Trump lost moving on with new year go Biden

and the news...bad news for trump just keeps coming in...

Schedule for additional depositions in impeachment inquiry revealed

Additional current and former aides are expected to appear before the House in the coming days as part of its impeachment probe into President Trump's dealings with Ukraine.

Ambassador Philip Reeker is expected to appear in a closed session Saturday and Charles Kupperman, former deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, is expected to appear in a closed session Monday, according to an official who's working on the impeachment inquiry.

The official said that Timothy Morrison, special assistant to the president and national security council senior director for Europe and Russia, is expected to appear in closed session on Thursday.

Morrison was mentioned during diplomat William Taylor's testimony as someone who may be able to corroborate his assertions.

Taylor specifically described a phone call with Morrison in which Morrison allegedly said that Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union, discussed a quid pro quo with Andriy Yermak, a representative for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

During this same phone call I had with Mr. Morrison, he went on to describe a conversation Ambassador Sondland had with Mr. Yermak," Taylor testified Tuesday. "Ambassador Sondland told Mr. Yermak that the security assistance money would not come until President Zelensky committed to pursue the Burisma investigation.




guilty as *******.....shoot the fucker
 
you can only bullshit people for so long.....and it catches up with you..


Trump’s War on the ‘Deep State’ Turns Against Him

WASHINGTON — Nameless, faceless and voiceless, the C.I.A. officer who first triggered the greatest threat to President Trump’s tenure in office seemed to be practically the embodiment of the “deep state” that the president has long accused of trying to take him down.

But over the last three weeks, the deep state has emerged from the shadows in the form of real live government officials, past and present, who have defied a White House attempt to block cooperation with House impeachment investigators and provided evidence that largely backs up the still-anonymous whistle-blower.

The parade of witnesses marching to Capitol Hill culminated this week with the dramatic testimony of William B. Taylor Jr., a military officer and diplomat who has served his country for 50 years. Undaunted by White House pressure, he came forward to accuse the same president who sent him to Ukraine a few months ago of abusing his power to advance his own political interests.

The House impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump’s efforts to ******* Ukraine to investigate Democrats is the climax of a 33-month scorched-earth struggle between a president with no record of public service and the government he inherited but never trusted. If Mr. Trump is impeached by the House, it will be in part because of some of the same career professionals he has derided as “absolute scum” or compared to Nazis.

“With all the denigration and disparagement and diminishment, I think you are seeing some payback here, not by design but by opportunity,” said Representative Gerald E. Connolly, a Democrat from Washington’s Virginia suburbs who represents many federal employees. “It’s almost karmic justice. All of a sudden, there’s an opportunity for people who know things to speak out, speak up, testify about and against — and they’re doing so.”

Current and former officials like Marie L. Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill and George P. Kent told House investigators how the government was circumvented by a rogue foreign policy operation on Mr. Trump’s behalf. Michael McKinley, a four-time ambassador and senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, described resigning after four decades at the State Department over the treatment of the career foreign service.

Even the original Anonymous is back, the unidentified author of a much-discussed essay in The New York Times last year claiming that officials within Mr. Trump’s administration were working “to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” The writer, still unnamed, plans to publish a book next month called “A Warning.”

The witnesses heading to Capitol Hill do not consider themselves part of any nefarious deep state, but simply public servants who have loyally worked for administrations of both parties only to be denigrated, sidelined or ****** out of jobs by a president who marinates in suspicion and conspiracy theories.

 
Dems going all out on their impeachment "gamble'.....don't have to worry about it....polls show 3/4 of americans unhappy and concerned about the handling of Syria...…...Graham was right on that one......it may have cost him re-election
 
Republicans are retreating into a fantasyland as Trump’s corruption is laid bare

President Donald Trump’s impeachable conduct in the Ukraine scandal is an open and shut case. It is unacceptable for the president to pressure another foreign country, especially one dependent on American aid, to investigate a political opponent. It’s not his job, and it’s a clear conflict of interest. The abuse of power is plain.


Since Trump has admitted to doing exactly this when he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden, and the White House has provided evidence of the act, there’s nothing more for investigations to establish except exactly how bad and extensive this scheme was.

But this has left Republicans and supporters of the president in a difficult spot. The scandal unfolded rapidly and in plain sight, without giving them sufficient time to properly grapple with the story. Instead of coming to grips with uncomfortable facts, then, many are retreating into a fantasyland.


In the fantasy, Trump hasn’t already admitted his guilt, there’s nothing wrong with what he did, and it’s only others — almost certainly Democrats! — who are to blame for … something.



A lot of the right-wing whataboutism has focused on former Biden himself, naturally enough, and his ******* Hunter. Many conservatives are convinced that, despite all the evidence the contrary, Hunter’s work in Ukraine, and the vice president’s diplomacy in Ukraine, are the real scandal.

This claim is wrong for many reasons, as I’ve reported, but supposed it wasn’t. Suppose the Bidens really were guilty of something quite bad. It still wouldn’t be the president’s role to pressure Ukraine to investigate that wrongdoing, as Trump did in fact do. He’s not supposed to direct the opening of investigations, and even if he were, he ought to recuse himself from any case involving a political opponent. But anyway, he still shouldn’t be pressuring a foreign government — or meddling with its congressionally allocated military aid — to do such an investigation. Even if he were supposed to order specific investigations, and even if it were OK for him to order them about political opponents, it would be the FBI’s job to look into the matter, not Ukraine’s. From top to bottom, what Trump did was improper and corrupt.


Another aspect of right-wing fantasyland is that, in this magical place, the whistleblower who drew attention to Trump’s conduct with Ukraine is supremely important. That’s why the right wing became truly fixated on a Federalist article that was about — and I’m not even joking — the updated version of a government form that the whistleblower didn’t even use. As it turned out, the conspiracy theory about these forms was wrong in just about every respect.

But again, suppose that it wasn’t. Suppose that there really was some coordinating between administration officials to ease the path for the whistleblower to make his or her complaint. Suppose even worse, which hasn’t even been seriously alleged, that the whistleblower broke the law to release the pertinent information. It wouldn’t change the fact that Trump committed and admitted to impeachable conduct, which deals with abuse of presidential power and thus is much worse than any single crime. (To be clear, there’s absolutely no indication that the whistleblower broke the law or engaged in wrongdoing.)


On Wednesday, a new twist on the fantasy that the whistleblower is of central importance emerged. The New York Times (which, in many a Republican’s telling, is supposedly cooperating with the Democrats to impeach Trump) reported that House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, received word earlier than was previously known about the broad outlines of the whistleblower’s complaint via an aide. The Times reported:

"The [whistleblower] approached a House Intelligence Committee aide with his concerns about Mr. Trump only after he had had a colleague first convey them to the C.I.A.’s top lawyer. Concerned about how that initial avenue for airing his allegations through the C.I.A. was unfolding, the officer then approached the House aide. In both cases, the original accusation was vague.
The House staff member, following the committee’s procedures, suggested the officer find a lawyer to advise him and meet with an inspector general, with whom he could file a whistle-blower complaint. The aide shared some of what the officer conveyed to Mr. Schiff. The aide did not share the whistle-blower’s identity with Mr. Schiff, an official said."


Republicans leaped on this new revelation, arguing that it showed one of their favorite villains, Schiff, was wrapped up in the whistleblower’s suppose malfeasance:


Brit Hume
@brithume




"This puts the whole impeachment inquiry in a new light. There’s no getting around the appearance that collusion-truther and Trump antagonist Schiff was a partner in this from the start." https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1179457662414675968 …

Again, much of this is lies and distortion. The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said that what Schiff’s team reportedly did was standard practice. There’s no sign of it being nefarious at all.

But again, suppose it was nefarious. Suppose Schiff helped the whistleblower gather information, optimize it to make a maximal impact, and then lied about his involvement from the start. It certainly would be bad that Schiff lied. But the fundamental information in the whistleblower complaint — the impeachable offense — would still be admitted by Trump and confirmed by the White House. Schiff could be chastised for using deceptive means to achieve his ends, but an impeachment of Trump would still be entirely warranted.


What’s going on here is desperation. Supporters of the president are desperate to exonerate him or distract from the main issue, because they can’t admit to themselves — or at least, to their audiences and voters — what’s really going on. Trump abused his power, and he gave us the evidence. Republicans keep hoping that some other shoe will drop to make the facts as we know them not the case, but that’s just not going to happen.

 
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We'd Arrest Trump For Fifth Ave Shooting, NYC Mayor Says

NEW YORK — He might give up his freedom even if he didn't lose any voters. NYPD cops would put President Donald Trump in handcuffs if he tested his lawyer's theory that he could freely shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, city officials said Thursday.

"I don't care if it's the president of the United States or anybody else — you shoot someone, you get arrested," Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio said at an unrelated news conference. "We would arrest him."

 
Rudy G going down...….and he will get jail time


Newly promoted prosecutor acted as go-between for Giuliani in Ukraine

KYIV — In the lengthy cast of Ukrainian prosecutors starring in the political scandal engulfing the Trump administration, Gyunduz Mamedov hasn't received much of the spotlight.

Figures like Viktor Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko — both former prosecutors general of Ukraine — stand out for providing what Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer working for President Donald Trump, has described as "substantial evidence" to support his back-channel Ukraine campaign.

But Mamedov's role was key. He was an intermediary in Giuliani's efforts to press Ukraine to open investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and the debunked conspiracy theory about the country's interference in the 2016 presidential election, according to documents reviewed and interviews conducted during a collaboration between BuzzFeed News, NBC News and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

The documents and interviews show Mamedov was integral in setting up at least two sets of meetings that are now the focus of Congressional investigators pursuing an impeachment inquiry against Trump.

And while Shokin and Lutsenko have been sidelined after being fired in 2016 and 2019, respectively, Mamedov was appointed as a deputy prosecutor general on Friday, according to a statement by Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office (PGO).

Working in recent years as the lead prosecutor for cases related to the Russian-occupied region of Crimea, Mamedov has largely evaded public attention for his role in the scandal, despite public scrutiny of meetings between Giuliani and other Ukrainian officials, including Lutsenko and Shokin.

But the documents and interviews show that Mamedov's involvement included acting as a go-between for Lutsenko and two Florida associates of Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that included illegally funding U.S. political campaigns with foreign money.

A July investigation by BuzzFeed News and the OCCRP found that Parnas and Fruman were key middlemen setting up Giuliani with Ukrainian prosecutors.

Mamedov and Hlib Zahoriy, then a Ukrainian lawmaker, accompanied Lutsenko to meetings with Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman in New York on Jan. 25 and 26, according to minutes of the meetings handed to House committees by the U.S. State Department's Inspector General.

The minutes show that Lutsenko furnished Giuliani with a range of unsupported accusations alleging wrongdoing by Biden, his ******* Hunter, and officials in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, including then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.

Both Mamedov and Zahoriy played roles in the meeting, Lutsenko said in an interview in London, where he is apparently studying English and also far from Ukrainian authorities who've launched a criminal investigation into whether he abused his power while prosecutor general.

"They were there as private citizens. Mamedov was one of the people who passed Rudy Giuliani's invitation [to meet] to me," Lutsenko said.

In fact, it was Mamedov who Parnas and Fruman first approached with the initial proposal for Lutsenko to meet Giuliani, according to Lutsenko and Zahoriy. Mamedov then conveyed that to Lutsenko's staff, Lutsenko said, adding that Mamedov knew Giuliani's associates from his time in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa. The Black Sea port city is where Fruman built up his business network in Ukraine in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Mamedov also played a role in brokering another February meeting between Lutsenko and Giuliani in the Polish capital, Warsaw, Lutsenko said.

Born in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, the 44-year-old Mamedov, a bald, clean-shaven man with caterpillar eyebrows, cuts a relatively low profile in Ukraine. He declined a request for an interview. The Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement that Mamedov had been promoted based on "significant results" he had achieved as the prosecutor overseeing Crimea.

Mamedov's family is involved at senior levels in Azerbaijan's state-run oil and gas sector, which is heavily controlled by the family of the country's president, Ilham Aliyev.

Fruman and Parnas used their involvement with Giuliani's Ukraine campaign to push their own plan to sell American liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the country.

There's no evidence to suggest Mamedov was involved in furthering Parnas and Fruman's LNG business plan.

Zahoriy, 43, the then-Ukrainian lawmaker who was also present at the New York meetings in January, is a pharmaceutical company owner who, along with Lutsenko, was politically aligned with former President Petro Poroshenko.

Zahoriy's intended role in the meeting was to act as a translator, Lutsenko said.

"I asked him to go there in case I wouldn't understand something because I was afraid of New York slang. Sometimes Zahoriy talked when Giuliani couldn't understand my English," he said.

Zahoriy told reporters that he was in New York for personal business and had been having breakfast with Lutsenko on the morning of the first of the two meetings — January 25 — when the chief prosecutor asked him to come along. He said that Giuliani and Lutsenko did most of the substantive talking, while the others sat to the side.

 
President Trump has nothing to worry about with an idiot liar like Schiffty conducting an obvious Kangaroo Court - people are getting WICKED pissed now. Enough is enough ya bunch o freakin sore LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Nay is what a horse says....and horseshit is what will be raining on trump as he tries to escape......is that what you are referring to?
3 years you have been saying any day now that Trump fails as POTUS and nothing happened to remove him from that office since then @subhub174014 . Don't you think you might be sounding like a broken record? Or the boy that cried wolf? In your case PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ?? ?
 
President Trump has nothing to worry about with an idiot liar like Schiffty conducting an obvious Kangaroo Court - people are getting WICKED pissed now. Enough is enough ya bunch o freakin sore LOSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


if he had nothing to worry about why is he stopping so many from testifying?.....why are so many republicans starting to have second thoughts....why did he send the republican members in congress to try and stop the hearing yesterday....if he had nothing to worry about he could have done just like Clinton...let them do whatever and he still did his biz running the country....this guy can't do his job right now....just as well resign before he gets really embarrassed...
 
3 years you have been saying any day now that Trump fails as POTUS and nothing happened to remove him from that office since then @subhub174014 . Don't you think you might be sounding like a broken record? Or the boy that cried wolf? In your case PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ?? ?


Mueller has/had him...….but no smoking gun on the impeachable offenses.....and on the rest you can't prosecute a sitting pres...so he got off...…..this time by his own admission he committed an impeachable offense...just the right still blocking and trying to cover....I doubt he finishes his term...might...might even make a re-election....but at some point he is going down!
 
if he had nothing to worry about why is he stopping so many from testifying?.....why are so many republicans starting to have second thoughts....why did he send the republican members in congress to try and stop the hearing yesterday....if he had nothing to worry about he could have done just like Clinton...let them do whatever and he still did his biz running the country....this guy can't do his job right now....just as well resign before he gets really embarrassed...
After all the hassle and struggle with Hillary and spending $1 Billion US on his campaign to be POTUS in 2016 and another similar sum for 2020. You can't expect Trump to just walk away? Trump is all in!
 
After all the hassle and struggle with Hillary and spending $1 Billion US on his campaign to be POTUS in 2016 and another similar sum for 2020. You can't expect Trump to just walk away? Trump is all in!


sure he is/…...I already posted just how much he has pocket for himself...and on lawyers from his 2020 campaign


BTW Graham called it when Trump made that little Syrian call....he said trump just cost himself re-election...…..I see it here on the local news all the time....people not happy about that....has to be something funny there...not bringing the troops home...staying in Iraq.....plus he just sent 15,00 to Saudi....

Pat Robertson said trump just sold his stairway to heaven....some dislike this about...others that....and others this...it all adds up sooner or later


you can only piss off so many people before the majority is against you
 
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Focus on the GOP senators weighing history’s judgment for Trump’s fate

House Democrats building their impeachment case against President Trump need to think like smart prosecutors who aren’t just trying to win a grand-jury indictment but also want to succeed in a jury trial.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has a clear majority in the House supporting her move to turn the investigation into a formal impeachment inquiry. With just the facts already known about Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate his domestic political rival, the president believes the House has a simple majority to essentially indict him with articles of impeachment.

If that’s the case, House committee chairmen might be able to begin building a case designed to actually turn some Senate Republicans against Trump. So far most attention, from Democrats and the media, has focused on a handful or so of Senate Republicans up for reelection next year in states where Democrats have either recently won or competed in presidential campaigns.

That’s a mistake.

Instead of the already vulnerable Republicans, Democrats should focus on a clutch of roughly 10 incumbents with several similar character traits: senior statesmen within their caucus who have either announced their plans to retire or have signaled they are likely to not run for reelection. These GOP senators are at the point in their careers where history’s judgment might mean more to them than the views of today’s conservative activists.

Some Democrats have taken note of this group, including Republicans such as Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Richard Burr (N.C.) and Johnny Isakson (Ga.), because their remarks so far on Trump and Ukraine have been very brief or just nonexistent.

“I am not optimistic so far, but there is lots of silence,” Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.), who maintains good relations with many GOP senators, said Wednesday. “It has been unusually quiet. I think most of them are holding their breath.”

Alexander, for instance, issued a statement that took no side in Trump’s pressure campaign to compel Ukrainian investigations into former vice president Joe Biden, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and his ******* Hunter, simply acknowledging the fact that investigations are happening.
“The Senate Intelligence Committee is determining the facts in the Ukraine whistleblower matter, and I want to know the facts before I comment,” Alexander said in a prepared statement.

As The Washington Post has tracked their views, 14 GOP senators have expressed concerns or questioned Trump’s judgment. That list includes just four of the 19 Senate Republicans running for reelection next year.

Alexander, 79, announced in December that he would not seek a fourth Senate term. Isakson, 74, who is battling Parkinson’s disease, announced his resignation effective at the end of this year. Burr, 63, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, is up for reelection in 2022 but has said he is not likely to run for a fourth term.

Sens. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), the respective chairmen of the Budget and Agriculture committees, were elected together in 1996 and are not running for reelection.


A spokesman for Enzi offered up a completely neutral statement the day Pelosi formally kicked off the impeachment inquiry. “He will be a jurist, listen to the evidence, and once all the evidence is in, he will make a final decision,” the aide said.
If a rebellion happens among GOP senators, it’s most likely to start with a group of these veterans who do not have any short-term political pain to suffer.

While the House needs just a simple majority to impeach Trump, a conviction and removal is far more difficult, requiring a two-thirds vote in the Senate. So at least 20 Republicans would need to join all 47 members of the Democratic caucus, and any hope for House Democrats is to begin getting a bloc of these Senate GOP veterans on board.

Some traditional conservatives, those who still hold nostalgia for the Reagan years of fighting the “Evil Empire” in Moscow, pine for Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) to lead the charge against Trump. They believe his popularity at home could withstand the backlash, and that his past defeats in presidential bids mean he has given up that ambition.

But that’s not how the Senate works. Romney, 72, is a newcomer there, having just won his seat last year. Few Senate Republicans really know the former Massachusetts governor, with just a few months of trust.

Instead, the onetime corporate consultant at Bain Capital knows there is safety in numbers, and Romney would only jump into a full civil war against Trump if he had other GOP senators at his side.

They are in a form of political paralysis that will most likely lead to vague statements sounding critical of Trump, but not quite backing the House’s impeachment or removal from office with a Senate vote.

“Hold up: Americans don’t look to Chinese commies for the truth. If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that’s a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running ******* camps,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said in a statement.

Sasse is all but certain to win reelection in November in his conservative state, but only if he wins the GOP primary next May. The filing deadline for those challenging him is March 1.

Filing deadlines for challengers to GOP incumbents in Colorado, Maine, Arizona and Iowa fall in mid-March and early April. Those primary contests will come in June or later next summer, well after an impeachment trial is likely to conclude.

Unless Trump’s standing falls with GOP voters — the latest Gallup Poll average had 87 percent approving of his job performance — these Republican incumbents would not reasonably expect to vote to remove the president from office and win their party’s nomination.

Just look at North Carolina. Sen. Thom Tillis (R) opposed Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to unilaterally shift money from military projects to fund border fencing. Despite reversing his position, Tillis still drew a primary opponent, and Tillis has tacked to the right with a full embrace of the president.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), up for reelection next year, epitomizes that situation. McConnell faced an expensive primary in 2014, then went on to easily win a sixth term in a state that has grown increasingly conservative.

Now, with Trump fully behind his reelection, McConnell is coasting in the GOP primary, posting digital ads that make clear he has no intention of breaking with Trump.

“They finally convinced her to impeach the president,” he says of Pelosi in one ad. “All of you know your Constitution. The way that impeachment stops is a Senate majority with me as majority leader.”

 
They got nothing why do you think door is closed

They have more on him than they had on Nixon...….just that the right didn't like Nixon.....where as with trump..they are afraid of him and his twitter storm....but they don't like trump either.....re-election means more to them than trump....they will go with public opinion....and that keeps changing
 
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