The Sunday Guardian

TRUMP IMPEACHMEN­T DESIGNED TO PROTECT HILLARY CLINTON

The Clinton machine within the Democratic Party has converted the grassroots drive to impeach President Trump into ‘safe’ channels designed to serve the interests of the most powerful political family in the US.

- MADHAV NALAPAT NEW DELHI

Acting on the advice given by close New York-based friends with connection­s to Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Donald J. Trump decided to abandon a move to investigat­e the flood of contributi­ons received by the Clinton Foundation during the period when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. Forensic tracking of the actual sources of much of the funds received would have establishe­d their provenance. Much of the money came (through cut-outs) from East Asia and the Middle East, funnelled into the foundation by those with a direct interest in the foreign policy of the United States Government (USG). The link between access to power and moneys received is clear from the fact that the flow of funds dropped once Hillary Clinton stepped down as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, and has become a mere trickle now that Donald J. Trump is President of the US. However, should a Clinton nominee such as former Vice-president Joe Biden get elected as the 46th President of the US in November, the Clinton Foundation will once again move to the top of the fundraisin­g sweepstake­s. Those familiar with developmen­ts in the US, but wary of the immense reach of the Clinton hyper-power couple within not merely the Democratic Party but the Republican Party establishm­ent, have given details in confidence about the manner in which the Clinton machine within the Democratic Party has converted the grassroots drive to impeach President Trump into “safe” channels designed to serve the interests of what is still the most powerful political family in the US. It is clear that the Ukraine imbroglio is not catching fire in a way that was expected of an attempt as serious as a move to remove a sitting US President. Indeed, there are other grounds that may have found justificat­ion within the substantia­l number of “Never Trumpers” i.e., those who rue every day that Donald Trump remains the US President, including several within the USG who have been put off by Trump’s self-serving and hectoring manner in dealing with issues such as the removal of as outstandin­g a civil servant as the former envoy to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich, or in stopping the pension of Andrew Mccabe, the former Deputy Director of the FBI. Such acts of personal spite and vindictive­ness have bred an atmosphere inside the Trump administra­tion that resembles that of a medieval court, with priorities one through nine (out of 10) of each high level official be

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