Promising to go full steam ahead to investigate 72-year-old President Donald Trump, House Judiciary Committee Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) opened a new investigation into obstruction of justice. Nadler knows that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has spent the better part of two years investigating Trump for the same thing, reaching no conclusions about obstruction of justice or alleged Russian collusion. Faced with the prospects that Mueller’s final report to Atty. Gen. Bill Barr may not show much in the way of high-crimes-and-misdemeanors, Nadler under coordinated direction from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democratic National Committee, has committed himself to unending investigation before the 2020 presidential election. With Trump’s approval ratings rising, Democrats have only one way to give themselves a chance in 2020: Attack Trump.
Mueller’s Special Counsel probe should be the last word on possible criminal charges against Trump or his 2016 campaign that Democrats charge with colluding with the Russian government to beat former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Democrats don’t want to face the very real possibility of a conspiracy against Trump inside the Justice Department and FBI for the purpose of getting Hillary elected in 2016. Taking their fury out on Trump, Nadler, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and House Government Reform and Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Ga.) have all promised to keep investigating Trump’s alleged misdeeds in the headlines before the 2020 presidential election. “It’s very clear the president obstructed justice,” Nadler said. Nadler’s rush-to-judgment in the absence of Mueller’s report or any facts raises eyebrows.
Worried the Mueller investigation might be exonerate Trump, the Democrat-controlled House has an over-arching strategy heading into the 2020 election: Keep attacking Trump in the media. Ending investigations would give Trump a head of steam going into the 2020 campaign, especially if the U.S. economy continues to out perform expectations. Trump’s economic performance hast been undeniable with the Dow Jones Industrial average some 5,000 points higher than when he took office. Democrats lost a key talking point about 2019 IRS refunds, showing that average taxpayers are receiving about 10% more than in 2018. Nadler’s insistence that Trump obstructed justice isn’t supported by Mueller or any other facts. “Before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen,” Nadler said, giving some insight into his motives.
Democrats have their strategy heading into the 2020 presidential campaign, continue to insist Trump has committed high-crimes-and-misdemeanors, whether he did or not. Nadler was transparent talking March 2 to ABC’s “This Week” with George Stepahnopoulos, making his case for obstruction of justice and eventual impeachment. Stephanopoulos didn’t question any of Nadler’s facts, including why he’s not waiting for the Muller report. Nadler cites as proof of obstruction Trump’s firing May 9, 2017 of former FBI Director James Comey. Nadler read Comey’s May 10, 2017 letter stating that he served at the pleasure of the president, giving Trump every right to fire him. At the same time, Nadler’s also read Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein’s two-page letter explaining in great detail the reasons for Comey’s termination, including breaching DOJ and FBI protocol.
Knowing all this, Nadler still plows ahead with numerous subpoenas of Trump campaign officials, including Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. and son-in-law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner. Nadler claims there’s plenty of evidence of obstruction, just not from the Special Counsel or any other credible source. Nadler has zero interest in getting to the bottom of the conspiracy in the Justice Department and FBI to sabotage the campaign of President Donald Trump. Several FBI agents, including Comey, were terminated for their inappropriate attempts to sabotage Trump’s 2016 campaign. Nadler takes as gospel Hillary’s paid opposition research AKA “the dossier,” used by the DOJ and FBI to obtain warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Act [FISA] to wiretap Trump campaign officials, claiming falsely their ties to the Russian government.
Nadler and other key House Democrats like Schiff and Cummings believe the testimony of Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen told members of the Government Report and Oversight, Intelligence and Judiciary Committees that Trump committed many crimes on the campaign and in office. Cohen insisted that a $35,000 check from the Trump Organization was reimbursement for payment to Stormy Daniels [Stephan Clifford] for her silence about a 2006 one-night-stand with Trump. Nadler, Schiff and Cummings look to shift away from Mueller inquiry on Russian meddling and alleged Trump collusion to investigating every aspects of Trump’s real estate empire. “All of a sudden they are trying to take you out with bullshit,” Trump told the Conservative Political Action Committee [CPAC] March 1 in National Harbor, Maryland, referring to Democrats expanding their investigation.
