Thursday, July 6, 2017

Too Soon …? 7/6/17


  
Too Soon …? I Know it’s Too Soon to discuss Impeachment, but, Let’s discuss …Impeachment.

I’ve posted here previously that Donald J. Trump was eligible for Impeachment on Day One. On 20, January, ’17, as soon as he uttered the immortal words and lifted his hand from the Bible, DJT qualified for Impeachment.  The very first instance upon taking The Oath that rendered him liable, was his ownership of the D.C. Trump Hotel, which had already begun renting rooms to foreign Dignitaries in-Town for Official State Business during the Presidential Transition.

Technically, because he was not yet President, Mr. Trump was not in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, but the moment he took his hand from the Bible, and those Official Dignitaries were paying for Rented Rooms at the Hotel, President Trump was in Violation. Also, because the U.S. owned the Property where the Hotel stood, Trump was in violation of Government Standards which prohibited from him being both Tenant and, as the Head of the Government, Landlord, at the Property.

It seemed a bit of a stretch, and broad interpretation of the Law, to hold The Donald accountable, but once his further entanglements with Foreign, most especially suspect Russian characters become clear under investigation, his initial conflicts of interest, and Violations, are confirmed.

Special Counsel and Principal Investigator Robert Mueller, as well as Deputy Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein, most likely understood this fact from early on, but knew that Trump’s myriad, troublesome, Russian connections needed to be properly investigated and exposed prior to lodging the allegations.

While those in the Liberal-leaning media, the MSNBC’s et al, had to maintain a cool composure and pretend it was all Too Soon, they’d already raised the point previously. But, they needed to preserve some shred of objectivity, for legitimacy’s sake, and project a professional air. Even as the case for Obstruction of Justice charge against the President related to the firing of FBI Director James Comey began to gain momentum,  the media-mantra, echoed on occasion by Congressional  Democrats, had begun to be muttered – ‘Of Course it’s too soon to discuss ‘Obstruction’ or ‘Impeachment’…

While those of us who understood better knew, it may have been early, it may have been soon, but it wasn’t actually ‘Too Soon’. It was, and has been, Time. Time to consider and discuss, and peer ahead to the enmeshed and perilous situation Mr. Trump was in upon taking Office.

Trump of course made things worse for himself not just by firing Dir. Comey, but then bragging about it to not only to NBC’s Lester Holt, but to two shady Russian Diplomats in of all places – The White House; the Russian visitors, Sergey Kislyak, and Sergey Lavrov.

Kislyak was sent to the United States in the early 1980s as a low-level diplomat, it is certain he would have been either a KGB agent or reporting directly to the KGB. James Clapper, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, stated that Kislyak "oversees a very aggressive intelligence operation in this country... and so to suggest that he is somehow separate or oblivious to that is a bit much." Lavrov openly mocked Dir. Comey’s firing, saying to American Press at The White House ‘You’re kidding…’ upon being asked for comment

I’ve seen this movie before – I lived through Watergate. Spoiler: The End is Not Pretty. Unless of course, you consider the Beauty of American Constitutional  Justice.  Color me Cynical, but I think Trump doesn’t really want to be President, and is doing all he can to be told – ‘You’re’ Fired’.

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