By Clarice Feldman |
The American Thinker
Believing Adam Schiff’s lies and calling for an
“impeachment inquiry” has to be one of the worst blunders of Speaker Pelosi’s
career. The whistleblower tale has crumbled and the backup witnesses the
Democrats are relying on only confirm the Deep State bureaucrats and Democrats
believe that they, not the elected president, have a lock on executive powers.
In fact, the ploy boomeranged and the spotlight is now on the Democrats’ White
Hope, Joe Biden. Despite the media downplaying Biden’s actions,
there is more to come of his and his party’s corruption.
Whistleblower Won’t Testify
The leaker, incorrectly tagged a “whistleblower,” now
doesn’t want to testify. Instead he wants to
give his testimony “by letter,” presumably from an undisclosed
location where no one can test his “testimony.” Ostensibly this is
because he fears for his safety. He is anonymous, so any claim of “death
threats” seems unlikely, although as we show below, we do have a rather
good idea of his identity.
In any event the very
notion is preposterous.
It
was already ridiculous to think a presidential
impeachment, to remove the most powerful elected political
representative of The United States, could continue based on an anonymous
complaint. However, expecting the same complainant/accuser to remain
invisible during the process is so far beyond nonsensical, the light from where
nonsense emanates wouldn’t reach this narrative for a year.
Yes,
feel free to pummel the left-wing nuts based on the absurdity of this
request. Only the most raving Moon bat imaginable would think they could
impeach a sitting U.S. President via a ‘Dear Sir’ complaint letter to Congress.
These
are obviously not stable-minded people.
Oh,
please, please, please hold that impeachment vote now. It is more clear
than ever where this nuttery is heading.
If
you thought it was delicious to watch the media meltdowns on election night
2016, just imagine the meltdowns as the media attempts to sell impeachment via
a strongly worded letter of
complaint to their resistance constituents….
Perhaps
he could testify via text messages, or… wait, even better… via tweets.
Too damn funny.
The real reason for this backoff, I think, is that once
his identity is confirmed, it will be clear this was a stupid setup by amateurs
in Congress who wanted to cover their tracks. From certain clues reported,
online detectives have winkled out what appears
to be his identity.
If they are right, there are a lot of reasons he wouldn’t
want to testify. For one he seems to be involved with those behind the
discredited Steele Dossier. “Billionaire Clinton donor Victor Pinchuk sent MP
Bielkova to meet with him the same day she met with David Kramer and kicked
Steele Dossier operation into high gear.” For another, his association
with two
members of Schiff’s staff -- Abigail Grace and Sean Misko -- suggests
they cooked up his story together before sending it off to the Inspector
General to refashion the leaker as a “whistleblower.”
Grace,
36, was hired to help Schiff’s committee investigate the
Trump White House. [snip] Grace worked at the NSC from
2016 to 2018 in U.S.-China relations and then briefly at
the Center for a New American Security think tank, which was founded by two former senior Obama administration
officials. [snip]
Misko,
37, worked in the Obama administration as a member of the
secretary of state’s policy planning staff under deputy chief of staff Jake
Sullivan, who became Hillary Clinton's top foreign policy official during her
2016 presidential campaign. In 2015, Misko was
the director for the Gulf states at the NSC, remaining there into the
Trump administration’s first year.
A
source familiar with Grace's work at the NSC told the Washington Examiner,
“Abby Grace had access to executive privilege information, and she has a duty
not to disclose that information. She is not authorized to reveal that
information.”
The
same source said that Misko had not been trusted by Trump appointees.
"There were a few times where documents had been signed off for final
editing before they go to the national security adviser for signature,"
the source said. "And he actually went in and made changes after those
changes were already finished. So he basically tried to insert, without his boss'
approval.
"There
were meetings in which he protested very heavily, and next thing you know,
there's an article in the paper about the contents of that
meeting." [snip]
Misko's
name surfaced in the Hillary Clinton email controversy when he worked in the
State Department during the Obama administration.
In a
Dec. 1, 2009, email released by Judicial Watch, Clinton adviser Huma Abedin sent
classified information regarding foreign military contributions to the
Afghanistan war effort to her private email account. That email originated with
Misko, who wrote to Sullivan that he initially “accidentally” sent it on the
“high side” (secure) but was sending the email again.
The “whistleblower” -- if the supposition of his identity
is true -- is or was with the CIA and is a fellow on the Atlantic Council,
“which has a business partnership with Hunter Biden’s holding company” the
Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
The same tweeter JP also reports that members of the Atlantic Council include a
significant number of anti-Trumpers whom we are all familiar with:
What
do we know about The Atlantic Council members now?
1: Burisma
Holdings.
2: Sean
Misko (Schiff staffer)
3: Dmitri
Alperovitch. (The CTO and cofounder of Crowdstrike)
4: Victor
Pinchuk (Ukrainian Oligarch/Hillary Funder)
..&
more Obama/Hillary people than you can imagine.
You
know what else is SOOOOO coincidental? That the CTO of Crowdstrike
is ALSO in The Atlantic Council.
Who funds the Atlantic Council? Hunter
Biden’s Burisma. The American Security Council is also a
rats’ nest of familiar persons, notes JP:
“Let's
look at members of The Center for a New American Century... CNAS...Members: 1:
Abigail Grace (Schiff staffer. Former NSC at WH) 2: Christopher Heinz. (John
Kerry son, Partners with Hunter Biden) 3: Sean Misko (Schiff staffer. Former
NSC at WH)”
Even the “whistleblower’s” attorney, Andrew Bakaj, has a
long anti-Trump history and a connection to the Project
on Government Oversight, financed by George Soros’ Open Society
foundation.
Back up Witnesses Before Congress
My online friend “The Infamous Iggy” captured the
unifying theme of these two witnesses best:
The
DNC, Pelosi, Schiff, the media, progs in general and even the bureaucracy and
FBI are in some respects a sideshow.
The
real issue that ought to either-or-both frighten and enrage any honest American
is that the "Intelligence Community" truly does now consider itself a
law unto itself and has arrogated the power to actually decide who is a
suitable president and who will be allowed to occupy the White House.
The
genesis of Russia and the Ukraine has quite plainly been at its root the IC and
especially the CIA.
They
have, make no mistake, declared war on self-governance, unless we pick someone
they approve of which is quite obviously not self-governance.
Thankfully
the stupid bastards are remarkably incompetent and have been for decades but
they still can, and are, causing a great deal of damage.
So absurd have been the multiple efforts by Democrats to
geld the chief executive that one federal appellate court judge has termed
their efforts violative of the constitutional
ban on Bills of Attainder.
Hoping to inject life into a dead horse, Democrats
announced two witnesses this week, both of which are disgruntled former Trump
officials and neither of whom had firsthand knowledge of the phone call that
prompted this nonsense.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch
The President pulled her
from that post in May. She is the ambassador who didn’t let representatives
of the new government of Ukraine have visas to travel to this country
to provide evidence of corruption by Biden and others in their country.
I suppose her point, and that of the Democrats, is that
the executive powers granted the president are to be negated. The Deep
State, once in place, cannot be removed by an upstart president who disagrees
with its members.
Fiona Hill
Her testimony is due next week. She likewise
objected to the president setting his own foreign policy circumventing the
advice of the bloated (300) membership (Obama’s doing, now trimmed back to the
original 100 by Trump) of the National Security Council and herself. The
President’s former Russian advisor resigned days before the call which so
perturbed Adam Schiff, a call he misrepresented (“parodied”) when the White
House surprisingly revealed the transcript of it. In her case, it seems that
once again that policy differences and turf protection are the issues, not
presidential wrongdoing.
Deep State Corruption in Ukraine is Still
Only Partially Revealed
It is my belief, based on information, that the Bidens
were not the only ones who treated Ukraine as a private piggy bank. Obama sent
them a billion dollars and to paraphrase the Bible, he cast bread upon the
waters and Biden and others got back Fig Newtons. Hunter Biden alone received
$3.1 million in an 18-month period.
@charliekirk
Hunter
Biden’s bank records show that $3.1 million flowed in from the Ukrainians over
an 18 month period
$142,000
was wired from a Ukrainian oligarch
$1.2M
came from an LLC connected to a bank with a history of money laundering
All
while his dad steered Ukrainian policy
It seems that Joe
Biden may have done well, too:
Rudy
Giuliani has alleged that a Ukrainian natural-gas company that employed Joe
Biden’s son Hunter also paid the former vice president $900,000 in lobbying
fees.
Appearing
on Fox News’ “Hannity” Wednesday, President Trump’s personal lawyer cited
as evidence claims made by Andriy Derkach, a member of Ukraine’s
parliament. [snip]
“Funds
in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the US-based company Rosemont
Seneca Partners,” Derkach told reporters, referring to the investment company
the younger Biden founded with Chris Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of
State John Kerry.
“The
payment reference was payment for consultative services,” Derkach said,
according to Interfax, a Russian news agency.
He
went on to claim Burisma -- according to documents -- paid $16.5 million to
former Polish President Aleksander Kwasnieski, who was chair of Burisma’s board,
Hunter Biden and Devon Archer.
It remains to be seen if Derkach’s claims will be proven,
but Biden has a long history of corrupt dealings. Tom Brokaw first raised
this issue in 2008.
I think a thorough investigation will show that
money sent to Ukraine to help develop its natural gas resources were diverted
by pro-Russian Ukrainian officials who sat on it in order to allow Russia to
dominate the natural gas market in Europe (and blackmail it) and disbursed a
portion to the Bidens to pull this off. I also think the Obama Administration
was well
aware of this corrupt deal with Hunter Biden.
China
Ukraine was not the only piggybank Hunter tapped into.
There was China as well, and there John Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz, joined
him.
In
2015, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China teamed up with Bohai Harvest
RST to buy Henniges Automotive, a producer of high-tech anti-vibration
components for automobiles. Bohai Harvest's investment funding,
though "managed" by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz, had come in large
part from Chinese government interests. So it's stretching the truth
to say a Chinese investment pool "teamed up with" a Chinese company
to buy the components-maker. Really, it was the Chinese buying an American
company.
At a
big-bracket investment firm such as Goldman or Morgan, such a transaction would
have had to pass muster through teams of compliance and due diligence
officials. What sort of compliance review do you think occurred at
the so-called private equity firm run by a drug-addicted ne'er-do-well like
Biden or like Kerry's stepson?
Private
equity funds tend to charge one or two percent a year on invested capital plus
20% of profits. Assuming that the fund had a total of $1.5 billion
of "assets under management," the lucky fellows were -- and
probably still are -- splitting $15 or $30 million a year.
In both cases, not only do we have the unseemly,
certainly corrupt practice of officials and their children cleaning up on
foreign deals obtained through political connections, but as well there is the
stench of these people undermining U.S. interests for pelf.
But absent Schiff and Pelosi’s dumb and
phony “impeachment inquiry” none of this would have received much
attention in the press, which as John Nolte describes has hit
defcon in desperation.
Incidentally, the presidency is not the only branch
whose powers the Democrats want to circumscribe. Democratic Senators
Whitehouse, Gilibrand, Hirono, Blumenthal, and Durbin just filed
an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in a Second Amendment case
regarding NYC firearm transport restrictions.
The brief contained a thinly veiled threat to restructure
the Supreme Court if it decides against the City of New York.
These people keep trying in every way large and small to
impose a one-party autocratic rule over us, even going so far as to ignore the
separation of powers among three constitutional branches of government.
