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Breaking: "Nadler says former acting attorney general (Original Post) Ilsa Mar 2019 OP
Also from Nadler: Ilsa Mar 2019 #1
Darn it...trying to avoid putting on my TeeVee today.. HipChick Mar 2019 #2
Apparently it was Whitaker's turn to talk to Nadler's committee. Ilsa Mar 2019 #3
Meatball will be okay gratuitous Mar 2019 #5
haaaaaa!!! I love it! Here's another comment: Ilsa Mar 2019 #10
Yeah, But... Cheviteau Mar 2019 #11
Pictures or it ...oh wait...what am I saying Funtatlaguy Mar 2019 #15
Just imagine the sales pitch Funtatlaguy Mar 2019 #16
Bad joke time... getagrip_already Mar 2019 #19
Tish-BOOM! colorado_ufo Mar 2019 #23
... SunSeeker Mar 2019 #12
Or 2naSalit Mar 2019 #20
selling toilets for guys with long dicks to republicans like trump just so they can tell their certainot Mar 2019 #22
Make him like us. SCVDem Mar 2019 #24
Obstruction of Justice. spanone Mar 2019 #4
I'm having the BEST DAY EVER!!! Leghorn21 Mar 2019 #6
Asshole Doug Collins is saying something different: fleur-de-lisa Mar 2019 #7
This is why you can't have private hearings... PeeJ52 Mar 2019 #9
Or like eric prince blame the transcript Fullduplexxx Mar 2019 #21
Thank you for posting that. NT Ilsa Mar 2019 #13
From Manu Raju, CNN: Leghorn21 Mar 2019 #8
Thanks! I had not heard about item #3. NT Ilsa Mar 2019 #14
Lock them up, Lock them up! pdsimdars Mar 2019 #17
Obstruction of justice. barbtries Mar 2019 #18

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
1. Also from Nadler:
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 04:57 PM
Mar 2019

Whitaker says he was directly involved in conversations about whether to fire a US attorney.

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
3. Apparently it was Whitaker's turn to talk to Nadler's committee.
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 05:00 PM
Mar 2019

Looks like obstruction of justice could be reaffirmed as a behavior patter for trump.

Whitaker needs to ask himself if trump is worth going to prison for, worth losing his law license for.

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
10. haaaaaa!!! I love it! Here's another comment:
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 05:32 PM
Mar 2019
I guess Matt Whitaker learned that if you’re going to drop your big dick in the toilet, make sure the water isn’t… blue.

And I’m going to kill myself now. Please pretend that last sentence didn’t happen. For the love of God.
-- Mike Redmond

Funtatlaguy

(10,887 posts)
16. Just imagine the sales pitch
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 05:58 PM
Mar 2019

Sir, I see you are looking at our new special Long Dong tank toilet. Might I ask, when you sit on a normal toilet to do your number two business...does your frank or your beans droop into the water?
Yes, well, that’s a big problem for some guys...would you like to try our new deep bowl that will solve that problem.
Just go ahead and drop trou and have a seat.
I will turn my head to give you some privacy.
Now, isn’t that great that you keep your junk dry?

getagrip_already

(14,848 posts)
19. Bad joke time...
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 06:16 PM
Mar 2019

Two guys are fishing on a pier and decide to relive themselves over the side. One of the shivers and says "damn, the waters cold today".

Without skipping a beat the other guy says "yeah, and deep".

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
22. selling toilets for guys with long dicks to republicans like trump just so they can tell their
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 07:14 PM
Mar 2019

voters they had to buy those toilets

 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
24. Make him like us.
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 07:56 PM
Mar 2019

No health insurance or social security along with no law license.

Welcome to the real world asshole!

fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)
7. Asshole Doug Collins is saying something different:
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 05:17 PM
Mar 2019

Manu Raju ✔ @mkraju
4:04 PM - Mar 13, 2019

GOP ranking member Doug Collins downplayed all of this - saying Whitaker didn’t confirm any conversations with Trump; it was not unusual to talk about US attorneys (didn’t specify whom); and says talk about SDNY probe going “too far” was NOT with Trump


 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
9. This is why you can't have private hearings...
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 05:21 PM
Mar 2019

these damn Republicans will lie no matter what. They will lie even if there is a transcribed record. If we don't have public hearings we will have a matter of national security. We will have our democracy taken away.

Leghorn21

(13,526 posts)
8. From Manu Raju, CNN:
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 05:18 PM
Mar 2019
Nadler’s takeaways from Whitaker meeting. 1) Unlike in
the hearing, Mr Whitaker did not deny that the president
called to discuss the Michael Cohen case and the personnel
decisions in the Southern district.

2) Whitaker was directly involved in conversations on whether
to fire at least one US attorney

3) Whitaker involved in discussions about scope of the SDNY
attorney Berman’s recusal and whether SDNY went “too far”
in pursuing the campaign finance case where Trump was individual 1


barbtries

(28,811 posts)
18. Obstruction of justice.
Wed Mar 13, 2019, 06:14 PM
Mar 2019

how many instances do we know of already? Just what's public knowledge? His own fucking tweets.

That's why I'm struggling with Pelosi's rejection of impeachment, among other things:

- If GW etc had been impeached or at least if his administration was forced to face consequences for their crimes, Trump never would have happened. From Nixon to Reagan to Bush they all got away with it. Wrong wrong wrong
- Trump has been committing impeachable crimes since Day 1: emoluments, nepotism, obstruction of justice, corruption, on and on. I'm just an everyday citizen and I could write the articles myself.
- He is clearly unfit, mentally ill, worsening dementia
- Every single day he finds another way to hurt the country. How much more damage before it's over?
- Clinton was impeached for purely cynical, political reasons, for a "crime" that was more properly adjudicated in private with his family and his mistress. Impeachment of Trump would NOT be on a bullshit basis, and most Americans get that. So using that as a reason for Democrats to delay doing the right thing does not sit well. It is not a given that we'll lose in 2020 if we impeach Trump, at least in my opinion.
- Today I watched Andrea Mitchell say "Republicans will NEVER vote to convict." Well, never say never. The evidence laid out in the trial may very well change their minds. We can't know that until it happens, and again, every single DAY, damage is being done. Children stolen from their families and incarcerated. Public lands seized to be handed to private development for private profit. Historic deficits. It's an avalanche of wrongdoing.
- Impeachment is the constitutional remedy for a president who cannot or will not govern capably and in good faith. At what point exactly do we decide the bar has been reached?

I have huge respect for Pelosi and will trust her on this. But my misgivings are really huge.

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