{"id":8200,"date":"2019-12-27T09:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T16:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=8200"},"modified":"2020-01-03T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T07:44:31","slug":"bombshell-of-the-impeachment-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2019\/12\/bombshell-of-the-impeachment-hearings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Bombshell of the Impeachment Hearings \u2013 Article by Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRon Paul<\/strong><\/span>
\nDecember 27, 2019<\/span>
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The most shocking thing about the House impeachment hearings to this point is not a \u201csmoking gun\u201d witness providing irrefutable evidence of quid pro quo<\/em>. It\u2019s not that President Trump may or may not have asked the Ukrainians to look into business deals between then-Vice President Biden\u2019s son and a Ukrainian oligarch.<\/p>\n

The most shocking thing to come out of the hearings thus far is confirmation that no matter who is elected President of the United States, the permanent government will not allow a change in our aggressive interventionist foreign policy, particularly when it comes to Russia.<\/p>\n

Even more shocking is that neither Republicans nor Democrats are bothered in the slightest!<\/p>\n

Take Lt. Colonel Vindman, who earned high praise in the mainstream media. He did not come forth with first-hand evidence that President Trump had committed any \u201chigh crimes\u201d or \u201cmisdemeanors.\u201d He brought a complaint against the President because he was worried that Trump was shifting US policy away from providing offensive weapons to the Ukrainian government!<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t think the US president had the right to suspend aid to Ukraine because he supported providing aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

According to his testimony, Vindman\u2019s was concerned over \u201cinfluencers promoting a false narrative of Ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cConsensus views of the interagency\u201d is another word for \u201cdeep state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vindman continued, \u201cWhile my interagency colleagues and I were becoming increasingly optimistic on Ukraine\u2019s prospects, this alternative narrative undermined US government efforts to expand cooperation with Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let that sink in for a moment: Vindman did not witness any crimes, he just didn\u2019t think the elected President of the United States had any right to change US policy toward Ukraine or Russia!<\/p>\n

Likewise, his boss on the National Security Council Staff, Fiona Hill, sounded more like she had just stepped out of the 1950s with her heated Cold War rhetoric. Citing the controversial 2017 \u201cIntelligence Community Assessment\u201d put together by then-CIA director John Brennan\u2019s \u201chand-picked\u201d analysts, she asserted that, \u201cPresident Putin and the Russian security services aim to counter US foreign policy objectives in Europe, including in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

And who gets to decide US foreign policy objectives in Europe? Not the US President, according to government bureaucrat Fiona Hill. In fact, Hill told Congress that, \u201cIf the President, or anyone else, impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interests, that is more than worthy of your attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who was Fiona Hill\u2019s boss? Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, who no doubt agreed that the president has no right to change US foreign policy. Bolton’s the one who \u201cexplained\u201d that when Trump said US troops would come home it actually meant troops would stay put.<\/p>\n

One by one, the parade of \u201cwitnesses\u201d before House Intelligence Committee Chairman Schiff sang from the same songbook. As US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland put it, \u201cin July and August 2019, we learned that the White House had also suspended security aid to Ukraine. I was adamantly opposed to any suspension of aid, as the Ukrainians needed those funds to fight against Russian aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans in large majority voted to continue spying on the rest of us by extending the unpatriotic Patriot Act. Authoritarianism is the real bipartisan philosophy in Washington.<\/p>\n

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Ron Paul, MD, is a former three-time Republican candidate for U. S. President and Congressman from Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article is reprinted with permission from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ron Paul December 27, 2019 ********************************* The most shocking thing about the House impeachment hearings to this point is not a \u201csmoking gun\u201d witness providing irrefutable evidence of quid pro quo. It\u2019s not that President Trump may or may not have asked the Ukrainians to look into business deals between then-Vice President Biden\u2019s son and a Ukrainian oligarch. The most shocking thing to come out of the hearings thus far is confirmation that no matter who is elected President of…<\/p>\n

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