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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 18, 2019, 12:57 pm
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> Thu Oct 17, 2019, 09:21 PM
> riversedge (51,870 posts)
>
> [center]Republicans worried by Mulvaney's confirmation
🦀 Trump sought exchange of favors with Ukraine[/center]
> Source: CNN
>
> Updated 8:57 PM ET, Thu October 17, 2019
> 😈 Mulvaney confesses to quid pro quo: Get over it
>
> (CNN)A top White House official said on Thursday that
President Donald Trump had withheld nearly $400 million in
military aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country to open
an investigation that he thought would politically benefit
himself, worrying some Republicans in Congress in the middle of
an impeachment inquiry.
>
> Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, told
reporters that the Trump administration "held up the money" for
Ukraine because the President wanted to investigate "corruption"
in Ukraine related to a conspiracy theory involving the
whereabouts of the Democratic National Committee's computer
server hacked by Russians during the last presidential campaign.
When pressed on whether the President sought an exchange of
favors, Mulvaney said, "We do that all the time with foreign
policy."
>
> It was the first time the White House acknowledged a link
between the withheld aid and probes that Trump sought.
>
> Some Republicans were deeply concerned by Mulvaney's comments.
>
> "You don't hold up foreign aid that we had previously
appropriated for a political initiative," said 🐘 GOP
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. "Period." 🧐 👍
>
> Republican Rep. Francis Rooney of Florida called Mulvaney's
acknowledgment about withholding Ukraine aid "troubling," saying
it is "not a good thing" to do that in connection "with
threatening foreign leaders."
>
> Rooney would not rule out the prospects of supporting
impeaching the President.
> "I'm not going to say anything about that until all the facts
are in," he said. "I remember too many people saying, 'Oh, this
is a witch hunt against Richard Nixon,' and come to find out it
wasn't a witch hunt."
>
> Hours after the news conference, Mulvaney released a statement
reversing his prior comments, now claiming there was "absolutely
no quid pro quo between Ukrainian military aid and any
investigation into the 2016
election.".............................
>
> Read more:
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"... I am optimistic ..."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 18, 2019, 2:18 pm
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> John M. R. Borders
>
> Elijah Cummings death made me really reflect upon the period
of time that I came of age as an adult. Many of of us realized
that the world of injustice we were protesting and trying to
change at the time, was the "Ball of Confusion" that could only
inevitably lead to a monster like Trump. The USA saw the looming
Republican descent into confederacy and fascism, but got lost in
its default rhetoric about law & order/Patriotism/ fake
morality/fake "christian" values/abortion tropes. And now we are
in the fullly grown belly of the beast of that creation as
exemplified in this old Temptations song of that era
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> Juxtapose a few lyrics here and there, and you have the
Dystopian World of Trump and fascist Republicanism we inhabit
today. The difference this time however, is the nation and world
is finally awake to its deadly threat to life itself. So I am
optimistic that the destruction of Trump and the forces that
power Trumpism will truly usher in a golden age envisioned by
many people of my era.
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>
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🐘 John Kasich 👀 calls for impeachment
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 18, 2019, 8:54 pm
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[center]🐘 John Kasich 👀 calls for impeachment
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Source: CNN
Former Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich says he's now for
impeaching 🦀 Trump
By Kaanita Iyer
Posted at 3:39 PM ET, Fri October 18, 2019
Play Video
Kasich calls for Trump's impeachment 02:39
(CNN) — Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich said President Donald Trump
should be impeached, a major switch for a former Republican
presidential candidate who had previously defended the
President.
Breaking from his party's overall stance, Kasich, who's a CNN
contributor, told CNN's Ana Cabrera Friday the "final straw" for
him was White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney's
Thursday admission that military aid was withheld from Ukraine
in order to pressure that country for investigations into
Democrats.
"But if you are asking me if I was sitting in the House of
Representatives today and you were to ask me how do I feel, do I
think impeachment should move forward and should go for a full
examination and a trial in the United States Senate, my vote
would be yes." Kasich said on CNN's "Newsroom."
The high-profile Republican said the events of Thursday
afternoon -- Mulvaney's admission of a quid pro quo and the
announcement of the resignation of Energy Secretary Rick Perry
chief among them -- caused him to rethink his stance.
Read more:
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Trump officials say aid to Puerto Rico was knowingly stalled
after Hurricane Maria
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 18, 2019, 9:08 pm
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[center]Trump officials say aid to Puerto Rico was knowingly
stalled after Hurricane Maria
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Source: The Hill
Two officials with the Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) acknowledged during a hearing this week that
the agency knowingly stalled sending hurricane relief funding to
Puerto Rico after missing a legally required deadline to do so.
HUD’s chief financial officer, Irv Dennis, and David Woll, the
department's principal deputy assistant secretary for community
planning and development, appeared before a House Appropriations
subcommittee for a hearing on Thursday.
The officials said that the agency missed a deadline issued by
Congress to start a process to help Puerto Rico receive billions
in federal housing funds that Congress had allocated after
Hurricane Maria hit the island in 2017.
“All of us at HUD stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of
Puerto Rico,” Woll said during the hearing. “At HUD we are
committed to the recovery of all Americans whose homes and
communities were devastated by natural disasters, and we are
steadfast in our stewardship of the funding and trust in us by
you in your colleagues in Congress.”
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Donald Trump just got hit with some really bad news
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 19, 2019, 4:12 pm
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[center]Donald Trump just got hit with some really bad news
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Bill Palmer | 8:40 pm EDT October 18, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
Donald Trump is currently facing an onslaught of attacks and
criticism from General Mattis, Admiral McRaven, John Kasich,
Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and too many other people to list.
This comes even as Gordon Sondland has testified against him,
and Rick Perry’s resignation suggests he might do the same. The
last thing Trump needs is even more bad news – so naturally he
just got hit with even more bad news.
As Donald Trump’s scandals continue to worsen, poll numbers in
favor of impeachment continue to rise. We keep seeing similar
increases from one major polling outlet after another. But now
we’re seeing something new. The way poll numbers usually shift
is that some people go from Column A to undecided, even as other
people go from undecided to Column B. The new Pew poll is
showing a different trend.
It’s not just that some people are going from anti-impeachment
to undecided, and that other people are going from undecided to
pro-impeachment. As pointed out by Newsweek, the Pew poll
reveals that nine percent of Americans have now gone from
anti-impeachment all the way to pro-impeachment.
This is a big deal because it demonstrates that the landscape is
changing so severely for Donald Trump, even a sizable number of
people who opposed his impeachment have now decided they want
him gone. This suggests that as the process moves forward and
the story gets even uglier for Trump, even more of the current
anti-impeachment people will decide it’s time for him to go.
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MICK MULVANEY CONFESSES OMB AND DOD ARE WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE OF
A CRIME FROM CONGRESS
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 19, 2019, 4:56 pm
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October 17, 2019/151 Comments/in 2016 Presidential Election,
2020 Presidential Election,
emptywheel, Impeachment /by emptywheel
SNIPPET:
As noted by Mulvaney today, a law passed in the wake of Richard
Nixon playing games with appropriations requires that if you
withhold duly appropriated funds, you explain to Congress why
you’re doing so, a decision that Congress then gets to veto
simply by refusing to approve of the decision. The law makes it
clear that the President can’t simply ignore the will of
Congress on appropriations.
And yet, that’s what Trump did for the entirety of the summer.
Worse, in his press conference today, Mulvaney admitted that
Trump didn’t have a “really really good reason not to” release
the funds. Rather, he had a really bad reason: he was trying to
extort a quid pro quo.
And that’s why the decision — reported in ho hum fashion on
Tuesday as if it were just another case of the Administration
refusing Congressional subpoenas — that OMB and DOD would not
respond to subpoenas is actually really important.
The subpoena to those agencies lays out some of the evidence
that Trump withheld the funds after DOD cleared them. Then it
lays out the evidence that Trump was defying bipartisan
Congressional will in doing so.
Full article:
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[center]MICK MULVANEY CONFESSES OMB AND DOD ARE WITHHOLDING
EVIDENCE OF A CRIME FROM CONGRESS
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Agelbert NOTE: Excellent comment by Rugger9. 👍
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> Rugger9 says:
> October 17, 2019 at 4:53 pm
> Add it to the impeachment list of laws not faithfully
executed. Then file a case to get a writ of mandamus to direct
the Palace to comply. Even if it fails due to hackery, that will
make it easier to impeach and remove those judges later.
>
> Like many of the other issues (i.e. the tax records), it is
unambiguous black-letter law and so “interpretation” would be
limited.
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The Mueller Report was written by 🐘 Republicans, for
😈 Republicans.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 21, 2019, 6:04 pm
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> Paul Pond 👍
>
> The Mueller Report was written by Republicans, for
Republicans. Since when was it ever going to be honest?
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Agreed. Way back when Mueller (known as the fix-it man in
Republican circles) was named to investigate Russia and Trump,
some naive fellow at Daily Kos said, "Now justice wll be done.".
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I'm not happy about being right, but I immediately replied that,
Now justice will be BURIED! I ranted about a year long
"investigation" with a "1000 page nothing to see here, move
along" conclusion. I was politely told to STFU.
I do admit I was wrong about some things...
It was TWO years >:(, not one, and it was a bit shorter than
1000 pages. ::)
Nice article below, except that the parts about Mueller
conveniently refusing to investigate 9/11 and conveniently
supporting Shrub's LIE that Iraq had "weapons of mass
destruction" were accidentally on purpose left out. But, at
least Bill Palmer, though not quite there yet, is starting to
understand how Republican Fix-it Man Mueller REALLY rolls.
[center]What was 🐘 Robert Mueller even doing?[/center]
Bill Palmer | 6:50 pm EDT October 20, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
Robert Mueller is a Vietnam War veteran with a Purple Heart who
took down Enron and John Gotti. He’s always had nerves of steel,
so all along he seemed like the perfect person to lead the
Special Counsel investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia
scandal. But as we all know, his probe ended up going virtually
nowhere. Now a key piece of what he was (or more accurately
wasn’t) doing has been revealed, and it’s baffling.
Attorney General Bill Barr’s scheme to strategically redact the
most incriminating parts of the Mueller report is finally
unraveling. A federal judge ordered the Department of Justice to
unredact the identities of two people named in the report who
did not testify before Mueller’s grand jury. Sure enough, those
names have just been revealed, and they’re Don McGahn and Donald
Trump Jr. Wait, a minute, what?
The publicly available portions of the Mueller report make clear
that Don McGahn was the most vital cooperating witness in the
obstruction of justice portion of the probe. Yet we now know
that Mueller never bothered to put McGahn in front of a grand
jury, which means that Mueller never made any attempt at
indicting anyone for obstruction. This is alarming, considering
that based on media reports and leaks alone, as many as a dozen
of Trump’s current and former White House advisers could easily
have been indicted for obstruction. Why did Mueller even bother
investigating the obstruction case, if he was simply going to
write a report about it and go home?
Then there’s Donald Trump Jr, who by his own admission was knee
deep in the Trump-Russia election conspiracy plot. The only
legitimate reason not to subpoena Junior to appear before the
grand jury would have been if Mueller was planning to indict
Junior, as you can’t ask people to testify against themselves.
But the Mueller report spells out that Mueller decided not to
indict Junior, based on the specious argument that he was too
dumb to understand he was committing a crime. So if Junior
wasn’t a target, Mueller should have been easily able to compel
him to serve as a witness against the Russians he tried to
conspire with. Yet that clearly never happened.
Robert Mueller spent the first half of his time as Special
Counsel aggressively busting people like Michael Flynn and Paul
Manafort and Rick Gates, only to spend the second half of his
probe apparently doing nothing. If Mueller simply decided to
pull his punches, that’s on him. But if someone was tying
Mueller’s hands, even before Barr came along and shut him down,
we need to know about it – because that person needs to go to
prison for obstruction along with Barr.
The good news in this debacle is that Bill Barr had no possible
valid reason for redacting the fact that Don McGahn and Donald
Trump Jr didn’t testify to the grand jury. Now that the judge
knows this, she’s even more likely to rule that Barr’s
redactions were in bad faith across the board, and that the
House impeachment inquiry has the right to the full unredacted
Mueller report. But what a mess the Mueller probe turned out to
be.
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Pramila Jayapal Warns Nation Is Heading Down "Road To
Fascism"
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 21, 2019, 7:58 pm
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[center]Pramila Jayapal Warns Nation Is Heading Down "Road To
Fascism"[/center]
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Thom Hartmann Program
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Congressmember Pramila Jayapal warns about the dangers of not
speaking out during the Trump administration and how staying
silent could lead to
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Kant spoke of perpetual peace in 1795.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 21, 2019, 8:17 pm
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[move]Kant spoke of perpetual peace in 1795![/move]
[center]Is Trump Fueling Authoritarianism & War?[/center]
1,900 views•Oct 21, 2019
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Is Donald Trump fueling authoritarianism and war or is Donald
Trump just a cog in a much more sinister machine that is tearing
down democratic self-governance around the world?
History warns us about what happens when Democracy fails but can
we save democracy in time?
Let us know how in the comments.
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Hat Tip to Surly 👍 for this story.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 22, 2019, 6:02 pm
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Intelligencer
THE NATIONAL INTEREST OCT. 21, 2019
By Jonathan Chait
SNIPPET:
Throughout Trump’s presidency, I’ve dismissed the possibility
that he could be removed from office. In all likelihood, the
Senate will come nowhere close to mustering the 67 votes needed
to do so. But over the past few weeks, the outline of a removal
scenario has begun to take shape. The prospect is no longer a
fantasy.
Full article:
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Why Congress Might Impeach Trump and Actually Remove Him From
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