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Elie Honig, a former state and federal prosecutor, a Rutgers University scholar and a CNN legal analyst, states the obvious: Trump is hiding something. That would be the same Trump who said his administration is "the most transparent" in United States history. It was a lie, of course, like almost everything Trump says. He refuses to release his taxes and he and his administration ignored 71 House subpoenas. Seventy-one! Trump is definitely hiding something. Something big. Sooner or later, despite all of Trump's lies and cover-ups and secrecy, somebody will discover what it is.
Opinion: The Trump administration is hiding something
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/23/opini...nig/index.html
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Congressional Republicans, who are brainwashed, blindly loyal members of the Cult of Donald Trump and worship their orange-skinned cult leader, are unable to see how the President has taken over – and destroyed – the Republican party. It no longer exists, except in name. It is now the Donald Trump party. However, former Congressional Republicans are not so blind:
Ex-GOP Rep. David Trott says Trump is 'psychologically, morally, intellectually and emotionally unfit for office'
https://www.newsweek.com/former-repu...office-1478976
Ex-GOP Rep. Charlie Dent says Republican party is on a 'demographic death march' with embrace of Trumpism
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elect...ism/ar-BBYiZvu
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In a Senate impeachment trial, a minimum of 67 votes is required for conviction. On February 12, 1999, with Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding over Bill Clinton's trial, 10 Republicans joined with all 45 Democrats in voting for acquittal on a perjury charge and five Republicans joined with all 45 Democrats in voting for acquittal on an obstruction charge. Because of Donald Trump's never-ending "Make America Hate Again" campaign, our nation is more polarized and more divided now than at any time since the Civil War. Rehnquist's successor will preside over Trump's trial and will probably feel as though he's caught in the middle of a gang war.
Justice for all in impeachment impasse is in Chief Justice John Roberts' hands
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciar...-roberts-hands
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Democrats want to hear from John Bolton, Mike Duffey and Mick Mulvaney during the Senate impeachment trial. If Trump is as innocent as he claims to be, Republicans should be eager to have them testify – but Mitch McConnell refuses to allow them to. Obviously their testimony would be damning. Lisa Murkowski is hoping for a "full and fair" trial that uses the Clinton impeachment as a model. That's one Christmas wish that will not be fulfilled, not with Republicans controlling the Senate. They've sold their souls to Donald Trump. They will go through the motions of a trial and then unanimously vote for acquittal. Long live Emperor Trump!
GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski 'disturbed' by Mitch McConnell's coordination with White House
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/25/polit...ial/index.html
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Letter from Alan Abajian of Alta Loma in today's Los Angeles Times:
"As Democrats push for witnesses in the Senate trial of President Trump, Republicans talk about the 'possibility' of calling witnesses. But we know they will never call the White House witnesses with firsthand knowledge of the events because these are the people who can tell us the truth. Trump complains that he was denied due process by the House but of course it did not conduct a trial. It held a series of hearings and depositions to decide what the charges would be. Now that an actual trial is imminent in the Senate, Trump has no intention of exercising any of his due process rights except for his privilege against self-incrimination as well as his non-right to prevent others from testifying. Democracy in action, right?"
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Republican Senators have been urging Trump to stay off Twitter until the impeachment trial is over. They may as well order the sun to quit shining and the ocean tides to quit flowing. Trump sent out 55 tweets yesterday. Wow. Doesn't he have a country to run?
Trump attacks whistleblower in now-deleted tweetstorm full of rants and conspiracy theories
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/28/polit...ter/index.html
Opinion: Trump will sink to new depths
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/27/opini...nio/index.html
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In a June 27 email to White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, aide Robert Blair said Congress would become "unhinged" if Trump withheld Congressionally-approved military aid from Ukraine as a means of pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. White House staff knew it was wrong – but nobody tells Emperor Trump what to do. Chuck Schumer wants Mulvaney and John Bolton to testify in the Senate impeachment trial. Mitch McConnell refuses to allow them to. The brainwashed, blindly loyal members of the Cult of Donald Trump don't want us learning the truth about their orange-skinned cult leader. Anyone care for some cyanide-laced grape Flavor Aid?
Behind the Ukraine aid freeze: 84 days of conflict and confusion
The inside story of President Trump's demand to halt military assistance to an ally shows the price he was willing to pay to carry out his agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/u...itary-aid.html
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Nixon's many attempts to cover up the break-in at DNC Headquarters doomed his Presidency. However, Trump's many attempts to cover up the quid-pro-quo deal with Zelensky will not doom the Trump Presidency. The Republican Congressmen who have sold their souls to Donald Trump will make sure of that by refusing to allow Bolton, Duffey and Mulvaney to testify at the Senate impeachment trial, by ensuring that additional incriminating evidence remains hidden from the American public and by ignoring the evidence that has already been presented and unanimously voting for acquittal. They will thus ensure that Emperor Trump remains above the law. And who cares about the Constitution anyway?
Opinion: The Trump cover-up is unfolding before our eyes
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/31/opini...nig/index.html
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If Mitch McConnell refuses to allow Blair, Bolton, Duffey and Mulvaney to testify, the Senate impeachment trial will be a sham. As Nancy Pelosi noted, "Trump engaged in unprecedented, total obstruction of Congress, hiding these emails, all other documents and his top aides from the American people. His excuse was a phony complaint about the House process. What’s the excuse now? Why won’t Trump and McConnell allow a fair trial?" I can answer that: A fair trial would result in Trump's conviction and removal from office. Trump and the Republicans will never allow that. Emperor Trump is above the law and Congressional Republicans will ensure he remains above the law.
'Devastating blow': Schumer says newly revealed emails show why Senate GOP needs to allow impeachment witnesses
There was "clear direction" from Trump to freeze aid to Ukraine, a White House budget official wrote in one of the emails obtained by Just Security.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...enate-n1109641
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"The call was perfect, okay? The withholding of aid was perfect. The request for an investigation of Biden was perfect. Wanting Zelensky to help me win in 2020 is perfect. Everything is perfect, okay? Everything. In fact, everything is so perfect I don't want the American people finding out about any of it, okay?" In Trumpworld, that kind of reasoning makes perfect sense.
Explosive new documents reveal the lengths to which the Justice Department went to conceal the Pentagon's concerns about Trump's Ukraine aid freeze
Business Insider, Jan 2 2020
Newly revealed emails show that the Office of Management & Budget repeatedly ignored warnings from the Pentagon that President Donald Trump's decision to freeze a nearly $400 million military-aid package to Ukraine was illegal. The emails were released to the Center For Public Integrity following a Freedom Of Information Act lawsuit but the Justice Department redacted significant portions. Today the national-security blog Just Security published unredacted versions of the emails that revealed the lengths to which the Justice Department went to conceal the Defense Department's concerns about the Ukraine aid freeze.
https://www.businessinsider.com/unre...illegal-2020-1
