90 Miles From Tyranny

Monday, January 20, 2020

A tale of two impeachments: Clinton was charged with 11 actual crimes; Trump has been charged with ZERO crimes

As the Senate gears up to begin the process of disposing of President Trump’s impeachment on Tuesday, it’s worth reminding everyone of a couple of things.

First off, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) talks a lot but is seldom accurate; and secondly, there is a wide gulf between the alleged guilt of the last impeached president, Bill Clinton, and the current allegations involving Trump.

You may recall some weeks ago, Graham was mouthing off about how the president’s impeachment articles would be dismissed out of hand.

“This thing will come to the Senate, and it will die quickly, and I will do everything I can to make it die quickly,” Graham told CNN International’s Becky Anderson at the Doha Forum in Qatar.

Yeah, well, not so much.

The Hill reported Sunday:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) conceded Sunday that the House-passed articles of impeachment against President Trump would not be dismissed without a trial in the Senate despite the near-certainty the upper chamber will vote to acquit the president.

“Have you given up on the idea that the majority will vote to dismiss case right away?” host Chris Wallace asked Graham on “Fox News Sunday.”

“That’s dead for practical purposes,” Graham told Wallace. “There are a lot of senators who I think will wind up acquitting the president but believe we need to hear the House’s case [and] the president’s case in answer to the House’s case.”

“The idea of dismissing the case early on is not...

Angry citizens storm Puerto Rico warehouse after untouched supplies found from Hurricane Maria

President Trump was taken to task by the media for saying “corrupt or incompetent” Puerto Rico officials badly mismanaged relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria, but it turns out that he was on the money.

The island has been rocked by the discovery of a warehouse full of emergency supplies that have been sitting untouched since the massive storm in 2017, as an angry mob stormed the location, according to the New York Post.

Video shared online captured the reaction when the doors were opened:

#Update: This is what they found in the warehouse that is up to 4 football fields big is what I’ve been told by people in #PuertoRico.

– Food lots of them
– Water
– Tents
– Medicine
– Emergency Equipment
– Diapers
– Hygiene products

And others pic.twitter.com/EW9jhtazmr

— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) January 19, 2020

Donald Trump Jr. responded to a video from Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk of the contents of the warehouse to take a shot at the media: “I look forward to the Wall to wall coverage of this now that we found out @realDonaldTrump was right all along.”

I look forward to the Wall to wall coverage of this now that we found out @realDonaldTrump was right all along. https://t.co/jeN7jDXFGe

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 19, 2020

The supplies were found in the city of Ponce, which was just hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that killed one person and caused more than an estimated $200 million in damage. Thousands are reportedly still in shelters.

The Associated Press cited a spokeswoman for the city to report that the warehouse is owned by Puerto Rico’s Company of Commerce and Export.

A video shared online showed firefighters distributing the...

Report: GOP Lawmakers to Demand FISC Judge Reverse Decision to Appoint Obama Admin Lawyer to Oversee Reforms

Conservative Activist Claims Antifa is Planning to Stage Violence in Virginia & Blame it on Pro-Gun Protesters

Says leftists will dress up at Trump supporters and attack others posting as Democrats.

Conservative author and activist Tom DeWeese claims he has received credible information suggesting Antifa members are planning to stage violence in Virginia later today and blame it on pro-gun protesters.

Thousands of demonstrators are expected to attend the rally in Richmond which will be tightly policed by officers enforcing a gun free zone after Gov. Ralph Northam passed an executive order banning firearms on site.

Reports last week confirmed that Antifa members would be in attendance at the rally but that they would be marching in support of the Second Amendment.

However, DeWeese claims he has received intel suggesting Antifa members are planning to dress up as Trump supporters and stage false flag violence in order to demonize conservative protesters.

“I’m in Richmond and have just received information from a very reliable source concerning Monday’s rally against the legislature’s gun grabs,” DeWeese posted on Facebook.

“Antifa have rented seven buses to bring in their thugs to cause trouble. The report says they will be wearing MAGA hats and wearing NRA garb. They will pretend to be pro gun people. Meanwhile others posing as democrats holding anti gun signs will stand on the side. The Antifa thugs, pretending to be pro gun, will attack the sign holders. Making it look like the pro gun people have started violence. This is the plan. If you are attending the rally be aware. Be very careful,” he added.

With only one way in and one way out of the protest pen, the environment looks geared towards exacerbating...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s rules for the impeachment trial leave open the possibility for a motion to dismiss from the White House lawyers. According to Axios, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said a draft of the rules allowed President Donald Trump’s lawyers the right to file a motion to immediately dismiss the charges against the president.

“My understanding is that the resolution will give the president’s team the option to either move to judgment or to move to dismiss at a meaningful time,” Hawley said. Hawley told Axios the resolution granted the White House counsels the ability to file a motion to dismiss at several points throughout the trial, including at the beginning.

Hawley proposed a resolution earlier this month dismissing the case against the president that garnered the support of more than a dozen Republican senators, including McConnell. McConnell has acknowledged, however, that Republicans were not united on the resolution and did not have enough votes to pass it.

Hawley told Axios he would be surprised if the final resolution outlining the rules of the impeachment trial failed to include the right to dismiss the proceedings by Trump’s legal team. The Missouri senator added that if he right to dismiss was absent, he might not support the resolution.

Republicans and the White House are pushing for a quick trial in the Senate, with some expecting the process to be over in...