Who in the federal government then continued Clinton’s efforts after the 2016 election to disrupt and indeed attempt to destroy the Trump transition and presidency?
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His Foes ‘Vicious’ and ‘Genius’ in Impeachment, Trump Tells Supporters
President Donald Trump, throwing what he called a “celebration” Thursday at the White House, said the nation could have accomplished more by now if not for the time put into his impeachment and legal defense.
Read MoreCommentary: Romney’s Discreditable, Dishonest Vote
What an unexpected sorbet Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) served up on Wednesday afternoon. After the shambles of the Democrats in Iowa; the president, during the State of the Union, shoving into the faces of the Democrats a cream pie in the form of his overwhelming policy successes; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tearing up of Trump’s speech at the podium in a demonic state of petulance; and the final collapse and disposal of the most inane official assault on the presidency in its history in the impeachment vote, Romney seems to have had an out-of-body freak-out.
Read MoreACQUITTED: The Senate Votes to Acquit President on Both Articles 52-48 and 53-47
In an historic vote Wednesday, the U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Trump on both Articles of Impeachment.
Falling far short of the necessary two-thirds majority needed to expel a sitting president, Trump was acquitted 52-48 on the House of Representatives’ Article One charge of “abuse of power.” The President was acquitted on the Article Two charge of “Obstruction of Congress” by a vote of 53-47.
Read MoreNeverTrumper Mitt Romney Voted for Trump’s Impeachment Conviction
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, said Wednesday he voted to convict President Donald Trump of abusing his presidential power, even as the full Senate exonerated Trump on two articles of impeachment.
Read MoreOhio Senators Voted Along Party Lines in the Impeachment Trial
Ohio Senators Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman announced their decision on why they voted the way they did during Wednesday’s historic Senate impeachment vote. As expected, these senators’ decisions went along party lines. Brown, a Democrat, said “yes” to articles of impeachment, and Portman, a Republican, said “no” to…
Read MoreCommentary: Pulling the Plug on Democrats’ Life Support
On Wednesday the Democratic Party is scheduled to be removed from the life support system that has sustained it these past four years: the fraudulently and almost certainly illegally confected condition of Donald Trump being under a legal and ethical cloud.
Read MoreAnalysis: Associated Press Twists the Facts About Democrats’ Impeachment of Trump
During the throes of the Senate impeachment trial, the Associated Press has published a fact check that claims President Trump is giving a “false account” and making “distorted statements” about “the circumstances that got him impeached.” This AP article is riddled with unsubstantiated assertions, gross mischaracterizations, and blatant falsehoods. Furthermore, dozens of news outlets are carrying the AP story, thus multiplying the reach of its misinformation.
Read MoreTrump Impeachment Trial: Forceful Closing Arguments for Conviction and Acquittal
House Democrats prosecuting the impeachment case against President Donald Trump and his defense team offered forceful closing arguments Monday at his Senate trial, even as his acquittal remains all but certain.
Congressman Adam Schiff, the lead House manager prosecuting Trump on two articles of impeachment, passionately implored the 100 members of the Senate acting as jurors, “We have proven Donald Trump guilty. Now, do impartial justice and convict him.”
Read MoreRep. Jim Jordan Raised $1.4 Million in Fourth Quarter After Taking Role in Trump’s Defense
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH-04) significantly outraised many of his colleagues in Ohio’s congressional delegation during the final quarter of 2019, including both of the state’s U.S. senators.
Read MoreCommentary: Failure of the Democrats’ Bloodless Assassination Attempt
This most absurd and irresponsible of all assaults on the presidency in America’s rich history of low political chicanery is now down to a desperate gamble by the Democrats.
Read MoreUS Senate Resumes Questioning in Trump Impeachment Trial
The U.S. Senate on Thursday held a final day of questioning President Donald Trump’s defense team and the House lawmakers prosecuting his impeachment case, as a decision looms about allowing witnesses.
Read MoreSen. Lamar Alexander’s Vote Looms Large in Determining if Senate Will Have Impeachment Witnesses
Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander could play a key role in deciding if witnesses will be called during the Senate impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump.
Read MoreLev Parnas Gave Congress the Contents of His iPhone, Including His Searches on Sex Hookup Websites
Among the trove of iPhone records that Lev Parnas recently gave Congress to help in the impeachment of President Donald Trump are the Soviet-born businessman’s porn files, as well as searches on a sex hookup website shut down by the Justice Department, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of the files.
Read MoreCommentary: Shut Down This Tiring Farce
The next step in the impeachment of the president needs to be considered in both its legal and political aspects.
Read MoreCommentary: A Copious Compendium of Adam Schiff’s Lies
With the establishment media in a disgusting bromance with Democrat impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff, we thought we’d wrap-up the first few days of the impeachment farce – we mean Senate trial – by collecting as many of Schiff’s lies as we could find into one well-sourced document.
Read MoreViewership Plummets for Impeachment Efforts
According to Breitbart, “The Senate’s impeachment trial’s opening arguments drew 2.8 million fewer television viewers since the House began their own hearings in November, Nielsen ratings data show.”
Read MoreJim Jordan Says Impeachment Case Nothing But ‘Presumptions, Assumptions, and Hearsay’
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH-04), a member of President Donald Trump’s impeachment defense team, said the Democrats’ case for removing the president from office amounts to nothing more than “presumptions, assumptions, and hearsay.”
Read MoreGOP Leaders Hit Nadler for Holding Up a Ban on Fentanyl During Impeachment Trial
Republican Oregon Rep. Greg Walden believes House Democrats’ “obsession” with impeaching President Donald Trump is distracting them from passing a temporary ban on fentanyl substances.
Read MoreCommentary: Without Any Crimes Cited, the Impeachment of President Trump Is Doomed for Failure in the Senate
“House Democrats settled on two flimsy Articles of Impeachment that allege no crime or violation of law whatsoever—much less ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ as required by the Constitution… [T]he terminology of “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” makes clear that an impeachable offense must be a violation of established law. The Impeachment Clause did not confer upon Congress a roving license to make up new standards of conduct for government officials and to permit removal from office merely on a conclusion that conduct was ‘bad’ if there was not an existing law that it violated.”
Read MoreAdam Schiff Reportedly Released False Information in Ukraine Probe
Rep. Adam Schiff released inaccurate information last week regarding a text message between Rudy Giuliani and a former associate concerning Ukraine-related matters, according to a news report.
Read MoreTennessee, Ohio and 19 Other Republican State AGs Ask the Senate to Reject the House’s Impeachment Attempt
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery, along with 20 other Republican attorneys general, sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Wednesday asking them to dismiss the impeachment attempt of President Donald Trump.
Read MoreCommentary: The Effect of the Trump Impeachment on Our Republic
With the attempt to impeach Donald Trump, the United States of America has come to a decisive point in its history.
Read MoreTrump Impeachment Trial Begins With Debate on Rules
WASHINGTON – The impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump began in full Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, with a spirited debate over the rules governing the third such trial in U.S. history over whether a president should be ousted from the White House for allegedly violating his oath of office.
Read MoreTrump Lawyers: President Did ‘Absolutely Nothing Wrong’ on Ukraine
President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday assailed the impeachment case against him as a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution,” asserting he did “absolutely nothing wrong” in pressing Ukraine to launch investigations to benefit himself politically.
Read MoreRand Paul Says He Fears Republicans Won’t Let Trump ‘Choose His Witnesses’ in Impeachment Trial
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said he’s worried that his fellow Republican senators will block testimonies from the witnesses President Donald Trump wants called in his impeachment trial, Paul told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday.
Read MoreTrump Taps Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr for Impeachment Trial Defense
President Donald Trump added two big name attorneys to his legal counsel for next week’s Senate impeachment trial hearings.
Read MoreCommentary: This Tawdry Impeachment Spectacle Must Run Its Course
As far as can be determined, the question of whether the Senate should conduct a trial or dismiss the spurious articles of impeachment as unworthy of trial by vote of the majority, is being addressed as a matter of President Trump’s political convenience.
Read MoreUS House Set to Vote Wednesday to Send Impeachment Charges to Senate
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House of Representatives will vote Wednesday to send official impeachment charges to the Senate, bringing the start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s historical impeachment trial one step closer to reality.
Read MoreCommentary: A ‘Fair’ Senate Impeachment Trial Is Exactly What Democrats Are Afraid Of
On January 7, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wrote her Democratic colleagues to explain her strategy and to respond to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) announcement that he would not negotiate impeachment trial procedures with the House. Instead, McConnell simply plans to use the procedures employed in the Clinton impeachment
Read MorePelosi Caves: House to Transmit Impeachment Articles Next Week
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to gave buckled under pressure and has finally agreed to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Fox News is reporting.
Read MoreCommentary: House Democrats Are Terrified to Submit Impeachment Articles to the Senate
“If the House ever musters the courage to stand behind their slapdash work product and transmit their impeachment to the Senate, it will be time for the United States Senate to fulfill our founding purpose. [But] [w]e can’t hold a trial without the articles. The Senate’s own rules don’t provide for that. So, for now, we are content to continue the ordinary business of the Senate while House Democrats continue to flounder. For now.”
Read MorePelosi: House to Vote This Week to Limit Trump’s Military Actions on Iran
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that the House would vote on a resolution intended to limit President Donald Trump’s military actions regarding Iran, stating that concerns about the administration’s strategy and decisions were not addressed in a briefing with lawmakers.
Read MoreCommentary: There Is No Clever Democratic Impeachment Strategy
We are now approaching three weeks since the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump on December 18. After passing the articles of impeachment that identified no actual crimes, congressional Democrats scattered all over D.C., celebrating in posh restaurants and ritzy bars.
Read MoreTrump Lawyer Giuliani Says He Would Testify at President’s Impeachment Trial
WASHINGTON – Rudy Giuliani, U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney and a key figure in pressing Ukraine to launch investigations to benefit Trump politically, says he would testify at the president’s looming impeachment trial and do whatever he can to see him acquitted.
Read MoreFormer Ohio Gov. John Kasich Defends Impeachment, Critiques American Political Divisiveness on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich defended his decision to support the impeachment of President Trump during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, saying it is “crazy” to say Trump did nothing wrong.
Read MoreCarol Swain Commentary: Mark Galli’s Unchristian Attack on President Trump from an Evangelical Perspective
I first learned about Mark Galli’s Christianity Today editorial “Trump Should Be Removed from Office” from a text message sent by a former student of mine I’ll call Jared, a native New Yorker. He asked, What do you think of this article?
Read MoreCommentary: The Senate Should Start the Impeachment Trial Whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Is Ready or Not
Does House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have a heretofore unnoticed, unconstitutional power to hold up an impeachment that has already been voted on?
Read MoreCommentary: A Contemptible Tissue of Lies Surrounds Impeachment
Even as the House Democrats voted to impeach the president this week, there was universal recognition that the effort to remove him was a dead pigeon on arrival at the Senate (assuming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi summons the courage to apprise the Senate officially of the results of the House vote).
Read MoreCommentary: Nancy Pelosi Is a Totalitarian Bully
One of the more interesting phenomena to manifest itself during the Democrats’ attempt to overthrow President Trump is how frequently Democrats engage in what one might call mirroring. When Democrats accuse Trump of say, “shredding the Constitution” or “undermining our democracy” you can be sure that is exactly what they themselves are doing.
Read MoreTrump-District Dems Who Voted for Impeachment Take Phone Calls, Hide Behind Binders to Dodge Questions
Several Democratic lawmakers from congressional districts carried by the president in 2016 were recorded hiding behind binders and taking phone calls when asked about their votes to impeach President Donald Trump.
Read MoreTulsi Gabbard Explains Why She Voted ‘Present’ on Impeachment
Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard explained Thursday how a “deep love of country” motivated her to vote “present” on Wednesday’s impeachment ballot.
Read MoreHere’s How Much the Formal Impeachment Inquiry Has Cost Taxpayers So Far
House Democrats spent at least $3 million of taxpayers’ money in under three months pursuing the impeachment of President Donald Trump, counting the cost of lawyers and staff time spent readying for hearings, according to Heritage Foundation research.
Read MoreCommentary: The Witch Hunt Continues as House Democrats Impeach President Donald Trump
House Democrats have voted to impeach President Donald Trump under the unproven premise that he leveraged $391 million of U.S. military and security assistance to Ukraine in exchange for investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the corrupt natural gas firm Burisma his son worked for after Biden said he had the prosecutor who says he was investigating Burisma fired.
Read MoreTrump Campaign Says POTUS Raised More Than $5 Million on the Day Dems Voted to Impeach
President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Wednesday night that it raised over $5 million on the day House Democrats voted to impeach the president.
Read MoreJeff Webb of The American Populist Encourages Those Confronting Democrats Vulnerable Over Impeachment
Jeff Webb, founder of The American Populist, offered encouragement to the grassroots activists who are confronting Democratic members of Congress abusing their powers by supporting impeachment.
Read MoreGallup Poll Finds Majority Now Oppose Impeaching and Removing Trump From Office
President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has inched up six percentage points since House Democrats opened an impeachment inquiry against him, according to a Gallup poll published Wednesday.
Read MoreCommentary: Poll After Poll Finds Democrats Underwater On Impeachment
When more voters oppose a candidate or issue than support it, we say the candidate or issue is “underwater” and when even CNN finds more Americans oppose impeachment than support it Democrats are not just underwater, they are drowning.
Read MoreTrump Impeached: U.S. House Impeaches President for Third Time in Nation’s History
The U.S. House of Representatives officially impeached President Donald J. Trump Wednesday evening, making him just the third president in the country’s history to be impeached.
Read MoreOn Eve of Impeachment Vote, Trump Punches Back Against Pelosi
One day before the Democrat-led House is set to vote on impeachment, President Donald Trump sent a scathing six-page letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asserting the House majority was “declaring open war on American Democracy.”
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