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Not a single Republican voted in favor of the impeachment plan. Republicans – every one of them – put their party above their country. How shameful. Responding to the House vote, Emperor Trump tweeted – again! – that the investigation is "the greatest witch hunt in American history!" Funny, he said the same thing about the Mueller investigation.
House formally backs Democrats' impeachment plan
The first big vote on impeachment proceedings against Trump passes, opening the door to public hearings.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...019/index.html
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The documents detail meetings and phone calls involving Trump, Giuliani, Pompeo and others and relate to Trump's quid-pro-quo offer and the dismissal of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. When Emperor Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, little did he dream that he would wind up being investigated. Of course Trump is above the law, so that thought would never occur to him.
State Department agrees to turn over Ukraine documents, potentially providng Democrats with impeachment fodder
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...der/ar-AAJDnXA
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Allow me to translate what House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy said following the vote. When he declared, "We believe in the rule of law – but unfortunately, in Nancy’s House, we do not," what he really meant was: "We do not believe in the rule of law. We believe Emperor Trump should be able to say and do whatever he wants and never be held accountable. We value Trump, the Republican party and money, in that order. Our democracy, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the rule of law are unimportant."
Republicans slam Pelosi over impeachment reversal after floor vote: 'What has changed?'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep...at-has-changed
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Republicans allow Emperor Trump to say and do whatever he wants – and Trump allows Rudy Giuliani to say and do whatever he wants. Is this any way to run a government?
Impeachment deposition: NSC official testifies he was told to steer clear of Giuliani
Tim Morrison, Trump's top Russia and Europe adviser, told investigators he was told to stay away from the Trump lawyer's Ukraine policies, sources say.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/31/polit...iry/index.html
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During the impeachment investigations of Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, witnesses honored subpoenas to testify. In the ongoing impeachment investigation of Donald Trump, the administration – which Trump claims is the most transparent in United States history – is ordering witnesses, even those who no longer work for the White House, to ignore subpoenas and refuse to testify. Trump is guilty of abuse of power, obstruction of an investigation and obstruction of justice – and Congressional Republicans, by their silence, are complicit.
Judge critical of Trump administration's attempt to control testimony of former White House counsel Don McGahn
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/31/pol...use/index.html
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"Okay, look, all the House Republicans are backing me in this witch hunt, okay? They wouldn't dare to do otherwise. They know I'd squash 'em like a bug, okay? Now I need all of you in the Senate to show me the same blindly loyal support and devotion, okay? I deserve it because I've done nothing wrong and I'm the greatest President who ever lived. Actually, I'm the greatest person who ever lived. Let me hear you say 'Heil, Trump!' What? No, Mitch, you don't have to kneel and kiss my ring – but it's fine with me if you want to."
White House ramps up Senate outreach after House Republicans stick together on impeachment inquiry vote
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/31/pol...ach/index.html
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"The President has done nothing wrong and the Democrats know it," declared Trump lapdog Stephamie Grisham today. She should have added, "I have to lie to protect Trump if I want to keep my job as press secretary." Trump campaign chairman Brad Parscale, same as Trump himself, continues to call the impeachment investigation "illegitimate." It isn't. Next year we likely will have an impeached President running for re-election – and the orange-skinned parrot will still be squawking, "Hoax! Scam! Lynching! Witch hunt! Awwrkkk!"
Analysis: Trump's Presidency on treacherous new ground after House vote
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ote/ar-AAJETYi
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During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt held "fireside chats" on radio so he could communicate with, and reassure, the American public. President Donald Trump does not communicate well unless he's reading somebody else's words off a teleprompter and he certainly is no good at offering reassurance. Now Trump wants to hold a "fireside chat"? Wow. This is an excerpt of an opinion piece by CNN editor-in-chief Chris Cillizza:
Donald Trump wants to read the Ukraine call transcript to the country. That's a terrible idea.
Chris Cillizza, CNN, Nov 1 2019 5:01 PM
In an interview with the Washington Examiner on Thursday, President Donald Trump floated an idea. "At some point, I'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it," he said of his July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky. "When you read it, it's a straight call." That would be an incredibly bad idea. Why? Well, for several reasons, the biggest of which is this: The transcript is pretty damn close to a smoking gun.
In it, Trump makes clear the United States does a lot for Ukraine, that Ukraine hasn't reciprocated, asks Zelensky to look into Joe Biden and the former vice president's son, Hunter, and says he will put Zelensky in touch with Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General Bill Barr. While Trump doesn't specifically use the words "quid pro quo," the ask – and the context around it – seems pretty straightforward. We do a lot for you. You don't do that much for us. Now we have an opportunity for you to be helpful to us. So, do it.
Trump has never seemed to understand how dangerous the transcript is to him and his political future. Since he authorized its release, he has repeatedly pointed to it as evidence that his call with Zelensky was "perfect." But the transcript doesn't do what Trump seems to think it does. It, in fact, does the opposite of what Trump thinks it does – revealing a clear attempt to link the US's work for Ukraine to a reward for you know, for the effort. Don't believe me? Just look at how support for impeachment and removal of Trump has surged in the wake of the revelation about the original call and then subsequent release of the rough transcript. It also doesn't help Trump's case that his contention that the transcript is an "exact" replica of the conversation has turned out to be false, according to witnesses testifying under oath in front of the relevant committees. A fireside chat to read the Ukraine transcript is a disastrously bad idea. Even for Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/polit...all/index.html
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The witnesses are giving secondhand information and hearsay. False. The phone call transcript is complete and verbatim. False. Nancy Pelosi refuses to hold a vote. False. Republicans are being excluded from the inquiry. False. Republican Congressmen keep lying in an effort to defend and protect the Liar-In-Chief. Why do they continue to try to defend the indefensible?
Cillizza: 4 GOP impeachment arguments just blew up
CNN's Chris Cillizza outlines four arguments Republicans make against
impeachment that no longer hold water as new facts come to light.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...zza-nr-vpx.cnn
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Trump, his attorneys and his Republican lackeys in Congress keep whining that Trump is being denied "due process." No he isn't. For one thing, he hasn't been charged with a crime. Yet. And due process applies only if a person is being deprived of life, liberty or property. Trump is not being deprived of anything. Yet.
Opinion: Sorry, Mr. President, the House is giving you
far more due process than the Constitution requires
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...n-constitution
