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January 29, 2020

RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of protesters silently swarm the Senate to protest Mitch McConnell's impeachment

RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of protesters silently swarm the Senate to protest Mitch McConnell's impeachment cover-up.

#SwarmTheCapitol #SwarmTheSenate #WeWantWitnesses
https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1222573852087279617?s=20

Remove Trump #SwarmTheSenate
@Remove_TrumpNow
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BREAKING: A massive crowd has filled the Hart Senate Atrium to demand witnesses, documents, and justice in the Senate removal trial of Donald Trump

Police have banned us from having the silent formations we have had for three weeks, so we have adapted: we are silently swarming

https://twitter.com/Remove_TrumpNow/status/1222570348719280128?s=20

January 29, 2020

Lev Parnas' lawyer ties Lindsey Graham to corrupt Ukraine scheme

Source: raw story

Published 3 hours ago on January 29, 2020

Rudy Giuliani delivered a letter in late 2018 to Sen. Lindsey Graham calling for sanctions on Ukrainian government officials, including a corruption reformer and another who ran the company whose board Hunter Biden served on.

The attorney for indicted Giuliani henchman Lev Parnas showed the letter to The Daily Beast, which reported the document described the Ukrainian politicians and business leaders as an “organized crime syndicate” — and misspelled the GOP senator’s name as “Lingsey.”
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Attorney Joseph Bondy told the website that Giuliani also showed Parnas a similar letter sent to Sigal Mandelker, then a top official at the U.S. Treasury Department, which enforces foreign sanctions.
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The letter arrived a month before Giuliani tried to help former Ukrainian top prosecutor Viktor Shokin travel to the U.S. for a meeting with Graham, according to Bondy.

Several weeks earlier, President Donald Trump’s attorney sent a letter of his own to Graham asking his staff to help three unnamed Ukrainians obtain visas to visit the U.S. and share information about the Bidens........................................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/lev-parnas-lawyer-ties-lindsey-graham-to-corrupt-ukraine-scheme/

here chicky chicky...........

Lindsey Graham quickly scuttles press conference after being linked to Ukraine scheme

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/lindsey-graham-quickly-scuttles-press-conference-after-being-linked-to-ukraine-scheme/

Published 20 mins ago on January 29, 2020

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) did not appear at a Wednesday press conference after reports linked him to a highly-controversial Ukraine scheme.

According to The Daily Beast, President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, provided Graham with a letter lobbying for sanctions on Ukrainian officials. The letter was obtained through Giuliani associate Lev Parnas...................

https://twitter.com/duty2warn/status/1222573780867747841?s=20

January 29, 2020

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly Defends Press Freedom After Mike Pompeo Interview

01/29/2020 08:53 am ET Updated 50 minutes ago

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly Defends Press Freedom After Mike Pompeo Interview
The “All Things Considered” co-host says the secretary of state’s personal attack on her is “not the point.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/npr-mary-louise-kelly-mike-pompeo-interview_n_5e317830c5b6cd99e786b3e0

NPR journalist Mary Louise Kelly wants to make sure “the substance” of her contentious interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo doesn’t get lost in the coverage of him attacking her.

“There is a reason that freedom of the press is enshrined in the Constitution,” the “All Things Considered” co-host wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday. “There is a reason it matters that people in positions of power — people charged with steering the foreign policy of entire nations — be held to account. The stakes are too high for their impulses and decisions not to be examined in as thoughtful and rigorous an interview as is possible.”

Kelly pointed out that during her interview with Pompeo on Friday, he didn’t provide specific answers to her questions.

“Journalists don’t sit down with senior government officials in the service of scoring political points,” she wrote. “We do it in the service of asking tough questions, on behalf of our fellow citizens. And then sharing the answers — or lack thereof — with the world.”.............................................

https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1222572387427913732?s=20

January 29, 2020

Sen Rick Scott, #Florida Repug: I've been held hostage w/ 99 other people in the U.S. Capitol. Why?

This is your JOB! You are not a hostage. You are a public servant. If you don't like your job, please resign immediately where WE, your employers, can put someone in your seat to represent US.
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I’ve been held hostage with 99 other people in the U.S. Capitol. Why? Because the Democrats hate @realDonaldTrump and are trying to cover up @JoeBiden’s corruption.

https://twitter.com/GiGicmka/status/1222338894097678337?s=20

January 28, 2020

Trump rally tonight in NJ...........

January 28, 2020

Jay Sekulow argues senators can't remove 'duly-elected' Trump from office 'during an election year

Source: raw story

Published 11 mins ago on January 28, 2020

Jay Sekulow, an attorney for Donald Trump, argued on Tuesday that the president should not be removed from office by a Senate trial during an election year.

Sekulow made the remarks while defending the president on the Senate floor.

“You are being asked to remove a duly-elected president of the United States,” he told senators. “And you’re being asked to do it during an election year.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/jay-sekulow-argues-senators-cant-remove-duly-elected-trump-from-office-during-an-election-year/#.XjCQ_RdduXU.twitter

Well, it worked when they did this Obama (moscow mitch would not allow Obama to nominate a SC justice during an election year). damn.

https://twitter.com/greenery444/status/1222246236541071361?s=20

January 28, 2020

New Ad Campaign Targets Ernst As She Doubles Down On Impeachment

https://iowastartingline.com/2020/01/27/new-ad-campaign-targets-ernst-as-she-doubles-down-on-impeachment/

Posted January 27th, 2020 at 4:09pm by Elizabeth Meyer

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst is one of five senators at the center of a new six-figure ad campaign knocking the Republicans for aligning themselves with the Trump Administration and refusing to call witnesses to testify at his impeachment trial.

Majority Forward, a D.C.-based political non-profit, will run two 30-second ads statewide in Iowa, North Carolina, Maine, Arizona and Colorado to speak out against Sens. Ernst, Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, Martha McSally and Cory Gardner.

“Senate Republicans have broken their oath of impartiality and their promise to the American people by playing along with Mitch McConnell’s cover-up,” said J.B. Poersch, president of Senate Majority PAC, in a statement. “By refusing to get the facts and demand a fair trial from the onset, Senate Republicans are putting party politics over principle..............................................................

As a senator, the ad points out that Ernst “took an oath to be impartial in the impeachment trial, but refusing to allow the admission of: new evidence, witnesses, relevant documents, is looking out for Joni Ernst, not us.”.....................................

January 28, 2020

Missing from Trump's speeches to Congress: Melania's work--on #cyberbullying....

Well, give the trump speechwriters credit for not bringing up one of Trumps biggest character traits==that of school yard bullying!!

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1222176276024303616?s=20

Missing from Trump’s speeches to Congress: Melania’s work

First lady Melania Trump’s anti-cyberbullying work and other projects have gone missing from the president’s first three addresses to a joint session of Congress — another break from his predecessors.
Melania Trump

First lady Melania Trump attends a one-year anniversary event at the White House for her Be Best initiative in May 2019. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo

01/28/2020 05:04 AM EST

In his first State of the Union address in 1994, President Bill Clinton told the story of Richard Anderson, a Reno, Nev., resident forced to declare bankruptcy because he and his wife, Judy, couldn’t afford their medical bills.

“It was to help the Richard and Judy Andersons of America that the first lady and so many others have worked so hard and so long on this health care reform issue,” Clinton said in a nod to his wife, Hillary, then-chairwoman of the administration’s task force on health care reform.

Seven years later, President George W. Bush revealed in his first joint address to Congress that his wife, Laura, would devote her time as first lady to promoting literacy and “sound teaching practices” in U.S. schools. President Barack Obama offered a similar nod in his 2010 State of the Union speech — announcing Michelle’s East Wing initiative “to tackle the epidemic of childhood obesity.”

But the spousal shoutouts stopped there.

As her own husband prepares to deliver his fourth joint address to Congress next week, Melania Trump‘s “Be Best” — the name of her anti-cyberbullying campaign — is still waiting to make a cameo. In past years, the only recognition she received was a hand wave to the House gallery............................................................

January 28, 2020

Klobuchar: If @GOP isn't sure Bolton, Parnas are telling truth, let them testify...........

Spot on Amy--but, the Repugs are cowards.

Klobuchar: If @GOP
isn't sure Bolton, Parnas are telling truth, let them testify https://msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/klobuchar-if-gop-isn-t-sure-bolton-parnas-are-telling-truth-let-them-testify-77635653775 via @msnbc

https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1222183226812391425?s=20

January 28, 2020

Moved to Dem Primaries forum

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