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...
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...