"And no, you damned Dems ain't gonna lynch me like you plan to lynch my master Donnie! WAAAH!"
"Impeachment is not a lawless mob committing murder - as is lynching. It is a group of democratically elected officials following a process laid out in the U.S. Constitution for the lawful removal of a president. The president is simply lawfully removed from office, not from this earth."- Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 'Lynching Comment Trump Invoked Is Brutal.'
When a rat is cornered and one has the weapon of choice aimed at its thorax it will invariably squeal in desperation and even attempt to distract with pitiful cries. The same applies to human rats - such as Donald "Bonespurs" Trump. e,g,
Who yesterday brought his time in illegitimate office to a new low by describing his impeachment as a "lynching" - managing yet again to create distraction and political firestorm via a racial horror applied to African Americans in the pre-Civil Rights era. The depraved misuse of a loaded term drew justified condemnation from most lawmakers but some - like Trump ass licker Lindsey Graham - saw fit to assert:: "This is a lynching in every sense!"
Uh, no you crass, traitor -enabling SC hick, it's a lynching in NO sense,. Because the orange pestilence wasn't really strung up (see image) and hung by his scruffy,orange traitor neck. And for using such an explosive, racially -charged term - to describe a constitutionally lawful process- you really ought to be strung up along side your master.
Trump's manic, deranged identification of impeachment with lynching came within 60 minutes of career diplomat William Taylor showing up to testify for nearly 10 hours yesterday. Taylor had flown to Washington in response to a congressional subpoena and in defiance of an administration gag order. Politico's website quoted a source in the private briefing as saying Taylor’s opening statement was 15 pages long and prompted “a lot of sighs and gasps”. Taylor was brought out of retirement in June after the former ambassador to Kyiv, Marie Yovanovitch, was abruptly removed from her post.
In diplomatic texts released by Congress, it is Taylor who most clearly expresses the quid pro quo being presented to the Ukrainian government by Trump’s emissaries, and his deep concern about it. This was most glaringly exposed in his Sept. 9 missive to Sondland, e.g.
“I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign,”
According to Taylor’s opening statement, published by the Lawfare website, Gordon Sondland (U.S. ambassador to EU), made clear in a phone call that both military aid and a White House meeting with Trump were dependent on the launch of two investigations. One was into a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, which had employed Hunter Biden, the son of former vice-president and 2020 Democratic contender Joe Biden. The second was into Ukraine’s role in the 2016 election. Both fall under the category of debunked conspiracy codswallop.
In Taylor's words:
"During that phone call, Ambassador Sondland told me that President Trump had told him that he wants President [Volodymyr] Zelenski to state publicly tht Ukraine will investigate Burisma and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election,”
He added:
“Sondland said ‘everything’ was dependent on such an announcement, including security assistance…President Trump wanted president Zielinski in a “public box” by making a public statement about ordering such investigations.”
Taylor discovered on July 18th that military aid to Ukraine had been suspended, but it was initially unclear why. Taylor discovered that the hold had been ordered by the White House acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, on the instructions of the president who, Taylor was told, “doesn’t want to provide any assistance at all”.
Taylor said that Sondland had told him the conditions had been laid down to him by Trump personally. Taylor also learned from a senior White House official about a 7 September phone conversation between Trump and Sondland in which the president insisted there was no quid pro quo for Ukraine, but in the same call Trump “did insist that President Zelenskiy go to a microphone and say he’s opening investigations of Biden, and the 2016 election interference”.
Democratic representative Stephen Lynch, a senior member of the House oversight and reform committee, was quoted in Politico as saying the testimony was a “sea change” that “could accelerate” the impeachment inquiry.
New Jersey representative Tom Malinowski said it was “the most thorough accounting we’ve had of the timeline”. WaPo scribe Dana Milbank affirmed that it was testimony that "Could end a presidency" and let us hope so. Because as NY Times columnist Michelle Goldberg put it in a column two days ago, the survival of this nation may not wait another year for an election that finally dumps Trump. As she wrote:
"as Donald Trump’s sneering lawlessness and stupefying corruption continue to escalate, it’s confounding, at least to me, that Americans aren’t taking to the streets en masse.... You can’t count on an election to restrain the president when the president is using the power of his office to subvert the election with foreign interference. Each day, it seems, Trump and those around him become increasingly brazen in their lawbreaking."
We also know he will become ever more crazed like the cornered, rabid rat he is. As NY Times political columnist Peter Wehner put it on 'Last Word' Friday night:
Trump suspended $400m in military aid to Ukraine a few days before a 25 July phone call to Zelenski. In the released version of the call, when the Ukrainian president raised the matter of US military support Trump responded: “I would like you to do us a favor though... …”
Trump then asked for the investigations. 'Quid pro quo' in neon lights.
This was obviously as clear a constitutional violation as it gets given the one thing the Founders feared most (along with obtaining funds from foreign governments via emoluments) was using foreign governments to interfere in our elections.
Despite the Trumpites yelping like idiots this is a "kangaroo court" it is nothing of the sort. It is tantamount to the same process one beholds with a grand jury - and not every party can therefore chime in or have his say. As noted in the most recent NY Times editorial:
"The House’s impeachment inquiry is not a trial. It is more akin to a grand jury proceeding, where information is gathered and considered for the purposes of handing up an indictment. Any trial would be held in the Senate, with Mr. Trump represented by lawyers able to make all the substantive and process challenges he likes."
We need Trump to be removed by the Senate ASAP as the depraved pestilence he is. If the Reepos really are worried about the country being fractured by impeachment they will help expedite - rather than obstruct - the process, and then convict and remove this rat in the culminating Senate trial.
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