by Frank Holmes, reporter
Joe Biden became the Democratic frontrunner on Super Tuesday, but his former Democratic rivals accuse him of staging a “coup.”
And President Donald Trump agrees, saying Biden has committed an impeachable offense.
Biden scored big on Tuesday night after two other presidential contenders — former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar — to drop out of the race and endorse him in his bid to beat Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Democratic Party officials are worried stiff that if the far-left socialist wins the nomination, President Donald Trump will roll over him in a landslide.
“We do not in our party want to just eek by a victory. We want to win big and Joe Biden can do that,” Klobuchar said.
Former presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke joined them on stage, as well.
“Democracy is under attack here and aboard,” he said. “We need Joe Biden.”
Members of both parties said democracy is under attack — but President Donald Trump is saying it’s under attack from Biden and the Democratic establishment.
“I think it’s rigged against Bernie,” Trump said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the eve of the Super Tuesday vote.
Klobuchar, Buttigieg, Beto, and Biden “made a deal,” said Trump … who literally wrote the book on The Art of the Deal.
“They probably said, ‘Hey, if I give you an endorsement, will you take me into your cabinet?’” President Trump said. “And probably (Biden) will say, ‘Hey look, if I win I’ll put you in the administration.’”
Trump said there’s a name for a deal like that: “That’s called quid pro quo, right? Quid pro quo!”
The president of course understands the power of those three words.
After former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation proved a nothingburger , Democrats impeached the president over an alleged “quid pro quo” with the president of Ukraine. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accused Trump of holding up aid to the country until it investigated Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal with a European oil company.
The partisan impeachment only increased President Trump’s favorability rating and made him more likely to beat Biden, especially when the Democrat faces ethics questions about himself and his family.
Barack Obama’s former vice president has such a shady history that Republican Party has dubbed him “Quid Pro Joe.”
“Joe Biden has a tangled history of Swampy dealings and quid pro quo including pressuring for the removal of a Ukrainian prosecutor and letting his son Hunter piggyback off his diplomatic meetings,” the GOP said in a press release.
Biden bragged at the Council on Foreign Relations that, as vice president, he denied U.S. aid to Ukraine unless they fired a prosecutor who was investigating his son, Hunter.
That may explain why the day after Trump accused Biden of underhanded tactics during the primary, Biden tweeted in response that he promised to “keep Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.”
If you want a Democratic nominee who can:
– Beat Donald Trump
– Keep Nancy Pelosi as Speaker and hold the House
– Take the US Senate and state legislaturesThen this is your campaign.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 3, 2020
Under the Constitution, articles of impeachment have to begin in the House.
Republicans called Pelosi’s impeachment of Trump a “coup” and ironically, that’s exactly how one of Biden’s former opponents described the candidates’ decision to gang up on Sanders.
During his coverage of Super Tuesday, CNN anchor Jake Tapper called Biden’s string of victories a political “resurrection.”
That was too much for former 2020 candidate Marianne Williamson, who endorsed Sanders.
“This was not a resurrection; it was a coup,” she wrote on Twitter as the results rolled in. “Russiagate was not a coup. Mueller was not a coup. Impeachment was not a coup. What happened yesterday” — referring to the Biden endorsements — “was a coup. And we will push it back.”
She later deleted the tweet, but others posted the screenshot of her incendiary accusation.
Williamson deleted the tweet, but for posterity: pic.twitter.com/kdjCs5te3g
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) March 4, 2020
Williamson is a left-wing Democrat, so it’s ironic that she agrees with President Trump, who used the exact same word just one day earlier.
“They are staging a coup against Bernie!” he tweeted on Monday.
They are staging a coup against Bernie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 2, 2020
The agreement of Sanders’ backers and President Trump could spell trouble for Biden in the fall.
Bernie Sanders still has sore feelings about WikiLeaks documents that prove the Democratic establishment lobbed the presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
“If the system wasn’t rigged against me, I would’ve beat Trump,” Sanders said.
His supporters remember, too. Almost half of Sanders voters say they will not vote for another Democratic nominee in November.
And if the Republicans bring charges against the president who rigged the nomination for the second time, Sanders voters might just support the GOP in its actions.
President Trump had some advice on Monday for House Republicans.
“Impeach them!” Trump said.
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.”