. . . that Frost/Nixon is now on Netflix.
I had forgotten what a swine Nixon was in ways tawdry and contemptible as well as larger and more frightening.
He and Trump are much of a muchness, the key differences being that Nixon was by far much better informed, much smarter, took his job a lot more seriously, and did it way, way better.
He really was a loyal man who wanted to leave America better off and stronger, within the limits of his insuperable petty vindictiveness and consuming ambition.
Trump would trash America in a fit of pique - if he hasn't already - and otherwise could not care less about the country or his actual job as president.
He is useless or worse in pretty much all respects, and has been since day one.
Showing posts with label impeachment of Trump 2019 2020. Show all posts
Showing posts with label impeachment of Trump 2019 2020. Show all posts
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Treason: Bozo slams America with another body blow.
Poll finds sharp partisan divide over coronavirus as cases spike
This is Trump's doing. Keep that in mind.
Trump Follows Through on Threat to ‘Slow the Testing Down’
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced it will pull funding from more than a dozen drive-through testing sites across five states, including Texas, at the end of the month.
The move has left top Democrats incensed:
“The pandemic is clearly getting worse in states nationwide,” Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the health committee, said in a blast to reporters, “and instead of trying harder to stop it, President Trump is apparently trying harder to hide it.”
Resources are not the issue.
This move comes after Democratic senators called out the administration for failing to spend nearly $14 billion that Congress appropriated to increase testing.
GOP senators push back on Trump administration plan to end support for testing sites
Texas Sens. John Cornyn (R) and Ted Cruz (R) on Thursday sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) protesting the administration’s plans to cut back federal support of drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites in Texas and other states.
The senators called the testing sites “critical to Texas’ testing capacity” at a time the number of coronavirus cases in the state is spiking, hitting a peak of 5,551 new cases on Wednesday.
“Now is not the time to end a program that is working and successfully increasing testing capacity — especially for underserved communities in the state. Due to the recent rise of COVID-19 cases in Texas, cities need additional time to prepare for the transition to state and local control of the testing sites,” the senators wrote in a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday the state will pause its reopening plan and ordered hospitals to halt elective surgeries to help deal with the crush of new cases.
I think I know why this is happening.
Many people have told me that Alex Jones has told them many people have told him that Trump is sabotaging testing as part of his term-long effort to undermine the national security of America to the advantage of Vladimir Putin's Russia.
It fits in with everything he has done to botch the federal response to this virus and wreck the American economy, everything to sabotage the response to the Floyd demonstrations, everything to undermine America's intelligence services and national security establishment and the confidence of Americans in them, and everything else he has done to weaken American institutions and subvert the US Constitution over the course of his entire term.
This is Trump's doing. Keep that in mind.
Trump Follows Through on Threat to ‘Slow the Testing Down’
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced it will pull funding from more than a dozen drive-through testing sites across five states, including Texas, at the end of the month.
The move has left top Democrats incensed:
“The pandemic is clearly getting worse in states nationwide,” Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, the ranking Democrat on the health committee, said in a blast to reporters, “and instead of trying harder to stop it, President Trump is apparently trying harder to hide it.”
Resources are not the issue.
This move comes after Democratic senators called out the administration for failing to spend nearly $14 billion that Congress appropriated to increase testing.
GOP senators push back on Trump administration plan to end support for testing sites
Texas Sens. John Cornyn (R) and Ted Cruz (R) on Thursday sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) protesting the administration’s plans to cut back federal support of drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites in Texas and other states.
The senators called the testing sites “critical to Texas’ testing capacity” at a time the number of coronavirus cases in the state is spiking, hitting a peak of 5,551 new cases on Wednesday.
“Now is not the time to end a program that is working and successfully increasing testing capacity — especially for underserved communities in the state. Due to the recent rise of COVID-19 cases in Texas, cities need additional time to prepare for the transition to state and local control of the testing sites,” the senators wrote in a letter to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and FEMA Administrator Pete Gaynor.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday the state will pause its reopening plan and ordered hospitals to halt elective surgeries to help deal with the crush of new cases.
I think I know why this is happening.
Many people have told me that Alex Jones has told them many people have told him that Trump is sabotaging testing as part of his term-long effort to undermine the national security of America to the advantage of Vladimir Putin's Russia.
It fits in with everything he has done to botch the federal response to this virus and wreck the American economy, everything to sabotage the response to the Floyd demonstrations, everything to undermine America's intelligence services and national security establishment and the confidence of Americans in them, and everything else he has done to weaken American institutions and subvert the US Constitution over the course of his entire term.
All of it for Putin and to wreck America.
Anyway that's what many people are telling me Alex Jones has said many people have told him.
Friday, February 7, 2020
Revenge is coming
Trump’s impeachment revenge list starts with Mitt Romney
And the Duce is not pursuing it all on his own.
Treasury Department Hands Over Hunter Biden Info After Withholding Trump’s Tax Records
The Treasury Department has given congressional Republicans sensitive financial information related to Hunter Biden after having refused to give Democrats President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
Yahoo News first reported Thursday that the Treasury Department handed over highly confidential information in response to a November request from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for suspicious activity reports filed with the department by financial institutions.
Last year, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin blocked a Democratic request for the president’s tax filings, saying Democrats had no legitimate legislative purpose for seeking the documents.
And the Duce is not pursuing it all on his own.
Treasury Department Hands Over Hunter Biden Info After Withholding Trump’s Tax Records
The Treasury Department has given congressional Republicans sensitive financial information related to Hunter Biden after having refused to give Democrats President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
Yahoo News first reported Thursday that the Treasury Department handed over highly confidential information in response to a November request from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) for suspicious activity reports filed with the department by financial institutions.
Last year, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin blocked a Democratic request for the president’s tax filings, saying Democrats had no legitimate legislative purpose for seeking the documents.
"It was the opposite of prayer"
Trump takes victory lap in speech after impeachment acquittal
A day after the Senate failed to convict him on two articles of impeachment, President Donald Trump struck back at his “enemies” at the National Prayer Breakfast in the morning and during remarks later in the East Room of the White House.
Trump was unsparing in his criticism of the people who impeached him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, which were dismissed Wednesday by the Senate.
At the 68th National Prayer Breakfast, Trump brandished two newspaper front pages with headlines that included the word “acquitted” as attendees showered him with applause.
“Weeks ago, and again yesterday, courageous Republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, the fortitude, and strength to do what everyone knows was right,” Trump told the breakfast. “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say, ‘I pray for you,’ when they know that that’s not so,” Trump told the crowd.
. . . .
Not everyone reacted positively to Trump’s comments.
“It was the opposite of prayer,” said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest, calling Trump’s remarks “an exercise in spite, contempt and vanity.”
A day after the Senate failed to convict him on two articles of impeachment, President Donald Trump struck back at his “enemies” at the National Prayer Breakfast in the morning and during remarks later in the East Room of the White House.
Trump was unsparing in his criticism of the people who impeached him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, which were dismissed Wednesday by the Senate.
At the 68th National Prayer Breakfast, Trump brandished two newspaper front pages with headlines that included the word “acquitted” as attendees showered him with applause.
“Weeks ago, and again yesterday, courageous Republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, the fortitude, and strength to do what everyone knows was right,” Trump told the breakfast. “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say, ‘I pray for you,’ when they know that that’s not so,” Trump told the crowd.
. . . .
Not everyone reacted positively to Trump’s comments.
“It was the opposite of prayer,” said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest, calling Trump’s remarks “an exercise in spite, contempt and vanity.”
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Capone unchained
Why is Bloomberg the only one to realize the campaign against the Duce has to be primarily and mostly a campaign against the Duce, not a campaign for "hope and change", or "what our values are", or "bringing us together", or "a return to the way things were and ought to be", or "a return to decency and civility".
Not that I want him to be the nominee.
The green agenda is swell, as is Medicare for All and Bernie's "political revolution" against rule by Kochist billionaires.
But attack the son of a bitch, relentlessly and mercilessly.
Show him as he is and that will do it.
That will unite and bring in the votes of everyone who loathes him.
While agenda driven campaigning will tend to divide that very demographic, to our cost.
'It was evil': Trump basks in acquittal as he settles scores and fires his insult cannon
In a formless rant described as a ‘celebration’, the president insulted enemies, flattered allies and replayed old grievances.
“This is really not a news conference,” Donald Trump admitted.
“It’s not a speech. It’s not anything. It’s just, we’re sort of, err – it’s a celebration because we have something that just worked out.”
Whatever it was, it wasn’t pretty.
For more than an hour at the White House on Thursday, this was Trump at his Trumpiest, swaggering, settling scores, firing his insult cannon and basking in the adulation of the Republican allies who ensured his impeachment trial ended in acquittal.
Not that I want him to be the nominee.
The green agenda is swell, as is Medicare for All and Bernie's "political revolution" against rule by Kochist billionaires.
But attack the son of a bitch, relentlessly and mercilessly.
Show him as he is and that will do it.
That will unite and bring in the votes of everyone who loathes him.
While agenda driven campaigning will tend to divide that very demographic, to our cost.
'It was evil': Trump basks in acquittal as he settles scores and fires his insult cannon
In a formless rant described as a ‘celebration’, the president insulted enemies, flattered allies and replayed old grievances.
“This is really not a news conference,” Donald Trump admitted.
“It’s not a speech. It’s not anything. It’s just, we’re sort of, err – it’s a celebration because we have something that just worked out.”
Whatever it was, it wasn’t pretty.
For more than an hour at the White House on Thursday, this was Trump at his Trumpiest, swaggering, settling scores, firing his insult cannon and basking in the adulation of the Republican allies who ensured his impeachment trial ended in acquittal.
Napolitano, again
Doesn't pull his punches for Bozo.
Despite his impeachment trial acquittal, Trump clearly guilty of a high crime
Napolitano begins with a quote from Orwell.
Despite his impeachment trial acquittal, Trump clearly guilty of a high crime
Napolitano begins with a quote from Orwell.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." – George Orwell, "1984"He says Trump was guilty of the crime of bribery, that it is absolutely impeachable, and that he should have been convicted and removed from office by the senate.
Monday, February 3, 2020
Hmm. Every sentence of Dershowitz's argument is a lie. Every one.
Dersh's argument.
It's neither sound nor even formally valid.
Premise: All politicians believe their own electoral victories are in the public interest.
Premise (or aside?): Mostly, they are right.
Conclusion: So if the quid pro quo is help getting elected, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that justifies removal from office.
Friday, January 31, 2020
At what point do they all decide to back Trump in a coup?
Most of the upper echelon in the White House and part of the Cabinet, at least, are co-conspirators, as are at least some in the House and the Senate, in Ukrainegate or Russiagate or both.
None of them is in a like case with Trump, protected from immediate prosecution by an arbitrary monarchist dogma of the Justice Department.
None of them, Trump included, is protected from eventual prosecution.
Trump might pardon everybody, but no court has upheld the idea of a presidential self-pardon or of the validity of pardons transparently intended to obstruct justice - though that was the egregious intent of Ford's pardon of Nixon that no one ever challenged.
And so might the Duce first and the others in consequence come to support the idea of a coup, an altogether unconstitutional declaration by Trump that the election of 2020 or 2024 will not take place or will be ignored, as their only path to safety from eventual prosecution, imprisonment, and ruin?
And then as in Rome at the time of Augustus and in England at the time of Charles I and in so many other places at so many other times it will all depend on what the military wants to do.
They are all sworn to defend the constitution and to disobey illegal orders, but does the rot go further than we think?
Are high level military officers, generals and admirals, in a position to put aside the constitution, themselves participants in either Ukrainegate or Russiagate, like Flynn?
Many Democrat opinionators have said for months that exactly this coup is coming, and many Republicans have urged that either successful deposition of Trump or the actions of the next Democratic president regarding gun rights will and ought to provoke a civil war.
The Republican civil war looks like all mouth and bullshit to me.
But the idea of a coup by the crime boss in the White House to protect himself and his cronies - and so, of course, as Rudi the Dick would insist, to further the public good - looks increasingly likely, especially when we consider how much compelling evidence of crime upon crime continues to pile up in public against all of them, and will continue over all that time.
Admiral Mullen Sounds Alarms Over Trump's Nixonian Enemies List
Perhaps he and we should worry more about a purge of non-Trumpists from the higher ranks of the military, starting with the Joint Chiefs.
And an even wider purge of non-Trumpists from at least the leadership of the entire national security apparatus and the "deep state" in general.
The constant barrage of Democratic propaganda to the effect that Trump is pathetically stupid is very dangerous and might well make us miss what he and his leading allies are certainly cunning enough to prepare.
None of them is in a like case with Trump, protected from immediate prosecution by an arbitrary monarchist dogma of the Justice Department.
None of them, Trump included, is protected from eventual prosecution.
Trump might pardon everybody, but no court has upheld the idea of a presidential self-pardon or of the validity of pardons transparently intended to obstruct justice - though that was the egregious intent of Ford's pardon of Nixon that no one ever challenged.
And so might the Duce first and the others in consequence come to support the idea of a coup, an altogether unconstitutional declaration by Trump that the election of 2020 or 2024 will not take place or will be ignored, as their only path to safety from eventual prosecution, imprisonment, and ruin?
And then as in Rome at the time of Augustus and in England at the time of Charles I and in so many other places at so many other times it will all depend on what the military wants to do.
They are all sworn to defend the constitution and to disobey illegal orders, but does the rot go further than we think?
Are high level military officers, generals and admirals, in a position to put aside the constitution, themselves participants in either Ukrainegate or Russiagate, like Flynn?
Many Democrat opinionators have said for months that exactly this coup is coming, and many Republicans have urged that either successful deposition of Trump or the actions of the next Democratic president regarding gun rights will and ought to provoke a civil war.
The Republican civil war looks like all mouth and bullshit to me.
But the idea of a coup by the crime boss in the White House to protect himself and his cronies - and so, of course, as Rudi the Dick would insist, to further the public good - looks increasingly likely, especially when we consider how much compelling evidence of crime upon crime continues to pile up in public against all of them, and will continue over all that time.
Admiral Mullen Sounds Alarms Over Trump's Nixonian Enemies List
Perhaps he and we should worry more about a purge of non-Trumpists from the higher ranks of the military, starting with the Joint Chiefs.
And an even wider purge of non-Trumpists from at least the leadership of the entire national security apparatus and the "deep state" in general.
The constant barrage of Democratic propaganda to the effect that Trump is pathetically stupid is very dangerous and might well make us miss what he and his leading allies are certainly cunning enough to prepare.
Thursday, January 30, 2020
The Dems' repeated warnings are so absurdly hollow
"It will mean every future president can do the same and get away with the same! Democrats too!"
You're joking, right? Not a Democratic president. Oh, no. Over every GOP congress-critter's dead body, eh?
Consistency and cross-party fairness is no part of their plan, except they will consistently do anything to advance their side and crush ours, even at the cost of making America a laughing stock of the world, the world's richest and most powerful fucking banana republic.
And the hell of it is Boss Trump will get worse, as will the GOP, now they know nothing can stop them, after he wins reelection in the Electoral College over whichever doomed Democrat loser goes up against him and wins only the suffrage of the people, a victory in the meaningless popular vote, perhaps even better than Hillary's.
Winning a game we are not playing, losing by the actual rules of the actual game.
Republican theory for Trump acquittal could unleash unrestrained presidential power
Yeah, sure. Republican presidential power.
You're joking, right? Not a Democratic president. Oh, no. Over every GOP congress-critter's dead body, eh?
Consistency and cross-party fairness is no part of their plan, except they will consistently do anything to advance their side and crush ours, even at the cost of making America a laughing stock of the world, the world's richest and most powerful fucking banana republic.
And the hell of it is Boss Trump will get worse, as will the GOP, now they know nothing can stop them, after he wins reelection in the Electoral College over whichever doomed Democrat loser goes up against him and wins only the suffrage of the people, a victory in the meaningless popular vote, perhaps even better than Hillary's.
Winning a game we are not playing, losing by the actual rules of the actual game.
Republican theory for Trump acquittal could unleash unrestrained presidential power
Yeah, sure. Republican presidential power.
Was even one of those cunts not in on it?
Wow. The party of Nixon, all right.
Surprise! Leningrad Lindsey Was 'Looped In' On Ukraine
Lev Parnas and his attorney, Joseph Bondy, joined Anderson Cooper last night to discuss the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
The indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani was actually in attendance — courtesy of Sen. Chuck Schumer — but unable to sit in the Senate gallery to watch the proceedings in person.
Parnas' presence was significant, as he's a key figure in the pressure campaign Trump was exerting on the new Ukrainian government to get dirt on Joe Biden.
He's been doing all he can, now to reveal what he knows about the players in the scheme.
On AC360, Parnas dropped the bomb that Sen. Lindsey Graham was aware of the pressure plot as early as 2018.
He said Giuliani told him on a number of occasions that Graham was aware, like everyone else, and even involved in helping out Viktor Shokin (the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine) when his visa to come to the U.S. was denied.
Surprise! Leningrad Lindsey Was 'Looped In' On Ukraine
Lev Parnas and his attorney, Joseph Bondy, joined Anderson Cooper last night to discuss the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
The indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani was actually in attendance — courtesy of Sen. Chuck Schumer — but unable to sit in the Senate gallery to watch the proceedings in person.
Parnas' presence was significant, as he's a key figure in the pressure campaign Trump was exerting on the new Ukrainian government to get dirt on Joe Biden.
He's been doing all he can, now to reveal what he knows about the players in the scheme.
On AC360, Parnas dropped the bomb that Sen. Lindsey Graham was aware of the pressure plot as early as 2018.
He said Giuliani told him on a number of occasions that Graham was aware, like everyone else, and even involved in helping out Viktor Shokin (the former Prosecutor General of Ukraine) when his visa to come to the U.S. was denied.
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Trump thinks what's in his interest is in the public interest. And so, his intent was to serve the public interest. Say the GOP, defending his egregious abuse of power to make his personal reelection more likely.
Gotta credit them will balls. Wow. Corruption as virtue.
Republicans Move to Block Impeachment Witnesses, Driving Toward Acquittal
For Republicans, it appeared as if they were on the verge of giving Mr. Trump what he has wanted all along: an acquittal that he could boast about on the campaign trail — delivered before he goes to the Capitol next Tuesday for his State of the Union address.
. . . .
“Every public official I know believes that his election is in the public interest,” said Alan M. Dershowitz, the celebrity defense lawyer and constitutional scholar who is part of the Mr. Trump’s legal team. “Mostly, you’re right.”
“If the president does something which he believes will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” he said.
. . . .
Democrats have argued that Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine was precisely the kind of corrupt scheme that the nation’s founders had in mind when they created impeachment, fearing that an out-of-control president would abuse his power for personal gain.
But throughout the day, lawyers for Mr. Trump argued that all elected officials make policy decisions to help themselves get re-elected.
Update 1/30/2020.
Wait, we're supposed to think that when Boss Trump commits gang boss crimes to get reelected it's because he thinks his own reelection is in the public interest?
We're supposed to believe Boss Trump ever had a thought in his head about whether his election or reelection might further or harm the national interest?
That he would not just laugh like a more powerful Al Capone at anyone fool enough to believe such a thing?
We're supposed to believe that every pol who commits whatever crime to get elected actually always thinks his reelection is best for the national interest?
Who the fuck actually believes that shit?
What do you suppose this shitpot Caligula in the White House thinks when he makes GOP biggees who scorned and insulted him throughout 2016 eat shit at his command while smiling as he watches?
Romney? Cruz? Little Marco? Hell, Lindsey Graham?
No doubt at all the "head on a pike" thing is perfectly true, and the power of the threat is seen in their pretense of outraged denials.
How Boss Trump must roll with malicious laughter!
Republicans Move to Block Impeachment Witnesses, Driving Toward Acquittal
For Republicans, it appeared as if they were on the verge of giving Mr. Trump what he has wanted all along: an acquittal that he could boast about on the campaign trail — delivered before he goes to the Capitol next Tuesday for his State of the Union address.
. . . .
“Every public official I know believes that his election is in the public interest,” said Alan M. Dershowitz, the celebrity defense lawyer and constitutional scholar who is part of the Mr. Trump’s legal team. “Mostly, you’re right.”
“If the president does something which he believes will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment,” he said.
. . . .
Democrats have argued that Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine was precisely the kind of corrupt scheme that the nation’s founders had in mind when they created impeachment, fearing that an out-of-control president would abuse his power for personal gain.
But throughout the day, lawyers for Mr. Trump argued that all elected officials make policy decisions to help themselves get re-elected.
Update 1/30/2020.
Wait, we're supposed to think that when Boss Trump commits gang boss crimes to get reelected it's because he thinks his own reelection is in the public interest?
We're supposed to believe Boss Trump ever had a thought in his head about whether his election or reelection might further or harm the national interest?
That he would not just laugh like a more powerful Al Capone at anyone fool enough to believe such a thing?
We're supposed to believe that every pol who commits whatever crime to get elected actually always thinks his reelection is best for the national interest?
Who the fuck actually believes that shit?
What do you suppose this shitpot Caligula in the White House thinks when he makes GOP biggees who scorned and insulted him throughout 2016 eat shit at his command while smiling as he watches?
Romney? Cruz? Little Marco? Hell, Lindsey Graham?
No doubt at all the "head on a pike" thing is perfectly true, and the power of the threat is seen in their pretense of outraged denials.
How Boss Trump must roll with malicious laughter!
It will be the most awful SOTU ever if the GOP senate kills the impeachment before it happens. As it seems they aim to.
It's scheduled for February 4, 2020.
Plenty of time for McConnell to sink the whole thing.
How Chanticleer will gloat and bellow to the unanimous and very loud applause of all Republicans at the Joint Session.
A wonderful occasion to own the libs, so very very big time.
How bitter it will be for Nancy and Chuck.
Plenty of time for McConnell to sink the whole thing.
How Chanticleer will gloat and bellow to the unanimous and very loud applause of all Republicans at the Joint Session.
A wonderful occasion to own the libs, so very very big time.
How bitter it will be for Nancy and Chuck.
The most evil president ever? Endless shamelessness.
White House has issued formal threat to Bolton to keep him from publishing book
Yeeeeaaaahhhh.
The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton to keep him from publishing his book, "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
In a letter to Bolton's lawyer, a top official at the National Security Council wrote the unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book "appears to contain significant amounts of classified information" and couldn't be published as written.
The letter, which is dated January 23, said some of the information was classified at the "top secret" level, meaning it "reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security."
"The manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," the letter read.
Yeeeeaaaahhhh.
The White House has issued a formal threat to former national security adviser John Bolton to keep him from publishing his book, "The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir," sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
In a letter to Bolton's lawyer, a top official at the National Security Council wrote the unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book "appears to contain significant amounts of classified information" and couldn't be published as written.
The letter, which is dated January 23, said some of the information was classified at the "top secret" level, meaning it "reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security."
"The manuscript may not be published or otherwise disclosed without the deletion of this classified information," the letter read.
He's just stalling so the vote will come late Friday or early Saturday and not midweek
The fake leak was that McConnell doesn't have the votes to stop witnesses.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Schiff gets his summation line backaswards
Oops.
Schiff makes his case for Trump's removal: 'He chose to believe Rudy Giuliani'
And he ended his argument with this:
“Can any of us really have the confidence that Donald Trump will put his personal interests ahead of the national interests?
"Is there really any evidence in this presidency that should give us the ironclad confidence that he would do so?
"You know you can't count on him to do that. That's the sad truth.”
Um, actually, on all the evidence, we sure can.
Schiff makes his case for Trump's removal: 'He chose to believe Rudy Giuliani'
And he ended his argument with this:
“Can any of us really have the confidence that Donald Trump will put his personal interests ahead of the national interests?
"Is there really any evidence in this presidency that should give us the ironclad confidence that he would do so?
"You know you can't count on him to do that. That's the sad truth.”
Um, actually, on all the evidence, we sure can.
Ludicrous pearl clutching bullshit
Key moderate Republicans 'offended,' 'stunned' after Nadler accuses senators of 'cover-up'
Nadler was and is dead right.
Two key moderate Senate Republicans criticized House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., on Thursday after he claimed this week that senators who do not support hearing from witnesses and entering documents into President Donald Trump's impeachment trial would be complicit in a cover-up.
An aide told NBC News that Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was "offended" when Nadler, one of the seven House impeachment managers, made the accusation on the Senate floor.
Murkowski is one of a handful of moderate GOP senators who have expressed an openness to calling witnesses, including top Trump administration officials. For Democratic senators who need four Republican votes to support them on the issue, Murkowski's would be a critical vote.
Susan Collins of Maine, another Republican who has been open to witnesses, wrote a note to Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial, taking issue with Nadler's remark, according to a spokesperson.
Nadler was and is dead right.
Two key moderate Senate Republicans criticized House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., on Thursday after he claimed this week that senators who do not support hearing from witnesses and entering documents into President Donald Trump's impeachment trial would be complicit in a cover-up.
An aide told NBC News that Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was "offended" when Nadler, one of the seven House impeachment managers, made the accusation on the Senate floor.
Murkowski is one of a handful of moderate GOP senators who have expressed an openness to calling witnesses, including top Trump administration officials. For Democratic senators who need four Republican votes to support them on the issue, Murkowski's would be a critical vote.
Susan Collins of Maine, another Republican who has been open to witnesses, wrote a note to Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding over the trial, taking issue with Nadler's remark, according to a spokesperson.
Something about an ox getting gored, maybe?
Fox's Wallace: Nadler would pay to have his Clinton impeachment remarks 'expunged from the Earth'
It wasn't just the Republicans talking out of the other side of their mouths.
“They made a good case today,” Wallace said of the Trump team. He also said he would have loved to have been in the room when the video clips were played.
“I also thought to myself, I wonder how much Jerry Nadler would pay to have that videotape of him from 1998 expunged from the Earth so that nobody could ever see it again,” Wallace said.
The video Wallace was referring to shows Nadler ripping what he characterized as a one-party impeachment of Clinton.
"There must never be a narrowly-voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported by one of our major political parties and largely opposed by the other," Nadler said at the time. "Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy."
It wasn't just the Republicans talking out of the other side of their mouths.
“They made a good case today,” Wallace said of the Trump team. He also said he would have loved to have been in the room when the video clips were played.
“I also thought to myself, I wonder how much Jerry Nadler would pay to have that videotape of him from 1998 expunged from the Earth so that nobody could ever see it again,” Wallace said.
The video Wallace was referring to shows Nadler ripping what he characterized as a one-party impeachment of Clinton.
"There must never be a narrowly-voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported by one of our major political parties and largely opposed by the other," Nadler said at the time. "Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy."
MSNBC says WSJ says Flynn backs Bolton, not Trump
Don't see it anywhere else, yet.
But MSNBC says enough Republicans got spooked that McConnell doesn't have the votes to stop witnesses any more, and has now "called a pause" to allow time to pressure dissidents before a vote.
But MSNBC says enough Republicans got spooked that McConnell doesn't have the votes to stop witnesses any more, and has now "called a pause" to allow time to pressure dissidents before a vote.
Monday, January 27, 2020
Trump v Biden, again
Trump impeachment defense team turns attention to Bidens, Burisma
Does it matter in fact whether the Bidens did something corrupt?
To the Bidens, of course, and to the Democrats choosing their standard bearer.
But to the impeachment case?
Nope.
The prosecution doesn't rely on the innocence of the Bidens but the guilt of Bozo in unlawfully conditioning release of war aid, various political favors, and indeed all aid from the US, on the Ukraine government making a big show of going after the Bidens for corruption, for the sole and exclusive purpose of damaging Joe B as a political rival.
What matters was what he did and for what purpose.
Both are abundantly egregious.
Does it matter in fact whether the Bidens did something corrupt?
To the Bidens, of course, and to the Democrats choosing their standard bearer.
But to the impeachment case?
Nope.
The prosecution doesn't rely on the innocence of the Bidens but the guilt of Bozo in unlawfully conditioning release of war aid, various political favors, and indeed all aid from the US, on the Ukraine government making a big show of going after the Bidens for corruption, for the sole and exclusive purpose of damaging Joe B as a political rival.
What matters was what he did and for what purpose.
Both are abundantly egregious.
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