...if the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal." Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews
A tweet from Donald J. Trump, President of the United States.
That particular tweet from The Don was the third in a series of four. In the first he claims democrats are trying to impeach him because they know they can't beat him in 2020. In the second he says democrats don't care if they, "burn down and destroy the nation in the process." He also states he has never seen evangelicals so mad. In the fourth he wrote--as always referring to himself in the third person--Trump's only impeachable offense was to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016. It is unclear if DJT continued quoting Jeffress' words, or was using his own during the other three tweets. It was probably a mish mash of both.
Indeed, even as Trump and his supporters insist impeachment will help his re-election it is becoming apparent panic is spreading through the halls of the west wing of the White House. Think not? Last week Rep Adam Schiff made a minor screw up when he, "paraphrased," Trump's phone call to Ukrainian President Zelensky during a committee meeting.
The gaffe was all Trump needed to justify a tweet this morning which read, "Rep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people. It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call. Arrest for treason?"
Yesterday the President demanded Schiff be, "questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason." He also called Schiff's words, "sinister." This comes after The Big Orange Guy wistfully remembered a time when we executed spies and traitors during a meeting with American staff members at the U.N.
Of course Trump also wants to personally interview the unnamed whistle blower, a person he has called, "almost a spy," and presumably those White House officials who talked to him.
The insanity is spreading. Purportedly right wing internet trolls have put a $50,000 reward out there for anyone who identifies the whistle blower. In addition Geraldo Rivera went on the air and expressed his desire to, "beat the son of a bitch up." Presidential advisor, Stephen Miller claimed the whistle blower is, in fact, "a deep state operative." Even the Russians jumped into the maelstrom. They issued a statement saying they had the right to approve the release of any phone conversations between Trump and Vladimir Putin before they are made public--you know, just in case anyone was thinking about it.
South Carolina Senator, Lindsey Graham has condemned the impeachment inquiry because the whistle blower's evidence is based on, "second and third hand," information. Well yeah, Lindsey, except the second and third hand information has proven to be true. All you have to do to figure that out is read the fucking rough draft of the phone call.
Over at FOX News another civil war of sorts has broken out. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who now sits on the board of the company, is advocating for it to bail on Trump. Ryan claims he never liked Trump to begin with and the guy knows nothing about how government works. Meanwhile journalists Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith are waging a continuing battle of words with the propaganda wing headed by Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
Late last week republican Senators had a unique way of dodging the whole issue. Over a dozen of them claimed they were so busy they hadn't had the time to read the whistle blower's full complaint--an excuse akin to the old, "the dog ate my homework," line used by desperate teenagers everywhere.
Finally there are right wing complaints the whistle blower is obviously a democrat who doesn't like the President. As one wag put it, "That's like saying if you witness a person you don't like rob a bank, the police should ignore the evidence he did."
And the evidence is there. No matter how often El Don and his followers try to deflect the public's attention toward Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Adam Schiff, and devious spies, this affair is solely about Donald John Trump, what he did, and what he was attempting to do.
sic vita est
9-30-19
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