Schiff, Democrats trying to hide the facts in their Kangaroo court coup attempt

NY Post Editorial:
House Democrats’ “impeachment inquiry” is looking more and more like a kangaroo court — a rush to make President Trump look as bad as possible, as quickly as possible, rather than an effort to get all the facts on the public record. Case in point: Their handling of this week’s hearing with former US Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker.

Democrats rushed out of the closed-door sitdown to claim Volker’s testimony was damning to President Trump. But Republicans claimed the reverse — and, tellingly, they’re the ones calling for the transcript to be made public.

Equally important, the texts that Volker shared with the committee (leaked to ABC News) indicate the president wasn’t using military aid to blackmail Ukraine’s leaders.

Specifically, they show an exchange where one US diplomat, Bill Taylor, complains, “I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”

But then Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, calls that charge “incorrect,” explaining, “The President has been crystal clear: no quid pro quos of any kind. The president is trying to evaluate whether Ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms that President Zelensky promised during his campaign.”

Crucially, Volker — a former protégé of the late Sen. John McCain, and thus no Trump partisan — has reportedly told friends he believes the holdup was about the general corruption issue. And Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said Volker’s testimony “just blew a massive hole throughout the entirety” of the “allegations of a quid pro quo.”

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) noted that the whistleblower complaint basically cites Vol­ker as its “star witness” — yet “everything he said unsubstantiated this claim of a quid pro quo.”

Meanwhile, other texts among the diplomats show them working to get Ukraine “to initiate and complete a transparent and unbiased investigation of all available facts and episodes, including those involving [energy company] Burisma and the 2016 US elections” — hardly an impeachable action, as Rep. Adam Schiff and other Dems have charged.
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The allegations of this coup attempt are just as bogus as those in the Russian collusion hoax.  Both demonstrate that Democrats are wiing to do and say anything to overthrow the 2016 election.

Sean Davis reports:

Testimony From Ukraine Envoy Kurt Volker Directly Contradicts Democrats’ Impeachment Narrative

Testimony from Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker, which was obtained by The Federalist, blows holes directly through the impeachment narrative that congressional Democrats have crafted against President Donald Trump.
Davis's piece is worth reading in full.  Volker decimated the Schiff narrative.

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