donsurber.blogspot.com Spinning Mueller's nothingburger into impeachment
The Mueller Report cleared President Donald John Trump of all the false accusations and lies the media and Democrats have thrown at him for more than two solid years.
Now these losers want to spin no evidence of any wrongdoing into impeachment.
USA Today is leading the charge.
The newspaper shamelessly publishes columns by windbags who are big on talk and small on facts.
Laurence Tribe, a Harvard law professor of note, wrote, "I've warned that impeachment talk is dangerous, but the time has come."
As Carl Sandburg said, "If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell."
Tribe pounded the table again and again.
He wrote, "In its extensive discussion of the constitutional issues implicated by special counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month investigation, the report asserts that Congress has the authority to apply law 'to all persons – including the President.' Specifically, Congress may 'protect its own legislative functions against corrupt efforts designed to impede legitimate fact-gathering and lawmaking efforts.' The authority to prohibit a president’s corrupt use of power, the report finds, is essential to 'our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.'"
Those are nice platitudes, but where is the proof that Putin and President Donald John Trump got together to rig the election?
There is none. It is like the time Geraldo Rivera opened Al Capone's vault and found nothing.
But Tribe insists that there is indeed a treasure inside that empty vault if Congress keeps looking.
He wrote, "Congress must uncover the full facts of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the ways in which that interference is continuing in anticipation of 2020, and the full story of how the president and his team welcomed, benefited from, repaid, and obstructed lawful investigation into that interference and the president’s cooperation with it. Equally important, Congress must seize this opportunity, while the report remains a locus of national attention, for the American public to see and hear for itself the firsthand witnesses to the president’s criminal behavior, and to weigh and rally around an appropriate path forward — as they did in the wake of Watergate."
The Watergate comparison is interesting in that it took 26 months from the attempted spying on a political opponent in June 1972 to Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
Mueller spent 22 months investigating.
A reasonable person would conclude that no evidence means there is no crime.
And a responsible newspaper would reject Tribe's argument as conspiratorial nonsense that is not very interesting.
But it is USA Today and it published Tribe.
It also published a similar opinion by Barbara McQuade, another Democrat operative/law professor, who wrote, "Mueller report offers road map on obstruction. Despite Barr, Congress may use it."
She argued that an innocent man complaining of a witch hunt is obstructing justice.
USA Today also published radio Talker Tom Nichols, who wrote, "Mueller report: Donald Trump failed us as commander in chief."
Nichols opposed America electing Donald Trump president. He is not pleased with that. And so we must impeach! impeach! impeach!
This is the theme at USA Today which runs rant after rant against President Trump without leavening it with a column from a supporter of the president.
Instead it ran " Mueller report: A corrupt, unpatriotic president, a stark impeachment choice for Dems" and " Mueller report offers road map on obstruction. Despite Barr, Congress may use it." and " Mueller investigation shows that if Donald Trump didn't break the law, he surely bent it."
In journalism today, there is no other side of the story. There is only one truth as divined by John Podesta and David Axelrod.
The 46% who voted for President Trump don't matter, which also means the 100% who have Donald John Trump as president don't matter either.
I should be surprised that they have not accepted the fact that Mueller found nothing, but then again they still haven't accepted his election.
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