Dredging up old emails of 71-year-old former Atty. Gen. William Barr, Barr praised Trump’s first impeachment lawyer Pat Cipollone on his performance. Trump was impeached for a phone call with 43-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky where he asked Zelensky to look into former Vice President Joe Biden’s influence on Ukraine natural gas supplier Burisma Holdings, asking for information on Joe’s 50-year-old son Hunter, who received a whopping $83,000 a month for serving on the board. Trump was impeached by House Democrats when an anonymous whistleblower contended Trump tried to withhold military funding in exchange for information about the Bidens. Trump was charged with abuse of power and obstruction of justice, both ended in acquittal Feb. 5, 2020. “You are a STAR,” Barr tweeted Cipollone Jan. 30, 2020.
When it comes to President Joe Biden’s handling of the evacuation of Afghanistan, that’s not considered an impeachable offense, even though the White House may be forced to leave U.S. citizens in Afghanistan after the end withdrawal date of Aug. 31. Biden announced his plans April 17, telegraphing to the Taliban the country is yours after Aug. 31. When U.S.-backed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country Aug. 16, it signaled to the Taliban it’s OK to seize Kabul. Biden told the ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Aug. 18 that there was nothing he could’ve done differently. Stepahnopoulos has no problem giving Biden a pass on endangering thousands of U.S. citizens, not to mention thousands more Afghans who worked with Ghani’s U.S. puppet government. Biden told the press that the Afghan government was not close to collapsing, having months to go to stay in power.
Yet for four months, Biden did nothing when it came to evacuating U.S. citizens from Kabul over a four-month period. Only after Ghani fled Kabul with oodles of cash Aug. 16 did Biden take the evacuation seriously. After nearly 20 years in Afghanistan, Biden wanted the U.S. out by the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11. Got to hand it to the Taliban, hanging in there for 20 years, then picking their moment to seize control of the country. Biden knew that he had a big job evacuating tens-of-thousands U.S. citizens and Afghans looking to escape Taliban rule. How ironic that the media wants to talk about Barr praising Trump’s lead impeachment attorney but they don’t want to talk about Biden’s Afghan policy as an impeachable offense. Endangering the lives of thousands of U.S. citizens certainly shows “dereliction of duty” as commander-in-chief, far more egregious than anything that Trump did.
No matter how many U.S. citizens are stranded or lost in Afghanistan, it’s doubtful that any Democrat would consider Biden’s handling of the evacuation an impeachable offense. Democrats had a field day with Trump, accusing him of abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and, in the second impeachment trial, “incitement of insurrection” for the Jan. 6 Capitol melee. Democrats lost their last impeachment case against Trump largely because there was no case for “incitement of insurrection.” Had they impeached Trump for “incitement of riot’ they might have made headway. But in both impeachment trials, Democrats blamed Barr for being Trump’s personal attorney, not the people’s attorney. Barr was as outraged as anyone that Democrats weaponized their caucus to impeach Trump twice without real merit, despite pleading with senators to convict Trump.
Instead of taking four months to evacuate U.S. and Afghan citizens, Biden waited until Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, something widely predicted. Biden’s remarks that he was blindsided by the rapid Taliban takeover doesn’t jibe with months of press reports showing that the Taliban was taking over the country. Yet Biden waited until Ghani fled the country before he took the Taliban takeover seriously. Now he deals with an artificial Aug. 31 deadline forcing the U.S. military to be out of Afghanistan by Aug. 31. If Americans citizens are stranded in Kabul, Biden will have no one to blame but himself for one of the most catastrophic mistakes in U.S. history. Yet to Democrats and their friends in the press Biden’s done nothing wrong, the victim of decisions made by former President Donald Trump Feb. 29, 2020 when he cut a deal with the Taliban to leave Afghanistan by May 1. Biden extended the deadline to Aug. 31.
Showing how Democrats and the press shred the Constitution for pure politics, impeaching Trump was their God-given right but not for Joe who’s actually endangered thousands of U.S. citizens. Democrats blamed Trump for the Jan. 6 riot because they took no responsibility for encouraging the months of riots, looting, arson and anarchy all justified by George Floyd’s May 25, 2020 death. Whatever happened on Jan. 6, Democrats knew it wasn’t due to Trump Jan. 6 speech on the Ellipse. FBI officials confirmed that right wing rabble-rousers took months to plan the Capitol attack. Yet Democrats and the press had no qualms about blaming everything on Trump. So if Barr ever praised Cipollone, it was due to defending the president against years of specious attacks dating back to his 2016 campaign for president. Shame on Barr for praising Cipollone f or defending Trump.
