by Frank Holmes reporter
Congressional Democrats are privately admitting their impeachment of Donald Trump has failed and they have no hope of removing the president from office—but the media are telling them not to give up so soon: Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
A “mainstream” media outlet is handing Democrats a way to steal the impeachment vote — and blame the whole anti-democratic charade on President Trump.
They can just refuse to tell people how senators vote… and claim that Donald Trump would kill people who vote against him!
The suggestion comes as Nancy Pelosi looks like she’s out of tricks. She refused to send the articles of impeachment to the Republican-controlled Senate, but that can’t last forever. So now, she has a brand new trick up her sleeve: Democrats know the Senate won’t impeach Trump as demanded by the Constitution — but they can win if they change the rules.
They plan to hold a secret vote on impeachment, so Democrats can pursue their unpopular impeachment push, and voters will never hold them accountable.
CNN floated the idea of hiding the impeachment vote from the American people in an op-ed on its website… and implied they needed secrecy because Donald Trump might have senators whacked like Tony Soprano.
“Anonymous juries are sometimes used in high-profile cases when retribution toward jurors is a possibility… for example, in the cases of crime bosses such as John Gotti and Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman,” CNN said. The Fake News outlet quoted Congressman Adam Schiff that Trump engaged in a “classic mafia-like shakedown.”
“There is little doubt that Trump would seek vengeance upon any Republican in the Senate choosing to vote for his removal,” it said.
CNN claims Don Trump is like a violent mob boss — so the Democrats have to conduct the entire impeachment in secret, with no due process for the president.
As crazy as the idea sounds, it actually came from a Never Trump Republican named Juleanna Glover in Politico.
Both parties in The Swamp have keyed I on a statement from former Trump-hating Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Flake, who said “at least 35” Republican senators would vote to remove Trump from office…but only in a secret vote.
CNN, Pelosi, and Glover want to make it happen.
“If they didn’t have to face backlash from constituents or the media or the president himself, who knows how many Republican senators would vote to remove?” Glover asks.
Glover was an adviser to RINOs John McCain and Jeb Bush—exactly the kind of elite insiders that Trump pushed out of the GOP leadership.
She admits that “a secret impeachment ballot might sound crazy, but it’s actually quite possible.”
“If only three Republican senators were to break from the caucus,” they “could demand a secret ballot.”
She claims a majority of senators can change Senate rules — like whether Senate votes are recorded. But the Constitution says the Senate needs 81 votes…she’s just ignoring it.
Conservatives say her proposal threatens the U.S. form of government.
“It is hard to describe just how terrible an idea this is,” wrote Jim Geraghty at National Review. “It would represent senators trying to avoid accountability for their votes.”
“The idea of senators being able to not tell the public how they voted — or to publicly claim they voted one way when they secretly voted the other — is unthinkable,” he wrote.
Imagine if Democrats made one additional change: Instead of a secret written vote, they would decide whether to remove an impeached president from office by a voice vote.
The Democrats have stolen voice votes in the past—like when they claimed Democratic Party delegates voted to add “God” back into their 2016 platform. The incensed delegates, who knew they didn’t vote for that, erupted in boos.
That’s why members of Congress are promising to hold the line.
Holding a voice vote on removing Trump from office is “not a real possibility,” Rep. Andy Biggs, R-A.Z., told Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” last week.
The only reason Democrats are contemplating such an unprecedented idea is that “they are so nervous on letting the truth come out.”
“That that’s why we started out, remember, in the secret chambers of the House, with Adam Schiff in closed-door meetings,” Rep. Biggs said. “They do not want this to come forward.”
But if their impeachment does come to the Senate, Democrats want to rig that vote, just like they tried to fiddle with the 2016 election.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”