Conrad Black:

“…Trump’s offence, and his strength, is that he doesn’t make much effort to disguise the fact that he is a fierce, tough and often ruthless alumnus of the very tough schools of American capitalism, entertainment and politics.

The Globe and Mail headline implies that he has ridden his luck to where he is now. In fact, in making billions of dollars in (principally) Manhattan real estate, inventing a television concept and pulling in 25 million viewers every week for 14 seasons, devising a concept of levering celebrity, through being a boxing and wrestling impresario, a tabloid star and a reality TV icon, and then changing party affiliations seven times in 13 years and using social media to end-run the national press, seizing control of one of the great political parties and gaming the electoral system into the White House, he achieved more prior to his inauguration than any of the 43 preceding U.S. presidents except Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Grant, Eisenhower, and possibly Hoover. He is the only person elected president of the U.S. who never sought or held a public office or high military command and only the sixth to win the office with fewer votes than his chief opponent. This wasn’t luck; it was ambitious calculation and flawless execution…”

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Roger Kimball:

“…An unnamed “whistleblower” (personally, I think it is a protégé of John Brennan or possibly Michael Avenatti) cites various rumors he has overheard second- or third-hand, writes it up as an official complaint, and the whole stinking pile of malignant calumny is carefully fed into the Trump outrage machine and takes over the media narrative for a week or so.

It is impossible to overstate how preposterous the whole whistleblower gambit is. As Sean Davis has pointed out at The Federalist, the “intelligence community” (another phrase that has entered the lexicon of political malfeasance) recently, and secretly, changed the rule that “whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings.”

The new rules, which were made public only after the transcript of Trump’s July 25 call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was released, “eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only heard about [wrongdoing] from others.” Interesting, what?

Impeachment frenzy cascaded over airwaves and displaced every competing story, even the exploitation of that sick child crusader Greta Thunberg, for about 48 hours. But the floodwaters are rapidly receding and the malodorous muck and detritus that has been left behind are already being subject to the sanitizing scrutiny of people who don’t like being lied to…”

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Whistleblower Requirements Recently Amended to Allow Hearsay

This is another Kristine Blasey Ford type coordinated attack this time on the president and coordinated by Democratic operatives associated with congressional Democrats and Democrat affiliated law firms in Washington. Congressional Democrats will attempt to rush it through because the last thing they want is an in-depth investigation of the allegations against the president.

Weasels, cowards, spies, snitches, ugly, disgusting people.

Not all Democrats by a long shot, just the ones in and around Washington.

He is a disgrace

California Shocked To Find Bill Decriminalizing Retail Theft Resulted In… More Retail Theft

Solomon: These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden’s Ukraine story

It looks like the attack on Trump is a spoiling attack to divert attention from the real malfeasance—perpetrated by Democrats, as usual.

Sarah Hoyt:

“…Oh, and the woman who yelled at me is a college professor.  Ladies and gentlemen, there is a massive, unacknowledged mental health crisis in this country. And not all of the mad people are pooping it up in the streets of San Francisco. Some are sh*tting all over higher education…”

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Former Romney Advisor Claims 30 GOP Senators Would Vote for Impeachment — in Secret

Think what this says about the senators that would vote in secret but won’t vote in public. Trump has the power to make people destroy themselves, example 3,897

Warren Flustered by Hypothetical Ethics Question on Hunter Biden.