Trump’s conviction in the Senate could stop indictments from the Barr-Durham investigation, but even a failed impeachment can be used as a shield.
In my column “Making Sense of the Impeachment Charges,” I pointed out that the three impeachments of presidents by the House of Representatives were political acts. Only in the case of Bill Clinton was there a real offense. Clinton did lie under oath. However, the Senate did not regard lying about a sexual affair as rising to the level of a “high crime” and refused to convict. Unless enough Republican Senators can be threatened by the FBI or bribed by the military/security complex, the Republican Senate will not convict Trump.
The Democrats know this. The question is why did the Democrats go for impeachment? An obvious answer is to throw enough mud in hopes that some of it sticks and reduces Trump’s reelection chances.
That is a likely reason. Another reason that we don’t hear much about is that a number of prominent Democrats are under investigation by the Department of Justice for felonies committed in their orchestration of the Russiagate hoax. This investigation could easily produce indictments of such prominent Democrats as Hillary Clinton. Trump’s conviction in the Senate could stop indictments from the Barr-Durham investigation, but even a failed impeachment can be used as a shield against indictments. Democrats can claim that charges against them are just political payback for their impeachment of Trump.
Much of the public would believe it. With the country already split by Russiagate and the impeachment, indictments of Democrats would further spread disunity. Republicans are less inclined to encourage disunity than Democrats. I can hear many Republicans arguing that as impeachment failed, the party is well-positioned and should not split the country by indicting highly placed Democrats. In this way even a failed impeachment serves the Democrats.
This article was originally published at PaulCraigRoberts.org on January 22, 2020
There is a white supremacy ticket reviving the old days of the DNC known for supporting slavery and white supremacy. Mr.One Percent Bloomberg who started stop and frisk and thought that too many whites and not enough minorities were stopped and frisked and is pondering asking the other white supremist Hillary Clinton who thought that black children “Must be brought to heel” under her husband’s chief infrastructure project, PRISONS.
to be his VP.
There is now a civil war taking place in the Department of Justice. A thousand Obama and Clinton have filed a ludicrous motion to protect democracy and are seeking experts beyond our borders, because as everyone knows, anyone employed by the Depatment of Justice in America is definitely not an expert on matters of justice or democracy. This is an effort to remove William Barr for reducing the sentence of Roger Stone and others. While one could hardly claim that William Barr is a constitutionalist, which is a lacking qualification for anyone employed by the government in any of its branches, this is actually motivated in order to prevent the Durham Investigation from seeing the light of day, exposing FISA abuses regarding manufactured and falsified records for the unlawful surveillance of Carter Page.
Unfortunately, it seems that if anyone wants their constitutional rights protected and defended in America, they must run for president, or be a blood relative of a presidential candidate.
Maybe 2024 will be the year with 100 million people in America running for president so that their and their families constitutional rights can be protected.
I live in Wisconsin, the badger state, formally referred to as taxidea taxus, of significance since according to John Bolton, when Reince Preibus ( one of the three stooges from Wisconsin, the other two being Scott Walker, and wonky Paul Ryan who won’t answer questions that people ask because he ” doesn’t want to get to wonky) was breifing Trump on foreign policy Trump would frequently ask, “What do badgers eat, are they nice to people, or are they mean?
It is just hysterical that this state animal is taxidea taxus! tax idea tax us! LOL! It’s the Wisconsin Idea!