The Democrats’ first impeachment scheme targeting President Donald Trump over the issue of his telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky back in the day was a “total fraud.”
It was when Trump discussed the obviously questionable ethics being used by the Joe Biden administration, when Biden threatened Ukraine with the loss of U.S. financial aid if they didn’t fire a prosecutor looking into corruption at a company paying his son, Hunter, a million dollars a year.
It is Fox analyst Gregg Jarrett who has delivered the facts on the strategy launched by Democrats to harm the sitting president.
In a column, he explained, “Newly declassified documents prove that the first impeachment of President Donald Trump in 2019-2020 was a carefully orchestrated fraud.”
He revealed, “It all was concocted by Trump-hating ‘deep state actors’ within the intelligence community who secretly conspired with Democrats in Congress to remove Trump from office and subvert the will of the American people who had put him there.”
The evidence is from documents released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
“She sent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice aimed at two of the central figures who propelled the impeachment proceedings, accusing them of manufacturing a conspiracy,” and therein lies the evidence, he wrote.
The first offender, Michael Atkinson, was inspector general of the intelligence community then. The other was the “whistleblower” who conspired with Democrats, then filed an unfounded complaint about Trump’s telephone call.
“The identity of the whistleblower — a CIA analyst and registered Democrat — has still not been officially disclosed, which is utterly absurd. He is not entitled to hide in the shadows of anonymity. By law, only the IG can decline to release his name. But this applies to no one else. Gabbard should identify him, particularly since he no longer works in intelligence,” Jarrett explained.
Further, the defendant didn’t even qualify as a “whistleblower” under the legal requirements for that status.
Jarrett explained the “alleged” conduct must involve intelligence activity and this case didn’t. And it must come from a member of the intelligence community, and the president is not.
“Under Article II of the Constitution, the chief executive has sweeping authority to conduct foreign affairs, negotiate with leaders of other nations and make requests or solicit information,” he wrote. “That is precisely what Trump did in his conversation with Zelensky.”
He explained, “He suggested that the leader examine Hunter Biden’s ridiculously lucrative business deals with the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, as well as later-President Joe Biden’s on-camera brag in which he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds unless the Ukraine prosecutor investigating both Burisma and Hunter Biden was fired. It appeared to be an overt and corrupt ‘quid pro quo’ to protect his son and keep the Biden family’s financial gravy train chugging along. It also smacked of extortion.”
Joe Biden, in fact, boasted about how he threatened Ukraine, demanding they fire the prosecutor looking into the company paying Hunter Biden:
Jarrett confirmed, “There was nothing inappropriate about Trump’s phone discussion, since the younger Biden was already the subject of a DOJ criminal probe into his highly suspicious international business schemes. Trump’s request was logical and not at all uncommon. Other presidents have done the same thing.
“Our Justice Department has enlisted foreign help in numerous cases over the years. Presidents sometimes get involved. It was ludicrous for Democrats to declare that the conversation was an impeachable offense. Yet, they did so zealously.”
He also pointed out the “faux whistleblower” had no firsthand knowledge of any of the phone call issues, and admitted as much.
“He simply heard about it from someone else.”
He wrote that person more accurately is “an undercover informant acting as a Democratic operative who spied on President Trump by gathering hearsay information intended to damage him.”
And shocking was Atkinson’s role, how he “vouched for the credibility of the fake whistleblower, knowing full well that he had submitted false information in his complaint.”
He then ignored legal advice to toss it, and instead called it “urgent” and used it “as a cudgel against Trump.”
The Democrats weren’t done.
“Then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Democrat Adam Schiff knew all about the exonerating evidence but concealed it. On the sly, the analyst coordinated with Schiff’s staff before the whistleblower complaint was ever filed. Trump was being set up,” Jarrett confirmed.
The charges against Atkinson say he ignored guidance and exceeded his jurisdiction by weaponizing the process.
The inescapable conclusion to be drawn from the newly declassified documents is that Trump was framed. Elements within the intelligence community, including Atkinson and the sham whistleblower, engineered a conspiracy that was used as the basis to impeach President Trump, said Gabbard.
The DOJ now must review the entire case, and the charges that could result include making false statements, perjury, obstruction and conspiracy to defraud the government.
