February 1, 2020

If America knew Trump traded the continuation of his licensing deal at Trump Towers Istanbul for a r

I have to admit that it is highly conceivable that this did happen, although I have not read anything about it.




If America knew Trump traded the continuation of his licensing deal at Trump Towers Istanbul for a retreat of U.S. forces from the Turkey-Syria border, which led to Turkey shelling our troops, us losing bases, and the rebirth of ISIS, support for a second impeachment would be 70%

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1223685459068497920?s=20

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When history reveals the secret deals Trump cut with foreign nations that endangered our national security, compromised the safety of our troops, cost us billions, and put us at the mercy of foreign dictators, any politician who abetted him will be seen as a historical disgrace.


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Congress needs to hear (*under oath*) from the people who were on the calls between Trump and Erdogan in *December 2018 and October 2019*, as well as *John Bolton and Bill Barr*, who both *know* Trump was negotiating quid pro quos with Turkey as he betrayed U.S. troops in Syria.



Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
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The best part: the bipartisan condemnation of Trump's actions in Syria makes it impossible for the Republicans to claim that a massive investigation of his actions there is purely partisan. The withdrawal from Syria is literally the thing the GOP has condemned Trump for the most.

February 1, 2020

Pelosi: 'Sad' to see McConnell 'humiliate' Roberts at impeachment trial

Source: nbc news



The speaker wrote on Twitter that the Senate majority leader had forced the chief justice into "presiding over a vote which rejected our nation’s judicial norms."


WASHINGTON — House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had humiliated Chief Justice John Roberts in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial by voting against any additional witness testimony.

“It is a sad day for America to see Senator McConnell humiliate the Chief Justice of the United States into presiding over a vote which rejected our nation’s judicial norms, precedents and institutions which uphold the Constitution and the rule of law,” Pelosi wrote on Twitter Saturday morning.

On Friday, the Senate rejected a vote, 51-49, to subpoena additional witnesses in the impeachment trial. Republican Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine broke from their party to vote with Democrats.

Trump’s impeachment trial will be the first in U.S. history that does not include witness testimony as part of the proceedings........................

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/pelosi-sad-see-mcconnell-humiliate-roberts-impeachment-trial-n1128211

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I thinkga this is a real smackdown on #MoscowMitch!! You go gal


https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1223614899034652673?s=20

https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1217403053470638080?s=20

February 1, 2020

Carl Bernstein Rips Senate Republicans: 'This Is A Cover-Up, Plain And Simple'

We know the Senate Repugs already blocked any witnesses.


01/31/2020 03:53 am ET Updated 8 hours ago

Carl Bernstein Rips Senate Republicans: ‘This Is A Cover-Up, Plain And Simple’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carl-bernstein-donald-trump-senate-trial-coverup_n_5e33e303c5b611ac94d28c5f

The Watergate journalist called the likely vote to block witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial a “really shameful episode.”

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The famed Watergate journalist accused Senate Republicans of conducting a “cover-up” of Trump’s Ukraine misconduct after Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said he’d vote against allowing witnesses. Democrats need four Republicans to back their demands for witnesses.


Bernstein told CNN’s Anderson Cooper:

They have covered up what the president of the United States has done in his grievous action when they had the ability to find out more and reach a bipartisan, as it were, decision if we could hear from the witnesses.

In video shared by Mediaite, Bernstein suggested that testimony from witnesses, such as Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, may actually exonerate the president.

“This is a cover-up, plain and simple,” he added, before warning of the long-term consequences:

And there has been no attempt throughout this proceeding by the Republicans in this Senate of the United States, the so-called world’s greatest deliberative body, which we now can see how deliberative it is, that we have seen now a really shameful episode in our history that is going to redound for many, many years.

https://twitter.com/solusnan1/status/1223448412546392066?s=20

February 1, 2020

" Today [Republican] Senators voted to cover up the crimes of the President"

That is he quote I think I just heard on The Last Word.

whow. put that way--this is more devastating to our democracy that I originally was thinking.

February 1, 2020

Republicans Now Say Trump Did What He Was Accused Of -- They Just Don't Care

Source: buzzfeed




"Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office."


Posted on January 31, 2020, at 4:08 p.m. ET


WASHINGTON — After days of arguments and questioning in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, many Republican senators have come to the same conclusion: The president did it, and they don’t care.

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Democrats in both the House and Senate now want to subpoena additional witnesses after reports that former national security adviser John Bolton, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone have firsthand knowledge of the request. But Senate Republicans, now in their second week of a trial to convict the president, think Trump should stay put no matter what.


Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee posted a 15-tweet thread Thursday night calling the president’s handling of aid to Ukraine “inappropriate,” acknowledging that Democrats had proven Trump did exactly what he was accused of — but, he said, it’s not impeachable.

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But, Alexander argued, even if the president did it, the decision of what to do about it should be left to voters in the 2020 election. .......................
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Alexander wasn’t alone in that opinion. “Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a President from office,” Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said in a statement Friday.

Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio echoed that line, saying in a statement of his own,...................

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Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/addybaird/trump-impeachment-trial-republicans-ukraine-fine-aquit

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Next Monday the Senate is not even going to deliberate like normal juries do. They all will have chance to get up on the senate floor and chat why they voted such and such.



https://twitter.com/CAPAction/status/1223413153071013894?s=20

February 1, 2020

Protestors yell Shame shame as Senators speed away in their cars........turn volumn up.....

͏Postcards4USA
@postcards4USA
You can hear the words “shame shame” echoing off the Senate building just after the vote as Senators speed away in cars with blacked out windows....

#ImpeachmentTrialSham
#GOPCowards
#SenateGOPCoverup

https://twitter.com/postcards4USA/status/1223387937456492545?s=20


https://twitter.com/postcards4USA/status/1223386183125868544?s=20