Commonsense and Reason

 By Fred Bates - August 2024 Democrats' hypocrisy has no bounds when it comes to their defense of democracy Donald Trump was accused by Democrats of election interference for making a phone call to President Zelensky in July 2019, during which, Trump was accused of pressuring Zelensky to dig up dirt on his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden. At that time, Biden hadn't declared himself a candidate for president. Trump was impeached by the Democrat led House of Representatives in December 2019, even though, the constitutional requirement for impeachment of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors was not met. Undeterred by the failure of the first impeachment, Trump was impeached a second time for his actions following the 2020 presidential election. Trump made claims that the election was stolen from him because of fraud. On January 6, 2021, the day of the certification of the election of Joe Biden as President, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in protest. De...

Post #3 (January 19, 2020)  With a great deal of pomp and circumstance, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signed the Articles of Impeachment this past Wednesday (January 15, 2020) and they were delivered to the Senate by the Impeachment Managers for the House of Representatives. In my previous post, also on Wednesday, I gave my assessment of the Democrats' case against the President based on their Articles of Impeachment, Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress. I explained that the impeachment case did not meet the constitutional standard of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. I also stated that the Democrats' impeachment case was further undermined by the fact that President Trump never asked President Zelensky of Ukraine to do anything underhanded in his request for an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden during the July 25, 2019 phone call. In that phone call, Trump asked Zelensky to find out what happened with Crowdstrike, and what happened wit...