Socialist Democrat Poccahatous blames the United States .
"“Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs reported that between 2017 and 2018, United States sanctions on Venezuela caused over 40,000 deaths. And we also have sanctions on many other countries like Iran, North Korea, and you can name many more.
“So, I’m wondering, as president, will you stop U.S.-supported murder, whether it’s through sanctions, arms support or boots on the ground?”
Warren then immediately responded by saying, “So, I like your frame on this.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) isn’t exactly willing to endorse President Trump’s claim that House Democrats could release altered transcripts from their impeachment depositions.
According to CNN Monday, while reiterating his argument that he wants all transcripts of the impeachment inquiry released, Jordan said that the transcripts that House Intel Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) would release would be real — contradicting Trump’s Sunday tweet that if Schiff releases the transcripts “he will change the words.”
However, Jordan told CNN that he agrees with Trump’s claim that written testimony from the whistleblower wouldn’t suffice. Jordan argued that because the whistleblower complaint led to the impeachment inquiry, the public should hear from the whistleblower themselves.
Jordan added that he cares more about what would be redacted from the transcripts rather than whether the whistleblower’s account had been corroborated.
“Part of determining someone’s motivation, credibility, potential bias is being able to see them, look them in the eye, see how they react to me asking them questions,” Jordan told CNN.
Steve Rattner who worked for the last real President Obama. He said that Elizabeth Warren has a terrible plan for health reform and other expenses.
I would vote for her over Trump without hesitation, but this just isn't going to sell to the voters.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has unveiled her vision for how to pay for “Medicare for all” — a daunting mountain of new taxes and fees.
Thanks for providing us, Ms. Warren, with yet more evidence that a Warren presidency is a terrifying prospect, one brought closer by your surge in the polls.
Left to her own devices, she would extend the reach and weight of the federal government far further into the economy than anything even President Franklin Roosevelt imagined, effectively abandoning the limited-government model that has mostly served us well.
Ms. Warren may call herself a capitalist, but her panoply of minutely detailed plans suggests otherwise. She would turn America’s uniquely successful public-private relationship into a dirigiste, European-style system. If you want to live in France (economically), Elizabeth Warren should be your candidate.
As a lifelong Democrat, I freely acknowledge that substantial reforms are much needed, both to achieve a more equitable distribution of income and wealth and to make good on Donald Trump’s failed pledge to raise the economy’s growth rate.
But the Warren way would be, quite simply, the wrong way.
To date, public attention has understandably focused on Ms. Warren’s support for Medicare for all as well as her long list of other new social programs like the Green New Deal, free college tuition, universal child care, student debt forgiveness and on and on.
Her armada of changes would be highly disruptive (for example, to the 156 million Americans who have private health insurance) and expensive (at least $23 trillion over the next decade). To her credit, she proposes to pay for all that spending — but with a mountain of new taxes that would increase federal revenues by more than 50 percent. Talk about expansionary government.!!
Trump would, if we don't impeach the SOB, he would win a second term.
so it turns out that vindman IS a traitor, a disgrace to the uniform and an all-around piece of shit:
A retired Army officer who worked with Democrat “star witness” Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in Grafenwoher, Germany, claims Vindman “really talked up” President Barack Obama and ridiculed America and Americans in front of Russian military officers.
In an eye-opening thread on Twitter last week, retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Jim Hickman said that he “verbally reprimanded” Vindman after he heard some of his derisive remarks for himself. “Do not let the uniform fool you,” Hickman wrote. “He is a political activist in uniform.”
Hickman’s former boss at the Joint Multinational Simulation Center in Grafenwoehr has since gone on the record to corroborate his story.
Hickman, 52, says he’s a disabled wounded warrior who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and who received numerous medals, including the Purple Heart.
The retired officer said that Vindman, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ukraine, made fun of the United States to the point that it made other soldiers “uncomfortable.” For example, Hickman told American Greatness that he heard Vindman call Americans “rednecks”—a word that needed to be translated for the Russians. He said they all had a big laugh at America’s expense.
Vindman, who serves on the National Security Council (NSC), appeared last week before the House Intelligence Committee and testified that he’d had “concerns” about the July phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Vindman’s testimony rested on his negative opinions of the call, rather than any new facts about the call.
Vindman’s former boss, NSC Senior Director for European Affairs Tim Morrison, threw cold water on Vindman’s claims in his own testimony later in the week, saying he didn’t have concerns that “anything illegal was discussed” in the phone call. Morrison also testified that Ukrainian officials were not even aware that military funding had been delayed by the Trump Administration until late August 2019, more than a month after the Trump-Zelensky call.
“Completely Beyond Reproach” Hickman said he decided to come forward because Vindman “disobeyed a direct order from the commander-in-chief, his boss,” made his testimony “about his foreign policy opinions versus facts,” and “wore his Army service uniform to make a political statement” against the president.
“Then right on cue, the mainstream media began calling him a war hero with a purple heart, and completely beyond reproach,” Hickman wrote in a statement to American Greatness and another journalist. “Knowing his political bias, backed by his somewhat radical left-leaning ideology, it was my obligation, indeed my duty, to come forward with this information. I couldn’t go to the same mainstream media to put it out, nor could I go to the Army, as they’re backing Vindman, so I took to Twitter, a source for getting the truth out,” he added.
The officials who House committees had scheduled to testify in private session on Monday were Robert Blair, a senior adviser to acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney ; John Eisenberg, deputy counsel to the president for national security affairs; Michael Ellis, Mr. Eisenberg’s deputy; and Brian McCormack, an associate director at the White House budget office.
On Sunday evening, the House Intelligence Committee issued subpoenas to Mr. Ellis and Mr. Blair.
A lawyer for Mr. Blair didn’t respond to a request for comment. The Financial Times reported that the lawyer said the White House had directed his client not to testify. A lawyer for Mr. Ellis said he wouldn’t testify in response to the subpoena, citing the White House directive. The committees also subpoenaed Mr. Eisenberg, according to a letter from his lawyer, who said the White House had instructed him not to testify, arguing he was “immune” as a senior adviser to the president from compelled congressional deposition.
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's tax returns can be turned over to New York prosecutors by his personal accountant, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, leaving the last word to the Supreme Court
The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upholds a lower court decision in the ongoing fight over Trump's financial records. Trump has refused to release his tax returns since he was a presidential candidate, and is the only modern president who hasn't made that financial information public.
In a written decision, three appeals judges said they only decided whether a state prosecutor can demand Trump's personal financial records from a third party while the president is in office.
The appeals court said it did not consider whether the president is immune from indictment and prosecution while in office or whether the president himself may be ordered to produce documents in a state criminal proceeding.
"We hold that any presidential immunity from state criminal process does not bar the enforcement of such a subpoena," 2nd Circuit Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann wrote.
According to the decision, a subpoena seeking Trump's private tax returns and financial information relating to businesses he owns as a private citizen "do not implicate, in any way, the performance of his official duties."
"We are not faced, in this case, with the President's arrest or imprisonment, or with an order compelling him to attend court at a particular time or place, or, indeed, with an order that compels the President himself to do anything," the 2nd Circuit said. "The subpoena at issue is directed not to the President, but to his accountants; compliance does not require the President to do anything at all."
The retired officer said that Vindman, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ukraine, made fun of the United States to the point that it made other soldiers “uncomfortable.” For example, Hickman told American Greatness that he heard Vindman call Americans “rednecks”—a word that needed to be translated for the Russians. He said they all had a big laugh at America’s expense.
This would be on the front page of the New York Times if Vindman was a Republican. As we've seen, silence.
It's amazing how much information the Mainstream media has withheld from the public and consequently how much history has changed when they held a virtual monopoly on information.
Do you really think that?????? BWAAAAAAAA!!!! You must have high regards for yourself......Sad, that I am triggering you to such stupidity especially with the crap you post as fact!!!!!!!
The Justice Department is trying to unearth the identity of the Trump administration official who denounced the president in a New York Times Op-Ed last year under the byline Anonymous, according to a letter from a senior law enforcement official on Monday.
In the letter, Assistant Attorney General Joseph H. Hunt asked the publisher of a forthcoming book by the writer and the author’s book agents for proof that the official never signed a nondisclosure agreement and had no access to classified information or, absent that, for information about where the person worked in the government, and when. “If the author is, in fact, a current or former ‘senior official’ in the Trump administration, publication of the book may violate that official’s legal obligations under one or more nondisclosure agreements,” Mr. Hunt wrote to Carol Ross of the Hachette Book Group, which is publishing Anonymous’s book, as well as to Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn, the agents for the former self-described senior official.
This is an atrocious act of intimidation meant for no purpose other than to protect Trump from political embarrassment. And an assault on the first Amendment. But that’s how the government works these days. If there was any justice, Attorney General William Barr would be impeached right along with Trump.
The Supreme Court will not decide on this case, and in effect will let the ruling stand. We will see the tax returns that he promised multiple times to release them to the public.
Distinct possibility that SCOTUS will refuse to hear the case.
D.A. Vance is legally liable to keep those tax returns secret until there is an indictment and only then. If there is a leak he could be arrested for criminal violation of tax law.
This is an atrocious act of intimidation meant for no purpose other than to protect Trump from political embarrassment. And an assault on the first Amendment.
No, somebody reneged in a signed contract as well as disclose classified information. That's why the coward won't put his name to anything.
Menstral our walking cramp who never served a day in his life questions the patriotism of a wounded vet with a un vetted testimonial from a source he did not provide!!!!!! More Anthony watts journalism that is doubtful in its veracity except for trump dick suckers like McPeabrain!!!!
Commonsense said... The retired officer said that Vindman, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ukraine, made fun of the United States to the point that it made other soldiers “uncomfortable. Funny that none of the alleged charges are found in Vindmans official records.....Why is that cramps????? More bullshit attacking the credibility of credible witnesses????? Typical asshole smear campaigns....it is all you ever do!!!!!
If there is a leak he could be arrested for criminal violation of tax law.
And if you had a brain, you would be dangerous!!!!!!! Why do you care if the returns are leaked???? What could be so devastating to trump??? He promised to release them years ago...!!!! And he's is still hiding them!!!
They're going to spend *DECADES* scraping the Lying, Greedy, Trump-slime from their clothes.
like the DECADES you said the GOP would be "wandering in the wilderness" alky?
DJIA up 50% since trump took office and 19% this year alone.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 128,000 in October, exceeding the estimate of 75,000 from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
There were big revisions of past numbers as well. August’s initial 168,000 payrolls addition was revised up to 219,000, while September’s jumped from 136,000 to 180,000.
The unemployment rate ticked slightly higher to 3.6% from 3.5%, still near the lowest in 50 years.
The pace of average hourly earnings picked up a bit, rising 0.1% to a year-over-year 3% gain.
When will trump produce that information he promised....
Reporter asks President Donald Trump today: “Sir, what evidence do you have that Colonel Vindman is a Never Trumper?”
Trump responds: “We'll be showing that to you real soon. Okay?”
We have passed really soon by days and the likes of cramps and rat will still be making shit up and swallowing like good little never thinkers they are!!!!
Menstral our walking cramp who never served a day in his life questions the patriotism of a wounded vet with a un vetted testimonial from a source he did not provide!!!!!!
Actually it was another wounded patriotic vet that was his commanding officer at one time.
The administration is understaffed and disorganized to the point of virtual anarchy, opening up promising avenues for insiders to escape accountability. Trump’s public ethos, despite his professions during the campaign that he could “drain the swamp” and impose a series of stringent ethics reforms, runs toward relativism — he famously tolerates anybody who supports him, regardless of criminal history or other disqualifications, defining their goodness entirely in terms of personal loyalty. And above all there is the simple fact that Trump himself is a wildly unethical businessman who has stiffed his counterparties and contractors, and worked closely with mobsters, his entire career. A president who is continuing to profit personally from his office is hardly in any position to demand his subordinates refrain from following suit.
It has been frequently noted that the president is molding the party in his nationalist, populist, authoritarian image. He is likewise molding its governing class after his own personal business ethos.
John Bolton’s testimony, when he testifies. He’s not known as a shy man. He is a conservative who has made his career as a professional (worked for four presidents, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, head of the National Security Council), a foreign-affairs tough guy, a Fox News contributor. Some, perhaps many conservatives were heartened when he came aboard with the president in the spring of 2018.
He would know a great deal about the issues at hand. Did the president act in a way he disapproved of on Ukraine? Was there a side-game foreign policy? All that would be powerful. But what if he was asked to think aloud about what he saw of the way Mr. Trump operates, of what he learned about the president after he came to work for him, of what illusions, if any, might have been dispelled? To reflect (as the generals who used to work for the president reflect, off the record)? What if he is questioned imaginatively, even sympathetically, with a long view as to what history needs to be told?
If he did this under oath and answered as he thought right, honest and helpful, if he was asked the question, “After all you’ve seen, is it good for America that Donald Trump is president?” “Tell us about what you’ve observed about the nature and mind and character of Donald Trump.” “Share your thoughts as a respected professional who has worked with presidents and who knows what the presidency is.”
Public candor would take plenty of guts and could have reputational repercussions.
But it would not just be powerful, it could be explosive. History, at least, would appreciate it.
He may be the John Dean of the Trump impeachment hearings
NEWS Former US envoy says she was warned she was being targeted MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO Associated PressNovember 4, 2019, 12:24 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Laying out the anatomy of a chilling smear campaign, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators in a transcript released Monday that Ukrainian officials had warned her in advance that Rudy Giuliani and other allies of President Donald Trump were planning to "do things, including to me" and were "looking to hurt" her.
The former envoy, who was pushed out of her job in May on Trump's orders, testified that a senior Ukrainian official told her that "I really needed to watch my back."
While the major thrust of Yovanovitch's testimony had come out on the day she testified behind closed doors last month in the impeachment inquiry, Monday's 317-page transcript provided new details about the bewildering sequence of events that led to the career diplomat's ouster. Her account started with the warnings from Ukrainian officials and then led legislators through various attempts to badmouth her both in Ukraine and the U.S.
The emotion behind her nine hours of testimony was evident. At one point, when Yovanovitch returned from a short break, one of her questioners told her, "We understand this is a difficult and emotional topic."
Yovanovitch also offered significant new threads of information — including the potential that Trump was directly involved in a phone call with Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, and the Ukrainians dating back to January 2018 — while pushing back on Republican questions suggesting that she harbored opposition to Trump.
She had been recalled from Kyiv before the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that's at the center of the impeachment inquiry but was "surprised and dismayed" by what she understood from the transcript of the call.
Yovanovitch told investigators that she was shocked to learn Trump had called her "bad news" in the phone call, adding that she felt threatened and perplexed by his remark that she was "going to go through some things." The diplomat added that she worried that her job and pension could be at risk but that "so far," she wasn't concerned about her personal safety although "a number of my friends are very concerned."
Yovanovitch was recalled from Kyiv as Giuliani pressed Ukrainian officials to investigate baseless corruption allegations against Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who was involved with Burisma, a gas company there.
Giuliani's role in Ukraine was central to Yovanovitch's testimony. She said she was aware of an interest by Giuliani and his associates in investigating Biden and Burisma "with a view to finding things that could be possibly damaging to a Presidential run," as well as investigating the 2016 election and theories of Ukraine interference instead of Russian interference.
Asked directly if Giuliani was promoting investigations on Burisma and Biden, Yovanovitch said, "It wasn't entirely clear to me what was going on."
More directly, she drew a link between Giuliani and two businessmen -- Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who have been indicted in the U.S. on charges stemming from campaign donations they made to U.S. politicians with foreign money -- as part of the campaign to oust her. She understood they were looking to expand their business interests in Ukraine "and that they needed a better ambassador to sort of facilitate their business' efforts here."
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Nats went full MAGA
NYT poll shows 2020 race is a dead heat if it’s Biden or Warren
Rand Paul calls for Hunter Biden, “whistleblower” to be subpoenaed
Tom Nichols had a Twitter breakdown
Trump hosts massive rally in Kentucky, blasts fake news, Schiff, Pelosi
It’s only Monday
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guess dead heat is better than being down double digits to Hillary right before the 2016 election.
but another GREAT DAY
@ArdenFarhi
NEWS: Republicans consider temporarily assigning @Jim_Jordan to the Intelligence Committee for public impeachment hearings
Socialist Democrat Poccahatous blames the United States .
"“Columbia economist Jeffrey Sachs reported that between 2017 and 2018, United States sanctions on Venezuela caused over 40,000 deaths. And we also have sanctions on many other countries like Iran, North Korea, and you can name many more.
“So, I’m wondering, as president, will you stop U.S.-supported murder, whether it’s through sanctions, arms support or boots on the ground?”
Warren then immediately responded by saying, “So, I like your frame on this.”
If Jordan cracks Trump is in danger!
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) isn’t exactly willing to endorse President Trump’s claim that House Democrats could release altered transcripts from their impeachment depositions.
According to CNN Monday, while reiterating his argument that he wants all transcripts of the impeachment inquiry released, Jordan said that the transcripts that House Intel Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) would release would be real — contradicting Trump’s Sunday tweet that if Schiff releases the transcripts “he will change the words.”
However, Jordan told CNN that he agrees with Trump’s claim that written testimony from the whistleblower wouldn’t suffice. Jordan argued that because the whistleblower complaint led to the impeachment inquiry, the public should hear from the whistleblower themselves.
Jordan added that he cares more about what would be redacted from the transcripts rather than whether the whistleblower’s account had been corroborated.
“Part of determining someone’s motivation, credibility, potential bias is being able to see them, look them in the eye, see how they react to me asking them questions,” Jordan told CNN.
@PrisonPlanet
This is not news.
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1191456123951484929
Dave Roth
@TravelingRoths
"Misspelling errors?" I'm pretty sure they're just called "spelling errors." Breaking: CNN makes misgrammar errors!
Steve Rattner who worked for the last real President Obama. He said that Elizabeth Warren has a terrible plan for health reform and other expenses.
I would vote for her over Trump without hesitation, but this just isn't going to sell to the voters.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has unveiled her vision for how to pay for “Medicare for all” — a daunting mountain of new taxes and fees.
Thanks for providing us, Ms. Warren, with yet more evidence that a Warren presidency is a terrifying prospect, one brought closer by your surge in the polls.
Left to her own devices, she would extend the reach and weight of the federal government far further into the economy than anything even President Franklin Roosevelt imagined, effectively abandoning the limited-government model that has mostly served us well.
Ms. Warren may call herself a capitalist, but her panoply of minutely detailed plans suggests otherwise. She would turn America’s uniquely successful public-private relationship into a dirigiste, European-style system. If you want to live in France (economically), Elizabeth Warren should be your candidate.
As a lifelong Democrat, I freely acknowledge that substantial reforms are much needed, both to achieve a more equitable distribution of income and wealth and to make good on Donald Trump’s failed pledge to raise the economy’s growth rate.
But the Warren way would be, quite simply, the wrong way.
To date, public attention has understandably focused on Ms. Warren’s support for Medicare for all as well as her long list of other new social programs like the Green New Deal, free college tuition, universal child care, student debt forgiveness and on and on.
Her armada of changes would be highly disruptive (for example, to the 156 million Americans who have private health insurance) and expensive (at least $23 trillion over the next decade). To her credit, she proposes to pay for all that spending — but with a mountain of new taxes that would increase federal revenues by more than 50 percent. Talk about expansionary government.!!
Trump would, if we don't impeach the SOB, he would win a second term.
The Warren Way Is the Wrong Way https://nyti.ms/2PNm0jk
the alky: "i never paste material from josh marshall..."
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jordan-whistleblower-impeachment-inquiry-transcripts
lyin' alky.
so it turns out that vindman IS a traitor, a disgrace to the uniform and an all-around piece of shit:
A retired Army officer who worked with Democrat “star witness” Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in Grafenwoher, Germany, claims Vindman “really talked up” President Barack Obama and ridiculed America and Americans in front of Russian military officers.
In an eye-opening thread on Twitter last week, retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Jim Hickman said that he “verbally reprimanded” Vindman after he heard some of his derisive remarks for himself. “Do not let the uniform fool you,” Hickman wrote. “He is a political activist in uniform.”
Hickman’s former boss at the Joint Multinational Simulation Center in Grafenwoehr has since gone on the record to corroborate his story.
Hickman, 52, says he’s a disabled wounded warrior who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and who received numerous medals, including the Purple Heart.
The retired officer said that Vindman, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ukraine, made fun of the United States to the point that it made other soldiers “uncomfortable.” For example, Hickman told American Greatness that he heard Vindman call Americans “rednecks”—a word that needed to be translated for the Russians. He said they all had a big laugh at America’s expense.
Vindman, who serves on the National Security Council (NSC), appeared last week before the House Intelligence Committee and testified that he’d had “concerns” about the July phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Vindman’s testimony rested on his negative opinions of the call, rather than any new facts about the call.
Vindman’s former boss, NSC Senior Director for European Affairs Tim Morrison, threw cold water on Vindman’s claims in his own testimony later in the week, saying he didn’t have concerns that “anything illegal was discussed” in the phone call. Morrison also testified that Ukrainian officials were not even aware that military funding had been delayed by the Trump Administration until late August 2019, more than a month after the Trump-Zelensky call.
“Completely Beyond Reproach”
Hickman said he decided to come forward because Vindman “disobeyed a direct order from the commander-in-chief, his boss,” made his testimony “about his foreign policy opinions versus facts,” and “wore his Army service uniform to make a political statement” against the president.
“Then right on cue, the mainstream media began calling him a war hero with a purple heart, and completely beyond reproach,” Hickman wrote in a statement to American Greatness and another journalist. “Knowing his political bias, backed by his somewhat radical left-leaning ideology, it was my obligation, indeed my duty, to come forward with this information. I couldn’t go to the same mainstream media to put it out, nor could I go to the Army, as they’re backing Vindman, so I took to Twitter, a source for getting the truth out,” he added.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/11/04/retired-army-officer-remembers-lt-col-vindman-as-partisan-democrat-who-ridiculed-america/#.XcCdvwRt7QA.twitter
LOL GF:
The officials who House committees had scheduled to testify in private session on Monday were Robert Blair, a senior adviser to acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney ; John Eisenberg, deputy counsel to the president for national security affairs; Michael Ellis, Mr. Eisenberg’s deputy; and Brian McCormack, an associate director at the White House budget office.
On Sunday evening, the House Intelligence Committee issued subpoenas to Mr. Ellis and Mr. Blair.
A lawyer for Mr. Blair didn’t respond to a request for comment. The Financial Times reported that the lawyer said the White House had directed his client not to testify. A lawyer for Mr. Ellis said he wouldn’t testify in response to the subpoena, citing the White House directive. The committees also subpoenaed Mr. Eisenberg, according to a letter from his lawyer, who said the White House had instructed him not to testify, arguing he was “immune” as a senior adviser to the president from compelled congressional deposition.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-officials-not-expected-to-show-for-testimony-in-impeachment-inquiry-11572863402
so... the alky was lying yet again -
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's tax returns can be turned over to New York prosecutors by his personal accountant, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, leaving the last word to the Supreme Court
The decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upholds a lower court decision in the ongoing fight over Trump's financial records. Trump has refused to release his tax returns since he was a presidential candidate, and is the only modern president who hasn't made that financial information public.
In a written decision, three appeals judges said they only decided whether a state prosecutor can demand Trump's personal financial records from a third party while the president is in office.
The appeals court said it did not consider whether the president is immune from indictment and prosecution while in office or whether the president himself may be ordered to produce documents in a state criminal proceeding.
"We hold that any presidential immunity from state criminal process does not bar the enforcement of such a subpoena," 2nd Circuit Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann wrote.
According to the decision, a subpoena seeking Trump's private tax returns and financial information relating to businesses he owns as a private citizen "do not implicate, in any way, the performance of his official duties."
"We are not faced, in this case, with the President's arrest or imprisonment, or with an order compelling him to attend court at a particular time or place, or, indeed, with an order that compels the President himself to do anything," the 2nd Circuit said. "The subpoena at issue is directed not to the President, but to his accountants; compliance does not require the President to do anything at all."
https://www.timesunion.com/news/crime/article/Appeals-court-agrees-Trump-tax-returns-can-be-14807593.php
completely unrelated to tax fraud, because there is no investigation into potential tax fraud. this was simply to get trump to release the returns.
nice try alky.
The retired officer said that Vindman, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ukraine, made fun of the United States to the point that it made other soldiers “uncomfortable.” For example, Hickman told American Greatness that he heard Vindman call Americans “rednecks”—a word that needed to be translated for the Russians. He said they all had a big laugh at America’s expense.
This would be on the front page of the New York Times if Vindman was a Republican. As we've seen, silence.
It's amazing how much information the Mainstream media has withheld from the public and consequently how much history has changed when they held a virtual monopoly on information.
Trump would, if we don't impeach the SOB, he would win a second term.
thanks for finally admitting what this impeachment fiasco is really all about.
the funniest thing you'll hear about today -
gavin newsom is threatening PG&E with a takeover, so the state of CA can "fix" it.
as denny would say - BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!11!
Loser coward in spades posted.....
TRIGGERED.
I must have hit the mark.
ROFLMFAOAY!!!!!!
Do you really think that?????? BWAAAAAAAA!!!! You must have high regards for yourself......Sad, that I am triggering you to such stupidity especially with the crap you post as fact!!!!!!!
The Justice Department is trying to unearth the identity of the Trump administration official who denounced the president in a New York Times Op-Ed last year under the byline Anonymous, according to a letter from a senior law enforcement official on Monday.
In the letter, Assistant Attorney General Joseph H. Hunt asked the publisher of a forthcoming book by the writer and the author’s book agents for proof that the official never signed a nondisclosure agreement and had no access to classified information or, absent that, for information about where the person worked in the government, and when.
“If the author is, in fact, a current or former ‘senior official’ in the Trump administration, publication of the book may violate that official’s legal obligations under one or more nondisclosure agreements,” Mr. Hunt wrote to Carol Ross of the Hachette Book Group, which is publishing Anonymous’s book, as well as to Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn, the agents for the former self-described senior official.
This is an atrocious act of intimidation meant for no purpose other than to protect Trump from political embarrassment. And an assault on the first Amendment. But that’s how the government works these days. If there was any justice, Attorney General William Barr would be impeached right along with Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/04/happy-hour-roundup/
The Supreme Court will not decide on this case, and in effect will let the ruling stand.
We will see the tax returns that he promised multiple times to release them to the public.
Nice try racist rodent bastard.
American Greatness
Enough said
The Supreme Court will not decide on this case, and in effect will let the ruling stand.
We will see the tax returns that he promised multiple times to release them to the public.
Distinct possibility that SCOTUS will refuse to hear the case.
D.A. Vance is legally liable to keep those tax returns secret until there is an indictment and only then. If there is a leak he could be arrested for criminal violation of tax law.
This is an atrocious act of intimidation meant for no purpose other than to protect Trump from political embarrassment. And an assault on the first Amendment.
No, somebody reneged in a signed contract as well as disclose classified information. That's why the coward won't put his name to anything.
To me, it's quite obvious that the Republicans have utterly wasted their moral and ethical power.
By supporting a Turd like Trump, they decided to win a battle, but they lost a war.
They're going to spend *DECADES* scraping the Lying, Greedy, Trump-slime from their clothes.
Menstral our walking cramp who never served a day in his life questions the patriotism of a wounded vet with a un vetted testimonial from a source he did not provide!!!!!! More Anthony watts journalism that is doubtful in its veracity except for trump dick suckers like McPeabrain!!!!
Commonsense said...
The retired officer said that Vindman, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Ukraine, made fun of the United States to the point that it made other soldiers “uncomfortable. Funny that none of the alleged charges are found in Vindmans official records.....Why is that cramps????? More bullshit attacking the credibility of credible witnesses????? Typical asshole smear campaigns....it is all you ever do!!!!!
We will see the tax returns that he promised multiple times to release them to the public.
another lie. he never once promised to release them. hence the challenges to force him in court.
fuck, you're stupid. AND a liar.
If there is a leak he could be arrested for criminal violation of tax law.
And if you had a brain, you would be dangerous!!!!!!! Why do you care if the returns are leaked???? What could be so devastating to trump??? He promised to release them years ago...!!!! And he's is still hiding them!!!
They're going to spend *DECADES* scraping the Lying, Greedy, Trump-slime from their clothes.
like the DECADES you said the GOP would be "wandering in the wilderness" alky?
DJIA up 50% since trump took office and 19% this year alone.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 128,000 in October, exceeding the estimate of 75,000 from economists surveyed by Dow Jones.
There were big revisions of past numbers as well. August’s initial 168,000 payrolls addition was revised up to 219,000, while September’s jumped from 136,000 to 180,000.
The unemployment rate ticked slightly higher to 3.6% from 3.5%, still near the lowest in 50 years.
The pace of average hourly earnings picked up a bit, rising 0.1% to a year-over-year 3% gain.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/01/jobs-report-october-2019.html
yeah, we obviously can no longer tolerate this "disaster" and the results of the 2016 election must be overturned because 'orange man bad.'
you fucking imbecile.
The actual source of menstral our cramps post about Vindman......a fucking joke once again!!!!
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-greatness/
Once again just posting shit that fits his bias without checking the source....just like rat the loser!!!!!!!!
When will trump produce that information he promised....
Reporter asks President Donald Trump today: “Sir, what evidence do you have that Colonel Vindman is a Never Trumper?”
Trump responds: “We'll be showing that to you real soon. Okay?”
We have passed really soon by days and the likes of cramps and rat will still be making shit up and swallowing like good little never thinkers they are!!!!
Menstral our walking cramp who never served a day in his life questions the patriotism of a wounded vet with a un vetted testimonial from a source he did not provide!!!!!!
Actually it was another wounded patriotic vet that was his commanding officer at one time.
Why do you care if the returns are leaked????
Gross violation of an American's right to privacy. Ring a bell shit for brains?
The administration is understaffed and disorganized to the point of virtual anarchy, opening up promising avenues for insiders to escape accountability. Trump’s public ethos, despite his professions during the campaign that he could “drain the swamp” and impose a series of stringent ethics reforms, runs toward relativism — he famously tolerates anybody who supports him, regardless of criminal history or other disqualifications, defining their goodness entirely in terms of personal loyalty. And above all there is the simple fact that Trump himself is a wildly unethical businessman who has stiffed his counterparties and contractors, and worked closely with mobsters, his entire career. A president who is continuing to profit personally from his office is hardly in any position to demand his subordinates refrain from following suit.
It has been frequently noted that the president is molding the party in his nationalist, populist, authoritarian image. He is likewise molding its governing class after his own personal business ethos.
Every President since Nixon has released their tax returns to the public.
Peggy Noonan is not a Democratic traitor....👍
John Bolton’s testimony, when he testifies. He’s not known as a shy man. He is a conservative who has made his career as a professional (worked for four presidents, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, head of the National Security Council), a foreign-affairs tough guy, a Fox News contributor. Some, perhaps many conservatives were heartened when he came aboard with the president in the spring of 2018.
He would know a great deal about the issues at hand. Did the president act in a way he disapproved of on Ukraine? Was there a side-game foreign policy? All that would be powerful. But what if he was asked to think aloud about what he saw of the way Mr. Trump operates, of what he learned about the president after he came to work for him, of what illusions, if any, might have been dispelled? To reflect (as the generals who used to work for the president reflect, off the record)? What if he is questioned imaginatively, even sympathetically, with a long view as to what history needs to be told?
If he did this under oath and answered as he thought right, honest and helpful, if he was asked the question, “After all you’ve seen, is it good for America that Donald Trump is president?” “Tell us about what you’ve observed about the nature and mind and character of Donald Trump.” “Share your thoughts as a respected professional who has worked with presidents and who knows what the presidency is.”
Public candor would take plenty of guts and could have reputational repercussions.
But it would not just be powerful, it could be explosive. History, at least, would appreciate it.
He may be the John Dean of the Trump impeachment hearings
Trump is scum.
NEWS
Former US envoy says she was warned she was being targeted
MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO
Associated PressNovember 4, 2019, 12:24 PM PST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Laying out the anatomy of a chilling smear campaign, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House investigators in a transcript released Monday that Ukrainian officials had warned her in advance that Rudy Giuliani and other allies of President Donald Trump were planning to "do things, including to me" and were "looking to hurt" her.
The former envoy, who was pushed out of her job in May on Trump's orders, testified that a senior Ukrainian official told her that "I really needed to watch my back."
While the major thrust of Yovanovitch's testimony had come out on the day she testified behind closed doors last month in the impeachment inquiry, Monday's 317-page transcript provided new details about the bewildering sequence of events that led to the career diplomat's ouster. Her account started with the warnings from Ukrainian officials and then led legislators through various attempts to badmouth her both in Ukraine and the U.S.
The emotion behind her nine hours of testimony was evident. At one point, when Yovanovitch returned from a short break, one of her questioners told her, "We understand this is a difficult and emotional topic."
Yovanovitch also offered significant new threads of information — including the potential that Trump was directly involved in a phone call with Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, and the Ukrainians dating back to January 2018 — while pushing back on Republican questions suggesting that she harbored opposition to Trump.
She had been recalled from Kyiv before the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that's at the center of the impeachment inquiry but was "surprised and dismayed" by what she understood from the transcript of the call.
Yovanovitch told investigators that she was shocked to learn Trump had called her "bad news" in the phone call, adding that she felt threatened and perplexed by his remark that she was "going to go through some things." The diplomat added that she worried that her job and pension could be at risk but that "so far," she wasn't concerned about her personal safety although "a number of my friends are very concerned."
Yovanovitch was recalled from Kyiv as Giuliani pressed Ukrainian officials to investigate baseless corruption allegations against Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who was involved with Burisma, a gas company there.
Giuliani's role in Ukraine was central to Yovanovitch's testimony. She said she was aware of an interest by Giuliani and his associates in investigating Biden and Burisma "with a view to finding things that could be possibly damaging to a Presidential run," as well as investigating the 2016 election and theories of Ukraine interference instead of Russian interference.
Asked directly if Giuliani was promoting investigations on Burisma and Biden, Yovanovitch said, "It wasn't entirely clear to me what was going on."
More directly, she drew a link between Giuliani and two businessmen -- Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who have been indicted in the U.S. on charges stemming from campaign donations they made to U.S. politicians with foreign money -- as part of the campaign to oust her. She understood they were looking to expand their business interests in Ukraine "and that they needed a better ambassador to sort of facilitate their business' efforts here."
Follow the money.
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