Op-ed:

The Constitutional Equation of Acquittal 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio 

President Donald J. Trump is now almost two weeks out from rightfully being acquitted of both charges the House Democrats leveled against him...abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. And while Democrats are not happy about this we Republicans, Conservatives, and a growing number of Independents are. And it's not just because President Trump was acquitted, but because the Constitution has proven to work as well today as it did back when our Founders and Framers put pen to paper and started writing one of history's greatest documents...a document that started with but three simple words...“We the People.” 

“We the People”...probably the most three important words ever ascribed to a nation for with the words “We the People”...as in our nation's citizens collectively united as one people...we citizens became tasked with giving what became our government their powers, not the other way around, as well as assuring that said government would meet “We the People's” needs before their own. Also, with those three words came the monumental responsibility of making sure our nation stayed the constitutional republic our Founders and Framers intended her to be for this uniquely American document along with Magna Carta...the British document signed at Runnymede in 1215 which established a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges....have stood the test of time as being the greatest of all contributions to what's known as “the science of government,”...as in the science of politics which dictates that government is necessary for the existence of civilized society.  

And while the Constitution and the Magna Carta differ in many ways, the shared goal of both was to create a government that would, above all else, meet the needs of the people not the needs of the government per se. And it's in the very phraseology of needs where the Democrats took it upon themselves to not only put their needs and wants over that of “We the People,” but where they unilaterally took it upon themselves to supercede both the words and intent of the Constitution by not just trying to remove a duly elected sitting president from office, but by trying to negate “We the People's” actual vote for said president. 

And by House Democrats using the words “abuse of” and “obstruction of” in their impeachment charges what they did was take the actual charges constitutionally allowed for impeaching a president and manipulate them to meet not the needs of “We the People,' but to try and fit the needs of their partisan driven political agenda alone. In other words, the “abuse of” came not from President Trump but from the Democrats themselves. And this manipulation of words applies to their “obstruction of ” charge as well.  

How so? Lets start with the fact that neither charge is in the Constitution. Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution clearly states that the, “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” but nowhere does it state “abuse of” or “obstruction of” anything as being impeachable offenses. And why not...because our Founders and Framers were wise enough to know that both “abuse of” and “obstruction of” something to one person or one party might not be “abuse of” or “obstruction of” to another person or party.  

In other words, both phrases are but subjective in nature being but one's person's or one's party's personal opinion or thoughts alone. Translation: “abuse of” or “obstruction of” simply does not meet the Constitution's legal definition of impeachable offenses. Treason and bribery are clear cut charges, and while “other high crimes and misdemeanors” are open to a modicum of conjecture of sorts, the charges of “abuse of” and “obstruction of” still cannot legally fit into impeachable parameters. 

And again why not? While many Democrats want to believe that impeachment charges can be brought against a sitting president via whatever interpretation of the Constitution the majority of the House wishes to make, that simply is not true as it would have the president serving at “the pleasure of Congress” instead of his being the titular head of our government as well as its commander-in-chief.

For Democrats, especially for Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and Jerry Nadler, word semantics now comes into play for while the Constitution states that the president has to have committed certain indictable crimes...treason and bribery for example...in order to be impeached and thus removed from office, Article III § 2 (3) of the Constitution clearly states that "the trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury" ...which regarding impeachment is decided by the Senate. And these words are important because the Democrats treated President Trump's impeachment as a criminal offense...a “high crime” if you will...yet no specific indictable or constitutionally impeachable crime was actually named in their Articles of Impeachment.  

Remember, while President Trump was accused in the House of having sought help from Ukraine's government to get re-elected by his having held back millions of dollars of military aid earmarked for Ukraine...which if proven true would have met the constitutionally indictable charge of bribery and given some credence to the Democrats call for impeachment...bribery was never proven because it never happened. So, the Democrats just made up the charge of “abuse of power” hoping it would fit, nevermind that said charge is never mention in the Constitution as an indictable offense.  

And yet the Democrats pushed forward anyway and turned to the word “misdemeanor” in the hopes that it could at least pick up where the “high crime” of bribery failed. But the word “misdemeanor”...a criminal offense less serious than a felony but more serious than a mere infraction...was also not defined in the Constitution meaning it too had to morph into the constitutionally undefined catchall phrase of “abuse of power.”  

And the Democrats did so again with their second charge of “obstruction of Congress,” which also is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution. Claiming President Trump “obstructed Congress” by his refusing to provide asked for documents to congressional investigators and by his having instructed top advisers and government officials to defy subpoenas and refuse to testify. But what the Democrats still don't get is that you cannot make up a catchall phrase just because you want a president you don't like removed from office, especially when using words that are not in the Constitution. Besides, the only “obstructing of Congress” that was done was the House's denying President Trump “due process” as well as denying him his right to face his accuser...in this case whistleblower Eric Ciaramella.  

But the bottom line here is that when something does not meet the constitutional definition for impeachment and/or removal from office, the Republican controlled Senate did the right thing in voting to acquit President Trump of both the “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress” charges. Remember, while Republican Senators did abide by the Constitution as written...save for Mitt Romney of course...the Democrats in both the Senate and the House did not as they consider the Constitution to be an outdated, no longer relevant document.  

So, while President Donald J. Trump was rightfully acquitted of both charges and remains in office...and will for another four years come the November election very much to the Democrats chagrin...there does remain a guilty party in this impeachment mess. And the guilty party is both the leaders in the Democrat controlled House and their fellow Democrat congresspeople who voted to impeach based solely upon partisan politics, a need for revenge, and most importantly upon unproven accusations and knowingly what are unconstitutional charges.  

In fact, House Democrats themselves are guilty of the very charge they accused President Trump of...as in “abuse of power.” How so? According to Constitutional law expert Randy Barnett, "The legislature can abuse power. That is one of the reasons we have judicial review — to ensure that the legislature has not exceeded its proper powers — as it did, for example, when it passed the Affordable Care Act pursuant to its Commerce Clause power." 

Basically, a judicial review was actually what the Senate trial was...a balance of power check of the House Democrats if you will...the very folks whom Barnett said had "clearly misbehaved" and "abused their impeachment power." How so...by their ramming through of knowingly false allegations of wrongdoing against President Trump while at the same time denying the president not only his right to due process but by actually blocking both his and his defense team from presenting their facts as well as corroborating witnesses. So what the House Democrats and specifically Adam Schiff did was prevent President Trump from legally defending himself. 

And why did the Democrats have to prevent President Trump from defending himself...because they knew all the way back to the day when impeachment was but a glimmer in Adanm Schiff's eyes that there was no constitutional grounds whatsoever for impeachment. The Democrats in the House even knew that we Republicans and Conservatives knew what they were attempting was in actuality a political coup masquerading in the guise of impeachment...basically using impeachment as their excuse to do over what they failed to do with the Mueller investigation. 

And the Democrats had to know that with their case being weak from the beginning coupled with their having almost no legal merits by which to push said case forward, that their only chance of removing Trump from office was to have the House prosecution present a case not based upon the law as set down in the Constitution but upon false accusations, lies, innuendos, and what if scenarios...in addition to the only witnesses allowed to testify being but obviously bought-and-paid for partisan shills who testified via second and third hand hearsay information alone. 

So while many on our side of the political aisle will still talk about the Democrats predetermined outcome hiding within the anything but impartial House hearing coupled with how Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and Chuck Schumer are all still crying in their rightfully shared politically stained hankie....I say it's time to let all that go and that instead what we on the right should talk about is how with the Senate following the rules of law as set down in the Constitution not only acquitted President Trump but proved once again to “We the People” that the Constitution itself is anything but the outdated, irrelevant document that the Democrats want us to believe it is.  

Once again, November 3, 2020 cannot come soon enough.

Copyright @ 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.  

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Op-ed:
Pack Up The Impeachment Tent...The Show's Over...Maybe 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Well it's finally over...for now anyway...as we all know the 'I' word will soon start surfacing again what with some key Democrats saying they do not accept last Wednesday's Senate vote to acquit. And if on the outside chance the 'I' word does lay low for awhile know it will rear its ugly head late on Tuesday night, November 3rd, when Donald J. Trump officially wins his second term in office...a win that will probably be the biggest landslide in decades. And as an added bonus I bet the Republicans will not only keep but increase their numbers in the Senate and take back the House as well. And the direct cause of the Democrats going “splat” lays directly at the feet of acquittal deniers Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and of course Chuck Schumer...the Senate minority leader caught on tape during the Senate impeachment phase talking to no one as he shooed said no one out of his designated Senate chair.*

Read entire article and see videos here: https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2020/02/op-ed-pack-up-impeachment-tent.html

Op-ed:
Pack Up The Impeachment Tent...The Show's Over...Maybe 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Well it's finally over...for now anyway...as we all know the 'I' word will soon start surfacing again what with some key Democrats saying they do not accept last Wednesday's Senate vote to acquit. And if on the outside chance the 'I' word does lay low for awhile know it will rear its ugly head late on Tuesday night, November 3rd, when Donald J. Trump officially wins his second term in office...a win that will probably be the biggest landslide in decades. And as an added bonus I bet the Republicans will not only keep but increase their numbers in the Senate and take back the House as well. And the direct cause of the Democrats going “splat” lays directly at the feet of acquittal deniers Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and of course Chuck Schumer...the Senate minority leader caught on tape during the Senate impeachment phase talking to no one as he shooed said no one out of his designated Senate chair.*

Seeing imaginary vote tampering Russians I guess.

But going “splat” actually puts it mildly as the Democrats went into full meltdown mode as soon as their Senate demand to hear from those whom they considered to be key witnesses was formally voted down. Well, actually they started their meltdown even before the final gavel on the House hearings signaled the end was near for when one holds an inquiry made up solely of partisan shills masquerading as witnesses minus the promised but never delivered whistleblower who set this entire nonsense into motion..as in (shhh) Eric Ciaramella...the Democrats had to know that their case against President Trump would go nowhere in the Senate. And sometimes going nowhere comes at a very high cost...a cost “We the People” had to foot the bill for courtesy of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

And the cost for the Democrat-led House inquiry alone cost “We the People” over three and half million of our hard earned taxpayer dollars which when broken down was mostly used to pay the salaries of the 106 congressional staffers from the House Intelligence Committee, the Judiciary Committee, and the Oversight and Reform Committee...clerical staffers working on impeachment from the end of September to mid-December. And that dollar amount also includes having to pay the hourly fees for the Democrats six anything but unbiased supposed Constitutional attorneys who appeared during the House hearings.

Our taxpayer dollars so not well spent as the Democrats knew even before they called for President Trump's impeachment that while they could impeach him in their Democrat controlled House, they would never see him removed from office in the Republican controlled Senate. Simply, the Democrats knew from day one that in the end Trump would be acquitted, and yet revenge coupled with hatred for our president led them ever forward.

And while President Trump was rightfully acquitted in the end...rightfully acquitted as in not guilty, as in not removed from office...know that the Democrats call for impeachment was built neither upon a foundation of facts or even upon Constitutionally sound impeachable offenses but upon a foundation of hurt feelings, nonacceptance of election results, and the delusions of losers who have yet to realize that their time in the political spotlight was and remains over. The once honorable party of JFK has been hijacked by a new breed of young Democrats... Democrat-Socialists they call themselves...Democrats so far to the left that they're no longer recognizable to the Democrat party's old establishment guard.

Nevertheless, the Democrat old guard caved one by one, leaving moderation and bipartisanship behind, with their party and its legacy now laying in ruins after having cast aside the law that is the Constitution. And they did so while embracing supposition, hearsay, and lies all in an effort to negate the results of an election that took place nearly four years ago...all in an effort to try and remove a duly elected man from office who denied the “anointed one” his defacto third term in office courtesy of his pulling what would have been Hillary Clinton's presidential strings.

And that folks is the truth...the whole truth and nothing but the truth...behind what in reality remains a Democrat attempted political coup.

And that truth coalesced into one simple fact...fact...not supposition, hearsay or party infused lies...as Adam Schiff and crew presenting their case for impeachment with events so not truthfully told that at times said events were simply made up to fit their overtly anti-Trump agenda. Now add that fact into the package of what were carefully orchestrated and rehearsed discovery processes held behind closed doors; partisan witnesses spewing hyperbole, pure nonsensical innuendos, lies, and what ifs; and top it all off with a neat little partisan blue bow and “We the People” were delivered a package that helped to perpetrate Adam Schiff's fantasy vision of what he determined should be the ultimate payback for the Democrats not attaining their sought after prize...the White House.

But unfortunately, Adam Schiff was and still is not alone in his continuing to wear on his sleeve his all-consuming hatred for President Trump for again entering into the political fray...not that she ever really left it...is House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi...the very woman who first was against impeachment unless it was bipartisan before she was for it...bipartisanship now be damned. That is she was for it only after the likes of “the squad”...and maybe even aforementioned wannabe third-term denied defacto president Barack HUSSEIN Obama...got to her.

Got to her indeed for Nancy Pelosi not only shared Adam Schiff's thoughts about President Trump but also shared his delusions regarding the House impeachment process itself. In fact, Pelosi had been spewing all over the bought and paid for liberal media that, "Once a president is impeached, he's impeached for life," always forgetting that once a president is acquitted in the Senate that he is acquitted...as in found not guilty...for life as well...and that said acquittal is historically more important than the accusations made.

And know that Adam Schiff saw himself as being the Democrats knight in shining armor who would right the 2016 election's wrongs forgetting, just like Pelosi did, the fact that he never would be the decider of Trump's fate. But while Schiff thankfully failed in his quest some heroes did emerge during the Senate phase one being Sen. Rand Paul. After his question was denied by Chief Justice John Roberts during the Q and A portion of the Senate trial because it mentioned the whistleblower's name, Rand Paul cleverly used the period reserved for senators impeachment speeches to read aloud the name Eric Ciaramella...the Obama planted little weasel who first brought President Trump's supposedly unlawful conduct regarding Ukraine to the public's attention.

But to the Democrats chagrin most Republicans did not care that Rand Paul said whisttleblower's Eric Ciaramella's name because Paul also made it clear that while he supports protections against reprisal for whistleblowers he said that whistleblowers do not necessarily deserve anonymity. And I agree with Rand Paul as seeking anonymity means one does not have the courage to stand by their convictions let alone stand by their accusations made. Anonymity also means denying the accused the right to face their accuser and besides, Constitutional law itself does not “preserve anonymity.” Kudos to Rand Paul on this one.

So while in the end the House impeached President Trump...impeached him in a mostly party line vote after a partisan rigged denial of “due process”...Republicans in the Senate again stood strong with President Trump... except for Mitt Romney that is.

Now a pariah within his own party and rightfully so, Romney threw the law of the Constitution aside and actually admitted he cast his vote to convict President Trump of abuse of power based solely upon his faith and conscience instead of on Constitutional law. But let's be honest here, religion and conscience has nothing to do with it for Mitt Romney cast said vote because he remains an angry and vindictive man...angry that he will never be president... vindictive against President Trump for some long ago tweets and his being passed over for Secretary of State. Now becoming the first U.S. Senator to vote to convict a president of his own party in an impeachment trial...especially doing so knowing of the unfair House events leading up to said trial...what Romney did with that vote was not just join the so-called “resistance” but for all intents and purposes put a 'D' next to his name.

So when the Senate vote was finally taken it too fell along party lines, save for Mitt Romney on charge one. And with that vote Mitt Romney has to know that any political relevance he once had is now gone, 

President Donald Trump not only remains in office but is now seeing his approval numbers climbing while Adam Schiff still bloviates about Trump selling Alaska and that any Senator who voted not to impeach “must be held accountable” for said vote...which sounds like a veiled threat to me.

And as expected the Democrats totally came unglued after the acquittal. Chuck Schumer called said acquittal “virtually valueless” and that “there's a giant asterisk next to the president's acquittal...because he was acquitted without a fair trial"...thus implying the House hearings were fair...while Nancy Pelosi accused both President Trump and Senate Republicans of having “normalized lawlessness and rejected the system of checks and balances." 

But what they say pales in comparison to the fallout the Democrat party itself is now facing with it having to pay the political price come November for not only wasting our taxpayer dollars on something they knew all along would never come to fruition, but who now see their party being truly divided. Too many establishment Democrats...especially those in red states...are more that a bit peeved with both Pelosi and Schiff for they know it's Democrats who will pay the price in the upcoming election simply because their party leaders would not stop this attempted political coup from going forward.

But thankfully, at least for now, impeachment is behind us...President Donald J. Trump remains president...Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, and Chuck Schumer have been exposed as the Constitutional anarchists that they really are, and Mitt Romney has sealed his political fate...what a sad end for a once honorable man. But why do I again say for now...because on the positive end if the Republicans do win back the House they will surely push for expungement of the books putting this impeachment nonsense to rest once and for all...while on the negative end House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler has stated that he will try to subpoena John Bolton to appear before the House.

These four Democrats refuse to let go as their hatred for this president knows no end leaving me to wonder just what did Hillary promise them if she had become president. But no matter for Donald Trump is and will remain our president until January 2025, meaning those in Congress need to get back to work and do the people's business otherwise get the hell out...it is as simple as that.
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* See Senate Minotity Leader Chuck Schumer talking to no one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWkCzRjdSSU

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article, The Real Reason Impeachment Failed.
 
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RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...LIVE!

Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 11th, from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'Pack Up The Impeachment Tent...The Show's Over...Maybe'; 'The Real Reason Impeachment Failed'; and important news of the day.

Hope you can tune in at: http://listen.samcloud.com/w/73891/American-Political-Radio#history...or on Tune-In at: https://tunein.com/radio/American-Political-Radio-s273246/