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The Patriot Post - Alexander's Column 10-02-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Impeachment: Two Ways to Go With Coup d'Etat 2.0
By Mark Alexander · Oct. 2, 2019 · https://patriotpost.us/alexander/65856-impeachment-two-ways-to-go-with-coup-detat-2-dot-0-2019-10-02
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)
Last week, as I was preparing a comprehensive analysis on the threat to American Liberty1 posed by the Democrat Party’s latest proposal to register all firearm transactions2, a much more immediate and significant threat to our Constitution emerged.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the centerpiece of the Democrats’ 2020 presidential campaign platform, which her House and Senate colleagues can also run on — “Impeach Trump3.”
Make no mistake, Pelosi’s impeachment pivot4 is a hard extension of the previous soft coup d'etat to take down Trump5, the fake Russia collusion fabrication6, which fell flat after the Mueller investigation7 concluded.
President Trump8 responded to the version 2.0 coup attempt, declaring: “I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of the United States of America!”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a historian who chooses his words carefully, concurred: “This is not an impeachment process. This is a coup d'etat.”
Predictably, calling the Democrats’ impeachment effort what it is immediately set leftist heads aflame. But recall the words of key Demos during the impeachment of one of their own — serial liar and sexual assailant Bill Clinton9.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), currently chairman of the House Judiciary Committee investigating Trump, insisted then that the Clinton impeachment was “a partisan coup d'etat.” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called it an “impeachment coup d'etat, this unapologetic disregard for the voice of the people.” In her memoirs, Hillary Clinton10 declared Bill’s impeachment was an “attempted Congressional coup d'etat.”
So, is this a coup d'etat? Apparently for Democrats, “It depends what your definition of ‘is’ is,” as Bill Clinton absurdly declared in his “impeachment inquiry.” As Hillary would say, “What difference does it make?”
Well, there is a difference between the impeachment of Clinton and the effort to oust Trump — and it is a very BIG difference. The Clinton impeachment was not orchestrated by government operatives at the highest levels of the FBI and CIA, attempting to depose a president. That is precisely what happened to Trump after his election, and is happening again by way of complaint from an unnamed plaintiff believed to be a CIA case officer. These serial attacks on Trump are the most egregious assaults on Rule of Law11 in our nation’s history.
We correctly labeled the first conspiracy to overthrow the 2016 election12 a “coup d'etat” 18 months ago, when evidence surfaced that the FISA memo13 that set off the Trump investigation was engineered by deep-state operatives14 in the FBI and CIA.
They were, and still are, operating in the interest of Barack Obama15 and Hillary “Gutsy” Clinton16, and deep-state fingerprints are all over Pelosi’s Ukrainian quid pro quo17 impeachment charade. I maintain this is a subversive “coup d'etat.”
Actually, what Pelosi announced on 24 September was the first salvo in what will be a deliberately drawn-out political saga, a theatrical sequel that picks up where their last hoax18 left off. At some point in this secretive and ill-defined process, she’ll call for a vote to inquire about what Democrats erroneously claim are impeachable offenses19.
This round, House Demos are hoping to indict President Trump for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and they’re doing so in a way that shields their process from public scrutiny while protecting their members — especially those from swing districts that Trump carried in 2016 — from public accountability. So, not only is this a constitutionally dubious process, it’s also a cowardly one.
As you know, Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 of our Constitution20 stipulates: “The House of Representatives … shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.” Article I, Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7 stipulates, “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.”
Pelosi will eventually have her inquiry vote, though she claims, “There is no requirement that there be a full House vote.” But without the full House vote, her ranking members of committees are not able to issue subpoenas in connection with that inquiry.
Democrat House support for the inquiry now stands at 225, and Pelosi has asserted they will have a vote in November. (By way of comparison, the 1974 House inquiry vote to investigate Richard Nixon was for 410 to 4. The 1998 vote to investigate Clinton was 258 to 176.) |
