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Monday 23 December 2019

WHY THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP IS UTTER RUBBISH 

1. The first article of impeachment, the charge of abuse of power is not supported by evidence during the inquiry. The call transcript showed no quid pro quo. Both Mr Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have both said “no pressure, no pushing, no linkage whatsoever between security assistance money and any type of an announcement of an investigation”. The Ukrainians did not even know the aid had been held up at the time of the call. Aid money was released to the Ukrainians without them taking any action in starting investigations into the 2016 Russian Hoax or the Bidens. On the contrary, not a single piece of evidence was produced by any witness to support any abuse of power by the President.

2. The second article of impeachment, the charge of obstruction of Congress is legally unsound. President Trump’s assertion that the executive branch, of which he is the head, need not comply with congressional subpoenas requiring the production of privileged material is valid because of his power of Presidential privilege. This is consistent with the separation of powers between the legislature and the executive. But, whenever there is a conflict between Congress, the legislative branch, and the President, the executive branch, the judicial branch is the ultimate arbiter of such conflicts by way of a final court order. Since Congress did not apply for such a final court order, the President cannot be deemed to have obstructed Congress.

3. The impeachment inquiry in Congress turned out to be contrary to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s own March 11 2019 guideline that impeachment should go ahead only if ”there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan”. As stated in (1), he inquiry hearings did not reveal any evidence of wrong-doing, never mind compelling or overwhelming, and it was strictly a one-party effort by the Democrats.

4. The two articles of impeachment, namely abuse of power and obstruction of Congress are not impeachable offences under the Constitution.  Under the Constitution, Congress has the authority to impeach and remove the President, only if they could determine that he has engaged in “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors”.  The two charges most certainly do not qualify.

Wednesday 11 December 2019

IS THIS AN IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP OR IS IT OF THE DEMOCRATS?

Let’s see what the articles of President Trump’s impeachment are:

(1) The first allegation is that he exercised the powers of his public office to "obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring or injuring the national interest", by allegedly putting pressure on Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

THE TRUTH: the Democrats abused their powers of Congress to obtain an improper political benefit while ignoring or injuring the national interest by blatantly conducting an impeachment hoax to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

(2) The second allegation is that "when he was caught, when the House investigated and opened an impeachment inquiry, President Trump engaged in unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the impeachment inquiry", thereby obstructing Congress.

THE TRUTH: when the Democrats’ hoax was called out, when not a single shred of evidence was produced in the inquiry to prove wrongdoing, the House continued with their impeachment inquiry, proceeding with their unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of the constitution thereby obstructing justice and the executive power of the President.