{"id":12004,"date":"2019-09-30T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12004"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:53:39","slug":"why-the-impeachment-frenzy-may-only-strengthen-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-the-impeachment-frenzy-may-only-strengthen-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Impeachment Frenzy May Only Strengthen Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contrary to suggestions by some, most Trump supporters are not automatons or blind supporters. What bothers them, and should bother others, about the latest Ukraine hysterias is the familiar monotony of this latest scripted psychodrama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whistleblower admits to hearsay (\u201cI was not a direct witness to most of the events described\u201d). His term-paper report is laden with anonymously sourced rumors, e.g., \u201cAccording to multiple White House officials I spoke with,\u201d \u201cI was told by White House officials,\u201d \u201cBased on my understanding,\u201d \u201cI learned from multiple officials,\u201d \u201cI do not know whether similar measures were taken,\u201d \u201cI do not know whether those officials spoke with or met with . . . \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between references to Internet news accounts and \u201cI heard from\u201d and \u201cI learned from\u201d and \u201cI do not know\u201d anonymous officials, there is nothing here to launch an impeachment of any president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the complaint are all the now-familiar tell-tale signs of pseudo-exactness, in the form of Mueller-report-like footnotes and page references to liberal media outlets such as Bloomberg, ABC, and the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>. There is the accustomed Steele-dossier scare bullet points. We see again Comey-memo-like disputes over classification status with capital letters&nbsp;UNCLASSIFIED&nbsp;stamped as headers and footers and&nbsp;TOP SECRET&nbsp;lined out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scary references abound to the supposed laws that the legal-eagle whistleblower believes were violated. In sum, there is all the usual evidence of an administrative-state bureaucrat, likely to be some third-tier Brennan or Clapper-like intelligence operative, who is canvassing disgruntled White House staffers, writing a report that imitates intelligence-department formats, combing the Internet, in \u201cdream-team\u201d and \u201call-star\u201d footnote fashion, for scare quotes and anti-Trump stories, and then likely having it dressed up in legalese by an activist lawyer. Take all that away, and one is left with \u201cI heard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/why-impeachment-frenzy-may-strengthen-trump\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Contrary to suggestions by some, most Trump supporters are not automatons or blind supporters. What bothers them, and should bother others, about the latest Ukraine hysterias is the familiar monotony of this latest scripted psychodrama. The whistleblower admits to hearsay (\u201cI was not a direct witness to most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10037,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10037-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12004,"position":0},"title":"Nunes Affair","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review The beleaguered Intelligence Committee chairman is the latest target in a partisan smear campaign. 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