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Bye-bye Biden

By Ray McGovern

It was already clear two months ago, as Russia-gate flopped and its bastard child Ukraine-gate was born, that the septuagenarian Democrat Establishment power brokers, who were praying that Joe Biden who not say or do anything to derail his candidacy, shot poor Joe and themselves in the foot. We said so then (See: If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden — https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/21/if-the-facts-come-out-it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden/ ). Please find us a Beltway pundit that has come to that realization.

Ineptitude

Was it not bad enough for Democratic party leaders to have insisted that a very reluctant (and now we know why) ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller testify on July 24?

Who made that decision?  And why did virtually all Democrats follow lemming-like off the cliff?  After all, TV watchers had already observed the difficulty Mueller had in walking the short distance to and from the podium on May 29 for his (please, no questions) 10-minute appearance to end his public exposure for his poor excuse for an investigation.

He said at the time that he hoped that would do it for him. Did the doddering Democratic leadership not perform due diligence to determine whether his faltering Russia-gate gait suggested shortcomings in his mental acuity, as well?  Too late now.  And it will soon be too late to dominate the Ukraine-gate narrative, as well.

Following are excerpts from a recent article by Indian General turned writer, Vnod Saighal, who takes a look at the Impeachment process so far.  Often it takes an observant, objective outsider to shed light on things like the dangers for Democrats, as the over-credulous Schiff founders and sinks.  Schiff’s main problem seems to have been his tendency to believe former CIA Director John Brennan.  Schiff will sink with Brennan; stay tuned.  Worse still, septuagenarian ineptitude could bring four more years of Donald Trump.

Below are excerpts from Gen. Vnod Saighal article (The full text is at  https://www.voltairenet.org/article208361.html
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Glaring anomalies in the Trump impeachment

By General Vnod Saighal, November 19, 2019

The drama of the removal of President Donald Trump continues. After the first series “The Russian Affair”, the second “The Ukrainian Affair” does not seem better written. Above all, it shows the inability of the Democrats to criticize the president for his policies and could turn against them


.… From the hearings so far most Democrats would have realized that from what had transpired so far, impeachment was a charge that might not hold water; Rejection by the Republican majority in the Senate becoming a later development, should it come to that. Therefore it appears that the Democrats would generally be satisfied were the proceedings to expose Trump and the manner in which foreign policy was being run during his watch. They hope that it would make a dent in his vote bank.

“What then are the anomalies that the Democrats would be loath to touch upon and the Republicans to date have failed to highlight? …

“The most glaring omission in the impeachment trial on the part of Nancy Pelosi and the House democrats was not to have discussed the Vice President Biden and his son’s dealings in Ukraine thoroughly prior to commencement of the impeachment hearings, in closed-door discussions if they felt that was necessary. Had they done so many questions that should have been thrashed threadbare might either not have arisen or if they arose they would have done their home work in advance and would have had answers ready.

“It was not the case. Vice President Biden was heading to become the leading democrat contender to take on Trump in the forthcoming 2020 elections. His chances were considered bright. Due diligence required that the former Vice President’s and his son’s involvement that many today would term questionable be thoroughly gone into by face-to-face interactions. Should doubts have arisen they might have decided to delay the impeachment hearings till all matters had been clarified to their satisfaction.

“It is only a matter of time that Republican senators in the House bring it up as the hearings proceed. Or they might decide to turn the tables decisively in the Senate when the time came were the matter to reach the Senate. So far from what is known the Trump quid pro quo was related to the Ukrainian government investigating the Biden father and son’s dealings. In recent weeks, Trump has relentlessly mocked Hunter Biden, to the point that his presidential campaign began selling shirts that say, “Where’s Hunter?” highlighting that the former vice president’s son had been out of the public spotlight for weeks. At a recent political rally, Trump noted that Hunter Biden had been thrown out of the Navy. Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy Reserve in 2014 after failing a drug test and has struggled with alcohol and drug abuse. …

“The House Democrats should realize that were the hearings to go deeper towards indicting Trump the tables might be turned on them. Were Mr. Biden to become or have become the Democrat presidential nominee sooner or later the people, the media and even representatives on the Capitol Hill would have raised the question as to whether former Vice President’s dealings in Ukraine were questionable or not as these had started directly or by proxy while he was still in government. Further, was the involvement so deep that were he to ascend to the White House the Ukrainian government would be in a position to demand
 quid pro quo from time to time.”

Requiem for Joe Biden

By Ray McGovern, Feb. 12, 2020

His coming political demise, as in New Hampshire yesterday, was easy to see.  Joe Lauria and I saw it coming and posted this piece five months ago:

If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden
September 21, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/21/if-the-facts-come-out-it-could-spell-the-end-for-joe-biden/
Two months later, it was an even easier call:

Bye-bye Biden
By Ray McGovern, November 20
https://raymcgovern.com/?s=Bye-Bye+Biden

If a former general in India could see how Pelosi and her aged advisers were shooting themselves, and their favorite Joe Biden, in the foot, why was the entrenched Democratic leadership not able to see it?

Is it perhaps because, like Biden himself, they had long since reached the age of “statutory senility”?

Good riddance re Biden; what was he thinking?  His erstwhile supporters, though, owe him an apology for political misfeasance.  Was Nancy afraid to wake up Steny Hoyer and ask him to quiz the Bidens about their caper in Ukraine?

Postings on Impeachment

By Ray McGovern

Those interested in what Ray has been writing/saying over the past year about impeachment may wish to click on some of the links below, which we posted earlier as part of:
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/12/01/democrats-seek-to-redefine-crimes-to-reframe-the-trump-impeachment/ , with the subhead:

Impeachment For Cognoscenti, Dummies, and Those In Between

“We took some time today [Dec. 1, 2019] to search raymcgovern.com for some of the key articles on impeachment posted since Jan. 2019. We will group links to these articles chronologically under List A. Then we will compile a shorter (chronological) List B with links to postings of background related to impeachment, for those who may have missed key articles when they were posted here or elsewhere during 2019. You may prefer to go through List A, and List B as well, from the bottom up rather than top-down.”

LIST A

1 — Don’t Be Afraid, Nancy: IMPEACH
By Ray McGovern, Jan. 10, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/10/dont-be-afraid-nancy-impeach/

2 — More on Pelosi, the Reluctant Impeacher
By Ray, Jan. 11, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/11/more-on-pelosi-the-reluctant-impeacher/

3 — IMPEACH, Nancy!
By Ray, Jan. 17, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/17/impeach-nancy/

4 — Why is Pelosi Allergic to Impeachment”
By Ray, Jan. 19, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/19/why-is-pelosis-allergic-to-impeachment/

5 — Impeachment in Historical Perspective
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/20/impeachment-in-perspective/
On Jan. 20, 2019, we cited this highly instructive article depicting the salutary effects of impeaching President Andrew Johnson, even though conviction by the Senate failed by one vote.
Impeach Donald Trump Now, by The Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/

6 — Media Faced with Dilemma in Next Phase of Deep State-gate
By Ray, April 9, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/09/ray-mcgovern-unaccountable-media-faced-with-dilemma-in-next-phase-of-deep-state-gate/

Doubly interesting in retrospect. Who knows what happened to the Nunes referrals? Will William Barr and John Durham be able to put some spine into the president and persuade him to let it happen this time? Will Establishment media be able to keep pros like Professor Johnathan Turley and former NSA Technical Director William Binney off the TV screen?

7 — Fun From “The Onion”: Shocked Vladimir Putin Slowly Realizing He Didn’t Conspire With Trump Campaign
‘Who The Hell Was I Working With Then?’ Asks Russian President
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/04/10/shocked-vladimir-putin-slowly-realizing-he-didnt-conspire-with-trump-campaign/
April 10, 2019, citing The Onion; link:
https://politics.theonion.com/shocked-vladimir-putin-slowly-realizing-he-didn-t-consp-1833575011

8 — DNC-Gate: Patrick Lawrence Saw Through It From the Start
By Ray, April 18, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/04/18/dnc-gate-patrick-lawrence-saw-through-it-from-the-start/

9 — Russia-gate as Organized Distraction
By Ray, August 5, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/08/05/russia-gate-as-organized-distraction/
With small excerpt from Oliver Boyd-Barrett’s piece at:
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/29/russiagate-as-organized-distraction/

10 — Red ‘Whistleblower’ Herrings
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/09/28/red-whistleblowing-herrings/
Consortium News Live (CN), Sept. 27, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/27/watch-cn-live-tonight-with-katherine-gun-daniel-ellsberg-scott-ritter-ray-mcgovern-on-whistleblowing-the-iraq-war-and-impeachment-8-pm-edt/
(Ray’s segment goes from minute 7:55 to 44:40; the whole CNLive video is worth watching.)

11 — A “Whistleblower” Who Requires Quotation Marks
Ray gets one minute, October 3, 2019, on RT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwdJSlLPR2E&feature=youtu.be

12 — Attorney General Barr’s Posse Is Mounted, Armed, & Ready, Judging From Attempts to Pre-empt
By Ray, October 5, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/10/06/attorney-general-barrs-posse-is-mounted-armed-ready-judging-from-attempts-to-pre-empt/

13 — What’s Really at Stake with the ‘Whistleblower’ Coup
Ray interviewed for 30 min., October 8, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/10/08/whats-really-at-stake-with-the-whistleblower-coup-w-raymcgovern/

14 —The Ultimate Case For Trump’s Impeachment/Removal From Office
By Lawrence Wilkerson, October 23, 2019
https://lobelog.com/the-ultimate-case-for-trumps-impeachment-and-removal-from-office/#more-50694

15 — Impeach Trump: Yes … Because of the Bidens: No!
By Ray, Nov. 6, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/11/06/impeach-trump-yes-because-of-the-bidens-no/
Ray’s 1-minute part of the interview starts at min. 4 to the end.

16 — Bye-bye Biden
By Ray, Nov. 20, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/11/20/bye-bye-biden/
A General-turned-pundit from India Can Figure It OutIncludes excerpts from an article by Gen. Vnod Saighal.
(The article’s full text is at https://www.voltairenet.org/article208361.html )

17 — Ukraine For Dummies
By Ray, November 14, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/14/ray-mcgovern-ukraine-for-dummies/

18 — SCOTT RITTER: The ‘Whistleblower’ and the Politicization of Intelligence
By Scott Ritter, November 27, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/27/scott-ritter-the-whistleblower-and-the-politicization-of-intelligence/

19 — Democrats seek to redefine crimes to reframe the Trump impeachment
By Jonathan Turley, November 26, 2019
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/471248-democrats-seek-to-redefine-crimes-to-reframe-the-trump-impeachment

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LIST B (Please meet James Clapper and John Brennan)

1 — Challenging Clapper at Carnegie
By Ray McGovern, January 4, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/04/challenging-clapper-at-carnegie/

2 — TRANSCRIPT: When Clapper Was Asked Real Questions
By Ray, January 6, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/06/transcript-when-clapper-was-asked-real-questions/

3 — A Look Back at Clapper’s Jan. 2017 ‘Assessment’ on Russia-gate
By Ray, January 7, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/08/a-look-back-at-clappers-jan-2017-assessment-on-russia-gate/

4 — Clap Trap re Those Very Bad Russians
By Ray, January 12, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/12/clap-trap-re-those-very-bad-russians/

5 — Russia-gate Evidence, Please
By Ray, January 15, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/15/russia-gate-evidence-please/

Democrats seek to redefine crimes to reframe the Trump impeachment

By Jonathan Turley, November 26, 2019
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/471248-democrats-seek-to-redefine-crimes-to-reframe-the-trump-impeachment

(And Below This, Two Lists of Postings on Impeachment)

Law Professor Jonathan Turley shuns the academic ivory tower.  Turley was one of most effective lawyers exposing Cheney/Bush war crimes as they occurred, back when he was regularly invited to comment on TV.

Unlike most lawyer/commentators/pundits these days, Turley’s record reflect the reality that his legal analysis and opinions are not only expert, but also — even more important, in our view — apolitical.  In the article linked above, he writes basically that, Nancy Pelosi does not know what she is doing. It is worrisome that her ineptitude and that of those old folks around her could bring four more years for the clowns now in the White House.

That result becomes far more likely, if Establishment media are able to suppress investigative journalism like Scott Ritter’s dissection of how the narrow Ukraine-gate impeachment process actually got started.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/27/scott-ritter-the-whistleblower-and-the-politicization-of-intelligence/
Hint: the “whistleblower” was no whistleblower. Nancy has a lot of experience with lipstick but there is no way she will be able to put lipstick on this particular pig; that is, IF Scott’s article gets appropriate media exposure — BEFORE Republicans can make it a “gotcha” talking point and diminish its impact by giving it a partisan color.

Donald Trump Richly Deserves to be Impeached.  To head off possible misunderstanding, we should make clear at the outset that this website has posted multiple articles strongly advocating impeachment.  We associate ourselves with a key disclaimer in Veteran Intelligence Professionals For Sanity most consequential MEMORANDUM FOR The President (July 24, 2017) titled: Intel Vets Challenge ‘Russia Hack’ Evidence. ( See: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/ )  We paste in below the VIPS disclaimer, because it bears repeating:

“Full Disclosure: Over recent decades the ethos of our intelligence profession has eroded in the public mind to the point that agenda-free analysis is deemed well nigh impossible. Thus, we add this disclaimer, which applies to everything we in VIPS say and do: We have no political agenda; our sole purpose is to spread truth around and, when necessary, hold to account our former intelligence colleagues.

“We speak and write without fear or favor. Consequently, any resemblance between what we say and what presidents, politicians and pundits say is purely coincidental. The fact we find it is necessary to include that reminder speaks volumes about these highly politicized times. This is our 50th VIPS Memorandum since our first one on Feb. 5, 2003, critiquing Colin Powell’s UN speech earlier that day. Live links to our 49 earlier memos can be found at https://consortiumnews.com/vips-memos/.”

Impeachment For Cognoscenti, Dummies, and Those In Between

We took some time today to search raymcgovern.com for some of the key articles on impeachment posted since Jan. 2019.  We will group links to these articles chronologically under List A.  Then we will compile a shorter (chronological) List B with links to postings of background related to impeachment, for those who may have missed key articles when they were posted here or elsewhere during 2019. You may prefer to go through List A, and List B as well, from the bottom up rather than top-down.

LIST A

1 — Don’t Be Afraid, Nancy: IMPEACH
By Ray McGovern, Jan. 10, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/10/dont-be-afraid-nancy-impeach/

2 — More on Pelosi, the Reluctant Impeacher
By Ray, Jan. 11, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/11/more-on-pelosi-the-reluctant-impeacher/

3 — IMPEACH, Nancy!
By Ray, Jan. 17, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/17/impeach-nancy/

4 — Why is Pelosi Allergic to Impeachment”
By Ray, Jan. 19, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/19/why-is-pelosis-allergic-to-impeachment/

5 — Impeachment in Historical Perspective
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/20/impeachment-in-perspective/
On Jan. 20, 2019, we cited this highly instructive article depicting the salutary effects of impeaching President Andrew Johnson, even though conviction by the Senate failed by one vote.
Impeach Donald Trump Now, by The Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/

6 — Media Faced with Dilemma in Next Phase of Deep State-gate
By Ray, April 9, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/09/ray-mcgovern-unaccountable-media-faced-with-dilemma-in-next-phase-of-deep-state-gate/

Doubly interesting in retrospect.  Who knows what happened to the Nunes referrals?  Will William Barr and John Durham be able to put some spine into the president and persuade him to let it happen this time? Will Establishment media be able to keep pros like Professor Johnathan Turley and former NSA Technical Director William Binney off the TV screen?

7 — Fun From “The Onion”: Shocked Vladimir Putin Slowly Realizing He Didn’t Conspire With Trump Campaign
‘Who The Hell Was I Working With Then?’ Asks Russian President
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/04/10/shocked-vladimir-putin-slowly-realizing-he-didnt-conspire-with-trump-campaign/
April 10, 2019, citing The Onion; link:
https://politics.theonion.com/shocked-vladimir-putin-slowly-realizing-he-didn-t-consp-1833575011

8 — DNC-Gate: Patrick Lawrence Saw Through It From the Start
By Ray, April 18, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/04/18/dnc-gate-patrick-lawrence-saw-through-it-from-the-start/

9 — Russia-gate as Organized Distraction
By Ray, August 5, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/08/05/russia-gate-as-organized-distraction/
With small excerpt from Oliver Boyd-Barrett’s piece at:
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/29/russiagate-as-organized-distraction/

10 — Red ‘Whistleblower’ Herrings
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/09/28/red-whistleblowing-herrings/
Consortium News Live (CN), Sept. 27, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/09/27/watch-cn-live-tonight-with-katherine-gun-daniel-ellsberg-scott-ritter-ray-mcgovern-on-whistleblowing-the-iraq-war-and-impeachment-8-pm-edt/
(Ray’s segment goes from minute 7:55 to 44:40; the whole CNLive video is worth watching.)

11 — A “Whistleblower” Who Requires Quotation Marks
Ray gets one minute, October 3, 2019, on RT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwdJSlLPR2E&feature=youtu.be

12 — Attorney General Barr’s Posse Is Mounted, Armed, & Ready, Judging From Attempts to Pre-empt
By Ray, October 5, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/10/06/attorney-general-barrs-posse-is-mounted-armed-ready-judging-from-attempts-to-pre-empt/

13 — What’s Really at Stake with the ‘Whistleblower’ Coup
Ray interviewed for 30 min., October 8, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/10/08/whats-really-at-stake-with-the-whistleblower-coup-w-raymcgovern/

14 —The Ultimate Case For Trump’s Impeachment/Removal From Office
By Lawrence Wilkerson, October 23, 2019
https://lobelog.com/the-ultimate-case-for-trumps-impeachment-and-removal-from-office/#more-50694

15 — Impeach Trump: Yes … Because of the Bidens: No!
By Ray, Nov. 6, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/11/06/impeach-trump-yes-because-of-the-bidens-no/
Ray’s 1-minute part of the interview starts at min. 4 to the end.

16 — Bye-bye Biden
By Ray, Nov. 20, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/11/20/bye-bye-biden/
A General-turned-pundit from India Can Figure It Out
Includes excerpts from an article by Gen. Vnod Saighal.
(The article’s full text is at https://www.voltairenet.org/article208361.html )

17 — Ukraine For Dummies
By Ray, November 14, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/14/ray-mcgovern-ukraine-for-dummies/

18 — SCOTT RITTER: The ‘Whistleblower’ and the Politicization of Intelligence
By Scott Ritter, November 27, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/27/scott-ritter-the-whistleblower-and-the-politicization-of-intelligence/

19 — Democrats seek to redefine crimes to reframe the Trump impeachment
By Jonathan Turley, November 26, 2019
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/471248-democrats-seek-to-redefine-crimes-to-reframe-the-trump-impeachment

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LIST B  (Please meet James Clapper and John Brennan)

1 — Challenging Clapper at Carnegie
By Ray McGovern, January 4, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/04/challenging-clapper-at-carnegie/

2 — TRANSCRIPT: When Clapper Was Asked Real Questions
By Ray, January 6, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/06/transcript-when-clapper-was-asked-real-questions/

3 —A Look Back at Clapper’s Jan. 2017 ‘Assessment’ on Russia-gate
By Ray, January 7, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/08/a-look-back-at-clappers-jan-2017-assessment-on-russia-gate/

4 —Clap Trap re Those Very Bad Russians
By Ray,  January 12, 2019
https://raymcgovern.com/2019/01/12/clap-trap-re-those-very-bad-russians/

5 — Russia-gate Evidence, Please
By Ray, January 15, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/15/russia-gate-evidence-please/