{"id":12074,"date":"2019-11-26T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12074"},"modified":"2019-11-25T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:54:32","slug":"20-impeachment-what-ifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/20-impeachment-what-ifs\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Impeachment What-Ifs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democrats might have had a more persuasive case for impeachment if only\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) Donald Trump had cut off all military assistance to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Donald Trump got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired by leveraging U.S. aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) Barack Obama earlier had not vetoed lethal military aid to Ukraine in fear of Russian reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) Ukraine was not a notoriously corrupt country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5) There was a special prosecutor\u2019s report finding Trump legally culpable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6) There was direct or written evidence that Trump had committed a high crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7) Joe Biden as Vice President had not spearheaded the Obama administration\u2019s Ukraine policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/20-impeachment-what-ifs\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Democrats might have had a more persuasive case for impeachment if only\u2026 1) Donald Trump had cut off all military assistance to Ukraine. 2) Donald Trump got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired by leveraging U.S. aid. 3) Barack Obama earlier had not vetoed lethal military aid to Ukraine in [&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-38K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12055,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-reasons-why-impeachment-is-illegitimate\/","url_meta":{"origin":12074,"position":0},"title":"Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are at least ten reasons why the Democratic impeachment \u201cinquiry\u201d is a euphemism for an ongoing coup attempt. 1) Impeachment 24\/7.\u00a0The impeachment \u201cinquiry,\u201d supposedly prompted by the president\u2019s Ukrainian call, is simply the most recent in a long series of \u201ccoups\u201d that sought\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12078,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-hatred-that-fuels-impeachment\/","url_meta":{"origin":12074,"position":1},"title":"The Hatred that Fuels Impeachment","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Neither the NeverTrump Right nor the Progressive Left has yet offered a coherent defense of their\u00a0de facto, three-year-long singular effort to delegitimize and ultimately remove Trump from office before the 2020 election. 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