the President of the United States.  He and his minions bribed and extorted a foreign government by withholding appropriated military aid in exchange for their announcing a bogus investigation into the President’s chief rival for his re-election in 2020.  The real crime is the abuse of power for personal gain at the expense of our country’s national security.  Plain and simple.

All those who make excuses for it, who rationalize that ‘everyone does it’, who now say that his offenses don’t rise to the level of impeachment are manipulating the facts for retention of their own power—again, at the expense of our national security.  They should be ashamed of themselves. 

Just watch Lindsey Graham twist in the wind, changing his reasons for making excuses for Trump’s actions with each revelation of new facts.  And after whining that the depositions were done in secret, he declares that he will not even read the transcripts now that they are released to the public.  What a creep and what a hypocrite!

Trump will no doubt be impeached by the House, and then the senators who piously proclaim that the whole process is a ‘sham’, will be faced with going on record by serving as jurors in the trial of the accused.  Each senator’s verdict will cement their legacy and hypocrisy for history to record.

In the meantime, what we are learning about Trump’s modus operandi in the Oval Office is frightening.  You can decry the anonymous writer of the new novel, A Warning, but just for a  minute digest the possibility that what he writes is true.  When in the history of this country has there been a description of the Chief Executive that is so appalling and unsettling?  He doesn’t read, has the attention span of a flea, refuses to inform himself of the issues that are critical to the country’s future and is demeaning to his staff. women in general, and attacks anyone who disagrees with him.  He is a horrible human being who does not believe in our Constitution and flaunts the rule of law.  If he is elected to a second term, the United States as we knew it will not survive.

 

The fact that the Republicans in Congress support this behavior is a crime in itself, and my fervent wish is that the electorate will flush as many members as possible down the toilet of electoral defeat next November. 

Watch this week as the Republican’s try to destroy the reputations of patriots who have served their country for decades in some cases and were appointed by the Trump administration.  They can’t even claim they are Democrats, and yet they will be accused of being ‘Never Trumpers’!  The people who will testify are the true patriots.  Let’s hope that the public will be able to discern the truth and see the Trump administration for what it is: a lawless bunch of people who are only interested in  power, money and themselves.