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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums****LIVE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL 1/30/20 THREAD 2****
Thread 1 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212928625
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)underpants
(182,949 posts)Really I think Bondi is really there in a Fox News blonde role.
crickets
(25,987 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)contribution to a campaign is a violation of law.
What might we expect now from other countries based on the argument that there is nothing wrong with foreign intervention in our election?
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)official acts on the acts by another public officer. How does this apply to the President?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)OT: takes over ten seconds for me to be able to type after clicking "reply" -- my connection takes that long just to display the OP. dunno what my ISP is doing today.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)or anyone from the outside who were involved in withholding aid and obstruction of Congress?
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)Exhibit 4 - Friday, July 19, 2019
Email: Robert Blair, Lisa Kenna, Brian McCormack, mick mulvaney, rick Perry, mike pompeo, and Gordon Sondland
Subject: Re: I talked to Zelensky just now
15:28 Gordon Sondland: He is prepared to receive Potus call. Will assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will turn over every stone. He would greatly appreciate a call prior to Sunday so that he can put out some media about a friendly and productive call (no details) prior to Ukraine election on Sunday.
21:30 Rick Perry (replying to McCormack and Sondland only): Mick just confirmed the call being set up for tomorrow by NSC.
RP
22:25 Mick Mulvaney (replying to all): I asked NSC to set it up for tomorrow
MM
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CSPAN clip: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4850962/user-clip-demings-reviews-subpoenas-needed
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)This is the corrupt political errand.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)elleng
(131,200 posts)((OBVIOUSLY V.P. Biden's fault.))
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)He is now hunched over because he was caught.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)... just trying to convince people water is dry.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)(And the reason is those funds were DIRECTED to be spent in FY 2019... DUMB ASSES.)
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)(and THAT is the problem. They waited too late.)
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)elleng
(131,200 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)Answer from DOJ in court down the street today: impeachment.
*laughter*
Wow.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)doing thing for personal gain. Is there any other precedent of this?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)in the impeachment trial demand they go to court to enforce, the DOJ is in court right now telling the House that they can't go to court for subpoena enforcement. The judge asked DOJ what was the remedy and the DOJ said - "impeachment".
(and the chamber broke out in laughter)
crickets
(25,987 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)___
Video starts with the reading of the question from Hirono
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)better
(884 posts)I sure hope one of the Dems brings that up.
And Senator Paul should be arrested. Right now.
gademocrat7
(10,676 posts)Outing a whistleblower is a crime.
Kali
(55,026 posts)just another repuke asshole.
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Besides basing the question on a lie, the question is directed to WH counsel even though it is asking why the House did this. Even if the lie were true, only the House could explain their reasons.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)dem4decades
(11,307 posts)And ask them what it means to be an impartial juror.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,219 posts)Is he doing some sort of campaign ad for Trump in the middle of an Impeachment Trial?
I guarantee you Trump gave him this script.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)underpants
(182,949 posts)He claimed that Obamas hot mic with Medvedev was a quid pro quo and an impeachable offense.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Mersky
(4,986 posts)If the Senate accepts the pResidents blanket assertion of privilege, what are the consequences to the American people?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)crickets
(25,987 posts)I can hear it just looking at the screen.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Yup you're right idiot. That describes your team's arguments.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Link to tweet
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)that they keep calling a "transcript".
(i.e., the "do us a favor though..." part)
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)... without thinking.
elleng
(131,200 posts)(Schumer to both prez + Dem counsel)
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)... which is asinine seeing house procedures are left up to the house
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)hlthe2b
(102,419 posts)not that the other managers aren't also worth hearing, but he is in a different category altogether.
I hate to miss any of his responses, but I just can't stand to listen to the WH liars.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)hlthe2b
(102,419 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)The charitable assumption is that law enforcement does not want to lend credibility to whatever name he called out.
The Senate, at least, should censure his rancid ass.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Claire McCaskill now on ABC
Edit to add:
Tim Kaine on NBC
Coons on PBS