The Trump putch in search of a reason

Michael Goodwin:
Pelosi has gone full coup coup in Trump impeachment push

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... As distasteful as that is, it is even more remarkable that the impeachers still can’t honestly explain the reasons for their putsch.

Pressed to describe the “high crimes and misdemeanors” visible exclusively to Donald Trump haters, Dems throw words at walls, hoping something will stick. Quid pro quo, bribery, extortion, abuse of power, obstruction and witness intimidation are all getting a tryout.

The search for buzzwords proves the entire enterprise is 100% political. If impeachment were justified by facts, the right words would be obvious to the vast majority of Americans.

Quid pro quo, the battle anthem for six weeks, was ditched after focus groups told Dem pollsters that bribery was easier to understand than Latin. Presto — bribery it is.

Yet the week’s most important revelation was nothing said to or by the House intelligence panel. Rather, it was the completion of the strange evolution of Nancy Pelosi.
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Asked by a confused reporter, “So what was the bribe here?” she responded: “The bribe is to grant or withhold military assistance in return for a public statement of a fake investigation into elections. That’s bribery.”

It is? If she means Trump bribed the president of Ukraine, she’ll need another new word. Many public officials get in trouble for taking a bribe, but I’m not aware of any who were arrested for paying a bribe. Certainly no president was ever impeached for that.

She wasn’t done. Pelosi then said, “We haven’t made a decision to impeach. That’s what the inquiry is about.”

Perhaps realizing she was backtracking, she tried to explain. “What I am saying, that what is — the president has admitted to and says it’s perfect. I said it’s perfectly wrong. It’s bribery.”

So it’s bribery but they might not impeach? Trapped, she abruptly brought up Richard Nixon, saying what Trump has done “makes what Nixon did look almost small, almost small.”

Five more minutes of questions, and she would have compared Trump to Hitler. Ho-hum.

Pelosi’s absurd act would be comical if she weren’t doing such great damage to America. I’ve written before how her friends distinguish the speaker from her party’s far-left crazies, but that’s no longer possible. She’s one of them.

With her actions and ridiculous comparison to Nixon, she seals her fate as a rank partisan heedless of the national interest....
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There is more.

Democrats have revealed the corruption at the heart of their "resistance."  They go from one corrupt excuse to the next as an excuse for their resistance to working with the President on policies the country needs such as immigration reform and infrastructure improvements.  Pelosi has joined Schiff in the craziness they once said was wrong.  They have become coup coup over cocoa puffs of excuses for impeachment.

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