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.)

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Pelosi can also get the required House Intelligence Committee vote from Chairman Adam Schiff, and a referral vote from Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, depending on where she and Sen. Chuck Schumer want to take it.

That will be one of two directions, depending on the prevailing winds.

First option: If Pelosi and Schumer believe voter sentiments for impeachment will stall in the coming months, then they will retain the whole affair in the House, keeping the threat of impeachment hovering over Trump’s head with endless investigations by Schiff and Nadler, until the American people can finally cast their votes on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

Second option: If they believe voter sentiments will continue to grow in favor of impeachment, then Pelosi will eventually call for a vote to refer Trump for trial in the Republican-held Senate, where she and Schumer calculate it will give Democrats a chance to retake control of the Senate in 2020 by blaming Republicans for not helping them reach the requisite two-thirds of the Senate to convict and remove President Trump from office.

By way of assessing what direction they will go, if you believe all the pontifications about an upcoming electoral backlash against the Democrats similar to the one that met Republicans following the Clinton impeachment, I urge you to heed this warning: Do NOT underestimate the combined power of the Democrat Party21 and its Leftmedia propaganda machine22 to accomplish their common political goals with this impeachment charade. If the most recent evidence of how quickly their Leftmedia outlets can turn voter sentiments23 in favor of impeachment is any indication, a House indictment may actually make it to the Senate for trial.

In August, 35% of Americans supported impeachment. Within days of Pelosi’s announcement and the supporting Leftmedia deluge that followed, support for impeachment jumped to 43%. This week, that support is about evenly split — 50-50. While I expect that to drop off once the Trump administration begins its challenge to Round Two of the Pelosi/Schumer ruse to obstruct his MAGA agenda24, the outcome of the Clinton impeachment is not a predictor for next year’s electoral outcome.

As for their current charade, impeachment was always the fallback plan25 if the Democrats’ collusion delusion6 failed — which it decidedly did.

If it’s not abundantly clear that the Democrats’ motivation for impeachment — undoing a national election — is based not on principle but on hatred, vengeance, and an insatiable lust for power, consider these additional Demo observations from Clinton’s 1998 impeachment.

According to Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “The Republican majority is not judging the president with fairness but impeaching him with a vengeance. … We are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred of President Clinton. And until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer.”

And here’s Rep. Jerry Nadler: “The impeachment of a president is an undoing of a national election. And one of the reasons we all feel so angry about what they are doing is that they are ripping asunder our votes. They are telling us that our votes don’t count.”

So, based on their own words, we can conclude that the Democrat majority in the House is driven by “vengeance” rather than “fairness,” that they’re “paralyzed with hatred” of President Trump, and that they’re committed to the “undoing of a national election” while “telling us that our votes don’t count.”

If you have any remaining question about their motivation for impeachment, longtime leftist pundit Michael Kinsley once famously observed, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”

To that end, Rep. Al Green (D-TX) inadvertently told the truth about his party’s impeachment motivations. When asked if he was afraid that talk of impeachment “will help the president’s reelection,” he responded, “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach this president, he will get reelected.”

And there you have it. This is a theatrical farce to reduce support for Trump’s reelection.

We know that Obama/Clinton deep-state operatives, in coordination with John Brennan at the CIA and James Comey at the FBI, orchestrated the first coup d'etat to overthrow the 2016 election results. Later this month, Inspector General Michael Horowitz will likely expose their co-conspirators with in his second report on the Russia collusion hoax.

The current impeachment setup is based on the same model, but exposing this ruse may not be sufficient to overcome public opinion against Trump, driven by the deluge of Demo/MSM drama.

And a warning: Reiterating a point which I first asserted in December of last year – Democrats are hoping for a one-two punch with impeachment proceedings. Knowing that Trump’s strongest re-election platform is the economy, Demos want a recession26. If impeachment proceedings make it to the Senate, batten down the hatches!

Finally, amid all the din, if you missed our other key coverage this week, here are my top five picks:

Democrat Obstruction 2.0: Impeachment Game On!3 Pelosi has launched the impeachment inquiry — Phase 2 of the Demos’ effort to deny Trump the presidency.

The Real Whistleblower27: Donald Trump is under attack for blowing the whistle on DC’s corrupt politics.

Clinton: Trump Is ‘An Illegitimate President’28 — Clinton declares that Trump defeated her because of “funny things that happened.”

About the Altered Whistleblower Reporting Form29…

Impeachment Coup and Civil War?30 Trump repeats a warning to Democrats about their divisive obstruction strategy.

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