Acquittal is the Honest Verdict

Today and tomorrow, senators will have the opportunity to ask the House impeachment managers and President Trump’s lawyers questions. They will submit their questions in writing to Chief Justice Roberts, and he will read them aloud in the Senate Chamber.

I have watched the impeachment trial in the Senate from gavel to gavel. I watched the impeachment proceedings in the House, too. These are my conclusions:

The articles of impeachment passed by the House in partisan fashion do not charge the president with specific crimes, much less high crimes and misdemeanors.
The House did not conduct a thorough investigation, because it would have taken too much time to do the job correctly. That’s what House managers said in the Senate. Instead of doing their job, House managers hoped that the senators would take pity on them and do their work for them. That’s why they say they want the Senate to call witnesses, but they don’t want the Senate to call Joe and Hunter Biden.
That’s strange. The House managers want to call witnesses in the Senate that they could have called in the House but didn’t. On top of that, they want to deny President Trump the right to call witnesses in the Senate that prove his case.
The articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, are so vague that they could mean anything. Thus, impeaching President Trump on those charges would put every future President of the United States at risk of being charged with impeachment for simply doing his job. As White House counsel Jay Sekulow said, “Danger, danger, danger.”
The bare minimum standards for due process were ignored in the full House and in the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. The president wasn’t allowed to call the witnesses that he needed to hear from most. Chairman Schiff intervened to prevent questions from being answered if he believed the answers to the questions would threaten the narrative that he was manufacturing. In any court in the land, the charges against the president would have been tossed out on Day One of the trial for those reasons alone, but this isn’t a real trial. It’s a purely partisan political process that is designed to remove the duly elected president and to prevent him from ever running for office again.
Every witness questioned in the House ended up destroying the House managers’ case during cross-examination, and cross-examination in the House committees was nothing like a real cross-examination. Democrats don’t really want witnesses in the Senate. They want talking points that can be used in the 2020 election.
The House managers’ case in the Senate was long on narrative and short on facts. The essence of their presentations boiled down to the fact that they hate President Trump and that they vehemently disagree with his policies.
Animosity toward the president is not an impeachable offense. Neither are policy differences between the president and his political opponents. Again, President Trump’s impeachment in the House was a purely partisan attempt to negate the 2016 presidential election and to increase the likelihood of Democrats winning the 2020 presidential election.
The president’s counsel in the Senate presented a compelling case that Joe and Hunter Biden were involved in corrupt activities in Ukraine. That fact alone justifies President Trump asking President Zelensky to investigate the Bidens, even though it was never proven that President Trump made that request.
The so-called “quid pro quo” that Democrats accused President Trump of demanding turned out to be totally fabricated. The president was just doing his job, the job that the American people elected him to do.

As I said, the case against President Trump would have been thrown out on Day One of a trial in any court in the country. The “evidence” presented in the Senate by the House managers was nothing more than strongly held beliefs based on pure hatred of the president. Therefore, the correct verdict in the Senate should be acquittal. No witnesses should be called to beef up a case that the House failed to make.

Some Democrat Senators are Caving Already

See “Feinstein stirs confusion with comments on impeachment vote”:

A story in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday caused an uproar on social media after it characterized comments from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to say she is leaning “toward acquitting Trump” — causing the Democratic senator to fire back that the paper “misunderstood what I said.”

According to the Times, Feinstein was asked by reporters whether or not she would ultimately vote to acquit President Trump.

“Nine months left to go, the people should judge,” Feinstein said, according to the paper, alluding to the 2020 presidential election. “We are a republic, we are based on the will of the people — the people should judge.”

“That was my view and it still is my view,” she added.

The LA Times’ headline reported her comments with the headline: “Feinstein leans toward acquitting Trump as his lawyers end their impeachment defense arguments.”

Feinstein eventually clarified on Twitter, suggesting that she is actually leaning toward voting to remove Trump from office.

Dianne Feinstein represents California. The majority of Democrats in California would vote to have the president drawn and quartered if that were legal instead of just removing him from office. They call California the Land of Fruits and Nuts for a reason.

Feinstein’s wavering suggests that Democrat senators from other states have strong reservations about convicting the president based on flimsy charges, too. Some of them must understand the consequences.

I have a hunch that at least a few Democrat senators will vote to acquit the president without calling witnesses. Any Republican senator who votes to convict the president must be a political hack or scared that he or she might not be re-elected if he or she votes to acquit.

“Fairness” is Just a Democrat Talking Point

Democrats in the House and Senate know that their party’s nominee for president in 2020 will have a tough time winning the election. President Trump hasn’t been a good president. He has been a great president. He has been the best president in my lifetime.

President Trump has accomplished more in 3 years than George W. Bush and Barack Obama together accomplished in 16 years, and President Trump wasn’t picking low hanging fruit. He took on the most difficult issues we face as a nation, and he did things that establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans said couldn’t be done.

Donald Trump has accomplished one impossible thing after another. He won’t be campaigning for president in 2020 on promises alone. He has a record to run on, and it’s a damn good record. I don’t care what the polls seem to say today. When the election gets underway for real, no Democrat making wild promises will be a match for the president.

Joe Biden is the best candidate that Democrats have in 2020. That’s why Democrats don’t want Joe and Hunter Biden to be called as witnesses in the Senate. On Friday when senators vote on the next step in the impeachment trial, I’ll be amazed if they decide to call witnesses, because that will mean that the Bidens have to testify under oath. That’s too risky for Democrats.

Democrats are setting the stage for an accusation that Republicans didn’t conduct a fair trial in the Senate. Never mind the fact that the president didn’t get a fair trial in the House. It’s all about narrative and what will work best for Democrats in the 2020 presidential election.

President Trump will be Acquitted and Re-elected

No matter what Democrats do or say in the impeachment trial, President Trump will be acquitted and re-elected. Democrats can’t prevent it from happening. By Election Day, President Trump will be stronger politically than he has ever been. We are witnessing House and Senate Democrats trying desperately to stave off the inevitable.

On Friday, senators may vote to prolong the agony, but I doubt they will. Democrats have too much to lose, and Republicans have nothing to gain.

Democrats’ Worst Fears Will Come to Pass

The thing that Democrats fear most is that Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren for Pete Buttigieg will win the Democrat nomination. But most of all, they fear that Bernie Sanders will get the nod. That’s why they are circling their wagons around Joe Biden.

Sanders’ supporters are a violent, communist mob, and Democrat leaders know it. If Sanders wins the Democrat nomination, Democrats lose. If Sanders doesn’t win the Democrat nomination, his supporters will explode, and Democrats lose. For Democrats, it’s a lose-lose situation.

Bottom line: Democrats will lose in 2020, and they will lose big. The writing is on the wall.

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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)