Getting secret testimony behind closed doors, House Intelligence Committee Democrats continue to get damaging testimony from State Department officials about 73-year-old President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump’s phone call transcript released Sept. 25 asked Zelensky if he could investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his 50-year-old, Hunter. Hunter worked on the board of Cyrus-based Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, earning $50,000 a month. Trump claims he was investigating corruption, mostly focused on Hunter Biden, a private citizen not running for elective office. Democrats contend that Trump violated U.S. election laws, amounting to high crimes and misdemeanor, trying to influence the 2020 election. Yet Joe Biden is not the Democratic nominee, he’s the front-runner for the 2020 nomination.
Democrats met with George Kent, a top State Department official, who insisted Trump tried to withhold Ukrainian military funds unless he received dirt on Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Yesterday, Democrats met with Fiona Hill who testified for 10 hours about Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani running a “shadow” foreign policy. Both Kent and Hill are anti-Trump Democrats, with an ax to grind to remove Trump from office. They’re part of the same group that accused Trump of being a Russian agent, working on behalf of the Kremlin, prompting an FBI counterintelligence investigation, wiretapping Trump campaign officials for nearly three years. When Trump fired FBI Director James Comey May 9, 2017, it prompted Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to appoint former FBI Director Robert Mueller as Special Counsel to investigate Trump alleged ties to the Kremlin.
Mueller’s 22-month, $30 million investigation ended March 23 when he released his final report, essentially clearing Trump of wrongdoing. Yet the same Democrats that seek to impeach Trump for his July 25 phone call are the same ones that hoped Mueller would find Trump guilty of Russian conspiracy to win the 2016 presidential election. Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) tried to find anything possible in the Mueller Report to impeach Trump. Now Schiff conducts closed door hearings with partisan Democrats at the State Department to build their impeachment case against Trump. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), formerly a Democrat candidate and Trump critic, insisted the Intel Committee was building a bullet-proof cased against Trump.
Democrats on the Intel Committee are looking to complete articles of impeachment by year’s end. Swalwell insists that they are moving with “surgical” precision to build their impeachment case against Trump. “Let the facts come out from the charade of people, most of whom I do not know, they are interviewing for 9 hours each, no selective leaks,” Trump tweeted. Democrats on the Intel Committee have rushed to judgment, collecting only damaging testimony from known anti-Trump partisans. But if you listen to the media, all fingers point to impeachment. “Every arrow continues to point in the same direction,” Swalwell said, one of the Intel Committee’s most partisan Democrats. Zelensky already said Sept. 25 he was not “pushed” by Trump or anyone else to dig up dirt on the Bidens. Democrats have communicated with former National Security Adviser John Bolton.
Behind the scenes, Bolton, who was fired by Trump Sept. 10, has been on the warpath to retaliate against his former boss. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton said, according to Hill’s testimony. Bolton’s vendetta, just like Trump’s former private attorney Michael Cohen, look for any chance to retaliate against his former boss. Hill told the Intel Committee that Bolton told White House officials that Giuliani’s dealing with Ukraine was “a hand grenade who’s going to blow everything up,” showing the extent to which Democrats and media hold onto every disparaging word against Trump. Swalwell said the Hill’s testimony proves that impeachment case against Trump. Intel Committee Democrats plan to hear from anti-Trump partisan like Deputy Asst. Secretary of State for European Affairs Michael McKinley and former EU Amb. Gordon Sondland.
Building an impeachment case against Trump with partisan Democrats or disgruntled former White House officials with a motive to get rid of Trump looks obvious. “We are going to continue to fill the picture in and very shortly release the transcripts to the American people and then decide where do we go from here,” Swalwell said. “We know that this if going to move very expeditiously,” said Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), exposing for all to see the Intel Committee’s work. “We already have a motive, we have a crime, we have a confession and we have evidence,” Pocan said, showing that the Committee has already tried-and-convicted Trump. Pocan and other partisan members of the Intel Committee have built their case for impeachment, not one built on facts. Zelensky already said publicly that Trump did not, as Democrats insist, coerce him to dig up dirt on the Bidens.
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