When You Don’t Like the Narrative Just Make One Up

Or impeachment trials as I see them so far.

Elizabeth Bolton
3 min readNov 21, 2019

This is all proving to be an enormous waste of time and money. I don’t care how you feel about President Trump and whether you would rather he be gone or not. This is not how you do it; this is not how this country works.

With Nixon, we had clear recordings of him ordering the break-in at Watergate. With Clinton, we had recordings and videos of him standing before Congress and lying.

In both of those cases, there was no hearsay. There was no opinion of what people thought the President meant or what he did or didn’t do. It was all cut and dry, and there were no assumptions on anyone’s part.

I don’t like him

This is not grounds for impeachment. You need solid proof that an impeachable offense has occurred.

Currently, the charge they are trying to prove is bribery. That the President said, Ukraine had to announce specific investigations if they wanted any aid from the US.

That’s what all of these hearings are about. So far, not a single person can say that is what happened.

The exact opposite is what Ambassador Sondland said today. He told them that the President said that he wanted nothing from…

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Elizabeth Bolton

I am a writer, vet, absolutely a geek, and now an aspiring artist as I learn to draw. I will write just about anything. Sometimes serious, generally satirical