So one of the big stories (or should we say fake news stories) came from the Washington Post and alleged that they had anonymous sources who stated that the DNI threatened to "quit" if he wasn't allowed to come forward. However both the White House and the Director completely denied anything of the sort. In fact, not only did Joseph Maguire deny the report, he was quite possibly the main player in dismissing the complaint as not a matter under the Whistle Blower statutes, .
Now, WaPo has circled the wagons and claim to be "standing by the story" even as there appears to be straight obvious evidence that the story was wrong. What is equally troubling here is that the story doesn't even make any logical sense to begin with. Why would the same person who could have simply turned this information over to Congress (as was his authority) not do so. Then, threaten to quit later if he wasn't allowed to?
Moreover, if Maguire was really the sort of stand by his principles guy that would threaten to quit and go public if we wasn't allowed to go to Congress, what possible good would denying it do? Certainly if the situation "did" happen, then he would have already been in an adversarial relationship with the President and would most likely be on his way out anyways. At that point there would be nothing to lose by backing up the WaPo story, or at the very least simply not saying "anything" about the story what-so-ever, thus leaving the public to believe it wasn't true.
But he didn't do either. He denied it.
Which would make absolutely zero sense, unless the story wasn't true.
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Chairman Schiff is making shit up.
He is just making it up.
Trump Suggests Whistleblower Committed Treason
President Trump expressed disgust with the explosive whistleblower complaint, slamming the intelligence officer and those White House aides who helped him or her as “almost a spy” and suggested it was treason, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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TREASON now sits in the Oval Office.
Ex-Ukrainian Prosecutor Says Biden Broke No Laws
September 26, 2019 at 1:24 pm EDT
A former top Ukrainian prosecutor told the Washington Post that he believed that Hunter Biden did not run afoul of any laws in Ukraine.
The Ukrainians are jumping off the sinking Trump ship.
@FredFieltz
1/ As a former CIA analyst and former NSC official who edited transcripts of POTUS phone calls with foreign leaders, here are my thoughts on the whistleblower complaint which was just released. . . intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/…
2/ This is not an intelligence matter. It is a policy matter and a complaint about differences over policy. Presidential phone calls are not an intelligence concern. The fact that IC officers transcribe these calls does not give the IC IG jusrisdiction over these calls.
3/ It appears that rules restricting access and knowledge of these sensitive calls was breached. This official was not on this call, not on the approved dissem list and should not have been briefed on the call.
.3/ The way this complaint was written suggested the author had a lot of help. I know from my work on the House Intel Commitee staff that many whistleblowers go directly to the intel oversight committees. Did this whistleblower first meet with House Intel committee members?
.4/ It is therefore important that Congress find out where this complaint came from. What did House and Senate intel committee dem members and staff know about it and when? Did they help orchestrate this complaint?
5/ My view is that this whistleblower complaint is too convenient and too perfect to come from a typical whistleblower. Were other IC officers involved? Where outside groups opposed to the president involved?
6/ This complaint will further damage IC relations with the White House for many years to come because IC officers appear to be politicizing presidential phone calls with foreign officials and their access to the president and his activities in the White House.
7/ Worst of all, this IC officer -- and probably others -- have blatantly crossed the line into policy. This violates a core responsibility of IC officers is to inform, but not make policy.
8/ This is such a grevious violation of trust between the IC and the White House that it would not surprise me if IC officers are barred from all access to POTUS phone calls with foreign officials.
Roger, you do realize that Speaker in Name Only Polosi has done nothing but talk.
"Pelosi and the Democratic and going forward quickly to impeach President Trump. "
Talk is all your team does.
My view is the whistleblower and the very most broke the law and at the very least violated his terms of employment and availed himself of the whistleblower statute to cover his ass.
exactly right CS.
well the facts were not there so what is a scum sucking Socialist Democrat to do.
"The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., made up his own version of a transcript between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart..."
DEFINITION - CLUSTERFUCK
House democrats under Pelosi
This complaint will further damage IC relations with the White House for many years to come because IC officers appear to be politicizing presidential phone calls with foreign officials and their access to the president and his activities in the White House.
indeed.
in less than 3 short years comey, mccabe, clapper, brennan, rosenstein, and yates have managed to not only completely destroy any trust between the white house and law enforcement & the intel community, they managed to completely ruin their respective agencies professional reputations, and their own personal reputations as well.
no citizen with a modicum of common sense and the expectation of competence and professionalism ever trusts the FBI, CIA, and NSA ever again.
yep
Nancy Polosi is an illiterate .
she did read Obimbocare and did read the phone call transcription.
Yuge win for The Squatters.
the expectation of competence and professionalism ever trusts the FBI, CIA, and NSA ever again.
And the goat fucking asshole doubles down on this stupidity....Sad the POTUS, lies and covers up his deeds and the NSA gets the blame....what a pair of dumb fucks!!!!!!! Collusion is okay when trump says it is !!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Why do you hate the US of A??????? IDIOTS
The goat fucking idiot postulated that.....
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., made up his own version of a transcript between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart..."
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Caught both you and trump like the lying frauds all republican slurpers to stupid to open their eyes and see the light are.....Your guy is fucked and as witnesses get interviewed......all allegations will come back and bite you on the ass...What is most disturbing is all the people who did nothing about the trump collusion.....IMHO.....they all should be in jail as breaking the oath they swore to uphold!!!!!!!!
@paulsperry_
PELOSI on Obamacare (2010): "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."
PELOSI on President Trump (2019): We have to impeach him so that we can find out what evidence justifies it.
If nothing else, the Speaker is consistent
@catturd2
Adam Schitt ...
We’re going to bring in a whistle blower who’s admitted having no firsthand knowledge of the phone call - to dispute the actual transcript of the phone call ????
You can’t make this shit up.
Democrats are an absolute embarrassment to our country.
@julie_kelly2
So lemme get this straight.
A Brennan CIA plant conspired with an Obama DOJ loyalist to concoct a treasonous story about Trump.
All in service of (a) finishing what Mueller couldn’t finish and (b) protecting the Biden aristocracy.
And NeverTrump fell for it? Again?
LOL
Cat turd and Jullie kelly......should be shot for treason, just like the goat fucker who posted that trash!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
What Trump Learned from the Mueller Investigation -- NOTHING
James Risen: “Donald Trump just barely avoided prosecution earlier this year when special counsel Robert Mueller pulled his punches and refused to indict the president for either obstruction of justice or campaign finance violations in connection with the Trump-Russia investigation. Mueller’s decision not to indict Trump came despite overwhelming evidence in Mueller’s own final report that the president of the United States was guilty of a crime.
“Most people who survive that kind of legal threat would lie low, at least for a while, and try to get back to some level of normalcy. But Trump is a habitual criminal, and his reaction to escaping Mueller’s investigation was to go on yet another crime spree.
“In fact, Trump has been acting like a bank robber who beat one rap because of a technicality, and so decides to rob every bank in sight.”
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Voter Support for Impeachment Grows
A new Morning Consult poll finds 43% of Americans support the start of an impeachment in inquiry, up 7 points from a weekend survey. Meanwhile, opposition to beginning an impeachment inquiry dropped 6 points, to 43%.
A new NPR/PBS/Marist poll finds 49% of Americans support an impeachment inquiry, while 46% disapprove.
However, Stuart Rothenberg warns: “Polling in the middle of a political hurricane is ridiculous.”
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Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“It was like applying for a job and getting 66 million letters of recommendation and losing to a corrupt human tornado.”
— Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CBS News, about the 2016 presidential election.
Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CBS News, about the 2016 presidential election.
still a bitter old cunt who will never be president.
heh.
John Solomon: I Have a Trove of 400+ Documents From the US State Department and the Ukraine Government Proving That Joe Biden's/The DNC Media's Cover Story Is a Complete Lie
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/383482.php
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/383482.php
BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! YOU DUMB FUCK!!!!!!!!!
Hillary Clinton
There's good old Hillary Clinton making the rounds this Sunday reminding everybody why she wasn't elected president.
The individual who filed a whistleblower complaint with the intelligence community’s inspector general last month is a CIA officer.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The individual who filed a whistleblower complaint with the intelligence community’s inspector general last month is a CIA officermnk
that's nice, alky.
btw, what's an "officermnk?"
Sept. 26, 2019
Updated 6:04 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — The whistle-blower who revealed that President Trump sought foreign help for his re-election and that the White House sought to cover it up is a C.I.A. officer who was detailed to work at the White House at one point, according to three people familiar with his identity.
The man has since returned to the C.I.A., the people said. Little else is known about him. His complaint made public Thursday suggested he was an analyst by training and made clear he was steeped in details of American foreign policy toward Europe, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of Ukrainian politics and at least some knowledge of the law.
The whistle-blower’s expertise will likely add to lawmakers’ confidence about the merits of his complaint, and tamp down allegations that he might have misunderstood what he learned about Mr. Trump. He did not listen directly to a July call between Mr. Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine that is at the center of the political firestorm over the president’s mixing of diplomacy with personal political gain.
Document: Read the Whistle-Blower ComplaintSept. 26, 2019
NYTimes - Related Link
Lawyers for the whistle-blower refused to confirm that he worked for the C.I.A. and said that publishing information about him was dangerous.
Whistle-Blower Is a C.I.A. Officer Who Was Detailed to the White House https://nyti.ms/2ltzVye
So lemme get this straight.
A Brennan CIA plant conspired with an Obama DOJ loyalist to concoct a treasonous story about Trump.
yep.
they apparently had just received their "acme- do it yourself impeachment kit."
He is a C.I.A. officer.
The White House staff struggled to get the actual transcript of the conversation between the President and the President of Ukraine.
Whistle-Blower Is a C.I.A. Officer Who Was Detailed to the White House
first of all, this is the NY Times. immediately suspect.
second, there are CIA officers detailed to the White House?
really.
i truly doubt it but let's say it's true...
this will probably be the last CIA officer to see the inside of the White House for at least the next six years.
here's to hoping that the individual is tried and shot for treason at the earliest opportunity.
the CIA has joined the FBI in the ranks of the most corrupt and incompetent.
The White House staff struggled to get the actual transcript of the conversation between the President and the President of Ukraine
LOL.
some struggle. they produced it virtually instantly.
you really got him this time alky.
LOL.
President Trump said Thursday at a private event in New York that the whistleblower whose complaint is at the heart of a controversy involving Ukraine is "almost a spy," reports the New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
"Basically, that person never saw the report, never saw the call, he never saw the call — heard something and decided that he or she, or whoever the hell they saw — they’re almost a spy. I want to know who’s the person, who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart? Right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now.".
The YouTube video will follow.
struggle -
Full Document: Trump’s Call With the Ukrainian President
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/25/us/politics/trump-ukraine-transcript.html
struggle is what you do every day, alky.
with sanity, sobriety, and life in general.
i will place a bet right now that if trump gets re-elected, you don't survive his second term.
The transcript is not the actual conversation.
It's damages the President as it is.
The actual conversation will probably be a lot worse for Trump.
Schiff 'flattered' by Trump's attacks over Ukraine probe
Sept.26th 2019 2:52PM
Donald Trump and Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and one of the Democrats’ point people on impeachment, got into a war of words Thursday.
Moments after acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testified about his handling of a whistleblower complaint against Trump, Schiff told reporters on Capitol Hill that it was “hard to imagine a more serious set of allegations than those contained in the complaint,” which deals with the president’s attempts to enlist the government of Ukraine in gathering damaging information about Joe Biden, his potential political rival.
Schiff said his committee would continue to investigate the president through a 14-day recess scheduled to begin on Friday.
“We need to look into the allegation that this may not be the only communication of a potentially corrupt character that was shielded by this classified information computer system, abused for that purpose,” Schiff said, referring to allegations that records of Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were sequestered on a super-secure server rather than the one ordinarily used for such purposes.
Republicans on the committee disputed Schiff’s description of the July 25 conversation between Trump and Zelensky. “This is the essence of what the president communicates,” Schiff said. “We’ve been very good to your country, very good, no other country has done as much as we have, but you know that. I don’t see much reciprocity here. I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from you, though. And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good.”
Republicans have tried to keep the focus off the investigation, and public attention on the absence of an explicit quid pro quo between Trump and Zelensky. Schiff’s remarks indicate he believes the offer was implicit.
Democrats have also begun to make the argument that seeking help for his reelection from a foreign government is an impeachable offense by Trump, whether or not it was part of an explicit exchange.
As Schiff spoke to reporters, Trump took to Twitter where he echoed the criticism from many Republicans that Schiff and the Democrats were concocting a story to damage his presidency.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
Adam Schiff has zero credibility. Another fantasy to hurt the Republican Party!
Seconds after the tweet appeared, Schiff, who was still answering questions from reporters, was asked to respond to it.
“I’m always flattered when I’m attacked by someone of the president’s character,” Schiff responded.
As Schiff’s exchange with the press concluded, the New York Times reported that Trump told staff members that he wanted to learn the identity of the whistleblower, saying that person was “close to a spy.” Schiff, in turn, responded with a tweet of his own.
Adam Schiff
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@RepAdamSchiff
The President’s suggestion that those involved in the whisteblower complaint should be dealt with as "we used to do" for "spies and treason" is a reprehensible invitation to violence against witnesses in our investigation.
All Americans must denounce such witness intimidation. https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1177267434635628544 …
The New York Times
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@nytimes
Breaking News: President Trump told U.S. diplomats that whoever gave the whistle-blower information was “close to a spy” and alluded to the punishment for treason https://nyti.ms/2n1VGoY
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-26/trump-at-private-breakfast-who-gave-the-whistle-blower-the-information-because-thats-almost-a-spy
Trump clearly sees the Oval Office as his campaign office. We cannot let the occupant make a mockery of our Constitution any longer.
Congress must cancel the upcoming recess so we can finally impeach this president.
https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1177237273311662081?s=19
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The transcript is not the actual conversation.
It's damages the President as it is.
The actual conversation will probably be a lot worse for Trump.
the CIA and or NSA should be able to provide the recording of the call, alky. especially if the CIA is going to support their "officer" (LOL).
especially if the verbatim convo will be worse for trump.
what we do know is that pencil neck schitt had to read a fake transcript into the congressional record.
i wonder why.
what i see so far is alky e. coyote riding his 'acme jet-powered impeachment skates' right into the canyon wall at a high rate of speed...
...AGAIN.
LOL. you really got him this time alky.
quoting the tweets of the hamas/al-quaeda terrorist caucus, alky?
as dumb fuck denny would say -
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
what we do know is that pencil neck schitt had to read a fake transcript into the congressional record.
When even the chairman of the committee isn't taking his "impeachment" inquiry seriously you know the whole thing is a joke. And a very bad one.
The American people are not laughing.
The ass clown democrats don't deserve their positions in Congress.
TRUMP 2020 and the HOUSE in 2020
The President and his pathological allies are saying that there was no quid pro quo between the Trump and the President of Ukraine. They are just spouting talking points.
Here is conservative David French:
I haven’t been a litigator since 2015. I haven’t conducted a proper cross-examination since 2014. But if I couldn’t walk a witness, judge, and jury through the transcript of Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and demonstrate that a quid pro quo was more likely than not, then I should just hang up my suit and retire in disgrace.
Cue the insults from the racist rodent bastard.
Audio: Trump seeks identity of person who leaked information to whistleblower
Yahoo News DAVID KNOWLES Sep 26th 2019 5:59PM
Likening them to a spy, President Trump said Thursday that he would like to learn the identity of the person or persons in the government who provided a federal whistleblower with information that set in motion the inquiry that could lead to his impeachment.
The Los Angeles Times released audio Thursday of Trump musing over the source of the content of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on which the whistleblower, in part, based his complaint.
“Basically, that person never saw the report, never saw the call. He never saw the call — heard something and decided that he or she or whoever the hell it is — they’re almost a spy,” Trump said in a recording of a private event on Thursday in New York. “I want to know who’s the person who gave the whistleblower, who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart, right? The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”
After learning of Trump’s remarks, former Vice President Joe Biden, who Trump asked Zelensky to investigate, took the president’s comments as a death threat.
“And now we know that President Trump’s response to all of this was to privately issue a thinly veiled threat this morning to execute the national security professionals who followed their oath to uphold the Constitution by bringing this to light,” Biden said in a statement.
For days, the Trump administration and many of its Republican supporters have sought to discredit the whistleblower who submitted the complaint, but acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire said during testimony before the House Intelligence Committee that the whistleblower “ACTED IN GOOD FAITH THROUGHOUT” and believed he or she had “DONE EVERYTHING BY THE BOOK AND FOLLOWED THE LAW.”
In the complaint, the whistleblower, whose identity has yet to be made public, alleged that Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in order to gain an advantage in the 2020 presidential election.
The whistleblower noted that he or she did not acquire the information regarding the call with Zelensky and the documenting of it first hand; rather, the whistleblower wrote in the complaint, it came from “MULTIPLE WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WITH DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THE CALL.”
If true, that means that members of Trump’s own staff likely leaked it.
MY, MY.
Cue the insults from the racist rodent bastard.
Count me in too. French is a well known never-Trumper. Who the fuck cares what he says?
Just TDS partisan clowns.
I used to say get help but obviously you are way beyond that.
The whistleblower says White House officials told them the conversation on July 25 between Trump and Zelenskiy was removed from the computer system that is typically used for such records of calls with foreign leaders.
Instead, the whistleblower writes, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is used only for information that is of an "especially sensitive nature." One White House official described that as an abuse of the secure system because there was nothing "remotely sensitive" on the phone call from a national security perspective, the whistleblower said.
Oh, and I should add the lying POS "pastor"
well I guess he is turbo TDS too
How does the NYT already have the "whistleblower's" identification ????
They are the enemy of the people and are now proving it daily
"More likely than not' is not exactly the standard you should be shooting for when contemplating impeachment.
Certainly when you fabricate whole sections of the very evidence you rely on then your whole argument is pretty weak.
With all the leaking of top-secret phone conversations by the "resistance" don't you think Trump should have moved the storage to a more secure system???
The "resistance" are the enemy of the American people and need to be held accountable. They are not above the law
Quite a few actual conservative Republicans have been offended by the President.
David French, George Will, Bill Kristol and many others who are afraid of making the President angry. The number of Republicans in the house of Representatives are not going to run for election again.
A lot of them are from Texas, which may go blue in 2020.
@thebradfordfile
Democrats are claiming it is highly suspicious for the President of the United States to secure his private call records.
That's odd.
I find it highly suspicious Trump has been having his phone calls leaked since his inauguration.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: The same letter that we announced yesterday, which was perfect, I couldn’t have written it better if I wrote it myself. I could not have said or had a better conversation. And we had a really nice gentleman in the president of Ukraine yesterday.
And he was great. They said: “Was he pressured you?” These animals in the press. They’re animals actually. Some of the worst human beings you’ll ever meet.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Fake news!
TRUMP: Fake news, fake news. They’re scum, many of them are scum. You have some good reporters but not many, I’ll be honest with you. And that’s one of the things we battle. You’ll find out, but they’ll probably like you better than they like me, but I had to get us here right? But they’re total — just terrible dishonest people — and they couldn’t figure out — “What do we say bad about this conversation?”
Then it turns out that they had senators, Democrat senators went over there and strong-armed the guy. “You better damn well do this or you’re not going to get any money from Congress.” Oh I see, that’s O.K.? And then you have Sleepy Joe Biden, who’s dumb as a rock.
(Laughter)
This guy was dumb on his best day, and he’s not having his best day right now. He’s dumb as a rock. So you have Sleepy Joe, and he goes up, and his kid, who’s got a lot of problems, he got thrown out of the Navy. I mean look I’m not going to — it’s a problem, that’s a problem, so we won’t get into why and all that. But he got thrown out of the Navy, and now this kid goes into Ukraine, walks away with millions of dollars, and he becomes a consultant for $50,000 a month. And he doesn’t know anything compared to anybody in this room. He’s a stiff, he knows nothing. He’s walking away with $50,000, or as you would say in the old days 50K a month. Not bad. Would anybody else in this room like to represent Ukraine just like —
(Crowd cheers)
TRUMP: That’s on top — you got the job — that’s on top of hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars. But that’s not the best one. The best one was China. This came up. So now he goes to China, and I was with the head of Blackstone which is the big deal. Steve Schwarzman. I said, “Steve, is that possible?” “No, why? Who got that?” I said. “Biden’s son.” “Ooh,” Well then you know he says, “Maybe I shouldn’t get involved, you know it’s very political.” I say, “Steve, what happens when you come off a vice presidential plane, it’s called Air Force Two, your father’s with you, you walk into a room in China and they give you a fund of $1.5 billion, billion, you make hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars off that. And that’s probably not all they gave him. They gave him plenty more, I’m sure. We might never find out.
DO NOT USE THIS
President Trump spoke on Thursday to a crowd of staff from the United States Mission to the United Nations.
And then they talk about me, and I didn’t do anything. I don’t know if I’m the most innocent person in the world.
(Laughter)
TRUMP: But you know you look at that — most presidential, I just said I’m the most presidential except for possibly Abe Lincoln when he wore the hat — that was tough to beat.
(Laughter)
Honest Abe, when he wore that hat, that was tough to beat. But I can’t do that, that hat wouldn’t work for me. Yeah, I have better hair than him. But Honest Abe was tough to beat. Remember we used to do that during the campaign. They used to say, when I speak, the crowd would be crazy, I’d go crazy — we would all go crazy. We had a lot of fun together. We had 25,000 — We’ve never had an empty seat. From the day I came down the escalator, with a potential — unbelievable woman who became a first lady.
(Applause)
The crowds loved her, the people love her.
But we’ve never had an empty seat, not one. I really believe that. There was one case where we had a tremendous snowstorm, and it was just about frozen. It was like a monster storm, I don’t even know how it got there. I said, “how’s the crowd?” “It’s just not full, sir.” I said what does that mean. There’s like two seats on top. Thousands and thousands of people couldn’t get there. So they show pictures of the empty seats. The worst storm they’ve had in years. They show pictures of like nine empty seats. They could have been people just went to the bathroom together.
(Laughter)
I always say just get the biggest arena. Good location if you can, but get the biggest arena. We did it the other night, Tuesday night. We had two congressmen, one who was possibly going to win, he was up by two, he won by about 27, I think, or something like that. A lot. The other one was down by 17. And they said, “Sir, don’t campaign for him please.” “Why?” “Because if he loses, they’re going to kill you, the press.” I said they’re going to kill me whether I campaign or not. It’ll make it a little bit worse. They’ll say he worked and he failed. Trump failed. The guy was down 17 points and he ended up winning by a lot. In fact, the whole night, CNN. . . (inaudible)
roger said David French, George Will, Bill Kristol and many others who are afraid of making the President angry.
these never-Trumpers have been fighting Trump from way before he was the Republicans nominee.
Are you really that ignorant?
Are you really that ignorant?
I guess you just answered that with a yes
To some people, to be opposed to the President, makes you a traitor.
The "resistance" are the enemy of the American people and need to be held accountable. They are not above the law.
The Republicans who oppose the President, are not running for election in November of 2020.
'Total panic' as 'shell-shocked' White House struggles to find impeachment footing
While many in the Trump White House are battle-tested from the Mueller investigation, this is starting to feel different, aides and advisers said.
Sept. 26, 2019, 5:02 PM CDT
By Shannon Pettypiece, Kristen Welker, Hallie Jackson and Carol E. Lee
WASHINGTON — White House officials were scrambling Thursday to figure out how to counter the renewed Democratic impeachment push, with one source familiar with the situation describing a sense of “total panic” over the past week at the lack of a plan to address the new reality.
There appears to be rising “anxiety, unease, and concern” — as one person close to the White House described the mood in the West Wing — that the whistleblower’s allegations could seriously wound the president and some of those around him. “There’s not a lot of confidence that there’s no there there,” this person said.
White House officials remained unsure of how to proceed, not only because there is no apparent plan to deal with the situation, but because the allegations are so serious that the usual methods the president has used to successfully escape past controversies may not apply: “This doesn’t look like something that’s going to be overtaken by the next news cycle,” the person quipped.
Another person familiar with the discussions described the mood inside the White House as “shell-shocked,” with increasing wariness that, as this impeachment inquiry drags out, the likelihood increases that the president could respond erratically and become “unmanageable.”
That concern was echoed by another source, who said that some around the president anticipate he will engage in more “impulsive” behavior, with pressure expected to build on him daily during the impeachment inquiry.
That’s sparking worries that Trump could display increasingly unpredictable behavior and lash out in unexpected ways — both a presidential and a political concern in an election year.
With his presidency facing what may be its biggest threat yet, Trump has cycled from offense to defense, reviving a strategy that he viewed as effective during Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. He tried to downplay his request for the Ukrainian president to help investigate his political rivals, to divert attention to actions by Democrats and presidential contender Joe Biden, and to discredit the whistleblower as having partisan motives.
But while many in the White House are battle-tested from the Mueller investigation, this time is starting to feel different, aides and advisers said.
For a president whose brand is viewed as strength, Wednesday’s press conference made him look defeated, said one person familiar with the situation. While Trump relished questions on the Russia investigation, he seemed to be in no mood to answer questions about Ukraine.
Some allies of the president believe the damage could be mitigated, with some seizing on the fact that the whistleblower did not have first-hand knowledge of the controversial call in question between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy — a fact that they argue damages the whistleblower's credibility. And, as often happens, when the president is under siege, that fact energizes his core supporters in his defense.
But one Republican strategist close to the White House points out that the president’s base approval ratings are already sky-high — and impeachment will do little to win over new supporters. “There is no upside to having the next four months focused on the president’s impeachment,” particularly if it stymies his legislative agenda and dominates the news cycle.
Another of the sources said that those who were arguing that impeachment could help the president weren’t fully grasping how much of a wild card his response could be.
Acting DNI Maguire: 'I am not partisan and I am not political'
NOW
House Republicans react to Trump impeachment inquiry
Worried White House officials have been reaching out to advisers for help in assembling an impeachment response team. With the effort still in the early phases, it remained unclear whether any type of war room-style effort would come to fruition or what form it might take, according to a person briefed on the plans.
But there was an acknowledgement that a coordinated legal and communications strategy was needed, with a clear leader able to marshal a public relations offensive to counter the release of the scathing whistleblower report and the momentum its release has given Democratic impeachment efforts, that person said.
The lack of a long-term strategic vision has been starkly visible, as when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin indicated they were not going to release the memo describing Trump's call with the Ukrainian president — and then 48 hours later feeling that there was no choice but to release the document, according to a source familiar with the situation.
It is anticipated there will be more pressure now than during the investigation by Mueller, who was mostly silent, speaking only through his indictments.
One person who may become involved in developing an impeachment response is Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s outside pit bull and former campaign manager, said the person involved in the matter. But Lewandowski told NBC News that it was not accurate to suggest he would lead such an effort.
“For the last five years, I’ve done everything I can to support the president and his agenda," he said, "but I have had no discussions with the president and his team at all about joining a team to push back on this fake impeachment narrative.”
Trump's outside lawyer from the Mueller investigation, Jay Sekulow, will be involved in the impeachment efforts. “We will deal with matters as appropriate," Sekulow said when reached by NBC News for comment.
The White House currently lacks a lawyer experienced in impeachment now that Emmet Flood, who worked on the Clinton impeachment and guided the White House through the end of the Mueller investigation, has left, with current White House counsel Pat Cipollone lacking that type of experience.
One source familiar with the White House strategy said that overall, officials were nowhere near the point of bringing people on board or setting up war rooms — but acknowledge they need a coordinated, all hands-on-deck response effort and someone who can lead a political fight, the person said.
They need to read the first amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
@MZHemingway
I don’t think Resistance (media/NT/Dems) has a good handle on how completely non-leftists are rejecting their latest error-filled coup attempt. All about trying same exact operation after putting country through dangerous Russia collusion hoax.
The left is crashing and burning and have no idea what to do.
Thanks for destroying Biden, I see Harris is at 3 and 4 percent on the latest 2 national polls, looks like either Warren or Sanders are the front runners, Trump will obliterate them.
ROFLMFAO !!!
The 25 July Presidential phone call
Early in the morning of 25 July, the President spoke by telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. I do not know which side initiated the call. This was the first publicly acknowledged call between the two leaders since a brief congratulatory call after Mr. Zelenskyy won the presidency on 21 April.
Multiple White House officials with direct knowledge of the call informed me that, after an initial exchange of pleasantries, the President used the remainder of the call to advance his personal interests. Namely, he sought to pressure the Ukrainian leader to take actions to help the President’s 2020 reelection bid. According to the White House officials who had direct knowledge of the call, the President pressured Mr. Zelenskyy to, inter alia:
initiate or continue an investigation into the activities of former Vice President Joseph Biden and his son, Hunter Biden;
assist in purportedly uncovering that allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election originated in Ukraine, with a specific request that the Ukrainian leader locate and turn over servers used by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and examined by the U.S. cyber security firm Crowdstrike, which initially reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the DNC’s networks in 2016; and
meet or speak with two people the President named explicitly as his personal envoys on these matters, Mr. Giuliani and Attorney General Barr, to whom the President referred multiple times in tandem.
Look at the fucking POS "pastor" james panicking
Pass the popcorn PLEAZE !!!
ROFLMFAO !!!
and TDS roger
SWEET !!!
@ClimateAudit
ICWPA form clearly states that ICIG "must be in possession of reliable, first-hand information", NOT "second-hand knowledge of wrongdoing", NOT "information received from another person, such as when a fellow employee informs you that he/she witnessed some type of wrongdoing". https://twitter.com/PedroIsraelOrta/status/1176215076468117504 …
Chew on this for a while.....
@BenKTallmadge
From Shokin sworn affidavit:
“The truth is that I was forced out cuz I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings”
Solomon: These once-secret memos cast doubt on Joe Biden's Ukraine story
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/463307-solomon-these-once-secret-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story
@almostjingo
It’s quite apparent @AdamSchiff violated rule 9.7 of committee rules this is grounds for immediate ethics investigation and he must recuse from #Whistleblower investigation until it’s completion much like he demanded from @DevinNunes cc: @RepRatcliffe
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/about/rules-procedure …
LOL NOT DIFFICULT TO SEE WHERE THE PANIC IS
Funny how Roger gets his ass handed to him on the other thread, and then just disappears and starts cutting and pasting like a mad man over here.
LOL NOT DIFFICULT TO SEE WHERE THE PANIC IS
Indeed it's not. It's with the guy writing in all caps.
Roger is having a bad med day.
C.H. Truth said...
Funny how Roger gets his ass handed to him on the other thread, and then just disappears and starts cutting and pasting like a mad man over here.
that's also the POS "pastor's" modus operandi, and always from the same shit pile.
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