Byron York: House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on
Byron York: House Democrats send message: Impeachment is on
By Byron York ~~ The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says there is no doubt President Trump has obstructed justice.
"It's very clear that the president obstructed justice," Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler told ABC Sunday. "It's very clear — 1,100 times he referred to the Mueller investigation as a witch hunt, he tried to — he fired — he tried to protect Flynn from being investigated by the FBI. He fired Comey in order to stop the Russian thing, as he told NBC News. He — he's dangled part — he's threat — he's intimidated witnesses. In public."
Think what you will about the reasons — calling an investigation a "witch hunt" is obstruction of justice? — but Nadler sounded less like a man weighing the evidence than a man who has made up his mind. Given that, Nadler's ABC interview led to a question: President Nixon was threatened with impeachment for obstruction of justice. President Clinton was impeached for obstruction of justice. Why is Nadler, who heads the committee in the House that originates articles of impeachment, not moving forward with impeaching President Trump right now? "We don't have the facts yet," Nadler said — a perplexing admission for a man who had just confidently enumerated the president's crimes. "Impeachment is a long way down the road."
The timing decision is still up in the air, as is an overarching communications plan — selling impeachment to the American public, or more specifically those Americans who don't already support impeachment.... The sales campaign will most certainly be high minded. "It's our job to protect the rule of law," Nadler said Sunday, echoing the Republicans who impeached Bill Clinton in the 1990s. But whatever the stated rationale, impeachment is on.
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Ironically, Nadler himself has called for the firing of Comey, as reported by New York Daily News on 14 November, 2016. (See:
Nadler: ‘The President Ought to Fire Comey Immediately’ :: Grabien - The Multimedia Marketplace)
Using the fact that Trump called the Mueller Fiasco a witch-hunt is obstructing justice? Please!
Trump’s crime was beating Hillary Clinton..to the left, the ONLY ones that deserve to be in power are Progressive Marxist Socialist Commies that's it, welcome to the NEW Communist Democrat Party.
I doubt that they have more than 2 votes in the Senate now, although that may be on the high side, since I haven’t heard the impeachment word out of a single Republican now.
Democrats know that Trump holds MANY CARDS. He’s not going to sit back and say “I am not a crook” and be done with it. He’s going to hit them HARD on the fake dossier and the FISA warrants (in other words, an illegal investigation), and he’ll have help from his Justice Department and from the Senate. I suspect that the ONLY THING the Democrats are doing is trying to damage Trump for 2020, since they know they can’t remove him...not even close.
I think that Pres. Trump will soon go on the offensive and begin prosecuting the bad actors in the passed election, namely Comey. McCabe. Strzok and Page. That is the reason William Barr was appointed Attorney General.
We should all begin seriously thinking 'Civil War II '. They are not going away. It’s hard to believe but the truth is the truth. Jerry Nadler is the ringleader and he will bring all 1/4 of a ton of his body weight into this fight. I wish it wasn’t so but here we go again.
Elections only work when all sides agree to abide by the results of fair and honest elections, which apparently the Democratic Party has been unwilling to do since the last election. In fact it began with the election of Bush 43 and has only become worse with the election of Donald J. Trump. I suspect 2020 elections results will not be accepted either and violence will follow.