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Kim Driscoll knows her history: In the 1692 Salem witch trials, "powerless, innocent victims" were hanged despite a lack of evidence. In the 2019 Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump, there is "ample evidence" and "admission of wrongdoing." Trump, of course, does not know history. He just knows that everything is about him.
Salem mayor on Trump's claims about witch trial due process: 'Learn your history'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/polit...ter/index.html
Fake. Fraudulent. Untrue. Incorrect. Made up. A lie. A hoax. Total fiction. That is how Donald Trump continues to describe the whistleblower's complaint detailing the July 25 phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky – even after the details were confirmed and corroborated by David Holmes, Mark Sandy, Bill Taylor, Gordon Sondland, Alexander Vindman, Marie Yovanovitch and many other witnesses and admitted to by Mick Mulvaney and Trump himself. Today, Trump said he "immediately" released the transcript of the call. He lied. He released it on September 25, 16 days after the whistleblower's complaint was made public – and even then, two sections of the conversation about Biden were omitted. The non-profit, Florida-based fact checking website PolitiFact has selected Trump's whistleblower attacks as Lie Of The Year. #Winning
Lie Of The Year 2019: Trump claims whistleblower got details of Ukraine call 'almost completely wrong'
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...eblower-wrong/
Fact check: Trump's wild letter to Pelosi is filled with false and misleading claims
https://keyt.com/news/politics/2019/...eading-claims/
Justin Baragona, founder and publisher of Contemptor.com and a senior editor and writer for PoliticusUSA, came up with the perfect description of Trump's nasty six-page letter filled with lies, accusations and insults:
Trump's bonkers anti-impeachment letter to Nancy Pelosi sounds just like a Sean Hannity monologue
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps...nity-monologue
In a letter in today's Los Angeles Times, Lynda Unterthiner of Santa Barbara anticipates the price Congressional Republicans will pay for defending Trump:
"The evidence of Trump's willful wrongdoing and the damage he has done domestically and internationally is staggering, yet there are those who would make impeachment a partisan issue. This President has compromised national security and rejected the authority of Congress, neither of which was done because he is a Republican but because he truly believes he is above the law. If he is allowed to continue this way, we will be electing kings in the future and the Senators who help him now will be irrelevant."
Today's debate was not really a debate. Democrats detailed Trump's impeachable offenses: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump withheld Congressionally-approved military aid from Ukraine and then asked for a "favor." He wanted Ukraine to dig up dirt on a United States citizen, Joe Biden, Trump's likely political opponent in 2020. Trump solicited a foreign country to help him win an election, then stood in front of reporters and asked China to do the same. Unlike Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, who cooperated with investigators, Trump ordered his aides and Cabinet members to ignore subpoenas to testify and to refuse to turn over subpoenaed documents. Trump ignores the Constitution and believes he is above the law. Impeachment is the only remedy.
Republicans participating in the "debate" unanimously disagreed. They couldn't honestly defend Trump so they spent their time attacking Pelosi, attacking Schiff, attacking Democrats, attacking the investigation and attacking the impeachment process. No House Republicans – none – are expected to vote in favor of the two articles of impeachment. There is really no more Republican Party. It is now the Donald Trump Party – and the Constitution, the rule of law, the Presidential oath of office, national security and the integrity of our elections are unimportant. What a sad time for our nation.
Impeachment day for Trump: A bruised ego, a Twitter eruption and constant calls
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1...achment-087399
Here are the final House votes on the articles of impeachment. Both passed. Tulsa Gabbard voted "present." What the hey?!?
Article I, abuse of power:
Democratic: 229 yea, 2 nay, 1 present, 1 no vote
Republican: 0 yea, 195 nay, 2 no vote
Independent: 1 yea
Total: 230 yea, 197 nay, 1 present, 3 no vote
Article II, obstruction of Congress:
Democratic: 228 yea, 3 nay, 1 present, 1 no vote
Republican: 0 yea, 195 nay, 2 no vote
Independent: 1 yea
Total: 229 yea, 198 nay, 1 present, 3 no vote
Adam Schiff predicts Congressional Republicans will "rue the day" they chose to ignore Trump's wrongdoing. I disagree. They've already sold their souls to Trump. They no longer have any backbone, morals or ethics. They're blindly loyal members of the Cult of Donald Trump and they worship and adore their orange-skinned idol. Look how they tried to defend him today:
GOP compares impeachment to Crucifixion, Pearl Harbor attack and Salem witch trials
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ls/2690460001/
Here are the highlights – make that lowlights – from Emperor Trump's diatribe at last night's rally in Battle Creek, Michigan. He again said Hillary Clinton is "crooked," he again called his impeachment "illegal and unconstitutional" and he again insisted he had done "nothing wrong." All three of those statements are false but the President knows the brainwashed, brain-dead, blindly loyal members of the Cult of Donald Trump worship their orange-skinned idol and believe everything he tells them.
"Through their depraved actions today, crazy Nancy Pelosi's House Democrats have branded themselves with an eternal mark of shame," spewed the vain, pompous, egotistical, narcissistic Emperor who has no shame at all and seems to think he is God. "It really is. It's a disgrace. They don't believe you have the right to select your own President," continued the man who lost the popular vote but became President anyway. "This lawless partisan witch hunt is a political suicide march for the Democrat Party," declared the Emperor, who called the party by the wrong name: It's Democratic, not Democrat. "They're the ones who should be impeached, every one of them. Americans will show up by the tens of millions next year to vote Pelosi the hell out of office."
Gripe, gripe, gripe, gripe, gripe. But admit he was wrong and apologize? Not Emperor Trump. Never. He is a total disgrace to the office of the Presidency.
Most conservatives love Trump and love guns. This conservative sicko's love of Trump and guns just cost him his job.
A Denver radio show was canceled after a host said 'a nice school shooting' would break up the monotony of the Trump impeachment coverage
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/us/de...rnd/index.html
Emperor Trump's diatribe last night wasn't really a "campaign speech." It was just a much lengthier version of his non-stop Twitter attacks on Schiff, Pelosi, Democrats and impeachment – filled with the usual lies, of course. Lies about Hillary Clinton, Democrats, crowd size, water pressure, poll numbers, black support, union support, you name it – and how sad it is that Trump's blindly loyal supporters believe every lie he tells them. It's even sadder that they will vote in 2020.
Analysis: The 65 most outrageous lines from Donald Trump's longest campaign speech ever
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/polit...ent/index.html
"To dream the impossible dream......."
Republican Senators want Trump to stay off Twitter during impeachment trial
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ial/ar-BBYawBn
I will never understand why so many millions of evangelical Christians continue to support Donald Trump, a vain, pompous, narcissistic, egotistical, lewd, crude, lying, cheating, crooked, corrupt, dishonest, immoral, unethical, self-serving buffoon who denigrates women, blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, immigrants, Democrats, judges and war heroes and who has brought shame, disgrace and dishonor to the office of the Presidency – but the proverbial tide may finally be starting to turn. A Christianity Today editorial calls Trump "morally lost" and notes the "moral and political danger" resulting from Trump's leadership. My response to Christianity Today: What took you so long? And what leadership?
Christianity Today editor Mark Galli calls for Trump to be removed from office
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...-to-be-removed
Emperor Trump went on another Twitter tirade today. How dare the editor of an evangelical magazine not worship him the way Trump worships himself! The Emperor said the magazine is "doing poorly" – like the "failing" New York Times, right, Donald? – and accused them of wanting a "radical left nonbeliever" President who will "take away your religion and your guns." Emperor Trump grows more deranged, more demented, more delusional and more dangerous by the day.
Trump blasts Christianity Today after blistering editorial calling for his removal from office
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...al-from-office
Coming to you direct from Trumpworld, the topsy-turvy land of delusions where bad is good, wrong is right and lies are truth, here is today's Quote Of The Day from King Donald the First:
"I don't feel like I'm being impeached, because it's a hoax."
Wow.
Congressional Republicans no longer care about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the rule of law, the Presidential oath of office, national security, our system of checks and balances or the integrity of our elections. All they care about is Donald Trump and their party (which is no longer the Republican Party but rather the Donald Trump Party). By selling their souls to Donald Trump, they have ensured that he will remain above the law. Emperor Trump, also known as King Donald the First, knows he is free to abuse his power without any fear of Congressional oversight or sanctions. AS CNN senior political analyst Ronald Brownstein writes, it's starting to look as though Trump was correct when he declared Article II of the Constitution means "I have the right to do whatever I want as President." God help us.
Analysis: GOP's lockstep opposition to impeachment may shatter last limits on Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/polit...ent/index.html
A majority of evangelical Christians inexplicably support Donald Trump, who might be the most ungodly, unethical, immoral, dishonest, crooked, corrupt, self-serving person in our nation's history. Jay Parini – a poet, author, biographer, political commentator and Middlebury College professor of English and creative writing – believes Trump's support from younger evangelicals is starting to erode. Good! That couldn't happen to a more deserving person than Trump!
Christianity Today anti-Trump editorial is a sign of things to come
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/opini...ini/index.html
New York Times political writers Jonathan Martin analyze Donald Trump's "iron grip" on the Republican party. Of course it was very easy for Trump to achieve an "iron grip" because Republicans care only about Trump and their party and do not care about the United States of America, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the rule of law. They have willingly made Trump their god, their idol and their object of worship. God help us.
Fear and loyalty: How Donald Trump took over the Republican party
The President demands comlete fealty and, as the impeachment hearings showed, he has largely attained it. To cross him is to risk a future in the Republican party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/u...publicans.html
Newly released emails provide more details of Trump's withholding of Congressionally-approved military aid from Ukraine as a means of pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden. Emperor Trump abused his power by using United States assets for his own political gain and by seeking election interference from a foreign country but Congressional Republicans don't care. They have sold their souls to Donald Trump and they worship him as their god. Anyone care for some cyanide-laced grape Flavor Aid?
Effort to freeze Ukraine aid began about 90 minutes after call between Trump and Zelensky
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/21/polit...ine/index.html
Not a large majority but a majority nonetheless. What is telling is that 85% of Democrats support impeachment but only 16% of Republicans – and among Republicans in Congress, support for impeachment is zero. They have sold their souls to the orange-skinned leader of the Cult of Donald Trump.
New poll finds that a majority of Americans support Trump's impeachment and removal from office
https://www.businessinsider.com/poll...emoval-2019-12
"To dream the impossible dream......." However, Flake is correct in saying Senate Republicans, not just Trump, are on trial. If, as expected, every one of them votes for acquittal, they will be showing us that the Constitution and the rule of law are unimportant to them. They will be showing Emperor Trump that he is indeed above the law and will never face Congressional oversight. They will be hastening the transformation of our nation from a republic to a monarchy. Three hundred sixteen days till Election Day.
Former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake calls on Republicans to put 'country over party' in impeachment trial
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2...-republicans-/