Pelosi Pushes Impeachment, Silencing Trump & You, The Big Lie, Trump Calls For Unity, The Left Divides America

Gary Bauer

by Gary Bauer: Pelosi Pushes Impeachment, Silencing Trump & You, The Big Lie

Dark Days Ahead
For most of the day, I attended a meeting of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, focused largely on human rights and religious liberty violations in China.

But I couldn't help but think I could just as easily have been at a meeting today about human rights and religious liberty violations here in the United States.

As I have often said, the attacks on Trump over the last four years were about much more than Donald Trump. The left despises Donald Trump and they despise us. The left wants to silence every conservative voice it can. And the progressive assault on the First Amendment just went into high gear.

Pelosi Pushes Impeachment President Trump made it clear in his remarks last week that he was focused on a smooth and orderly transition of power. He also called for calm, healing and reconciliation. But the left doesn't seem interested in calm, healing or reconciliation.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that House Democrats will pass a resolution calling for President Trump to be removed through the 25th Amendment. That's not going to happen, and Pelosi knows it.

So, she's also planning to bring articles of impeachment to the House floor later this week. According to Politico, at least 218 House Democrats support impeaching the president for allegedly inciting violence. But that's not going anywhere either.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell noted that the Senate is in recess and cannot hold an impeachment trial until January 19th at the earliest, potentially overshadowing the inauguration and bogging down the Senate for days.

Faced with these realities, House Majority Whip James Clyburn said that Speaker Pelosi would likely delay transmitting the articles of impeachment to the Senate, just as she did last year.

"Let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running," Clyburn said. "And maybe we will send the articles some time after that."

While it's debatable whether former officials can be impeached, Pelosi was clear about her motivation. The speaker said in an interview with "60 Minutes" this weekend that "one of the motivations that people have for advocating for impeachment" is to prevent Trump from running for office again, adding, "He has to pay a price."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez echoed Pelosi's desire to ban Trump from the political arena, saying, "We're also talking about complete barring of . . . Donald Trump from running for office ever again."

Joe Biden should tell Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats to stand down. Pushing impeachment with just barely a week left in the president's term will do nothing to help heal or unite this country.

Silencing Trump & You
The social media giants and other Big Tech firms quickly moved in lockstep to toe the Democrat Party line. Twitter and Facebook "permanently suspended" President Trump's accounts due to the "risk of further incitement of violence."

That multiple private companies feel free to "permanently suspend" the free speech rights of the president proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump is hardly a dictator.

It also proves yet again that Big Tech is a danger to the First Amendment with its selective enforcement. Here's a sampling of violent tweets that Twitter has tolerated.

Meanwhile, other tech companies piled on, cutting off the Trump campaign's ability to accept online donations or sell merchandise.

But the attacks on free speech didn't stop there.

Parler, a social media platform committed to free speech, was completely shut down this weekend. Apple and Google banned the Parler app, and Amazon banned Parler from its web hosting service. All their vendors, including their lawyers, have abandoned the company.

Millions of conservatives who used Parler, including me, have been silenced by Big Tech's tyranny.

Speaking of lawyers, Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, is under investigation by the New York Bar Association. Other lawyers affiliated with the president have been forced to resign from their law firms.

Again, my friends, we need to be clear about this: While Donald Trump may be the left's immediate target, it is also sending a message that is designed to demoralize and intimidate you.

The Big Lie
I want to make something very clear: The left, the media and too many Republicans are suggesting that Donald Trump incited violence last week and caused that riot on Capitol Hill. He did no such thing, and we cannot allow this "big lie" to prevail.

During his remarks before the terrible events that unfolded on Capitol Hill, President Trump said, "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your votes heard today."

Calling on Americans to "peacefully and patriotically" protest at the Capitol, at the White House and at the Supreme Court has been done since the founding of this country. The president did not incite his supporters to riot.

Famed Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz vowed to defend Trump again, insisting that his remarks do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense and that they were constitutionally protected free speech.

Even the left-wing site Snopes refused to say that Trump incited violence. And this timeline of events indicates that the president was still speaking when the violence began.

Any reporter and politician who insists that President Trump incited violence is engaged in a big lie to smear the president, his conservative supporters and the entire conservative movement.

The intolerant progressive left won't be satisfied with driving Donald Trump from office. They want to make conservatives unemployable and they want to make normal conservative opinions unspeakable.

This is tyranny plain and simple.

The Blame Game
While Nancy Pelosi and other progressive politicians are doing everything they can to blame President Trump for last week's riot, numerous security officials on Capitol Hill have already been fired or forced to resign for failing to do their jobs. And more resignations may be coming in the days ahead.

In spite of repeated denials, several officials were well aware of plans to assault the Capitol days before it happened. reports that the FBI and the New York Police Department had intelligence that violence was possible and had warned the Capitol Hill Police in advance.

In fact, federal agents reportedly met with "more than a dozen extremists already under investigation to urge them not to travel to Washington."

If these reports are accurate, then last week's assault on Capitol Hill was the result of a colossal intelligence failure.

If there was so much advance warning that the FBI had time to dispatch officials to tell known extremists to stay out of Washington, then the National Guard should have been deployed the day before the joint session of Congress in sufficient force to prevent the horrific scenes and the tragic loss of life we witnessed last week.

But that didn't happen because some officials were worried about "optics." Well, the failure to plan appropriately resulted in terrible optics and an emboldened progressive movement that is crushing free speech.

Trump Calls For Unity, The Left Divides America
The President Calls For Unity:
Late yesterday evening, President Trump issued a brief video message from the White House. He condemned the "heinous attack" on the United States Capitol, and expressed his outrage at the "violence, lawlessness and mayhem" caused by a small fraction of the massive, peaceful crowd.

The president declared that those who pushed past police to enter the Capitol "do not represent our country, and you will pay." Indeed, they will, thanks to an executive order signed by President Trump.

Then, the president turned to the future, saying that "tempers must be cooled and calm restored." He declared that his focus now is "ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power," and the president called for "healing and reconciliation." Here is a brief excerpt of his concluding remarks.

"2020 has been a challenging time for our people. A menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens. . . Defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together.

"It will require a renewed emphasis on the civic values of patriotism, faith, charity, community and family. We must revitalize the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that bind us together as one national family.

"Serving as your president has been the honor of my lifetime. And to all of my wonderful supporters, I know you are disappointed. But I also want you to know that our incredible journey is just beginning. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America."

The Left Divides America
Anyone who thinks Joe Biden and the left will bring the country together must understand something: That isn't going to happen.

In stark contrast to the president's call for calm, healing and reconciliation, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris went on the attack. They did their best to exploit the riot at the Capitol Building by injecting race into the discussion.

Biden declared that if Black Lives Matter had been protesting at the Capitol, they would have been treated "very, very differently," adding, "We all know that's true and it's totally unacceptable."

So, Joe Biden has just condemned the Capitol Hill police as racists, which is utterly absurd. (By the way, I wonder if any congressional Democrats now are rethinking their demands to defund the police!)

Doing her best Obama impersonation, Kamala Harris lectured (and lied) to the American people, saying, "We witnessed two systems of justice when we saw one that let extremists storm the United States Capitol, and another that released tear gas on peaceful protesters last summer."

The summer protesters Harris is referring to were not peaceful and the Capitol Hill demonstrators were gassed.

Once again, the truth is the exact opposite of what the left is saying!

All summer long in one city after another, including Washington, D.C., BLM activists were allowed to loot and riot while the police often stood down. In many cases, law enforcement was powerless to stop the rioting because liberal mayors and governors refused to call out the National Guard.

Adding insult to injury, some of the rioters were bailed out by liberal groups so they could loot and riot again!

Why would the president-elect and vice president-elect take the terrible situation at the Capitol and inject race into it? How is that unifying the country?

And after an entire summer of Joe Biden saying virtually nothing at all about the riots, or at best condemning only a few fringe people, he made no effort to condemn just the few fringe people who rioted at the Capitol on Wednesday. Biden demonized everyone at Wednesday's protest and the entire Trump presidency:

"They weren't protesters, don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. . . We could see it coming.

"The past four years we've had a president who has made his contempt for our democracy, our Constitution, the rule of law clear in everything he has done. . . He unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset. And yesterday was the culmination of that unrelenting attack."

The left is already making new demands for "pay back."

Pelosi is threatening again to impeach President Trump. Sen. Chris Coons and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are demanding that Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley be expelled from the Senate.

For what? They were using the right given to them under the Constitution to contest a disputed election, the same right that Democrats have used to contest every Republican presidential victory this century.

By the way, what was Kamala Harris saying about the riots and protests this summer? Harris said this:

"Everyone beware because they're not gonna stop. They're not gonna stop before Election Day and they're not going to stop after Election Day. And everyone should take note of that. They're not gonna let up and they should not."

What did Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say about riots? AOC said this:

"I believe injustice is a threat to the safety of all people. Because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized . . . they have no choice but to riot."

Well, that gets me back to what I wrote earlier this week. There are tens of millions of Americans who believe in faith, family and freedom, and who are sick and tired of the left's constant assaults on normalcy, on free speech and free elections.

We have been marginalized and marginalized and marginalized!

Steel yourselves. We haven't hit rock bottom yet. The left is making lists and demanding reeducation, prosecutions and cleansings. The left has no interest in unity.

Pelosi's "Coup"
Speaker Nancy Pelosi usurped her constitutional authority today by attempting to deny the president of the United States the ability to defend this country.

Various news outlets report that Pelosi spoke to General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, demanding that he prevent Trump from "initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike."

The reports are based on a letter from Pelosi to various Democrat lawmakers in which she describes the president as "unhinged" and "unstable," and repeated her threat to impeach him.

To be clear, the president is the commander-in-chief, and he, not the Speaker of the House, is responsible for defending this country.

It is incredibly foolish of Pelosi to assume that no foreign adversary would attempt to attack us or threaten our interests during a presidential transition of power. It is at precisely such a time when our enemies are likely to assume we are the most vulnerable.

More importantly, I believe Pelosi's actions further underscore the extent to which the left is prepared to go in order to destroy Donald Trump and everyone around him. They never want to see another coalition of working-class Americans and Christian conservatives governing this country again.

I know many of you are discouraged. But I am urging you to pick yourselves up from the mat and find your courage in God. We must fight back and work harder than ever before! I know I am going to do that.
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Gary Bauer (@GaryLBauer)  is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families

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