Whether or not significant dismantling will come to pass, the apparat is certainly scared
Their umbrage, disdain, hypocrisy, sense of entitlement was insufferable in response to Trump’s nomination. And then he won and their world is starting to unravel.
They have now turned to the use of selective leaks, lies, distortion, hypocrisy, manipulation, lawbreaking, a virtue-less coup d’état through phony impeachment hearings. Thanks to alternative media some political push-back and because people see through them they have not been able to insure their nemesis Donald Trump and his supporters are put in their place.
Things are not going well but it is necessary to keep it all going in order to at least skew the narrative and thus limit damage should thorough exposure be forthcoming. Who is going to believe an impeached president just being vindictive . . . so they hope.
https://www.redstate.com/stu-in-sd/2019/11/17/democrats-deep-doo-doo-according-rep.-john-ratcliffe?bcid=825ab02ab91bc4acf6d77a78005cf085
This interview by Maria Bartiromo with Congressman John Ratcliff (link above story at RedState) is more extensive and of entire interest but the concluding remarks below we found particularly compelling in light of Senator Grassley’s recent comments about continued delays regarding the IG’s FISA report. Bold our emphasis.
Bartiromo: Schiff sent a letter to ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) stating that the impeachment hearing is only to be about Ukraine, nothing about Hunter Biden, or supposedly debunked interference in the 2016 election. What exactly is “debunked” about 2016 interference given that John Durham has opened a criminal investigation?
Ratcliffe: It’s not debunked, and the IG report is going to validate the Nunes memo about the FISA abuses. There was some exculpatory evidence about George Papadopoulos that was not delivered to the FISA court in a timely manner. I promise you that the IG report is going to address that. When that is confirmed in the IG report, you’ll probably see a shifting narrative from the Democrats that it didn’t make any difference. There are legitimate questions who have seen the classified documents about the origin of the 2016 election investigation. It’s unraveling, and that’s why they’re rushing to impeach the President. They failed to impeach him for being a “Russian agent” because that was a joke, they failed to impeach him for obstructing justice because it was a joke, and this impeachment charade based on a phone call with a Ukrainian president who said he’s not a victim and nothing happened is also a hoax.
Bartiromo: What are your expectations for when the House will vote to impeach President Trump?
Ratcliffe: Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff are racing the clock; they want to get it done before information comes out damaging to the Obama-Biden administration from the IG report or from John Durham’s criminal investigation.
RedState commentary
Reminder: Rep. Ratcliffe is a former federal prosecutor and is one of the most effective cross-examiners of the witnesses who have been paraded during the charade, both behind closed doors in the SCIF, as well as during the public hearings last week. In this interview, he clearly stated that there has been no criminality or impeachable crimes attributed to the President by ANYONE. And, by the way, that would almost certainly include the witnesses whose transcripts we’ve not seen yet.
He also inferred that this impeachment star chamber is in reality a political charade on the part of Democrats, who wish to rush to an impeachment vote before the release of the DoJ IG report that looked into the predicate for the 2016 Russian counter-intel investigation which will disclose damaging information on DoJ and FBI officials (and others?) in the Obama-Biden Administration. They want to get the impeachment vote out there for political reasons in order to deflect from that IG report.
This is typical Democrat modus operandi – everything is sacrificed on the altar of Democrat political gain. Never mind doing the country’s business, or actually working toward any bipartisan solutions. And they know they’re in deep kimchi with the DoJ IG report coming out soon.
I love this answer from Rep. Ratcliffe, as this sums up the impeachment charade. Based on Schiff’s tyrannical and one-sided control of the process, “an impeachment should be clear, egregious, and bipartisan, and it’s none of those things.” That’s your takeaway, folks! I expect that this week’s hearings should be more of the same.
