President Trump is a fighter. But this latest brawl will be tough. The House will very likely vote to impeach -- except if it turns out that the CIA-linked "whistleblowers" are dancing little minuets with the truth.
And, reportedly, there is a group of other intelligence officials ready to give specifics of the President's telephone conversations.
It is plausible that a majority of the Senate, all Democrats and a handful of Deep State Republicans, will vote against him in the required Senate trial. It is almost certain the Senate will lack the 67 votes needed for removal of a president, something that has never happened (although President Nixon resigned in the face of losing a Senate vote).
Timing will mean everything. If a Senate trial occurs late enough in the campaign and Trump hangs on with only a minority in the Senate, he will have a hard time beating back the howls of Democrats during the campaign. But, if he survives a Senate trial early enough, he will be able to point to the economy (assuming it remains in overdrive) and tarnish the impeachment and removal vote as dirty Deep State politics.
Still, Senate Republicans are rolling up their sleeves as they brace for a bruising slugfest.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, pledged to question the "whistleblowers" publicly if Trump is impeached by the House. Yet, Graham criticized House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi for pushing impeachment without a vote of the House, which, Graham said, must authorize any such inquiry.
Graham was a manager of the House process that led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment.
Graham also dismissed the partial surfacing of more secret whistleblowers, suggesting that the Democrats are using pile-on tactics as occurred in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
At that time, Graham charged, Democrats were coaching witnesses to be as damaging as possible to Kavanaugh. "It's Kavanaugh all over again."
Though the initial anti-Kavanaugh "whistleblower" made strong claims about something that she said happened during high school, she could not substantiate them. The others who then came forward were very shaky witnesses, Graham said.
On Fox News, Graham said that any maneuver by the House to conceal the identities of Trump's accusers will fail because Graham will see to it that, in the event of impeachment (which is equivalent to an indictment), Trump's accusers testify publicly in the Senate. "If the 'whistleblower's' allegations are turned into an impeachment article, it's imperative that the 'whistleblower' be interviewed in public, under oath and cross-examined, Graham said. "Nobody in America goes to jail or has anything done to them without confronting their accuser."
The South Carolina senator said the accusers need to come forward so the "public can judge their credibility."
In a bid to up the "whistleblower" pressure on Trump, Colin Powell urged Republicans who "see something" wrong concerning Trump to "say something." As secretary of state, Deep State Republican Powell well represented the Deep State when, in a brazen rationalization of the plan to invade Iraq, he presented a CIA-backed pack of lies to the UN about Saddam Hussein's purported stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
Trump's tweets on the latest attack on him:
And, reportedly, there is a group of other intelligence officials ready to give specifics of the President's telephone conversations.
It is plausible that a majority of the Senate, all Democrats and a handful of Deep State Republicans, will vote against him in the required Senate trial. It is almost certain the Senate will lack the 67 votes needed for removal of a president, something that has never happened (although President Nixon resigned in the face of losing a Senate vote).
Timing will mean everything. If a Senate trial occurs late enough in the campaign and Trump hangs on with only a minority in the Senate, he will have a hard time beating back the howls of Democrats during the campaign. But, if he survives a Senate trial early enough, he will be able to point to the economy (assuming it remains in overdrive) and tarnish the impeachment and removal vote as dirty Deep State politics.
Still, Senate Republicans are rolling up their sleeves as they brace for a bruising slugfest.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, pledged to question the "whistleblowers" publicly if Trump is impeached by the House. Yet, Graham criticized House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi for pushing impeachment without a vote of the House, which, Graham said, must authorize any such inquiry.
Graham was a manager of the House process that led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment.
Graham also dismissed the partial surfacing of more secret whistleblowers, suggesting that the Democrats are using pile-on tactics as occurred in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
At that time, Graham charged, Democrats were coaching witnesses to be as damaging as possible to Kavanaugh. "It's Kavanaugh all over again."
Though the initial anti-Kavanaugh "whistleblower" made strong claims about something that she said happened during high school, she could not substantiate them. The others who then came forward were very shaky witnesses, Graham said.
On Fox News, Graham said that any maneuver by the House to conceal the identities of Trump's accusers will fail because Graham will see to it that, in the event of impeachment (which is equivalent to an indictment), Trump's accusers testify publicly in the Senate. "If the 'whistleblower's' allegations are turned into an impeachment article, it's imperative that the 'whistleblower' be interviewed in public, under oath and cross-examined, Graham said. "Nobody in America goes to jail or has anything done to them without confronting their accuser."
The South Carolina senator said the accusers need to come forward so the "public can judge their credibility."
In a bid to up the "whistleblower" pressure on Trump, Colin Powell urged Republicans who "see something" wrong concerning Trump to "say something." As secretary of state, Deep State Republican Powell well represented the Deep State when, in a brazen rationalization of the plan to invade Iraq, he presented a CIA-backed pack of lies to the UN about Saddam Hussein's purported stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
Trump's tweets on the latest attack on him:
It is INCREDIBLE to watch and read the Fake News and how they pull out all stops to protect Sleepy Joe Biden and his thrown out of the Military son, Hunter, who was handed $100,000 a month (Plus,Plus) from a Ukrainian based company, even though he had no experience in energy,...
The first so-called second hand information 'Whistleblower' got my phone conversation almost completely wrong, so now word is they are going to the bench and another 'Whistleblower' is coming in from the Deep State, also with second hand info. Meet with Shifty. Keep them coming!
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