SEND IN THE CLOWNS!

One thing is beyond obvious. Donald Trump is out of office and is not a threat to anyone.  Yet Democrats remain on a mission to destroy him. “Why?” While some celebrities in Hollywood are predictably cheering, most normal people are not. They just want to move on. They want the Democrats who now control the House, Senate, and the White House to do something. They want them to do something to stop COVID 19. They want to see the economy recover. And most important, they want to return to normal. They want to visit friends and relatives, go to sporting events and concerts and even eat indoors at a restaurant. They want to look around and see people’s faces, without terrified eyes peering out over worthless masks. They want to stop living in fear. Everyone wants this. If Democrats governed effectively and fixed things, they would get support even from skeptical Republicans. However, that is the least likely outcome.

Instead they are impeaching Donald Trump. At best, this is a big distraction when they can least afford it. It is always hard to discern rational thinking by people who are thinking and acting irrationally. But something is influencing them to so this, so here are my best guesses regarding motivation.

DISTRACTION

Democrats know that Joe Biden is a disaster as a President. They know everything is going to get worse and he has no workable plans to fix anything. So impeaching Trump is a way to distract from the obvious. It is basically a continuation of the last four years, blaming everything on Donald Trump.

FEAR

Democrats fear Donald Trump. They fear him running again. They fear him leading a political campaign aimed at them. They desperately want to silence him, permanently. The opposite of love is not hated it is apathy, but the opposite of confidence is definitely fear.

STUPIDITY

As I have written before, never assume malice where mere incompetence is a satisfactory explanation. Those who already believe things that are clearly not true are fully capable of believing that Trump really tried to incite an insurrection based on lies about the last election.

HATRED

They may just hate Donald Trump this much. They may want to see him destroyed without regard to the consequences. This hatred may blind them to the consequences. They fail to realize that hating him only fuels his power.

The only thing certain is that they are not doing the right thing, for the right reason. That is something they would never even consider.

THE FACTS

They are impeaching Donald Trump, for something that is clearly not true in a futile attempt to remove him from an office he no longer holds. Regardless of why, this is definitely a fool’s errand. Here is a link to the Article of Impeachment.  You can read it for yourself:

READ: House article of impeachment against Donald Trump – CNNPolitics

They want us to believe that Trump was inciting violence against the Government of the United States by repeatedly issuing false claims that the Presidential election results were the product of widespread fraud. This obviously means that the most logical defense for Donald Trump is to prove that there is evidence that the election was the product of widespread fraud. This impeachment trial, if it even happens, will give Donald Trump and his legal counsel an opportunity to make his case for election fraud to the entire country, something that has not happened before. Contrary to what you hear on CNN, he has a lot of evidence.

He is also accused of saying: “if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” This sounds bad, until you realize almost every politician talks about fighting like hell for something. No one really believes this means storming the U.S. Capital.

They also claim that these words incited the crowd to invade the Capital. This is just plain silly, because the riots were planned in advance and Trump was over ½ mile away and he wasn’t even done speaking when this happened.  Even CNN admitted that. Plus, Trump told them to walk over there peacefully and patriotically. That is hardly a call for insurrection.

Finally, they include his call with the Georgia Secretary of State and predictably take what he said completely out of context. How, exactly, would that be inciting insurrection? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This is how they tried to build a case for impeachment before. It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.

Look at the brilliant impeachment team appointed by Nancy Pelosi.  James Raskin, Dianne DeGette, David Cicilline, Joaquin Castro, Eric Swalwell, Ted Lieu, Stacy Plasket, Madeline Dean,  and Joe Neguse.  This is not exactly a panel of superstar attorneys, it is a class of clowns.

Trump on the other hand, hired Butch Bowers to lead his legal team. Butch Bower is a highly successful defense attorney. He is a stark contrast to the Democrats, who are prone to hyperbole and making ridiculous and unfounded accusations. He is known for his discretion.

To fight impeachment, Trump turns to ‘Butch’ Bowers, a South Carolina lawyer at a small firm who has defended state Republicans – The Washington Post

Lawyers are taught that if they have the facts, to hammer the facts, if they have a hated opponent, pound the opponent, and if they have neither, just pound. The Democrats will pound Donald Trump because they have no facts. They are likely to embarrass themselves because they are dealing with an attorney who will not take the bait but will focus solely on the facts and the evidence. Bowers is exactly the kind of attorney you want if you have all the facts and the law on your side. The house impeachment managers are the kind of attorneys you want if you have no case at all and hope to distract the jury with noise.

Democrats have sent in the clowns, but this clown show will not be funny. There is zero chance Trump will be convicted by the Senate. If the Trump legal team provides convincing evidence that this election was stolen this will be a huge unforced error. In addition, clown shows always do a good job of self-identifying clowns.

The only thing that could save the clowns is if Republicans in the Senate manage to shut down the clown show before it begins. As for me, let the show begin. I will just order popcorn, sit back and enjoy.

TDM