Day 1113  A few minor points 

Day 1113  A few minor points 

Tuesday October 15, 2019

386 Days until the 2020 election and 468 days until the Inauguration

There has been a talking point by Republicans that the impeachment inquiry is sour grapes for the Dems loosing the 2016 Presidential election. To which I say, BULL.

Let me say this and then let me present the evidence: the current president is a money launderer for the Russian mob. He acts in Russia’s best interest, and his own, NOT the United States of America’s. He has carried out crimes and has been unfaithful to the Constitution and his office.

Among his crimes and misdeeds are: Obstruction of Justice (10 counts), Criminal Conspiracy, RICO, violation of Campaign Finance, Coverup of Campaign Finance, Paying off people for their silence, accepting money from foreign governments (emoluments), accepting money from national interests (emoluments), nepotism, money laundering, failure to pay taxes, bribery, extortion… 

Most of these things he has done in plain sight. Many he admits to doing.

One can also argue that his policies have hurt this country. None is more striking than his turning his back on the Kurds. To keep the peace in that area cost us little, one thousand troops, sixty on the front line. He pulled them back. Who does this benefit? Russia, Assad in Syria, Turkey, Iran and ISIS. 

Turkey has sent in Arab militias that are raping and killing women. Raping and Killing. That is what president Trump has unleashed on the most dependable ally we had in the region.

Moving on – sort of. The Republicans have trotted out Ken Starr, who says he’s seen nothing impeachable. Oh boy. This is a guy who wandered around in the Clinton administration for two and a half years, demanding all sorts of documents and wasting time and money when the evidence was clear from the start. The evidence being that the Clintons were involved in a land deal, which went bust. Years later their partner in said land deal committed financial crimes which had nothing to do with the Clintons. This wasn’t good enough for the Republicans and they kept the thing alive until Bill had an sexual relation with a 21 year old intern, which only came about because the Republicans caused a government shutdown and only the interns were working in the White House. When Starr’s report came out he barely mentioned the land deal.

Now the Republicans are attacking the process. The evidence is clear. It comes directly from the White House. None of them are disputing that.

Now we get to Rudy Giuliani and his “clients.” Let’s just look at the facts:

– the two clients are Russian born,

– have no discernible jobs

 – yet somehow they were able to make donations of $325,000 to the Trump campaign (illegally)

– and get their picture taken multiple times with Trump. Also with Don Jr. and with Rudy (plus video)

– they were trying to leave the country to go to Vienna Austria.

– Rudy was also going to go to Vienna.

– Vienna is where Dmitri Firtash lives. He’s the guy that is mobbed up with the king of the Russian mobsters and has been getting millions, no billions, of dollars, from the Russian gas going through the Ukraine. What does he do with all this money? He keeps officials in the Ukraine, and politicians wherever he can, corrupt. How does he do that? He siphons lots of cash their way.

So let me conclude this little piece by speculating that Rudy’s two “clients” are really in the business of laundering money for Russians and corrupting politicians and bureaucrats.

Please, if any of those of you who have said this impeachment inquiry is about sour grapes on the 2016 election have any evidence, share. 

(Articles and evidence from The Blaze, Prager University, Brietbart, AmericanThinker, NRA, among others are not considered by this author to be evidence but rather disinformation.)

Meanwhile a shoutout to Maria Yovanovich, the over 30 year foreign service officer who took an oath to the Constitution and, unlike Rudy or Donald, took that oath seriously and appeared before Congress and told the truth. Not only that but she walked in the front door, and released her opening statement to the press. Rudy’s henchmen, I mean clients, wanted her gone because she was actually opposed to corruption in Ukraine. How can you siphon money off if people like that are standing in the way? What to do? Why make a big donation to a U.S. Republican Congressman and ask for him to write a letter badmouthing Yovanovich, which he did. Trump on his infamous phone call to the Ukrainian president said she was a “bad woman.” Now Trump says he doesn’t really know her. Yet, he sent a message to her through Pompeo’s second in command that she should come home from Ukraine “on the next plane.” Hum, and shortly thereafter Rudy is on a plane to Ukraine to met with crooked prosecutors and his shifty clients to try and cook up something on Biden, a man who also stood by Ukrainians wanting to root out corruption in their country.

Why, I’d have to conclude that at a minimum Rudy at Trump’s direction was carrying out illegal activities. Not only was he trying to get a foreign power to interfere in our election but he was trying to clear the decks of honorable people so the gravy train could keep flowing.

Anyone want to step up and defend Rudy? To deny what I have written?

386 Days until the 2020 election and 468 days until the Inauguration

PS Come on. I dare you.