The Defense

I here imagine myself the lead Trump defense lawyer, Jay Sekulow, and would lay out his defense in the Senate impeachment trial as follows:

First, I would set up what Biden had been up to after Obama put him in charge of the Ukraine portfolio. And then how his son, Hunter, was appointed to the Burisma board of directors at $83,000 per month. And then how the Ukraine attorney general was starting to look into this Burisma corruption.

Next I would play the above Joe Biden video where he brags about how he withheld $1 billion of US loan guarantees to the Ukraine unless and until this attorney general was fired ... which he, “son of a bitch,” promptly was.

Next, I would offer, on video, a professional actors’ re-enactment of the two phone calls between Trump and the Ukraine’s new president, Zelensky

Then, as a contrast, I would play Schiff’s reading of this famous July 25th call which was a blatant misrepresentation.

Then I would offer the videos from Schiff’s Intelligence Committee hearings ... in particular the embarrassing queries to the no-fact witnesses who were asked if they knew of any Trump crimes or impeachable offenses ... and no one replied in the affirmative. To be followed by the only fact-witness, Ambassador Sondland, relating Trump’s response when he was asked what he wanted, “I want nothing, no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do what he promised to do to get elected.” And that the US aid was shortly forthcoming.

Then, I would show what the Constitution writers wanted impeachment to be ... using Dershowitz’s explanation why maladministration was not impeachable. Followed by excerpts of the Ken Starr interview on impeachment with Mark Levin. And then, Professor Jonathan Turley s House Judiciary Committee’s testimony pointing out that the Democrats’ impeachment process was the real abuse of power.

Finally, I would present 10 to 20 videos of the House managers calling for Trump’s impeachment ... all before his famous July 25th phone call with Zelensky.

All told, this defense could be wrapped up in just one 8-hour day.

Today’s Poser

How can the House impeachment-trial managers talk for 24 hours about a 30-minute phone call between Trump and Zelensky?

Today’s Poser

If (maybe I should say when) Trump is re-elected in November, can he then finally put the squeeze on Zelensky to clean up the rampart corruption in the Ukraine by holding back on U.S. aid?

Dueling Conspiracies (Part 2)

Pelosi’s Impeachment-signing pens

To expand on my previous post on this subject:

The timing of these Lev Parnas revelations ... and the Rachael Maddow interviews ... were obviously timed to coincide with the start of the impeachment trial in the Senate. So, one side of this duel obviously includes the lefty media. One can imagine Nancy Pelosi on the podium orchestrating her side of this Trump hanging like a nervous Toscanini ... and her audience is obviously not the Senators ... it is the American voters. Very sophisticated ... and conspiratorial. (Just heard that, on impeachment day, the “impartial” Congressional GAO declared that Trump’s hold on Ukraine aid for 55 days was illegal — another coordinated event?)

Would Lev Parnas lie? Of course, he is Ukrainian after all ... in tact, definitely! Would the lefty media mislead us about him? Have you noticed that he and Igor Fruman’s indictments reporting seldom mention the time of their alleged money laundering and improper political donations? March of 2018 ...well over a year before Zelensky was elected president of the Ukraine ... pledging to reform this country’s rampant corruption ... see: Indictments. These misdeeds also occurred well before these two reprobates were working with Giuliani ... again ignored by most of the media.

I think I will reluctantly watch the Rachael Maddow show tonight. Stay tuned ...

Interesting Timing

That famous phone call between President Trump and the new president of the Ukraine, Zelensky, took place on July 25th of this year. In this call Trump has been accused of trying to diminish his 2020 election opponent Joe Biden. However, Biden did not formally announce that he was running for the presidency until one month later, August 25th ... about the time that the whistleblower was blowing in the ear of Rep. Adam Schiff.

Interesting ...

Headlines

Pelosi to climate change conference: ‘We’re still in Paris agreement’

In 2019, almost every investment worked

Factories extend contraction as Index misses forecasts ...

Trump restores steel and aluminum tariffs on Brazil and Argentina

Zelensky airs his grievances with Trump

Supreme Court shows little appetite for expanding gun rights in arguments over repealing New York regulation

Fed’s pumps another $98 billion [into economy] ...

[London mayor] Sadiq Kahn after terrorist attack: ‘Our strength is our diversity’

Pompeo cautions Europe not to trust Chinese firms with 5G

Cyber Monday shoppers on track to hit record $9.4 billion, Adobe says

300+ Trump ads taken down by Google, YouTube ...

Lisa Page speaks out against Trump’s ‘demeaning fake orgasm’

Ukraine Intervetion

The revered Schiff testifier, Dr. Fiona Hill, assured us that the Ukraine did not interfere in the 2016 presidential election ... it was only Russia ... see: Hill of Beans. Why is this important? Because Trump was asking the new Ukraine President Zelensky in his famous July 25th phone call to look into this supposed hacking by the Ukraine into the DNC server (remember Crowd Strike?) ... and, if this and other interference was bogus, then Trump is stupid and his request was clearly an attempt to bribe Zelensky ... according to Schiff, an impeachable offense.

Well pilgrim, here are a set of hyperlinks to articles that raise the specter of 2016 Ukraine interference ... all pointing to events over two years before Trump raised this issue with Zelensky and something our security expert on the Ukraine, Fiona Hill, must have had come to her attention:

Politico Article

Article in The Guardian

The Hill Story

The Nation Article

CBS News Story

New York Times Article

Yes, for sure pilgrim, Fiona Hill must have misspoke or mis-remembered when she testified that only Russia, not the Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 election ... under oath no less. Don’t forget she was the uber-expert! But that wasn’t her only failing ... she previously had advocated against arming the Ukraines against the Russians. Such Trump-bias buffoonery!

Screenwriter

Adam Schiff moved from Framingham, MA to Hollywood, CA to become a movie screenwriter. He displayed his talent for same when he composed and read the phony transcript of the July 25th phone call between Trump and the Ukraine’s new President Zelensky.

It is now obvious why he chose instead to go into politics ...

Irrational Animosity

From Diogenes’ Middle Finger blog

“Irrational animosity is not a good look.” — Anon.

There is a whole lot of hate directed at President Trump ... and, when one tries to peer behind this animus, one does not find rationality ... one finds only gut-level rancor. Asking for a list of reasons for this hatred produces: “he’s a serial liar,” “he demands loyalty above all else,”  “he is totalitarian,” “he is overweight,” “he is a racist,” “he is a bully,” and so forth ... lots and lots of ad hominems.

Most of the substantive criticisms directed at the Donald ... “he colluded with Russia,” “he attacks freedom of the press,” “he tried to bribe the Ukraine into sliming a political opponent,” etc. have not been proven or do not resonate throughout America. This, of course, drives the spittle-flecked Trump haters even more nutso.

It would seem to this observer that the more rabid becomes the haters’ hate, the more Trump supporters are annoyed by this irrational animosity and support the Orangeman even more.

The Resisters’ strategy to get rid of Trump is not working ... a circumstance they refuse to recognize. They believe if just John Bolton were to testify ... or if Zelensky were to say he felt pressured to investigate Biden ... then Trump’s support will collapse ... and our country will return to the good old ways.

Fat chance!

Headlines

Democrats vow court fight to block new N.C. Congressional map

Obama warns Democrats against going too far left: ‘We have to be rooted in reality’

San Diego shooting leaves 5 dead, including 3 children ...

Yovanovich admits to having no information on criminal activity

Trump to begin new round of trade-aid payments to farmers

Robocalls hit record levels as phone companies, lawmakers and start-ups fight back

Protests erupt in Iran after gasoline price hicks ...

Dem impeachment probe tries to paint [Ukrainian pres.] Zelensky a liar to fuel  agenda

Pence aide testifies that Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine were ‘inappropriate’

This under-the-radar market trend suggests new highs through December

Chinese soldiers take to Hong Kong streets ...

AG William Barr accuses Democrats of ‘sabotaging’ Trump

The Real Russian Collusion (Updated)

Why was our Ambassador Marie Yovanovich recalled by Trump the very night before the new reform Ukrainian President Zelensky was inaugurated?

Could it be that Yovanovich had been too close to the former corrupt Ukrainian President Poroshenko and seemed to be a pebble in the shoe of any future U.S.-Ukraine relations ... working against Trump and his attempt to get to the root of the previous Biden-Burisma corruption and 2016 U.S. election-meddling fraud? Could it be that Zelensky didn’t want her to attend his inauguration and that is why she was told to get on “the next plane?”

Obviously I don’t know this for sure, but such timing cannot be coincidental ... and it is revealing that, if this nexus got out, it would not be beneficial to either country.

But Zelensky clearly favors Trump over Obama ... see: Washington Exanimer Story. After all, Obama and his Ambassador Yovanovich were hostile ... and had favored the Russians ... and I surmise were colluding with them (evidence: no Obama arms assistance to the Ukraine, nor any real pushback when Russia annexed the Crimea. Also don’t forget Obama saying to Medvedev on a hot mic to tell Putin that “After my election I’ll have more flexibility” (see below). That was in 2012 ... Russia annexed Crimea in early 2014.

Like most Democrat accusations, too often, they themselves are doing what they are accusing  ...

Insidious!