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The
Walls are Closing in on Donald Trump
Posted
By George Ochenski On November 20, 2019
As witness after credible witness
appears before the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment inquiry, the
walls are closing in on Donald Trump and he knows it.
If any more proof was needed, he
actually tried to intimidate one of the witnesses, former Ambassador to
Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, by posting a derogatory tweet about her while she
was testifying. Such open and obvious attempts to bully a witness and obstruct
the justice headed his way is beyond the pale of any occupant of the White
House in the 230-year history of our nation — and is just another blatant
indicator of why this occupant must be removed from office as quickly as
possible.
Given Trump’s long and disgusting
record of lying, cheating and intimidation as he swaggered his way through
life, perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise to see him bully and intimidate
Yovanovitch, whom he called “the woman” in his communication with the newly
elected president of Ukraine. That he directed and carried out an open campaign
to smear Yovanovitch, a faithful public servant with decades of laudatory
performance in her various diplomatic posts, should alarm all Americans.
Even worse, as testified to by
Acting Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor and State Department official
George Kent, the actions to remove Yovanovitch and ruin her career were carried
out not by State Department officials, but by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy
Guiliani, who has exactly no official capacity to represent the United States
government in any way, shape or form.
That Trump and Giuliani’s back
channel scheme to undermine one of our own diplomats to prop up some of the
most corrupt individuals in Ukraine’s government stinks to high heaven. The
stench only gets worse when you factor in Trump’s withholding hundreds of
millions of dollars in congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine in its
on-going war with Russia for one reason — to manufacture investigations
into Joe Biden and his son Hunter to aid Trump’s re-election campaign.
The problems for Trump are only
growing as more witnesses to his corrupt activities realize their own peril and
ignore his demands to refuse to testify. A second firsthand witness to Trump’s
notorious phone call with Ukraine’s president has just come forward. Despite
the feeble efforts of Republicans to defend the indefensible acts of this
disgraced president, the facts continue to mount against, not for, Trump.
As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
told the president, if you have any “exculpatory” evidence — and explained
“that term means evidence to prove your innocence” — he should bring it
forward. Instead, Trump is doing the opposite — fighting tooth and nail to
prevent Congress from getting official documents because they further
incriminate him and his henchmen.
But now Trump finds himself assailed
by far more than Congress. A federal appeals court has just ruled the state of
New York has the legal right to demand and receive eight years of the tax
returns that, unlike decades of presidents before him, Trump has refused to
release.
Meanwhile, Roger Stone, one of
Trump’s closest associates and former campaign official, was found guilty of
seven felony counts, including witness intimidation, witness tampering, lying
to lawmakers and congressional investigators about Russian interference in the
2016 election, and his interaction with Wikileaks to harm Hillary Clinton’s
campaign.
It’s worth remembering that the
first president of the United States, George Washington, is said to have
confessed to chopping down his father’s cherry tree with the words “I cannot
tell a lie.” We now find ourselves with a president who, as mounting evidence
shows, simply cannot tell the truth.
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"The master class
has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject
class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their
lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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