WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Elaine Luria (VA-02) issued the following statement ahead of the House’s vote on impeachment on Wednesday.
“In the Navy and in Congress, I swore an oath to protect our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic,” Congresswoman Luria said. “President Trump took that very same oath when he was sworn in, but he has clearly put his personal and political interests above the good of our country. The President abused his power by withholding critical aid from a partner in exchange for information to detract from a political opponent. Voting to impeach President Trump was not an easy decision or one I take lightly—but I take my oath seriously, and I will be voting in favor of both articles of impeachment tomorrow.”
Paul Plante says
When Congresswoman Luria went into the Navy, the oath she swore as an officer commissioned by an American president stated thusly:
I ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
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When she was sworn into the House of Representatives, the oath she swore was as follows:
“I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
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When Donald Trump was sworn in as United States president, this is the oath he swore:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
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So President Trump DID NOT take the very same oath that Congresswoman Luria took when Trump was sworn in as president, but hey, why let facts like that spoil her narrative here, especially where she goes winging off into outer space with this ridiculous and false charge unsupported by law or facts in the record, to wit:
“But he has clearly put his personal and political interests above the good of our country.”
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Except there is absolutely nothing in the record to support that charge, so why is Congresswoman Luria so obviously and transparently prevaricating in here as if we were all dolts and idiots and fools?
Congresswoman Luria then goes on to state her uninformed and unsupported position that the “President abused his power by withholding critical aid from a partner in exchange for information to detract from a political opponent,” which is pure horse**** because on the one hand, there is absolutely no prohibition whatsoever in OUR Constitution or OUR laws that bars a sitting American president from investigating ENDEMIC PUBLIC CORRUPTION by Democrats like Joe Biden, and on the other hand, as we shall see from the State of the Union address of United States president Andrew Johnson on 3 December 1867, Trump had a duty to We, the American People to conduct that investigation into ENDEMIC PUBLIC CORRUPTION by the Democrats to include Joe Biden, who Democrats like Congresswoman Luria want to foist off on us as our next president.
First off, with respect to this CHARADE Congresswoman Luria was a willing part of as a GOOD DEMOCRAT, President Johnson stated thusly:
If the guaranties of the Constitution can be broken provisionally to serve a temporary purpose, and in a part only of the country, we can destroy them everywhere and for all time.
Arbitrary measures often change, but they generally change for the worse.
It is the curse of despotism that it has no halting place.
The intermitted exercise of its power brings no sense of security to its subjects, for they can never know what more they will be called to endure when its red right hand is armed to plague them again.
Nor is it possible to conjecture how or where power, unrestrained by law, may seek its next victims.
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Congresswoman Luria wants us veterans who also took an oath to defend the Constitution to believe she is upholding her oath to the Constitution, but that is horse****, because OUR United States Constitution, as opposed to the Democrat constitution Congresswoman Luria is loyal to, provides that EVERY American, and that would include Donald Trump, who is as much an American citizen as is Congresswoman Luria, is entitled to DUE PROCESS of law, which Trump was denied by the Democrats including Congresswoman Luria, which due process safeguards are laid out in the US Constitution and are meant to safeguard OUR rights, given that OUR US Constitution was drafted against the backdrop of arrest and imprisonment abuse in Europe, which the Democrats just instituted here min the United States of America with this KANGAROO COURT that convicted Trump of abusing his office by investigating ENDEMIC PUBLIC CORRUPTION by the Democrats.
Getting back to President Johnson on the duties of an American president when confronted with the type of ENDEMIC PUBLIC CORRUPTION by Democrats Trump finds himself confronted wit, we have:
With our debt and the vast private interests which are complicated with it, we can not be too cautious of a policy which might by possibility impair the confidence of the world in our Government.
That confidence can only be retained by carefully inculcating the principles of justice and honor on the popular mind and by the most scrupulous fidelity to all our engagements of every sort.
Any serious breach of the organic law, persisted in for a considerable time, cannot but create fears for the stability of our institutions.
Habitual violation of prescribed rules, which we bind ourselves to observe, must demoralize the people.
Our only standard of civil duty being set at naught, the sheet anchor of our political morality is lost, the public conscience swings from its moorings and yields to every impulse of passion and interest.
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That is where we are right now with Trump trying to root out ENDEMIC PUBLIC CORRUPTION by the Democrats – thanks to Democrats like Congresswoman Luria, who is obviously for the corruption – the sheet anchor of our political morality has been lost, and now, the public conscience swings from its moorings and yields to every impulse of passion and interest of the Democrats, who are tearing down and destroying OUR nation right before our eyes, which takes us back to President Johnson, who knew a lot more about actually being a president than does Congresswoman Luria, to wit:
How far the duty of the President “to preserve, protect,and defend the Constitution” requires him to go in opposing an unconstitutional act of Congress is a very serious and important question, on which I have deliberated much and felt extremely anxious to reach a proper conclusion.
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Here, Trump is confronted with that same question, except here we are talking about alleged corrupt acts of an American vice-president who the Democrats want to stick us with as their next president to keep the corruption going for them.
President Johnson then continued as follows, which brings us to the heart of this matter as to why the Democrats like Congresswoman Luria really impeached Trump, to wit:
It is well and publicly known that enormous frauds have been perpetrated on the Treasury and that colossal fortunes have been made at the public expense.
This species of corruption has increased, is increasing, and if not diminished will soon bring us into total ruin and disgrace.
The public creditors and the taxpayers are alike interested in an honest administration of the finances, and neither class will long endure the large-handed robberies of the recent past.
The great sums which officers may win by connivance at fraud create a pressure which is more than the virtue of many can withstand, and there can be no doubt that the open disregard of constitutional obligations avowed by some of the highest and most influential men in the country has greatly weakened the moral sense of those who serve in subordinate places.
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Without realizing it, there President Johnson in 1867 is talking about Democrat Joe Biden today – the corruption offered in Ukraine appears to have created a pressure which was more than the virtue of Joe Biden could withstand, and with the COVER-UP by the Democrats, there can be no doubt that the open disregard of constitutional obligations avowed by some of the highest and most influential people in the country like Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler and Elaine Luria in the country has greatly weakened the moral sense of those who serve in subordinate places in OUR government, which brings us to this:
“It is not wonderful that official malfeasance should become bold in proportion as the delinquents learn to think themselves safe.”
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Right now, of course, with the Democrats going after Trump like the HOUNDS FROM HELL, Joe Biden doesn’t merely think he is safe; to the contrary he knows he is safe, as is official malfeasance by the Democrats, which brings us back to President Johnson and the situation confronting Trump as he in turn is confronted by corrupt acts alleged to be committed in Ukraine by Joe Biden when he was Democrat Obama’s vice president, to wit:
Fidelity to the Constitution may be understood or misunderstood in a thousand different ways, and by violent party men, in violent party times, unfaithfulness to the Constitution may even come to be considered meritorious.
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Actually, just the other day, Democrats like Elaine Luria and Nancy Pelosi enshrined Democrat unfaithfulness to OUR Constitution as being meritorious when they impeached Trump on RIGGED CHARGES unsupported by the record.
Getting back to Trump’s dilemma with respect to the alleged corrupt acts by Democrat Joe Biden, we have:
If the officer be accused of dishonesty, how shall it be made out?
Shall he in the meantime risk the character and interest of the nation in the hands of men to whom he can not give his confidence?
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Going into 2020, people, that is a critical question facing us as a nation and as a people, especially in the face of what has just happened to Trump – if a sitting American president has knowledge that a Democrat contender for the office of president is dirty, or corrupt, is there some kind of rules of political courtesy that bar him from making that knowledge known to the American people BEFORE harm by the corrupt person can be done?
Must he stay silent and let the harm be done?
The Democrats and Congresswoman Luria say YES!
Which again takes us back to President Johnson, to wit:
Must he forbear his complaint until the mischief is done and can not be prevented?
If his zeal in the public service should impel him to anticipate the overt act, must he move at the peril of being tried himself for the offense of slandering his subordinate?
In the present circumstances of the country someone must be held responsible for official delinquency of every kind.
It is extremely difficult to say where that responsibility should be thrown if it be not left where it has been placed by the Constitution.
But all just men will admit that the President ought to be entirely relieved from such responsibility if he can not meet it by reason of restrictions placed by law upon his action.
If it be thought desirable and constitutional that it should be so limited as to make the President merely a common informer against other public agents, he should at least be permitted to act in that capacity before some open tribunal, independent of party politics, ready to investigate the merits of every case, furnished with the means of taking evidence, and bound to decide according to established rules.
This would guarantee the safety of the accuser when he acts in good faith, and at the same time secure the rights of the other party.
I speak, of course, with all proper respect for the present Senate, but it does not seem to me that any legislative body can be so constituted as to insure its fitness for these functions.
It is not the theory of this Government that public offices are the property of those who hold them.
The forced retention in office of a single dishonest person may work great injury to the public interests.
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And back to you, Congresswoman Luria.
MJM says
Luria has shown herself to be a lemming headed for the cliff, being led by Pelosi, Schiff and the leaders of the democrat arrogance party. The military assistance was not critical. Obama hadn’t ever given it to them. It was not withheld, it was delayed. Ukraine never complained it was held back, and their president said it was not a quid pro quo. Is Luria reading tea leaves or the rage of AOC and her compadres ? I hope this foolish move costs Luria her seat. She deserves it to happen.
Paul Plante says
These are craven acts, MJM, on the part of Congresswoman Luria, who alleges she served in the United States military, which exists to defend the rights of the citizens, not the perogatives of tyrants and despots in the House of Representatives, and especially Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who showed herself to be a traitor to the American values of TRUTH, JUSTICE, EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW, and DUE PROCESS OF LAW, when she took the craven coward’s way out at the impeachment vote by cowering there fearful of the ire of Nancy Pelosi and said in a puny, weak voice, “present,” instead of standing up and pointing out to the TYRANNICAL DESPOT Nancy Pelosi, dubbed the “Swamp Queen” by the New York Post, that as a member of this nation’s military pledged to defend the rights of ALL American citizens, even Donald Trump, who the Democrats detest and hate with a vengeance only Democrats who are ruled by their passions and emotions can muster up, she was not going to take part in stripping Donald Trump of his most basic rights as an American citizen, and she should have then pointed to United States president John Adams John Adams agreeing to defend the eight British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre in court, risking his political status, due to his belief in fairness of law and justice, the basic structure of laws in the United States.
THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
Until the Democrats and Congresswoman Luria and Congresswoman Gabbard smashed that basic structure of laws in the United States down into the muck the Democrat party wallows in, in their zeal to destroy their POLITICAL ENEMY, who happens to be the commander-in-chief of Tulsi Gabbard when she is on military duty.
In New York State, pursuant to section 2140.7 of New York State Public Health Law, Article 21, Title 4: Rabies, if Donald Trump, the president of the United States of America, were a dog suspected of having rabies, he would actually have more legal rights than he does as president, as we see from the following:
“Confinement and observation” refers to the conditions under which apparently healthy dogs, cats, domesticated ferrets, and domestic livestock, which are not exhibiting symptoms of rabies, must be maintained to determine rabies status if such an animal has potentially exposed a person to rabies, and the owner wishes to avoid euthanizing and testing the animal.
If the county health authority does not approve home confinement, the ten day confinement and observation period must take place, at owner’s expense, at an appropriate facility such as an animal shelter, veterinarian’s office, kennel or farm.
The confinement must include (i) provisions to prevent escape of the animal during the confinement period and (ii) requirements that the owner notify the public health authority immediately if the animal becomes ill at anytime during confinement, and (iii) verification by the county health authority or their designee at the end of the ten day period that the animal is healthy.
If a police work dog bites an individual in the course of such dog’s official duty the police department may apply for a waiver from confinement from the local department of health.
As part of such application for a waiver, the police department shall provide the local health department with records of such dog’s past vaccination for rabies and proof that such dog’s rabies vaccinations are up-to-date.
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In America, rabid dogs have protection of law while an American president does not.
That is what Congresswoman Luria and Congresswoman Gabbard are saying.
British soldiers who weren’t American citizens and who were part of a foreign military force in Boston shot down American citizens and they were entitled to PROTECTION OF LAW, because that is what makes us Americans better than ANIMALS, whose only instinct is to rend and tear,
Neither belongs in OUR United States House of Representatives.
Star says
There is a deep state coup against him as he appoints constitutionalist justices and judges who thwart their plans to destroy the US and transform it to a globalist UN nation. You do realize our tax dollars support this effort, so who’s really to blame here? Every finger pointed at a represented is pointing at you. This is not so much about democrat vs republican, there are nasty swamp creatures in both parties. The extreme leftist taking over the once credible democrat party are running these so called representatives like Luria who are cowards, fearful of repercussions from their party masters rather than the uneducated who voted them into office, including their plan for gun confiscation in VA. So they promote the same ignorant line the mainstream cult-like media portrays. Real media, Project Veritas, exposes the corruption. Look at the network anchor caught on the released tape of everything they had on Epstein including Clinton. Look at the desperation of the shielding the masses from the Epstein murder with the coverup saga airing in January. Mind control instructs the masses to continue to love their slavery. Mind control instructs the masses to continue to love their slavery.
Boot Lamb says
As long as the masses are mystified by the ‘Four F’s’ they are not, nor will be, fully engaged enough to actually do something about it.
The ‘Four F’s’ are: Facebook, Football, Food, and Fornication.
Paul Plante says
“Deep state?”
Not hardly, dude – more like a small, shallow STUPID state, because there is nothing “deep” about it at all, especially when it comes to intelligence.
Washington, D.C. is a national disgrace and embarrassment.
And every finger pointed at a representative is exactly that – a finger pointed at the representative.
If Congresswoman Luria has engaged in craven acts to harm a president she does not accept as her party’s president, those are her craven acts, not ours.
And best of the season to you.
Star says
Or a shadow government is a vast network bigger than dc far beyond mass human comprehension. Who placed Luria in power. Is it the elites or masses, or, something else. Ever read Aldous Huxley or invested in the real cause of JFK. You think they will stop with impeachment or haven’t trickled option c, d, e, f. Nothing is being done about the private corporation federal reserve, even trump is not touching that casket, although he alluded to it earlier before the talk. Who do you think Jarod and Ivanka work for, did you not know they are democrats. Who’s controlling who. A private corporation issuing debt to the masses to bypass their holdings of real value gold. Ever been to the bohemian grove party in ca. Oh, yes, Billion Club for fun sacrifice to the god molech, a real fantasy gift for the elite, and their enchantment for children, although Epstein was only a ring in THE ring. Why are their trillions not reported in the richest list and yet they continue to love that their mass slaves don’t know it.
MJM says
I think there is a distinct possibility Star, that you may be from a constellation whose inhabitants have lost the ability to comprehend themselves. You suggest it yourself when you say the shadow government is a vast network far beyond mass human comprehension. OR is the elitist side of yourself saying you are not part of the masses ? So I hope you are just kidding.
To attempt to bring the conversation back down to earth, I think I’d simply tell Mr. Plante that I disagree with his opinion that this is a craven act. I personally believe it is a soulless act. It is devoid of honesty or integrity. I have gone to 2 meetings to see Ms. Luria spout forth her opinion on the bay and on this country. I did not hear a single comment from her that was not memorized. It was all a presentation of the opinion of the party and an attempt to put forth their agenda to get votes. Neither meeting was for fact gathering from voters. It was solely about the dictating for us what the future was going to be. A very sad presentation for me to witness. In both cases I became sick to my stomach and left before the end.
In short, I think she thinks her job allows her to be somebody in contact with big shots, which she thinks makes her a big shot, and she likes being a bigshot. I think she believes the right thing for her to do is to vote the way the party tells her to vote so they will send her plenty of cash to run for reelection and tell her what to say so she can get reelected again. A very sad commentary on the state of our elected deep state officials.
Paul Plante says
MJM, until the Democrats and Congresswoman Luria actually succeed in overthrowing our Constitutional frame of government to replace it with universal social democracy based on the idea that the state should intervene in the economy to promote economic growth and technological progress, a goal of our Democrats that has been shared by a wide variety of economic theories and political ideologies outside the United States of America and foreign to our American citizenship values to included European social democracies, third-world developmental states, and the East Asian “state developmentalist” models which are known as “state-led developmentalism,” so that we can achieve a “good Anthropocene,” which requires the globalization of modernity, liberal freedoms, material prosperity and the preservation of wild nature emphasizing gradual global improvements in life expectancy, gender equity and declining inter-state violence, you are and remain an American citizen with every right to see the conduct of Congresswoman Luria in any light you wish.
As am I.
In your world-view, you see what she did as “soulless,” and while that is not my word, or view, nonetheless, I will not argue against your view.
However, with my own background, and here let me say that I was a “victim” of this same kind of treatment by the Democrats years ago for sticking my nose where they felt it didn’t belong, which is their GRAFT MACHINE, I see what Congresswoman Luria did as extremely craven, where craven is intended to mean on my part “contemptibly lacking in courage; cowardly,” as in “a craven abdication of her moral duty,” with such suitable synonyms as lily-livered, faint-hearted, or chicken-hearted, because she voted to return a CRIMINAL INDICTMENT against an American citizen when no crime had in fact been committed, which is to say, she, in a craven and cowardly manner, voted to strip an American citizen of his right to equal protection of law.
What CRIME has been committed here, MJM?
When Andrew Johnson, the American president with the distinction of being the first American president to be impeached because Congress simply did not like him, was impeached, the First Article was based on the following:
Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., Feb. 21, 1868.
Sir:
By virtue of the power and authority vested in me, as President, by the Constitution and laws of the United States, you are hereby removed from the office of Secretary for the Department of War and your functions as such will terminate upon receipt of their communication.
You will transfer to Brevet Major-General L. Thomas, Adjutant-General of the Army, who has this day been authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim, all books, paper and other public property now in your custody and charge.
Respectfully, yours,
Andrew Johnson.
To the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War
Which order was unlawfully issued, and with intent then and there to violate the act entitled “An act regulating the tenure of certain civil office,” passed March 2, 1867, and contrary to the provisions of said act, and in violation thereof, and contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and without the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, the said Senate then and there being in session, to remove said E. M. Stanton from the office of Secretary for the Department of War, whereby said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, did then and there commit, and was guilty of a high misdemeanor in office.
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For the record, that Act was subsequently found to be unconstitutional, but the point is that Johnson was accused of violating an actual law.
Trump has been indicted by the House on criminal charges for doing his duty to the American people, as president, and MJM, this is high school stuff, so why is Congresswoman Luria IGNORANT of any of this, especially as it set the PRECEDENT for all subsequent impeachments, right up to today.
She had a duty, MJM, to you, to know and uphold OUR laws and OUR United States Constitution, and she failed to do so because she is GUTLESS – afraid to run afoul of Nancy Pelosi, dubbed the “Swamp Queen” by the NY Post!
If you want to see that as “soulless,” instead, please, be my guest, because it doesn’t confront me any if you disagree with my assessment that she acted in a craven manner here – as I say, the last time I looked it was still America, and let us hope that it still will be tomarrow.
Star says
Are you in VA? 2A sanctuaries are exploding in opposition to democrat leftist controlled state legislature and the demon gov of VA, the one who likes to kill babies, got to keep them comfortable, before you snuff their lives out, that would criminalize any training on firearms, criminalize as a felony concealed carry classes, criminalize a father teaching family how to shoot a rifle, even martial arts. Bill says any instruction that trains in a skill that could lead to bodily injury will be a felony. Can you imagine? Every martial arts school across VA, state police will issue arrest, right. And will criminalize AR-15, even those who purchased before lawfully. Gov demon wants to take the guns from his puppet masters in the global government running deep state. The only government that plans to take guns, is the government that plans to do something that you might shoot them for, right. Why would they take guns if they don’t plan mass genocide? The law abiding citizens of VA have not engaged in any mass shootings, they are peaceful citizens, and follow the law. Gov demon does not say criminal felons in the bill, it says all legal law abiding citizens have to turn in their guns. Not the criminals. This is the same state run by lunatic leftist democrats who approve of infanticide. Not calling for violence by any means, but wouldn’t be surprised if second civil war begins in VA. At what point do the people of VA peacefully rise up and stage a mass citizens arrest of the lunatic democrat leftist who are violating the constitution of VA. Ironically, state slogan means death to tyrants, as the state was founded in 1776 by people who defeated a bunch of tyrants. That’s why there are dozens of counties declaring second amendment sanctuary cities before this legislation in Jan. What rights and obligations do the people have peacefully to overthrow it? Citizens have a duty to restore state constitution which protects second amendment rights and protects persons who were born alive, who Gov demon wants to murder, an advocate of serial killing of children via his npr interview. At what point do citizens of VA, say they will protect 1st and 2nd amendment rights in VA and not let VA get turned over to tyrants? Just the fact numerous counties have declared draws battle lines. Most rural counties are pro life, pro second amendment, and perhaps could lead to conflict beyond the state of VA. We have reached a moment in US where leftist democrats who vote for this deserve life in prison and removal by peaceful law abiding means. Every democrat who votes for that law in January should be arrested and put in prison if not by VA by the feds, for trying to turn their own VA citizens into slaves. A VA prison camp where you don’t have any rights, even rights to live, and they can kill your children. Why do they want your guns? They plan to carry out genocide and they don’t want you to be able to stop them. Stand against these scum bags, destroyers of human society influenced by the deep state global government, and should be peacefully and lawfully removed from power. This is the party Luria puppet stands for, the blind leading the blind, but who placed gov demon and luria puppet into power? Impeachment scandal is a distraction from the real legislation that will be passed next month.
Paul Plante says
“I cannot agree to destroy the harmonious working of the Constitution for the sake of getting rid of an Unacceptable President.”
Those words were spoken by Senator James Grimes of Iowa on or about May 26, 1868 when he voted to acquit then-American president Andrew Johnson, and if she had been true to her oath to the Constitution, instead of forsaking it out of loyalty to “Swamp Queen” Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat party, and if she had courage, instead of being craven, when the vote to approve Articles of Impeachment against Trump based on alleged criminal conduct which never in fact occurred, according to the record generated by the House Democrats themselves, she would have stood up in the House of Representatives to say those same words to Nancy Pelosi, instead of cowering before her like a minion.
The “harmonious working of the Constitution” he is referring to there is SEPARATION OF POWER, which clearly is being violated in this case as we can clearly see from the words of the smarmy and unctuous Hollywood, California Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff on 19 November 2019 at the start of the Vindman Hearing before Adam Schiff’s Committee of Presidential Inquisition, which the smarmy and unctuous Adam Schiff opened as follows:
SCHIFF: The committee will come to order.
Good morning, everyone.
This is the third in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry.
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So, this is the beginning of the record that Congresswoman Luria says supports indicting Donald Trump on criminal charges carrying a penalty of five years in a federal prison.
From there, the smarmy and unctuous Adam Schiff laid out the case against Trump in these stark terms, to wit:
SCHIFF: Last week, we heard from three experienced diplomats who testified about President Trump’s scheme to condition official acts — a White House meeting and hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. military aid to fight the Russians — on a deliverable by the new Ukrainian president, Zelensky: two politically motivated investigations that Trump believed would help his re-election campaign.
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Now, as a citizen sitting in a grand jury listening to this testimony before deciding to indict Trump on serious criminal charges, I would have my hand in the air right there, and I would be demanding that Adam Schiff put forth the evidence which supports that statement about Trump believing anything, since as a prosecutor, the smarmy and unctuous Adam Schiff can only put forth facts, and what Donald Trump did or did not believe is not up to Adam Schiff to say, since he is not a mind reader who would know what Donald Trump was thinking, nor did his witness Vindman, who never talked to Trump, himself, just eavesdropped on a phone call, while Congresswoman Luria simply accepted that Schiff would know what Trump was thinking, because that is what Nancy Pelosi would want her to think as a good Democrat, which takes us back to the record that is supposed to support criminal charges against Trump, to wit:
One of those investigations involved the Bidens, and the other involved a discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine and not Russia was responsible for interfering in our 2016 election.
As Ambassador Sondland would later tell career Foreign Service officer David Holmes immediately after speaking to the president, “Trump did not give a” — he then used an expletive — “about Ukraine.”
“He cares about big stuff that benefits the president like the Biden investigation that Giuliani was pushing.”
To press a foreign leader to announce an investigation into his political rival, President Trump put his own personal and political interests above those of the nation.
He undermined our military and diplomatic support for a key ally and undercut U.S. anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine.
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And right there is exactly what Congresswoman Luria considered to be criminal conduct by Trump that warranted indicting him by approving Articles of Impeachment against Trump – the word of Adam Schiff that Trump is guilty.
What Congresswoman Luria is saying is that it really isn’t necessary to name an actual law that Trump is supposed to have violated for him to be indicted for criminal conduct, which is ludicrous!
If somebody cannot name the law you are alleged to have violated, as is the case here, then no violation of law has occurred, and hence, criminal process cannot ensue, and yet, here, it has, thanks to the vote of Congresswoman Luria to have it be so.
Schiff then introduced his key witnesses against Trump, as follows:
SCHIFF: At the White House, career professionals became concerned that President Trump, through an irregular channel that involved his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, E.U. Ambassador Gordon Sondland and Rudy Giuliani, was pushing a policy towards Ukraine at odds with the national interest.
This morning, we hear from two of the national security professionals who became aware of those efforts.
Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vindman, whose family fled oppression in the Soviet Union when he was a toddler, is a career Army officer, an Iraq War veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart, and an expert in Russia and Ukraine who has worked at the highest levels of the Pentagon.
In July 2018, he was detailed to the White House in part to coordinate policy on Ukraine.
Jennifer Williams is a career Foreign Service officer who is currently detailed to the Office of the Vice President and responsible for Europe- and Eurasia-related issues.
Following his initial and congratulatory phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky on April 21st, President Trump asked Vice President Pence to represent him at Zelensky’s upcoming inauguration.
Ms. Williams was working on logistics for the trip.
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Despite the misleading hype from Schiff, Vindman later admitted that it was Trump who determined foreign policy, not Vindman, who truthfully admitted during the hearing that in reality, in the grand scheme of things, Lt. Colonels like him are not that important, and Ms. Williams was Pence’s appointments secretary who had never met Trump, and maybe didn’t even know what Trump looked like, and yet, in the mind of Congresswoman Luria, what neither of them knew about anything criminal by Trump was still sufficient to determine that Trump had engaged in criminal conduct, which is absurd, and which takes us to SEPARATION OF POWERS, to wit:
SCHIFF: Today’s witnesses, like those who testified last week, are here because they were subpoenaed to appear, not because they are for or against impeachment.
That question is for Congress, not the fact witnesses.
If the president abused his power and invited foreign interference in our elections; if he sought to condition, coerce, extort or bribe an ally into conducting investigations to aid his re-election campaign and did so by withholding official acts, a White House meeting or hundreds of millions of dollars of needed military aid, it will be up to us to decide whether those acts are compatible with the office of the presidency.
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In other words, the president of the United States of America, according to the vote to impeach, serves at the pleasure of the Democrats in the House of Representatives, so SEPARATION OF POWERS no longer exists here in the United States of America.
That is what Congresswoman Luria voted for.
As a veteran, I find that a reprehensible and craven act.
Anybody else who chooses to see it some other way, please, be my guest.
Star says
If gov demon wants you to register your firearms, he’s building a kill list. They want to know how many guns you have, where you live, and it’s all about taking guns. If you register your firearms, the democrats want you to die, they are trying to trick you. Of course they are going to come confiscate them and outlaw everything. Even beto bafoon dropped out when he said he was coming for the guns, people in texas would not stand for it. Gov demon will never stop until you are dead. They get their orders from their masters and will make as an example for other states to follow. That’s why Virginians are rising up and putting their lives on the line to stop this tyranny. If you can’t live as a free man, what’s the point of living at all? You can live free with an ar-15 or you can die as a slave while your property is confiscated and your rights are gone. That’s the only choices the democrats are giving in VA. Anyone who votes for luria participates in their deeds of darkness. Follow the law, abide by the law, which means defeating those who are traitors and tyrants legally and lawfully.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/ralph-northams-losing-battle-on-sanctuaries/