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Behind the Aegis

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Sun Dec 8, 2019, 06:20 AM Dec 2019

(Jewish Group) Three of the impeachment witness lawyers were Jewish, and it matters

On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee launched impeachment hearings just hours after the Intelligence Committee, chaired by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., concluded its own impeachment inquiry.

The 300-page Intelligence Committee report concludes that President Donald Trump “placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States” in asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, calling it “the act of a president who viewed himself as unaccountable and determined to use his vast official powers to secure his reelection.”

It is now the Judiciary Committee’s task to decide whether to recommend articles of impeachment. And while the officials who appeared before Schiff’s committee were fact witnesses who described the events surrounding the Ukraine scandal, Judiciary Committee chair Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., brought three witnesses — all constitutional scholars — that he hoped would outline a theory of impeachment.

All three witnesses are Jewish: Noah Feldman of Harvard, Pamela Karlan of Stanford and Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina. So are Schiff and Nadler, and so was the Democrats’ counsel who directed the first 45 minutes of questioning, Norm Eisen.

Why does this matter?

Well, predictably, it mattered to anti-Semites.

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This will surely trigger some...just as this video from this Jew will also trigger others, but....



Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming.
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(Jewish Group) Three of the impeachment witness lawyers were Jewish, and it matters (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Dec 2019 OP
I didn't see it coming. I don't usually pay attention to surnames. Thank goodness for Karadeniz Dec 2019 #1
I never understand this. EllieBC Dec 2019 #2
It is a large proportion of Jews. Justice, justice shall ye pursue. I'm proud of them. JudyM Dec 2019 #3

EllieBC

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2. I never understand this.
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 11:42 AM
Dec 2019

Yes we have a lot of professionals in our communities. Probably at a higher proportion the community in general. We don’t fear money, we embrace education and success.

Our religion is even built on scholarly pursuits. Ever try to read a tract of Talmud???

Of course anti-Semites would notice last names. They are always looking for us to blame their problems on.

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