Phew, that was a tough few months where democrats had no reason to exist. Following the dud in the Russian collusion “bombshell” democrats didn’t have any real purpose, but now there’s a completely unsubstantiated story that President Trump urged the Ukraine to help expose the rampant corruption in Joe Biden’s family and they once again have a reason to live. Naturally, based on zero evidence, democrats are claiming democracy is dying and are screaming for President Trump’s impeachment. When will these lunatics learn?
Here’s the non-scandal in a nutshell: The intelligence community inspector general met with members of Congress on Thursday to inform them that an anonymous whistleblower at the NSA reported something concerning President Trump. The inspector general refused to say what that thing was or identify the whistleblower. That’s it.
Various fake news outlets like the New York Times then ran with the story and claimed it concerned Trump making promises to a foreign head of state on a phone call. That soon became a rumor that it involved the recently-elected Ukrainian president and then finally the Wall Street Journal got an anonymous source to say that Trump threatened to withhold foreign military aide unless the Ukraine investigated Joe Biden’s son Hunter, who is mixed up in all kinds of rotten stuff.
Again, there isn’t one shred of evidence that this is what happened or even that this is what the whistleblower complaint was about. President Trump has denied any wrong-doing and this is one thing that democrats are just going to have to take his word over. A U.S. President’s conversation with a foreign head of state is privileged information that can’t be pried loose by any legal mechanism. Unless Trump feels like releasing the transcript, there’s not a damn thing democrats in Congress can do about it.
They can however fly off the handle and pull the “Chicken Little” routine, claiming the sky is once again falling. Here’s Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy knee-jerking to the latest baseless liberal media accusation against Trump:
We all need to think hard about what to do. Republicans need to put country, not party, first.
If the President, in his official capacity, asked a foreign government to dig up dirt on a political opponent, Congress cannot let that stand. Our silence could doom the republic.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 20, 2019
To ask a foreign leader to interfere in a presidential election – right after a year long investigation into potential foreign interference in a presidential election – would be pretty extraordinary. Even for these times.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 20, 2019
On top of basically telling Republicans they should help impeach President Trump for an evidence-free crime, he uses the previous baseless accusation of Russian collusion to justify it. That’s a Jedi-level bullshitter right there.
Speaking of which, Hillary Clinton crawled out from under a rock to make the same accusation.
The president asked a foreign power to help him win an election.
Again.https://t.co/EjkE84oCCF
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 20, 2019
Well, Trump never asked a foreign government to help him win an election before, so how can he do it again? Especially since he didn’t do it again.
Cory Booker is trying to rescue his single-digit presidential campaign, so hell yes he’s all in on impeachment:
This story is stunning and should be shaking Washington right now—Donald Trump’s moral vandalism disqualifies him from being president. As I’ve said before, it’s time for impeachment proceedings. https://t.co/DSiv1kjxz1
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) September 20, 2019
Plus all of these rando dems:
We want all the facts. Congress needs to hold hearings and investigate this immediately. https://t.co/RE9Qjnevb6
— Congressman Tim Ryan (@RepTimRyan) September 20, 2019
Colleagues in Congress: if this isn’t impeachable abuse of power, what is? I’m sick of the parsing, dithering & political overcalculating. We are verging on tragic fecklessness. Time to do our job! https://t.co/27GZEpgJJi
— Rep. Jared Huffman (@JaredHuffman) September 20, 2019
If this turns out to be true, that Trump asked a country relying on us for military aid to investigate his political opponents, well, I wonder if my @GOP colleagues will put country before party.
Spoiler alert: no https://t.co/MDfig4XTNv
— Jim Himes (@jahimes) September 20, 2019
Notice how all of these democrats are treating this story like it’s a proven fact? This is an insane pattern on the left: fake news publishes fake news, democrats treat it like real news, call for investigations and impeachment, and then look like fools when it turn out to be fake news. Just last week they were all screaming for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to be impeached over a fake news story that was retracted as fake news.
What’s actually going on here is the democrats are setting up the next bogus reason to delegitimize Trump when he wins reelection in 2020. They already know none of the clowns on their side can beat him so they want another witch hunt that will hamper his ability to govern in his second term. In reality, it’s this kind of crap that guarantees him a second term.
