Monday, September 30, 2019

Impeachment…or CIA Coup?

You don't need to be a supporter of President Trump to be concerned about the efforts to remove him from office.

Last week House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced impeachment proceedings against the President over a phone call made to the President of Ukraine.

According to the White House record of the call, the President asked his Ukrainian counterpart to look into whether there is any evidence of Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election and then mentioned that a lot of people were talking about how former US Vice President Joe Biden stopped the prosecution of his son who was under investigation for corruption in Ukraine.

In August 2016, a former acting director of the CIA, Mike Morell, wrote an extraordinary article in the New York Times accusing Donald Trump of being an "Agent of the Russian Federation." Morell was clearly using his intelligence career as a way of bolstering his claim that Trump was a Russian spy - after all, the CIA should know such a thing! But the claim was a lie.

Former CIA director John Brennan accused President Trump of "Treason" and of "Being in the pocket of Putin" for meeting with the Russian president in Helsinki and accepting his word that Russia did not meddle in the US election.

Now we hear that the latest trigger for impeachment is a CIA officer assigned to the White House who filed a "Whistleblower" complaint against the president over something he heard from someone else that the president said in the Ukraine phone call.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer once warned Trump that if "You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you." It's hard not to ask whether this is a genuine impeachment effortor a CIA coup!

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/september/30/impeachment-or-cia-coup/

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