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By Craig Andresen – Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
It is the debacle of all debacles, and it shouldn’t sit well with any American regardless of political affiliation, but it seems to be sitting okay with far too many democrats.
What’s happening in the U.S. House is beyond anti-American…it’s exactly what we could have expected from the old Soviet Union, and there’s a great more to it than a lack of transparency. The impeachment deluded democrats (The IDD) have gone full banana republic, their sense of a judicial committee investigation is full-on kangaroo court, and their intelligence committee is 100% devoid of even a hint of a shadow of intelligence.
Last week, the Republicans of the House made a bold statement, and took bold action when they literally stormed the closed doors of yet another meeting of the coup klutz clan. It was just about as bizarre a moment as one could imagine, but before I get to that, let me tell you exactly what led to the crashing of the gates.
The IDD have shut Republicans completely out of the process. In fact, at this point, there doesn’t even seem to be a process because House IDD’s are actually making up the rules as they go. ONLY democrats are allowed to call witnesses in the hearings. And ONLY democrats are deciding what, if anything, the American citizens or for that matter, the Republicans of the House hear regarding what takes place behind those closed doors.
Legal counsel for President Trump? NOT allowed in the room. Rebuttal witnesses called by Republican members of the committee? NO WAY. Transcripts from the hearings? NOPE. Legal counsel for the witnesses? Schiff says no.
I understand that the democrats, for now, hold the majority in the House, but they need to be made painfully aware that they do NOT hold a MONOPOLY in the House…and there is a very big difference between the two.
So, last week, dozens of Republican members of the House held a strongly worded press conference just down the hall from the kangaroo hearing, and then they stormed down that hall, and burst into the hearing. Yes, all hell broke loose. At the moment that about 30 House Republicans pushed through the closed doors, Laura Cooper, who oversees Ukraine policy at the Department of Defense was just about to testify…and the stand-off began.
Adam Schiff, who was heading up that hearing, didn’t order the arrest or the removal of the Republicans…that little coward ran away. That’s right, he beat a hasty retreat from his perch at the center of the kangaroo court, and left the room. Nobody was sure where he went exactly he went, or what he was doing, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he curled up in the fetal position with a coloring book, a bottle of bubbles and started begging for a therapy puppy.
But here’s the worst part of what that simpering coward did…he not only fled the room, but he reportedly fled the room with the witness. I’ll get back to Schiff and his whole role in this in a bit.
That was in the mid-morning hours, and by early afternoon there were still more than a dozen Republicans occupying that closed door room, with the little coward, Adam Schiff still nowhere in sight. So…what did the Republicans do then? To tell you the truth…it was classic…they ordered pizza…17 pizzas to be exact, and had them delivered directly into that kangaroo court. Oh, it gets better…that’s when Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Republican out of Colorado strode into the closed door and now occupied hearing room with what he called relief supplies…2 huge bags of food from… Chick-fil-A.
It was at that point that America heard from Republican House member Bradley Byrne, from Alabama who tweeted, “Adam Schiff just SHUT DOWN his secret underground impeachment hearing after I led a group of Republicans into the room. Now he’s threatening me with an Ethics complaint! I’m on the Armed Services Cmte but being blocked from the Dept. Asst. SecDef’s testimony. This is a SHAM!”
Holy crap.
Roger Marshall, the Republican Congressman from Kansas also let loose with a tweet in reference to the coward who fled the room and went into hiding, “He doesn’t have the guts to come talk to us. He left. He just got up and left. He doesn’t have the guts to tell us why we can’t come in the room, why he doesn’t want this to be transparent. It’s the biggest facade, the biggest farce I’ve ever seen in my life.”
The mainstream media, Fox News included spent the morning and afternoon hours last Tuesday calling the move by House Republicans, “unprecedented.”
I’ll tell you what’s “unprecedented,” it is completely unprecedented that House Republicans would be denied the right to call witnesses. It is completely unprecedented that House Republicans would be barred from questioning witnesses, and it is so far beyond precedent that unprecedented doesn’t even begin to describe not even allowing House Republicans into the room, leaking out only what propaganda the democrats can twist to suit their agenda of hate and desperation, and running like a coward from the room and hiding like a nutless wonder.
What the Republicans did in the House last Tuesday was absolutely necessary, and 100% appropriate, but there’s something else about this whole thing that troubles me…the hearing last Tuesday was held in a SCIF…that’s a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility in which no electronic devices like cell phones, mics or cameras are allowed.
Now, why would democrats be holding their supposed impeachment hearings in a SCIF?
THEY say it’s to protect national security…but you know as well as I do that’s a load of crap. What those impeachment inebriated invertebrates are doing is making sure that ONLY what THEY leak gets out of that room so that the process of MANUFACTURING propaganda, lies, and “evidence” never sees the light of day. None of this has a damn thing to do with national security, and those weasels damn-well know it. How do I know it? Because this is all about a phone call…remember…and the entire transcript OF that phone call was DECLASSIFIED, and RELEASED. The whole damned world knows exactly what was said on that call, but the democrats are making sure than NOBODY gets to see how they’re making sausage.
This all brings me back to little Adam Schiff, and his role in this great impeachment debacle. Schiff is the Chairman of the House Intel Committee, which is an oxymoron if ever one existed. ONLY Adam Schiff, by his own rules, is allowed to call witnesses in this great impeachment debacle. Schiff also had access to the supposed “whistleblower,” and is the ONLY member of either the House OR the Senate who knows who the supposed “whistleblower” is. Due to his contact with the supposed “whistleblower” prior to the complaint being filed, Schiff is also a fact witness in this great impeachment debacle.
Adam Schiff is acting as the lead investigator which places him in the role of a Special Prosecutor. Schiff alone decides what information to leak to the mainstream media from the hearings, making him the primary author of all propaganda related to the hearings. As the Chairman of the House Intel Committee, it will be Adam Schiff who will weigh the collected information and Adam Schiff will then be the ONE person who will make the decision to impeach President Trump.
Adam Schiff…the Special Prosecutor, the witness, the singular entity feeding the mainstream media thus being the sole provider of official record to the American people, the keeper of the secret identity of the supposed “whistleblower,” the jury and the judge in this case.
The only thing about these hearings that’s transparent, is the corruption of the democrats, and with that in mind, allow me to lay out exactly how this will play out.
After Schiff has finished manufacturing witness statements, he will…as the judge…decide that President Trump should be impeached based on what he will claim to be a mountain of damning evidence that nobody else will be allowed to see aside from what Schiff has already leaked to the mainstream media…the supposed “whistleblower” will not testify in the House for what Schiff will deem “security reasons” and for the supposed “whistleblower’s” own protection. All of the so-called “evidence” will be 2nd, 3rd, and 4th hand hear-say and neither President Trump nor his legal team will be allowed to question or cross-examine a single so-called “witness.”
The House, under Nancy Pelosi will then be pressured to vote in favor of impeaching the President of the United States by deep state puppets, and in the Senate, where the majority still cares about trivial things like the Constitution, and due process…the case will be dismissed on Constitutional grounds which will lead the IDD to claim, leading into the 2020 elections, that Republicans are corrupt.
Can the hearings at this point be held secretly, behind closed doors? Technically, yes, IF the committees are considered to be a grand jury, and/or Sciff or other committee Chairs are construed to be the House equivalent of a Special Prosecutor…but…Schiff is fond of changing the rules as he goes, so don’t count on him ever making the transcripts of the testimony public, or moving to present witnesses in a public fashion. As for other so-called rules, like not allowing witnesses to have legal counsel…that’s pretty Schifty any way you look at it.
Is what’s being done by Schiff and others right now Constitutional? That’s another question altogether, and not allowing Republicans to call witnesses, and not allowing witnesses testifying under oath to represented by legal counsel may well be violations of Constitutional law.
And…can Adam Schiff hold the records and documents from his hearings hostage from House members who are not part of his committee? Remember, Schiff is NOT allowing non-committee members access to the documents, or transcripts including transcripts of his hearings without one of HIS staff members being present. Can Schiff legally do THAT? The answer is a straight up NO. According to House rules, “Except as provided in subdivision (B), all committee records (including hearings, data, charts, and files)shall be kept separate and distinct from the congressional office records of the member serving as its chair. Such records shall be the property of the House, and each Member, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner shall have access thereto.”
THAT means that Schiff is breaking the House rules, and ILLEGALLY preventing members of Congress access to the records, the documents, and the transcripts of his kangaroo court hearings.
Also, leaking bits and pieces of supposed secret testimony to the media to bolster an agenda in the court of public opinion may also breach the law. Let me provide an example of what I’m talking about in that regard.
A day or two before the storming of the hearing room, Bill Taylor, a top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine testified in yet another top secret closed door kangaroo hearing, and once again, Adam Schiff leaked what was apparently the ONLY part of that testimony that fit the agenda…Taylor’s opening, scripted statement, and the mainstream media, good little propagandists that they are, ran wild with it. ALL the headlines were about how DEVASTATING Taylor’s testimony was to President Trump.
“Taylor’s Testimony Blows Up Trump’s Last Line of Defense,” “Taylor’s Stunning Testimony,” “Taylor’s Damning Impeachment Testimony,” “Ukraine Acting Ambassador Testimony Explodes Trump,” and on and on it went…BUT…from the UK, if one were to dig deep enough to actually find it, was THIS headline…”Republican Lawmaker John Ratcliffe ‘Destroyed’ Key Parts of Impeachment Testimony Given by US Envoy to Ukraine in Just 90 Seconds.”
Well, how about that…and how about this…Taylor has ties to Burisma, the company Hunter Biden was working as a board member for, via a Burisma funded think-tank, The Atlantic Council, which also gets funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Add to that the fact that Schiff sent a staffer to Ukraine to meet with Taylor right after the “whistleblower” complaint was filed. Still not enough for you? Okay, then let’s just toss this in for fun…Taylor is also tied to a fellow by the name of David J. Kramer. And who exactly is David J. Kramer? Well, he was a key advisor to John McCain and played a major part in leaking the anti-Trump fake dossier to the mainstream media and the Obama regime.
Let’s face it, William Taylor was perfect for the agenda of hating Trump.
While Republicans on those committees are not allowed to repeat what was said IN the hearings, as per Adam Schiff’s rules, they can offer basic observations, and according to House Republican Kevin McCarthy, Texas Republican, John Ratcliffe, was able to completely deconstruct Taylor’s testimony, using facts, in just a scant 90 seconds. That’s what happens to manufactured, fabricated so-called “testimony” when it sees the light of truth and facts, but none of that fits with either Schiff’s of the deep state’s agenda, and therefore it gets ignored by the mainstream media propagandists.
So, what was it that Schiff deemed not appropriate for Americans to hear from Taylor’s testimony? According to observations related by Republicans on the committee, while Taylor’s leaked 14 page opening statement alleged quid pro quo on the part of President Trump, under Ratcliffe’s questioning, Taylor admitted that he had NO first-hand knowledge of quid pro quo…that Ukrainian officials had no knowledge of any quid pro quo…and that Ukrainian officials didn’t even know that military aid had been delayed.
Is it then any wonder why Schiff alone is the judge, the jury and the executioner in this great impeachment debacle?
And finally…if Schiff or any democrat had even ONE witness with first-hand knowledge of the fabricated, manufactured quid pro quo, that would be THE witness they would call to testify…THAT witness would testify in PUBLIC hearings for all the world to see…and all of this would be taking place under the glaring lights of TV cameras.
THAT witness obviously doesn’t exist anymore than does the alleged quid pro quo exist, or we would have heard from that witness long ago. What DOES exist is quid NO quo…
And you can’t constitutionally impeach on the quid…if ya ain’t got the quo.
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