Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry of Trump

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Several times in the past 24 hours, CNN has aired the video of Jeremy Diamond asking Donald Trump on the White House lawn yesterday, "What do you think of polls showing the number of Americans who want you impeached and removed from office is greater than the number who don't?" Trump told him, "You're reading the wrong polls." Diamond clarified, "They're from CNN, Fox News, ABC, NBC, Wall Street Journal....." and Trump interrupted to declare, "The CNN polls are fake. The Fox polls have always been lousy. The real polls, and you look at the ones that came out this morning, people don't want anything to do with impeachment. It's a phony scam. It's a hoax. And the whistleblower should be revealed because he gave false information."

What are those "real polls," you ask? They don't exist – except in Trump's deranged, delusional mind. Why is impeachment a "phony hoax" and a "scam," you ask? It isn't. What "false information" did the whistleblower give, you ask? None. Welcome to Trumpworld.

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MSNBC's Ari Melber reached the same conclusion as Newsweek: Trump's quid-pro-quo offer to Ukraine is a form of bribery, which Article II of the Constitution declares to be an impeachable offense. Unfortunately, because United States Attorney General William Barr acts as though he's Trump's personal attorney, the Justice Department has not launched a criminal investigation – and perhaps never will. Who cares about some silly old 18th-century document anyway?

Trump may have broken federal bribery laws in the Ukraine scandal – but what will his Justice Department do about it?

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum...rtment-1469594

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We know Emperor Trump hires aides, advisers, department heads and cabinet members who will be blindly loyal to him and will lie to protect him. Anyone who is not blindly loyal will be fired and replaced. Trump continually calls former Secretary of State Clinton "Crooked Hillary" – but his own Secretary of State isn't crooked at all. He's just blindly loyal to Trump and lies to protect him. In Trumpworld, being blindly loyal and lying to protect Trump are virtues.

Former adviser contradicts Secretary of State Mike Pompeo under oath
Pompeo said his aide never floated issuing a statement of support for the ex-ambassador to Ukraine. Michael McKinley testified that he mentioned it three times.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/11/04/pol...ion/index.html

[Penguin]

When all the details of Watergate became known, more people wanted Nixon impeached and I think the same thing will happen with President Trump. When people learn more details about Ukraine and the phone call they will be more in favor of impeaching him but I still do not think any Republicans will vote against him. It is like you say, they put their party first and they do not really care what is right or wrong.

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If it turns out that 75% of voters want Trump impeached and removed from office and no Senate Republicans vote against him, they're going to lose a lot of voters in 2020, 2022 and 2024. You can quote me.

As head of the CIA in 2017, Mike Pompeo affirmed that Russian trolls under the direction of Vladimir Putin created thousands of fake accounts on social media and interfered with our 2016 Presidential election. Pompeo is now Secretary of State and he's a "changed man." He's abandoning career diplomats whom Trump is critical of and he helped Trump and Giuliani oust ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who refused to go along with Trump's quid-pro-quo offer. Pompeo is also trying to prevent State Department officials from testifying in the impeachment inquiry and he's pushing Trump's discredited "fake news" story that Ukraine hacked the DNC server. And, oh yes, he's been lying to protect Donald Trump. Why would anyone try to protect Donald Trump? That is a mystery.

Pompeo faces political peril and diplomats' revolt in impeachment inquiry

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...iry/ar-AAJQJZV

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Parnas is one of four Giuliani associates who were indicted for funneling foreign money into US elections. Are you telling me Donald Trump was the best President Russian money could buy? Это ужасная мысль – Очень удручает!

Giuliani associate in talks with impeachment investigators
Leo Parnas' attorney tells CNN he sent a letter to investigators saying his client will comply with a subpoena for his documents and testimony.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/11/04/pol...ors/index.html

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Ambassador Sondland testified that Rudy Giuliani's efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden was "improper," "insidious" and probably illegal. Emperor Trump, of course, is above the law and makes his own laws.

House impeachment committees release transcripts of Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker testimonies

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/11/05/pol...iry/index.html

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Bribery is an impeachable offense. So says Article II of the United States Constitution, a document which Emperor Trump has probably never read and which he seems to know absolutely nothing about.

Testimony: Sondland told Ukraine aid came with a catch
EU Ambassador's amended testimony adds to Democrats' evidence that Trump conditioned security aid to Ukraine on investigations into the Bidens.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...019/index.html

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta: Testimony describes 'clear definition of bribery'

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...ot-crn-vpx.cnn

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Thirteen current and former government officials have testified about Emperor Trump's dirt-on-Biden-in-exchange-for-military-aid offer. Trump calls them "Never Trumpers" and "human scum." How dare they criticize the Emperor! Sondland, the founder and chairman of Provenance Hotels and co-founder of Aspen Capital merchant bank in Portland, Oregon, was a major donor to Trump's Presidential campaign. In 2018, Trump selected Sondland to be US Ambassador to the European Union. Sondland is a Republican. Now that Sondland has detailed the quid-pro-quo offer to Ukraine, will Trump disregard the facts and call Sondland a "Never Trumper" and "human scum"? Very likely – and the noose is tightening.

Sondland updates impeachment testimony, describing Ukraine quid pro quo
Gordon Sondland, envoy to European Union, says he told Ukrainian officials military aid was tied to their commitment to investigations President Trump wanted.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...quo/ar-AAJTPJr

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Knowing they can't defend the indefensible, Senate Republicans may take a page from the Donald Trump playbook by using his "divert, deflect, distract" tactic: "We don't want to talk about Trump; we want to talk about what the Bidens did – or at least what Trump claims they did." Sorry, Republicans, the Bidens will not be on trial. Trump will.

Senate Republicans consider using Bidens in Trump impeachment trial

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ial/ar-AAJWuvT