Cal Thomas
HISTORIC: Trump will be first president to address March for Life in person (The Resurgent)
A WITNESS DEMOCRATS DON’T WANT: Whistleblower was overheard in 2017 discussing with ally how to remove Trump (RealClearInvestigations)
RED WAVE? Impeachment drives 1,000 GOP candidates to run for House (Washington Examiner)
NEEDED VISA OVERHAUL: U.S. imposes visa rules for pregnant women on “birth tourism” (AP)
Economy
RIGHT TO WORK: Union membership falls to record low of 10.3% — down 10% since 1983 (The Hill)
CHALLENGES STILL LOOM: Trump administration approves Keystone pipeline on U.S. land (Associated Press)
Culture
“WE CAN’T LET VIRGINIA GO TO WASTE”: White nationalists arrested ahead of Richmond rally planned to kill gun-rights demonstrators to spark civil war (National Review)
INDEFENSIBLE: Less than half of Americans know six million Jews killed in Holocaust (Washington Examiner)
WARPED PRIORITIES: San Antonio’s Chick-fil-A fight has cost more than $300K so far (KENS 5)
Health
MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH? Immune cell that kills most cancers discovered by accident by British scientists (The Telegraph)
VIRUS OUTBREAK: Chinese city halts all air, train traffic to contain spread of coronavirus that has killed 17 (USA Today)
Closing Arguments
POLICY: How the oil-production boom has benefited America (The Daily Signal)
POLICY: Counting the homeless, searching for solutions (RealClearPolicy)
HUMOR: New, deadlier AR-16 introduced, which is an AR-15 wearing a MAGA hat (The Babylon Bee)
~The Patriot Posthttps://patriotpost.us/articles/68097?mailing_id=4819&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4819&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body
Cal ThomasThe contrast could not have been starker. One picture showed House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi smiling as she signed (with numerous pens) two articles of impeachment against President Trump. She passed out the pens like souvenirs to fellow Democrats. They were embossed in gold with her signature and rested on silver trays.
The other picture was of President Trump signing phase one of a new trade deal with China.
Which picture depicted events of greater long-term benefit to Americans? Unless you are a rank partisan out to remove President Trump from office by whatever means, the obvious answer is the China trade deal.
The latest wrench thrown into the machinery of government comes from Democrats who released to their compliant media friends a “note to self” written on a hotel notepad supposedly by Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney and a frequent flyer to Ukraine. The note said, “Get (Ukrainian president) Zalensky to announce that the Biden case will be investigated.”
Democrats claim Parnas was an intermediary in the effort to get Ukraine to investigate loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
Parnas’ credibility would be in doubt were he under oath before a court, instead of “testifying” on various cable TV programs. Parnas heads a company that claims to combat fraud. Oh, the irony!
Democrats insist the Senate trial be “fair.” How is it fair when House Democrats continue to leak documents they hope will damage the president and influence senators to vote for his removal from office? Some Democratic senators, who will sit in judgment of the president, have already declared him guilty.
It is politics at its worst and opens the door, as some of the Founders warned, for “normalizing” impeachment.
Historical background is always helpful and so I consulted the National Constitution Center, a private, nonprofit organization and a leading platform for constitutional education and debate, where I found this: The “high crimes and misdemeanors” language (in the Constitution) remains controversial today. In two essays… Neil J. Kinkopf and Keith E. Whittington looked at the Founder’s vision: “The Framers meant for the phrase ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ to signify only conduct that seriously harms the public and seriously compromises the officer’s ability to continue. If the phrase is given a less rigorous interpretation, it could allow Congress to influence and control the President and the courts…”
The article continues: “When the Founders wanted to ensure accountability, they mostly relied on elections and the voters to hold government officials responsible for their actions,” said Whittington. “But what might fall into the category of ‘other high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ was still quite unclear.”
Trump’s call to Ukraine’s president, which is at the heart of the impeachment articles, does not meet the standard of seriously harming the public or compromising the president’s ability to do his job as shown by the China trade deal and the USMCA trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, both signed and passed days after impeachment.
That the Government Accountability Office says the president “broke the law” by withholding $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, aid Congress had approved, doesn’t help the president’s defenders, but does it rise to the level of a “high crime and misdemeanor”? Senators will decide. But they should recall that in 2014 the GAO ruled President scumbag/liar-nObama’s prisoner deal to exchange Guantanamo Bay detainees for deserter Bowe Bergdahl violated federal law. scumbag/liar-nObama was not impeached.
Speaker liar-Pelosi summed up the true motives of Democrats when she said that regardless of what the Senate does, impeachment will be a “permanent stain” on President Trump’s legacy.
In fact, the stain will be on Democrats. It is Democrats who have plotted ways to reverse the will of voters who elected Trump. It is Democrats who fear he will be overwhelmingly re-elected in November.
~The Patriot Post
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