GOP Elites Could Be Plotting Coup By Impeachment Of Donald Trump
Former Colorado Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo is a realistic, creative thinker. His analysis of political events and situation is often and spot on. His offering in an op-ed to Breitbart News on Saturdayadds some questions into the mix that most of us haven’t considered. The prospect of impeachment by his own party leadership due to his adherence to his campaign promises. Tancredo wrote:
Several months ago I was asked what advice I would give to the Trump campaign. I said, only half joking, that he had better pick a vice presidential candidate the establishment hates more than it hates him. That would be his only insurance against impeachment. Those drums have already begun to beat, be it ever so subtly.
Is anyone surprised how quickly the establishment that Donald Trump campaigned against has announced opposition to much of his policy agenda? No. But few understand that the passionate opposition includes a willingness to impeach and remove President Trump if he does not come to heel on his America First goals.
Ferocious opposition to Trump from the left was expected and thus surprises nobody. From the comical demands for vote recounts to street protests by roving bands of leftist hate-mongers and condescending satire on late-night television, hysterical leftist opposition to Trump is now part of the cultural landscape.
But those are amusing sideshows to the main event, the Republican establishment’s intransigent opposition to key pillars of the Republican president’s agenda.
Republican leaders in Congress are already sending Trump a subtle but clear warning: accept our business-as-usual Chamber of Commerce agenda or we will join Democrats to impeach you.
If you think talk of impeachment is insane when the man has not even been sworn into office yet, you have not been paying attention. Impeachment has been the goal of Democrats since the day after Trump won the election, and the Republican establishment will use the veiled threat as leverage to win concession after concession from the Trump White House.
What are the key policy differences that motivate congressional opposition to the Trump agenda? There are at least four Trump campaign promises which, if not dropped or severely compromised, could generate Republican support for impeachment: Trump’s Supreme Court appointments, abandoning the Trans Pacific Partnership, radical rollback of Obama regulatory projects, and real enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws.
On regulatory rollback, Congress can legitimately insist on negotiating the details with Trump. But on the other three, immigration, the TPP, and Supreme Court nominees, Trump’s campaign promises were so specific — and so popular — that he need not accept congressional foot-dragging.
Yet, while the President-elect ‘s transition teams at the EPA, State Department and Education Department are busy mapping ambitious changes in direction, Congress’s Republican leadership is busy doubling down on dissonance and disloyalty.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced this week he will oppose Trump’s tax reforms.
Senator Lindsey Graham is joining Democrats in sponsoring new legislation to protect the “Dreamers” from deportation after their unlawfully granted legal status and work permits expire.
Senator Susan Collins will oppose any restrictions on Muslim refugees, no matter how weak and inadequate the vetting to weed out jihadists.
Senator Lamar Alexander aims to protect major parts of Obamacare, despite five years of voluminous Republican promises to “repeal and replace” it if they ever had the power to do so.
And then, on the House side, we have the naysayer-in-chief, Speaker Paul Ryan, who refused to campaign with Donald Trump in Wisconsin, and who has vowed to obstruct Trump’s most important and most popular campaign promise — an end to open borders and vigorous immigration law enforcement.
It is no exaggeration to say that Trump’s success or failure in overcoming the opposition to immigration enforcement will determine the success or failure of his presidency. If he cannot deliver on his most prominent and most popular campaign promise, nothing else will matter very much.
So, the bad news for President Trump is this: If he keeps faith with his campaign promises on immigration, for example to limit Muslim immigration from terrorism afflicted regions, which is within his legitimate constitutional powers as President, he will risk impeachment. However, his congressional critics will face one enormous hurdle in bringing impeachment charges related to immigration enforcement: about 90 percent of what Trump plans to do is within current law and would require no new legislation in Congress. Obama disregarded immigration laws he did not like, so all Trump has to do is enforce those laws.
Now, if you think talk of impeachment is ridiculous because Republicans control Congress, you are underestimating the depth of Establishment Republican support for open borders.
The first effort in the 21st century at a general amnesty for all 20 million illegal aliens came in January 2005 from newly re-elected President George Bush. The “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill passed by the US Senate in 2013 did not have the support of the majority of Republican senators, and now they are faced with a Republican president pledged to the exact opposite agenda, immigration enforcement. And yet, do not doubt the establishment will sacrifice a Republican president to protect the globalist, open borders status quo.
The leader and spokesman for that establishment open borders agenda is not some obscure backbencher, it is the Republican Speaker of the House. Because the Speaker controls the rules and the legislative calendar, if he chooses to play hardball against Trump on immigration he can block any of Trump’s other policy initiatives until Trump abandons his immigration enforcement goals.
What all this points to is a bloody civil war within the Republican Party fought on the battlefield of congressional committee votes.
Donald Trump won a electoral mandate to change direction and put American interests first, beginning with border security. If the congressional Republican establishment chooses to block the implementation of that electoral mandate, it would destroy not only Trump’s agenda, it would destroy the Republican Party.
H/T – RickWells
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After the Trump rallies and the Trump win which were a direct result of Congressional inaction and Obama policies, these people need to think twice about the voters who elected Trump to drain the swamp. They may be flushed by the people.
Exactly.
We need to get lists and start rallies against the ones who vote against Trump in Congress on our issues, especially the ones talking about impeachment. If they can cause trouble, we can do it better.
Trumps secret weapon is the FBI, who without doubt has dirt on every congressman and senator, who when balking at doing whats right, will be flushed with little fanfare. And with his pick for Attorney General, they will be flushed and jailed in record time, if they don’t resign.
I just wish the People in the States that Keep Re-Election these RINO Wussies would STOP RE-ELECTING These Punks like John. McLame, Lindsey Gramamesty, Paul Ryan, Orin Hatchman,,Lamar Alexander the fool, & Bob Corker these People have to go SO STOP RE-ELECTION THEM
If Marco Rubio votes against Trump I would never vote for him again no matter who’s runs against him
Mitch McConnell isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit. He is owned by his big donors and multinational corporations.
the usual suspects.
mr. trump had better learn soon his only real and practical friend in office will be none of these, nor the israeli or any other lobby whose natural pursuit of their own national, international interests, america’s aside, gives rise to our swamp.
his only friend, and rightfully so, is the american people, his beloved to whom he gave his promises and owes his office and thus his loyalty. they are the people who took him at his word and married (voted for) him upon his promise: border laws and controls; no wars without attack upon the us; america first, no other nation/entity first; their constitution back.
tpp invalidates all of the above, as do borderlessness, and any scotus appointment who would not see our constitution as his only mandate.
further, the america first doctrine necessarily dictates that the american people must uncover 911, in its fullest truth, no matter any traditional international loyalties or consequences, since they must know their past (who bombed them, why, and how this cost them their simple civil rights and scions) that they may courageously face their future as a peaceful, prosperous people, living free under their one permanent friend, their constitution, to which only they owe their fealty, and to none other, as all our oathkeepers faithfully, exemplarily, and dutifully swear to and do uphold.
just my 2 centavos.
I section IX of the US Constitution
8. No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.
I am not a constitutional scholar, but it seems straight forward that the president is included in the “Office of Profit or Trust” under the United States.
Barring a distinct interpretation of this article of the constitution by the majority of constitutional scholars, Donald will be in direct violation if the constitution if he does not divest all of his business interests by January 20th when taking the oath of office.
This has nothing to do with the “elites” or “liberals” being against Donald. It had everything to do with the law of the land and not allowing one individual to be above it simply because he claims to be the greatest and trump all other facts, opinions, laws, rules and general order.
It doesn’t have one thing to do with Republicans and Democrat’s it’s politicians. It’s them and us they have their comfortable little jobs and they like all the perks and they don’t want anyone messing that up. Thesepeople get so caught up in this lifestyle they will do anything to keep it. They sell us out every chance they get. I do not think you should be allowed to be a career politican. They don’t work for the American preople they work for themselves . Then they go lobby for other countries after they leave office WTF really ??? So why they have some impact and even later on they use those connections against us for the good of the other country . They sell us out!!!! They get rich!! We pay more taxes!!!
I find it odd that Sen. John McCainwas not on that list right next to Graham! What’s Up with That?