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Donald Trump holds up copy of Washington Post with headline announcing his acquittal by the Senate, Feb. 6, 2020.

Facing an impeachment hearing and senate trial for his part in the cover up related to the Watergate burglary, then President Richard Nixon chose to resign from office in August 1974.  Upon being sworn into office, President Gerald R. Ford gave a brief 850-word address in which he uttered the now famous line, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.”

Being all of eight years old at the time, I didn’t have a super sophisticated understanding of all that was going on, but I did get the gist of it.  President Nixon had done something wrong and tried to hide it.  Now, he had to resign.

But more than the particulars related to the case, what I recall from that period was the overwhelming sense of boredom I had with hearing about Watergate and anything Watergate related.  It really did seem like along national nightmare that went on year after year after year.  No doubt, some of that was due to my age.  When you’re eight years old, six months seems like a lifetime, because, in a way, it is.

In truth, the whole Watergate saga took about two years and two months to play out.  On June 17, 1972, the Watergate burglars were arrested.  On August 9, 1974, Nixon resigned.

That was then.

Now, consider the Trump impeachment hearing and the Senate trial concluded just last week.  On Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump.  On Wednesday, December 18, the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment.  One charge was abuse of power, the other, obstruction of Congress.  After some delay, the articles of impeachment were sent to the Senate, where the impeachment trial of Donald Trump began on Jan. 16, 2020 and concluded with his acquittal on Feb. 5, 2020.  Start to finish, a little over four months.

If we only consider the impeachment and trial of Trump, his ordeal seems much faster than Nixon’s ordeal.  But it would be a mistake to consider Trump’s impeachment in isolation.  Trump has been under attack from the day of his presidency.  In truth, the attacks began well before he took office, going back at least as far as mid-2015 when he declared his candidacy.

Don’t believe me?  Check out this article from the Washington Post dated Jan. 20, 2017, the day of Trump’s inauguration, which boldly announces “The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.”  The article is time stamped 12:19 p.m. EST.  Considering the inauguration program began at 11:00 a.m. EST, the Post’s article announcing the impeachment drive was posted only about an hour after Trump took office.

If we see the recently concluded impeachment trial in the large context of more than three years of shrill calls for impeachment, Trump’s ordeal already has lasted longer than Nixon’s by ten-and-a-half months.

And unlike Nixon’s case, we can expect our long national nightmare to continue.

I don’t say this to be a pessimist.  I very much wish the whole “resistance” nonsense would just go away already.  But given truly remarkable, over the top hatred for Donald Trump evidenced by the Democrats over the past three years, there is no reason to think his acquittal will be the end of the mater.

In support of this, consider that last Thursday the Washington Times ran an article with the headline “Impeachment 2.0? Democrats line up possible new charges against Trump.”

According to that piece, “Still pending is a wide-open probe launched by Rep. Adam B. Schiff, California Democrat.  Mr. Schiff has been investigating President Trump, his family and businesses, the Trump Organization, over the congressman’s suspicions of blackmail, money laundering and bribery.”  In his post-acquittal remarks on Thursday, Trump seemed to concede a second impeachment is a real possibility.  Said Trump, “So we will probably have to do it again, because these people have gone stone-cold crazy, but I have beaten him (congressman Jerry Nadler, D-NY) all my life and I will beat him again if I have to.”

So there you have it.  Our long national nightmare not only is not over, but the party’s just getting started!

Too Stupid to be Stupid

Jim Sinclair, a gold expert I’ve followed for a number of years, often uses the saying “It’s too stupid to be stupid.”  So what’s that supposed to mean?  It means this.  If you see a situation that makes no sense on the surface, consider the possibility that all is not what it appears to be.

In the opinion of this author, Mr. Sinclair’s maxim can be applied to the impeachment hysteria that has gripped, not only the entirety of the Democratic party for more than three years now, but the whole of the mainstream media, much of academia, and a not insignificant portion of the population

Consider that in the more than 230 years since the Constitution was adopted, only two other presidents have been impeached, Abraham Lincoln’s successor Andrew Johnson in the 1860’s and Bill Clinton in the 1990’s.  No president has ever faced multiple impeachment attempts.  Yet here we sit in 2020 facing the very real possibility of another Trump impeachment inquiry.

Why is this?  Why all the hate for Donald Trump?

While this author does not claim any special insight into what even Nancy Pelosi once called the “Moby Dick-like obsession” with impeaching Trump, enough information is out there that one can draw up a list of a probable motives for the non-stop attempts to remove President Trump from office.

Please keep in mind, none of the motives listed below are mutually exclusive.  Any or of all of them could be true.  Further, I make no claim that this is an exhaustive list.  There may be additional reasons why powerful politicians, government officials and others want Trump out of office.

With that in mind, let’s sketch out a few reasons for the unending anti-Trump hysteria.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been amount the most vocal proponents of impeachment.  Her calls to oust Trump go back to at least March of 2017.

Get Ready for Impeachment!

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been telling anyone who will listen to “get ready for impeachment” since at least March 2017.  Below are some possible reasons for the unending attempts by the Democrats to unseat Donald Trump.

First, Trump is an outsider, not only in the sense that he’s not a career politician, but that he does not run in the “right” social circles.  To get the sense of how much wealthy socialites disdained, and likely still disdain, Trump, read Vanity Fair’s account of how Trump came to purchase Mar-a-Lago, his Winter White House in Palm Beach, FL.

But Trump’s status as an outsider is more than just his going to war with the Brahmins of Palm Beach over a golf resort.  Trump doesn’t belong to other exclusive clubs.  For example, he didn’t go to Yale and was never invited, as was George W. Bush, to join the Skull and Bones secret society.  Further, Trump is the only Republican president since Herbert Hoover not to visit the occultic Bohemian Grove club near San Francisco.  That Trump has not been a part of these secret, and very likely Satanic, organizations is to his credit.  But the American power structure, staffed as it is by men who do run in these circles, sees this as a threat to them.  Most likely, they are right in this regard.

Second, lock her up.  During the second presidential debate in 2016, Donald Trump told Hillary Clinton that if he were president, she’d be in jail.  This was an extraordinary statement.  Never has this author heard any president or presidential candidate say anything even remotely like this.  Why would Trump say something like this?  It seems there are any number of reasons ranging from Clinton’s private email server, to corruption and the Clinton Global Initiative charity, to, well, it’s hard to say how much skullduggery she and Bill have been involved in.  Let’s just say, Donald Trump in the White House is a serious threat to the Clintons and to many others in their circle.

Third, the Deep State.  Closely related to numbers 1 and 2 above, the Deep State hates and fears Donald Trump.  At least that’s how it appears to this author.  What is “the Deep State”?  Broadly speaking, the Deep State is the permanent bureaucracy that remains in place even as presidential administrations change, the heart of which is the intelligence community, the Military Industrial Complex and the Federal Reserve.

Speaking of the intelligence agencies, Senator Chuck Schumer publicly warned Trump shortly before he took office that Trump should think twice about picking a fight with the intelligence community.  “Let me tell you,” said Schumer, “You take on the intelligence community – they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”  In his comments, Schumer seems to be suggesting that Trump initiated a conflict with the intelligence community – by the intelligence community, Schumer likely meant the alphabet agencies, for example the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA – when it was the intelligence agencies, likely at the direction of Barak Obama, that unlawfully spied on Trump’s 2016 campaign.

But what about the Fed?  In a remarkable Bloomberg Op-Ed piece from August 2019 titled “The Fed Shouldn’t Enable Donald Trump,” former New York Fed Governor Bill Dudley wrote, “There’s even an argument that the election itself falls within the Fed’s purview.”  Remarkable.  Did Dudley just imply that the Fed should work to oust Donald Trump, by, say, causing a recession timed with the run-up to the election?  Many observers, including this one, think so.

Third, the intellectual bankruptcy of the Democrats coupled with their lack of a viable 2020 candidate.  Donald Trump isn’t the only person saying the Democrats have gone “stone-cold crazy.”  Even some of their own people are saying this.  For example, James O’Keefe reports that an Elizabeth Warren staffer in Iowa had this to say, “At the end of the day, we’ve become the party that has prioritized gender pronouns rather than putting food on the table for working families, and it’s like, that’s why we lose.” Longtime Democratic operative James Carville expressed much the same thought in a recent interview when he said, “We’re losing our…minds.” CNN contributor Van Jones remarked after a recent Democratic debate, “I want to say that tonight for me was dispiriting. Democrats have to do better than what we saw tonight. There was nothing I saw tonight that would be able to take Donald Trump out.”

The two current top Democratic presidential contenders – Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigeig – have significant liabilities that will limit their appeal in the general election, so Van Jones, James Carville and others are right to be worried.

When it comes to the Democrats, they operate by a different set of principles than most people.  In their mind, when the chips are down, when they don’t know what to do, when all seems hopeless, the answer is obvious.  Cheat!

In his article “Democrats Reveal the Real Purpose of the Impeachment Investigation,” Paul Craig Roberts notes, “The Democrats know that there is no impeachable offense.  What they intend to do is to use the investigation to look into every aspect of Trump’s life and try to make dirt out of things unrelated to his talk with the Ukrainian president.  This ‘impeachment investigation’ is a political act to help their candidate win the next presidential election.” Roberts quotes progressive Democrat Rob Kall talking about impeachment not being about removing Donald Trump from office, but of dirtying him up to the point where he becomes unelectable.

Fourth, Donald Trump as collateral damage.  This is likely a new idea for most people, but an investigative reporter by the name of Lee Stranahan whom I follow and whose work I respect has a theory that Donald Trump is really an accidental target.  Let me explain.

In the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a group of Russians, who came to be known as oligarchs, with the help of American economists from Harvard, became extremely wealthy by purchasing Soviet-era state-owned enterprises for pennies on the dollar.  “The Harvard Boys Do Russia” is an important article discussing how this took place.  As the article puts it, “After seven years of economic “reform” financed by billions of dollars in U.S. and other Western aid, subsidized loans and rescheduled debt, the majority of Russian people find themselves worse off economically. The privatization drive that was supposed to reap the fruits of the free market instead helped to create a system of tycoon capitalism run for the benefit of a corrupt political oligarchy that has appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars of Western aid and plundered Russia’s wealth.”

When Vladimir Putin took control of the Russian Federation from Boris Yeltsin, he put a stop to the steal, jailed some of the oligarchs, and ended the economic collapse.  This, naturally, made the oligarchs none too happy.  According to Stranahan, Hillary was the golden girl of the oligarchs.  She was the one they hoped would put pressure on Russia, oust Putin, and bring back the good old days of oligarchy.  But Donald Trump stood in the way.  Trump, you see, had this crazy idea about normalizing relations with Russia, so he couldn’t be allowed to win.  Only he did win, crushing the hopes of the oligarchs.  Trump had to go.  Hence, the attempt to paint Trump as a Putin puppet.  Russia!, Russia!, Russia!, they screamed until that narrative collapsed in March 2019. Just a few months later, the Democrats switched their tune to Ukraine!, Ukraine!, Ukraine!, accusing Trump of doing what Joe Biden actually did, threaten to withhold aid to Ukraine unless government officials did his bidding.

But here’s the odd thing, Ukraine really did interfere in the 2016 American elections, only their interference was for the purpose of helping Hillary, not Trump.  The First Article of Impeachment calls the idea of Ukrainian election interference “a discredited theory promoted by Russia,” but there is strong evidence to back it up.  You can read about it here, and here..

Why did Ukraine interfere in the 2016 elections on behalf of Hillary, and why did the Democrats attempt to impeach Trump with bogus articles of impeachment over his supposed bribery of newly elected Ukrainian President Zelensky?  To cover up the earlier crimes of Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.  According to Lee Stranahan,

1. BIG issue is Clinton donors Soros / Pinchuk & Clinton apointee Nuland OVERTHROWING the ELECTED GOVERMENT in 2014.
2. THEN the Clinton campaign used that puppet government to INTERFERE in the US ELECTION in 2016 with RUSSIA HOAX.
3. Coverup of 1 & 2.

Why did Ukraine go along with the fraud?  Likely because the government installed by the George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland and others was strongly nationalistic and opposed to all things Russian.  Helping Hillary win seemed like the right thing to do, as it would ensure a strong anti-Russian stance from the White House. Only the unthinkable happened and Trump won.  As a result,  the government in Kiev had to, in the words of Politico, “scramble[e] to make amend with the president-elect [Trump] after quietly working to boost Clinton.”

Closing Thoughts        

My goal in writing this post was to provide you with explanations for the ongoing impeachment hoax.  As noted above, if one looks at the Democrat’s case on the surface, it makes no sense.  Their case was lamer than lame, a fact obvious to anyone with a bit of sense.  Many people stop there and conclude, therefore, that the Democrats are just plain stupid.  This is a serious mistake.

The Democrats most certainly are not stupid.  The Democrats, at least the ones pushing for impeachment, are evil.  They know their case is a fraud, but they push it anyway, because they don’t want their crimes exposed.

The Ninth Commandment enjoins us not to bear false witness.  The drive for impeachment has been one enormous lie after another, and those who have propagated these lies either must repent and put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ or answer for them before his judgment seat.  This may sound strange to some people, the notion that politicians will have to answer for their sins as politicians, but it shouldn’t.  There is no special dispensation for politicians to lie, cheat, steal and murder so long as it’s in service to the state.  Governors must answer for their sins as governors just as private citizens must answer for their sins as private citizens.  Nobody has a license to sin.

These are difficult times we live in.  Speaking for myself, I long to see justice done, the righteous justified and the wicked punished.  Yet, so often is seems not only as if justice never will be done, but that things simply are going from bad to worse.  Not to be a pessimist, but as we get close to the 2020 November election, it is entirely possible that things could get much worse than they are.

But as Christians, we put our hope not in princes, but in the Lord.  He is our strength and our shield.

What can we do when faced with such enormous fraud?  Let us seek the Lord’s face.  Let of pray for the peace of the city.  Let us speak each man the truth to his neighbor.  Let us be salt and light.