kentuck
kentuck's JournalIf Trump knew or helped plan the Republican obstruction of an impeachment investigation...?
...Then would that not be another Obstruction of Congressional Investigation charge against him?
He continues to abuse his power.
It's pretty serious when it gets to the point of obstructing a legal Congressional investigation.
The law-breaking continues for another day.
Trump is ordering Republicans to defend him at all costs.
He had to have been shocked when Mitch McConnell contradicted his lies yesterday?
If you cannot lie for him, you cannot be on his team. That is a given.
We see the Trump ass-kissers storming the impeachment hearing room today, in efforts to disrupt and create a nuisance. All for the benefit of defending Donald Trump.
They are showing America who they really are. They are not deserving of the positions they now hold in the US Congress.
But, what they are really doing is dividing the Republican caucus. Division is one thing that Trump does very well. Even when it is his own Party.
When you have a lawless president, you will have lawless followers.
They begin to believe that laws and rules do not matter.
The Congressmen that went into the secret SCIF room where the impeachment investigation was taking place knew they were breaking the rules of the House.
They should be reprimanded in some way by the majority of the House. Perhaps they should be individually censured on the floor of the House? Would that be too severe?
I doubt that Speaker Pelosi is going to let this slide?
At-ten-HUT !
Get in line, you MAGAts! Single file!
Right face!
Forward march!
Republicans are lining up like good little soldiers. They are ready to follow their Leader wherever he goes. They are ready to lie for him. How else can they prove their loyalty?
They are a pitiful lot. They all act as if they have been de-nutted.
Donald Trump is not fit to be President.
It doesn't matter if he has committed a crime or not. He is simply unfit.
The argument that we cannot overturn the will of the people is nonsense. He was not elected by the will of the people. He lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes.
The people made a mistake. Just as they made a mistake with Richard M Nixon. It is up to the House and Senate to correct the mistake thru the impeachment process.
No doubt, Trump supporters will be very angry. They may not vote at all in the next election? Perhaps they should think about whether they should ever vote again? They have done our country no favors.
The division that has been created. The hatred that has been revived. The course must be corrected.
It's time to cash in our chips and stop gambling with the lives of the American people.
Would Trump make a deal?
If Nancy Pelosi were to send a message to Mitch McConnell that if he can get Trump to resign before Thanksgiving, then she would not file Articles of Impeachment, would he accept the deal ??
(Trump may believe that the Presidency is the only thing between him and jail right now?)
How important that McConnell contradicted Trump today?
He didn't have to respond the way he did. He could have said "No comment". Or he could have just ignored the question?
Instead, McConnell said, “We’ve not had any conversations on that subject.”
When asked if that meant the president was lying, McConnell said, “You’ll have to ask him. I don’t recall any conversations with the president about that phone call.”
This is a method that Trump uses to test if people are standing with him. If they are willing to cover for his "little lies", they are still on board.
As of today, he cannot count on McConnell being part of his team. And that must scare the crap out of him?
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-denies-trump-ukraine-call_n_5daf6ee4e4b08cfcc323f559
Trump was not trying to dig up dirt on Biden.
He wanted to create dirt out of thin air.
All he really needed was for the president of Ukraine to make a public statement (it had to be in public) that he had opened an investigation into Joe Biden.
That is all he would need to build the case against Joe Biden. (Much like he did against Hillary Clinton in 2016)
It is an example of "yellow journalism". Trump is like William Randolph Hearst just before the Spanish-American War.
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It is arguably the most celebrated anecdote in the history of American journalism. Sometime in early 1897, as the story goes, artist-correspondent Frederic Remington found himself in Cuba working for the New York Journal. The famous painter of bucking broncos and other Wild West scenes was on assignment for the newspaper’s owner, William Randolph Hearst, in anticipation of hostilities with Spain.
“There is no trouble here,” the bored Remington informed Hearst by telegram. “There will be no war. I wish to return.”
Hearst fired back, “Please remain. You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2019/03-04/yellow-journalism-role-spanish-american-war/
If Democrats had not won the House in 2018...
...we may have already lost our democracy and our Constitution?
One thing has become clear over the last three years. The Republican Party is not capable or willing to defend our Constitution. They are surrender monkeys.
Where would our nation be today if we did not have the Democrats in charge of the House? How far would this lawless and reckless autocrat have gone?
A Party that is incapable of defending our Constitution has no legitimacy to exist. They are a threat to our nation's survival.
They have shown who they are and what they stand for.
The Republican Party is a disgrace.
Would the single charge of "Abuse of Power" be more powerful than twenty-four charges?
Personally, I have recently changed my position on this subject. Up until today, I believed that they should charge him with every charge in the Mueller Report, including the "Obstructions of Justice", and everything else that has happened with Ukraine and Giuliani.
But on further reflection, it seems that most knowledgeable people already know about most of the charges that have been levied against Donald J Trump.
An "Abuse of Power" charge would encapsulate all the mistakes or crimes of Donald J. Trump. It would be much easier for most Americans to comprehend. It would spare the Congress, and our nation, the benefit of not tearing down our country unnecessarily.
It is my understanding that Congress is debating this very subject at this time? Therefore, this is my two cents worth.
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