Letter to the editor: Impeachment coup

In case you’ve been busy and have not seen the news, here’s a summary.

For two months the Democrats concocting the impeachment of President Trump told us the reason for impeaching was “quid pro quo.” Then they discovered their base can’t grasp Latin, so they focus-group-tested “bribery” and fed us that line for two weeks. Ultimately, they abandoned including “bribery” as an article of impeachment. When a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about the dropping of it, she informed us, “I myself am not a lawyer, sometimes I act like one.” It makes you wonder what other “acting” San Fran Nan does?

Next came the release of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the investigation into the FBI-FISA warrant abuses. The anti-Trump media seemed panicked and talked themselves into knots. MSNBC assured us the “Trump campaign was not spied on.” On sister channel NBC, they admitted, “… undercover operatives (for the FBI) secretly recorded their conversations with two Trump campaign advisers.”

By the way, the “S” in FISA stands for “Surveillance,” and what exactly is the job description of an “undercover operative”? “Spying”? Do ya suppose?

My dictionary lists “spying” as synonym for “surveillance,” but when Trump says his campaign was spied on, the noooz says “Trump’s a liar who pushes conspiracy theories.”

Someday you can tell future generations: This is what it was like during the coup that tried to negate the results of our (last?) free and fair election and cancel our democracy. Maybe (hopefully) you’ll still have freedom of speech to do so.

C. Colpo

Burgettstown