"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have the consolation that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
November 20, 2019
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
They're not elected. And they're not respected.
They didn't even exist when the Constitution was written.
The State Department. The Intelligence Community. The Bureaucracy.
Therein lies the rub.
This week we saw members of the Deep State testify in public, after testifying to Adam Schiff in secret, and it was clear their noses were out of joint.
These handpicked witnesses represented a bureaucracy which believes they, not the president, run the government.
In the last two weeks, some of them testified about their opinions, their feelings, and their profound disagreement with the president's decisions, especally those regarding setting foreign policy.
Which is his job, not theirs.
Most witnesses had no firsthand information. Most had never met, nor spoken to, the president.
They were chosen because they don't like President Trump, and because they liked the way it had always been done.
That meant the "Hear no evil, Speak no evil, See no evil" Democrat approach.
That meant ignoring Tony Podsta's involvement in the Uranium One sale of U.S. uranium to Russia. A move approved by Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder as members of the Committee on Foreign Investment, for Hillary's campaign-manager's-brother.
Ignoring Uranium One's $145 million dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation.
And ignoring a plot to take down a president.
As members of The Resistance, these bureaucrats were "hurt" when they were left out of the President's loop. So they were determined to impeach him.
The Unnamed Whistleblower's attorney, Mark Zaid tweeted in January 2017, "The coup has started, and impeachment will follow ultimately."
"I predict CNN will play a key role in @realDonaldTrump not finishing out his full term as president," Zaid wrote.
"We will get rid of him, and this country is strong enough to survive even him and his supporters."
They are plenty angry because this president didn't ask for their advice, especially about Ukraine, which all of a sudden they believe is "crucial" to the security of the U.S.
Marie Yovanovitch is angry that Trump removed her from her post as ambassador to the Ukraine, even though ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president, and can be dismissed at any time.
Even though it was something Obama did as soon as he took office, removing every one of Bush's ambassadors.
It was reported Yovanovitch badmouthed this administration in Ukraine, but Liberals lauded her for her valor, when they should have referred her to the Fired Ambassador Human Resources Dept.
It was reported colleagues distrusted Lt. Col. Vindman's "judgment" in his role as a senior member of the National Security Council, but Liberals pointed with pride to his resume and fiercely protected him.
When Vindman disclosed that a former Ukraine security official, Oleksander Danylyuk, offered him a job as Defense Minister in Kiev.
Offered it three times. The media didn't ask why. Neither did Schiff.
Could it be because of all those shiny medals on his uniform?
Or was it because he was the one who leaked to the Whistleblower Whose Name Cannot Be Spoken, and that made him a useful actor?
All witnesses fit the bill to testify in Schiff's Star Chamber.
Liberals, like dogs mark their territory. And where they do it, nothing good grows.
This week the Schiff investigation disclosed nothing to further the Trump impeachment.
Trump gave Ukraine the $400 million dollars promised for military assistance. He granted Ukrainian President Zelenski a meeting. Ukraine made no investigation into the Bidens.
And there was no quid pro quo.
Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified to this today, although he didn't include it in his 23-page opening statement, because he said there was no room.
Until Jim Jordan pulled the statement from from him.
"What do you want from Ukraine?" Sondland admitted he had asked the president in a Sept. 9 phone conversation he had with Trump.
"I want nothing," he said Trump replied. "I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing."
They slice him, and dice him. They leak like sieves, and then wonder why he won't "share" with them.
Why he didn't tell Speaker of the House Pelosi about the planned raid to kill el-Baghdadi.
Why he uses people he can trust, like Rudy Giuliani, the way FDR used Harry Hopkins as his personal emissary in matters of importance.
If Julius Caesar had been as suspicious of the 60 senators who plotted his downfall, as Trump is with those in The Resistance, there may not have been an Ides of March.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All
Stay strong, Patriots.