Deepstate Prepares Underhanded Trap For Trump

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) spearheaded the effort to halt the $95 billion supplemental aid bill, with a special emphasis on the $60 billion allotted for Ukraine. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had hoped for a first vote on the bill Monday night.

“Pop the cork and open the champagne!” The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate are in route to Kiev! Paul mentioned Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the minority leader in the Senate, and Schumer. “They’re heading to Kiev with your money! They truly had neither the time nor the resources to take any action on our border.”

When every Republican stressed the absurdity of handing Ukraine billions when the United States’ southern border is still in disarray, Vance’s team also found another issue buried deep in the bill. It merits attention given that the Senate approved the package on Tuesday morning in spite of Republicans’ filibustering.

Vance warned on X that “buried in the bill’s language is an impeachment time bomb for the coming Trump administration if he tries to cease funding the conflict in Ukraine,” along with a note he claimed to have sent with all of his Republican colleagues. We have to oppose this terrible measure with our votes.

In a late-night interview with Tucker Carlson on X, Vance went into further detail about why this particular section was particularly risky and even anti-democratic.

“It doesn’t only finance Ukraine in 2024, and this is the most crucial aspect,” Vance said to Carlson regarding the assistance measure. In fact, it provides funding to Ukraine in 25 and 26.

He asserted that Schumer and his allies were attempting to guarantee that assistance for Ukraine would last well into next year. Vance identified one possible explanation for something being so evil.

“Now, what’s the problem with that? Imagine, for instance, if in 2025 we elect a new president. The legal commitments we are making to Ukraine now would shackle that president.”

Undoubtedly, there has been precedence.

“To sort of give you a feel of why this matters, Tucker, if you go back to 2019,” Vance said. “On the grounds that they had approved the funds for Ukraine and Trump had refused to transfer them there, the US House impeached the then-president in 2019.”

“So if Trump is elected again this year, he will conduct diplomacy,” the Ohio GOPer noted. “And there is a theoretical basis, a predicate, if you will, for impeaching Trump because they have attempted to tie his hands if that diplomacy does not involve delivering extra billions to Ukraine.”

In 2024, we’re not only giving Ukraine billions of dollars. We’re attempting to prevent the incoming president from carrying out diplomacy according to his terms,” Vance stated. “It is antidemocratic and will cause global conflict that never ends.”

In an interview, conservative commentator Dana Loesch questioned Paul, “What is this impeachment clause that’s hidden in the supplemental?” as word spread about the clause.

As a sort of joke, Paul said, “Well, you know, last week, I said, ‘Well, they impeached Trump during his presidency.'” He was already not president when they impeached him. Before he takes office, they will impeach him as the following step.

Paul went on, “They’re already covering their ‘you know what’ in case Trump wins.”

Lee, Paul, and Vance are not wrong.

Congress trying to take the diplomatic reins from whoever wins the 2024 presidential election doesn’t seem very democratic to members of both parties, who are always screaming about the risks of Trump and his supposed threat to democracy.

Even Elon Musk referred to it as “crazy.” It really is, too. As it happens, there are actual dangers to democracy everywhere. Particularly, it seems, in the most deliberate body on the planet.