When 75-year-old Special Counsel Robert Mueller failed to give Democrats what they wanted March 23, Congress decided they must take matters into their own hands. Democrats wanted Mueller to find that 73-year-old President Donald Trump and members of his campaign conspired with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. While Mueller was mandated May 17, 2017 by former Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein to look into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the inquiry focused almost exclusively on Trump. Democrats, led by 59-year-old House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), wanted to establish that Trump conspired with Russia, engaging in high crimes and misdemeanors, the requisite crimes to remove him from office. Unable to get what they wanted from Mueller, Schiff decided to open up an investigation into Trump’s malfeasance.
Democrats claim that they can’t trust the Justice Department, run by 69-year-old Trump ally William Barr, to pick up where the Mueller Report left off, unable to find that Trump committed criminal acts. But the reality is that Schiff, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and the late House Government Reform and Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), rejected Mueller’s March 23 findings. They simply couldn’t accept clearing Trump, despite Mueller saying his report did not “exonerate” Trump. Before Mueller issued his Final Report, Democrats and their friends in the press accused Trump of trying to sabotage the 22-month, $30 million investigation, running story-after-story that Trump was going to fire Mueller. When that didn’t happen, Democrats said they accepted Mueller’s investigation as final.
What makes the House’s closed-door impeachment inquiry so illegitimate is the fact that Schiff and House Democrats accepted Mueller’s investigation as the final word on Trump’s alleged Russian collusion. Once Mueller’s Final Report said there was zero evidence that Trump or anyone in his campaign conspired with Russia, Democrats rejected the findings, pursuing their own investigation. Democrats can’t have it both ways: Saying they accept Mueller’s findings 100% then, when it doesn’t go their way, open up their own investigation, taking over where Mueller left off. Democrats have placed Trump in double-jeopardy, even though Mueller’s probe was not a criminal investigation. Pelosi acquiesced to her Party’s left-wing, itching to impeach Trump. Suddely, a “whisltleblower” complaint emerges,” where the identity, like the House hearings, remains completely anonymous.
Collecting depositions and witness statements with partisans behind closed doors, Schiff hopes to build his impeachment case against Trump. What he’s forgetting is the July 25 transcript Trump released showed no quid pro quo, or exchange of military funding for information of the Bidens. What’s also clear in the transcript is that Trump wanted information on 50-year-old Hunter Biden, not former Vice President Joe Biden. Pelosi insists Trump betrayed his oath-of-office, country and the Constitution. But if Trump wanted to know why Hunter received over $150,000 a month for four years from a Ukrainian energy company, how’s that not corruption. Hunter told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Oct. 15, he did nothing “illegal,” but now thinks joining the Burisma Holding’s board was not the best idea. Democrats contend that Trump tampered with the 2020 presidential election.
It’s hard to make the case that Trump tampered with the 2020 election when Joe isn’t his Party’s nominee. Nor can you argue that Hunter has protected status as a U.S. citizen because his father’s running for president. Last time anyone checked, Hunter is not running for elective office, and is fair game to investigate for corruption. Pelosi insists that Trump violated U.S. election laws. But U.S. election laws don’t protect the son of a presidential candidate from investigation by the president or anyone else. Democrats argue that the House oversight authority allows Congress to subpoena anyone of their choice, including members of the Executive Branch. Only the federal courts can decide whether or not Congress has breached its oversight authority and now tramples on the Executive Branch. House Democrats want all of Mueller’s un-redacted Report, including any grand jury testimony.
House Democrats applauded Beryl Howell’s, chief Justice for D.C.’s District Court, Oct. 24 order to the Justice Department to release grand jury testimony underlying Mueller’s 22-month investigation. Running counter to Justice Department policies, grand jury testimony is supposed to be sealed, confidential. But Mueller’s Report, or any underlying data, are irrelevant to the current impeachment inquiry only concerned with Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Looking into things like the Trump Tower meetings, Manafort’s sharing polling with Russia, WikiLeaks’s dump of hacked emails, etc., indicates that House Democrats have broadened the impeachment inquiry, requiring more time than the July 25 call. When Democrats are subjected to cross-examination in the Senate, their perfect impeachment case could easily unravel.
