So It’s Okay To Sit Here And Watch The White House Just Burn Down 🔥🏛 I Guess
Should we just let this motherf#%*er burn?!
No impeachment yet? Not even a censure? Or for God’s sake at least a rebuke? As dignified a people as Americans tout themselves to be( just look at all the Hollywood films made), no one sees fit to put out the inferno razing down the White House at this critical juncture of a constitutional crisis.
I wouldn’t count on reconstruction.
Surprisingly there is one Fox News analyst who actually sees and smells the smoke. Judge Andrew Napolitano prefaced how high crimes and misdemeanors warrant impeachment as set forth and laid down with precedent under previous administrations, however to the detriment of the parties who sought that impeachment.
The Constitution prescribes treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors as the sole bases for impeachment. We know that obstruction of justice constitutes an impeachable offense under the “high crimes and misdemeanors” rubric because both presidents in the modern era who were subject to impeachment proceedings — Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton — were charged with obstructing justice.
Obstruction is a rare crime that is rarely completed. Stated differently, the obstructer need not succeed in order to be charged with obstruction. That’s because the statute itself prohibits attempting to impede or interfere with any government proceeding for a corrupt or self-serving purpose.
Thus, if my neighbor tackles me on my way into a courthouse in order to impede a jury from hearing my testimony, and, though delayed, I still make it to the courthouse and testify, then the neighbor is guilty of obstruction because he attempted to impede the work of the jury that was waiting to hear me. — Judge Andrew Napolitano
Exactly!
However, this will never see the national media light of day. It is buried under the archives at Fox News and apparently deemed not headline material. It amounts to a far-reaching fervently collusive politico-media complex, which profits mightily from casting aspersions on or legitimating radicalism from this presidency in all its sorcery.
Meanwhile Wall Street too, is having a field day with illusory gains in the markets. A relatively strong economy all but ensures that this nonsense will certainly provide the backdrop for reelection. The picture being painted will certainly have Trump caricatured front and center with distorted, grotesquely satirical imagery of triumph from political attack even though much of the display was brought on by his immoral doing. That picture is worth a thousand words that won’t be read because most like the president himself are not interested in the comprehension of what’s being depicted as representative of our sociopolitical and socioeconomic states — in all its duplicity and illusion.
But what makes this all the more disconcerting is the public invitation to and for the citizenry to collude with the antidemocratic posturing of the republican party and its president by dismissing and overlooking damning evidence away and from the Mueller report. We the people are being bullied into simply excusing away such immoral and unethical statesmanship, unbecoming of a democratically* elected leader sworn to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Mr. Trump has shown an unarguable inability to do what he has sworn to do when he took office.
If we are reading the tea leaves right a reversal or a national awakening is the stuff left for Hollywood to reenact for a proper ending, for us it is what we will have to endure rather than end.
After four years as president, Trump will have made at least two Supreme Court appointments, signed into law tax cuts, and rolled back federal regulation of the environment and the economy. Whatever you think of these actions, many of them can probably be offset or entirely undone in the future. The effects of a full eight years of Trump will be much more difficult, if not impossible, to undo.
That’s because the King of Obstruction has masterfully obstructed both the legislative and judicial branches of government from performing its constitutional duties in favor of glorifying with impunity, a deconstructive president.
Mueller laid out at least a half-dozen crimes of obstruction committed by Trump — from asking former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland to write an untruthful letter about the reason for Flynn’s chat with Kislyak, to asking Corey Lewandowski and then-former White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller and McGahn to lie about it, to firing Comey to impede the FBI’s investigations, to dangling a pardon in front of Michael Cohen to stay silent, to ordering his aides to hide and delete records.
The essence of obstruction is deception or diversion — to prevent the government from finding the truth. To Mueller, the issue was not if Trump committed crimes of obstruction. Rather, it was if Trump could be charged successfully with those crimes.
Mr. Trump, aided and abetted by the republican party has effectively reduced and subverted democratic principles for authoritarian gains in power and affluence in large enough scale — to pollute the national sentiment and consensus.
To watch anymore of this will make many of us gag on popcorn and sick to our stomachs.
- *In the 2016 national election the president won the electoral college vote but lost the popular vote.
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President Donald Trump slammed Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Saturday night, accusing the former judge of getting angry when the commander in chief refused to nominate him to the Supreme Court. Trump also claimed that he rejected a request to pardon one of Napolitano’s friends.
In a pair of tweets after his campaign rally in Wisconsin, Trump said that Napoitano had become “very hostile” toward his administration after he rejected his requests. “Ever since Andrew came to my office to ask that I appoint him to the U.S. Supreme Court, and I said NO, he has been very hostile! Also asked for pardon for his friend. A good ‘pal’ of low ratings Shepard Smith,” the president said, referring to another member of Fox News who has been more critical of Trump.
