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Stinky The Clown

(67,800 posts)
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 11:17 AM Apr 2019

Let's stop and take a few deep cleansing breaths.

IMPEACH!!!!!

Drop it and move on.

In my view, calling for either of those polar opposite views is just plan wrong.

There is a far more reasonable path and Chairman Nadler is already on it. Informational hearings should be the byword right now. Get the cast of characters, big and small, under oath before the Congress and the nation. Let everyone see them speak in their own words. Listen to those who will be obviously truthful. Watch those who will lie do so. Let the shady criminals do what they cannot help but do - looking and acting like shady criminals. Let liars lie. Imagine them all under oath.

None of that takes impeachment off the table. The real goal is to bring the American People - the VOTERS - along with us.

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dlk

(11,566 posts)
1. Public Hearings Will Bring Trumps Crimes Out of the Shadows
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 11:21 AM
Apr 2019

Public hearings turned public opinion against Nixon. Shining the light of day on what Trump has done in secret will be most effective.

Cary

(11,746 posts)
3. The hearings will devastate Republicans.
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 11:22 AM
Apr 2019

Make Unindicted Co-Conspirator run on a platform arguing that he shouldn't be impeached. Ha!

 

manor321

(3,344 posts)
6. Sure, but impeachment needs to be the sword of Damocles over every hearing
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 11:35 AM
Apr 2019

Can't just have normal boring hearings that no one will watch. They need to be sold as impeachment hearings. That will juice the ratings and the interest.

Stinky The Clown

(67,800 posts)
8. No!
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 11:45 AM
Apr 2019

Don’t say the I word at all. Instead tell them that Barr hid the truth and we need to find out what that is. Hence: HEARINGS!!!

uponit7771

(90,344 posts)
9. "Informational hearings" That will be stonewalled and obfuscated until 2028. Come on, you know
Sat Apr 20, 2019, 11:50 AM
Apr 2019

... why impeachment asap is needed.

Those investigations and hearings get to go on with the power of an impeachment manager to put people in jail.

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