The House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Representative Jerold Nadler (D-NY), below, begins its hearings on impeaching Trump, in the hope of drawing up articles of impeachment that center on abuse of power and bribing foreign nationals. This will put the Trump trail on a very fast track.
Except for one thing- the House Intelligence Committee still has a lot of work to do, because new leads point toward more corruption.
New details are emerging about more shady deals to help Trump, including calls from Rudolph Giuliani to the Office and Management and Budget and connections between Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, and the key players in the Ukraine scandal. But the Intelligence Committee, while promising to continue further investigations, doesn't seem to want to hold more hearings for the time being, preferring instead to let the Judiciary Committee take the lead. MSNBCs Howard Fineman compared what the Democrats are doing to catching a whale instead of a big fish and being reluctant to reel it in. Instead of finishing the job, the House Intelligence Committee seems to be closing the case without exposing more corruption that could get more Americans to side with their pursuit of impeachment - because of political concerns over the 2020 election campaign. Meanwhile, the Republicans relentlessly campaign against impeachment with a message of a witch hunt base on a disagreement with Trump's Ukraine policy . . . with the powerful and persuasive marketing savvy that got Reagan elected President twice and Al Gore deposed after being elected President fairly. Not only are the Democrats' chances of winning the Presidency and the Senate in doubt, so are their chances of holding the House.
The Democrats are among the most pathetic bunch of Keystone Kops I've ever seen. Damaging Trump and possibly destroying him going forward into 2020 should be easy as 1, 2, 3, but by looking at it as a political rather than as a constitutional matter, they've already managed to screw it up to the point of making it as complex as πr². The American people are now less enamored with impeachment, and if the Democrats blow the 2020 election, I'll be much less enamored with them.
If that's possible.
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