John Durham, the U.S. attorney reviewing the origins of the 2016 counterintelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign, is probing a wider timeline than previously known, according to multiple senior administration officials. Fox News previously reported that Durham would be reviewing the days leading up to the 2016 election and through the inauguration.
However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.
Durham, known as a "hard-charging, bulldog" prosecutor, according to a source, has been focusing on the use and assignments of FBI informants, as well as alleged improper issuance of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants. Durham was asked to help Barr to "ensure that intelligence collection activities by the U.S. government related to the Trump 2016 presidential campaign were lawful and appropriate."
Pelosi and gang are already screaming bloody murder over this before anything has even come back, calling it a "cover up of the cover up". Not even sure what that means, other than Democrats and their cronies (including Mueller and his gang) spent nearly three years running down a conspiracy theory that our President conspired with "the Russians" to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.
The fact that five separate investigations found no evidence does not make a cover up. It means that there was no real reason to hold five investigations in the first place. But that is the battle cry of your average every day garden variety tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist. The lack of evidence of your conspiracy theory is only proof of a good cover up.
All that being said, the behavior of the former Administration intelligence heads are acting mighty odd these days, starting with some of Brennan's ramblings and ending with Clapper repeating more than once that he was only "acting on orders of the President". The fact that Pelosi and other prominent Democrats are working double time to try to downplay the credibility of Durham and his investigation tells me that they are expecting the worst.
After this one is over, and everything is exposed... look for them to kick it into high gear with a good old fashioned investigation of Quid Pro Joe Biden and his Ukrainian Chinese involved son Hunter!
Meanwhile, Democrats will have their fun secretly investigating their telephone call conspiracy theory with their secret unidentified witnesses that nobody but them ever get to talk to.
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Michael Conway SAYS
The White House's impeachment letter was so wrong that even James K. Polk knew better in 1846
The caustic, meandering 8-page missive from counsel Pat Cipollone to the House was incorrect on the law, history and politics.
Oct. 9, 2019, 12:43 PM CDT
By Michael Conway, Former counsel, U.S. House Judiciary Committee
The Trump administration’s ill-conceived blatant defiance of congressional demands for the testimony of State Department witnesses and documents in its ongoing impeachment inquiry into the Ukraine scandal has dramatically increased the likelihood that the president will be impeached.
Donald Trump's lawless flouting of the Constitution adds an independent ground for his impeachment to the questions already being investigated, and the collateral damage to other administration officials is the real prospect of criminal prosecution for obstructing a congressional investigation — though such a prosecution would have to be pursued by a future Justice Department.
The latest example of presidential stonewalling occurred Tuesday when Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union whose text messages have revealed his deep personal involvement in the administration’s efforts to press Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Joe Biden and his son, abruptly refused to testify. During the night, administration officials had ordered Sondland not to appear; Sondland also passed documents sought by Congress to the State Department, where they remain hidden.
The White House’s intransigence further flared late Tuesday in a caustic and meandering 8-page letter from White House counsel Pat Cipollone to House committee chairmen declaring that no administration officials will appear to testify or provide documents sought in the impeachment inquiry, claiming that the entire process is unconstitutional and a violation of due process, among other poorly-sourced legal and primarily political arguments.
The House Democrats’ immediate and blunt response was the issuance of a subpoena for Sondland to produce documents and give his deposition Oct. 16.
The White House is on thin ice. The words of the Constitution, the history of prior American impeachments, the adoption in 1974 by the House Judiciary Committee of Article III of impeachment against President Richard Nixon and a 1993 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court refute the legitimacy of the White House’s battle plan to interfere with impeachment proceedings.
The Constitution, for one, vests the “sole power of impeachment” in the House of Representatives and, in an impeachment proceeding, it has the wide-ranging ability to demand both documents and testimony.
In its 1974 final report in the impeachment of Nixon, the Judiciary Committee described the sweeping breadth of congressional impeachment power to require testimony and documents from the executive branch. For instance, when President James Polk in 1846 declined to provide information to a House committee in a legislative investigation, he “cheerfully admitted” the House’s sweeping power to investigate during an impeachment inquiry, the report stated.
Polk wrote that “the power of the House in the pursuit of this object [impeachment] would penetrate into the most secret recesses of the Executive Departments. It could command the attendance of any and every agent of the Government, and compel them to produce all papers, public or private, official or unofficial and to testify on oath to all facts within their knowledge.”
CONTINUED
This actually occurred in the 1867 impeachment proceedings of President Andrew Johnson: “Cabinet officers and presidential aides were questioned in detail about Cabinet meetings and private conversations with the President;” “[w]itnesses answered detailed questions on the opinions of the President, statements made by the President, and advice given to the President,” the 1974 report explained.
Nixon, for his part, famously refused to comply with Judiciary Committee subpoenas for White House tapes. In the immediate aftermath, the committee rejected a motion to recommend that the House hold Nixon in contempt because the consequences of his stonewalling demanded a more serious response: impeachment.
The Supreme Court, too, rejected the president’s executive privilege claim in ruling 8-0 that Nixon had to produce White House tapes in response to a subpoena in a criminal trial.
During the debate over whether the committee should adopt Article III — impeaching Nixon for interfering with the House’s sole power of impeachment by defying committee subpoenas — Rep. Robert McClory, R-Ill., spoke eloquently in favor of its adoption. “We have this challenge on the part of the Executive with respect to our authority,” he said. “And if we think of the whole process of impeachment, let us recognize that this is a power which is preeminent, which makes the Congress of the United States dominant.
“It bridges the separation of powers and gives us and reposes in us the responsibility to fulfill this mission,” he added. “And the only way we can do it is through acting favorably on Article III.”
McClory predicted that, if a future president were subject to impeachment, adopting Article III would be a “precedent that we might establish here [that] would be effective then.” McClory and another Republican then joined 19 Democrats in adopting Article III.
History aside, Cipollone’s central legal claim that the current impeachment inquiry denies Trump due process is too specious to be overlooked. Even an essay by Stephen Presser in the conservative Heritage Foundation’s “Guide to the Constitution” states:
“The appropriate place of bringing charges of impeachment, which power is analogous to the bringing of criminal charges by a grand jury, is in the lower house of the legislature. Just as the grand and petit juries are popular institutions, so it made sense to have the branch closest to the people charged with this indictment-like power.”
Exactly so. And like a grand jury, witnesses are not entitled to be accompanied by counsel when they testify, and the subject’s lawyers have no right to attend.
Beyond that, the law is clear that the judicial branch cannot and will not interfere in the legislative branch’s impeachment prerogatives. In 1993, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an impeached and convicted federal judge Walter Nixon could not challenge in court the Senate trial removing him.
Chief Justice William Rehnquist referred to the constitutional language giving the House the “sole” power to impeach and the Senate the “sole” power to try the articles of impeachment, writing: “The common sense meaning of the word ‘sole’ is that the Senate alone shall have the authority to determine if an individual should be acquitted or convicted.” The court ruled that the Senate’s conduct could not be reviewed by the courts as it is a “political question.”
Similarly, the House impeachment procedures are established in its sole discretion and may not be challenged on any basis in court.
The text of the Constitution and history will doom Trump’s flailing effort to escape the consequences of his actions. The House will do its duty, likely giving 100 senators a vote that will determine how each will be viewed by history — and his or her constituents in the elections to come.
John Solomon has proven that Ukraine reopened the Biden case months before The Trump phone call.
Oops.
my god can not think on your own pedophile?
Fuck you are stupid and boring
No one reads your spammed shit we all skip it and always have.
Get a life
The ground invasion is underway
An Impeachment Inquiry is not a trial, it is similar to a Grand Jury Investigation. Should Articles of Impeachment are drawn and voted upon then a trial commences in the senate and witnesses can be summoned.
Unless the President resigns or not convicted, the Constitution would be irrelevant because he can do anything he wants to do.
Nobody can trust the United States because of Trump.
Turkey begins offensive aimed at Kurdish fighters in Syria
By LEFTERIS PITARAKIS and SARAH EL DEEB
43 mins ago
AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Turkey launched airstrikes and fired artillery aimed at crushing Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday after U.S. troops pulled back from the area, paving the way for an assault on forces that have long been allied with the United States.
Shepherd Smith on Faux News is appalled.
Your in support for a dictatorship.
Enabling the DOJ to indict and jail, the ex President Obama and the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Seig Heil Mr. President Trump
Abandoned the Kurds in favor of business dealings in Turkey.
He has extensive financial interests in Turkey.
His decision to withdraw from Syria, despite being warned by the military department, is going to lead to a slaughter of the Kurds who defeated ISIS.
Piss off Roger the Syrian problem is squarely at the feet of Bunghole and Cankles
the Syrian problem is squarely at the feet of Bunghole and Cankles
Just in case you missed it you dumb fuck.....Trump is your leader and pulled the troops after erdrogan threatened to damage his trump towers in turkey......Obama's long gone and you can't forget him!!!!!! Sad you are such a idiot....!!!
Somebody declared red lines in Syria then let them cross the lines
You fat dumbfuck
Obama was the guy who allied with the kurds, provided them arms and aligned with them to beat the snot out of them!!! Now you got 10K isis fighters being held by the kurds who will probably escape and start the bullshit all over again...One suggestion Paula, you need to take trumps dick out your old fat white ass!!!!!1 Dayum you are a dumb fucking asshole!!!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/world/middleeast/obama-syria-kurds-isis-turkey-military-commandos.html
From Obama to Trump: U.S. Presidents and the Kurdish Rhetoric
thekurdishproject.org/obama-trump-u-s-presidents...
On Thursday, August 7, 2016, President Obama announced authorization for limited airstrikes against ISIL in Southern/Iraqi Kurdistan, scrambling to avert the fall of the Kurdish capital, Erbil. President Obama also said that American military aircraft had dropped food and water to tens of thousands of Yazidi Kurds, who were trapped on the barren range of Mount Sinjar in Northwestern Iraq after their having fled the threat of ISIL.
And you fucking loser....what the fuck did the red line have anything to do with trumps coitus interruptus??????? Dayum you are a trump dick sucking idiot!!!!!
Cali, that is too funny.
Matt Drudge Sours on Trump
October 9, 2019 at 3:32 pm EDT N: “Not only is Drudge’s website aggressively covering the impeachment news, it is doing so by featuring commentary from some of the president’s fiercest critics or the harshest criticism of him.”
OH NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHEN YOU'VE EVEN LOST MATT DRUDGE.....
WHY, HE USED TO BE ALMOST AS BIG
A LAPDOG FOR TRUMP AS CH IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh look the attention crumb licker is back.
James, you pointing out the Drudge Report website is doing balanced reporting is why more Americans get their news there then about any where else.
Just think if CNN did some balanced reporting .... I know. Unthinkable.
"He has extensive financial interests in Turkey." Clinically Depressed Roger
Really , Name 5 of them?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Abandoned the Kurds in favor of business dealings in Turkey.
He has extensive financial interests in Turkey.
turkey is a member of your beloved NATO, YOU DUMB FUCK.
therefore we are treaty-bound by your beloved NATO to support turkey YOU DUMB FUCK.
The Full Whistleblower Memo
October 9, 2019 at 3:27 pm EDT
CBS News has the full contents of what appears to be a memo written by the whistleblower ONE DAY after President Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July.
“The official asserted that the President used the call to persuade Ukrainian authorities to investigate his political rivals, chiefly former Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter.
"The official stated that THERE WAS ALREADY A CONVERSATION UNDERWAY WITH WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS ABOUT HOW TO HANDLE THE DISCUSSION BECAUSE...
THE PRESIDENT HAD CLEARLY COMMITTED A CRIMINAL ACT BY URGING A FOREIGN POWER TO INVESTIGATE A U. S. PERSON FOR THE PURPOSES OF ADVANCING HIS OWN REELECTION BID IN 2020.”
WOW. WHITE HOUSE LAWYERS WERE ALREADY FRANTICALLY WORKING ON IT.
BUT IT WAS "PERFECT," NOTHING WRONG, NO NOTHING WRONG WITH DOING THAT AT ALL. NO, NOT AT ALL. (TRUMP LATER SAID SO.)
No, just a CRIMINAL ACT, that's all.
turkey is a member of your beloved NATO,
And are about as trustworthy as you, you dumb fuck....they just bought SAM missiles from Putin!!!! I'm sure trump blessed that transaction also!!!!! They put a stick in trumps eye and smiled!!!!! Asshole
Really , Name 5 of them?
Trump towers in istanbul worth millions and millions of dollars Hugely successful and making lots of money......quote donnie trump....
Trump just tweeted that the Kurds did not help in WW II or at Normandy!!!!!! His ignorance is more staggering than Paulas desire to suck his dick!!!!!
the only thing frantic around here pederast is you and the alky.
LOL.
poor alky is suddenly a warhawk and a NATO foe, consumed by so much trump hatred and TDS he's lost track of the fact that it was, as cali clearly stated, 0linsky's infamous "red line" that's at the genesis of the kurds current pickle.
like it or not we are treaty bound to to treat turkey with fairness and respect. two concepts often foreign to the left.
what's also interesting is that when saddam hussein gassed 100,000 kurds in iraq, American liberals had zero fucks to give. suddenly the plight of the kurds is paramount.
what's changed?
besides trump becoming president that is.
Well...
We can either take the word of the anonymous Democratic operative with close working ties to a 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate working with an IG who didn't follow the rules...
or we can read the transcripts themselves.
Who you gonna believe? The partisan complainant or your own lying eyes?
Hillary is gearing up for another run.
Her position. "I won last time"
🤣
Really , Name 5 of them?
Alky , that is 1, 4 to go boi.
from James's Drudge
"Exclusive poll: Most think Trump will be impeached and win 2020 reelection"
"Is she Kidding" on Hillary making a Third run for President
Really , Name 5 of them?
Hey you goat fucking idiot....Roger stated extensive financial interests......His towers are extensive financial interests asshole!!!!! Numbers are only relevant to idiots like you!!!!!
ROGER SAID:
"He has extensive financial interests in Turkey."
KANSAS DUMBASS: Really, Name 5 of them?
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THANKS FOR ASKING:
Donald Trump's longtime business connections in Turkey back in the spotlight
The president's decision to remove troops from Northern Syria has put renewed focus on his relationship with Turkish President Erdogan.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s sudden decision to pull U.S. troops out of Northern Syria late Sunday night has drawn harsh rebukes from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, raised alarm bells among America’s allies across the globe and sent the Pentagon and the State Department scrambling to contain the fallout.
While the president has defended the decision as part of his longtime promise to end U.S. military involvement in the region, even his staunchest supporters at home warned that it has essentially given Turkey a green light for a major military offensive against the Kurdish minority there, a key U.S. ally in the fight against the Islamic State militant group and a longtime target of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The president has denied that the U.S. is abandoning the Kurds, tweeting on Tuesday that, "we may be in the process of leaving Syria, but in no way have we abandoned the Kurds, who are special people and wonderful fighters.”
A call Sunday between Trump and Erdogan, which NBC News reported was set up to ease Erdogan’s anger for not getting a one-on-one meeting with Trump at last month’s United Nations General Assembly gathering, was the latest chapter in a relationship that goes back to before the president’s election and marked yet another milestone Tuesday when Trump announced that he is inviting Erdogan to the White House in November.
Trump has appeared to side with Erdogan at times throughout his presidency. For example, when Republican senators sought to punish Turkey this summer for its purchase of a Russian missile defense system by pushing the president to impose congressionally mandated sanctions, Trump invited them to a White House meeting to ask for "flexibility" in dealing with the issue. Those sanctions have not been implemented.
And the fact that Trump made his decision to pull the U.S. troops out of Syria shortly after the phone call with Erdogan has raised alarm bells from policymakers, as well as government ethics watchdog groups who have long seen Trump’s extensive business interests as a potential area for conflicts of interest.
“It’s absolutely staggering” that Trump made a decision that “has put us on the brink of causing genocide in Syria,” said Wendy Sherman, an undersecretary at the State Department during the Obama administration. The decision underscores the “impulsiveness” and “the transactional, quid pro quo-ness of the president,” she said.
That “transactional” charge is based on the Trump family’s multitude of continuing business entities and interests, all separated from the president — at least on paper — by the trust that now controls them. But the president is the beneficiary of that trust and two of his children have roles in it.
CBS News has the full contents of what appears to be a memo written by the whistleblower ONE DAY after President Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July.
that's nice.
the rest of us have the actual fucking transcript.
this is actually becoming a lot of fun to watch. the left is in full-on batshit, cray cray, TDS turned up to 11 mode...
...and i'm buying popcorn by the 5 gallon pail.
good times.
"It always is a concern that those business ties, at the very least, color his judgment," Sherman said, "and at the very worst are the reasons for his judgment."
Trump and his family have long had business ties in and with Turkey, THE MOST VISIBLE EXAMPLE being the Trump Towers Istanbul, which licenses the Trump name. The Trump Organization describes the buildings on its website as “a landmark in the historic city of Istanbul” and it is the organization’s first and only office and residential tower in Europe, with offices, apartments and upscale shops. The Washington Post has reported that the organization was paid up to $10 million to put the Trump name on the two buildings.
Erdogan attended the opening ceremony of the office and residential towers in 2012 and Ivanka Trump tweeted a message thanking him for attending, although a photo of Erdogan at the ribbon cutting has been removed from his Facebook page. WHY? NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT!
Ivanka Trump
✔
@IvankaTrump
Thank you Prime Minister Erdogan for joining us yesterday to celebrate the launch of #TrumpTowers Istanbul!
According to a review of Trump family social media posts, Ivanka Trump made business trips to Turkey in 2009, 2010 and 2012.
In 2015, Trump acknowledged having a potential “conflict” when it came to issues involving Turkey.
“I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major, major building in Istanbul,” Trump said in 2015. “It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers — two towers, instead of one, not the usual one, it’s two,” Trump said in an interview with Stephen Bannon, then chairman of Breitbart News.
A lawsuit filed by 29 senators and 186 House Democrats — one of three lawsuits that have alleged that Trump is in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clauses, which bar the president from receiving monetary or other benefits of value from foreign or U.S. state entities while in office — claims that Turkey has among the highest number of foreign business ventures in which Trump is at least a partial owner, with 119 listed. Others include China, with 115, and the Philippines, with 121.
Businesses linked to the Turkish government are also major patrons of the Trump Organization. Turkish officials have made 14 visits to Trump properties, more than any other country, according to an analysis performed for NBC News by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW.
Government watchdogs say those ties mixed with unpredictable policymaking are precisely why Trump’s business dealings have been so concerning, especially since the president has refused to divest from them or establish a blind trust.
Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration who has been a frequent Trump critic, says the lack of any buffer between the president and his business interests is both a violation of the Constitution’s Emoluments clause as well as long-held presidential precedent.
“Now you’ve got his business interests at the negotiating table in addition to everything else,” Painter told NBC News.
He said Turkey "had a democracy that is flipping and going in the wrong direction.
“Can you imagine if the Roosevelt family had business interests in Germany in the 1930s” before World War II? he asked. “It creates points of vulnerability, and that’s where we are.
“You can’t have a president with business interests in hot spots all over the world,” Painter added.
In the summer of 2016, Erdogan called for the removal of the Trump name from the buildings after Trump called for a ban on individuals from certain Muslim countries traveling to the United States.
Then, in November 2016, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, soon to be Trump's first national security adviser, wrote an op-ed favorable to Erdogan, who has consolidated his power and locked up thousands of people after a failed 2016 military coup, including many who had nothing to do with it.
Flynn, who was paid $530,000 for consulting work in Turkey prior to the 2016 election, VIOLATED U. S. LAW IN NOT REGISTERING with the U.S. government for the work until almost a month after he was fired as Trump’s national security adviser in February 2017.
Trump, at the time, said the U.S. shouldn’t criticize Erdogan for a CRACKDOWN that’s included TAKING OVER DOZENS OF TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS AND ARRESTING REPORTERS, according to Human Rights Watch. He even told reporters he gave “GREAT CREDIT to him FOR TURNING IT AROUND."
[YEAH, THAT'S WAS REAL "GOOD," TURNING IT AROUND LIKE THAT. IT'S THE VERY SORT OF THING OUR OWN WANTTA BE DICTATOR WOULD JUST LOVE TO DO!!!]
“It’s exactly why you don’t want the president to be in business,” said David Cay Johnston, who wrote a book, “It’s Even Worse Than You Think,” that examines Trump’s foreign conflicts of interest. “You don’t know whose water he’s carrying, except in Donald’s case, it’s always his own water.”
Alan Garten, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, did not respond to a request for comment.
Ivanka Trump’s main business contact in Turkey has been Mehmet Ali Yalcindag, who is the son-in-law of Dogan Holding founder Aydin Dogan, the developer behind the Trump Towers in Istanbul.
Yalcindag considers himself a close friend of Trump and his family. After the Dogans invested $400 million in Trump Towers, Trump said “we have a great, great friendship and relationship with them.”
"They've really become beyond partners," Trump said in 2012.
Yalcindag reportedly attended Trump’s 2016 election victory celebration in New York City on election night. He subsequently became president of the Turkish-American Business Council (TAIK), a group that in 2017 held a three-day conference inside the Trump International Hotel in Washington, attended by U.S. government notables including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
TAIK and Dogan Holdings did not respond to requests for comment and Yalcindag could not be reached for comment.
Last year, in an interview with several journalists, Yalcindag expressed CONFIDENCE THAT TRUMP WOULD ULTIMATELY sympathize with Turkey’s approach to foreign policy.[KILLING KURDS, IOW]
“U.S. President Donald Trump thinks regional problems should be resolved by regional actors. In this regard, the U.S. should see what is happening on Turkey’s borders from the point of view of its strategic ally, Turkey,” Yalcindag said.
According to Trump’s financial disclosure forms, the Trump business relating to the licensing of the Trump name to the Trump Towers Istanbul property in Turkey earned him $1 million to $5 million in royalties in 2015 and 2016
Extensive is 1, odd Roger. I really hoped you could come thru on this one, but again you own Failure.
...said Wendy Sherman, an undersecretary at the State Department during the Obama administration.
ah yes. wendy sherman.
the author of bubba's failed nuke policy with north korea, and also the author of 0linsky and Lurch's beloved iran deal that trump flushed down the shitter where it belonged.
golly pederast, thanks for reminding us of THAT feckless cunt.
everything she touched turned to shit.
KANSAS DUMBASS said:
Business interests in Turkey? Really, name 5.
A lawsuit filed by 29 senators and 186 House Democrats — one of three lawsuits that have alleged that Trump is in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clauses, which bar the president from receiving monetary or other benefits of value from foreign or U.S. state entities while in office — claims that TURKEY HAS AMONG THE HIGHREST NUMBER OF FOREIGN BUSINESS VENTURES IN WHICH TRUMP IS AT LEAST A PARTIAL OWNER WITH 119 LISTED.
I seriously don’t think fatty, the pedophile or liver have the brains of a block of cheese
House Democrats Plan New Wave of Subpoenas
October 9, 2019 at 5:02 pm EDT
“House Democrats are preparing a flurry of subpoenas in the face of the Trump administration’s stonewalling of their impeachment investigation, amid a new debate within their caucus over holding a vote to formally authorize the inquiry in order to call the White House’s bluff,” CNN reports.
“In the face of the blistering White House letter refusing to cooperate with their probe, Democrats expect they are likely done with any voluntary interviews for most witnesses… And Democrats are now threatening subpoenas to associates of Rudy Giuliani and considering them for current State Department officials, including former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.”
And I know the loser salesman has trumps dick stuck in his mouth.....YOU WIN BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
TRUMP IS AT LEAST A PARTIAL OWNER WITH 119 LISTED.
I’m a partial owner in Boeing you stupid pedophile
a GREAT GREAT SONG sung by one of the most extraordinary and best looking female singers of our or any time
DEDICATED TO THE POOR, POOR MISTREATED PRESIDENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srpwqf2MWAw
🤣@emotionaltrainwreckJane
’m a partial owner in Boeing you stupid pedoph
You keep proving why you are a lowly salesman with stupidity like that!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Poor Linda not being able to perform anymore....one of her best songs!!!!! Thanx and relevant to numb nutz trump!!!!!
Until there's a full vote, this is a Pelosi impeachment effort rather than a House impeachment process
-Jonathan Turkey
She is handling it very poorly.
You can only get it this wrong if your Alky.
"
Roger AmickFebruary 1, 2019 at 5:44 AM
His budgets will add $8.3 trillion in four years.
In eight years it will increase by $16.6 trillion"
His budget and tax cuts have increased the debt over obama from 600 billion to 984 billion this year.....which could be very close to the 8.3 total; during his realm you dumb fuck.....the only thing wrong is trumps dick being stuck in your mouth you lard assed dumb fuck!!!!
26 July 2019
The following is a record of a conversation I had this afternoon with a White House official about the telephone call yesterday morning between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The official who listened to the entirety of the phone call was visibly shaken by what had transpired and seemed keen to inform a trusted colleague within the U.S. national security apparatus about the call. After my call with this official I [redacted] returned to my office, and wrote up my best recollection of what I had heard.
The official described the call as "crazy," "frightening" and "completely lacking in substance related to national security." The official asserted that the President used the call to persuade Ukrainian authorities to investigate his political rivals, chiefly former Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter. The official stated that there was already a conversation underway with White House lawyers about how to handle the discussion because, in the official's view, the President had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own reelection bid in 2020.
The phone call lasted approximately half an hour. The two leaders spoke through interpreters. My conversation with the official only lasted a few minutes, and as a result, I only received highlights:
The President asserted that "it all started in Ukraine," referring to the allegations of foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent investigation into the Trump campaign's contact with Russian individuals
The President asked Zelenskyy to locate the "Crowdstrike server" and turn it over to the United States, claiming that Crowdstrike is "a Ukrainian company," (Note: This appears to be a reference to the DNC server from which Russian hackers stole data and emails that were subsequently leaked in mid-2016; the DNC hired cyber security firm Crowdstrike to do the forensic analysis, which informed the FBI's investigation. It is not clear what the president was referring to when he claimed Crowdstrike is a Ukrainian company; one of its cofounders was born in Moscow.)
The President told Zelenskyy that he would be sending his personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to Ukraine soon and requested that Zelenskyy meet with him. Zelenskyy reluctantly agreed that, if Giuliani traveled to Ukraine, he would see him.
The President raised the case of Burisma Holdings, Hunter Biden's role in the company, and former Vice President Biden's role in setting Ukraine policy. The President urged Zelenskyy to [end page 1] investigate the Bidens and stated that Giuliani would discuss this topic further with Zelenskyy during his trip to Kyiv.
The President urged Zelenskyy not to fire Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, who the President claimed was doing a good job. (Note: Lutsenko has spearheaded various politicized investigations, including on Burisma Holdings and alleged "Ukrainian interference" in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Lutsenko is widely reviled in Ukraine, and Zelenskyy has pledged to fire him but has been unable to secure approval from the legislature.)
The President stated that he wanted Attorney General William Barr to speak with Zelenskyy as soon as possible. (Note: It was not clear whether this conversation was to be in reference to Crowdstrike or the investigations of the Bidens.)
The President reiterated his concern that Zelenskyy was surrounded by people who were enemies of the President, including "bad oligarchs."
The President did not raise security assistance. According to the official, Zelenskyy demurred in response to most of the President's requests.
I did not review a transcript or written notes, but the official informed me that they exist.
The standard White House practice for Presidential-level phone calls with world leaders is for the White House Situation Room to produce a word-for-word electronic transcript that memorializes the call. The transcript is typically then circulated to key White House officials to be transformed into a formal memorandum that is distributed as an eyes-only document, to the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Director of the CIA.
In this case, the official told me that such a transcript had indeed been produced and was being treated very sensitively, in hard copy only. Moreover, several additional senior White House officials listened to the entire phone call in an adjacent room in the Situation Room suite and they presumably took written notes on the call.
The official did not know whether the President was aware that other people were listening and that the call was being transcribed. The official also was not certain whether anyone else was in the Oval Office with the President during the call.
On the Ukrainian side, it is unclear who listened to the call or whether a record was produced.
Read the whistleblower's memo about Trump's Ukraine call, as described to CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-whistleblower-complaint-read-full-text-whistleblower-memo-trump-ukraine-call-described-cbs-news-exclusive/
Just for the kput'z
Trump and his family have long had business ties in and with Turkey, the most visible example being the Trump Towers Istanbul, which licenses the Trump name. The Trump Organization describes the buildings on its website as “a landmark in the historic city of Istanbul” and it is the organization’s first and only office and residential tower in Europe, with offices, apartments and upscale shops. The Washington Post has reported that the organization was paid up to $10 million to put the Trump name on the two buildings.
Erdogan attended the opening ceremony of the office and residential towers in 2012 and Ivanka Trump tweeted a message thanking him for attending, although a photo of Erdogan at the ribbon cutting has been removed from his Facebook page.
According to a review of Trump family social media posts, Ivanka Trump made business trips to Turkey in 2009, 2010 and 2012.
In 2015, Trump acknowledged having a potential “conflict” when it came to issues involving Turkey.
“I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major, major building in Istanbul,” Trump said in 2015. “It’s a tremendously successful job. It’s called Trump Towers — two towers, instead of one, not the usual one, it’s two,” Trump said in an interview with Stephen Bannon, then chairman of Breitbart News.
A lawsuit filed by 29 senators and 186 House Democrats — one of three lawsuits that have alleged that Trump is in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clauses, which bar the president from receiving monetary or other benefits of value from foreign or U.S. state entities while in office — claims that Turkey has among the highest number of foreign business ventures in which Trump is at least a partial owner, with 119 listed. Others include China, with 115, and the Philippines, with 121.
Businesses linked to the Turkish government are also major patrons of the Trump Organization. Turkish officials have made 14 visits to Trump properties, more than any other country, according to an analysis performed for NBC News by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/donald-trump-s-longtime-business-connections-turkey-back-spotlight-n1064011
Ty Roger.
Businesses linked to the Turkish government are also major patrons of the Trump Organization. Turkish officials have made 14 visits to Trump properties,
Here is what the Kurds were doing during WW2 you Toe rag! Several large scale Kurdish revolts in 1925, 1930 and 1938 were suppressed by the Turkish government and more than one million Kurds were forcibly relocated between 1925 and 1938. The use of Kurdish language, dress, folklore, and names were banned and the Kurdish-inhabited areas remained under martial law until 1946. They were in Turkish concentration camps you rat faced moron!
Trump Pushed to Drop Charges Against Giuliani Client
October 9, 2019 at 6:51 pm EDT
“President Trump pressed then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani,” Bloomberg reports.
“Tillerson refused, arguing it would constitute interference in an ongoing investigation of the trader, Reza Zarrab, according to the people. They said other participants in the Oval Office were shocked by the request.”
Democrats Feel They Have Enough to Impeach Trump
October 9, 2019 at 6:47 pm EDT
“House Democrats are increasingly confident they have all the evidence they need to impeach President Trump for obstructing their investigations,” Politico reports.
“But they’re not prepared to impeach Trump on obstruction of Congress alone. As they contemplate their impeachment strategy, Democrats say they prefer any obstruction charge to play a supporting, rather than starring, role in their efforts.”
GOOD THINKING.
Majority Want Trump Impeached and Removed
October 9, 2019 at 6:18 pm EDT
A new FOX NEWS POLL finds 51% of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, while another 4% want him impeached but not removed, and 40% oppose impeachment altogether.
“Since July, support for impeachment increased among voters of all stripes: up 11 points among Democrats, 5 points among Republicans, and 3 among independents. Support also went up among some of Trump’s key constituencies, including white evangelical Christians (+5 points), white men without a college degree (+8), and rural whites (+10).”
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Read the whistleblower's memo about Trump's Ukraine call, as described to CBS News
nah, i'm good alky. i've got the transcript. i certainly don't need a book report written by some nickledick TDS-afflicted asshat like yourself.
but thanks for asking.
oh, and by the way, we're talking about pulling fifty, as in 50, (as in one less than 51 and one more than 49) troops out of syria.
50. this is why fainting couches from coast to coast are littered with asshats?
this is what everyone is going apeshit over thanks to their over the top Stage IV TDS?
and yes, trump has business interests in turkey. he has business interests all over the fucking world.
that's what happens when you elect a guy with experience signing the front of a paycheck and not just the back. this may seem foreign to many, and rightly so i suppose. trump is the first president of my lifetime who came from the private, and not the public sector.
fucking deal with it people. he's your president.
Roger where were you when my sister’s husband’s family were being slaughtered by Pol Pot? Oh yeah, being pussies and proud you got us out of Southeast Asia.
The Kurds and Turks have hated on each other pre-Mo.
Roger where were you when my sister’s husband’s family were being slaughtered by Pol Pot?
that would be the draft that the alky dodged. prophetic, i'd say. had he gone they might have bounced his ass on a section 8.
The history of Cambodia is about the saddest fucking thing you could ever learn.
Man does shitty things to man and they did it pre-Trump
I just hope Erdogan overplays it and pays.
James...
That was pretty much the Democrats in the poll.
Change the demographics and you change the bottom line.
Their polling went from:
41-39-20 (Dem/Rep/Ind) in Jan
to 44-41-14 in March
to 46-41-13 a June...
to now having three polls in a row (Aug, Sept, Oct) with the polling sample showing Democrats at either 48% or 49% of the sample.
So you are polling on impeachment with basically half of the sample as Democrats?
Hard to believe it wasn't even higher than 51%
Will you do me a favor???
High-level trade talks between U.S. and Chinese negotiators are slated to resume in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, providing an opportunity for both sides to make progress on a deal before the next tranches of tariffs on Chinese imports take effect.
On the polling.
During the first hearings of the Nixon impeachment hearings, only about 27% were in favor of impeaching him.
20% of Republicans support the inquiry into the impeachment hearings.
Jumping to conclusions about this President, is going to make you look foolish.
Right now, the biggest thing is to make sure that the people get out and vote.
Let me guess
Rassmussun?
A record of respondents in a Fox News Poll said they wanted President Trump impeached and removed from office.
The poll released Wednesday found 51 percent of respondents supported Trump's impeachment and removal from office. Four percent of participants said the president should be impeached but not removed, and 40 percent are completely against impeachment.
Support for impeachment and removal has risen 9 points since July, increasing 11 points among Democrats, 5 points among Republicans and 3 points among independents.
Voters in swing counties, defined as where Hillary Clinton and Trump were within 10 points in the 2016 election, supported impeachment at a rate of 52 percent, 10 points above a comparable population in July.
Some demographics that typically back the president also had increased support for impeachment, with a 5 point increase among white evangelical Christians, an 8 point increase among white men without a college degree and a 10 point increase among rural whites.
Among the 40 percent against impeachment, respondents cited as reasons: 21 percent thought Trump did nothing wrong, 20 percent said the inquiry is politically motivated and 15 percent didn't believe the allegations.
A total of 66 percent of respondents said it was not appropriate for Trump to ask foreign leaders to investigate political rivals, compared to a quarter who said it is appropriate. While 43 percent say the Ukraine call was impeachable, 27 percent say it was inappropriate but not impeachable.
The House has opened an impeachment inquiry on the president after a whistleblower report revealed Trump asked the Ukrainian president to look into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
Polls have been showing growing support in public opinion for impeachment.
The Fox News poll surveyed 1,003 registered voters between Oct. 6 and 8 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
Whistleblower Never Worked for Political Candidate
October 9, 2019 at 8:58 pm EDT
“The lawyers representing a whistleblower whose complaint has plunged President Trump into impeachment proceedings describe the person as a civil servant who has never worked for or advised any political candidate, campaign or party,” ABC News reports.
“As a career civil servant though, it’s very possible the person could have served under then-Vice President Joe Biden, but that the role would not have been considered political.”
Earlier reports suggest the whistleblower worked with a 2020 presidential candidate.
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Trump Tests Bounds of GOP Support on Syria
October 9, 2019 at 8:57 pm EDT
“President Trump’s decision to suddenly withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria has angered evangelical Christian leaders and Republican hawks, cleaving his political coalition at the very moment he is trying to fortify his standing to survive the intensifying impeachment inquiry in Congress,” the Washington Post reports.
“Instead of enjoying uncontested GOP support as he plunges into a constitutional showdown with House Democrats and prepares for a bruising reelection campaign, Trump is now fighting on two fronts within his party.”
Geezer this is getting deeper
Raw Story
Trump instructed staff to let off an Iranian gold trader linked to Rudy Giuliani:
On Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported that in 2017, President Donald Trump asked then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to pressure his own Justice Department to drop a criminal investigation into Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani.
Tillerson reportedly refused, telling the president it would be unethical to interfere in the investigation — and those in the Oval Office when Trump made the request were reportedly left in shock!
Zarrab was convicted in 2017 for his role in a billion-dollar bribery scheme to the Turkish finance minister in order to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran. He was sentenced to 32 months in prison.
He's an Iranian. He pulled out of the treaty made during the Obama administration.
He's putting his own interests ahead of our nation and our security!
James, you got CH in another lie about the whistleblower, the President claimed he worked for a Democrat.
The lawyers representing a whistleblower whose complaint has plunged President Donald Trump into impeachment proceedings describe the person as a civil servant who has never worked for or advised any political candidate, campaign or party.
The statement, released late Wednesday, was an unusual step by lawyers Andrew Bakaj and Mark Zaid who have been reluctant to provide any information that might identify their client.
A Fox News poll shows that 51% of voters want Trump impeached and removed from office, up from 42% in July.
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Faux News Robotics inc.
Just over half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a Fox News Poll released Wednesday.
A new high of 51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office, another 4 percent want him impeached but not removed, and 40 percent oppose impeachment altogether.
Big night for Senators
And nationalists and bad nite for dodgers and the left coast
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
thanks for stating the obvious, alky.
now let us know when democrats are serious about exercising that power.
so far they're just jerking off.
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