“There Is Something Here”

“There is something here,”  said veteran reporter Chris Wallace of Fox News in reference to Mr. Trump’s call to the president of Ukraine.  Andrew Napolitano, a senior judicial analyst for Fox News said that Mr. Trump’s so-called ”perfect call”  is, in fact, “both criminal and impeachable behavior.”  The call, Napolitano said, showed Trump guilty of violating campaign finance law, bribery and intimidating witnesses.  Both Wallace and Napolitano were castigated by Rush Limbaugh for failing to defend Mr. Trump. Limbaugh seems unable to see that “There is something here.”

"There is something here” and it is very clear to anyone who can read the transcript of the call (provided by the White House).  “There is something here.” If one can’t read the transcript (it is available online) then they can listen to Mr. Trump say today on every news network that he thinks China should also investigate Joe Biden. “There is something here.”  The Federal Election Commission gave us a reminder back in June 2019 as to what that something is:  It is illegal for anyone to solicit anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a US election.  That is part of  “the something here.”

So why is it that Mr. Trump and his supporters continue their allegations and insinuations against Joe Biden and his son?  There is no evidence to support criminality, and yet such is implied. It is simply projection and deflection to keep the public from seeing that “there is something here.”  It is a strategy that has worked for Mr. Trump in the past and may work again.  According to a 2014 Gallop poll 75% of voters  felt corruption was “widespread” in the American government.  Mr. Trump knows this and capitalizes on it by denigrating any who are opposed or critical of him, from “crazy Nancy” to “Shifty Shiff.”  It has worked for him in the past and may work again..

But, as Chris Wallace reports, “There is something here.”  Not with the Bidens or the Democrats, and certainly not a “coup” or a “civil war.”  What is here is Mr. Trump.  He has abused the power of his office—not just in a phone call to Ukraine or his request that China also investigate the Bidens—but in his fabrications, his falsehoods, his maligning of fellow human beings, etc.  Mr. Trump says, “My crimes can’t be investigated while I’m president.”  That’s the “Something here!”