Friday Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was escorted from the White House where he had served on the National Security Council. His twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, was also dismissed from the NSC. Alexander had testified against President Trump in the House impeachment proceedings. He had listened in on the President’s telephone call with Ukranian President Zelensky and testified that Trump had abused his office by withholding aid to the Ukraine until it announced investigations of his political opponents. Reportedly Alexander is believed to be the primary source of information for alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella. Although Yevgeny did not testify,...
Here’s my take on the Trump impeachment trial which appears in today’s The American Spectator. You can read it below or, if you want to see the readers’ comments, you can access it here. Hope you like it! How Not to Impeach a President | The American Spectator With the 51 to 49 vote not to call witnesses, the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump is on track to an acquittal. And so the Trump impeachment saga is coming to an end not with a bang but a whine. “We wuz robbed!” shriek the foot-stomping Democrats as they repeat their...
While working on my next submission to The American Spectator regarding the Senate trial of President Trump, I came across this video which appealed to my hopelessly juvenile sense of humor. A group of subversives calling themselves Mad Liberals have adapted the student court trial scene from Animal House to sum up the Democrats’ concept of procedural due process. Take a look. Share this:LinkedInTumblrRedditEmailTelegramPrintPinterestTwitterFacebookWhatsAppLike this:Like Loading...
Yesterday I was privileged to be a guest on Chicago’s Morning Answer WIND 560 AM with hosts Amy Jacobson and Dan Proft. The topic was impeachment. The segment began with a good representative selection of soundbites of the previous day’s point-counterpoint argument between the Democrat House Managers and the president’s lawyers over proposed amendments to the procedural rules for the Senate trial. Then Dan and Amy cut to me for my analysis. Other than spending one day at Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, I have had no first hand experience of such proceedings. But, after trying cases as a prosecutor and private counsel...
Yesterday I was privileged to appear on Chicago’s Morning Answer – WIND AM 560 with Amy Jacobson and Dan Proft to discuss the impeachment of President Trump. Here’s the YouTube video of Amy and Dan as they interviewed me. As a side note, being a careful lawyer who always plans ahead, for some inexplicable reason probably having to do with the early stages of senile dementia, I had assumed that the interview was going to focus on my recent article in The American Spectator about the drone strike on Iran’s General Soleimani. Consequently, when Amy and Dan started asking me...
Just when you thought the House Democrats’ slap stick impeachment show couldn’t sink any further into low comedy, along comes Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s threat to embargo the articles of impeachment unless the Republican-controlled Senate establishes removal trial procedures to her liking. As a negotiating technique, this would appear to be sub-optimal. As in who cares if she never forwards the charges to the Senate? The only historical precedent that I can find for Pelosi’s stratagem is to be found in Mel Brook’s Blazing Saddles. When Cleavon Little (pictured above) is appointed the first black sheriff in a town full of...
Today, as a prelude to tomorrow’s farcical impeachment vote, President Trump launched a pre-emptive strike against the Democrats by means of a scorching letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. It is a comprehensive summary and powerful refutation of the Democrats’ deranged three year effort to disenfranchise the sixty-three million Americans who voted for Trump by undoing the 2016 presidential election. I found reading it to be enjoyable and cathartic. It is a six page fist-pumping, stand-up-and-cheer tour de force. This letter makes clear that the president and his team have marshaled the entire spectrum of the damning facts – including...
Today my friends at The American Spectator published my advice to President Trump and his allies on the best way to defend against his upcoming impeachment. The article with readers’ comments can be accessed by clicking on this link to the TAS website or you can read it below. The imagery – especially in the last line – is a bit sanguinary, but, if he were here, I think General George “Old Blood and Guts” Patton would approve. Patton on Impeachment: The Democrats Have Stuck Their Heads in a Meat Grinder | The American Spectator Seventy-five years ago today, 200,000...
Pictured above is a reasonable dramatization of the upcoming House Judiciary Committee impeachment proceedings as envisioned by Chairman Jerry Nadler. Donald Trump would be the guy in overalls. Quite understandably, Pat Cipollone, Counsel to the President, has rejected by return letter Nadler’s ridiculous bums-rush invitation for the president to participate in the Democrats’ rigged, partisan, Punch-and-Judy slapfest impeachment farce. Counsel’s letter is a masterpiece of legal concision which specifies in detail all of the many ways that Nadler’s proposal fails to satisfy the basic elements of fairness, due process and constitutional law. For a good summary by Fox News of...
So far the Democrats’ impeachment proceedings have been so one-sided and devoid of fundamental fairness that they give kangaroo courts a bad name. The preliminary witness interrogations have been conducted in a secret subterranean bunker, the Republican minority has been denied subpoena power, its ability to question witnesses has been severely curtailed, the President’s lawyers have been excluded, and so on. And those procedural restrictions and more have prevailed in the public hearings conducted by Rep. Adam Schiff (D. USSR). These proceedings have been so one-sided that it is hard not to laugh at the farcical level of unfairness to...