Impeaching Donald Trump
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It's not going to be a good week for Donald Trump; here's another sign that republicans are beginning to fall away:
Key diplomat changes testimony and admits quid pro quo with Ukraine
In a significant reversal, a top US diplomat revised his testimony to impeachment investigators to admit a quid pro quo linking US aid to Ukraine with an investigation into President Donald Trump's political rival.
US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on Monday sent the committees a three-page addition to his testimony, saying he had remembered a September 1 conversation in which he told a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the security aid was linked to investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election.
"I now recall speaking individually with Mr. (Andriy) Yermak, where I said resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks," Sondland said.
Sondland's new testimony, which was included in the public release of his closed-door deposition transcript on Tuesday, adds to Democrats' evidence that the President connected the freezing of US security aid to Ukraine to investigations into Biden as well as the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's servers during the 2016 election, which cuts to the heart of their impeachment case against Trump. The committees have now heard from several witnesses, including top US diplomat in Ukraine Bill Taylor and National Security Council aide Tim Morrison, who have testified that Ukraine opening such investigations was linked to $400 million in US security aid and a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Zelensky.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/poli...er-transcripts-impeachment-inquiry/index.html
Key diplomat changes testimony and admits quid pro quo with Ukraine
In a significant reversal, a top US diplomat revised his testimony to impeachment investigators to admit a quid pro quo linking US aid to Ukraine with an investigation into President Donald Trump's political rival.
US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on Monday sent the committees a three-page addition to his testimony, saying he had remembered a September 1 conversation in which he told a top aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the security aid was linked to investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the 2016 election.
"I now recall speaking individually with Mr. (Andriy) Yermak, where I said resumption of U.S. aid would likely not occur until Ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks," Sondland said.
Sondland's new testimony, which was included in the public release of his closed-door deposition transcript on Tuesday, adds to Democrats' evidence that the President connected the freezing of US security aid to Ukraine to investigations into Biden as well as the hacking of the Democratic National Committee's servers during the 2016 election, which cuts to the heart of their impeachment case against Trump. The committees have now heard from several witnesses, including top US diplomat in Ukraine Bill Taylor and National Security Council aide Tim Morrison, who have testified that Ukraine opening such investigations was linked to $400 million in US security aid and a one-on-one meeting between Trump and Zelensky.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/05/poli...er-transcripts-impeachment-inquiry/index.html
annabenedetti
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Most Republicans on impeachment committees aren’t showing up, transcripts reveal
[FONT=Lyon_Text-Regular]Republicans have for weeks blasted the closed-door impeachment process, but transcripts released this week of private depositions show most GOP lawmakers on the three panels at the center of the probe have simply not shown up.
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So much for the GOP political grandstanding with the pizza and the cellphones in the secured no-cellphone SCIF...
[FONT=Lyon_Text-Regular]Republicans have for weeks blasted the closed-door impeachment process, but transcripts released this week of private depositions show most GOP lawmakers on the three panels at the center of the probe have simply not shown up.
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So much for the GOP political grandstanding with the pizza and the cellphones in the secured no-cellphone SCIF...
valstark2000
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I suppose willful ignorance feels better than sitting in the committee room, listening to stuff you desperately want to not be true.
annabenedetti
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Kyle Cheney
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Schiff details questions that witnesses must speak to in order to be considered relevant to impeachment hearings.
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Schiff details questions that witnesses must speak to in order to be considered relevant to impeachment hearings.
The Berean
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Yes, please wake me up when something interesting actually happens. Trump is certainly a hilarious character one way or another.
annabenedetti
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| Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, boils it down: The President used extortion to cheat in the 2020 presidential election. He used military aid dollars meant to aid an ally against his Russian patrons in order to force Ukraine to intervene in the 2020 elections, in order to remain in office by corrupt means... The crimes are bribery and extortion, the abuses of power are using presidential power for personal gain and the central offense against the state is the attempt to sabotage a national election, the event on which the legitimacy of the entire system rests. |
Lenningrad Lindsey is probably hoping no one looks up what he was saying about impeachment when he was trying to overturn the election of Bill Clinton.
"He’s gonna take all the problems of the world and put ’em in a box and make your life better. That’s what he’s selling.
Here’s what you’re buying: He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for."
Lindsey Graham on Donald Trump
Here’s what you’re buying: He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for."
Lindsey Graham on Donald Trump
Impeaching Donald Trump
Given that the Republican politicians in Congress have virtually exhausted all their "fall back" positions in short order, they may be forced to adopt the Lindsay Graham "WILFUL IGNORANCE" defence - refusing to read those transcripts that they had previously insisted should be made public, to insulate themselves from responding to "BAD NEWS!"
annabenedetti
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Trump Demands There Be No Public Impeachment Hearings
[FONT=Libre Franklin, Helvetica Neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"They shouldn’t be having public hearings. This is a hoax."[/FONT]
[FONT=Libre Franklin, Helvetica Neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If it was a "perfect call," what does the Donald have to hide?[/FONT]
[FONT=Libre Franklin, Helvetica Neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"They shouldn’t be having public hearings. This is a hoax."[/FONT]
[FONT=Libre Franklin, Helvetica Neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If it was a "perfect call," what does the Donald have to hide?[/FONT]
Arthur Brain
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Trump Demands There Be No Public Impeachment Hearings
[FONT=Libre Franklin, Helvetica Neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"They shouldn’t be having public hearings. This is a hoax."[/FONT]
[FONT=Libre Franklin, Helvetica Neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]If it was a "perfect call," what does the Donald have to hide?[/FONT]
It's a bit like his tax returns...
I thought the story was "the democrats should have open hearings."
No. The story is that you hate Trump.
What do you care?
