Impeaching Trump: Make America Sane Again

[myboynoah]

Hmmmmmm. I suggest you lawyer up, Peter.

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[BlueK]

This is an interesting article on what high crimes and misdemeanors meant at the time of the Framers. The first official removed from office through impeachment was a judge who was taken out for the habit of being intoxicated on the job. The interesting thing to think about there is that it happened in 1803 when those who voted him out would have had a pretty good idea of what "high crimes and misdemeanors" meant to those who came up with it.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...hment-whitaker

[Commando]

Hmm. If Trump can't master basic U.S. geography, what makes anybody think he's capable of curating his knucklehead behavior to not commit high crimes and misdemeanors unwittingly? I fully believe he thought he was just 'playing hardball,' not realizing this crap is super illegal.

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[myboynoah]

What a crazy coincidence.

So Bolton was part of the drug deal?

[Commando]

Bolton’s a lot of things but not stupid. Probably saw this coming a mile away.

[wapiti]

9 Republican Senators did not sign on to Lindsay Graham's resolution condemning the House impeachment effort. Those 9 will form the base of the 19 needed to remove the president from office. It will be hard to find 10 more.

The 9 are:
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), Sen. Cory Gardner (Colo.), Sen. Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio), Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Sen. Johnny Isakson (Ga.) and Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.)

[Commando]

9 Republican Senators did not sign on to Lindsay Graham's resolution condemning the House impeachment effort. Those 9 will form the base of the 19 needed to remove the president from office. It will be hard to find 10 more.

The 9 are:
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), Sen. Cory Gardner (Colo.), Sen. Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio), Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Sen. Johnny Isakson (Ga.) and Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.)

Only 9? What a joke. A "resolution" condemning impeachment activities? Talk about desperate.

[frank ryan]

Only 9? What a joke. A "resolution" condemning impeachment activities? Talk about desperate.

Ben Sasse has sure sold his soul as has Rubio.

[myboynoah]

Trump frustrated as White House effort to defy impeachment inquiry fails to halt witness testimony, advisers say

“These are civil servants who realize their duty is public service and honoring the Constitution . . . and [some] are deeply disturbed by the horrendous abuses they have witnessed,” said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability, a nonprofit that promotes transparency in government and campaigns.

A number of outside advisers are perplexed that the White House hasn’t filed an injunction or taken some other legal step to stop the parade of officials sharing what they saw and heard.

“Many Trump allies are concerned and don’t understand the strategy of not filing an injunction,” said Jason Miller, a Trump ally. “It’s a head-scratcher. President Trump and the administration have clearly said they don’t want folks participating in this sham process and stepping all over presidential privilege.”

Who are these "outside advisors?" They disgust me. They're upset that Trump's crimes are being exposed. Fuck them!

[Uncle Ted]

Only 9? What a joke. A "resolution" condemning impeachment activities? Talk about desperate.

What? You like secret, closed door hearings? That is very commie like. Of course, Dems have a soft place for those commies.

[frank ryan]

Former Apprentice Star Says She Has Evidence to Back Up Claims Donald Trump Sexually Assaulted Her

Summer Zervos, one of the many women who came forward with sexual assault accusations against President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election, says she has new evidence to support her claims.

Zervos appeared as a contestant on season 5 of The Apprentice, the popular reality competition show which Trump hosted on NBC, and claims he assaulted her in 2007 in a hotel room.

According to filed court documents obtained and published by CNN, Zervos says she has evidence in the form of emails, calendar entries and a polygraph test that illustrates her telling lawyers in 2011 about the attack, then again telling the story to Fox News in 2015. Trump is being sued by Zervos for allegedly defaming her in his public denials of the sexual assault.

“The fact that plaintiff sought legal counsel in 2011 and spoke about this to others including a news organization — years before the events of 2016 at issue in this case — strongly supports the inferences that her core narrative is true,” Zervos’ lawyer Mariann Wang claims in the documents, which were filed on Thursday.

https://people.com/politics/summer-z...ssault-claims/

[Commando]

What? You like secret, closed door hearings? That is very commie like. Of course, Dems have a soft place for those commies.

Lol knock it off. I have no problem with closed-door depositions held by the Committee of Foreign Affairs. And the meetings are not secret- they are private.

[Bo Diddley]

Lol knock it off. I have no problem with closed-door depositions held by the Committee of Foreign Affairs. And the meetings are not secret- they are private.

Sacred, not secret.

[Commando]

Sacred, not secret.

I weighed using that, but I'm a serious person, dammit!

[Commando]

9 Republican Senators did not sign on to Lindsay Graham's resolution condemning the House impeachment effort. Those 9 will form the base of the 19 needed to remove the president from office. It will be hard to find 10 more.

The 9 are:
Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), Sen. Cory Gardner (Colo.), Sen. Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio), Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), Sen. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Sen. Johnny Isakson (Ga.) and Sen. Mike Enzi (Wyo.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...roblem/600724/

So this article brings this comment into focus. Yikes.