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RandySF

(58,503 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 04:14 PM Dec 2019

Like clockwork, NYT turns impeachment into a 'both sides' story.

“Almost from the moment that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenants decided this fall to pursue the impeachment of President Trump, they made a fateful judgment: If the president intended to do nothing but stonewall and subvert their inquiry, they were not going to be the ones politely sticking to lofty traditions,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Trump’s lawyers have made a similarly cold calculation. After a year of defying without consequence Congress’s attempts to investigate the president’s conduct, they have no intention of taking part in what they view as an illegitimate impeachment, initially conducted without a formal House vote in a break with recent precedent.”

“The clash comes to a head on Monday with a hearing in the Judiciary Committee where Democratic lawyers plan to present the case for impeaching Mr. Trump while the White House sits out the process. That will set in motion a rapid-fire set of actions likely to produce official charges against the president by week’s end and a nearly party-line vote in the full House before Christmas to impeach him.”



https://politicalwire.com/2019/12/08/deepening-divide-turns-impeachment-into-partisan-brawl/


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Like clockwork, NYT turns impeachment into a 'both sides' story. (Original Post) RandySF Dec 2019 OP
I wonder what NYT writer is responsible? triron Dec 2019 #1
By Michael D. Shear, Nicholas Fandos and Maggie Haberman nt DURHAM D Dec 2019 #2
Washington Post isn't selling impeachment either scarytomcat Dec 2019 #3
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