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A Big Fat Nothing-Burger

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A Big Fat Nothing-Burger

Every president takes actions that, viewed through a certain lens, can be seen as impeachable. So it isn’t at all hard to imagine U.S. politics evolving to the point in which it’s just a routine assumption that whenever an opposition party takes control of the House, they’ll impeach the sitting president.

In a press conference, Mr Trump said it was “a joke” that the Democrats had substantiated a formal impeachment inquiry against him with his call to Mr Zelensky (Ukrainian President).

Allegedly in exchange for dirt on his political rival, a whistle-blower claims the US President said he would grant Ukraine a previously withheld $US400 million in military aid.

And so the Democrats are investigating whether he pressured a foreign government to look into a political opponent, and if he used a $400 million aid package as leverage.

The White House made public the telephone transcript one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry against Mr Trump.

There was no reference to the money in the documents.

Clinton demands Impeachments

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Hillary Clinton is calling President Donald Trump a “clear and present danger” to the U.S. amid the latest scandal engulfing his administration, and says that her defeat in the 2016 presidential election was like “losing to a corrupt human tornado.”

Clinton said she supported impeachment proceedings against the president because of what has come to light this week from a supposed whistleblower’s complaint about a call Trump had with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.

Since his 2016 victory, Trump has continued to attack Clinton, including over her use of a private email server when she was secretary of state. Clinton pushed back in the CBS interview, comparing her experience to what Biden is facing now.

“The most outrageously false things were said about me,” Clinton said. “And unfortunately, enough people believed them. So this is an effort to sow these falsehoods against Biden.

Guilty until Exonerated

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Mark Randall Meadows is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for North Carolina’s 11th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the Freedom Caucus from 2017 to 2019.

Republican North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows scoffed at House Democrats for moving forward on an impeachment inquiry against President Trump without having seen the evidence.

“So we are all clear what’s happening,” the former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus tweeted Tuesday. “House Democrats are supposedly beginning an impeachment inquiry, and building it on an anonymous secondhand complaint they haven’t seen… which describes a call transcript that they haven’t read.”

An intelligence community whistle blower reportedly filed a complaint alleging Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, for potential corruption. Trump denies any wrongdoing and offered to release the transcript of the phone call that features as the centerpiece of the inquiry.

Meadows condemned in strongest terms the precedent Democratic leadership set during the Mueller hearing, tweeting, “They advocated the idea that a person is guilty unless a prosecutor exonerates them. That is NOT our standard in America. It can never be so.”

Impeachment to proceed

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Democrat) announces Impeachment Inquiry of President Trump

The Constitution gives Congress the authority to impeach and remove the “The President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States” upon a determination that such officers have engaged in treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

Any official convicted by the Senate is immediately removed from office.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would move ahead with an “official” impeachment effort after reports that President Trump withheld aid to Ukraine while he was pressing the country to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son.

Mr. Trump said he approved the Wednesday release of a transcript of a July call with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he pressed his Ukrainian counterpart for a probe of the Bidens. But Democrats are seeking the release of a full whistleblower complaint made to the inspector general of the intelligence community that includes the July phone call.

The White House is preparing to allow the whistleblower complaint to be turned over to Congress by the end of the week.

The Democratic-controlled House needs a simple majority to impeach the president. If Mr. Trump is impeached in the House, the matter would move to the Republican-controlled Senate, where it would face little chances of conviction by the necessary two-thirds super majority. No Republican Senator supports removing the president from office, and many have shrugged off the president’s actions concerning Ukraine.

Attack on Oil Supplies

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Iran said on Monday there would be no meeting between Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the US President Donald Trump at the United Nations, Iranian state television reported.

Last Saturday, Iran pushed the world one step closer to war.

Around 4 a.m., critical Saudi Arabian energy infrastructure was targeted by weaponised drones and missiles. The damaged facilities effectively halved Saudi Arabia’s oil output. The effect was that oil prices jumped 20 percent as of this morning—the largest jump in the past 28 years. And it will take weeks, not days, for Saudi Arabia to restore its output capacity.

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
Previously, Director of CIA (2017-2018)

Despite initial claims of responsibility by the Houthis, a rebel group backed by Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo placed the blame squarely on Iran and said the attacks did not originate in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia issued a statement on Sunday that the attack “either came from Iraq or from Iran.” If Iran is found to be the culprit, it would make Saturday’s attack just the latest in a series of escalatory attacks by the regime against the United States, our allies and our interests.

As the largest state sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian regime has a long-standing record of supporting violence.

 

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