trump n proletariat

Isn't this a pickle.
My two cents worth.
The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is shenanigans.
Why has it happened?
Here's why.
The Democrats needed to shout loud in their attempts to label President Trump a criminal for asking the President of Ukraine to investigate the receipt of millions of dollars from Ukrainian gangster companies by former American President Barack Obama's former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter because otherwise the scandal du jour would become former American President Barack Obama's former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter receiving millions of dollars from Ukrainian gangster companies.
The Dems also needed to distract from any possible focussing of attention on the Bidens' similar influence peddling shakedown of Chinese government run corporations.
Murky waters, what!
In my opinion President Trump was entitled to ask the Ukrainians to investigate the actions of the Bidens in Ukraine and to do anything he liked as President to focus Ukraine's mind on the issues.
If American aid to Ukraine happened to get delayed, so be it.
There is no wrong doing whatsoever in President Trump asking the President of Ukraine to furnish any available information on the Biden family's association with Ukrainian gangsters and the Biden family's use of the Vice Presidency to obtain millions of dollars from Ukrainian gangsters.
Mr Trump's wrongdoing, if it exists, is all elsewhere
The Bidens' wrong doing is all in Ukraine (and China).
In the past, I have written somewhat harshly of President Trump. When he acceded to the Presidency I tended to accept the late Charles Krauthammer's analysis in toto that he wasn't fit for office but that he was entitled to a chance. Of course while wanting to give him a chance, I retained my own assessment that Mr Trump had Cosa Nostra Mafia associations, and that his election victory may not have been entirely oxo, and that his supposed ten billion dollar fortune amounts in reality to a little less than two hundred million.
Two hundred million bucks.
It's hardly even a good night out.
In examining his public life, I thought I sensed evil, rightly or wrongly, so I didn't really want to know him even when giving him a chance.
When Mr Trump came to power I was of the opinion that media professionals should set themselves the task of being scrupulously fair and scrupulously honest.
Most of the CNN, Sky News, New York Times crowd didn't bother with that but just went bald headed to bring Trump down.
The Democratic Party itself sought to bring him down in order to conceal the malefaction and incompetence of Barack Obama's presidency and the venal corruption of Barack's Vice President Joe Biden's billion dollar influence peddling on behalf of his son Hunter.
The media sought to bring Trump down because they always try to bring down Republican Presidents who are in office.
Slandering a Republican Administration is business as usual for them.
Although let's face it, their hatred for Trump is visceral.
Meanwhile I dismiss this week's smoking gun contribution to the impeachment shenanigans from Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton as the act of a man scorned.
I rate Bolton highly and I do not rate Trump at all, but Bolton is attempting to destroy Trump as revenge for the unseemly manner in which Trump fired him from the Administration, and Bolton should not be let succeed in enacting his revenge in this way.
If I remember correctly and I do, President Trump said at the time he fired Bolton: "John caused the Iraq war. That wasn't very good, was it?"
An utterly nonsensical insult and a red rag to a bull.
John Bolton, the bull in question, has now responded to the red rag.
He'll respond more if he gets the chance.
But his motive is spite.
Impeachment law has not been framed merely to satisfy personal vendettas.
Paradoxically, the impeachment shenanigans has brought more and more overt support for Donald Trump from those rare media commentators, the vaguely principled ones I used to actually like, to wit Mark Steyn, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham.
I have now gloomily fallen out with each of mssrs Steyn, Hannity, Coulter and Ingraham not for their support of Trump in this contrived impeachment shenanigans, but over their acquiescence to Trump's opportunistic electioneering vilifications of former President George W Bush's decisive actions in liberating Afghanistan and Iraq from the Taliban and Saddam Hussein murderocracies respectively.
Steyn, Hannity, Coulter and Ingraham seem to have forgotten their championing of President Bush from the year 2000 to 2008 simply because there's a new kid in town.
You don't send our troops to liberate, to suffer, to die and be maimed, and then say, oops, new election cycle, sorry guys, I've changed my mind about those particular wars because I like the cut of Trump's jib.
Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama both weasled their way into high office by vilifying President Bush, and both gave succour to the Jihadis in doing so.
The Jihadis haven't gone away you know.
So here we are.
Trump, the Bidens, Barack, the Dems, Steyn, Hannity, Coulter and Ingraham.
In some measure I've managed to fall out with them all.
There are no heroes in this story.
Except George W Bush.
And The American Army.
And me of course.


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Footnote 1: I still have respect for Sean Hannity because of his attempts in 2005 to save the life of Terry Schiavo whose husband having first assaulted her and left her in a coma (according to her family), then used the courts to complete his murder by forcing her family to desist from looking after her, and a hospital to cease feeding her.

Footnote 2: Last week President Trump became the first ever American President to have the cojones to attend the March For Life. He addressed the participants thusly: "Every single human being on this planet is made in the image and likeness of God." I was stunned.