In Our Humble Opinion

One of Mr. Thumps pundits – Roger Stone – has files a motion on the grounds that one juror was able to be unbiased in her consideration of his guilt or innocence and therefore should be acquitted.   I wonder if one could file a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court Justice who presided over the Trump impeachment on the grounds that 52 senators failed to be impartial and actually had made up their mind BEFORE any testimony was presented and WITHOUT calling any witnesses? After all, the Republican party wants to hound on the issue that this was a “trial” and Trump was never given the opportunity to defend himself. Oh! But Wait! That would not be fair to poor, little old Mr. Trump … NOT!!!

The Unthinkable The unthinkable, but under the circumstances not the unimagined, has started. Mr. Trump has started a political purge the likes of which has not been seen in the United States. Yes, it happens all the time in third world countries, but it has NEVER happened in the United States. Mr. Trump has started his political purge with the removal of the Vindmans and Sonderland with still more promised. He just recently nominated US Attorney Jesse Liu to Under Secretary of the US Treasury and then abruptly with drew the nomination with no stated reason. However, Ms. Liu had been overseeing the criminal investigation of Andrew McCabe, former acting FBI director when she was nominated, and her replacement was announced. In retrospect, it would appear to have been a orchestrated maneuver to remove someone that was not doing his bidding. Then we have Michael Flynn who was to be sentenced to six months in jail based on a recommendation by the Department of Justice att...

A little history prospective… So far in the history of the United States of America there has been three Presidents that have been impeached but none removed. What is interesting is when you review the votes in both the House and the Senate, the process has be partisan throughout history. Interestingly enough, the first two impeachments were of Presidents that were Democrats and the vote to Impeach was done by a majority of House members that were republican. In the Andrew Johnson (Democrat) impeachment, there were 124 Republicans in the House and 49 Democrats. Republicans voted 122 to 45 to impeach President Johnson. In the Bill Clinton (Democrat) case, there were 228 Republicans and 205 Democrats in the House. Republicans voted 223 to 200 to impeach President Clinton. It doesn’t take a genius to see that both impeachments were partisan in nature with Republicans acting against a Democrat President. It is even more evident when you look at the Senate. In Andrew Johnson’s ca...

So, the impeachment of Donald Trump is over with…or is it? History will record the last 3 weeks as democracy that has failed. It failed because 52 republican senators violated their oath of office and violated their oath to be an impartial jury during the impeachment “trail.” For the first time in the history of the United States an impeachment called no witnesses and did not subpoena documents in order to ferret out the truth of guilt or innocence.   They let the head of the republican party bully and intimidate them to erode their integrity and violate their oath. Like a dictator that has risen to power, Mr. Trump has started the purge of his staff. Replacing those individuals that saw that their oath of office and the principles of the United States of American were more important that any party, any person in office, and their jobs. This is a president that now feels impowered, like so many dictators in history, to do whatever he wants to do. If he feels it is in the natio...