Yes....that is what they seem to have settled on as their theme of defense. They continue to trash the witnesses.I think the best defense for Trump the Trumplicans will come up with is, he did it but it's not impeachable.
Yes....that is what they seem to have settled on as their theme of defense. They continue to trash the witnesses.I think the best defense for Trump the Trumplicans will come up with is, he did it but it's not impeachable.
The best defense for Donny Dodger is that conviction takes 67 votes in the Senate, and there are only 47 Democratic senators.I think the best defense for Trump the Trumplicans will come up with is, he did it but it's not impeachable.
All those GOP Senators know where their bread is buttered and it's not on the side of the Republic.The best defense for Donny Dodger is that conviction takes 67 votes in the Senate, and there are only 47 Democratic senators.
indeed........THAT sums it up. this could set the standard for future administrations. ....... No problem going a bit rogue. No problem with overt Hippocracy ... Create the smoke and mirrors........confuse the public with spin........and it is just fine. Everything is subject to "interpretation".All those GOP Senators know where their bread is buttered and it's not on the side of the Republic.
Making up shit is more accurate.OR what may be more likely is the Democrats are just itching for their candidate to win, but haven't got one capable of it and are just drumming up shit against Trump!![]()
Utter bullshit.
Volker says he should have seen push for Ukraine probe as targeting Biden
Kurt Volker added that he did not think 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden acted in ways designed to favor his son or Burisma, an obscure natural gas company that employed Hunter Biden.
source: WAPO
They witnessed nothing.Yes....that is what they seem to have settled on as their theme of defense. They continue to trash the witnesses.
So, as usual you are recommending PAID treason. No wonder you want everyone else's guns killer. AS pelosi has intimated, the american voter is too dumb to choose the "right" candidate. So you best do that for them with a coup.All those GOP Senators know where their bread is buttered and it's not on the side of the Republic.
indeed........THAT sums it up. this could set the standard for future administrations. ....... No problem going a bit rogue. No problem with overt Hippocracy ... Create the smoke and mirrors........confuse the public with spin........and it is just fine. Everything is subject to "interpretation".
thought A. Schiff's closing statement was effective.
The big difference between the dems and the Repubs...........at these hearings seems to be that at least the Dems are polite, articulate...........while the Republicans are aggressive and down right nasty.
Another notable things........When Clinton was being impeached........he kept out of the proceedings...........and maintained whatever dignity he had.........while continuing to do his job. Trump has to mix it up and get in the middle of it.( with his trashy tweets)......... and seems to spend most of his time watching the TV..(and TWEETING).......so when is he working??
As we enter week two of the House impeachment inquiry, it seems pretty clear that Democrats are suffering a massive ordnance failure. Their “bombshells” are not exploding.
The first unexploded bombshell came when acting ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. testified that a member of his embassy staff had overhead a cellphone conversation between President Trump and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, in a Kyiv restaurant in which Trump discussed the need for Ukrainian officials to pursue “investigations.” Aha, Democrats cried! A firsthand witness could now testify they heard Trump pressing the Ukrainians for investigations.
Um, so what? Trump had already released a rough transcript of his call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which he had pressed him for investigations. The overheard call told us nothing we did not already know. Indeed, the only one likely to get in trouble from this revelation is Sondland, who violated operational security by calling the president in public on an unsecure cellphone.
How about former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony? We learned that Trump fired her without explanation (which as president he had every right to do) and besmirched her reputation. Yes, Trump treated her horribly, but being a jerk is not an impeachable offense.
Then, as though to prove the point, Trump attacked her on Twitter as she was testifying, writing, “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.” Democrats pounced, trying to turn Trump’s blunder into a new charge of “witness intimidation.” Please. Witness intimidation is defined as “the threatening of a crucial court witnesses by pressure or extortion to compel him/her to not to testify.” Yovanovitch had already been fired as ambassador and was in the process of testifying. No bombshell there, either.
Then on Tuesday, Democrats asked Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman about his assertion that Zelensky had mentioned “Burisma” in his call with Trump, even though the word was not in the transcript released to the public. The suggestion was that the transcript had been doctored. Vindman testified that it was “not a significant omission” and that the career staff who produce the transcripts simply “didn’t catch the word.” In other words, there was no bombshell scrubbing of the transcript.
They got nothing damaging from Vice President Pence’s Eurasia adviser Jennifer Williams, who testified Tuesday morning that investigations never came up in Pence’s meeting with Zelensky in Warsaw. They got nothing from former special envoy Kurt Volker or former National Security Council staffer Tim Morrison on Tuesday afternoon. So after three days of hearings, Democrats have failed to produce anything remotely explosive.
That means they are losing. Polls show the vast majority of Americans agree with Vindman that the Trump-Zelensky call “was inappropriate.” They agreed with Vindman before he testified. But only a minority of Americans say Trump’s conduct warrants impeachment and removal. And the hearings are not changing their minds. Indeed, support for the impeachment inquiry has ticked down since the hearings began, as has the number of Americans tuning in to watch.
That means Democrats are failing to convince Americans that Trump’s misconduct rises to the level of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. In blackjack, the tie goes to the dealer; in impeachment, the tie goes to the president. If Republicans fight Democrats to a draw, Trump wins.
Indeed, Republicans increasingly seem to believe impeachment will help them at the polls next November. A few weeks ago, Senate Republicans were discussing the possibility of a quick dismissal of any charges sent over by the House. They suggested they might follow the precedent set by Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) during the Clinton impeachment trial and offer a motion to dismiss the charges soon after the trial begins. They would need just a simple majority to end the proceedings.
Now, Republican senators appear to be moving in the opposite direction. The Post has reported that there is discussion of drawing out the impeachment trial to keep the six Democratic senators who are running for president trapped in Washington and off the campaign trail. If Republicans thought impeachment was hurting them, there is zero chance they would be talking about an extended trial. As long as they show they are taking their jobs as jurors seriously, an impeachment trial can energize their base and help them keep the Senate and hold the White House.
Indeed, impeachment could be to the 2020 election what the Brett M. Kavanaugh hearings were to 2018 Senate midterms — except GOP voters see Democrats smearing not just Trump’s Supreme Court pick but Trump himself.
That is a message on which Trump will happily run.
Top diplomat says there was a 'quid pro quo' involving aid to Ukraine and probe of Bidens, in his bluntest characterization yet
In his prepared testimony for the House Intelligence Committee, Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, said more directly than he ever had before that President Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, sought to condition an important White House invitation for Ukraine��s new president to demands that his country publicly launch investigations that could damage Trump��s Democratic political opponents.
Sondland also told the committee that while he never knew for sure if the White House had frozen nearly $400 million in security assistance as part of the pressure campaign against Ukraine, he operated as if that was the case.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...l_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1
Top diplomat says there was a 'quid pro quo' involving aid to Ukraine and probe of Bidens, in his bluntest characterization yet
In his prepared testimony for the House Intelligence Committee, Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, said more directly than he ever had before that President Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, sought to condition an important White House invitation for Ukraine��s new president to demands that his country publicly launch investigations that could damage Trump��s Democratic political opponents.
Sondland also told the committee that while he never knew for sure if the White House had frozen nearly $400 million in security assistance as part of the pressure campaign against Ukraine, he operated as if that was the case.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...l_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1
Yeah, but you know for a fact Mexico paid for the wall, the U.S. has excellent, cheap, universal health care, and the national debt is on track to disappear by the end of 2020.You and they must not be listening to the same hearing that I am, he said inexplicitly no 'Quid pro quo'