This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.
I was really hoping that this wouldn’t happen. Within hours of President Trump being impeached by the House, the mainstream media was reporting that Adam Schiff “has declared war” on Mike Pence.
At this time of the year, most Americans are celebrating holidays and spending time with their families, but Adam Schiff continues to be deeply focused on his twisted obsession to take down the Trump administration. When Rachel Maddow asked him if he was “actively looking at Vice President Mike Pence and his role in this scandal”, Schiff made it quite clear that he has targeted Pence. Is Schiff doing this because he wants “justice”, or is there some deeper plot afoot?
Before we get into the specifics, let’s talk about a hypothetical scenario in which Nancy Pelosi could actually become the President. If President Trump is removed from office by the Senate, Vice-President Mike Pence would move into the Oval Office and a replacement for Pence would be nominated. But if Trump and Pence were both impeached and removed from office before a new Vice-President could be nominated and confirmed, then the next in line for the presidency would be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
In other words, if Trump and Pence were both suddenly out of the picture, Nancy Pelosi would become the President of the United States.
We have never actually seen the speaker of the House become the president in such a manner, and such a scenario would appear to be exceedingly unlikely, but it could hypothetically happen.
Up to now, the efforts by the Democrats to get rid of Trump have not gone well. According to a brand new survey that was just released, only 42 percent of all Americans support removing Trump from office at this point. And it is likely that support for removing Vice-President Pence from office would be even lower.
So why would the Democrats even bother trying?
I certainly can’t explain why Schiff suddenly has such a desire to go after Pence, because it doesn’t seem to be rational. According to the Daily Mail, Schiff has made the decision to declare “war” on Pence…
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff has declared war on Vice President Mike Pence, barely a week after his panel finished its hearings on the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
As an impeachment vote loomed Wednesday, Schiff demanded Pence’s office declassify documents that he claims could show the vice president knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal that has brought Trump to the brink.
What Schiff is particularly obsessed about is a phone call between Vice-President Pence and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 18th.
Pence’s adviser Jennifer Williams listened in on that call, and she testified about it behind closed doors to Schiff’s committee. Her testimony was later classified, and Schiff has been badgering Pence to have it declassified. The following comes from the National Review…
Pence’s Russia adviser Jennifer Williams testified last month about the vice president’s September 18 phone call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Schiff requested ten days later that Pence declassify her testimony, contained in a November 26 letter from her lawyer, but Pence last week declined to do so in a letter to Schiff.
On Tuesday, Schiff sent a letter to Pence alleging that the testimony given by Williams “raises profound questions about your knowledge of the President’s scheme to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election”.
In other words, Schiff is inferring that Vice-President Pence “abused his power” just like Trump supposedly did.
During a subsequent appearance on the Rachel Maddow Show, Schiff was specifically asked if he was “actively looking” at Vice-President Pence…
Are you actively looking at Vice President Mike Pence and his role in this scandal? And should we expect further revelations either related to the vice president or related to the other core parts of these allegations that have resulted in this impeachment tonight?
In response, he gave an answer that was classic Schiff …
Well, we have acquired a piece of evidence, classified submission by Jennifer Williams, something that she alluded to in her open testimony that in going back and looking through her records, she found other information that was pertinent to that phone call that we asked her about and made that submission. There is nothing that should be classified in that submission but yet, the vice president’s office has said they’re going to assert classification, or it’s classified.
It is not proper to classify something because it would be embarrassing or incriminating, and that summation does shed light on the vice president’s knowledge, and we think the American people should see it. Certainly, any senators in the trial should have access to it.
So why is he doing it?
Well, there is always the possibility that he could be so deluded that he actually believes that he is doing the right thing. And if he truly believes that he is seeking to have justice done, then that would help to explain why he just won’t let this thing go.
But the truth is that Schiff’s sick obsession with taking down the Trump administration goes back long before this Ukraine scandal first broke wide open.
Like so many other Democrats, he just can’t stand to see Donald Trump in the White House, and he won’t rest until he is gone for good.
If the Democrats could find a way to get Trump removed from office early next year, that would throw the Republican Party into a state of utter chaos and would give Democrats a massive edge heading into November 2020. And if they could get Mike Pence removed from office early next year as well, that would make it even tougher for the Republican Party.
In the end, maybe that is what all of this is primarily about. Yes, getting Nancy Pelosi into the White House would be a nice side benefit, but maybe what the Democrats really want to do is to keep Trump from winning again in 2020 by any means necessary.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, nothing they are doing is working.
It looks like Trump is going to be acquitted by the Senate, public approval for impeachment has been falling, and Trump now has a lead against all potential Democratic contenders.
If the Democrats had never attempted to remove Trump, they would have had a great chance of winning the White House next November.
But they just couldn’t resist, and so they have set the stage for a major political disaster for the Democratic Party less than a year from now.
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Hey Mac, where are the usual gang of economic gold-bitcon buttfucks? No Pedder Shitt proclaiming the end of the dollar. And that udder asshole Snyderwipe.
Told you so, this xmas year was another record year sales.
Now forecasting s&p 3,500 12 months from today.
No collapse, you lose
Whoa there guy.
Just how many trillion of worthless fiat “currency” has been injected into the system in the last several months? We *are* circling the drain. It’s the final result of a system riddle with graft, corruption and fraud.
Overall, the UN has to destroy the US and western culture to implement Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030. It really is that simple.
Give it time pal, give it time
Politicians and officials by and large do not answer to the people who elect them. Officials, both elected and bureaucrats rarely answer to the citizens. The gov’t is little more than a captive entity of TPTB which is comprised of a variety of deep state entities including the Mil. Ind. Comp., the Fed. Res., neo-cons, Israeli lobby and other special interest groups, billionaires, a number of private but secret organizations, multi-national corporations, intel agencies, and many more. You will never see their faces or know their names. They determine foreign policy, monetary policy, public policy, and so on. Officials are merely their minions to bring their goals to fruition. You can say the citizens are paying to bring about their own slavery. Party affiliation is irrelevant, for example, why do Dem. and Rep. Jooish millionaires and billionaires finance anti-gun organizations and strive to eliminate the right of private citizens to own firearms. Why are foreign Jooish entities allowed to influence anyway they can to bring about their political goals inside the US, but Pres. DT is being impeached for allegedly trying to do the same.
If you think the impeachment is about justice you are misguided, it is about possessing power, the power to bring about the goals of TPTB. What all these entities in TPTB have in common the most is they want to disempower the Amer. people, to rid us of our rights once and for all. They consider the Amer. people nothing more than disposable managed resources to use and to extract from. Individually, a citizen has no power, but together we could be a truly unstoppable force. Every citizen should read the Bill of Rights, make a point of enforcing their rights, and refuse to give an inch. Why is citing facts and physical evidence bigoted, it is to shut you up.
Well, you got about half of that accurately.
Bradlee Dean. Sons of Liberty. Suggested listening.
You don’t know, what you don’t know.
https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/
Only through the power of Christ can we learn to discern.
Bus benches, phone booths, movie theaters, buffets, museums, public restrooms, and any flat surfaces — you can tell where leftist interests have passed through, since MLK.
“Conservatives” never seem to conserve anything, except holding the door open for these people. Like endless, consecutive episodes of Tom, Jerry, Coyote, and Roadrunner.
Pelosi will never get there,too little brain and too many deplorables to stop her.
A fascinating scenario.
The Republicans suffer a House defeat, and then vote against the President to make Pence the POTUS.
The all over again vote to throw out Pence as POTUS, and make Komrade Pelosi, POTUS?
I doubt it!
Pelosi will never make the presidency…the country wouldn’t stand for how she got there. same with getting rid of the newest supreme court justice.
Jim in VA, I’ve heard of this plot over at Dave Hodges site. Just remember she’s third in line under the Constitution if anything happened to both Trump and Pence. It goes like this: Trump and Pence both get removed. Pelosi gets sworn in as POTUS and appoints HILLARY as her VP. Pelosi RESIGNS and VOILA, Hillary finally gets her wish to be POTUS. THAT IS A SCENARIO WE CAN’T LET HAPPEN. IF IT HAPPENS THEN ALL BETS ARE OFF. IT’S ALL OVER. BTW, I’ve heard about your upcoming situation concerning guns in VA. I wish you the best in resisting it.
This impeachment shows more than just a process to remove Pres. DT from office. All the endless plots, plans, schemes, conspiracies, and criminal activity of gov’t and officialdom also show they have no interest in serving the citizens of the US (why would they, they despise us). It reveals they have higher loyalties to other entities. Their goals are 1) to disempower us legally, financially, Constitutionally, and socially. They don’t want to answer to us, they want to control us, and 2) to subvert and alter the present gov’t so that it does not answer to the citizens, but to TPTP, whose names and faces are not known to the general public.
It has become apparent officialdom does nothing to enhance our rights and liberties. Rather, they are continuously trying to find ways to curb and limit our rights. They allow same-sex marriage, transgender restrooms, abortion, etc., but these are granted privileges, there are not rights. Firstly, they are privileges because gov’t gave them therefore they can take them away. Secondly, these privileges are not rights because they do not empower anyway against the state. Gov’t cannot bestow rights, they are endowed to us by our Creator, we have our rights by virtue of being human. Since gov’t cannot give us our rights they cannot lawfully abridge in any way or take them away.
This war on us deplorables needs to stop.
We need to not just win in 2020 – We need to CRUSH these American hating liberals with extreme prejudice
talk talk talk and no one DOES ANYTHING to stop the erosion of our rights. Sheep.
This message about holding the government accountable, posted from my iphone…
Nation of hippocrates. When you release rights willingly, don’t be surprised when bureaucrats sweep up the rest of them.
Get the adult diapers; it rolls downhill. Anyone with a toddler knows this facial expression.