By DEXTER DUGGAN
With President Trump headed into an unprecedented sort of Senate trial scheduled to begin the week of February 8, an added note was that this legally dubious proceeding was as much a feint as anything else — a Democrat diversion to draw Americans’ attention away from the contours of the radical Biden administration emerging.
For his new rulership, cognitively declining Joe Biden dug up about any futile scheme and failed official from the disabling years when he served as conniving Barack Obama’s vice president, empowering them to carry their dysfunction on into governing in the 2020s.
Professional politicians like Biden, with nearly a half-century of government tenure on his résumé, don’t want an approach that solves serious problems when he could prolong them endlessly.
With an unprecedented flurry of executive orders that should make America weaker, more subject to executive-branch whims and more dependent, bad Catholic Biden wanted to burden the nation with higher taxes, higher unemployment, dependence on wind turbines, rejection of fossil fuels, silly trust of totalitarian Beijing and Mideast terrorism, renewed illegal entry — part of an unending witches’ brew of losses and foolishness.
Democrat Biden employed these as his fumigation against the success of the Republican Trump years. Fearing that America had been teetering on the edge of thorough national renewal thanks to Trump’s self-sacrificing workdays, Biden used universally acknowledged November vote fraud to position himself to undermine his countrymen’s future.
Even those who claimed there hadn’t been enough fraud to cost Trump his presidential reelection were aware there were striking levels of irregularity on Biden’s behalf. But, as usual fearing the evidence, they said that making the very acknowledgment of dirty voting was something like sedition.
Resurrecting — which means bringing back from the dead — former this and former that John Kerry as Biden’s “climate envoy” was as good as any giveaway of the futility that Biden hoped to thrive on personally.
Kerry, like the young U.S. Sen. Biden, came to wide public attention in the early 1970s, a half-century ago. Kerry’s notoriety arose when he viciously attacked the U.S. military in South Vietnam, among whom he had served, as terrifying “war criminals” engaged in merely a “mystical war” against Communism.
Kerry went on to serve politically as Massachusetts lieutenant governor then U.S. senator, Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, and U.S. secretary of State for part of Obama’s presidency.
When Trump achieved amazing progress for Mideast peace in 2020 with Arab leaders, without working through the Palestinians, observers recalled Kerry’s arrogant refusal as secretary of State in 2016 to consider there could be any answer without the Palestinians.
A video then showed Kerry mockingly saying, “There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world. I want to make that very clear to all of you. I’ve heard several prominent politicians in Israel sometimes saying, ‘Well, the Arab world is in a different place now. We just have to reach out to them. And we can work some things with the Arab world and (then) we’ll deal with the Palestinians.’ No. No, no, and no. . . . That is a hard reality.”
Deathly afraid that a second presidential term for even more Trump successes would embolden Republicans and finish off the rickety Democratic Party, Dem leaders began bulging with hatred in their determination to destroy Trump forever, including their fanciful February one-count “impeachment” trial that doesn’t even qualify as that but only a vendetta.
Chief Justice John Roberts, hardly regarded as a tower of strength against the corrupt establishment, nevertheless declined to preside over the new Senate proceeding, as a chief justice would do for a true impeachment trial, and as Roberts had done for Trump’s first Senate trial, which ended in acquittal in early February 2020.
In Roberts’ absence, believe it or not, the far-left bad Catholic Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) was chosen to preside as the judge while he also can vote as a juror, a non-impartial role in the courtroom that you’d have to look far and wide to match.
Was it a little nudge from the heavens that sent Leahy, age 80, briefly to the hospital on January 26 after he didn’t feel well, before he returned home?
Columnist James Freeman noted at The Wall Street Journal on January 26: “Vermont’s senior senator is not exactly known for judiciousness. The Almanac of American Politics notes: ‘Leahy is a stalwart liberal known for periodic flashes of temper and can be a sharp-tongue partisan’,” with a voting record “barely distinguishable” from Vermont colleague and proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Vermont’s WCAX-TV, Channel 3, reported that if Leahy wasn’t able to preside, either he or the Senate could choose another Democrat to replace him.
Still, it seemed unlikely there would be 67 votes, the required two-thirds majority, to convict Trump of the dubious accusation of inciting insurrection.
A January 26 procedural vote in the Senate on whether the trial even should be held recorded all 50 Democrats and five Republicans voting to go ahead, but 45 Republicans voting no — a major deficit from the number needed for subsequent conviction.
So alternate ideas began to be floated, such as a censure resolution, which would require only 60 votes. Anything, anything to flatten Trump — even though lawbreakers like the Dems’ own corrupt shakedown artist and former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton never were put through such challenges.
Nor were prominent Democrats like U.S. Sen. Cory Booker or Cong. Maxine Waters ever censured or expelled due to their explicit calls to personally harass Republican foes up close.
A person might not be completely surprised if Senate Democrats eventually concluded that just one single senator’s vote would be sufficient to punish Trump somehow. But wouldn’t Republicans at least have to agree to such a drastic rules change? Or did Democrat rules-twisting know no limit?
Conservative-libertarian Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) argued there was no justification for a Trump trial. The Roll Call news site quoted Paul: “Private citizens don’t get impeached. Impeachment is for removal from office, and the accused here has already left office.
“Hyper-partisan Democrats are about to drag our great country down into the gutter of rancor and vitriol, the likes of which has never been seen in our nation’s history,” Paul said.
An Educational Approach
National conservative commentator Quin Hillyer, a foe of Trump, told The Wanderer: “I believe that impeachment can only happen while the official in question is in office, but that the Senate trial of an impeached official absolutely can occur even after the official has left office.
“History and precedent, along with a logical reading of the Constitution’s text, inform that opinion, especially the second part of it, meaning the Senate trial. The point of a Senate trial and conviction would be to make the impeached official ineligible for federal office ever again,” Hillyer said.
Conservative Republican political consultant Constantin Querard told The Wanderer: “What will be interesting will be seeing what various Democrats try to do to the Trump family after he leaves office. The New York attorney general might use his return to private-citizen status to initiate any number of things, just as one example.
“For Democrats, the path to raising your profile and raising lots of money will continue to depend on how hard you are fighting against Donald Trump, whether he is president anymore or not,” Querard said.
Republican commentator and strategist Steve Cortes, a Trump supporter, suggested that Trump’s Senate approach should put Congress on the defensive, to “illuminate the true battle lines of this political struggle, which is not so much Republican vs. Democrat, but rather outsider vs. insider.”
In a column posted January 27 at The National Pulse site, Cortes said Trump’s defense, getting past the illogical charge of incitement to insurrection, should take an educational approach to election irregularities.
“First, convey the stunning confluence of statistical anomalies in the swing states that make the likelihood of a Biden win so improbable as to be impossible,” Cortes wrote. “Second, provide the immense evidence of demonstrable frauds perpetrated across the six most controversial states.
“Finally, explain the grave Constitutional violations that invalidate the election procedures in these states which used the cover of the COVID virus to subvert constitutional protections of process,” he said. “In particular, the defense team must fully elucidate the swing states’ evisceration of 14th Amendment guarantees against creating de facto different classes of voters.”
Meanwhile, Washington was under an extraordinary military presence orchestrated by Democrats supposedly concerned about security, but which Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson had said was a show of force to warn Americans that they weren’t in charge of their country.
On top of many Americans’ doubts about the validity of Biden’s election, they were seeing the continued surreal presence of troops in the nation’s capital that gave the impression of a political coup being propped up indefinitely.
Christopher Bedford, a senior editor for The Federalist website, posted on January 27 that when left-wing riots swept the nation last year, people’s futile pleas for protection were treated as calls for “fascism” and “storm troopers.” But now politicians in D.C. can’t get enough protection for themselves, and there’s no word when the military would leave.
They were said to stay into March, meaning past the conclusion of Trump’s trial, with the implication that military fighters would be needed to protect fragile Biden against Trumpian combat hordes. Then Democratic politicians didn’t seem sure when they ever could demobilize the enforcers for their coup.
Bedford wrote: “If this seems theatrical and excessive, it’s because it is. Worse yet, it’s about politics, not security, with the same politicians who claimed Antifa violence against their voters was a ‘myth’ now insisting they need a full division of troops to defend them from a rebel army that doesn’t exist.”
A Poor Winner
Tucker Carlson took up the topic again on January 27, showing videos of worried Democrat politicians, including Cong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supposedly fearing for her life, saying she doesn’t feel safe even around other House members on the floor.
Sen. Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, justified the military, saying there’s still “a threat to American democracy” from Trump. Cong. Tim Ryan, of Ohio, said there’s a need “to reset the posture on Capitol Hill,” so the National Guard can’t go home and thereby “create an unsafe environment for the country’s business.”
Carlson told his audience this reveals a revolution being waged not on behalf of the general population but against it. “All of this is being done expressly for the oligarchs, none of this is being done for you.”
Despite skyrocketing crime around D.C., people’s own homes there weren’t being protected by federal troops, Carlson said, citing a 15-month-old toddler fatally shot in his car seat that very evening by at least two gunmen opening fire on the car his father drove.
Part of Biden’s executive-order crackdown against American citizens was shown in a January 27 Associated Press story. It said: “In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President Joe Biden signed executive orders…to transform the nation’s heavily fossil-fuel powered economy into a clean-burning one, pausing oil and gas leasing on federal land and targeting subsidies for those industries.
“The directives aim to conserve 30 percent of the country’s lands and waters in the next 10 years, double the nation’s offshore wind energy, and move to an all-electric federal vehicle fleet, among other changes. Biden’s sweeping plan is aimed at staving off the worst of global warming caused by burning fossil fuels,” the AP said.
No wonder Biden’s class of political criminals feels the need for military protection while he rules as a dictator, assaulting Americans’ lives in service of the Dem “climate change” fantasy.
Mary Ann Kreitzer, who runs the Virginia-based Les Femmes – The Truth Catholic blog, told The Wanderer on January 24: “Nobody likes a poor loser, and a poor winner is even worse. The vindictiveness of the Biden administration toward Trump voters illustrates the lie of their ‘unity’ talk. The first few days have been a disaster for Americans.
“Shutting down the Keystone Pipeline and then sending troops into Syria shows that the Democrats would rather escalate war to protect access to Middle East oil than pipe it in from our ally to the north,” Kreitzer said.
“They claim it’s for the environment, but Canadian oil will still be moved using trains and trucks spewing exhaust and diesel fumes. And prices at the pump are already on the rise.
“Biden has destroyed tens of thousands of good jobs and he’s just begun. I remember long gas lines under Democrat Jimmy Carter when gas and heating oil cost over $4 a gallon. Can you imagine the impact on struggling Americans? The economy is going to tank and Biden will blame it on Trump,” she said.
“My one consolation is that where sin abounds, grace abounds even more. The graces from accepting and even rejoicing in suffering will save many souls,” Kreitzer said.
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