"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."

Roger L. Simon writes today in PJ Media about failed screenwriter Adam Schiff's show-trial that begins Wednesday.

...But let's give a look at what he and his cronies claim they are trying to show—some kind of presidential corruption regarding Ukraine. Some so-called whistleblower with a name no one's supposed to know but everybody does (Ciaramella) accused Trump of threatening Ukrainian President Zelensky umpteen times with withholding U.S. aid if Zelensky did not investigate the activities of his political opponent and the opponent's son.

As it turned out, when the transcript of the actual phone call was produced, it was a good deal less than that. It's likely the hyperpartisan whistleblower, who never heard the call in the first place, lied through his teeth for political reasons he thinks—in all his virtue-signaling narcissism—are justified. We may never know because he won't be allowed to testify. You'll have to wait for his book in which he no doubt will lie again.

Also not allowed is any word on the father-son corruption (Biden und Sohn) which is clearly monstrous, worth millions, even billions, and has a direct effect on our relationship with China (which old Joe, the law school plagiarist, assured us was fine and not to be concerned about). We're supposed to ignore that, so we will. For now.

...Meanwhile, if you were Donald Trump, wouldn't you ask a favor of a foreign leader if you thought he might have access to information solving that endless, vicious case against him that looks as if it was a set-up? Do bears you-know-what in the woods? You can bet Pelosi, Schiff, and even Rachel Maddow would do the same thing if they were subject to the same wretched, immoral, disgusting and unpatriotic treatment for three years and counting.

This whole show trial would just be an amusing farce in the farcical land of D.C. politics were it not for one thing—it just could (not likely, but could) be successful. And if it is, that's the end of our country as we know it. Half of our citizens will feel completely disenfranchised. Where it will go from there is anybody's guess.

..."Show me the man and I'll show you the crime." In recent years, many of us have become extremely, even overly, familiar with this famous quote from Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, Stalin's chief of secret police, the NKVD.

...Comrade Beria is smiling.

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