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SKKY

(11,810 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 09:11 AM Oct 2019

I'm starting to understand this 3D Chess that Pelosi and Schiff are playing...

...Call individuals to testify before congress that you know will be blocked from testifying by 45. BOOM! An Article of impeachment for contempt of congress. Wash, rinse, repeat. And now, 45 is living out in real time the old adage of the cover-up is worse than the crime.

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malaise

(269,004 posts)
13. Forget not that Pompeo was among the ReTHUG goons who
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 11:40 AM
Oct 2019

made several demands to Hillary Clinton's State Department.
I want to see this fucker in prison. He has no executive privilege.

brewens

(13,588 posts)
2. I was thinking they might be hoping one of these guys defies Trump and comes in anyway.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 09:21 AM
Oct 2019

Then what does Trump do? Have him arrested?

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
11. I disagree
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 11:37 AM
Oct 2019

First comes the inquiry, followed by articles of impeachment, then perhaps if the case is strong enough and public opinion shifts which it seems to be doing, conviction and removal by the Senate.

One step at a time and the case must be built, opinions must be swayed.

 

OliverQ

(3,363 posts)
5. But what good is that?
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 09:27 AM
Oct 2019

Republicans aren't going to vote him out just because he defied Congressional subpoenas, so these newly added articles don't do the kind of good actual testimony would do.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
7. I'm with you.
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 09:39 AM
Oct 2019

I get that we have "enough" but I want the facts. I want to see the witnesses squirm and either tell the truth or perjure themselves. And I don't mind seeing them handcuffed by the Sergeant-at-Arms and hauled before congress if that's what it takes. Although it might be an effective strategy, adding an article of impeachment every time someone defies congress is morally unsatisfactory.

SKKY

(11,810 posts)
10. And another point about this particular witness...
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 11:27 AM
Oct 2019

...he donated 1 million dollars to 45's campaign. Do you really thing he would do anything other than stonewall? No, of course not. Pelosi and Schiff are playing 45 like a violin. This exercise was all about further development of a contempt of congress article of impeachment.

GoCubsGo

(32,084 posts)
14. Yep. They're handing him the "obstruction of justice" rope,
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 11:54 AM
Oct 2019

and we are watching him hang himself with it.

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