The Democrats' impeachment of Trump is a politically based sham

Stephen Green:
Are you one of the millions of Sane-Americans who can't get too worked up about Donald Trump's impeachment?

It's impossible to avoid news of the Dems' Big Sham, which is so "exciting" that CNN spent hours on Monday running a never-ending picture-in-picture livestream of the empty Senate chamber. If that doesn't get your blood pumping, what could?

Democrats can't come right out and say they're impeaching Trump just for being Trump, even though that's exactly what they're doing. So they held this big investigation, and found that yes indeed, President Trump had committed foreign policy. They can't actually impeach him for that, either, so instead they impeached him for defending himself against the charge of having committed foreign policy.

Before we get to my little thought experiment, let's be clear on exactly what foreign policy Trump is guilty of having committed. For that, let's go to the indispensable John Solomon:

It is irrefutable, and not a conspiracy theory, that Joe Biden bragged in this 2018 speech to a foreign policy group that he threatened in March 2016 to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Kiev if then-Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko didn’t immediately fire Shokin.

“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden told the 2018 audience in recounting what he told Poroshenko

“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden told the Council on Foreign Relations event.

Whoops. That's what Joe Biden did, not Donald Trump -- my bad. What Trump did was ask the president of Ukraine to look into what happened, to see if any Americans (cough, Hunter Biden, cough) might have been involved in some high-level and very highly-paid corruption. There was no arm-twisting, no illegal withholding of aid, or anything remotely like a high crime or a misdemeanor. If there had been they'd be in the Articles of Impeachment -- and I'd be writing a much different column today.

Here's where we get to that thought experiment.

Let's pretend that Joe Biden had a different name. No, better: Let's pretend that Joe Biden had a different letter after his name. Let's pretend he's Joe Biden (R), former vice president under George W. Bush.

In that case, what would the Democrats be doing differently? Literally everything.
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There is more.

If Democrats and their media cohorts ever took a realistic look at why no Republicans support their coup attempt they should take a look at this column.   It also tells you why Republican voters think Schiff el.al. are trying to mislead the country and cover-up Bicen's corruption before the election.

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