When you have a record of the radical Democrat Party caucus clamoring for impeachment of President Trump immediately after the election and continuing to the present day (and even warning that they will impeach him again and again), it's sort of hard to take them seriously.

Yet here we are.

Adam Schiff promised he had irrefutable evidence that Trump colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election.  Trump-haters were waiting breathlessly for the Mueller report so impeachment could finally proceed.  But even after Mueller's impartial team of Hillary-supporters "issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants and interviewed more than 500 witnesses [and] likely compiled thousands, if not millions, of documents and pieces of evidence," Schiff's secret evidence just couldn't be produced.  Agent Strzok's insurance policy did not pay out.  Of course, its premiums had been tendered in fraud.

Amazingly enough, just when the scam of the entire Trump counterintelligence investigation puzzle was coming together, the House Democrats did a breakneck pivot to Ukraine.  If Russia didn't work, maybe the country that interfered in the 2016 elections by outing Paul Manafort's corruption would.

Trump had to be impeached, so the manufactured Ukraine phone call scandal would have to suffice for substantive impeachable crimes.

The U.S. attorney general is investigating James Comey, et al. for misleading the FISA court to spy on the Trump campaign based on unverified opposition research paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.  And with evidence emerging that the so-called whistleblower may also have been part of an orchestrated Trump set-up, the Justice Department may need to hire more prosecutors.

Fox News broadcaster Laura Ingraham recently released news from a FOIA request that the alleged whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella (the former Ukraine director on the National Security Council), knew about the Biden-Burisma corruption.  In fact, White House visitor logs show that it was Ciaramella who checked in Ukrainian officials for a January 2016 meeting.  The meeting addressed Ukraine's awkward tension in prosecuting the corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings while protecting the vice president — considering that his son, Hunter Biden, was sitting on Burisma's boards, receiving $50K to $80K per month for no articulable reason.

Ciaramella didn't blow the whistle on Biden corruption, but he had to protect democracy and the American Way by whistleblowing against Trump for a phone call to which he was not privy?  Looks like a Democrat twofer: in a bizarre, surreal way, protect good ol' Joe by vilifying Trump for Joe's corruption.

The Biden corruption would come out sooner or later, so the Dems had to get in front of it: Biden had no corrupt dealings with Ukraine, but Trump does!

Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee recently stated that Schiff's witness, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, "the political activist in uniform," leaked Trump's phone conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to the so-called whistleblower over a policy dispute.  (Why didn't Vindman assume the role as brave whistleblower himself?)  The phone conversation was exaggerated by Adam Schiff to read like an indictment.  But President Trump did something unprecedented that Mr. Schiff hadn't planned for: Trump released the transcript.  By that point, however, the Democrats were already committed to the sham impeachment.

Adam Schiff had a sudden change of mind about calling the so-called whistleblower to testify in his House impeachment proceedings after it came to light that Ciaramella had been in contact with his office prior to blowing the golden whistle.  Hmm.

Like the counterintelligence investigation and the Mueller investigation, could the whistleblower investigation also be an orchestrated Democrat Party/Deep State bureaucracy set-up?  It sure looks like a duck.

What a tangled web the Democrats weave.

What the Democrats have actually done, they unsuccessfully accuse Trump of doing.

The Democrat-controlled House impeached President Trump for "abuse of power" and "obstruction of Congress."

I wonder if the Democrats ever get amused by their own, seemingly endless string of ironies.

As the leaders of the Obama administration's Intelligence Community are being criminally investigated for abusing their power by illegally working to set Trump up for baseless investigations, Trump is defending the charge of abuse of power before the U.S. Senate.  The real perpetrators should be defending substantive federal charges committed in furtherance of their criminal enterprise to take out a presidential candidate and sitting president of the United States.

Top officials in the FBI didn't notify Trump that Russian agents were attempting to infiltrate his campaign (and there's no evidence they were).  Instead, they secretly tried to create the appearance that Carter Page and George Papadopoulos were Russian agents.  They set them up as they did Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and others in their own version of McCarthyism, searching for a Russian agent behind every bush in context of Donald Trump.

Yet one candidate actually did pay millions to hire a foreigner, Christopher Steele (who is on record expressing personal animus toward Trump), who used Russian disinformation to create a fantasy opposition research dossier.  FBI director James Comey had no problem using the now-debunked dossier against Trump while bizarrely exonerating Hillary of any criminal wrongdoing.

President Trump's legal team challenged Schiff's subpoenas on a constitutional basis.  Schiff's committee was never authorized by a House vote to conduct a substantive impeachment inquiry with subpoena power.  The impeachment investigation began after a press conference by Speaker Pelosi, which was unprecedented in U.S. history.  The Democrats chose to withdraw subpoena requests rather than take the legal issue before a federal court — because they were in such a rush to impeach.  That's not obstruction of Congress.  That's the exercising of legal rights.

On the other hand, Hillary Clinton permanently erased over 33 thousand emails using computer software (and her staff inexplicably used hammers to destroy memory in her electronic devices) under subpoena of the U.S. Congress.

Whatever the Democrats accuse Trump of, there is a good chance they have actually committed the very crime or are in the process of committing it.  The new Democrats have become the party of projection.

It's a sad day in America when the Democrats have made even presidential impeachment partisan and impossible to take seriously.

Monte Kuligowski is a Virginia attorney.

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