The Impeachment of Donald Trump Was Necessary
In the classic 1939 movie “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”,
Jimmy Stewart’s title character ends up as a newly-appointed member of the
United States Senate. It’s not long
before he butts heads with powerful corporate interests who decide to remove
him from office.
A good majority of the second half of the movie is dedicated
to the various ways Smith’s character is sullied and discredited. When he employs the filibuster, it is in the
hopes that the public would be so moved by his cause that they would rally to
his support. Instead, those corporate
and political interests manage to brainwash the public into attacking Smith and
tell him to resign. When the senator
reads the letters out loud, he collapses in defeat. However, spoiler alert, at the absolute last
minutes of the movie, the corrupt senior senator who has been orchestrating the
attack on Smith breaks down and openly admits that Smith was right and he was
guilty of his own corruption. Smith was
vindicated, fade to black.
While many consider this film to be a great movie, this
commentator really doesn’t. The
climactic war of wills is truncated, with the bittersweet victory coming at the
absolute end with no chance of knowing how this turns out afterward. Is Senator Smith removed from office? Is he dead?
How about the corrupt Senator Paine?
Does his last-minute turnaround mean he supports Smith’s cause? Is he removed from office? Does he flip on his allies who were using the
media to blatantly smear Smith and his cause?
There’s just so much that is left unanswered when the film ends.
The last-minute turnaround was the filmmaker’s cheat to give
a “happy ending” for a movie that essentially was showing that corruption wins
out and that American people are stupid idiots who will buy whatever is printed
and said on the radio. In the real
world, someone like Jefferson Smith would be discredited and sent home, where
he would eventually die as a loser and failure and the corrupt Senator Paine
would go on doing what he’s been doing, unashamed, and maybe even get elected
to the White House.
When it came to the impeachment of Narcissist President
Donald Trump, I’ll have to say that I had a sliver of hope that “the system”
would somehow work. I still knew how it
would turn out. We pretty much all
did. I just hoped that there would be a
little more effort into making it appear to be a real trial. And maybe even a bit of that “Mr. Smith” miracle
at the absolute last minute.
I remember the impeachment of another narcissist president,
namely William
Jefferson Clinton. I remember the
endless investigations and hearings and evidence that went into it. I remember the graphic detail of the X-rated
incident that was made public that led to the impeachment of Clinton.
In December of 1998, the President of the United States of
America was impeached for lying under oath about oral sex with an intern.
Remember that.
Remember the extent of the details made bare for the public
to digest. Remember the witnesses and
the documents that went online. Details
so graphic that broadcast media services couldn’t talk about it except in the vaguest
of terms.
We also knew the outcome of that impeachment hearing. We all knew that Clinton would never be
removed from office, no matter how graphic and how disgusting the incident in
question was. But the effort was still
made to have a full trial. The senators
all put on their game faces and promised to be impartial, even though that was
probably a lie to many of them. They
still had an actual trial, with evidence and witnesses testifying.
Twenty-one years later, we were witness to a fraud.
The same political party and the same political faction that
impeached a sitting president in 1998 for lying about oral sex with an intern
openly conspired with the sitting President of the United States to sabotage
his impeachment trial and actively denied any witnesses from testifying about
Narcissist Trump’s acts of extortion and bribery and the subsequent concealment
of evidence. They don’t even offer the
pretense of impartial and unbiased observation.
Only an orchestrated tease of “will they or won’t they” that would come
straight out of a cheap pseudo-reality show like the kind our corrupt
Narcissist President previously hosted, followed by a partisan and biased “no”.
No witnesses. No
evidence other than what is provided in the impeachment report. Even Narcissist Trump boasted and openly
admitted his guilt in concealing evidence.
“We have all the material,” he proudly said. “They
don’t have the material.” He
openly admitted his guilt in second Article of Impeachment!
And he was still not convicted on that charge on purely
partisan lines.
The same party and the same faction that demanded and got
hours of testimony and witness statements over Clinton’s impeachment actively
refused to allow and aided and abetted the White House in preventing witness
testimony when it came to Narcissist Trump.
Their guilt in aiding and abetting the corruption from the
highest office in America cannot be any clearer.
Let’s get this out of the way… the impeachment of Narcissist
President Donald Trump was necessary!
His actions after the Mueller Report were so egregious that it screamed
for his impeachment. If the Democrats in
the House of Representatives didn’t start the process after the information
came to light, then they would be pilloried from yours truly and all of the
other people outraged by Narcissist Trump’s criminal activities. And you know – *you*damn*well*know* - that
Narcissist Trump and the rest of his toadies and cult followers would be
blasting the Dems for not impeaching him if they didn’t.
“If it’s wrong,” the criminal narcissist would say, “then
why don’t they impeach me?”
Hell, that is precisely what the corrupt White House
attorneys actually told a federal judge when it came to their refusal to
disclose information! The only remedy
that the corrupt White House attorneys said when it came to refusing to
disclose information in defiance of a congressional subpoena is impeachment!
A “waste of time” you say?
Screw you and the horse you rode in on!
When you’re dealing with a corrupt criminal like Narcissist Trump, impeachment
is the only recourse within the framework of the United States
Constitution.
And I will remind each and every one of you yet again – and
I will continue to remind each and every one of you – that this is the same
political party and the same political faction that impeached a sitting
president for lying about oral sex with an intern! You have no standing whatsoever to quibble
about what qualifies as “impeachable” if you support Clinton’s impeachment and
yet give a pass for Narcissist Trump’s criminal actions!
Let’s get brutally honest here… the impeachment of
Narcissist President Donald John Trump was never about whether he was guilty or
innocent of the charges. We all know
that he is guilty as sin! We all know
this! We all do! You’re lying to yourself and everyone else if
you think otherwise. He’s owned up to
it, he’s admitted to it, he’s even boasted about it. He calls it “perfect”. He’s guilty.
You know it. I know it. He knows it.
Accept it. Guilty. Period!
Who and what were really on trial was our government and the
safeguards that are written in plain English in the United States
Constitution. On the system that our
soldiers and politicians take an oath to protect and defend from all threats
foreign and domestic. A system that says
that no man is above the law, and that includes a chunky narcissist with a bad
combover and a cheap spray-on Jersey tan.
And, if they are breaking the law, that they be held to account for it
through impeachment.
If you think that’s “wasting time” or “frivolous”, then not
only did you fail civics, but I suspect you’re in the wrong goddamned country. This is the country that impeached a sitting
president for lying about getting oral sex from an intern.
Yes, our system was really on trial. The members of the House of Representatives
did their part as required in the Constitution.
The Senate, on the other hand, failed.
They failed miserably! They swore
an oath to be faithful and impartial jurors when several of them, including the
Senate Majority Leader, were already on record saying that they would coordinate
their activities with the accused. In a
real criminal trial, those jurors would not only be dismissed, but they would possibly
face imprisonment. Their fealty to their
party and to their political messiah violated the very oath they took not only
as jurors in an impeachment trial, but also as members of the United States Senate.
Our American system was on trial, and it failed. The members of the House of Representatives
who tried to sabotage the impeachment inquiry, the members of the U.S. Senate that
blatantly violated their oaths as jurors, the ones that voted to suppress
evidence and deny witnesses, they were the ones on trial. Not just by the American people, but by the
whole world. We’re supposed to be the
best nation in the world, the icon of governance and freedom. We’re supposed to be the ones to show the
other nations how to do it right. And we
failed. We failed miserably!
And now the only hope that we have left is through the
elections in November. The same
elections that members of the United States Senate are refusing to support
greater security measures on, and the same political faction that has been actively
trying to suppress the votes of Americans.
If we cannot overcome the cult that supports these corrupt criminals and
vote them out of office, then we have truly forfeited this country to the
real-world versions of corrupt Senator Paine.
