kpete
kpete's JournalUnbelievable that this even has to be said.
Trump-Republicans RAN ON repealing Obamacare, whose foundation is barring insurers from rejecting people with pre-existing conditions.
Trump-Republicans are in court RIGHT NOW trying to end ACA pre-existing conditions coverage.
Nancy Pelosi
No, Trump didn’t save preexisting conditions 👇👇"People with preexisting medical problems have health insurance protections because of President Barack Obama’s health care law, which Trump is trying to dismantle."
https://apnews.com/ce8b02c23096381739418e48fee5c6e1 …
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1217131186033713152
Lev Parnas Shown in Photo With Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
Lev Parnas met Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, according to a previously unreleased photo shared with The Daily Beast by Parnas’ attorney Joseph Bondy. The picture, published here for the first time, indicates that Parnas—a Ukraine-born ex-associate of Rudy Giuliani’s who has been charged with a series of Federal Election Campaign Act violations in the Southern District of New York—had at least one encounter with the president’s daughter and her husband, who double as White House advisers. The photo’s release comes as Parnas is seeking to testify to Congress about his involvement in Giuliani’s efforts to secure political favors from the government of Ukraine in exchange for White House access. The House Intelligence Committee, which has handled the lower chamber’s impeachment probe, has yet to call in Parnas for testimony. His lawyer has pushed for him to appear, frequently tweeting the hashtag #LetLevSpeak and releasing a video of Parnas with Trump World denizens with the background music “U Can’t Touch This” by MC Hammer. A White House official told The Daily Beast the photo is not evidence of a relationship between them: “Jared and Ivanka don’t know Mr. Parnas. This was taken at an event in a photo line and is one of tens of thousands of pictures they take every year. “
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lev-parnas-indicted-giuliani-associate-shown-in-photo-with-ivanka-trump-and-jared-kushner
Here's a good witness list for the impeachment trial of Donald Trump
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1217068256500109314
Bloomberg Responds to Trump Criticism
Michael Bloomberg hit back at President Trump’s earlier criticism on Twitter while once again attacking the president on health care.
Said Bloomberg: “Glad to see you’re watching our ads, Donald Trump. I know management isn’t your strong suit, so perhaps you don’t know your Justice Department supports a suit that would undermine protections for pre-existing conditions. Now that you know, why not ask them to drop the suit?”
https://twitter.com/MikeBloomberg/status/1216733637326012417
Schumer calls Collins' bluff, will force Senate votes on impeachment witnesses
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has locked down every Republican senator in his plan to hold a sham impeachment trial for Donald Trump, even though he is allowing Sen. Susan Collins to pretend that she's working on a plan to secure witness testimony. What Collins did in that stunt, though, was show weakness. She, along with every other vulnerable Republican, knows that the public wants a fair hearing. So Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is going to press that, the one advantage he has. He will force a series of procedural votes to hear from witnesses and obtain new documents.
He's using Collins to justify it, telling Politico that support for hearing witnesses and bolstering the documentation in the case is "even stronger than we thought, with large numbers of Republicans supporting it. […] And when you go against what the American people feel strongly about, on an issue they're paying attention to, it's not a good idea." That's not particularly subtle, but it's true. Politico cites polling by Hart Research in four 2020 Senate battleground states—Arizona, Colorado, Maine, and North Carolina—that finds 63% of voters would "react unfavorably" if their senator voted against calling more witnesses or subpoeaning documents. They cite another poll from Morning Consult showing that 57% of voters nationally believe the Senate should hear from witnesses.
In response, Collins is maintaining the fiction that she's trying really, really hard to get witnesses and throws in a gratuitous attack on Schumer, who she's peeved at for having the temerity to work to get a Democrat elected to her seat. In a completely meaningless statement to Politico, she said "I am hopeful that we can reach an agreement on how to proceed with the trial that will allow the opportunity for witnesses for both the House managers and the president's counsel if they choose." Because she has such a great history of hoping McConnell will do the right thing. "It is unfortunate that Chuck Schumer—who voted against witnesses in the Clinton trial and prejudged its outcome—and his allies are seeking to politicize this process," she sniffed, in a completely non-politicized way, of course.
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Anyway, Schumer is going to give Collins and her colleagues a chance to put their votes where their mouths are. They want witnesses? They can prove it. Democrat Brian Schatz, junior senator from Hawaii, put it bluntly. "This is a true binary test: Of whether or not you are all in for Trump, or whether you will occasionally demonstrate that you're going to use your own mind and your own spine."
MORE:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/13/1911202/-Schumer-calls-Collins-bluff-will-force-Senate-votes-on-impeachment-witnesses?utm_campaign=trending
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/13/chuck-schumer-trump-impeachment-trial-097296
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Jealous much impeached dude?
An obscene, Orwellian lie, and Dems need to actually make a stink about it rather than just count on fact checkers to do it for them. Otherwise, every other Republican will parrot the lie and the acquiescent media will report that views on who saved pre-ex protections differ.
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1216722622832091136
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1216717368900182017
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