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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Sep. 25, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/65701-mid-day-digest-2019-09-25
THE FOUNDATION
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” —John Adams (1775)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/65700-founders-quote-daily-2019-09-25
IN TODAY’S EDITION
It’s Collusion 2.0 for Democrats’ obstruction agenda.1 Daily Features: More Analysis2, Columnists3, Headlines4, Opinion in Brief5, Short Cuts6, Memes7, and Cartoons8.
FEATURED ANALYSIS
Democrat Collusion 2.0: Game On!9
By Mark Alexander and Nate Jackson
President Donald Trump10 authorized the release of the “complete, fully declassified and un-redacted transcript” of his July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He did so in advance of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s declaration of an impeachment inquiry11 challenging the legality of that conversation. Pelosi also demanded congressional testimony from the so-called “whistleblower” who seeded this inquiry — most likely another disgruntled deep-state supporter of Hillary Clinton12.
Pelosi claims that Trump is guilty of a quid pro quo demand for an investigation into the actions of Joe Biden’s son Hunter13 in return for U.S. aid. The Justice Department already declined to investigate the call for campaign-finance violations.
The White House has released a national-security summary14 on the substance of the Trump/Zelensky conversation. (Expect Democrats to demand an exact transcript.) The summary notes the only reference to Biden and his son Hunter: “There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Zelensky. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me.”
This reference is to Hunter Biden’s corrupt Ukrainian payoffs as part of that government’s efforts to influence U.S. policy toward Ukraine — and the only influence avenue available was through his father, Joe Biden, while he was Barack Obama’s15 vice president.
Recall that in 2016 it was Biden who threatened to cut $1 billion in U.S. guarantees of Ukrainian loans if they did not fire that country’s prosecutor investigating corruption, Viktor Shokin. In Biden’s own words, “I looked at [the Ukrainian leaders] and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b—. He got fired.”
According to The New York Times, “Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden … who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.” Joe Biden has claimed, “I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” in Ukraine or China, but Hunter Biden has contradicted that implausible claim.
But according to Pelosi’s impeachment complaint, “The actions of the Trump presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the president’s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections.” (Ad Infinitum.)
Of course, she never mentioned Biden’s corruption as the subject of Trump’s inquiry with Zelensky, referring only obliquely to Trump’s alleged “calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election.”
Earlier in the day, Pelosi explained her faux rationale for the impeachment political theater: “If we have to honor our oath of office to support and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic, that’s what we’ll have to do.” She then inadvertently revealed their endgame: “What’s more serious is that he can’t win. That’s very serious for our country, to us as America. What is America? America is our Constitution with our system of checks and balances.”
Democrats long ago mastered the violation of their oaths “to support and defend16” our Constitution, and it is laughable when they invoke “betrayal of that oath” in any context.
They spent most of the last three years violating the “checks and balances” Pelosi referenced in a lawless effort to undermine the executive branch17 with their investigative and impeachment subterfuges.
As we noted last March, “Democrat Party18 leaders are doing everything they can to further derail Trump’s successful agenda19 ahead of the 2020 election. Phase 1 of their plan was promoting the phony Russian-collusion investigation20. Phase 2 is setting up Trump for an inquisition asserting he is guilty of impeachable crimes, using the same model as Phase 1. Their strategy is to drag Trump into impeachment proceedings through the 2020 election cycle.”
And here we go.
Democrats have embarked on Collusion 2.0, using the same template for 2020 that they successfully rode to a House majority in 2018. Or, as Trump put it, “This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!”
Despite the fact that Pelosi spent much of 2019 resisting calls for impeachment21, we believe she was strategically dragging out the drama as long as possible in order to keep impeachment proceedings active into the middle of the 2020 election. This has always been her plan, as is evident in her closed-door remarks to Demo leadership Tuesday that they now “have to strike while the iron is hot.”
In other words, like obstruction Phase 1, the Trump/Zelensky phone call is just the starting point, and the “investigation” will bob and weave all over the map in an effort to keep the inquiry front and center for their Leftmedia propagandists22 for the next year.
Notably, The Wall Street Journal reports, “Her chosen route avoids a full House floor vote on opening a probe, a step that has occurred each of the three previous times the House has launched impeachment proceedings against a president. Such a resolution would require 218 votes to pass; as of Tuesday evening, after several Democrats said they were joining the cause, there were more than 190 lawmakers who publicly supported moving forward on impeachment.” Translation: Pelosi still doesn’t have the votes.
Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee insisted, “Now that the President has authorized the release of the transcript of his call with President Zelensky, we call on Biden to release the transcripts of his calls as Vice President with Ukrainian and Chinese leaders while his son was conducting shady business deals in those countries.”
Good idea — we second that motion!
Unfortunately, Trump’s call with Zelensky was, typically, wandering and sloppy, as is too often Trump’s style. As Jonah Goldberg observes23, the optics are not good: “The day after Robert Mueller testified to Congress24 about his report investigating whether the Trump campaign had colluded with one foreign power, Russia, the president got on the horn and encouraged another foreign power, Ukraine, to help with his re-election.”
But the bottom line is this: The Democrats’ latest line of attacks against Trump is designed to undermine his administration’s extraordinary record of accomplishments, with the goal of seeding a recession25 ahead of the 2020 election. If that happens, tens of millions of American workers and their families will be its collateral casualties, but for Democrats, the ends justify any means.
They don’t actually have to get to an impeachment vote to continue obstructing Trump’s agenda; they just have to keep the collusion and obstruction delusion26 alive.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65697-democrat-collusion-2-dot-0-game-on
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
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