'sticking their heads on a spike if they vote against me.'

That last one would be jury tampering.

Along with Trump's threats to put Republican heads on pikes. Oh and Rudy's latest rantings. The new news about TRump's corruption just does not stop.

we know what it means

also "get rid of her"

He's the "President"...if he wanted her fired, he could have fired her...why even talk about firing with Rudy and Lev? This wasn't about firing, clearly he's telling them to "take her out" permanently

It's why they don't really want to hear anything new. This type of evidence is so obvious and so damning that an acquittal would never fly.

or an invitation to go on a date?.....

Our media routinely uses the term "take out" when the United States assassinates someone."Take out" equals kill. And there are those threats on record about following the ambassador and some service that could be rendered for cash. And she was warned to get out of Ukraine on the first plane out due to threats on her security...

this recording?

but not.us???!

Who owns this tape? I hope they can play this video! Also mention the threat memo. Every Rethug senator KNOWS they received one. If the tRUMP people denies it then ANOTHER LIE! (they have PROOF in their hands)

"Take her out"? I don't think there is a lot of room for interpretation there.

treatment of a U.S. foreign ambassador is reason enough alone to remove him from office. His behavior toward her proves his unfitness to remain in office. After all, couldn't he have just reassigned her or fired her himself without all of the blustering and threats and character assassination and now "take her out?" There is just no excuse for GOP Senators to acquit this bastard.

Our pResident ordered the murder of his/our Ambassador.
And yes, he's was speaking in Mafia code.
Bit she got warned and left for the U.S.

What am I missing? Neither AOI is actually about anything that happened to Yovanovitch. All they will say is that "the President has the right and power to fire ambassadors at will, so what does it matter that he wanted her gone for "badmouthing" him."

Trump has said over and over he doesn't know these guys. He took a couple of pictures with them and that's it, he doesn't know them. This recording blows that up. Why do you think Trump would be so very insistent that he didn't know these guys?

every single negative thing ever claimed about him. It doesn't matter what he has been saying about "not knowing" someone. He is in god damn pictures with the person and his personal attorney is knee-deep with the guy. Seriously, this is nothing new or different than what has already bee reported. Nobody has gone under oath and disputed the shakedown scheme, so Trump's "denials" aren't taken seriously by anybody including his supporters.

Rudy, Lev and Igor that. They don't have a position in the government to do so. But here he is telling them to "take her out" "get rid of her" So what was he really telling them to do?

it adds credibility to Parnas and his statements.

He may as well have said, “Whack her.”

that he did not intend to harm her.

actually resulted in his impeachment.

Like... I don't know if I can consume that much schadenfreude in one sitting. I may have to pace myself.

that what Lev Parnas had to say about the meeting was truthful.

I think we all know what "take her out" can also mean.

Probably a good idea. These days it's hard to take anything at face value.

Fucking media treats this asshole with kid gloves consistently and America is paying big time for it.

to take her out of her position by much more hurtful tactics than exercising the power he always had to just recall her.

Frankly, I think he's still too far too cowardly and rightfully afraid of consequences to directly order a murder. We do see that hanging with criminals could lead him into involvement with murder, very likely even hypocritically to encourage murder -- as long as he believed he had that safe, yapping-dog distance from danger he always insists on.

He is seeking the power he needs to be safe.

that he thinks he can get away with it.

That’s been his whole pattern of behavior, over his entire life. Whatever he can get away with.

And so far has a behavior has never been checked. He’s never had to pay for anything. By “pay” I mean - face real consequences.

He probably never got a spanking when he was a kid.

He probably never flunked out and had to repeat a grade in school because of lousy grades.

He’s never been held accountable for literally mishandling women.

Yeah he’s been sued. So he has it dragged out 50 different ways from Sunday to where his opponent runs out of money and gives up. Or he countersues and otherwise peppers his opponent with nuisance legal maneuvering so the opponent gives up (knowing they don’t have the deep pockets to fight down 100 different and random rabbit holes.

He learned - maybe from Roy Cohn, or somebody else like that - how to be so slippery that nobody can lay a hand on him, and keep it on him.

And we’re all witnessing the results of that sneaky, duplicitous behavior track - of gaming the system AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT - over a lifetime that’s 70-some-odd years. There never have been consequences that REALLY hurt, OR held, in this individual.

I’m frankly amazed the impeachment held.

And just watch: when (I assume) the Senate fails to convict, watch how he spins it. Suddenly, doubt will be cast on whether he EVER ACTUALLY WAS impeached. Just watch. This guy’s pattern throughout his long life has been to gum up the works, lie, distort, cheat, obfuscate, confuse, bob ‘n’ weave, and muddy the waters. So why would he let this one stand?

And now he’s got himself one hell of an “amen chorus” from the wall-to-wall sycophants in the Senate and House and at the state level, the evangelical contingent, and fake media like Pox Noise and Breitbart and hate radio to carry the bull for him and repeat the memes and frames and talking points and lies to help with the whitewash and the snow job. Watch the new language, the antics with semantics, to try to make you think it really didn’t happen. That impeachment didn’t really happen.

Watch not just WHAT they say but HOW they say it. “The attempted (aborted/unsuccessful/failed/unreasonable/mean-spirited/illogical/purported/fake/unreasonable/conspiracy-driven/wrong-headed/so-called/alleged/irrational/liberal-led/unconscionable/made-up/phony/unfounded/illegal/unconstitutional/irrational/outrageous/illegitimate - and his own personal favorite - UNFAIR!!!) impeachment.

Just watch the Language Games to come. They’ll be “going for the gold”. (In more ways than one.)

and that formed him, even mentally disordered as he is, as it does almost all of us. I've actually been surprised that, as the right becomes increasingly lawless, they haven't murdered more. But consequences of that are still feared in a way that other means of massive corruption and subversion aren't. As you say, they can usually get away with those.

So agree with that last. He will put the very worst interpretation on it. I just hope he's not so afraid of November 3 that fear forces him to behave most of the time. People need to see Real Donald Trump emboldened.

to push it that much farther. Remember this: his new mentor (Vlad) does it that way. Opponents are jailed, exiled to Siberian prisons, tracked like prey all over Europe til they’re found dead under mysterious circumstances in the UK or some such distant locale. And the donald is nothing but an eager student of Whatever-It-Takes, even including the “Dark Arts” - especially those at his beck ‘n’ call at THIS level of power and authority.

It’s like giving a mass murderer the keys to the armory, and sending all the guards and watchdogs off on “vacation”. Or “to sleep” on the job... cough Epstein cough-cough...

Just hope no one dies during them, or from his acting out during periods of anxiety. He is a potential mass murderer with keys to unleash it. Almost every morning I check the news wondering if we've murdered overnight.

the tape?

any means necessary. But alas, Republicans do not care.

Especially with the Parnas emails. This fuck thinks he's the Godfather now

And he knows it. He knew exactly what he was implying when he said that.

Dangerous times for America and the World.

and Trump is a full-blown thug.

As in "You're fired." But this sounds more like "paint a house," as in the movie "The Irishman."

That Nancy Pelosi in challenging Trump used the "do you also paint houses?" line.
I think she knows something. She does not throw out a line like that for no reason

Completely agree

I hope ambassador Yovanovitch has security.

n/t

you can’t imagine ever getting concussed.

today. He said he saw the story, but didn't know enough about it to comment.

mobster tRump would say, "take her out".

Just arrest his ass already.

He can do that.
The people he is talking to can't fire her.
So clearly he was telling them to do something else.

Imagine any other POTUS running the country like this. We have completely lost control of our democratic republic. Making villains of the whole of the Democratic Party this young century has been the driving goal of the Rightwing Media.

No other shoes to drop.

And that's a hotel full of assassins and crooks to begin with!

The question at this point is—does Trump ever tell the truth?

He utterly unfit for the office he holds.

This level of complete corruption is mind boggling.

Trump is THE SWAMP.

Nothing to hear folks... just more leftist MSM fake news...

Come on what the fuck people.

Did that person have the authority to fire her?

No? Well, who did have that authority?

Ooooohhh, trump himself did. I see.

Well then, why didn’t he just get on the phone and say “ you’re fired!”?

Well? Well?