KEIN KIDDING: Demokrat plant, Unterausschuss für Terrorismus in Unterausschuss für die Untersuchung von TRUMP zu verwandeln!



Diese Geschichte im New Yorker klingt so absurd, dass Ihr erster Gedanke wahrscheinlich ist, dass es nicht wahr sein kann, dass es tatsächlich falsche Nachrichten sein müssen.

Aber der New Yorker lief wie ein echtes Stück und ehrlich gesagt, mit der Art und Weise, wie die Demokraten nach Trump gehen, hört es sich an, als könnte es wahr sein.

Hier ist der Hauptteil:
NEW YORKER – Congressional committees, like the priorities of the politicians who run them, change with the times. On Wednesday morning, Eliot Engel, the Democratic congressman from New York who has just taken over the chairmanship of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sank into an oversized leather chair in his office and told me that his first act as chairman will be to create a new subcommittee devoted to investigating President Trump.
After the 9/11 attacks, Engel’s predecessors on Foreign Affairs set up a new terrorism subcommittee, which underscored America’s sudden, obsessive focus on countering such threats. It is telling that this is the subcommittee that Engel will now eliminate in favor of his new investigative panel. There “wasn’t a great clamor” to keep the terrorism panel, Engel told me, whereas there is no end to the Trump foreign-policy scandals that his members are pushing to investigate. “We just thought, if we’re going to do something relevant in this era where Congress is going to reassert itself, where there are so many questionable activities of this Administration vis-à-vis foreign policy, that it made sense to have this.” Trump, in other words, is a bigger threat than terrorism. At least for now.
Foreign Affairs is not exactly an investigative sort of committee. In a different political moment, Engel’s top priority might be to hold hearings on the escalating conflict between Russia and Ukraine, or China’s increasingly hostile posture toward its neighbors, or the failures of American strategy in Afghanistan. Engel, who has represented the Bronx and parts of Westchester County in Congress since the late nineteen-eighties, is a relatively hawkish Democrat. He supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, though he later regretted it, and has long focussed on human rights and U.S. policy toward its neighbors in the Western Hemisphere.
But this is not the moment for such subjects. Those international crises will undoubtedly soon come up in Engel’s committee. They will not, however, top its agenda, which will be dominated, as so many other areas of our public life now are, by President Trump’s uniquely chaotic and unsettling approach to the rest of the world. Engel told me that he sees Trump as a practitioner of “fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants diplomacy” whose erratic approach to foreign policy escaped any real accountability during the past two years of Republican “rubber stamp” rule on Capitol Hill.
I asked for a list of what Engel proposed to investigate. It was long, although, he assured me, by no means exhaustive, since the subcommittee’s chair and membership have not yet been finalized. No matter who holds the gavel, the investigation is certain to start with the question of what, exactly, Trump agreed to in his private meeting with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, last summer. “It’s been many months since Helsinki, and we still don’t know what Putin and Trump talked about,” Engel said. He also pledged to look at “the business interests of the President” and the extent to which Trump’s financial dealings with places such as Russia and the Middle East have “affected what he’s done in foreign policy.”
Wenn dies wahr ist, dann ist es genau das, was Trump wiedergewählt und die Demokraten wieder aus dem Haus geworfen wird. Warum? Da es nicht nur dumm ist, ist es anstößig zu behaupten, Trump sei eine größere Bedrohung für diesen Staat als der Terrorismus, und einen Unterausschuss für Ermittlungen einzurichten.

Ich würde gerne glauben, dass viele in diesem Land, obwohl sie mit Trumps Politik nicht einverstanden sind, nicht mit diesem absurden Ausmaß der Belästigung von Trump einverstanden sind. Ich sage, ich würde gerne darüber nachdenken, weil ich keine Umfrage durchgeführt habe. Mir scheint jedoch, dass der Großteil der Vereinigten Staaten, die nicht in der Blase von Washington DC leben, nicht unter dem Niveau des Trump-Derangement-Syndroms leidet, das in den Büros der Demokraten im Haus existiert.

Das einzige, worüber ich mir Sorgen mache, ist, dass Trump auf diese Art von unnachgiebigen Angriffen reagiert. Wenn er seine Karten richtig spielt, wird das amerikanische Volk höchstwahrscheinlich mit dieser Art von Angriff sympathisch sein. Aber er hat eine Geschichte, in der er zu hart und auf eine hässliche Art und Weise zurückkämpft, und die Demokraten rechnen wahrscheinlich damit. Er muss sich bei all dem zumindest ein wenig abwägen und die Leute nicht entfremden, die in 2 Jahren seinen Rücken hätten.

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