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Mises Institute, February 20, 2021\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Biggest Lies of the Impeachment Saga<\/a><\/h2>\n
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by<\/span> James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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The Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump confirms historian Henry Adams’s adage<\/a> a century ago that politics \u201chas always been the\u00a0systematic organization of hatreds.\u201d The impeachment process was a farce that should fortify Americans\u2019 disdain for Washington. Considering how Democrats are using the January 6 clash at the Capitol to justify enacting a new domestic terrorism law, Americans need to recognize the frauds that permeated this process from the start.<\/p>\n

At last week\u2019s trial, House impeachment manager Jaime Raskin (D-MD) boasted<\/a> to the Senate, \u201cI think we have done an exceedingly\u00a0thorough and comprehensive job\u00a0with all the evidence that was available.\u201d But the House Democrats did not bother accumulating evidence before the trial. Instead, House impeachment managers showed up at the Senate with video clips and tweets and a bunch of overheated rhetoric and thought that should suffice. House impeachment manager Ted Lieu summarized<\/a> the proceedings: \u201cTrump\u00a0is receiving any and all process\u00a0that he is due.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly before the Senate was expected to cast the final vote on the trial, Raskin announced that the House team wanted to call an actual witness. Democratic senators first voted to call witnesses and then, a couple of hours later, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced that, instead of witnesses, they would simply add\u00a0one news article based on hearsay<\/a>\u00a0to the official record. Unfortunately, the only laughter that erupted on the Senate floor occurred when Trump\u2019s lawyer threatened to summon witnesses for depositions to his law office in \u201cPhilly-delphia.\u201d (His house\u00a0was vandalized after the<\/a>\u00a0trial ended.)<\/p>\n

The formal article of impeachment condemned Trump for inciting supporters who \u201cunlawfully breached and vandalized the Capitol, injured and killed law enforcement personnel.\u201d House manager Representative\u00a0David Cicilline (D-RI) condemned<\/a> \u201cthe violent insurrectionists,\u00a0criminals who killed\u00a0and injured police officers.\u201d Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the House Democratic Caucus chair, declared, \u201cBlood is on the hands<\/a>\u00a0of every single House Republican sycophant.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the murder allegation is collapsing. Even CNN admitted that prosecutors seeking to build a murder case on Sicknick\u2019s demise were \u201cvexed by a lack of evidence.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0Capitol policeman Brian Sicknick died a day after the clash but his\u00a0demise is shrouded in secrecy<\/a>. He was apparently fine after engaging with protestors but reportedly suffered a stroke the next day. The Capitol Police have refused to release his autopsy report and his body was quickly cremated. Some accounts have suggested that Sicknick died after being\u00a0exposed to bear spray or pepper spray<\/a>. If so, his death is a tragic result of the clashes that day. But police\u00a0regularly spray peaceful<\/a>\u00a0protestors with pepper spray\u00a0or other nasty substances<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Politicians have sanctified themselves by wildly exaggerating the threat they faced on January 6. Raskin wailed<\/a> to the Senate: \u201cAll around me, people\u00a0were calling their wives\u00a0and their husbands, their loved ones to say goodbye.\u201d\u00a0Representative\u00a0Cicilline declared<\/a>, \u201cSenators, remember, as one of you said, during this attack, they\u00a0could have killed us\u00a0all\u2014our staff, the officers protecting all of us, everyone.\u201d\u00a0Representative\u00a0Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared<\/a>, \u201cWe came close to half of the\u00a0House nearly dying\u201c from the attackers. But no members of Congress suffered any physical harm.<\/p>\n

The only person who was shot at the Capitol that day was Ashli Babbitt, a thirty-five-year-old Air Force veteran; she was\u00a0killed by a Capitol policeman at point-blank range. The most flagrant \u201cweapon\u201d case involving protestors was that of sixty-year-old Richard Barnett, who achieved notoriety after being photographed with his feet on Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s desk. Barnett faces a felony weapons charge and ten years in prison for carrying with him a ZAP Hike ‘n\u00a0Strike walking stick\/stun gun\u00a0that Amazon sells for $98<\/a>. (Barnett would have been outgunned by the two thousand Capitol Police officers carrying Glocks\u00a0with twenty-two rounds.) Barnett, like many other protestors, is being legally scourged for his bad attitude. Barnett was ordered jailed until trial later this year, in part because federal judge Beryl Howell was enraged that Barnett told a reporter he had \u201cscratched my balls<\/a>\u201c in Pelosi\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

January 6 also quickly metamorphosed into epic comparisons to fan national outrage. Schumer compared that ruckus to Pearl Harbor\u2014a \u201cday of infamy.\u201d<\/strong> Schumer complained<\/a> that the \u201ctemple to democracy\u00a0was desecrated \u2026 our offices vandalized.\u201d Senator\u00a0Cory Booker (D-NJ) compared<\/a> an incursion that broke some windows and furniture with\u00a0the 1814 British invasion\u00a0that torched the Capitol. But most of the eight hundred protestors and others who entered the Capitol left peacefully after a few hours. As journalist Michael Tracey quipped<\/a>, \u201cWho knew it was so easy\u00a0to squash an \u2018armed insurrection\u2019\u2014just announce a curfew and most of the \u2018insurrectionists\u2019 will voluntarily abide.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumer claimed<\/a> that Trump\u2019s \u201cincitement\u201d of the January 6 protestors was \u201cthe most\u00a0despicable act\u00a0that any president has ever committed.\u201d This is \u201cTrump-washing\u201d all of the prior official crimes in American history. From President Andrew Jackson\u2019s Trail of Tears\u00a0to President Woodrow Wilson imposing Jim Crow on a federal basis and dishonestly dragging the nation into World War I, to President Harry Truman unnecessarily dropping atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, to President Lyndon Johnson dishonestly dragging this nation far deeper into a Vietnam quagmire, to President George W. Bush dishonestly launching the Iraq War, there have been far more damaging presidential abuses of power than sometimes reckless Trump\u2019s blather.<\/p>\n

Democrats are also exploiting the January 6 Capitol clash to sanctify the\u00a02020\u00a0presidential election<\/strong>. House impeachment manager Madeleine Dean (D-PA) declared<\/a>, \u201cTrump\u2019s conduct over many months incited his supporters to believe his big lie, that the only way he could lose\u00a0was if the election\u00a0were rigged.\u201d Schumer hit the same point, deriding Trump<\/a> for a telling \u201ca\u00a0big lie that the election\u00a0was stolen and that he was the rightful winner.\u201d House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared<\/a> that Republican members of Congress who refused to\u00a0ratify the Electoral College\u00a0results \u201cgave aid and comfort to [protestors] with the idea that they were embracing a lie\u2014that the election did not have legitimacy.\u201d But if only traitors would not vote to ratify the Electoral College results, why did the Founding Fathers include that safeguard in the Constitution? And was Raskin guilty of treason when he\u00a0challenged Electoral College<\/a>\u00a0votes for Donald Trump in 2017?<\/p>\n

Schumer also denounced<\/a> Trump for having \u201cinspired, directed, and propelled a mob to violently \u2026\u00a0subvert the will of the people.\u201d This sounds like the ultimate heresy in a democracy. Since November, the \u201cwill of the people<\/a>\u201d\u00a0has been one of the most popular themes for Democrats. But where was\u00a0the \u201cwill of the people\u201d discovered<\/a>? At the bottom of an unmanned mystery ballot\u00a0drop box in Kenosha, Wisconsin<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2020 election was determined in part by the novel doctrine that verifying ballots was a crime against democracy.<\/strong> Biden won thanks to fewer than fifty thousand votes in a small number of swing states that abandoned many of the existing safeguards for ballots, including most of the security procedures for absentee or mail-in ballots. The attorney general for Texas complained in a brief to the Supreme Court about the\u00a0\u201cunconstitutional relaxation<\/a>\u00a0of ballot-integrity protections in [Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania] election laws.\u201d The Supreme Court did not take that case but that was no endorsement of last year\u2019s electoral reforms. Though most of the media acts as if all the issues regarding the 2020 election are long since settled, legal disputes continue. On January 27, a Virginia circuit court struck down<\/a> a late rule change by the Virginia Board of Elections\u00a0permitting the counting of mail-in\u00a0ballots that arrived three days after the election without a postmark. Similar arbitrary decrees happened across the country, probably spurring far more dubious votes than in prior elections. None of this proves the election was actually stolen, but there are plenty of legitimate questions about the electoral conduct of numerous state governments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats are seeking to use last year\u2019s electoral innovations as the model to impose sweeping federal mandates on every state election system in the nation. H.R. 1, the \u201cFor the People Act of 2021,\u201d would compel\u00a0all<\/a>\u00a0states to rely on mass mail-in ballots and other \u201creforms\u201d justified last year in part due to the covid pandemic.<\/p>\n

But Democrats\u2019 disdain for verifying votes\u2019 intent has a gaping loophole.<\/strong> Apparently citizens are much more trustworthy when they conferring political power than when they seek to revoke it. Californians are launching a massive effort to recall Democratic governor\u00a0Gavin Newsom. Richard Grenell, one of the likely Republican gubernatorial challengers, scoffed on Twitter<\/a> on Friday: \u201cSuddenly, California\u00a0officials\u00a0want aggressive signature verifications<\/a>. The hypocrisy with politicians is a sickness\u201d (link added).<\/p>\n

Perhaps the biggest danger from the impeachment saga is that Democrats will exploit the outrage they are fanning to enact a new catch-all \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d la<\/strong>w. Biden denounced the January 6 protestors as\u00a0\u201cdomestic terrorists<\/a>\u201d\u2014a theme echoed and expanded by many of his Democratic colleagues. Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) suggested<\/a> that it was \u201ctime to call Republicans\u00a0the terrorist right.\u201d Since there are already plenty of federal laws to prosecute the minority of protestors who assaulted police, why do we need a new law? Former representative\u00a0Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) warned that proposed new terrorism legislation could target anyone who happens \u201cto be a white person, obviously likely male, libertarians,\u00a0anyone who loves freedom<\/a>, liberty, maybe has an American flag outside their house, or people who, you know, attended a Trump rally.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the Senate\u2019s failure to convict Trump, hatred and rage will continue to permeate Washington. The latest impeachment saga simply confirms Thomas Paine\u2019s adage<\/a>: \u201cThe trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the\u00a0most rascally individuals<\/a>\u00a0of mankind.\u201d Score: another victory for the Swamp.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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