Teresa Hanafin, who writes “Fast Forward” for the Boston Globe, offers some new information:
> Tim Morrison, who works in the White House on the National Security staff as a top adviser on Russia, is scheduled to give a deposition to House impeachment investigators next week, and is expected to corroborate much of what Ukraine diplomat William Taylor told lawmakers earlier this week.
Taylor testified that Trump refused to release $400 million in desperately needed military aid to help Ukraine fend off Russian incursions unless Ukraine’s president publicly announced that his country was investigating the Bidens. Trump also refused to invite the new Ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to the White House.
Morrison is significant for a few reasons: He’s the first White House employee to testify. He listened in on that infamous phone call in which Trump told Zelensky he wanted him to investigate Joe Bidenand his son Hunter, who sat on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, while his father was VP. He also was mentioned in Taylor’s testimony several times.
> Trump’s former national security adviser (which one, you may ask), John Bolton, reportedly is in negotiations with Democrats to testify as well. Bolton, ousted in September, supposedly raised alarms repeatedly about the shadow diplomacy in Ukraine being carried out by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and others.
> Trump and his bootlickers are focusing on the quid pro quo aspect of the Ukraine affair, even though it’s kind of irrelevant: The simple fact that Trump asked a foreign leader to investigate one of his political rivals is the problem. Adding pressure by withholding military funds is just icing on the cake.
Nonetheless, the Trumpsters have been claiming that no quid pro quo could have existed with Ukraine because Ukrainian officials had no idea that Trump was withholding the military aid that Congress had allocated. (That’s a little like saying that attempted murder isn’t wrong because the victim didn’t die.) But The New York Times reports that Ukraine knew about the aid block as early as the first week of August. Time for another excuse!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The length of time that American, influence-peddling politicians, their associates and family have been taking money from the Ukrainian people is disgusting. They know the oligarchs’ checks are a scheme to advantage themselves.
A political operative recently working on Gina Raimondo’s (R.I. Gov. and head of the DGA) reelection campaign, worked a decade ago for a libertarian politician who got between $50,000 and $100,000 from Ukraine. The operative was indicted yesterday on unrelated charges.
The choice of operatives who will work for any politician regardless of party is expected from a soulless, hedge fund-loving sleaze bag politician like Gina.
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What a surprise -The Hill (right wing shill) has been drawn into the intrigue involving the two Giuliani associates facing charges. Reporting from TPM two hours ago.
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Nothing Will Persuade White Evangelicals to Support Impeachment
New polling suggests that Trump’s base is totally unified behind the president, no matter what investigations might reveal.
OCT 21, 2019
…In mid-September, 94 percent of Republicans opposed impeachment. A month later—after the news about Trump’s fateful phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and after House Democrats formally launched an impeachment inquiry—their views are essentially unchanged. Even with these revelations, 93 percent of Republicans remained opposed to impeachment in mid-October, according to data released today from the Public Religion Research Institute. Of all Republican voters, two subgroups stand out for their unwavering support of Trump: those who primarily get their news from Fox, and white evangelical Christians…
Read More:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/trump-white-evangelical-impeachment/600376/?utm_source=atl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share
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Blame it on Nixon and Keven Philips. And on Andrew Johnson.
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Here’s the good news: per wiki, as of 2017, white non-hispanic evangelicals overall account for about 17% of Americans, while white non-Hispanic evangelicals under the age of 30 represent about 8% of Americans in that age group.[59] In 2016 Merritt reported low retention rates among evangelical churches.
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bethree5: “In 2016 Merritt reported low retention rates among evangelical churches.”
I remember watching, a few years back, a TV program in which a third grader was talking about how everyone who didn’t believe in Jesus the way her church taught was definitely going to hell for an eternity.
Unwavering, unthinking indoctrination is abominable when put upon children. I’m glad to read that people are leaving. Hopefully there are some who recognize the hypocrisy in bowing to Trump, who has nothing of value inside him.
Here’s to low retention rates in Evangelical churches. The prosperity gospel doesn’t follow the teachings of Jesus. What are these people thinking?
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“Over the past several decades, the candidate who wins the Catholic vote has won the presidency.” (NCR online)
Even the organization with the title, “Catholics for the Common Good” posts articles antagonistic to public schools.
In this blog universe, despite the privatization spending of Sean Fieler, Frank Hanna and Rex Sinquefield etc., the political/religious pronouncements of the powerful William Barr, Leonard Leo and Paul Weyrich, the well funded and orchestrated attacks against Pope Francis (champion of workers and the poor) from right wing Catholics, the Catholic charter schools, including chains, getting more voucher tax dollars than any other private education entity, the alliance of Catholics and evangelicals in the Acton Institute, the shared religious purpose of evangelical lawyers (Liberty) and Catholic lawyers (Napa Institute), the absence of a group like Pastors for Texas Children in the Catholic structure, and the international reporting about oligarchs and Catholic universities, Catholics don’t exist.
Got it.
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Linda, Yes Catholics do exist, but they’re hardly swinging the vote. The point that for decades Catholic pres vote predicts national election results demonstrates, their Rep-Dem voting tendencies reflect the general public’s. Unlike evangelists, who have become a rigid Republican bloc, they’re changeable, like independents.
Catholics voting in last 4 pres elections: 2004 Bush 50-49.5 [natl 50.7-49.3], 2008 Obama 55-45 [natl 53-46], 2012 Obama 50-48 [natl 51-47], 2016 Trump 52-45 [natl 46.09- ]48.18.
One Catholic vote above notably varies from national vote: 2016. Pew’s analysis of that vote shows this was all about white Catholics—hispanics voted 67-26 for Clinton. This is an important point to make, because over half hispanic Catholics are in pentacostal/ charismatic sects, which you would think would have them voting w/white Evangelicals.
So who were these white Catholic Trumpistas? National Catholic Reporter wrote 3/8/19 re 2020: “Persuading white Catholics is especially important in Rust Belt states that helped hand the president his 2016 Electoral College victory — namely, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. According to the 2010 Religious Congregations and Membership Study, all three states are home to counties with some of the highest densities of Catholic congregations in the country, with some boasting 21 or more… Several of those counties flipped to Trump in 2016 after backing Democrats in the past.”
Yup. They are the same blue-collar white folks who squeaked Trump into the presidency along w/their Protestant counterparts. People who have left the Dem Party as it became neoliberal/ anti-middleclass/ anti-public good. Not about religion, tho it surely makes them fodder for the politico-religious anti-Francis neoliberal contingent that you’ve been warning us about, & it’s on-point. These cynical politicos and their clerical supporters are trying to turn their flock into a right-wing political bloc akin to the white evangelists.
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Thank you for the acknowledgement that the religious right vote is two-dimensional, not just the monolith of evangelicals. (All other U.S, religions are dwarfed in percentage by those two.)
Media have reported that Steve Bannon (Catholic) is steering the drive to elect right wing politicians in Europe. Media report that the Catholic vote in Europe is being courted with the same hook as in the U.S., “save Catholic schools”. It is a refrain used by a Koch-linked group and at least one major ed reform group in the U.S.- Fordham.
As example of significance- Chiara has reported that Fordham dominates education policy in Ohio. The overwhelming amount of Ohio voucher money goes to Catholic schools. Figlio’s study, to the dismay of Fordham since they funded it, found vouchers had no positive effect on student outcomes in Ohio. Yet, Ohio increased the voucher program. Even the conservative chair of the Ohio Senate Education Committee said it made no sense. Obviously, Catholic funding achieves someone’s agenda.
Also, remember Bannon reportedly implemented a plan which identified phones that had been located at Catholic churches for targeting for political messages.
Consider the timing of the two following events-(1) the forced closure of the Soros-funded university in Hungary (closed by the hard right, leader, Orban (a leader praised by the American website, Catholic Vote) and (2) a Ukrainian Catholic University (Napa Institute made pleas for its funding) created with the largesse of the oligarch Firtash, who has links to Trump’s circle and Russia.
The Speaker of the House said today that Trump informed Russia and Republicans about a raid against ISIS while leaving Democrats in the dark.
The threat is a religious bloc supporting authoritarian regimes against political parties that fight for democracy labor rights and the common good.
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Linda, I found articles on Bannon’s trying to build a socially-conservative/ populist wing within the Church via devpt/ expansion of a conservative Catholic think-tank near Rome. “The institute aims to create a political approach for Catholicism that can work with Europe’s populist and nationalist uprisings” says a colleague. Meanwhile Marine LePen says go home, Steve. And this month, Italy’s Culture Minister revoked the Institute’s lease. These wacko efforts aside, I couldn’t find anything about Bannon preaching ‘save your Catholic schools’ to Europeans. Which doesn’t make sense anyway: Europe’s Catholic schools are well-established & well-subsidized (in several countries entirely publicly-funded) – they need ‘saving’? He sounds out in left field as usual.
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6-11-2019, Guardian, “The Populist Right is Forging an Unholy Alliance with Religion”, by Yale’s Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, at the Institute for Global Affairs.
Tangential- Have the social justice Catholic congregations asked the Catholic League to refrain from using the church’s name? State Democratic parties asked DFER to stop using the party’s name.
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No question Steinmetz-Jenkins is making good points. “There is every reason to view much of today’s populism as to some degree a religious backlash.” “populists have proved very adept at hijacking religion.” And perhaps most importantly: “It is a tool to engage a society that is felt to have lost its moral center”—in other words, secularism, which you can put together [in Europe] with vast/ sudden Muslim immigration and really stir the pot. [Read “Submission” by Houllebecq.]
I see this as less of a threat in Europe, many of whose countries have gone to great lengths to create inclusive social-govtl institutions that de-incentivize & protect against return to bloody history of religious wars. The one school ref in the Guardian article is to Belgium, where the populist party bemoans majority-party ‘abandonment’ of Catholic schools. No fact behind this: Belgium like Netherlands is a school-choice paradise where any [non-corporate] group can start a school which will be fully funded by govt as long as it meets attainment goals; the larget group are ‘free schools’, mostly Catholic.
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Applicable descriptors for U.S. “Catholic” church- hierarchy excludes women- authoritarian governance structure- high level and widespread cover-up of priest pedophilia
Applicable descriptors for segments within U.S Catholic community-
Prosperity Catholics attacking Pope Francis for his opposition to social Darwinism- prosperity Catholics attempting to circumvent separation of church and state- prosperity Catholics spending sizable amounts to destroy public schools- prosperity Catholics promoting a birth control method with a 25% failure rate as replacement for pharmaceutical birth control and condoms, prosperity Catholics stacking the courts with anti-democracy, conservative judges.
Applicable descriptors of evangelical…..
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I’m going to tie this in w/your earlier post: “Have the social justice Catholic congregations asked the Catholic League to refrain from using the church’s name? State Democratic parties asked DFER to stop using the party’s name.”
You seem to miss the definition of “catholic.” It is not a monolith. It is a church, not a political party. There’s always been room for a wide spectrum of interpretation: in my ’60’s heyday, no priests were thrown out for anti-VNWar activism. Likewise we’ve always harbored throwback groups who celebrate Latin mass, still defiant to John XXIII encyclical– just as today we harbor & wink at congregations where communion is given to LGBTQT, w/o making them confess their sexual practice as a sin.
There’s a lot of wiggle-room for 72million US souls [22% of US POP]. The current Pope takes certain political stands: pro-worker/ union, anti-inequality/ neoliberalism, but all know when he dies he may be replaced by someone more rightwing or globalist: nothing new in centuries of RC history.
The beauty of it is inclusiveness. One can always find a like-minded congregation. Note Lat-Am citizens find like-minded fringe congregations for ‘Catholic community’ [imitating the very early Xtian church], & pentacostal/ charismatic variations: none of these adhere strictly to current encyclicals, nor is hierarchy excommunicating them. My own Mom, raised by mixed Prot/Cath parents, leaned Cath but was denied communion for yrs because of divorce from a Prot marriage unrecognized by Church! By the time they changed that rule she was already an active member of her local RC church & rec’d communion from their Jesuit asst parish priest, whose order had their own interpretation of Papal law… Like I say, hardly a monolith.
No question Church tradition favors celibate patriarchy [which leads to sexual miscreance, which historically has been covered up by hierarchy tho that is beginning to cede to secular legislation which got there first]. But it’s changing as it must, to reflect changing social mores. Females have been allowed on the altar for 50 yrs, & since, female religious & even female laypeople distribute communion: I predict female Catholic priests w/n short order, following the lead of Episcopal et al Prot sects. Already we see appeals for married males to join the priesthood; & calls for an end to the celibacy rule for priests [that will come first, I think].
These are changes in the works reqd to keep the Church afloat in the Western world: it must move to keep up w/current social understanding of equity as a Christian value. Far more important than, & outweigh, machinations by the fleeting importance of deep-pocked rwnj “Catholic” politicos to convert the Church into a puppet of populist fantasies [“prosperity gospel” or otherwise].
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Sanguine- no action needed.
Got it.
Catholic League (described as maintaining close ties with the N.Y. archdiocese leadership, a minimum 350,000 members, 15,000 in Nassau and Suffolk counties of N.Y.), Catholic Vote (promotes right wing style leaders like Orban for the U.S.), Catholics for the Common Good (unless it’s public schools), Napa Institute, Catholic Information Center in D.C., Federalist Society, etc. – just ignore them- so what if they plot against separation of church and state.
Got it.
There’s an article today at Huffpo describing evangelical preachers in support of Trump and the right wing. Lucky, it’s the only religious group that has influence.
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Eric is admitting that money is being made from the Trump Hotel in DC. I’m sure Eric never discusses the DC hotel with his father.
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Trump Organization Considering Sale Of Washington, D.C., Hotel
The move is partly motivated by criticism that Trump is profiting off the hotel in violation of ethics laws and the Constitution.
The Trump Organization is looking into selling its controversy-ridden hotel in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump said in a statement Friday.
“Since we opened our doors, we have received tremendous interest in this hotel and as real-estate developers, we are always willing to explore our options,” said the president’s son, who is an executive vice president at the Trump Organization.
Trump’s family business has hired the real-estate firm JLL to market the Trump International Hotel, Eric Trump added.
The organization confirmed to the outlets that the move is in part motivated by criticism that Trump is violating ethics laws and the Constitution by profiting from the D.C. property, which is leased from the U.S. government.
“People are objecting to us making so much money on the hotel, and therefore we may be willing to sell,” Eric Trump said.
Last week, House Democrats threatened to subpoena the General Services Administration if it didn’t hand over records related to the hotel’s approval…
Article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-organization-selling-dc-hotel_n_5db32807e4b006d4916e0ba2?ncid=engmodushpmg00000006
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Here’s the bottom line: Trump knowingly and willingly took LOTS of help from Russian intelligence agencies to win* the 2016 election, he lied about it repeatedly, and he and his cronies (including AG Bill Barr) tried to cover it up. Trump also solicited and pressured a foreign government (Ukraine) to intervene in the 2020 election by manufacturing a phony ‘scandal’ against one of his political rivals.
All along, Trump has been aided and abetted by Congressional Republicans.
Trump and his allies and supporters are clear and present dangers to the Constitution and the Republic. They are what they are…traitors.
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What strange times we live in when lunatic hawk John Bolton just may be the person to seal Trump’s fate and preserve the Constitutional Republic.
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Trump certainly has attempted to destroy Biden. [Feel the Bern OR Warren.]
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Biden Campaign Drops Opposition to Super PAC Support
After ending the third quarter with less cash than four rivals, Joe Biden’s campaign reversed course to stop discouraging supporters from forming a super PAC to help him in the Democratic primary.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign effectively dropped its longstanding opposition to receiving the assistance of super PACs on Thursday, opening the door for wealthy supporters to spend unlimited amounts of money to try and lift him in the Democratic primary.
The move represents a stark reversal and an implicit acknowledgment of his weakened position in the contest. He entered October with only $9 million in the bank, a fraction of his leading rivals.
Mr. Biden had explicitly denounced support from a super PAC in his 2020 run and had previously said he would not have blessed one if he had run in 2016. As recently as a month ago, when a possible pro-Biden super PAC surfaced, his campaign denounced the effort.
But on Thursday, Kate Bedingfield, his deputy campaign manager, softened that stance, blaming the barrage of ads and attacks from President Trump and his allies and accusing them of interfering in the Democratic primary…
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Subject: Demanding the House punish Republicans who stormed witness deposition
The hypocrisy of a group of men who wanted to lock Hillary up for using a private email server compromising national security to defend a lawless president is insufferable. It’s time for decent people to take a stand against such shameless disregard for the legal process and take our country back from far-right radicals holding our democracy hostage. These lawmakers must be held accountable for breaking House rules and violating national security protocol. Nobody is above the law!
That‘s why I signed a petition to The United States House of Representatives.
Will you sign this petition?
Click here:
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/demanding-the-house-punish?source=s.em.cp&r_by=1432174
Thanks!
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“Nonetheless, the Trumpsters have been claiming that no quid pro quo could have existed with Ukraine because Ukrainian officials had no idea that Trump was withholding the military aid that Congress had allocated. (That’s a little like saying that attempted murder isn’t wrong because the victim didn’t die.)
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It’s more like murder victim hand his family had no idea about the plan to kill him, so there was no plan to murder anybody,
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‘How will you pay for it’ is the new ‘but her emails’
…Meanwhile, Trump and the GOP have blown open a nearly $1 trillion dollar deficit hole, a 26% increase from 2018 despite benefiting from an economy that is running at full tilt by traditional metrics. They’ve done this mostly through a combination of giant tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, as well as through huge increases to the military budget and handouts to make up for Trump’s self-inflicted trade war…
https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/how-will-you-pay-for-it-is-the-new-but-her-emails/#.XbRsGyAqt6c.gmail
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I hope this finally gets Trump in trouble. This, plus an impeachment inquiry should alert the country as to what is wrong with Trump. This case on assault has to infuriate him because his attempts to keep it from going to court have failed. “I never met her at a hotel.” [I thought he was a genius and always remembered everything.]
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Trump accuser says she has documents corroborating sexual assault claims
Summer Zervos presented evidence in court filings to support claims the president assaulted her in a hotel room in 2007
Thu 24 Oct 2019 18.23 EDT
A former contestant on The Apprentice, Donald Trump’s reality TV show, has presented evidence in court filings to support her claims that the president sexually assaulted her in a hotel room in 2007.
Summer Zervos is suing Trump, accusing him of defaming her by denying her allegations. The court filings appeared in a report on Thursday afternoon by the Hollywood Reporter.
She is one of several women who came forward during the 2016 presidential election campaign accusing Trump of sexual misconduct of varying degrees of seriousness. Trump denies all such allegations against him and, contrary to Zervos’s allegation that he attacked her in a hotel room in 2007, the now president has said: “I never met her at a hotel.”
Trump has tried and failed to prevent the lawsuit from moving forward and it could go to trial next year.
Court papers filed on Thursday present evidence that Zervos said will corroborate her report on the meeting with Trump.
The filings include emails with Trump’s secretary, Rhona Graff, about the meeting and calendar entries noting a stay by Trump at the Beverly Hills hotel in December 2007. Zervos’s attorney, Mariann Wang, noted to the court that the information points “line up with Ms Zervos’s detailed public account with striking accuracy”. Further documents purport to corroborate more details but are currently still under wraps…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/24/summer-zervos-trump-sexual-assault-claims-documents-evidence?CMP=share_btn_link
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This is what was posted on an email from the WH. [Think I’ll throw up.]
Trump: “After decades of bitter disappointments and betrayals from Washington . . . my Administration is making a decisive break with the failures of the past.”
“We’re keeping our promises. We’re solving problems, righting wrongs, and boldly confronting injustices—wherever and whenever we find them.”
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Putting this transcript of Trump’s Ukrainian call to a classified server is an admission of guilt.
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The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness
News Alert Oct 30, 10:51 PM
White House lawyer moved transcript of Trump call to classified server after Ukraine adviser raised alarms
John Eisenberg, the White House’s legal adviser on national security issues, restricted access to the document after Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman expressed concerns about the president’s statements on the call with the Ukrainian president, according to people familiar with Vindman’s testimony to lawmakers.
The details of how the White House clamped down on information about the controversial call comes as the House impeachment inquiry turns its focus to the role of Eisenberg, who has served as deputy White House counsel since the start of Trump’s administration.
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What’s the rationale? National security?
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Máté Wierdl: Read the article that I just posted from VICE. The headline on this blog article was, “Teresa Hanafin on Today’s Deposition.
Trump is guilty of putting his illegal phone calls on a highly secure server but there is no precedent for having been done by any other presidents. He did this purely to hide incriminating information. Very few people have access to presidential calls so putting this on a secure server is just to hide it.
What I want to know is what else has Trump hidden. This is how he works…hide and deny.
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“You don’t have hundreds of people getting access to presidential calls. They’re tightly controlled, so, it’s not as if this would have been floating around with lots of people getting access to the first place. To take the added step of telling the White House lawyers to put this on that system is beyond bizarre to me,” Kelly Magsamen, vice president of national security and international policy at thinktank Center for American Progress, and who served in the NSC for two presidents, told Motherboard. “It suggests they know it was extremely damaging.”
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Trump hides anything damaging to him, like tax returns.
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I know that somewhere in the Constitution we can find “every US citizen has the right and freedom to hide stuff”. But even if it’s there, the president should not have that freedom. As far as I am concerned, he should walk around in Speedo so that he cannot hide anything.
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Máté Wierdl: “As far as I am concerned, he should walk around in Speedo so that he cannot hide anything.”
Máté, please have some compassion for us women. Ewwww. Even if he wore his long red tie, this would be a great shock to our common sensibilities.
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Are you saying, dressed in speedo, he would have received less vote? Good! 🙂
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I didn’t know this was happening. Once a mobster, always a mobster. Yep. Trump believes in bribing everyone.
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Thom Hartmann’s blog
Once a Mobster – Always a Mobster?
Politico is reporting that Donald Trump is raising millions of dollars for individual Republican senators who have signed a resolution opposing his impeachment. Signing that resolution is, essentially, a statement that these men and women who will be “jurors” in the trial of Trump in the Senate have already made up their mind about how they will they will vote in the jury box. If a criminal defendant were to be shoveling money toward jurors before his trial, he would be in prison in a New York minute. But Donald Trump has no shame, and is openly bribing the jurors in his upcoming trial. Once a mobster, always a mobster.
-Thom
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This was put out by the WH. Looks like Trump is getting worried. There’s a LOT of useless blather about him being a poor victim. Poor Trump and the ‘impeachment sham/hoax’.
How does Trump find people like Press Secretary Grisham? She lies to cover up Trump.
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1600 Daily
The White House • October 31, 2019
A Halloween impeachment hoax—and other spooky stories
The first act of House Democrats’ impeachment sham operated in secret, depriving President Donald J. Trump of the due process rights entitled to every American citizen. Today, Democrats moved into phase two of their phony inquiry—and continue to leave both the American people and the White House in the dark.
“We don’t [even] know the rules yet, for the White House,” Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told Fox News today. “Are we even going to get to be involved? I don’t think so. It’s my understanding that we’re not going to get to defend ourselves until it goes to the Judiciary Committee—and that’s not how it works in America.”
White House Press Sec: The President did nothing wrong. Democrats know it.
For weeks, Democrats and their media mouthpieces tried to push the narrative that some Republicans in Congress could join Democrats in voting for their impeachment hoax—offering their probe a veneer of bipartisan credibility. The left hoped that repeating that storyline over and over again might help turn it into a reality.
The opposite happened. Two House Democrats joined with every single Republican member in voting against the Pelosi–Schiff impeachment sham. So the media was right that a bipartisan consensus might emerge. It’s just not the kind that they’d hoped for.
Today’s vote puts Democratic leaders in an awkward spot. Just months ago, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she opposed moving forward with an impeachment effort that didn’t earn overwhelming bipartisan trust. With members of both parties now objecting to impeachment, she must decide whether House Democrats should ignore their own words.
“I’m not for impeachment,” she told CNN in March. “Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country.”
The left’s media allies will try to help spin today’s vote for House Democrats. Over the next few days, watch as the coverage focuses entirely on the Republican response to impeachment—and ignores the Democrats who joined them. They don’t fit the narrative.
Americans are clearly frustrated with this hypocrisy. “There’s polls out today that show people are frustrated and disappointed with all the impeachment farce that’s happening,” Press Secretary Grisham said. “We know that in the White House. We’re going to keep working”—to deliver peace, a booming economy, and real national security.
Congressional Democrats have declared the President guilty until proven innocent. It doesn’t matter that the released Ukraine transcript contradicts their own version of events. It doesn’t matter that they announced impeachment efforts before gathering any of the evidence—or before even calling for a vote on whether to move forward.
This impeachment hoax began with a top Democrat reading a fake phone transcript of President Trump before quickly moving the proceedings behind closed doors. Instead of attracting Republicans, it has only repelled Democrats.
Speaker Pelosi is right that a partisan impeachment is wrong for America. It’s time for her to stand by her words. It’s time for the House to have a real leader once again.
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I wonder what Trump will do when he gets this information. Obviously since it comes from WaPo it is not to be believed. How much of taxpayer money is going to be spent on his worthless, ego-driven wall? I’m sure he’d want his photo in lights on it every 100 feet.
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The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Trending Now Nov 2, 2:31 PM
Breach in Trump’s border wall: Smugglers are sawing through new sections in a matter of minutes using a popular cordless saw
The breaches — large enough for people and drug lords to pass through — have been made using a popular cordless household tool known as a reciprocating saw that retails at hardware stores for as little as $100.
When fitted with specialized blades, the saws can slice through one of the barrier’s steel-and-concrete bollards, say agents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the barrier-defeating techniques.
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