And for now, there are no more public hearings scheduled?
Herein lies the problem. The Democrats spent a bunch of time teasing everyone with these secret closed door basement hearings, where they would selectively leak information designed to give the impression that they were making big progress.
Then they carefully selected the witnesses that "they" believed would help their cause and called them to testify in public. The problem was that witness after witness after witness went south under cross examination, specifically as it pertained to whether or not they actually had any knowledge of any impeachable offenses.
They all answered no. No first hand accounts, no witness, or no actual knowledge of illegal activity by the President or those close to him.
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Black support for impeachment down to 37%. Dems now getting angry that their portrayal of Trump as a racist hasn't worked. They're now threatening blacks for backing him.
Well you might have a problem. If thg this decision stands, when the intelligence committee brings out the truth, King Trump will be impeached.
WASHINGTON — The former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II must testify before House impeachment investigators about President Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Mueller inquiry, a judge ruled on Monday, saying that senior presidential aides must comply with congressional subpoenas and calling the administration’s arguments to the contrary “fiction.”
The 120-page decision by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia handed another lower-court victory to House Democrats in their fight to overcome Mr. Trump’s stonewalling.
“Presidents are not kings,” wrote Judge Jackson, adding that current and former White House officials owe their allegiance to the Constitution. “They do not have subjects, bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control.”
Trump Can’t Stop Officials From Testifying, Judge Rules https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/25/us/politics/mcgahn-testimony-ruling.html
"The leading feature of our Constitution is the independence of the Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary of each other; and none are more jealous of this than the Judiciary. But would the Executive be independent of the Judiciary if he were subject to the commands of the latter, and to imprisonment for disobedience; if the smaller courts could bandy him from pillar to post, keep him constantly trudging from north to south and east to west, and withdraw him entirely from his executive duties?"
Thomas Jefferson in a Letter to George Hay
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Well you might have a problem. If thg this decision stands, when the intelligence committee brings out the truth, King Trump will be impeached.
WASHINGTON — The former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II must testify before House impeachment investigators about President Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Mueller inquiry, a judge ruled on Monday, saying that senior presidential aides must comply with congressional subpoenas and calling the administration’s arguments to the contrary “fiction.”
yeah, sure alky.
just because mcgahn has been compelled to testify doesn't mean that what he says is going to result in trump's impeachment. a few dozen "i don't recall's" will end the testimony right where it began - a big nothingburger.
visceral, irrational hatred of the man is not grounds for impeachment alky.
“Whether or not the law requires the recalcitrant official to release the testimonial information that the congressional committee requests is a separate question, and one that will depend in large part on whether the requested information is itself subject to withholding consistent with the law on the basis of a recognized privilege,”
Jackson wrote. “But as far as the duty to appear is concerned, this Court holds that Executive branch officials are not absolutely immune from compulsory congressional process—no matter how many times the Executive branch has asserted as much over the years—even if the President expressly directs such officials’ non-compliance.”
I have made it clear several times before, but you are too stupid to comprehend, this is a disagreement over policy issues. That's how our country works, if you win your policies are put in place.
This is about the President who has committed high crime or misdemeanors.
And by the way asshole I have been sober for seven years and six months.
The evidence show no bribery, treason, or other high crime or misdemeanors.
It was basically a Schiff show.
"WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives will not get President Donald Trump’s financial records for now, the Supreme Court said on Monday.
The ruling is a win for Trump, who is fighting on several fronts to shield the records from becoming public.
In a brief order, the court granted the President’s emergency request to block a subpoena from House Democrats to his long-time accounting firm from moving forward. There were no noted dissents."
Read that last sentence again.
This is about the President who has committed high crime or misdemeanors.
yet you have offered none. no examples. not one. and public sentiment around impeachment, especially among independents, is swinging away from you. like i said on another thread, visceral, irrational hatred of the man is not grounds for impeachment.
face it alky. you guys can't beat this man.
in no particular order:
russia - fail
emoluments - fail
skanky daniels - fail
25th amendment - fail
michael cohen - fail
and now... ukraine - FAIL.
enjoy trump's re-election alky. lord knows you guys certainly have earned it.
someone on one of the news shows i was watching recently (i forget who) made an excellent point -
ask a trump supporter why they support trump and they can give you specific policy-based/results-based examples as to why.
ask a trump detractor why they hate the man and all they can do is sputter and call him hitler, a dictator, a clear and present danger to our constitution, a man who abandons protocol or popular progressive norms...
...in other words, nothing specific.
style over substance.
And by the way asshole I have been sober for seven years and six months.
i was giving you the benefit of the doubt, alky. sober people don't act like you do. unless of course they find themselves in the throes of mental illness.
In March of 1974, as a young state attorney general, I reluctantly called for President Richard Nixon’s resignation amid revelations of abuses of power related to Watergate. It wasn’t an easy thing to do. As a Republican, I didn’t enjoy breaking with my party or my president. As an elected official and practical politician, I didn’t particularly enjoy the implications of turning against someone who had comfortably carried Washington State just two years earlier. None of it was pleasant, but I believed it was the right thing to do on the facts and on the merits.
John Adams said, “Facts are stubborn things.” Forty-five years after Mr. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached by the House, the facts should be the focus of every elected official, Republican or Democrat, as they decide what to do about another president facing impeachment and a possible Senate trial.
To my fellow Republicans, I give this grave and genuine warning: It’s not enough merely to dismiss the Ukraine investigation as a partisan witch hunt or to hide behind attacks against the “deep state,” or to try to find some reason to denounce every witness who steps forward, from decorated veterans to Trump megadonors.
History demands that we all wrestle with the facts at hand. They are unavoidable. Fifty years from now, history will not accept the position that impeachment was a referendum on the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi. It must be a verdict reached on the facts.
My judgment so far as an objective observer is that there are multiple actions on this president’s part that warrant a vote of impeachment in the House, based on corroborated testimony that Mr. Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, pressured leaders of Ukraine to investigate the Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden and his family.
From what I have read, it seems clear that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was subjected to a shakedown — pressured to become a foreign participant in President Trump’s re-election campaign, a violation of the law.
Several credible witnesses have testified to the existence of a quid pro quo, including William B. Taylor Jr., the acting ambassador to Ukraine; Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the White House’s top Ukraine expert; and Gordon Sondland, Mr. Trump’s ambassador to the European Union. They and others have testified that there was a push for politically motivated investigations, and three of them were so alarmed that they attempted to report their concerns up the chain of command at the National Security Council.
Are they to be believed? Here’s my bottom line: That’s what an impeachment inquiry and a Senate trial are designed to find out. That’s why there’s a process under the Constitution.
But make no mistake: This is precisely the kind of crisis Alexander Hamilton feared. In Federalist No. 75, he warned that a president might be tempted to betray the interests of the country for his own benefit, “to sacrifice his duty to his interest, which it would require superlative virtue to withstand”; that “an avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth”; that a president might “make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents.”
Given the temptations a president might have in dealing with foreign powers, Hamilton’s solution was equally clear: Congress should be involved. “The participation of the whole or a portion of the legislative body in the office of making them,” he wrote of treaties. And in the same vein, the founders gave Congress the power to check a president accused of abusing the power of his office. They expected Congress to render its judgment on the facts.
So, to my fellow Republicans who have been willing only to attack the process, I say: engage in the process. If the president is innocent, use the process to surface those exculpatory facts so that Congress and the country can agree whether or not Mr. Trump should be removed from office. The facts — not rhetoric — should answer this question: Is there an offense serious enough to undo the results of the 2016 election?
A heavy burden to meet, but not an impossible one.
Here’s what I know: Neither the country nor the Constitution is served by a partisan shouting match divorced from the facts, a process boycotted by one side refusing to engage on the merits. John Adams is still right 250 years later: Facts are stubborn things. Facts are what should determine whether a stubborn president stays in office. Republicans, don’t fight the process, follow the facts wherever they lead, and put country above party.
Slade Gorton was a Republican senator from Washington from 1981 to 1987, and again from 1989 to 2001.
Dems badly want to impeach. But as soon as they do, they give up all control of the process and the narrative. Oh, what to do...
So the president who has not taken a single dollar in salary is doing it for his own benefit.
Not even dopie would think that stupidly.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I have made it clear several times before, but you are too stupid to comprehend, this is a disagreement over policy issues. That's how our country works, if you win your policies are put in place.
precisely.
so why are you being such a fucking hypocrite?
when 0linsky won, all we heard from you was a steady drumbeat of "consent of the governed, " "the adults are in charge now," and my personal fave - "elections have consequences."
well champ, all of those catchphrases are as relevant today as they were under 8 years of "captain pen & phone."
skeets' little "the election's over john, and I WON" jab is just as meaningful now as it was the day the magic negro spit those words out at blair house.
elections really DO have consequences, and when you lose (even though you were guaranteed to win because it was a fucking lock) you don't get to sabotage the result of a free and fair election. you don't gety to throw a fucking tantrum, you don't get a do-over, and you certainly don't get to throw a president out of the white house for no good reason at all.
high crimes?
misdemeanors?
for chrissakes alky, you fucking assholes have been reduced to going back and scouring the mueller report to try and find a reason to impeach the guy.
the wiser people in your party are calling for you clowns to drop the impeachment, call for a censure and fucking 'move on.'
move on. ring a bell?
ironic, no?
grow the fuck up alky.
you want this guy out of office? then beat his ass at the ballot box. because THAT'S where a representative republic based upon the principles of democracy flourishes.
not in some kangaroo court that resembles the tyranny of some third world shithole.
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents. The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.
Federalist 75
Alexander Hamilton
An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state to the acquisition of wealth. An ambitious man might make his own aggrandizement, by the aid of a foreign power, the price of his treachery to his constituents.
The expansion of executive power is a clear and present danger to the Constitution, IMNSHO.
and once again, the alky has been reduced to posting the words of others as he is incapable of an original thought or the intellect to properly craft that thought into a post-able comment.
behold, the power of TDS, and the nursing home in which it resides.
The expansion of executive power is a clear and present danger to the Constitution, IMNSHO.
can you give us just one example alky? just one.
under skeets i can give dozens. and i recall how you and the entire black caucus cheered on preezy pen & phone every time he stole more power from the legislative branch.
and i can also cite for you chapter and verse about how 0linsky was UNANIMOUSLY struck down 9-0 by the USSC.
so please alky, spare me the federalist papers. i own a dog-eared copy that i've actually read. unlike you, who simply plagiarizes them to compensate for your inferior intellect.
In this wider context, impeachment is rebooted as no longer a rare gambit, but a sort of parliamentary vote of no confidence, analogous to a European government. When Democrats lose elections, they can now immediately talk of impeachment first, and find the supposed crimes later. Democrats are not fearful of institutionalizing impeachment without cause. Indeed, they welcome its normalization in times of Republican presidencies.
The common denominator in all this frenzy hatred?
None of the haters cares that unemployment is at near record lows, the stock market at record highs, economic growth steady, inflation and interest rates low, minority employment at all-time levels—or that there is a looming shared need to address entitlements and deficit sooner than later.
None care that for three years, there has been a nonstop effort from within and outside government to end the Trump presidency, or at least to sabotage it along the lines outlined by the anonymous New York Times op-ed writer, the whistleblower lawyer Mark Zaid, or departing Department of Defense official Evelyn Farkas, or as bragged about by #TheResistance.”
We are in new territory now. Hating a president is equivalent to finding him guilty of supposed high crimes. Impeachment is a casual affair. Hearsay is as valid as direct testimony.
We are now living is a brave new American world never envisioned by the Founders.
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2019/11/victor-davis-hanson-hate-that-fuels.html#more
read the whole thing.
I have made it clear, many times before with my own words to express my belief that the expansion of executive power is a clear and present danger to the United States and the Constitution.
And yes he actually requested information from a foreign nation,in order to win the next election. His own WORDS!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I have made it clear, many times before with my own words to express my belief that the expansion of executive power is a clear and present danger to the United States and the Constitution.
yeah, you've parroted that line ad infinitum without ever offering a single specific.
not one.
you offer only histrionics alky. never details. that's why you're not taken seriously as a commenter around here.
where EXACTLY is this expansion of power you claim?
And yes he actually requested information from a foreign nation,in order to win the next election. His own WORDS!
no one who has read and has comprehended the phone call transcript can come to that conclusion, alky. no sane, rational person derives that conclusion. TDS sufferers on the other hand?
and it's why adam schiff had to make up - LIE - in his opening statement of the impeachment hearing. he actually had a complete fucking falsehood placed in the congressional record. that is the extent to which you guys had to go to fabricate a case against this president.
in other words, the crime of lying to congress was actually committed in pursuit of impeachment of this president. now how fucked up is that?
this is the theatre of the absurd on steroids.
I read the whole thing and I don't agree with him.
The fact that the economy is growing well is not a reason to continue to support a President who is attempting to make the Presidency more powerful than the two other branches of government combined.
He said out loud that he can do it he wants to do, and none other branches have the authority to check the powers granted by the Constitution to check his powers.
The precedent, if it stands, any future President can do anything he or she wants to do!
If a Democratic candidate wins in 2020, and the Democratic party controls the house and Senate, do you want to see that power used to write an executive order declaring that all Americans have the right to have Medicare for all Americans?
I don't support the idea, but you are granting the President the right to impose his or her policies on every single person in the country.
The consquentions could be devastating.
Jimmy Hitler was I'm not in a nursing home nor am I on steroids. I'm a very happy and healthy person.
You really should go back to school and take English classes.
🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In what could be his most explosive allegation to date, Rudolph Giuliani claimed on Monday that he had “mountains of evidence” linking the Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden to former President Barack Obama.
Appearing on “Fox & Friends,” a visibly excited Giuliani said that he had stored the evidence of the Biden-Obama ties in his office safe and was prepared to reveal it “at the proper time.”
“This isn’t a case of the two men sharing an occasional phone call or meeting,” Giuliani charged. “For eight years, they were basically joined at the hip.”
Giuliani argued that Obama and Biden had a “secret understanding” that, if anything happened to Obama, “You know who would take his place? That’s right: Joe Biden.”
Their corrupt deal enabled Biden to “feast at the teat” of the federal government, the former New York mayor said. “Biden took military aircraft around the world and got free housing in Washington, all with the seal of approval of his best pal, Barack Obama,” he said.
In his most serious allegation, Giuliani said that all of these “lush perks” amounted to a “payoff” for nefarious services that Biden had rendered to Obama.
“In both 2008 and 2012, Joe Biden meddled in the U.S. elections to benefit none other than—you guessed it—Barack Obama,” Giuliani said. “Talk about a quid pro quo.”
He said out loud that he can do it he wants to do, and none other branches have the authority to check the powers granted by the Constitution to check his powers.
within the confines or article two. that's the context that you require a lie of omission to leave out.
just like your "fine people on both sides" LIE.
If a Democratic candidate wins in 2020, and the Democratic party controls the house and Senate, do you want to see that power used to write an executive order declaring that all Americans have the right to have Medicare for all Americans?
I don't support the idea, but you are granting the President the right to impose his or her policies on every single person in the country.
you drunken fucking sot. look at your own example.
if trump was abusing power in the manner you just described he would wipe away 0linsky-care with the stroke of a pen. but he hasn't done so and that pile of shit is still with us, however weakened by LEGISLATIVE, not executive action.
i'll tell you what COULD happen in 2020. if a democrat wins the white house roughly 19 minutes after being sworn in impeachment talk could begin, and impeachment articles could be published, just like you assholes did to trump.
we'll just declare the inaugural speech to be an abuse of power - a high crime and misdemeanor - and go from there. presto, we get our shot at throwing a tantrum and trying to overturn the result of a free and fair election. sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
the precedent has been set alky, and it could be on like donkey kong.
Blogger rrb said...
Blogger Roger Amick said...
I have made it clear, many times before with my own words to express my belief that the expansion of executive power is a clear and present danger to the United States and the Constitution.
Ironic since you gave a pass to Barack Obama the one president that has done more to expand executive power than any other president since FDR.
Ironic since you gave a pass to Barack Obama the one president that has done more to expand executive power than any other president since FDR.
gave a pass? the alky cheered him on from the top of his lungs. members of the CBC gave floor speeches in the house not only granting more power to 0linsky but declaring that they wanted to cede him even MORE.
one thing you can always count on from the left -
whatever they are accusing their political opponents of doing they are actually doing.
it never fails.
Alky is a hack, a lousy Partisan .
He dropped his Support for Kamel-toe Harris after the Russian Spy Knee capped her at one of the boring unmatched so called debates.
Obama and FDR Actually have something in common besides thier radical Socialism .
They are the most overturned Presidents By the USSC.
And the goat fucker has something in common with all trump supporters.....too stupid to think on their own and thinking they are winning!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!! Will go down in history as the 21st century millard filmore !!!!!
If you want to know how far the Democrats have gone around the bend, you need look no further than the Washington Post who's recent op-Ed called Barack Obama a conservative.
Get that? The author of Obamacare is now called a conservative.
Alky, wtf , try English.
"Jimmy Hitler was I'm not"
😂The author of Obamacare is now called a conservative.
Obimbo Radicalized the Socialist Democrats now they are unelectable .
t that? The author of Obamacare is now called a conservative.
Which proves what???? That you are a non thinking loser old white man whose party is heading south??????? BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Roger Amick said...
You really should go back to school and take English classes.
Piss off Roger, you spout more nonsensical gibberish than anyone since your lobotomy.
So much to be THANKFUL for in this GREAT TIMES for AMERICA !!!
Imagine how much better it would have been though without all the democrat HOAXES, CHARADES and BAD BEHAVIOR.
And this will be possible in the future.
TRUMP 2020 and give him a team of supporters !!!
James, you support the Collapes of the US Stock Market to enrich hedge fund traders who have a put position, specifically the S&P 500, when do you see this happening?
Paula the proven loser again posits
you spout more nonsensical gibberish than anyone since your lobotomy
Dayum, your UGA education is showing again....drunk stupid and a fucking salesman.....BWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Obimbo dumps on Biden lack of connection with Voters.
But why dump on the leading Dwarf?
you're right fatty you're the king of nonsensical gibberish. How foolish of me to think you could be dethroned
BWAAAAAAA!!!! You are just a foolish big mouthed asshole!!!!!!! So glad you have time to post on a work day.......LOLOLOL>>>>> you get the last word you dumb fuck.....make it count!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!
fatty's been triggered.
LMAO
Does stanky snatch come for thanksgiving?
INTEREST WANES, DID SOMEONE SAY?
Support for Removing Trump Ticks Up
November 26, 2019 at 9:51 am EST
As more impeachment polls come in, they’re undermining the Republican talking point that the numbers are moving against Democrats: 49% support impeaching and removing President Trump while 44% do not.
Trump’s Turkey Corruption Is Way Worse Than You Think
Tim Miller:
“According to a report by MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Bolton said that he believes there is a ‘personal or business relationship dictating Trump’s position on Turkey.'”
“Wait what? The president’s former national security advisor suggested that the commander-in-chief made life or death national security decisions because of an active conflict of interest related to his business?”
“Even by the standards of Trumpian corruption, this is holy-motherforking-shirtballs level stuff.”
“Bolton’s accusation, if accurate, would amount to the biggest scandal in the American presidency in half a century: The most senior security staffer, a man with unparalleled access to the president, believes that Trump acted in a way that is indistinguishable from double-dealing despots the world over.”
Trump Claims He Would Like His Aides to Testify
November 26, 2019 at 10:57 am EST
President Trump tweeted that he would “actually like” his current and former aides to testify in the House impeachment probe but that he is “fighting for future Presidents and the Office of the President.”
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ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT, LIAR. I'LL BELIEVE THAT WHEN THE IRS RATIFIES YOUR LIE THAT YOU CANNOT RELEASE YOUR TAX RETURNS BECAUSE YOU ARE UNDER AUDIT.
A poll of you living room doesn't count James.
Swing State Dem Flips on Impeachment
Over the summer, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence fully backed the move to impeach President Trump, but the Detroit-area Democrat said over the weekend that she has since changed her mind.
“I feel we should begin that process,” Lawrence told CNN on June 12. “If we impeach him, he is still sitting in the White House because the Senate must act.”
“Our democracy is bigger than Donald Trump, and we need to act,” added the congresswoman, who since 2015 has represented Michigan’s 14th District, which includes eastern Detroit.
Now, however, Lawrence said she sees things differently.
“You can censure, you don’t have to remove the president,” Lawrence said Sunday on No BS News Hour with Charlie LeDuff. “Sitting here, knowing how divided this country is, I don’t see the value of kicking him out of office, but I do see the value of putting down a marker saying his behavior is not acceptable.”
“I’ll be g-damned,” the host said at one point in response to Lawrence’s remarks. “To hear you say, and you are a Democrat, and you are a liberal minded person; I know you don’t like Trump For the betterment of all of us, in an election year, it’s unwise to tear him from the chair. Is that how you think?”
Yeah,” Lawrence responded.
The real story is that she's a member of the progressive caucus from a D+30 district.
Does stinky snatch come for thanksgiving?
You letting your wife out for the weekend you loud mouthed asshole....>BWAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
Most Think Trump Abused His Office
November 26, 2019 at 9:46 am EST
A new CNN poll finds
53% of Americans think that President Trump had used his office improperly,
up from 49% in October, and
56% said Trump’s attempts to persuade Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was more for personal benefit than to root out corruption.
You letting your wife out for the weekend you loud mouthed asshole..
That's your retort? It doesn't make sense stupid
Personal attack shows immaturity regardless of matter who instigates it.
regardless of who instigates it.
Democrats Eye Multiple Articles of Impeachment
“House Democrats are increasingly focusing on multiple articles of impeachment against President Trump over the Ukraine scandal — as some lawmakers push to go even further and include what many in the party see as clear criminality detailed in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report,” CNN reports.
“In private, Democrats are debating how broadly to draft the articles of impeachment against Trump, especially given what many in the House view as clear misconduct detailed in the Mueller report and violations of the Constitution’s emoluments clause by allegedly enriching himself while in office.”
Bolton, the most senior security staffer, a man with unparalleled access to the president, believes that Trump acted in a way that is indistinguishable from double-dealing despots the world over.
It doesn't make sense stupid
That's your stinky snatch you dumb fuck....Geezus....a box of rocks has you beat!!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Give it up you loser!!!!!
What’s it like trying to eat turkey with the overwhelming smell of rotting fish at your table, fatman
Everyone loses with personal attacks. Besides, they simply
become so boring.
ROFLMAO skin cancer removal is not a lobotomy!
arlier this month, Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton, the moustachioed one, the unlikeliest of potential #Resistance heroes, left another clue about his knowledge of President Donald Trump’s corrupt dealings during an investment event at Morgan Stanley.
According to a report by MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Bolton said that he believes there is a “personal or business relationship dictating Trump’s position on Turkey.”
Wait what?
The president’s former national security advisor suggested that the commander-in-chief made life or death national security decisions because of an active conflict of interest related to his business?
Even by the standards of Trumpian corruption, this is holy-motherforking-shirtballs level stuff.
Bolton’s accusation, if accurate, would amount to the biggest scandal in the American presidency in half a century: The most senior security staffer, a man with unparalleled access to the president, believes that Trump acted in a way that is indistinguishable from double-dealing despots the world over.
https://thebulwark.com/trumps-turkey-corruption-is-way-worse-than-you-realize/
"That's your retort? It doesn't make sense stupid"
it is all he's got
U.N. Says Drastic Action Needed on Climate Change
Washington Post: “Global temperatures are on pace to rise as much as 3.9 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to the United Nations’ annual ‘emissions gap’ report, which assesses the difference between the world’s current path and the changes needed to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate accord.
“Should that pace continue, scientists say, the result could be widespread, catastrophic effects: Coral reefs, already dying in some places, would probably dissolve in increasingly acidic oceans. Some coastal cities, already wrestling with flooding, would be constantly inundated by rising seas. In much of the world, severe heat, already intense, could become unbearable.
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‘Follow the Facts’
November 26, 2019 at 11:52 am EST
Former Sen. Slade Gordon (R-OR), writing in the New York Times:
“My fellow Republicans, please follow the facts. It’s not enough merely to dismiss the Ukraine investigation as a partisan witch hunt or to hide behind attacks against the ‘deep state,’ or to try to find some reason to denounce every witness who steps forward, from decorated veterans to Trump megadonors. History demands that we all wrestle with the facts at hand. They are unavoidable.”
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House Oversight Committee Sues Barr and Ross
November 26, 2019 at 11:16 am EST
The House Oversight Committee filed suit against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over their refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas in the investigation over the failed effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
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Book just out:
Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump by Neal Katyal and Sam Koppelman.
“If President Trump is not held accountable for repeatedly asking foreign powers to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, this could very well mark the end of our democracy.”
😂😁😀🤣😃Does stanky snatch come for thanksgiving?😃😄😅😉😆
why Didn't Palsy/Schitt present his evidence for Impeachment in the public hearings?
MynameisRogernotAlky ,, another illness.
"skin cancer removal"
Damn .
The Economy is a headline issue in 2020.
"Case-Shiller home price index Sept. 3.2⬆️"
WASHINGTON — The former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II must testify before House impeachment investigators about President Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Mueller inquiry, a judge ruled on Monday, saying that senior presidential aides must comply with congressional subpoenas and calling the administration’s arguments to the contrary “fiction.”
Well first, that decision has been appealed. I would give it pretty good odds that the USSC will weigh in and I would think Trump has a better than even chance of prevailing at that point.
While this particular Obama Judge sees this as a Trump thing (quite obviously) and has tossed a whole bunch of politically charged rhetoric into her decision (such as the talk of dictatorships)... the reality isn't about whether or not Congress should have executive branch subpoena power... it's about whether or not a Court is going to continue to acknowledge executive privilege or (in the case of Don McGahn) whether they are going to respect attorney/client privilege.
The very fact that McGahn was a White House attorney and the very fact that Trump would have confided in him for legal advice is exactly why this has nothing to do with "Dictatorships" or any other rhetorical nonsense. Any attorney who breaks the Attorney Client Privilege can be immediately disbarred.
You cannot change the long standing legal principles regarding attorney client privilege (or even executive privilege) because you don't like the "Bad Orange Man".
Also Roger...
Keep in mind that even if McGahn testifies, he can still refuse to answer questions bases on executive privilege and/or attorney client privilege. Would Congress hold an Attorney in contempt of court for claiming attorney privileges?
That would be some serious bad optics that would likely resonate fairly loudly.
He has to appear, not testify
I raised Three Large White Turkeys this year. I butchered them and put them in our freezer. to say I took one out to thaw for Thanksgiving .
here's the cavalcade of 'never trumper' stars at the bulwark.
they're conservatising conservatism by being propped up by an iranian billionaire.
https://thebulwark.com/about-us/
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
Democrats demand that the people **must** hear testimony from Don McGagh!
...while blocking subpoenas for Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Eric Ciaramella, Alexandra Chalupa, and any other person with an actual Ukraine corrupt problem.
It's a coup.
The Senate needs to fix no matter what the house ends up doing, including putting Schiff under oath.
Byron York
@ByronYork
Intel chairman Schiff to colleagues: Trump impeachment is ‘an urgent matter that cannot wait.’
Undercover Huber Retweeted Byron York
In which case taking 10 days vacation makes about as much sense as Schiff’s entire case
the 10 days vacation is giving them a chance to figure out just how fucked they really are.
Boomerang! Liberal Watchdog Group Publishes FOIA Documents to Target Giuliani, Fails to Realize Documents Detail Biden/Ukraine Corruption
What the group fails to realize is that the documents include Giuliani’s interview notes which provide detailed accusations of corruption against the Bidens.” Giuliani had interviewed Victor Shokin, the Prosecutor General who was investigating Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma Holdings in March 2016. Shokin was about to question Hunter Biden when former Vice President Joe Biden ordered then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Shokin or he would hold back $1 billion in U.S. aid. Giuliani had also interviewed Yuriy Lutsenko, who had succeeded Shokin as Prosecutor General. The notes indicate that Lutsenko “believes Mr. Viktor Shokin the former Prosecutor General is honest.”
(So Biden did withhold aid to fire an honest prosecutor, or so says the one Biden replaced him with)
“Mr Shokin further stated that there were several Burisma board appointments were made in 2014 as follows:
1. Hunter Biden son of Vice President Joseph Biden
4. Devon Archer roomate to the Christopher Heinz the step-son of Mr. John Kerry United States Secretary of State
Corruption goes even deeper...
bunch more at : https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/11/25/boomerang-liberal-watchdog-group-publishes-foia-documents-target-giuliani-fail-realize-documents-detail-bidenukraine-corruption/
Do that Michigan democrat who spoke out against impeachment just recanted. Pelosi spanked het for having the gall to have her own opinion. The party of lemmings.
WYATT
@Bubbalouwie
The corruption is overwhelming in the house .
Watch this video to see what we’ve been missing
#TornadoTrump
https://twitter.com/Bubbalouwie/status/1199068828837318670
kind of like Hillary and her commodity trading futures.
this must be a high crime or misdemeanor...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is donating his third-quarter salary to help tackle the nation’s opioid epidemic.
A White House official says Trump has given the $100,000 he would be paid in the quarter to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, which oversees federal public health offices and programs, including the surgeon general’s office.
The White House says the funds are being earmarked “to continue the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis.”
Trump has made tackling the misuse of opioids an administration priority. More than 70,000 Americans died in 2017 from drug overdoses, the bulk of them involving opioids.
Trump is required to be paid, but he has pledged to donate his salary while in office to worthy causes. Trump donated his second-quarter salary to the surgeon general’s office.
https://apnews.com/0ad1e8be56e040b4ab0e85c3d13c3358
Ilhan Omar is a 'Qatari asset,' witness confirms Jerusalem Post report
The Democratic Congresswoman is said to have passed information to Qatar, which was subsequently handed along to Iran.
"the 10 days vacation is giving them a chance to figure out just how fucked they really are."
Reports are "Royally". They are home outside the belt way bubble and getting an earful.
The Secretary of State agrees with Scott A**hole.
The U.S. intelligence community has concluded unequivocally that it was Russia who meddled in the 2016 election, and last week former National Security Council adviser Fiona Hill slammed the Ukraine conspiracy theory as a “fictional narrative” propagated by “Russian security services themselves.”
Yet Pompeo pushed the false claim anyway on Tuesday, asserting that the U.S. “should leave no stone unturned.”
“Whatever nation it is that we have information that so much as suggests that there might have been interference or an effort to interfere in our elections, we have an obligation to make sure that the American people get to go to the ballot box, cast their ballots in a way that is unimpacted by these malevolent actors trying to undermine our Western democratic values,”
Quote of the Day
“I would like to think there’s a coalition of the decent out there who are just horrified by watching Donald Trump, by watching what he’s doing, but also what he’s doing to us. I would love to see the emergence of a coalition that would set aside ideological differences, at least temporarily, to deal with the current emergency.”
— Conservative commentator Charlie Sykes, quoted by The Progressive.
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Arthur Schwartz
@ArthurSchwartz
Parnas was arrested with prescription antidepressants & opioids. The sole source for CNN’s “Devin Goes to Vienna” lie is a drug-addled, indicted sleazeball desperately hoping that Schiff can get him an immunity deal. He can’t. Hope CNN has good lawyers.
If the Congress has him arrested like it happened in the last century.
That would be some serious good optics that would likely resonate fairly loudly and proving that no one is above the law !
Mark Meadows
@RepMarkMeadows
We just held two weeks of hearings, after a month of closed door depositions—all of which revealed no evidence to support impeachment—and now we're holding more hearings.
This is fundamentally unserious.
John Hayward
@Doc_0
Pro tip: If you go into the holidays thinking politics are more important than your relationships with family members, you can stop wondering who the worst totalitarian in the room is. It's you.
thebradfordfile™
@thebradfordfile
TO BE CLEAR --
The impeachment is moving to the judiciary committee and Democrats are refusing to subpoena the CIA operative, Eric Ciaramella, who conspired w Adam Schiff to remove President Trump from office. This is no longer debatable...
It’s a coup.
Rep Andy Biggs
@RepAndyBiggsAZ
Now, even before receiving the report from Mr. Schiff’s sham Impeachment Committee, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has scheduled a hearing to keep Democrats’ flickering Impeachment hopes alive.
You talk about premature, unfair, & blatantly partisan. This is it.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
The Secretary of State agrees with Scott
so do most sane, rational, clear thinking people alky.
we leave the manic TDS attacks to assholes like you.
Lee Zeldin
@RepLeeZeldin
Mark Sandy from OMB gave a closed door deposition as part of this impeachment charade to tell Congress what the definitive answer was he received as to why there was a hold on aid to Ukraine. JUST RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPT ADAM!
WHY IS SCHIFF HIDING TESTIMONY ?
TheLastRefuge
@TheLastRefuge2
TheLastRefuge Retweeted House Judiciary Dems
How can Nadler hold a "phase two" hearing, when the "phase one" report from Schiff hasn't yet arrived?
House Res.660 lays out the process. Apparently Dems are desperate when they don't even follow their own partisan resolution.
@realDonaldTrump may want to point this out.
WHY IS SCHIFF HIDING TESTIMONY ?
he's trying to un-screw the pooch he screwed.
schiff's such a piece of schitt, he's glad to kick the clusterfuck over to the judiciary cmte.. now when it completely turns to schitt watch him blame it all on fat nadler.
Maybe someone can unscrew what Sen Kennedy said about the fact it was russian interference and not Ukranian who were messing with our elections....Sad that such a red state conservative now bows down to Putins fake news instead of believing ALL the US intelligence agencies.....he should resign since he is doing Putins work and you ass holes are all believing him!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Actually BOTH Ukraine and Russia interfered with our elections.
It's NOT an either/or
May be way above lo iq's understanding level.
and it wasn't All agencies involved in the assessment, just a couple with a handful of hand-picked "analysts" by Brennan. And he certainly has shown no political animus.
Mike Cernovich
@Cernovich
Two-thirds of battleground state voters who chose Trump in 2016 but selected Democrats in the midterms say they will return to the president next year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/upshot/democratic-trump-voters-2020.html
FAKE NEWS NYT probably closer to 100 %
Actually BOTH Ukraine and Russia interfered with our elections.
James stupid fucking daddy posting erroneous news....there is no credible evidence that Ukraine did anything to interfere with 2016 you dumb fucking loser!!!!!! Actually, the only actuality is your brain is a pile of trump bullshit!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! How can sooooo many R's like you be wrong so often??????
lo iq "anonymous" said: there is no credible evidence that Ukraine did anything to interfere with 2016
WRONG AGAIN lo iq.
But I understand you cannot comprehend anything nor learn anything.
You show it all the time.
So I will not waste more of my time on an idiot
Happy Thanksgiving though.
ROFLMFAO !!!
WRONG AGAIN lo iq.
You saying so you dumb fuck means shit....Link us up with that credible evidence you dumb fuck or take another trump dicking up your old white ass!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! Always wrong fucking daddy is nothing but a joke!!!!!!!
Refute this you dumb fucking daddy!!!!
By NATASHA BERTRAND and ANDREW DESIDERIO
11/08/2019 03:47 PM EST
Two top officials who served on President Donald Trump’s National Security Council staff testified that they had seen no evidence that the Ukraine government interfered in the 2016 election, contradicting a claim the president has made in public and private.
The former officials, Fiona Hill and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, were responding to questions from House impeachment investigators, who released transcripts of their depositions on Friday.
most sane, rational, clear thinking people agree with me!
Your Trumpism stage four brain cancer has damaged what little brain you had.
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782126028/read-testimony-of-white-house-budget-official-to-impeachment-inquiry
It right here asshole
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782126028/read-testimony-of-white-house-budget-official-to-impeachment-inquiry
It's right here asshole and the racist rodent bastard
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/transcripts-released-philip-reeker-mark-sandy/index.html
Here are your transcripts
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/transcripts-released-philip-reeker-mark-sandy/index.html
Fiona Hill and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman,
A Soros lackey and a fat chow thief
REVEALED: During Ranger School Lt. Col. Vindman’s Peers Said He Was “Lazy and a Chow Thief” – They Wanted Him Out
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/revealed-during-ranger-school-lt-col-vindmans-peers-said-he-was-lazy-and-a-chow-thief-they-wanted-him-out/
Palos Verdes tomorrow, Rog
Thanksgiving in the land of fruits and nuts
A Soros lackey and a fat chow thief
That's all you got you dumb fuck!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Yep, that is the extent of a gateway of stupidity.....just like you......asshole....
No wonder why Paula head explodes every day.....he reads BULLSHIT published by a fake news source....sad how they are debasing a wounded vet in such unseemly and unproven ways.... But Paula buys into all the crap because he can't think on his own!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Vindman Caught in ANOTHER LIE - Tim Morrison Testimony Blows ...
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/vindman-caught...
Grand Opening of The Gateway Pundit Store — Click Here Vindman Caught in ANOTHER LIE – Tim Morrison Testimony Blows Up Another One of Vindman’s Outrageous Claims (VIDEO) by Cristina Laila November 19, 2019
Whistleblower and Leaker Lt. Col. Vindman Accuses John ...
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/whistleblower...
2 days ago · Grand Opening of The Gateway Pundit Store — Click Here Whistleblower and Leaker Lt. Col. Vindman Accuses John Solomon of Lying During Testimony — John Solomon Responds with a 28 Point List and a Warning by Jim Hoft November 23, 2019 Total: 0
Fellow Soldiers SLAM Col. Vindman for "Pushing a Coup" by ...
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/fellow-soldiers...
Nov 11, 2019 · Alexander Vindman’s testimony was recently released and it shows an ignorant underling in the NSC who believed the President’s policy in the Ukraine was flawed and because of this Vindman notified a group of ‘Ukrainians’ to ignore the President’s requests.
Vindman Went Around Authorities to Undermine Trump ...
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/vindman-went...
President Zelensky with the US delegation in Kiev including Senator Ron Johnson, former Governor Rick Perry and Alexander Vindman, among others. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman told Adam Schiff during his testimony on Tuesday that he went around his chain of command to undermine the Trump administration.
REVEALING: Military Official Who Worked with Top Schiff ...
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/revealing...
The following account of LTC Vindman’s words & actions are completely accurate to the best of my recollection & have been corroborated by others. We interacted on several different occasions throughout the planning cycle, but it was during the actual execution of the exercise, that we had an issue relevant to his recent testimony.
The Gateway Pundit - Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/464046
The transcript of his testimony was released this weekend. Morrison’s testimony COMPLETELY DESTROYED the Democrat’s latest attempt to remove President
BUT, THEY HAVE FREE SPEECH!!!!!!! ASSHOLES....
Fatty, keyboard problems?
Wow Denny can't even copy/paste. It's nothing but gibberish.
when Fatty tries to be relevant, he shits the bed
It’s pitiful
But it’s our fault he posted gibberish, AGAIN
WASHINGTON — President Trump had already been briefed on a whistle-blower’s complaint about his dealings with Ukraine when he unfroze military aid for the country in September, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Lawyers from the White House counsel’s office told Mr. Trump in late August about the complaint, explaining that they were trying to determine whether they were legally required to give it to Congress, the people said.
The revelation could shed light on Mr. Trump’s thinking at two critical points under scrutiny by impeachment investigators: his decision in early September to release $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine and his denial to a key ambassador around the same time that there was a “quid pro quo” with Kyiv. Mr. Trump used the phrase before it had entered the public lexicon in the Ukraine affair.
Mr. Trump faced bipartisan pressure from Congress when he released the aid. But the new timing detail shows that he was also aware at the time that the whistle-blower had accused him of wrongdoing in withholding the aid and in his broader campaign to pressure Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to conduct investigations that could benefit Mr. Trump’s re-election chances.
Quid pro quo,???????
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/26/782908119/fusion-gps-founders-on-russian-efforts-to-sow-discord-they-have-succeeded
BOMBSHELL
Quinnipiac poll 76 percent of American voters think that the Trump administration should fully cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, while 18 percent don't think so.
The optics of an empty chair during the impeachment hearings will be devastating in the polls.
If the polls show a shift to over 55% favoring conviction the Senate trial may make history with a conviction and removal from office.
The optics of an empty chair during the impeachment hearings will be devastating in the polls.
indeed, but not in the way you think alky.
it will be emblematic of more democrat political theatre, a gesture as empty as the chair itself. meaningless, except to rabid TDS-afflicted partisan asshats.
i for one, applaud the effort. the re-election of donald trump becomes more likely with each passing liberal stunt, and the GOP re-capturing the house would be a nice bonus.
your "this is really gonna work THIS time" insistence really is entertaining in a 'wile e. coyote' sort of way.
keep it up alky.
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