When House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he was “coordinating with the White House” on impeachment strategy Dec. 12, Democrats cried foul. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) showed he knows the spin game, accusing Republicans of political bias. Schumer takes the cake for the pot calling the kettle black, when Democrats held 12 weeks of impeachment hearings, leaving Republicans out of the process. Republicans could not call witnesses or, for that matter, call cross-examine a parade of Democrats cherry-picked witnesses building what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called an overwhelming impeachment case against 73-year-old President Donald Trump. Yet as soon as Democrats voted in articles of impeachment Dec. 17, they demanded that McConnell allow them new witnesses and documents at any impeachment trial. Schumer was so convincing, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Ala.), voiced opposition to McConnell.
McConnell apparently didn’t waste time exposing Schumer’s complaints, telling his Senate colleague that Democrats, not Republicans, are the biased ones. Pelosi, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-N.Y.) declared Trump guilty, claiming they built an “overwhelming” impeachment case against Trump. If that’s not bias, then what is? Murkowski’s in some kind of bubble not realizing how Democrats butchered Trump in the impeachment hearings, but, more importantly, persecuting him for four years since he declared for president June 16, 2015. Where’s Murkowski been while the FB investigated Trump’s campaign without any legal justification other than sabotaging his campaign? McConnell isn’t biased, he’s dealing with the reality that Democrats have had it in for Trump since Day. 1. With Atty. Gen. William Barr looking into Democrats’ shenanigans, Murkowski should bite her tongue.
When Department of Justice Inspector General [IG] Michael Horowitz delivered his report Dec. 9, Democrats claimed victory because Horowitz said he had no evidence of political bias in the FBI. Yet Horowitz knew all about the text message and email chain denouncing Trump from former FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his lover FBI Atty. Lisa Page. Barr was so concerned about FBI abuse he commissioned U.S. Atty. John Durham to investigate the origins of the FBI counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. Murkowski should reserve judgment until she hears more about what Trump has been put through over the last four years. If Durham exposes FBI collusion with Democrats’ plot led by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to sabotage Trump’s campaign, will Murkowski complain about McConnell’s bias? Republicans, like Murkowski, haven’t figured out the extent of Democrat bias in the entire impeachment process.
Pelosi and Schumer want to call he shots in the Senate impeachment trial since they both know they don’t have the votes to get rid of Trump. Pressuring McConnell to add witnesses and new documents, Democrats admit what Republicans have known for some time, that they have a weak impeachment case against Trump Pelosi wants to save face before her impeachment case goes down in flames in the Senate. When you consider Trump was persecuted without cause by Democrats over the last four years, Murkowski should heed Democrats incredibly biased impeachment case against Trump, listening to the Majority Leader when he exposes Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler’s extreme prejudice. There’s nothing more biased than ordering the national security apparatus, including the DOJ, FBI and National Security Agency [NSA] to use the tools of state to investigate, harass and sabotage a legitimate presidential candidate and president without legal cause.
Pelosi and Schumer can whine, complain and threaten all they want but McConnell should let them keep their articles of impeachment until they let the Republican-controlled Senate do their constitutional duty, running a Senate trial. Pelosi can’t dictate how she wants the Senate trial to go. McConnell put her and Schumer on notice that Senate isn’t about to bolster the House’s impeachment case against Trump, something that breaches protocol, violating key differences between House and Senate. McConnell reminded Pelosi and Schumer that House Democrats can’t use the Senate to bolster their case against Trump. Even with more witnesses and documents, Democrats aren’t about to change too many minds. Democrats don’t have the Senate votes needed to convict Trump, regardless of whether McConnell allows more witnesses and documents. Pelosi and Schumer can’t stand the humiliation that comes from Trump’s eventual acquittal.
McConnell reminds fellow Republicans like Murkowski that no one’s been more biased against Trump than Pelosi, Schiff and Nadler. They made of their mind about Trump the day he announced for president, let alone beat Hillary Nov. 4, 2016. Listening to House and Senate Democrats you’d conclude that Trump colluded with Russia, something disproven by 75-year-old former Special Counsel Robert Muller, whose 22-month, $45 million investigation yielded no criminal charges against Trump. Yet instead of moving on once Mueller rendered his verdict March 23, Democrats looked under every rock to find an impeachable case. Democrats case against Trump lacks basic fact s, including whether or not the president committed any impeachable offenses. Withholding foreign aid and rejecting Congressional subpoenas are not impeachable offenses. Democrats have no proof of either. But if they did, abuse of power and Congressional obstruction are not high-crimes-and-misdemeanors.
