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riversedge's Journal@RuthMarcus 's book about the Kavanaugh confirmation process is a compelling look at why the eviden
I am going to get this book--through the library.
Joyce Alene
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’s book about the Kavanaugh confirmation process is a compelling look at why the evidence against him never seemed to matter. As key Trump issues head to SCOTUS, it’s helpful for thinking about the Court, it’s future & our country.
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One Of USA's Largest Newspapers Drops Editorial Bomb On Trump By Endorsing Impeachment
https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/1203374816469954560?s=20
Posted on Sat, Dec 7th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
One Of America’s Largest Newspapers Drops Editorial Bomb On Trump By Endorsing Impeachment
The Los Angeles Times, the third most circulated newspaper in the United States, dropped an editorial bomb on Donald Trump on Saturday, calling for the president’s impeachment and urging Republicans to join in the effort.
In the piece, entitled ‘We’ve seen enough. Trump should be impeached’, the LA Times editorial board writes that they were a “reluctant convert to the impeachment cause,” but that they were given no choice when examining “the overwhelming evidence that Trump perverted U.S. foreign policy for his own political gain.”
More from the stinging LA Times impeachment endorsement:
The House of Representatives’ inquiry into President Trump’s actions on Ukraine is not yet complete, but the evidence produced over the last two months is more than sufficient to persuade us that he should be impeached. Witness after witness testified that the president held up desperately needed, congressionally approved aid to Ukraine to extort a personal political favor for himself. In so doing, Trump flagrantly abused the power of his office.
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Holding the president accountable for gross abuse of power is the business of Congress. The House should get on with that business by writing articles of impeachment that make it clear to the Senate — and the American people — why the extraordinary remedy of impeachment is necessary. And Republicans who complain that the process is partisan could easily rectify that situation by abandoning their lockstep loyalty to Trump and looking at the facts.
Republicans, not Democrats, are turning impeachment into a partisan farce
One of the main Republican impeachment arguments is that the process shouldn’t be taken seriously because it’s simply a partisan exercise led by the Democrats to go after Donald Trump.................
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Schiff: Pence aide provided new impeachment evidence -- but VP's office classified it
Source: politico
Jennifer Williams recalled the relevant information about Vice President Mike Pence’s phone call with Ukraine's president after her closed-door deposition. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
By ANDREW DESIDERIO and KYLE CHENEY 12/06/2019 07:13 PM EST
A national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence submitted additional classified evidence to House impeachment investigators about a phone call between Pence and Ukraine's president, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff revealed Friday.
In a letter to Pence, Schiff (D-Calif.) asked the vice president to declassify supplemental testimony from the aide, Jennifer Williams, about Pence’s Sept. 18 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, arguing that there is no “legitimate basis” to keep it secret.
“The Office of the Vice President’s decision to classify ‘certain portions’ of the Sept. 18 call … cannot be justified on national security or any other legitimate grounds we can discern,” Schiff wrote to Pence, requesting a response by Dec. 11.
Schiff indicated that Williams recalled the relevant information about Pence’s phone call after her closed-door deposition on Nov. 7 and wished to convey it to impeachment investigators. The letter indicates Williams submitted the supplemental filing on Nov. 26, a week after she testified publicly.
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Schiff’s letter represents the first sign that House impeachment investigators are still actively pursuing the Ukraine investigation, even after they compiled a 300-page report detailing what Democrats say is a campaign by President Donald Trump to pressure his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate his political rivals. ..............
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/06/adam-schiff-pence-jennifer-williams-impeachment-077532
Newt whines not to impeach on the Eve of Christmas But he filed Bill C. articles Dec 19, 1998.......
20 yrs ago,
The man on the left filed articles of impeachment against Pres. Clinton on Dec. 19th 1998.
The man on the right stated today that the Dems shouldn't be impeaching especially at Christmas time.
The vault at Hypocracy Savings & Loan just got looted by Newt Gingrich.
https://twitter.com/effiedog/status/1203142701912350722?s=20
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While president Clinton was lighting the Christmas tree, according to Rachel Maddow.
The Republican party is nothing more than a cult of lies and dishonesty answering to Russia.
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And the icing on the cake: In 98, he impeached a president for lying about an affair...... while he was lying about being in an affair himself.
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24 things Nobody does better than Trump.............
according to trump of course!
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Senate GOPers Expand Effort To Probe Sketchy Ukraine Claims Pushed By Trump
Source: TPM
December 6, 2019 3:18 p.m.
With the likelihood of a Senate impeachment trial looming, President Trump’s allies in the Senate are expanding their efforts to investigate the Ukraine-related conspiracy theories that are at the heart of Trump’s pressure campaign on the country.
Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) announced Friday their requests to interview two individuals who the Republicans believe could shed light on the supposed Ukraine-Democratic plot against Trump in 2016.
Specifically, they want to interview Alexandra Chalupa, a then-consultant for the DNC who did research on ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in 2016, as well as Andrii Telizhenko, a former official in Ukraine’s embassy in Washington.
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The GOP senators’ Biden requests were based on claims made by John Solomon, an opinion columnist for the Hill who published several stories smearing the Bidens and other targets of Trump’s Ukraine gambit. The Hill, which no longer employs Solomon, is now reviewing those columns. The House impeachment investigation revealed that Solomon was in frequent contact with Rudy Giuliani as those articles were published, and also spoke with Giuliani’s indicted associates and a conservative lawyer with ties to Trump.
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the ranking member of the Finance Committee who also sits on Senate Intel, blasted the move in a statement that said the “rogue” GOP chairman were “laundering Russian propaganda to deflect from Donald Trump’s attempt to extort Ukraine into manufacturing dirt on a political rival and exonerate Russia for its criminal interference in the 2016 election.”
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/graham-grassley-johnson-trump-ukraine-claims-2016-meddling
The upcoming Senate trial is going to be real ugly!!
Press Release
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/senators-seek-interviews-reported-coordination-between-ukrainian-officials-dnc
Senators Seek Interviews on Reported Coordination between Ukrainian Officials, DNC Consultant to Aid Clinton in 2016 Elections
Dec 06, 2019
Alleged foreign interference, collusion demand due scrutiny
WASHINGTON – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are seeking records from and transcribed staff interviews with two individuals reportedly involved in an effort by Ukrainian embassy officials to undermine the Trump campaign in the 2016 election. The interview and records requests are a continuation of an inquiry that Grassley launched in 2017 following news reports that a Democratic National Committee consultant solicited derogatory information on the Trump campaign from Ukrainian embassy officials prior to the 2016 election. According to those reports, elements of the Ukrainian government were actively working to undermine candidate Trump’s electoral prospects in favor of Hillary Clinton.
“Contrary to the popular narrative in the ‘main stream media’ that Ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election has been debunked, or ‘no evidence exists,’ there are many unanswered questions that have festered for years. One of the reasons our nation remains so divided is the disconnect between those who are curious about any and all possible foreign interference and those who are not. Those who are curious, have a legitimate and understandable desire to know if wrongdoing occurred. The American public also has a right to know if no wrongdoing occurred. The sooner we get answers to the many unanswered questions, the sooner we can turn our attention to the many challenges our nation faces,” Johnson said.
“Election interference by any foreign entity is a serious matter. Since the last presidential election, our nation rightly expended significant resources to examine allegations of collusion and foreign interference by Russia to influence the outcome. While there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, we know that Russia meddled in our democratic processes. However, certain reports of collusion and interference involving Ukrainian officials have not been sufficiently examined, and the few answers that have been given are inadequate. With another election right around the corner, choosing to ignore these matters or conflating them with separate, uncorroborated allegations is no way to adequately safeguard the sanctity of our elections,” Grassley said.
“To believe that the mainstream media will investigate all things Russia or Ukraine is to hope against hope. The hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s emails was done by the Russians and no one else. Whether there’s a connection between Democratic operatives and Ukrainian officials during the 2016 election has yet to be determined. It will only be found by looking. We intend to look,” Graham said.
In additional to the production of relevant records, Johnson, Grassley and Graham are requesting staff-led transcribed interviews with then-DNC consultant Alexandra Chalupa, who reportedly solicited damaging information on Trump campaign associates and lobbied Congress to launch a congressional investigation months before the election. They are also seeking a similar interview with Andrii Telizhenko, a political officer within the Ukrainian embassy at the time. According to reports, Telizhenko was ordered to assist in an off-the-books investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia he said was being coordinated between Ukrainian officials and “the Hillary team.” That investigation included then-Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort’s prior business dealings in the region. A CBS News analysis of the reported arrangement noted that “it's deeply unusual for an American campaign to be working with foreign assets like this, regardless of whether it's Ukraine or Russia.”
Grassley and Johnson recently requested information from the National Archives regarding White House meetings in 2016 that included representatives from the Obama administration, Ukrainian government and the DNC. They also requested Justice Department records related to the FBI’s interactions with Chalupa. The senators’ inquiries are unrelated to an uncorroborated theory that Ukraine was also behind the hack of DNC servers. U.S. intelligence officials and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found that Russia was responsible for the DNC hack.
Grassley, Johnson, and Graham also have outstanding requests (see here, here, here, and here) related to potential conflicts of interest and political influence by Ukrainian elements, including the natural gas firm Burisma, which employed as a board member Hunter Biden while his father was the U.S. vice president and public face of the Obama administration’s handling of Ukraine. Additional records and interviews related to these matters may also be necessary.
Supreme Court halts subpoena to Deutsche Bank for Trump records
Source: the hill
By Harper Neidig - 12/06/19 06:10 PM EST
The Supreme Court on Friday granted President Trump's emergency request to temporarily block a congressional subpoena for his financial records from Deutsche Bank.
The court's order came just hours after the president's legal team asked for a temporary stay of an appellate court decision ordering Deutsche Bank to comply with subpoenas from the House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees for a broad range of documents concerning Trump's finances and his businesses.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who oversees the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an administrative stay of that court's decision that will be in effect until Friday, Dec. 13, while the court deliberates on whether to grant a longer stay and to give Trump's lawyers time to prepare a formal appeal.
The committees are investigating Trump's relationship with Deutsche Bank, which had given him $2 billion in loans and is reportedly being investigated for its role in money-laundering scheme involving Russia.
Earlier this week, a three-judge panel on the Second Circuit had ruled that there was a "clear and substantial" public interest in granting the House subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and the credit card company Capital One................................
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/473461-supreme-court-halts-subpoena-to-deutsche-bank-for-trump-financial
I do not have a good feeling about any of trumps tax returns, nor his financial records. just do not.
Our President doesn't like the burden of a courtesy flush........
I just shack my head!
Our President doesn’t like the burden of a courtesy flush.
Trump is literally talking about wanting toilets to flush better.
He is such an embarrassment!!
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Trumpland's simmering anger at George Conway finally erupts into a bitter public feud
I missed this yesterday --busy day. It was bound to happen- as George gives some good digs.
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1202996235935858688?s=20
Trumpland’s simmering anger at George Conway finally erupts into a bitter public feud
Published 23 hours ago on December 5, 2019
George Conway, husband of senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, has been a known vocal critic of the Trump administration for a large portion of Donald Trump’s presidency, and his anti-Trump Twitter rants were mostly ignored from within the White House. Now, his clear ideological conflict with his wife and her boss seems to finally be boiling over as a Trump official surprised observers by pushing back against his comments.
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In a tweet this Wednesday, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager took a shot at Conway for promoting an anti-Trump book.
“I remember how irrelevant you were when I met you, how far you have come with hate!” Brad Parscale tweeted. “Soon you will be irrelevant again, can’t wait!”
In a rather unprecedented move, Parscale even mentioned Kellyanne in his attack.
“I remember you sitting at @KellyannePolls table waiting for attention like a lost puppy,” he wrote. “#JustSayin, I really thought you were her body man.”
As CNBC reporter Christina Wilkie points out, what had been a mostly private annoyance within the Trump White House “just spilled over into a nasty public feud.”......................
https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/1202586524912627718?s=20
Gamesover
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Lol "campaign manager" Call him what he is trump's minister of propaganda.
Red Raleigh
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How Rasputin Parscale has avoided attention for his intimate role in the digital coup of 2016 and continued nefarious dealings escapes me.
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: right side of history. Wrong side of the marriage counseling seshes.
Nancy Pelosi Takes Donald Trump's Insult, Fires It Right Back At Him
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-nervous-fit_n_5dea09eee4b0913e6f8e1e41?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067&__twitter_impression=true
12/06/2019 03:46 am ET
Nancy Pelosi Takes Donald Trump’s Insult, Fires It Right Back At Him
“The president is a master at projecting,” Pelosi told CNN’s Jake Tapper after Trump claimed she’d had “a nervous fit.”
“When he calls somebody else nervous, he’s the nervous one,” she said.
Pelosi also rejected Trump’s belief that she didn’t actually pray for him, despite what she had earlier stated.
“When he suspects that somebody is not praying, he’s probably not praying,” she said. “But I do pray for him because he is the president of the United States and I pray that God will open his heart to meeting the needs of people in our country.” Pelosi said she also prayed for Trump’s health, safety and family.
“It doesn’t bother me what he thinks about that,” she concluded. “All the more reason to pray for him.”
Check out the clip here:..............................
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202631185052164096?s=20
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