Tuesday, December 17, 2019

"...for personal gain."


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Perhaps the most galling aspect of the one ring circus known as "Impeachment" is the spectacle of men and women like Pelosi and Schumer organizing the process against a man who never made a dollar from public office in his life and putting in one of their loathsome articles of impeachment the allegation that the POTUS used his office for "personal gain". Let's just say that has to be the all time worst, most flagrant example of the big, fat, self-serving Donkey Democrat calling the neophyte politician/businessman black.

Recently, Michael Bloomberg suggested that Trump should be impeached because he did not appear to know the difference between his interest and that of the Nation. All I can say is that Hizzoner must have been unconscious these past twenty years or more. During that sad benighted time, politicians of all stripes have used their offices routinely and with impunity for massive personal gain.

GOP Speakers Hastert and Boehner both made a fortune from speculating in land the uses of which they had insider knowledge about due to their office. Senator Harry Reid, former Majority Leader, retired a multimillionaire after never working at anything except being a Public Attorney and a Senator. Chuck Schumer, who no doubt will vote to impeach, once told his Wall Street donors that they had to pay him to protect themselves against onerous securities regulations that he helped to pass.

And Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the one who said that "No one is above the Law" in relation to Trump, once made a killing with her husband from an exclusive stock deal with Visa after personally ensuring that the Congress did not pass legislation that would have cut its profits. Meanwhile, her apparently bootless son was recently hired by a big company no doubt NOT under her potential jurisdiction, punishment or favour. And then there's the Bidens. Even the State Department toads that denounced Trump for conditioning aid to the corrupt Ukraine on going after, well, corrupt people like the Bidens admitted that there was a conflict in their doings there and that officials had been "trained" to send any questions about it to...VP Biden's Office!

Madeleine Albright became a multi million dollar shill for China shortly after leaving the State Department. Senator Dianne Feinstein and hubbie have made a pile from also helping out the Chinese who returned the favour by spying on her for years.

Finally, there's the Clintons. I would wager to bet that even the most fanatical of their devotees (unless the Clintons pay them of course) laugh along with all of us at how they have become a byword for influence peddling. Whether it was the Lincoln Bedroom, the White House Phone Bank, the Commodities Trade, the Buddhist Shrine, the Russian Uranium Concession ($143 million changed hands from that deal alone - gasp!), the remarkable speakers' fees both rake in and the Pay for Play Operation Madam turned her State Department into for their Foundation, these two have been selling the USA by the pound since they first darkened Arkansas and Washington's corridors of power. All this no doubt to save them from being poverty stricken after leaving the White House.

The point of all of this is: if Donald Trump needs to be removed from office for calling for a corrupt country to investigate a definitively corrupt American official who just happens to be his putative front running rival for the Presidency "or else", than all the other people who I just mentioned in this article should be removed from office, disqualified from holding office and/or put in jail this instant. There's been much disturbing talk about the criminalization of political opponents by such as Schiff (whose kick is the abuse of power rather than money as I will detail more hopefully in another blog) using impeachment. The great thing about most politicians when it comes to "personal gain", you don't have to criminalize them when they already are.

They that served themselves not their voters dare not speak!

(For more detail on the moneymaking antics of the US political elite, I recommend highly,"Throw Them All Out!" by investigative reporter, Peter Schweizer who once described Biden as the most corrupt Veep in US history.)

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