You know who all of the angry Democrats on social media are not attacking for a failure to hold this corrupt president and his team of grifters responsible for their actions?
The Republicans in the US Congress.
I continue to read the stories here and linked on Twitter from a lot of Democrats of all stripes, castigating Speaker Pelosi or the generic Democrats in Congress, because there isn’t an Impeachment vote happening anywhere yet.
Today, I read a thread about how weak the Speaker is and that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is a coward. Because, by god, someone has to be to blame for the fact that TRUMP IS STILL RUNNING LOOSE AND RUINING AMERICA.
Aren’t any of your folks old enough to have lived through Watergate? Show of hands, please of those who DO remember watching it live on TV in the summer of 1973.
Would you folks with your hands up please, please help explain to everyone without an iota of patience left among them all, that Impeachment is not an event.
It is a PROCESS.
The president does bad things, and too many people learn about it. The Media talks about things for months. Someone in the DOJ finds out that possible crimes have been committed. An investigation is begun, quietly, because the possible crimes are in some way pointing at the sitting president. While the initial investigation is ongoing, more evidence is found, now it’s implicating the president and/or his campaign and/or some of the campaign staff in actions which appear to be illegal. A Special Counsel is appointed and given a mission to complete, including running down other crimes which may come to light while he is investigating a possible Russian interference in the last US election.For two long years, that Counsel and his team discover a lot. A LOT. But certain rules from the DOJ make that Counsel’s job a problem, because he is supposed to charge people with crimes, should he find they likely committed them or decide NOT to charge people for crimes they might have committed but he doesn’t believe will be convicted if charged, and why.
So he cannot point the flaming arrow of justice at the president. But he lays out a path by which to charge that president once he is no longer president. Most convincingly, he ends the Report of his Investigation with these words on pg 392 of the redacted version of the Mueller Report released by current AG Barr in April 2019:
In sum, contrary to the position taken by the President's counsel, we concluded that, in light of the Supreme Court precedent governing separation-of-powers issues, we had a valid basis for investigating the conduct at issue in this report. In our view, the application of the obstruction statutes would not impermissibly burden the President's performance of his Article II function to supervise prosecutorial conduct or to remove inferior law-enforcement officers. And the protection of the criminal justice system from corrupt acts by any person-including the President-accords with the fundamental principle of our government that "[n]o [person] in this country is so high that he is above the law." United States v. Lee, I 06 U.S. 196, 220 (1882); see also Clinton v. Jones, 520 U.S. at 697 ; United States v. Nixon , supra.
So here we are, after two plus years and the somewhat confusing, redacted Mueller Report was released and now WHERE IS THE IMPEACHMENT?
It starts like this…
▶ Democratic House Cmte Chairs begin to request and then subpoena witnesses who gave testimony to Robert Mueller. They open hearings into the various elements outlined by Mueller — because his words in the Report are clear, he fully expected, since he COULD NOT charge Trump, that the Congress would of necessity take up the removal of the president via impeachment. He says so right there at the end of it all: No person in this country is so high that he is above the law
▶ Mueller could not possibly have been talking about anyone else. But the Congress and the House Chairs (like Judiciary’s Rep Jerry Nadler) still do not have the unredacted Mueller Report OR it’s underlying evidence and testimony.
▶ So they’ll be slow-walking a lead up to a House impeachment, until they can get the data and evidence they’ll need to present to THE PEOPLE via televised hearings. So that those people will be convinced beyond a doubt that the president has forsworn his Oath of Office and should be removed. Which will cause them to contact …. who? Will they start contacting Democratic members of Congress and especially the US Senate, to urge them to impeach Trump? Those Democratic members of Congress already know that. They’ve known it, many of them, since 2018 and maybe even in 2017.
▶ The people THE PEOPLE will be contacting as those hearings wind down and the US House prepares to have a Floor Debate and take a vote on impeachment? THE REPUBLICANS.
▶ The Republicans in the US House, urging them to join their Democratic members and do the right thing and relive the nation of this unworthy leader.
▶The Republicans in the US Senate, to demand that should the House impeach Trump, that they vote “AYE” and affirm that impeachment and remove Donald J Trump from the presidency.
▶ Making Trump once more just another citizen. One now open to criminal charges of Felony Obstruction of Justice, among other chargeable offenses.
NOW — do you understand why Speaker Pelosi can’t just go on tv and say, “He’s a criminal and a traitor and the House will Impeach Donald J Trump next Tuesday at 4 pm EST.”
She might want to, at this point, but she can not.
What Speaker Pelosi can do, is what she has been doing.
▶ Setting up the dominos, so that the House Cmte Chairs can knock them down on live television in front of what will likely be the largest television audience in history.
▶ Preparing the nation to understand that the Democrats under Speaker Nancy Pelosi were forced to do this, because of how terribly Trump has acted, how criminal his behavior has been. That the Democrats were not driven like locusts to impeach the president for political purposes — but because their Oath of Office to protect and defend the Constitution demanded it of them.
Because we ARE still a nation of Laws and not men.
Because no person in this country is so high that he is above the Law.
Not even the President of these United States.