Tea at Trianon: Reps. Greene, Stefanik Move to Expunge Trump Impeachments from Congressional Record

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Monday, July 3, 2023

Reps. Greene, Stefanik Move to Expunge Trump Impeachments from Congressional Record

From American Greatness:

As reported by Just The News, Greene’s resolution focuses on expunging the first impeachment, which occurred in late 2019 and early 2020 after President Trump called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption in his own country, stemming from the Biden family’s involvement with the energy company Burisma Holdings.

Stefanik’s resolution, meanwhile, targets the second impeachment, brought against Trump after he had already left office, which asserted without evidence that he had “incited an insurrection” over the peaceful protests that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021. The resolution introduced by Greene focuses on the new revelations regarding an official FD-1023 form, an FBI informant document alleging that both Joe Biden and his son Hunter did indeed receive bribes of $5 million each from the founder of Burisma, in exchange for the promise of changing American foreign policy towards Ukraine. The bribe specifically demanded that Biden exert his influence to have Ukraine’s then-Prosecutor General, Viktor Shokin, fired from his position after he announced an investigation into Burisma for corruption. Shokin was ultimately fired by then-President Petro Poroshenko after Biden threatened to withhold up to $1 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine. (Read more.)