Patrick J. BUCHANAN
“There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader” is a remark attributed to a French politician during the turbulent times of 1848.
Joe Biden’s Wednesday declaration that President Donald Trump should be impeached is in that tradition. Joe is scrambling to get out in front of the desire for impeachment in the party he professes to lead.
Several factors surely influenced Biden’s change of mind.
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The polarization in American politics has become so extreme there seems no longer to be any center ground. The political establishment is consequently imploding into an abyss of its own making.
President Trump is being driven into an impeachment process by Democrats and their media supporters who accuse him of being “unpatriotic” and a danger to national security.
Trump and Republicans hit back at Democrats and the “deep state” whom they condemn for conspiring to overthrow the presidency in a coup dressed up as “impeachment”.
As Donald Trump appears caught attempting a quid pro quo, Max Blumenthal argues that the Ukrainegate scandal also highlights a…
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The furor over Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call to Volodymyr Zelensky has not been easy to figure out. Contrary to initial reports, the president said nothing about a quid pro quo, and he didn’t push the Ukrainian president to “dig up dirt” on Joe Biden either.
The so-called ‘whistleblower’ complaint that sparked impeachment proceedings has all the markings of a coordinated effort – a story put in play by the U.S. intelligence community and boosted by compliant media like the The New York Times.
The US political, intelligence and media establishments have made even greater asses of themselves before the entire world by cooking up their latest wild concoction of a plot to topple President Donald Trump and – while they’re at it – knock his most plausible challenger former Vice President Joe Biden out of the race as well.
Washington has become a buffoonish theater of the absurd. It is politics according to Marx: But not Karl Marx. The latest scandal is pure Groucho Marx. It is straight out of the Marx Brothers 1933 comic movie masterpiece “Duck Soup.”
Yesterday, in response to a new whistleblower complaint currently percolating in Washington DC, the White House authorized and released the memorandum containing the transcript summary of President Donald Trump’s July 2019 telephone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
IMAGE: The fearsome threesome: Trump, Pelosi, and Biden.
Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced a formal impeachment inquiry to remove president Trump from office, over Democratic Party claims that Trump may have pressured the newly elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to look into the overseas financial activities of Hunter Biden, son of the former vice president Joe Biden. Pelosi believes that Trump attempted to ‘blackmail’ the Ukrainian leader by withholding military aid.
Stephen F. Cohen argues that cracks are emerging within the NATO-led consensus that has pushed Moscow from the West. Guest:…
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