Joe Biden has asked Congress to appropriate another $24 billion to his Ukraine money laundering operation before Donald Trump takes office. Thankfully, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has told Joe Biden to shut up and go take his Metamucil. It will be President-elect Donald Trump’s decision on whether the taxpayers are forced to send another dime to Ukraine. Hallelujah!
That’s the good news. The bad news is that there is still a bipartisan effort underway in Congress to lay an impeachment trap for the incoming president.
Congress is working on a continuing resolution that will fund the government into early 2025. This will allow the incoming Trump administration to have a say in spending going forward. Biden requested another $24 billion because he knows that Trump will finally put an end to the money spigot and the massive amounts of death that the regime has needlessly caused.
To his credit, Speaker Johnson is on Trump’s side on the issue, despite being in favor of continuing the war.
“So, it is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now, we have a newly elected president and we’re going to wait and take the new commander in chief’s direction on all that so I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up now,” Johnson announced.
The question is whether Johnson is going to stop the Ukraine impeachment trap from being set. The Democrats already impeached President Trump once by pretending that he was withholding $400 million in aid to Ukraine.
Mitch McConnell came up with the idea for the Stand with Ukraine Act, which will ensure another impeachment of Trump if he dares to stop funding the war. If this act is passed into law, it would force President Trump to continue requesting gobs of cash for Ukraine. I’m not even sure if that’s legal or constitutional, but they’re trying to pass it.
In the House, the Stand with Ukraine Act is being pushed by Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), and Mike Quigley (D-IL). In the Senate, it’s being pushed by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
McConnell has been working for months to try to pass this bill. Even after President Trump successfully ends the war and brings Ukraine and Russia to the peace table, they want to keep sending money to Ukraine forever. If this act becomes law and Trump announces that we’re done funding Midget Hitler (Vladimir Zelensky) and his doomed campaign to defeat Russia, Congress would then be able to claim that the president had “broken the law” and they’d immediately impeach him.
There’s a lot of money at stake for the relatives of politicians who are raking in that sweet, sweet Ukraine cash and they don’t want it to end.
They haven’t been able to push the Stand with Ukraine (and Impeach Trump) Act through as a single piece of legislation. The strategy now is to chop the act up into smaller bits and insert those bits into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) as amendments.
“Just have Schumer bring it up and let’s vote,” huffed Lindsey Graham in frustration at the prospect of not being able to continue bathing in the blood of Ukrainian kids.
The House and Senate have two more working weeks in December to try to pull it off. It’s not clear if they’ll manage to do it at this point. Mitch McConnell has been trying to set this impeachment trap since August. Not even the fact that a majority of Americans voted to end the Ukraine war by casting their ballots for Donald Trump has convinced McConnell and his allies that this is a bad idea.
More than half the Republican conference in the House voted against the last big round of Ukraine cash in April. It only passed because every Democrat voted with a minority of Republicans.
We do have one additional bit of good news on the Ukraine front. Even though Joe Biden seems intent on getting us into a nuclear war before he leaves office, cooler heads in Russia are not taking the bait. Tucker Carlson is back in Russia and he interviewed Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Russia’s version of our Secretary of State).
It’s well worth watching:
