In his Dec. 9 letter, “Trump’s impeachment is necessary to maintain vision of founding fathers,” Lawrence Kee states: “Enemies are not just foreign. They are also domestic.”
While a very small segment of Americans may view President Trump as an “enemy,” the evidence against him is thin and does not reach the level of impeachment, as constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley (who voted for Clinton and Obama and is not a Trump supporter) told the House Judiciary Committee.
The President has constitutional authority and responsibility to conduct foreign policy.
In his phone call to the Ukraine president, he asked newly-elected Zelinsky to “do us a favor” and get to the bottom of corruption in his country. Even hostile witnesses have testified that Trump did not link this to monetary aid to Ukraine.
Ambassador Gordon Sondland who, unlike other witnesses, actually had direct contact with the president, volunteered in response to a question by Chairman Adam Schiff that when Sondland asked what President Trump wanted from Zelinsky, Trump told him: “I want nothing. Just tell him to do the right thing.”
And Trump was wise enough to release transcripts of his phone calls, thereby undercutting every attempt to lie about them.
A small but determined cabal of D.C. insiders have wanted Trump impeached since the day he was sworn into office.
They cannot stand him and have tried unsuccessfully to swamp him with accusations, even a fruitless two-year investigation by Robert Mueller, and their frustration is limitless.
Now, the House is moving forward on two charges: abuse of power and obstruction of justice.
They dropped bribery, since that would leave them open to scrutiny of Joe Biden’s successful threat to withhold money from Ukraine unless their prosecutor dropped an investigation of his son Hunter Biden’s company.
Jonathan Turley has already dismissed the House’s charges, saying, “You might as well try to impeach a president for violation of the Endangered Species Act.”
Trump has used his power wisely and lawfully, and the only thing he is obstructing is the constant effort to throw him from office.
If Speaker Pelosi gets the needed votes and the House impeaches President Trump, the Senate will rightly exonerate Trump and he will emerge stronger than ever.
Trump derangement syndrome has caused Democrats to make repeated miscalculations and it is destined to cost them control of both the Senate and the House in 2020.
American voters will look at the strongest economy in recent history, the lowest unemployment, the highest employment of African-Americans, Hispanics and women in over half a century, U.S. energy independence, a manufacturing boom that Obama said would require a “magic wand,” a new Mexico-Canada agreement benefiting all citizens, the end of unfair Chinese trade practices and conclude, “Yes, we are better off than we were four years ago.”
And for another four years, unhinged people will try to overturn the election.
Good luck with that.
