Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) office on Monday released a "fact sheet" detailing allegations against President Trump amid House Democrats' ongoing impeachment inquiry.
“President Trump has betrayed his oath of office, betrayed our national security and betrayed the integrity of our elections for his own personal political gain,” the document argues.
It goes on to list what Pelosi's office calls proof of a "pressure campaign" and "cover up" by Trump related to Ukraine. The sheet includes quotes from Trump and the anonymous [spy] ...
So, this isn't serious--in fact, it's an outrage. What it is is a fraud perpetrated on the public.
The Hill rightly puts "fact sheet" in quotes because the sheet or screed is not factual in any real world sense. The second paragraph, the charge for impeachment, is actually the tired old Jerry Nadler scam. This scam script was written out as soon as Trump took the oath of office--in fact, Maggie Hemingway overheard Nadler outlining it to a friend. It was written before any "facts" were known. Anyway, if the Dems had actual facts to support the allegations presented in this BS narrative, why has there been no vote to impeach?
Here's why. What follows is the beginning of the "fact sheet"--really a non-factual narrative put together to attempt to influence the public discussion:
THE SHAKEDOWN
On September 25, the White House released a record of President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Zelensky, which paints a damning picture of Trump abusing his offce by pressing a foreign government to interfere in our 2020 elections.
President Trump has betrayed his oath of office, betrayed our national security and betrayed the integrity of our elections for his own personal political gain.
IN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S OWN WORDS:
“I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine…. I wouldn’t say that it’s reciprocal
necessarily because things are happening that are not good but the United States has been very very good to Ukraine.”
“I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.”
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to and out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me.”
“I will have Mr. Giuliani give you a call and I am also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom of it. I’m sure you will figure it out.”
Now, what Pelosi presents bears the same relation to Trump's actual words as a presentation titled "IN THE NYT'S OWN WORDS" would if I were to take a copy of the NYT and select paragraphs from four separate pages and string them together as if each paragraph came from one connected passage. Note that there are no ellipses setting off the paragraphs to show that the quotes are actually taken out of context, which makes this presentation not just a misrepresentation but an outright fake--as if it were an audiotape that had been edited and then presented as correct and true.
Thus, the key part, in which Trump is presented as asking for a "favor" with regard to Biden and his son:
“I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.”
There should be an ellipsis here to signify a gap in the quotation.
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to and out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me.”
in fact should read like this:
"I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.
"I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation."
As I said, that's not mere misrepresentation--it's outright falsification. As such, if in the wildly improbable circumstance that such a charge were voted out of the House, Trump's attorney's would be strongly advised to present a motion to the Chief Justice (who would preside in the Senate) to dismiss the charge based on its patent falsity. It would be a fraud on the Senate--presenting, in actual fact, a falsified document.
Therefore this is clearly not serious and is presented by Pelosi only to stoke the left wing loon base.
On an only slightly more serious level, I suspect the real target here is not so much Trump, as AG Bill Barr. Note how Barr is presented as acting in concert with Giuliani and both are presented as acting to investigate the Bidens. That's another, and very serious, falsification of the actual text of the document. The point of it is to portray Barr as engaged in a political witchhunt rather than an investigation with a proper criminal predication. In other words, just as we've seen in the barely controlled hysteria of the media accounts since we first heard of the Durham investigation's "expanded timeline", what we're seeing here is evidence that the Left is spinning out of control in its alarm over Barr's investigation.
That's good news.
So the Lede should be "Pelosi goes full Adam Schiff. Never go full Adam Schiff." Only Tom Arnold, or Cher, can be stupid enough to not be insulted by this.
ReplyDeleteTom S.
Exactly.
DeleteIs the "fact sheet" scrawled in crayon on three walls of a padded cell?
ReplyDeleteWill there be a full blown insurrection with sympathetic military, mainly officers, and civil war?
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that Trump's support is mostly from lower Field Grade officers, and ranks below those.
ReplyDeleteThe higher Field Grade officers are feared to be mostly Obama suck-ups.
If we see civil war, it's likely to emerge from secession mov'ts, after a Dem win of the White House, and subsequent moves by the Left to accelerate Sarah Jeong's "plan" for white extinction.
Most likely, the main targets of this plan would be the Deplorable middle/ working classes, who voted so heavily for Trump.
(Hillary carried mainly the upper-middle class, and the underclass.)
The crazy will escalate until either Durham issues indictments or someone gets seriously hurt or worse. This is neither a matter of humor nor a sideshow of incompetence. It's playing with fire and no one in Congress is willing to be a fireman.
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to think it's coming down to a literal fight. I hope that I'm wrong. Water boils at 212 degrees and eventually boils over.
ReplyDeleteWhat will happen when Barr brings charges against Brennan, Clapper and Comey, plus the other schemers?
While the Dems are doing their crazed dance in the foreground, the state media egging them on, Barr and Durham are grinding away toward something we hope will be fact- and evidence-loaded, irrefutable, and cast iron prosecutions for Brennan, Clapper and Comey and more than a few of the other members of the smug Small Group. I see Barr and Durham as an expert, very workmanlike duo. They may be delighted to see the Dem clown show dominate the media so that they can do what they do in relative quiet...
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