It's a strange thing. The Democrats mount offensive after offensive against Donald Trump and each time they shoot themselves in the foot. They just don't know when to stop. They always go to far. We had another of those moments last night on MSNBC. The big news from the left at the moment is that there's a witness, Lev Parnas, who supposedly has personal knowledge that President Trump knew that American government related operatives were pressuring Ukraine to announce an investigation into Joe Biden's conduct regarding the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor. If you think about this, it is hardly big news, but the media is treating it as if this is finally the smoking gun that will do in the President. Remember, the transcript of the phone call from Trump to Zelensky has the President suggesting Ukrainian help in an investigation of Ukrainian involvement in the US 2016 election and into Joe Biden. Obviously, Trump knew of investigative efforts involving Biden; he spoke about it in the phone call. In fact, the big hubbub about Parnas actually proves something that has been a problem for impeachment all along: the Dems produced not a single witness with alleged personal knowledge of Trump's involvement other than what was said on the phone call (which was hardly an impeachable offense.)
But back to going too far. The Parnas story is so big for the Democrats that Rachel Maddow made it into a two show interview to get the full story out. Rachel, who spend two and a half years presenting constant claims of proof of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign in 2016 only to have her fantasy stories destroyed by her hero Robert Mueller, is the poster child for Democrat overreach. Last night she focused with Parnas on the removal of Marie Yovanovich as US ambassador to Ukraine. Yovanovich was a prominent witness at the impeachment hearings even though she had left Ukraine long before the Trump-Zelensky phone call and had gotten to Ukraine long after Biden had the Ukrainian prosecutor fired in order to protect his son's company Burisma from corruption investigations. But none of that matters to Maddow. She went all in and had Parnas tell his story that he knew that the President had tried repeatedly to have Yovanovich fired only to have the Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor say no to that request.
Once again, it's time to take a step back. One does wonder how a foreign national knew what Trump was saying to Pompeo and Bolton and what their replies were. More important, if you think about the dynamic, you realize that this is a lie. The President says fire this ambassador but the Secretary of State say no? The National Security Adviser says no? Really? If the President wants an ambassador fired, his subordinates won't say no. And if the President says repeatedly he wants the ambassador fired, there's no way in the world that the subordinates would tell him no. So Parnas is now tied down in detail by Maddow in an obvious lie. They went too far. It's like Old Reliable. Every time, the just go too far.
But back to going too far. The Parnas story is so big for the Democrats that Rachel Maddow made it into a two show interview to get the full story out. Rachel, who spend two and a half years presenting constant claims of proof of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign in 2016 only to have her fantasy stories destroyed by her hero Robert Mueller, is the poster child for Democrat overreach. Last night she focused with Parnas on the removal of Marie Yovanovich as US ambassador to Ukraine. Yovanovich was a prominent witness at the impeachment hearings even though she had left Ukraine long before the Trump-Zelensky phone call and had gotten to Ukraine long after Biden had the Ukrainian prosecutor fired in order to protect his son's company Burisma from corruption investigations. But none of that matters to Maddow. She went all in and had Parnas tell his story that he knew that the President had tried repeatedly to have Yovanovich fired only to have the Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor say no to that request.
Once again, it's time to take a step back. One does wonder how a foreign national knew what Trump was saying to Pompeo and Bolton and what their replies were. More important, if you think about the dynamic, you realize that this is a lie. The President says fire this ambassador but the Secretary of State say no? The National Security Adviser says no? Really? If the President wants an ambassador fired, his subordinates won't say no. And if the President says repeatedly he wants the ambassador fired, there's no way in the world that the subordinates would tell him no. So Parnas is now tied down in detail by Maddow in an obvious lie. They went too far. It's like Old Reliable. Every time, the just go too far.
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