The Impeachment Of Donald Trump

DIY-HP-LED

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Monologue: I Need a Vacation | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Bill kicks off Real Time's 18th season with his take on the looming impeachment trial, President Trump's shady associates, and drama between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
 

Unclebaldrick

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In November I will be :)

And you will be :shock:

And then :(

And then :mad:

Then you will do :wall:

I will watch this and be :p

And then :cool:

Then you will be :(

But I will be - it's okay :hump:

And then you will be :confused:

But then you will :-)

Because you like :hump:

The End.
You really suck at this. Spend some time in your room trying to think of something new.
 

Old Newb

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I'll come back in November to check up on you guys. Don't let your heads explode until then okay? If you need to scream, the sky is always available.

Bye.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Trump’s legal team is a wretched hive of scum and villainy

From time immemorial, port cities have been “wretched hives of scum and villainy,” so why should spaceports be any different? That was the theory behind Mos Eisley, home of the famous bar scene in the original Star Wars. And why should Trump’s International Hotel in Washington, D.C. be any different? It’s a gathering place for every kind of crook and scoundrel. As Lev Parnas told Rachel Maddow, “It was like a breeding ground at the Trump hotel.”

And why should Trump’s legal defense team not follow suit?

President Donald Trump’s defense team for his Senate impeachment trial will include former independent counsel Ken Starr, who investigated President Bill Clinton, and famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, sources familiar with the president’s legal strategy told NBC News Friday.

Also joining the team is Robert Ray, who succeeded Starr as Clinton special counsel, and Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who joined the White House in November to help manage the messaging around impeachment, the sources said.

Villainy may be in the eye of the beholder, but the stench of scum is hard to ignore.

Kenneth Starr is a completely disgraced man, after bringing Baylor University into total disrepute:

Starr was ousted as president of Baylor University and then resigned as chancellor in 2016 amid an investigation into claims he and school officials mishandled allegations of sexual assault by football players.

An independent investigation found that under Starr’s leadership the school actively discouraged “some complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes and in one instance constituted retaliation against a complainant for reporting sexual assault.”

Dershowitz has been credibly accused of taking advantage of the services of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex slavery empire.
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DIY-HP-LED

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When you consider most of them could end up in prison too, they should at least be motivated! If he wants to mount a PR defence made for TV, this is not the team to do it, what a bunch of slimeballs.
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CNN legal analyst argues Trump’s new ‘reality show’ legal team could blow up in his face

President Donald Trump’s new legal team for his defense in the Senate impeachment trial is stocked with big names and celebrities, most notably Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, and the White House clearly hopes their supposed gravitas will help win a victory in public opinion. But CNN legal analyst Susan Hennessey argued Friday that Trump’s picks could actually backfire.

“It’s obviously in keeping with the president’s reality show instincts, the big dramatic reveal, bringing back characters from last season — the last impeachment!” she said, referring specifically to Starr’s role in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. “This has all the theatrical elements that the president loves. That said, I do think this is something that potentially is going to backfire on the president.”

She continued: “So let’s think about Ken Starr. There are hours and hours and hours of footage of Ken Starr making an impassioned case for the importance of holding the President of the United States accountable. The importance of the United States Congress doing its constitutional duty in impeaching the president. He wrote a memoir in which he described his frustration with the idea that the Clinton administration would dare to stonewall. Everything Ken Starr says in defense of the president, there are going to be clips to contrast with that, and I think it’s going to end up doing is just underscoring the hypocrisy here, and the hypocrisy of the Republicans more generally.”

Dershowitz, to her mind, poses other problems.

He’s “somebody who’s been implicated in a number of personal scandals,” she said. “Somebody who has a professional reputation closely tied to people like Jeffrey Epstein. Putting this as a person to represent Donald Trump at a moment when the Senate is trying to decide questions of his character, of his fitness for office, the idea that these are the people that are going to make those four or five moderate Republican senators comfortable … and feel like they have cover to hold tight with Republicans and defend the president, I don’t see that this is necessarily the easiest strategy for the president.”

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DIY-HP-LED

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Pelosi’s gambit worked brilliantly: How her delay in sending the articles of impeachment paid off

Last spring, when the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller documented 10 instances of obstruction of justice by President Trump, progressive Democrats urged U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to begin an impeachment investigation. Pelosi resisted until Trump forced her hand by trying to pressure the Ukrainians into announcing investigations of political rival Joe Biden and the discredited Russian propaganda line that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 presidential election.

After the House approved two articles of impeachment against the president on Dec. 18, 2019, Pelosi boldly shattered precedent and delayed their transmission to the U.S. Senate. She hoped to pressure enough Republican senators to join with Democrats to authorize in advance the production of presidentially blocked documents and witnesses, principally former national security adviser John Bolton and Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.

This effort failed, but Pelosi’s strategy still succeeded brilliantly. During the nearly month-long delay, events coalesced that may well change the course of the trial and perhaps the history of the United States and the world.
Had Pelosi immediately transmitted the articles, the Senate would likely have quickly dismissed the case. Now there is a realistic chance that senators will vote for a real trial with documents and witnesses. And newly revealed evidence buttresses the House’s articles on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

During the delay, Bolton changed course on his willingness to testify. He now says that he will comply with a subpoena to testify in the Senate trial, putting pressure on moderate Republicans to call Bolton and other witnesses. Already, several Republicans have signaled their openness to witnesses and documents. Just four Republicans would have to join 47 Democrats for a majority of 51 senators.
Meantime, we’ve learned that the Russians are again intervening in American politics on behalf of Donald Trump. According to a New York Times report, Russian military hackers have broken into the files of Burisma, the company that put Joe Biden’s son Hunter on its board during the Obama administration. Clearly, they are aiding Trump by trolling for dirt on the Bidens.

Documents newly released through a Freedom of Information lawsuit by American Oversight, and published in redacted form by Just Security, disclose that the president directly ordered the withholding of the Ukrainian military aid through his Office of Management and Budget (OMB), without explanation. Pentagon officials worried that the White House was violating the Federal Impoundment Act, which prohibits a president from withholding appropriated funds without authorization from Congress.
On Aug. 26, Elaine A. McCusker, the principal deputy undersecretary of Defense emailed OMB official Michael Duffey to ask, “What is the status of the impoundment paperwork?” Duffey replied, “Is that something you are expecting from OMB?” McCusker answered yes, but the paperwork required by law never came through.

On Jan. 16, the day that House managers transmitted the articles of impeachment to the Senate, a report by the Government Accountability Office, the government’s non-partisan watchdog, bolstered both articles of impeachment. The GAO validated McCusker’s concerns by finding that Trump had broken the law by unilaterally withholding the Ukrainian aid. The GAO additionally found that the Trump administration had obstructed their investigation, which had “constitutional significance,” because GAO oversight “is essential to ensuring respect for and allegiance to Congress’ constitutional power of the purse.”

Also during the delay, Lev Parnas, the on-the-ground operative in Rudy Giuliani’s alternative channel to Ukraine, confirmed the testimony of Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, that Trump knew about and directed the pressure campaign against Ukraine through Giuliani. Parnas corroborated Sondland’s testimony that Trump cared not about corruption in Ukraine but only about announcing, not even conducting, politically beneficial investigations.

Senators are not the only jurors in the president’s trial. History will deliver its own verdict. So will the American people. Regardless of how the Senate votes, Americans will make up their own minds about the trial process and the president’s guilt or innocence. Their verdict will profoundly affect the outcome of this year’s presidential election.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Demand A Fair Trial
Donald Trump has become only the third president in the history of the Unites States to be impeached by the House of Representatives.

The MAGA Church
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Here's one for Buck to repost, this guy is from his end of the country, so he can defend Colorado's honor. ;) I imagine Buck will be knocking on doors and offering free rides to the polls, for those democratically inclined, and a one way ride into the mountains for those who wanna vote for Trump and this guy!
Cory Gardner - Do Your Job
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Distracted! Fat Donnie is going nuts over this shit. Donald's lawyers often end up in prison, he's gonna set some kinda record for locking up lawyers!
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Trump, who wanted a TV legal team, is 'distracted' by impeachment trial, source says

(CNN)Donald Trump has appeared "distracted" by the impeachment trial that begins on Tuesday, according to a source close to the White House who speaks to the President regularly.
"Why are they doing this to me," the source quoted Trump as saying repeatedly, telling people around him Friday night at Mar-a-Lago that he "can't understand why he is impeached."
Trump has been telling associates and allies around him that he wanted a "high profile" legal team that can perform on television, the source said. It's simply who Trump is, the source continued, adding Trump loves having people who are on television working for him.
This in part may explain why Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz were added to the legal team representing the President.

'It's going to be devastating': Senators gear up for no-talking, no-electronics impeachment trial rules
Both sides make their case
House Democrats on Saturday released their argument for why Trump should be removed from office by the Senate in the upcoming impeachment trial.
The Democrats filed to the Senate their trial brief, a summary explaining why the House passed two articles of impeachment last month charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
"President Trump's conduct is the Framers' worst nightmare," the managers wrote in the brief.
"President Donald J. Trump used his official powers to pressure a foreign government to interfere in a United States election for his personal political gain, and then attempted to cover up his scheme by obstructing Congress's investigation into his misconduct," the managers wrote in the brief. "The Constitution provides a remedy when the President commits such serious abuses of his office: impeachment and removal. The Senate must use that remedy now to safeguard the 2020 U.S. election, protect our constitutional form of government, and eliminate the threat that the President poses to America's national security."
Trump's legal team filed its formal response Saturday evening to the Senate summons of the President, offering the first glimpse into what will ultimately be the White House's impeachment defense.
The response argued both substantively, against the charges in the articles, and procedurally, against the House's impeachment inquiry.
"President Trump categorically and unequivocally denies each and every allegation in both articles of impeachment," the document reads.
The legal team argues that the first article of impeachment, abuse of power, "alleges no crime at all, let alone 'high crimes and Misdemeanors,' as required by the Constitution." The team cited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's repeated denials that he felt any pressure from Trump as evidence that Trump did not abuse his power during the July 25 phone call.
The team pointed to the fact that the President released transcripts of both the July 25 phone call and an earlier one on April 21 to argue the conversations were "perfectly legal, completely appropriate and taken in furtherance of our national interest."
Seasoned lawyers
Starr, the hard-charging prosecutor whose work led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment, and Dershowitz, the constitutional lawyer, will join Robert Ray, Starr's successor at the Office of Independent Counsel during the Clinton administration, on the defense team, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said earlier in a statement.
The additions of Starr and Ray to Trump's legal team happened over the last three to four weeks, according to a source familiar with the legal team's thinking.
The legal team was aware of Trump's previous comments about Starr, when in 1999 the President called Starr a lunatic, before they broached the idea with him, but they didn't think it was a big deal.
In the end, "the President wanted these guys out there," the source said.
It is unclear if the President was aware of Starr making recent comments on Fox News about compelling evidence against him in reaction to the testimony of Gordon Sondland, the United States Ambassador to the European Union.
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spek9

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Donald J. Trump
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A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won’t work anyway. It will also look terrible. Sorry, you’ll just have to get your mops & buckets ready!
6:18 PM · Jan 18, 2020·

no fucking way... did he actually just tweet this?
He did say that the forest services should rake up the forests to prevent forest fires, so I wouldn't put it past him. Beyond the sweeping statement being utterly ridiculous, it was doubly so for me as I was evacuated for over a month, then had to eventually move out of my previous area due to forest fires.
 

scumrot derelict

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のんのん日和 !!
太陽が沈みそうなのん
Taiyou ga shizumi souna non !!
澄んだ川 覗いて
Sunda kawa nozoite
小さな魚みつけた
Chiisana sakana mitsuketa !!!
hello! i am friends! one icchiban!
 
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