Saturday, February 8th, 2020
My Dear America:
We have all witnessed countless disturbing and shameful spectacles over the course of the last three plus years of the Trump Presidency.
Certainly the Sham Russian Style Impeachment Show Trial in the United States Senate, in which the Republican Senators decided to Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Speak No Evil regarding Donald Trump, certainly qualifies as one of the most enduring foul spectacles of the exceedingly foul Trump Presidency.
Truth seems to be in short supply in the Trump Presidency and it was certainly in short supply from Trump's White House Defense Attorney's at the Sham Impeachment Trial.
The Trump Defense Team was large and in charge in the Senate.
It was stranger than fiction to see Former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, putting his Tattered Reputation on the line for Donald Trump and reminding not only the Senate but the country on national Television of how divisive Impeachments are. Totally Weird is what it was.
Seeing Starr talking down Impeachment would have been really comical if it had not been for the lives that Starr had ruined along the way in his relentless pursuit of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky and Jim and Susan McDougal during the Nineties in what had started out as "The Whitewater Investigation" and ended up as Bill Clinton's Girlfriend Investigation. Starr and his deputy Special Counsel's, including presently Tarnished Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, pursued Bill Clinton like Tommy Lee Jones pursued Harrison Ford in "The Fugitive". Starr was clearly out to get President Bill Clinton in the Nineties. But in 2020 it was clearly a different story with Donald Trump. Starr, who had no mercy whatever for Democratic President Bill Clinton, was more than ready to provide nothing but mercy to Republican President Donald Trump, despite the fact that what Trump had done was much more damaging to American National Security than what Clinton had done more than two decades before.
Another Tarnished member of the Trump Defense Team was Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz is a Lawyer whose High Profile Clients have included O.J. Simpson, Jeffrey Epstein and Claus Bulow.
Over the past few years Dershowitz has spent a good deal of time before the Fox News cameras defending the misdeeds of Donald Trump and company so it was no surprise to see Dershowitz at the Trump Legal Defense Table at the Senate Trial.
It was a bit surprising, however, to hear Dershowitz stating to the Senate that Donald Trump's attempt to corrupt the leader of Ukraine who had just won his country's Presidency on an Anti-Corruption platform was not a crime and even if it was, as long as Donald Trump thought he was doing it in the best interest of the United States that it was not an impeachable offense.
The extremely odd Dershowitz argument was denounced by nearly every lawyer in the land except those at the Trump Defense table. To make matters even more odd, CNN and MSNBC continued to play video of not only Dershowitz making his 2020 argument but older video of Dershowitz making the opposite argument of his present argument. The older video presented Dershowitz insisting that a president can be impeached even if he hasn't committed a crime.
What has also been revealed in former National Security Adviser, John Bolton's book in stories published by the New York Times is that President Trump did advise Bolton and others including Pat Cipilone, one of Trump's Impeachment Lawyers, in a meeting that both Bolton and Cipilone attended, that Trump was stopping Unkraine from getting millions of dollars for arms needed to fight the Russians until The Ukrainian Leader promised to investigate Joe Biden and his son.
After watching much of the Impeachment Show Trial it seems clear to me that Adam Schiff and the other Impeachment Managers made their case that the President should be Impeached but this is, after all, a show trial and The Senate Republican Leader, Mitch McConnell has made it clear that President Trump would not be removed from office. So Except for Senator Mitt Romney all Republican Senators following the lead of their House colleagues voted against removing Donald Trump from the Presidency.
God Bless Mitt Romney.
Sincerely Yours
Jerry Gallagher
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