To IMPEACH ????
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Gordon Sondland, Trump envoy and key figure in impeachment probe, faces criticism over $1 million, taxpayer-funded home renovation
Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, is expected to testify before House investigators Thursday. Current and former officials have criticized the projects at the ambassador's Brussels residence as extravagant and unnecessary.
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McConnell tells Senate Republicans to be ready for impeachment trial of Trump
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republican senators Wednesday to be ready for an impeachment trial of President Trump as soon as Thanksgiving, as the Senate began to brace for a political maelstrom that would engulf the nation.
An air of inevitability has taken hold in Congress, with the expectation Trump will become the third president in history to be impeached — and Republicans believe they need to prepare to defend the president. While McConnell briefed senators on what would happen during a Senate trial, House GOP leaders convened what they expect will be regular impeachment strategy sessions.
In their closed-door weekly luncheon, McConnell gave a PowerPoint presentation about the impeachment process and fielded questions alongside his staff and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who was a manager for the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
Impeachment is the first step to remove a president, with the House voting on formal charges and the Senate holding a trial in which it either convicts or acquits him.
McConnell said the Senate would likely meet six days a week during the trial, lawmakers said.
“There’s sort of a planned expectation that it would be sometime around Thanksgiving, so you’d have basically Thanksgiving to Christmas — which would be wonderful because there’s no deadline in the world like the next break to motivate senators,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said.
During the meeting, Graham lobbied his colleagues to consider a public declaration in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), which would describe Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seeking an investigation into a domestic political rival as “unimpeachable.” Some senators, however, pushed back against that idea, arguing that Trump would assume that those who did not sign the document would be persuadable on a vote to oust him.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c0a62e-f050-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republican senators Wednesday to be ready for an impeachment trial of President Trump as soon as Thanksgiving, as the Senate began to brace for a political maelstrom that would engulf the nation.
An air of inevitability has taken hold in Congress, with the expectation Trump will become the third president in history to be impeached — and Republicans believe they need to prepare to defend the president. While McConnell briefed senators on what would happen during a Senate trial, House GOP leaders convened what they expect will be regular impeachment strategy sessions.
In their closed-door weekly luncheon, McConnell gave a PowerPoint presentation about the impeachment process and fielded questions alongside his staff and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who was a manager for the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
Impeachment is the first step to remove a president, with the House voting on formal charges and the Senate holding a trial in which it either convicts or acquits him.
McConnell said the Senate would likely meet six days a week during the trial, lawmakers said.
“There’s sort of a planned expectation that it would be sometime around Thanksgiving, so you’d have basically Thanksgiving to Christmas — which would be wonderful because there’s no deadline in the world like the next break to motivate senators,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said.
During the meeting, Graham lobbied his colleagues to consider a public declaration in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), which would describe Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky seeking an investigation into a domestic political rival as “unimpeachable.” Some senators, however, pushed back against that idea, arguing that Trump would assume that those who did not sign the document would be persuadable on a vote to oust him.
More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...c0a62e-f050-11e9-89eb-ec56cd414732_story.html
Regardless of what's found, the Senate at least being 'prepared', so to speak, is a good idea.
Not that he'll be convicted of course. The Senate will bend over backwards to protect him, unless it's something so out there obvious that he needs to be removed that they have no choice.
And we all must admit, there's nothing that 'bad' that the Senate will vote to Impeach, despite possible proof to the contrary.
Let the Senate pardon him of his crimes if they want to.
But let them do it with public knowledge of what those crimes are.
Oh that much I do agree with.
The public should know and deserves to know what proofs, or not, there are for what Trump's accused of.
In Canada do we really give a damn? It's a different system down there, should we be really trying to judge it?