A
Successful Coup Against Trump Will Murder
American Democracy
By Paul
Craig Roberts
November 08, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
-President Trump calls it a
witch hunt, but it really is a coup against
American democracy. The Democrats who want Trump
impeached don’t realize this. They just want
Trump impeached because they don’t like him. The
impeach Trump people don’t understand that if
the coup against the elected president succeeds,
every future president will know that if he
attempts to “drain the swamp” or bring any
changes not acceptable to the ruling elite, he,
too, will be destroyed. Voters who want real
change will also get the message and give up
trying to elect a president or members of the
House and Senate who will be responsive to
voters. It will mean the end of democracy and
accountable government. Unhindered rule by the
Deep State and associated elites will take
democracy’s place.
It is
unfortunate that progressives do not understand
this. Progressives want real change and Trump
impeached, but these desires are at variance
with one another.
Few, if
any, of the impeach Trump crowd are paying any
attention to the fabricated case against Trump
that has taken the place of the Russiagate
fabrication that failed. They could not care
less what the case is or whether it is a
fabrication. Dislike of Trump suffices.
Nevertheless, let’s look at the fabricated case.
First
of all, the alleged whistleblower is not a
legitimate whistleblower. He is Eric Ciaramella,
a CIA officer with a second-hand complaint who
met with House Intelligence (sic) chairman Adam
Schiff a month ahead to orchestrate the event.
Ciaramella served on Obama’s staff when VP Joe
Biden was point man for Ukraine. Ciaramella also
worked with CIA Director John Brennan, the
architect of “Russiagate,” and with a Democratic
National Committee operative who encouraged
Ukraine officials to come up with dirt on
President Trump.
All of
this and more has caused the “whistleblower” to
withdraw from testifying.
Desperate for a substitute, Democrats have come
up with tainted career bureaucrats who favor
military aid to Ukraine and a hard line toward
Russia. Bill Taylor a US diplomat in Ukraine
claims that Trump’s ambassador to the European
Union, Gordon Sondland, said that US military
aid to Ukraine was conditional on Ukraine
reopening the government’s investigation into
the Ukrainian company, Burisma, an investigation
that VP Joe Biden had closed down. Burisma is
the company that paid as much as $1.75 million
to Biden and his son.
Taylor
claims that another bureaucrat, Tim Morrison,
told him that Sondland communicated the “quid
pro quo” to an aide to Zelensky.
Sondland rejects the claims by Taylor and
Morrison.
A
Ukrainian born rabid anti-Russian US Army
officer serving on the National Security
Council, Alexander Vindman, also offers two
cents of unverified quid pro quo claims.
Vindman’s motive seems to be that President
Trump is inclined to follow a different policy
toward Ukraine than Vindman prefers.
This is
the extent of the case against Trump. Amazingly
weak considering that Ukrainian president
Zelensky has stated publicly that there was no
quid pro quo and that the released transcript of
the Trump-Zelensky conversation shows no quid
pro quo.
Now for
the issue of the alleged quid pro quo. It seems
that everyone on both sides of the argument
takes for granted without a second of thought
that if there was a quid pro quo, there was an
offense, possibly one sufficiently offensive to
warrant impeachment. This is utter ignorant
nonsense.
Washington offered the Venezuelan military money
to overthrow President Maduro. The military
refused the offer.
Dozens
of examples come readily to mind. Research would
produce enough to fill a book.
What do
you think the sanctions are that the US
president places on countries? They are
punishments that Washington imposes for not
accepting Washington’s deal.
As for
a quid pro quo deal between the US executive
branch and president of Ukraine, we have VP Joe
Biden’s boast that he got the Ukrainian
prosecutor fired who was investigating
corruption in the firm that had purchased US
protection by putting Biden’s son, Hunter, on
Burisma’s board. Joe Biden brags in front of the
Council on Foreign Relations that he gave the
Ukrainian president 6 hours to fire the
prosecutor or forfeit $1 billion in US aid.
As
Biden was US Vice President at the time and is
currently the leading Democratic candidate for
the US presidential nomination, he is clearly
guilty of what Trump is accused. Why is only
Trump subject to investigation? If an offense
that is merely suspected or alleged suffices for
impeaching a president, why isn’t a known and
admitted and bragged about offense reason to
disqualify Biden from being president?
One
would think that a question this obvious would
be the topic of debate. But not a word from the
presstitutes, Democrats, or Republicans.
Finally, there is the question of the
whistleblower law.
If this
interpretation
sent
to me by a reliable source is correct, there is
no basis in law for the alleged whistleblower
complaint.
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