Deep state’s coup attempt now approaching endgame

“Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

These are the offenses designated in the Constitution for which presidents may be impeached and removed. Which of these did Trump commit?

According to his accusers, his crime is as follows:

The president imperiled our “national security” by delaying, for his own reasons, a transfer of lethal aid and Javelin missiles to Ukraine — the very weapons President Barack Obama refused to send to Ukraine, lest they widen and lengthen the war in the Donbass. Now, if Trump imperiled national security by delaying transfer of the weapons, was not Obama guilty of a greater crime against our national security by denying the weapons to Ukraine altogether?

The essence of Trump’s crime, it is said, was that he demanded a quid pro quo. He passed word to incoming President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that if he did not hold a press conference to announce an investigation of Joe Biden and son Hunter, he, Zelenskiy, would not get the arms we had promised, nor the Oval Office meeting that Zelenskiy requested.

Again, where is the body of the crime?

Did Zelenskiy hold the news conference Trump demanded? No.

Did Zelenskiy announce Ukraine was investigating the Bidens? No.

Did Zelenskiy get the Oval Office meeting? Yes.

Did Zelenskiy get the U.S. weapons? Yes.

Where then is the crime? When was it consummated?

Or was this a thought crime, a bluff to get Zelenskiy to look into how Hunter Biden got a $50,000-a-month seat on the board of the most corrupt company in Ukraine, days after Joe Biden was in Kyiv threatening to block a $1 billion loan guarantee to the regime.

By the way, what was Biden doing approving a $1 billion loan guarantee to Petro Poroshenko’s regime, so corrupt it ferociously fought not to fire a prosecutor whose dismissal all of Europe was demanding?

Should Biden be nominated and elected, a special prosecutor would have to be appointed to investigate this smelly deal, as well as the $1 billion Hunter got for his equity fund from the Chinese after his father visited the Middle Kingdom.

Given the recent party-line vote in the House, where all but two Democrats voted to proceed with the inquiry, the impeachment of President Donald Trump seems baked in the cake. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s designation of Adam Schiff to head the investigation tells us all we need to know about the sincerity of her pledge to make the inquiry bipartisan.

Suppose Zelenskiy had agreed to look into how Hunter Biden, with no energy industry experience, got his sweetheart deal. Would that be impeachable for Trump? How so?

Does not the U.S. have a right to put conditions on its foreign aid and to seek guarantees that our money will not be used as graft to grifters? And whom does the Constitution charge with making the decisions as to whether military aid goes to Ukraine? The president, or some NSC staffer who sits on the Ukraine desk? The authority lies with the elected president of the United States.

This impeachment battle will almost surely reach the Senate. And in the end it will be about what it has been about since the beginning: an attempt by the deep state and its media, bureaucratic and political allies to overturn the democratic verdict of 2016 and to overthrow the elected president of the United States.

The establishment’s coup attempt is now approaching endgame.