The House Democrats impeached President Trump partly on “abuse of power” allegations as related to the accusation of coercion of a foreign government to investigate a Trump political opponent in order “cheat the 2020 election,” as the execrable Adam Schiff puts it. Schiff expands the alleged criminality to include “compromising US national security,” “colluding with a foreign power,” and the “urgency to remove President Trump for national security reasons” in repetitive public remarks in order to dress up the Democrats’ two articles of impeachment. But who has really compromised US national security? President Trump or his predecessor?

First of all, let’s look at the Democrats’ first article of impeachment drawn up against President Trump, which alludes to a compromising of US national security, as provided online here.

Article 1: Abuse of Power [Much preamble to introduce the following actual charges:]

President Trump – acting both directly and through his agents withing and outside the US government – corruptly solicited the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into A political opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.: and A discredited theory promoted by Russia alleging that Ukraine – rather than Russia – interfered in the 2016 US presidential election

With the same corrupt motives, President Trump – acting both directly and through his agents within and outside the US government – conditioned two official acts on the public announcement that he had requested – The release of $391M of US taxpayer funds that Congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of providing vital military and security assistance to Ukraine to oppose Russian aggression and which President Trump had ordered suspended; and A head of state meeting at the White House, which the President of Ukraine sought to demonstrate continued US support for the Government of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.



The allegations are easily dispensed with as follows:

The two telephone call transcripts between the two presidents disprove the allegation of soliciting Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into Joe Biden

The Ukrainian meddling into the 2016 election is NOT a hoax as Democrats claim; there is ample evidence warranting an investigation into 2016, and there is a standing MLAT with Ukraine that provides for reciprocal legal assistance upon request (President Trump acting was within his legal authority to discuss circa 2016 corruption with President Zelensky).

President Trump has never claimed that Russia didn’t meddle in the 2016 elections; Russian meddling didn’t preclude other countries from meddling as well.

The US foreign aid to Ukraine was released within statutory requirements before expiration of funds.

In short, the Democrats’ allegations of egregious national security criminality by President Trump don’t hold water. Let’s compare their bleating about President Trump to their silence about a host of Obama national security blunders and compromises.

Lest we forget, damaging US national security was an unstated priority during the Obama years. Here is a list of some of those actions/events. Some are criminal and led to loss of life, others compromised US national security in one way or another, and all are scandalous!

Compare and contrast! The President’s “America First” foreign policy, China trade deal, the USMCA, and his warm reception at Davos this week versus Obama’s foreign policy disasters. The Democrats and their operatives in the legacy media would have us all forget Obama’s horrible national security legacy – and their complete silence while all of the above transgressions took place – and focus on an easily-debunked article of impeachment against President Trump. And the Democrats would also have us forget that the Mueller report exonerated the President of their false charges of “Russian collusion” and that “Trump is a Putin stooge.” It was Obama who made his presidency about compromising US national security; he’s the guy who should have been in the docket in the Senate.

The end.

Stu Cvrk served 30 years in the US Navy in a variety of active and reserve capacities, with considerable operational experience in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. An oceanographer and systems analyst through education and experience, Stu is a graduate of the US Naval Academy where he received a classical liberal education which serves as the key foundation for his political commentary. He threads daily on Twitter on a wide range of political, military, foreign policy, government, economics, and world affairs topics. Read more by Stu Cvrk