{"id":308318,"date":"2017-05-15T23:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-push-for-trumps-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T23:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:54:43","slug":"the-push-for-trumps-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-push-for-trumps-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Push for Trump\u2019s Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong> Establishment voices are escalating their calls for President Trump\u2019s impeachment, even without any public evidence that his campaign colluded with Russia, reports Robert Parry.<\/p>\n<p>By Robert Parry<\/p>\n<p>The Russia-gate affair has taken a strange turn as advocates for President Trump\u2019s removal say his ouster should take precedence over completing the investigation and actually seeing how much there is there \u2013 whereas at least one target of the inquiry wants the U.S. government to put its cards on the table.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22797\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM-300x206.png\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22797\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM-160x110.png 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM.png 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22797\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM-300x206.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM-768x526.png 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM-160x110.png 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-01-at-6.04.52-PM.png 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump being sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017. (Screen shot from Whitehouse.gov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who is reportedly under an FBI counterintelligence investigation for his contacts with Russians, has called on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is overseeing the investigation, to immediately release \u201cany documents related to [the Obama administration\u2019s] alleged wiretapping of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Page\u2019s view, it was the Obama administration\u2019s spreading of allegations about the Trump campaign\u2019s connections to Russia that represented \u201cgovernment meddling in the 2016 election,\u201d rather than Russia\u2019s alleged hacking Democratic emails and publicizing them via WikiLeaks, a claim made by President Obama\u2019s intelligence chiefs but denied by WikiLeaks and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, what has been perhaps most remarkable about the entire Russia-gate affair is that it has been conducted with almost no evidence being shared with the American people. Thus, we have the prospect of a duly elected President of the United States being targeted for removal by the political and media Establishment without the citizens being let in on exactly what evidence exists and how significant it is.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment spotlight has already shifted from the underlying issue of whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russians to President Trump\u2019s inept firing of FBI Director James Comey, who played a key role in sinking Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign by reopening an investigation into possible security breaches in her use of a private email server while Secretary of State \u2014 before Comey took another star turn in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/05\/15\/the-push-for-trumps-impeachment\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Establishment voices are escalating their calls for President Trump\u2019s impeachment, even without any public evidence that his campaign colluded with Russia, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The Russia-gate affair has taken a strange turn as advocates for President Trump\u2019s removal say his ouster should take precedence over completing the investigation and actually seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}