Judge Jeanine Pirro said the so-called “whistleblower” whose complaint against President Donald Trump has formed the basis of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry was an “Obama holdover” who was “intentionally put there” for the purpose of creating a complaint against the president that would “start an impeachment inquiry,” Fox News reported Friday.
“We know [the whistleblower] is connected to [former CIA Director John] Brennan and the liar Susan Rice and the whole lot of them. [He’s an] Obama holdover, worked with [Vice President Joe] Biden,” Pirro said Friday on Fox & Friends.
Pirro’s comments came after former CIA chief John McLaughlin said he was thankful for the so-called Deep State’s role in triggering the impeachment inquiry into Trump.
“Thank God for the Deep State,” McLaughlin said at an event hosted by George Mason University on Wednesday, according to the Washington Examiner. Brennan and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe also attended the event.
Pirro: No “high crime or misdemeanor”
Pirro said Friday that the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky did not contain anything impeachable. There was no “high crime or misdemeanor,” she asserted, according to Fox.
Pirro also argued that Democrats should beat Trump at the ballot box if they disagree with his policies, suggesting that the impeachment inquiry has been politically motivated.
Indeed, Democrats seem determined to impeach Trump before the 2020 election in order to hurt him politically. Many concede that the Democrat candidate pool is weak and that Trump is likely to beat them if the current political climate continues.
Pirro also pointed out that Robert Mueller’s probe “didn’t work” for impeaching Trump. “Now, it’s Ukraine,” she said.
Looking forward
The White House has now signaled that it expects an impeachment vote in the House, where 31 House Democrats in vulnerable districts carried by Trump in 2016 will have to decide between party loyalty and protecting their re-election chances.
Before an impeachment inquiry was undertaken there, Republicans were not given much chance of retaking the House, but voters in Trump districts may take out their anger over what is largely seen as an unfair impeachment process on Democrats and make those seats more vulnerable to being flipped back.
A month of closed-door testimony and leaks has not succeeded in dampening Trump’s approval ratings at all, which shows that there is not enough public support to keep impeachment from hurting Democrats.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) would be wise to realize this and back off before it’s too late to save their majority. But can they swallow their pride and do so?
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
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