Saturday, November 23, 2019

Impeachment wrap-up; Quick Summary there is no there there

After two weeks of the Democrats trying to convince us that a nothing burger is a steak we've learned the following things:


  • Not one witness used the focus group selected word "bribery" about Trump
  • Not one witness had first hand evidence of any crime or even anything problematic
  • We learned, thanks to Democrat Mike Quigley, that Democrats believe that rumors are better evidence than first hand testimony
  • Democrats believe that the fact that the one and only time Biden fired a prosecutor that prosecutor was the one and only prosecutor investigating a corrupt Ukraine company, Burisma, that gave his son $3.1 million is an obvious coincidence
  • Sondland changed his story and said there was a quid pro quo but admitted under oath that Trump had told him that Trump didn't want any quid pro quo, bribe for Democrats, and that he, Sondland, simply presumed there was one
  • Lt. Col. Vindman demonstrated he doesn't realize that Congressmen are his bosses and can call him anything they like
  • Lt. Col. Vindman admitted to deliberately falsifying a transcript of a phone call between Trump and Ukraine president Zelensky
  • Not one witness could identify a crime that Trump had supposedly committed
  • Many witnesses apparently shared Lt. Col. Vindman's belief that it's the "interagency" that runs US foreign policy not Trump
  • Fiona Hill testified that when Obama was president he defied the "interagency" and everyone was ok with that
  • We learned that the "whistleblower's" source was Vindman something Schiff desperately wanted to hide because that showed that Vindman wasn't an independent corroboration of the "whistleblower".
  • Lt. Col. Vindman testified that the Ukrainians loved and trusted him so much they asked him to be their Minister of Defense not once but 3 times; yet they never mentioned that they felt pressured by Trump
  • No one testified that any Ukrainian official ever even suggested they felt that they were being pressured by Trump
  • The Ukraine President and the Ukraine Foreign Minister both said they felt no pressure from Trump
  • Fiona Hill demonstrated that she's officially ignorant by accusing Republicans of denying that the Russians tried to interfere in the 2016 election; Nunes gave her the 240 page report that the Republicans had released last year that said just that as an early Christmas present
  • Williams and Vindman who both claim to be Ukraine experts testified that they had no knowledge at the time of the Trump Zelensky phone call that Joe Biden had conditioned US aid to Ukraine on Ukraine firing the prosecutor who was investigating Burisma; the company that paid Hunter Biden $3.1 million
  • Lt. Col. Vindman self proclaimed Ukraine expert thought that Obama had provided military aid to Ukraine when in fact Obama refused to provide military aid to Ukraine in direct opposition to the "interagency"
  • The #FakeNews media lied through it's teeth about every witness presenting their claims and not covering the Republican cross examinations that showed that the witnesses were testifying in an inaccurate and misleading way
  • We learned that Democrats believe that asking Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden's corruption is a crime even though 3 Democrat Senators asked Ukraine to reopen investigations into people related to Trump or else in 2018
  • We learned that Democrats believe that Trump firing an Ambassador was evil even though Obama demanded the resignations of every single Bush appointed Ambassador
  • Former Ambassador Yovanovitch admitted to knowing of Ukraine interference in 2016 election for Hillary back in 2016 and doing nothing about it
  • Democrats argued that because Joe Biden is running for president he can't be investigated for his crimes. By that reasoning Democrats can't be investigating Trump.
  • We learned that unelected bureaucrats believe that they, not the President, should run foreign policy which means that at least vis a vis foreign policy elections don't matter
  • Despite the fact that Ukraine got the military aid without having to do anything Democrats still believe there was a bribe
  • We learned that Democrats thought it was great that Obama refused military aid to Ukraine because it might upset Putin but it is an impeachable offense for Trump to delay military aid to Ukraine for a few weeks
  • Witnesses testified that Trump's concern wasn't about Biden but about corruption in general in the Ukraine. Trump thought that if they got rid of the corruption Ukraine could afford to pay for its own defense and US taxpayers wouldn't have to subsidize Ukraine
  • In possible violation of US law the "whistleblower" is monetizing his fame by having a GoFundMe page
  • We learned that in fact Schiff had deliberately distorted what happened during his secret Star Chamber hearings

What we didn't learn is anything remotely like evidence of any sort of criminal activity.

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