There’s great hate for Donald Trump’s success
By: Michael Goodwin
Trump is innocent and will never be removed. The deep state is in deep trouble as we know more about the depth of their corruption. As to Trump, we his supporters will now go from doubling my down on our support for him and keeping him in office to tripling down on our advocacy and support for him in the face of the attempted media and democrat coup attempt.
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As I watched Speaker Nancy Pelosi surround herself with large American flags and wrap her impeachment putsch in the language of the Founders, a Mark Twain line came to mind.
“Don’t try and teach a pig to sing,” he warned. “It’s a waste of your time, and it annoys the pig.”
Yet that’s exactly what Pelosi is doing.
No matter how she dresses it up, her impeachment is a pig.
Does Pelosi hate Donald Trump ? Of course she does. She hates that he’s president, that he’s building an economy that is the envy of the world and that he appeals to voters her party used to own. She’s turned him into such a villain that every success of his is a failure for her.
She calls him a coward, an imposter and keeps saying “all roads lead to Putin.”
Actually, all roads under Trump lead to jobs, jobs, jobs. Some 266,000 were added in November , driving the unemployment rate down to 3.5%, the lowest in 50 years. Wages climbed by 3.1% annually — all signals the economic expansion is still strong.
The report was such a blockbuster that even Trump haters had to admit it. “Trump Parries Impeachment With a Boom,” The New York Times said on page one. But if it looked with a fair eye, the Times would see plenty of other good news, too.
On the global stage, China made positive comments about settling its trade dispute with the US, which helped lift the stock market to new records. Iranians continued to risk their lives demanding more freedoms from the mullahs and Iraqis continued to demand that Iran get out of their country.
Israelis marked the two-year anniversary of Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s eternal capital and moving our embassy there. Just as two years ago, the anniversary came and went without major disturbances despite predictions of mayhem from the “Arab street.”
And despite the media fixation on the frat-boy antics of Canada’s Justin Trudeau and France’s Emmanuel Macron , the NATO meeting demonstrated that Trump’s persistent demand that Europeans meet their financial obligations for the common defense is paying dividends. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that by the end of 2020, the delinquents will have spent $130 billion more since Trump’s election.
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) bids farewell to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following a May 2019 meeting. AFP via Getty
In short, there’s plenty of good news that benefits Americans — and the American Way around the world.
But it’s an alternative reality where the media and Democrats are obsessed with one thing only: trying to end the Trump presidency. Any hope that Pelosi would come to her senses was dashed with her order to draw up articles of impeachment.
“Our democracy is what is at stake,” she said. “The president leaves us no choice but to act.”
She is wrong. She does have a choice, and she made the wrong one.
She could have called off the unpersuasive investigations and left the issue of Trump’s fitness up to voters next November. Instead, despite knowing there is zero chance Dems can muster the two-thirds vote in the Senate needed for conviction and removal, she puts dead-end partisan politics ahead of national progress on numerous fronts.
Her choice was wrong for another reason, too. The two investigations into the 2016 spying effort on the Trump campaign are moving forward and both could lower the overheated political temperature with cold facts.
One of them, the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s report on the conduct of the FBI and other officials as they sought surveillance warrants, will be released Monday.
The other, a criminal probe carried out under Attorney General Bill Barr, will take longer but is said to be moving quickly.
The probes offer a potentially competing narrative to the impeachment push. The Dem narrative says the president is corrupt; the GOP narrative says his accusers are.
Both or neither could be true, of course, but truth ain’t what it used to be. Polarization runs so deep that each side relies on its own scripture.
So it felt inevitable when, soon after Pelosi ripped into a reporter for merely asking if she “hates” Trump, a 1998 video surfaced of her saying Republicans were “paralyzed with hatred” for impeaching Bill Clinton.
Ah, but that was then. Now, when it comes to getting rid of Trump, the only rule for the left is that there are no rules.
Consider Rep. Adam Schiff’s secret subpoenas for phone records, including those of GOP Rep. Devin Nunes, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Washington journalist John Solomon, all of whom had the audacity to defend Trump.
Consider that former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch asked the State Department to compile a watchlist of American citizens and monitor them on social media and other means. Solomon and Giuliani were on that list, too, as were Fox anchors Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, according to a Judicial Watch lawsuit that said the State Department deemed Yovanovitch’s request illegal.
Consider what law professor Jonathan Turley said after the hearing where he was the only witness who argued against impeachment. “Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired,” he said.
Finally, consider what Ambassador Gordon Sondland said during his testimony in November . “We have countless emails apparently to my wife, our properties are being picketed and boycotted,” Sondland said. A Dem congressman from Oregon, Earl Blumenauer, publicly called for the action against Sondland’s hotels because Sondland served in the Trump administration.
Pelosi could have ended such madness by calling off the rabid dogs and saying her party trusts democracy. Instead, her impeachment jihad proves she doesn’t.
Homage to civic hero
An institution, a legend, a patriot — those are some of the accolades being used to describe Jay Kriegel, who died at age 79 .
Jay Kriegel Getty
A key member of Mayor John Lindsay’s team of whiz kids, Kriegel never tired of defending his boss’ legacy.
But Kriegel was hardly stuck in the past. His was an active life in business, publishing, legal affairs and real estate.
Yet no matter where he was paid, his passion was always for New York. His tireless effort to bring the 2012 Olympics here was just one example.
In a sign of his nonpartisan devotion to the civic cause, bitter rivals Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Mayor Mike Bloomberg both sang his praises. “For half a century Jay has been devoted to making this a better place,” de Blasio said.
Bloomberg said “his impact can be seen and felt across all five boroughs today. I’ll miss him dearly.”
As will we all.
‘Impeach’ frat prattle
Reader Bob Miletsky has a question, writing: “Is it me, or do the impeachment hearings resemble the trial in ‘Animal House,’ where Dean Wormer wanted to void the frat’s charter?
“I guess soon we will find out that President Trump has been on double secret probation.”
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Try on these shoes - Nadler, at the beginning of his 10 talkathon today, had two attorneys, one Democrat and one Republican, come in to give some sort of summation and to list Trump's faults without supporting documentation. They were the only two "witnesses" who were not sworn in. Though staff members are not typically sworn in, witnesses must be sworn in and deliver testimony under oath.
Only one thing defines conservative outrage after today. "Laughable".
The dumb fucks have tied themselves in knots and now, after the AG report was released, refused the already scheduled Comey interview on Fox because it turns out, all their talking points have been shredded and they have to start from square one again trying to defend the indefensible.
There are those who want our country to do well, succeed, accomplish our collective goals and further western democracy. Then there are those who want the current criminal mob boss, dishonest Donald, to keep committing crimes on their behalf. I know which Americans I'm rooting for, and it's not the sniveling conservative, bigoted, cuck losers supporting this sorry excuse for a human that some felt was a funny joke to elect President. If you're not a bigoted cuck loser supporting this President, I applaud you, though if you're enabling those slimy fascists who are bigoted cuck losers supporting this clown President, then sadly, you're just as guilty as they and you have no hope for any meaningful redemption.
Trump is innocent and will never be removed.
You are half right. As long as his toadies control the senate, he won't be removed.
You have a need for "Lemmings" to take over ?
There’s Great Hate For Donald Trump’s Success
How can you hate . . . something that doesn't exist?