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by Angelo Codevilla

[Editor’s Note: An emeritus professor of international relations at Boston University, Angelo Codevilla, has taken a novel approach to the inhouse fighting over Trump’s right to the throne.]

Codevilla says “Imagine if, on the evening of Tuesday, September 4, President Trump delivered the following speech from the White House . . .”

My fellow Americans,

Traditionally, this is the day when the country ends summer fantasies, gets back to work and to school—when we get serious. And it is high time for our political system to follow suit and get serious. Tonight we start.

Two months from now, we will vote for 435 members of the House of Representatives, 34 senators, and countless other officials. Since the last election, we’ve been bombarded with accusations from government officials acting in semi-secrecy and through friendly collaborators in the media that your votes were somehow tainted, and the election results were illegitimate. 

Sadly, this outrageous campaign has abetted the Democratic Party’s near-unanimous refusal to accept the results of our election. Aptly, they call what they have been doing “the Resistance.” This open cabal of officials, of the media, of corporate America’s leadership, these upscale lords of the universe, are trying to overturn the results of the last presidential election.

They aim to convince you that you are stupid, unsophisticated, and at least a little racist. In short, they want you to know that you can’t govern yourselves as well as they would have you governed. They tell you that you must vote for Democrats, any and all Democrats, because if enough are elected, they will impeach Donald Trump who is responsible in part for the stupidity, racism, sexism, etc. that led you to vote as you did in 2016.

For what will they impeach me? For having done exactly what? They won’t say directly. They want an endless investigation producing more leaks and suggestions that the worst of the allegations about me may be true. And they want elections to be run on the basis of their smoke and mirrors campaigns.

But it’s time to get serious. That’s why, tonight, I’m telling them what Muhammed Ali told George Foreman after he had absorbed his best punches: Now it’s my turn.

So, tonight, hear this.

Robert Mueller, you’re fired. As of noon Eastern Daylight Time on September 5, along with every person you have hired, you are no longer an employee of the United States. The same goes for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. I am canceling all security clearances of yours and of theirs as of that hour. By that moment, you and they will have delivered to the Justice Department’s inspector general every copy of every document connected with your investigation of anything having to do with the 2016 election, and every electronic instrument containing such documents. After that moment, your possession of any such documents, in any form, will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Second, in the exercise of my authority under Article II of the Constitution, I hereby declassify, as of noon Eastern Daylight Time on September 5, any and all documents in the possession of the Department of Justice, the Department of State, the FBI, the CIA, and the National Security Agency relating in any way to the election of 2016.

The attorney general, the secretary of state, the director of central intelligence, and the secretary of defense shall instruct officials under them to put all such documents online, without redactions. If any of these officials believe that the publication of an item in any of these documents could get anybody killed, they will have to convince me to redact it.

Before now, charges and countercharges were made on the basis of speculation and partial leaks about what these documents contain. This has divided Americans needlessly while giving unfair advantages to insiders and to those connected with them. From now on, as a consequence of my order, the New York Times’ reporters will have access to absolutely everything. But so will everybody else. People will be able to make up their own minds on the basis of information available equally to all. That’s democracy.

Third, I invite any and all members of the House of Representatives who have spoken of impeaching me to draw up those articles of impeachment and to introduce them.

Calling for impeachment is the only responsible thing that the Democratic Party’s “Resistance” has done. If you’re trying to overturn the results of the last presidential election, trying to impeach the president is the constitutionally correct way to do it—especially just prior to congressional elections. If the American people don’t want me as their president now, all they have to do is vote for the would-be impeachers.

So tonight I ask the speaker of the House to bring these articles to the floor, to give their proponents time to promote them, and then bring them to a vote before the November elections. That way, the American people can judge for themselves whether I am the bum who should be thrown out, or whether these Washington insiders are the bums.

I believe—and I hope that you will agree—that a debate on impeachment followed by votes prior to the congressional elections, based on everybody having access to all information, is a fairer, better, more American way forward than an unending parade of innuendo and leaks based on improperly classified information.

What I am doing tonight is, unquestionably, within my power as president of the United States. The Constitution directly empowers only one executive official: the president. All other executive officials are responsible to the people through the president, who is elected by the people in the several states.

Since the president is the only official with a direct responsibility to the people through elections, the president must have the power to dismiss officials when they do not act as the president wishes. In fact, it is the president’s duty to fire officials who are not in accord with him since he was elected, and they were not, to represent the solemn will of the people.

The existence and forbearance of that absolute presidential power and duty are what makes subordinate officials responsible, and hence democratically legitimate. If the American people don’t like any particular firing, they can fire the president through impeachment. That’s how it works. I fired James Comey, and I just fired Mueller and Rosenstein, as is my constitutional right. I did it because they joined “the Resistance,” trying to overturn the results of the last election by manipulating classified information and the justice system. They say they want the law. That’s what they are getting—and are going to get.

I am taking the relevant information out of the hands of insiders and putting it into the hands of all Americans. I am taking this struggle out of corrupt institutions, and putting it right back into open, constitutional channels. Anybody want impeachment? I say, bring it on!

I’m sure that the lords of the swamp will find something wrong with this. But I’m confident that most Americans will regard it as good common sense.

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America.

 

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    • Mary, If you truly believe that taking away the individual’s right to defend themselves that is a God given right that has been under increasing attack from government of most persuasions in line with what the United Nations dictates, then whether you realize it or not, you have made yourself a useful idiot to the Globalist/Deep state agenda!

  2. God of our weary years,
    God of our silent tears,
    Thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
    Thou who hast by Thy might
    Led us into the light,
    Keep us forever in the path, we pray.

  3. The only problem I see with the professor’s article is that Trump is doing what the good professor suggests he should do, by the rule of law – and that is why everything that most folk realize need to be done is taking so long – I would rather the rule of law than a dictator’s actions!

  4. A Kiwi on the buyback
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    https://kiwigunblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/are-australian-gun-grabbers-the-worst-mass-murderers-in-the-countrys-history/

    “Australia had buyback programs in 1996 and 2003. Both compulsory programs involved compensation being paid to the owners of firearms that had been made illegal by gun law changes.

    So they paid $500,000,000.00 to shooters for the weapons handed in.
    The Government increased the Medicare levy to finance the buyback program.

    If that health money had been spent on health – Crazy I know but come with me here – how many lives would that have saved?

    The cost of surgery in Australia differs greatly depending on where you live. NSW is very expensive. Let’s look at the cost of treating heart failure with complications. This is ranging from $7500 to $24,800. Let’s take the most expensive option of one of the most expensive treatments and round it up to twenty five thousand.

    That is the annual return that you would get if you simply invested half a billion dollars.

    You could save over two thousand lives every year.”

    • Not sure what the “buy-back” has to do with an imaginary Trump speech.
      Or how anything can be “bought-back” by an entity that didn’t sell it in the first place.

      And as the buyback-free US has the most inflated medical prices in the world………………

      • Berry, it’s me what started this-all. The speech ended with Trump saying “God bless America” So, since I think in songs, I went to Youtube to see Big Fat Kate Smith (my “roll model”) belting it out. She used that song to open or close the TV shows in the Fifties, which only started at 4.30pm, if I recall.

        So I gets to Youtube and sees the first item for God Bless America is this video about shooting everyone. I’m a bettin’ man and would bet, say, 50 bucks, that this movie is intended to tell people they can shoot anybody they don’t like.

        Then I felt guilty and so uploaded Ray Charles doing the Black National Anthem. My Dad played that on the piano all the time though he was (by any normal measure of pigmentation) white. The lyrics are far superior to Jose Can You See, but the tune is not emotional enough to match.

        I think “Lift Every Voice and Sing” should be the national anthem, but one of the lines is “We have felt the chastening rod” and frankly I have yet to be rodded.

        Could be comin’ any day though, if Dee’s South African insight pays off….

      • What interests me about the “buyback” is that, had there been any legal means of compelling anyone to hand over anything, there’d have been no need to resort to bribery.

        • Berry, I think the law of eminent domain says the state can take your property (for good reason, such as wanting to build a road through your farm) but must give fair compensation.

          Are you also wondering where the bought-back guns ended up?

  6. Speaking of Mueller, is everybody sitting down? Here if the FBI’s Mission Statement. Don’t miss Number 4, Ok?

    Protect the United States from terrorist attack
    Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage
    Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes
    Combat public corruption at all levels
    Protect civil rights
    Combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises
    Combat major white-collar crime
    Combat significant violent crime
    Support federal, state, local and international partners
    Upgrade technology to successfully perform the FBI’s mission

    (Maybe there is a definition of the verb “to combat” that I don’t know about. Or is it being used as a noun in Number 4? Or maybe an adjective?)

  7. Just now — for no reason whatsoever — I typed into google “FBI sings God Bless America,” and up came an item from May 8, 2018. Not sure if the memorial service was for agents who died in the line of duty. If so I would be interested to know the circumstances.
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