The impeachment inquiry literally a joke.

Monday evening, I read about Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi initiating the impeachment inquiry on President Trump, and I’ll be honest with you, I laughed. I’m going to call it now – nothing’s going to happen, Russia scandal 2.0. However, in attempt to remain informed, I read the news. I read the CNN article first, to stay out of an echo chamber, and then I read the Daily Wire for the other bits and pieces.

Look, I’m sure you can relate: I can’t handle raw politics straight from the news. On one side, CNN seemingly only publishes unverified sources, and if I listen to Fox, I’m trapped somewhere between an echo chamber and a MAGA rally. Someone has to read three, four sources to draw their own conclusions. I’m personally sick of it. What can I say? I can’t operate under that kind of pressure. So I did what anyone would do. I got out my Aeropress, made some coffee—good coffee, none of that watery Americano stuff—and the conversation in my head went something like this.

Can Speaker Pelosi legally initiate an impeachment inquiry on President Trump like she did on Monday?

Well, yeah. This is legal.

Is Speaker Pelosi following the historical precedent with how she’s conducting the inquiry?

Fat no. In the past, impeachment inquiries have been introduced on the floor of the full House of Representatives, evidence in hand. However, this would require evidence, so Speaker Pelosi merely instructed the committees already investigating aspects of the Trump Administration to begin operating under the “umbrella” of impeachment inquiry.

What does that mean though?

It means that Speaker Pelosi has no evidence, but she’s sure she’ll find some. Which, who knows? She might. Eventually.

What is Speaker Pelosi even attempting to impeach President Trump for?

I’m not sure. However, it must be bad, because during the Clinton impeachment Pelosi was quite convinced that: lying to the grand jury, attempting to tamper with witnesses, encouraging Ms. Lewinsky to give a false testimony, and attempting to bribe Ms. Lewinsky with a job to alter her testimony—all weren’t grounds for impeachment—and even condemned House Republicans for trying to tear the country apart for doing so.

Since the aforementioned weren’t sufficient to impeach according to Speaker Pelosi, it’s reasonable to suspect that this time, she’s got some real dirt on the President. We’ll just have to remain intrigued, though, because it’s certainly not that Ukraine phone call anymore.

And where exactly does this Biden and Ukraine stuff tie in? Did President Trump try to coerce the Ukrainians into investigating former VP Biden? The Democrats said that President Trump’s phone call was going to end him, right?

Well yes, but no. President Trump released the tape from his conversation with the Ukrainian President the day after Speaker Pelosi accused him, and, uh… the accusation was unfounded. The tape, which apparently spurred the decision to initiate the inquiry, was a dud. So was it like, some kind of catfishing scam then? Pshh. Russia probably did it. But what’s even spicier, is that in the midst of handling these accusations, President Trump has the Left scrambling to protect Joe Biden, of all people.

So, Speaker Pelosi initiated an impeachment inquiry on Monday, and I think it’s bogus. It’s a hasty response to an increasing but silent concern on the Left that President Trump is going to win again in 2020, however much they claimed he couldn’t in 2016. This inquiry is just another one of the manufactured scandals the left uses to attack the President, and I can guarantee you if President Trump wins again in 2020, the Left will claim voter fraud. However, I couldn’t agree more with my former Secretary of State that “anyone not willing to accept the results of an election is a danger to democracy”.

So what am I going to do then? I’m going to drink my coffee and wait. Because at this pace, people like me won’t have to do anything except sit tight until next November.