By Ewin James

The contemptible and baseless impeachment of President Donald Trump has more to do with what he represents for America than  with his character and conduct. As such it is a great crime against the people.

Trump won the election on November 8,  2016 and even before he was sworn in  promises were being made to impeach him, when he had had no time to commit the high crimes and misdemeanors, for which  the Constitution  provides for him to be impeached.  One person making the promises and  initiating  formal efforts to impeach  early  in 2017 is the hirsute Democratic Representative of Houston Texas, Al. Green.  

Maxine Waters, Democratic Representative of California,  also vowed to impeach and remove Trump;  and on March 21, 2017 she tweeted “get ready for impeachment”,  in reference to what she said was Trump’s collusion with Russia to win the election. 

To realize their goal Former FBI director Robert Mueller was appointed a special prosecutor to investigate alleged collusion between Donald Trump and Russia; his investigation began on  May 2017 and ended in  March 2019.  It cost taxpayers $25 million. What did it find? Nothing. No evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign to ‘steal’ the election as alleged. It found what many of us knew it would find: Russian interference  in American affairs which has been going on since the Bolshevik revolution in 1917.

But the rabid leftists and liberals aided by the media will not stop; and before the  the air was clear on the Mueller report, they came up with another fabrication: Abuse of Power. This  relates to a congratulatory phone call Trump had with  new Ukrainian president, Voldyormyr  Zelensky, in which Trump congratulated him on his victory at the polls and mentioned  many matters of interest to both countries.  Then Trump, according to a record of the transcript of the cal ( which is all those calling for Trump’s head have),  not a verbatim account , Trump said  “I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,”   

Democrats, the Media and Trump haters say this is the smoking gun for it is proof of Trump  abusing his office and  asking a foreign power to investigate an opponent in the 2020 election, Joe Biden.  It is quid Pro Quo.  Then Trump says, “The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,” Trump adds. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it… It sounds horrible to me”.

Biden’s younger son Hunter,  who had no experience in energy matters joined the board  of a Ukrainian company , called Burisma while his Father was vice President and made substantial sums of money for doing so.  

During Trump’s call to Zelensky there was no mention of any threat to investigate the Biden’s or else, or money promised wouldn’t be released;  no mention about the 2020 election;  and there was no pressure to do anything  to the Bidens ,except to look into the matter. This, Trump as  President, was more than entitled to  do  in light of corruption in Ukraine.

Yet this is said to be proof that Trump was using his office  to have a foreign power, ‘ dig up dirt’ on an opponent in the 2020 election; and  that doing  so rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors for which he must be removed from office.

What a joke. What all this comes down to is sheer bitterness that Hillary did not win the election which she and her supporters and liberals believed they had ‘ in the bag’, but lost  to  an outsider and a businessman, who isn’t part of the Washington establishment and who doesn’t give a fig leaf  about what it thinks of him. To inflame them all he  has vowed to change things, ‘drain the swamp’ as he calls it  in furtherance of the interests of the people of this country.  And  he retaliates, when attacked, unlike other Republican Presidents who took their assaults from the liberal media, leftists and the Washington establishment meekly.  

You would think that Donald Trump would be distracted and be unable to accomplish what he promised to do. He isn’t; and what he has done for his country in the short time in office is more than  most if not all Presidents have done in the same period of time.

Let me recite a few.  Almost 4 million jobs have been created since he took office, bringing  the number of  Americans employed the highest in the country’s  history. Some of these jobs  have been created because investors from outside returned to do business in America.  Barack Obama said  this would never happen. 

Economic growth last quarter was  4.2 percent.  Almost 4 million Americans are off food stamps, compared to the Obama years when 15 million Americans went on food stamps. The Obamacare Individual Mandate which forced people to buy insurance or be penalized, has been abolished.  And of course the threat of terrorism from ISIS which mushroomed under Obama has been virtually eliminated . There are many more but space won’t permit their mention.   

Now for anyone to want to impeach a President who has done so much for his country in such a short time is to either not  care about the welfare of his fellow countrymen, or be so rabid to impeach that it has driven him insane..

Ewin James, is a freelance journalist living in Florida