Adam Schiff releases House impeachment report

  Just a short while ago Adam Schiff released his impeachment report. Here is a brief summary of what the investigation found:

The impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, uncovered a months-long effort by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election.,” the report opens.

“As described in this executive summary and the report that follows, President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign.  The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations into a political rival that he apparently feared the most, former Vice President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election.  To compel the Ukrainian President to do his political bidding, President Trump conditioned two official acts on the public announcement of the investigations:  a coveted White House visit and critical U.S. military assistance Ukraine needed to fight its Russian adversary.”

And also:

President Trump engaged in an unprecedented campaign of obstruction of this impeachment inquiry.  Nevertheless, due in large measure to patriotic and courageous public servants who provided the Committees with direct evidence of the President’s actions, the Committees uncovered significant misconduct on the part of the President of the United States. 

  Well, that certainly sounds pretty bad. So bad in fact that you would expect the Democrats to move forward on impeachment, but instead of moving forward with the impeachment process the Democrats are going to hold another investigation.

  Why would this be if what the summary states is the truth? It is either not the truth or there is more to what the Democrats intentions are. The Democrats know that even if they vote to impeach Donald Trump he is not going to be convicted in the Senate so this is all a politically motivated game designed strictly to keep the word “impeachment” in the public vocabulary through the 2020 election. They want the specter of impeachment hanging over the election. It is actually quite reminiscent of the way the Republicans pretended they were going to repeal Obamacare all those years…

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium