HALF-FULL REPORT 12/20/19

This morning’s (12/20) banner front page headline:  TRUMP HAS NOT BEEN IMPEACHED!

Okay, the Fox News headline was actually “Trump Has Not Been Impeached YET.”  As the House Dems’ own impeachment witness, Harvard law professor Noah Feldman, writes, “Trump isn’t impeached until the House tells the Senate.  According to the Constitution, impeachment is a process, not a (House) vote.”

“The House must actually send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment. And the Senate must actually hold a trial.

 

If the House does not communicate its impeachment to the Senate, it hasn’t actually impeached the president. If the articles are not transmitted, Trump could legitimately say that he wasn’t truly impeached at all.

 

As for the headlines we saw after the House vote saying, “TRUMP IMPEACHED,” those are a media shorthand, not a technically correct legal statement. So far, the House has voted to impeach (future tense) Trump. He hasn’t been impeached (past tense) until the articles go to the Senate and the House members deliver the message.

 

For the House to vote “to impeach” without ever sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial… would mean that the president had not genuinely been impeached under the Constitution.”

Which means McConnell holds the high cards, while House Swamp Mistress and her Whip with the room temperature IQ (who thinks it’s cool to not send the articles to the Senate at all) are holding a pair of deuces.

The Heritage Foundation’s legal expert GianCarlo Canaparo explains how Pelosi is powerless (and so is Upchuck Schumer).

He notes that Article 1, Section 2 states that the House “shall have the sole Power of Impeachment,” while Section 3 states that the Senate “shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments ” – and that there is no mention of procedure.

So where does this supposed transmittal requirement come from? From the Senate’s own rules governing impeachment procedure – which can be changed by simple majority vote, which McConnell easily has.

“So the Senate should change its impeachment rules as follows: once the House has voted to impeach the president, the Senate shall set a date for trial and shall set a deadline for the House to present its managers to the Senate.

 

If the House fails to meet that deadline, the Senate will either dismiss the articles of impeachment for lack of prosecution or, better yet, vote on the articles immediately in light of the evidence presented to it — in this case, no evidence.”

Done and dusted.  Go for it, Mitch.

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The funniest observation of the Dem Peach Mint Vote Clown Show had to be Tucker’s guest Sean Davis last night (12/19):  “It’s been such a debacle it’s like watching a bunch of monkeys trying to hump a doorknob.”   Broke Tucker up.

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TTPers aren’t masochists so I’m sure you had far better things to do last night than watch the Dem Candidate Clown Show last night – like, say, straightening out your sock drawer.  It was the Seven Dwarfs all acting like Grumpy.

One funny thing is how three of the seven qualified under tightened DNC rules – just look how in the basement Yang, Steyer, and Klobuchar are in the Real Clear Politics list of all the latest polls.

And note how low Little Bo Pete scores in most every national poll, only one has him above 1 digit – yet the media is always pumping him up, anxious to turn the White House over to the Gaystapo.

Except in Iowa, all the state and national polls show the top three way ahead: Biden-Sanders-Warren.  Three septuagenarian white folks.  Quid Pro Joe’s was the biggest gaffe of the night, proclaiming he’ll be happy to cause “hundreds of thousands” of blue-collar  workers to lose their jobs as human sacrifices on the altar of the Left’s Cult of Warmism.

TTPers saw what POTUS said about him in his Letter to Pelosi (TTP 12/18):

“You (Pelosi) know full well that Vice President Biden used his office and $1 billion dollars of U.S. aid money to coerce Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who was digging into the company paying his son millions of dollars.

 

You know this because Biden bragged about it on video. Biden openly stated: ‘I said, “I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars” . . . I looked at them and said: “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.’

 

Even Joe Biden admitted just days ago in an interview with NPR that it ‘looked bad.’ Now you are trying to impeach me by falsely accusing me of doing what Joe Biden has admitted he actually did.”

Once the Senate acquits the President, expect the prosecution of Biden to follow, with Hillary then declaring.  She’ll quickly clear the field – and don’t be surprised if she names Bo Pete as her running mate.  El Donaldo couldn’t ask for easier pickings.

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Speaking of prosecutions in the wind.

IG Horowitz just issued a report on how the Russia Collusion Hoax got started with FISA approval.  DOJ Prosecutor Durham is conducting a criminal investigation of it – and you and I know just who masterminded it:  Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan.

Well, guess what hit the headlines yesterday (12/19)?  Durham Criminal Investigation Zeros In On Brennan, Communications With Comey.  Brennan has been ordered to turn over to the DOJ prosecutor’s office all his emails, call logs, and other documents – most especially those with Obama FBI Director James Comey.  Nervous yet, guys?

The HFR can’t wait until Durham puts the squeeze on Clapper – as the bet is, he’s the one who’ll rat on the rest, turning state’s evidence to save his hide.  Enjoy the show.

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Now let’s turn to the Cartoon of the Year, the Explanation of It All:

Two stories this week bring this into tight focus.

Tuesday (12/17): New York’s Driver’s Licenses for Illegal Aliens Halts Verification of American Citizens’ Identities

Thursday (12/19): 2020 census: Surge in Immigrants to Take 24 House Seats from Trump States

The first highlights the Dems’ #1 goal of allowing illegal aliens to vote in 2020.  Realize there is a US federal law, signed by President Clinton in 1996 and never challenged: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), which has this provision:

“§ 611. Voting by aliens: (a) It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner”  

 And there is now the clear legal way to implement this law via The Real ID Act, a federal law that sets forth requirements for state driver’s licenses and ID cards to be accepted by the federal government for “official purposes”, as defined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.  Among them are a photo of the card holder and documented proof of US citizenship or legal status in the US.

The Real ID Act – Public Law 109-13 Title II Section 201 (3) – gives carte blanche to the DHS secretary to specify an “official purpose” for which this ID is required.  All POTUS has to do is order that voting in a federal election is such an official purpose, in compliance with the IIRIRA.

With that, Trump’s reelection is assured.

The second, however, highlights a lunacy in our laws – that all inhabitants of a state, legal or otherwise, must be counted in the Census taken every ten years, and that number determines how many Congressional seats that state gets.  How nuts is that?  It’s obviously illegal to do so, given that only US citizens can vote for Congresscritters per the IIRIRA.

That’s for SCOTUS to decide before 2024 with at least 2 more Trump Justices on the bench.  Right now, the critical issue is Trump submarining that Branco cartoon with the Real ID strategy above.

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It’s ROTFLMAO time!

Further proof that Leftist insanity has become truly bottomless: ACLU Calls for Tampons in Men’s Rooms in order to Achieve ‘Menstrual Equity’ (12/18).

Oh how the Leftist tears are flowing: UN Climate Summit in Madrid Ends in Failure (12/16).  Bitterest tears of all are those of that crazy Swedish teenager Time Mag thinks is so world important.

The Daily Mail reporting on the collapse observed:

“China and India, the world’s No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, meanwhile, have made it clear they see no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030.

 

These emerging giants have chosen instead to emphasize the historical responsibility of rich nations to lead the way and provide financing to poor countries.”

ROTFLMAO City.

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Now it’s MAGA time!

Public Lands Bureaucrats Are Quitting Because Trump Wants to Move the Agency from DC to Colorado (12/15).  The more the better – and the more federal agencies out of DC the better!

Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy Has Less than One Percent Asylum Grant Rate (12/16).

Six Million Off Food Stamps Under Trump (12/17).

Senate Confirms 13 More Trump Judicial Nominees, Reaching 187 Trump Judges for the Year (12/20).

New CNN Poll Finds Americans LOVE Trump’s Economy (12/20).  Yes this is CNN gnashing their teeth over this – especially as the poll was conducted Dec. 12-15, right during and just after the Dems were shampeaching POTUS.

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That’s a wrap, folks.  The Democrats have rapidly become the Party of Treason and Suicide.  Their addiction to TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome – is the cause of both.  We’ll leave the last word to TTPer Yasuhiko Kimura (TTP Forum 12/17):

President Trump is a full-fledged pretension and prevarication buster in all dimensions of human existence.

 

His enemies have nowhere else to go but either to the place of pseudo righteousness to attack him or to the place of real righteousness to be honest, truthful, and authentic.

 

The latter option is not open to most (if not all) of them because to become honest means to admit their own corruption with serious consequences or to reflect on themselves and their deeds, for which they lack the requisite ability–the intelligence and the awareness.

 

Therefore, this is the case of “having no option but”, which resembles the addictive behavior of an addict.