{"id":12078,"date":"2019-11-27T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2019-11-25T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:57:40","slug":"the-hatred-that-fuels-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-hatred-that-fuels-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hatred that Fuels Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither the NeverTrump Right nor the Progressive Left has yet offered a coherent defense of their&nbsp;<em>de facto<\/em>, three-year-long singular effort to delegitimize and ultimately remove Trump from office before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are now in the midst of a systematic effort to impeach a president on the basis of a thought crime. Trump\u2019s purported&nbsp;<em>quid pro quo<\/em>&nbsp;sin was issuing a temporary hold on military assistance to Ukraine that supposedly transcended legitimate worries about rampant corruption\u2014to include specifically investigating the suspicious behavior of a corrupt Ukrainian oil company and the compromised relationship of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The anti-Trump writ is that it is impeachable even to delay to the Ukrainians lethal military assistance while citing the need to investigate the corruption of Ukrainians, including the career of Hunter Biden, whose father, the former vice president and \u201cpoint man\u201d on Ukraine, is now running for president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/11\/24\/the-hatred-that-fuels-impeachment\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Neither the NeverTrump Right nor the Progressive Left has yet offered a coherent defense of their&nbsp;de facto, three-year-long singular effort to delegitimize and ultimately remove Trump from office before the 2020 election. We are now in the midst of a systematic effort to impeach a president on the basis [&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-38O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12074,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/20-impeachment-what-ifs\/","url_meta":{"origin":12078,"position":0},"title":"20 Impeachment What-Ifs","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12430,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/military-intelligence-complex\/","url_meta":{"origin":12078,"position":1},"title":"Military-Intelligence Complex","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Not long after a number of generals and admirals recently weighed in with renewed criticism of the president in orchestrated unison, presidential candidate Joe Biden seemed giddy at their effort. 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