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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn response to trump's tweet threatening Schiff,
the House Intelligence Committee should immediately subpoena John Bolton and Parnas to testify next week. That should be the approach every time trump makes a threat against the impeachment managers, witnesses or others trying to bring the truth out.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Adam Schiff is brilliant and this will not escape his scope of vision.
maryallen
(2,172 posts)The Dems could win this if they fought with all they've got. The house managers have done that, but
I'm not sure the rest of us have.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)intheozone
(1,103 posts)he thinks the text was intended as a threat. I have no doubt that Schiff is correct in his thinking.
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)(I have no doubt it was that - whehter or not he had sent that tweet, we all know Schiff is in Trump's crosshairs, politically) and a threat on his life (as one OP referred to it).
stillcool
(32,626 posts)or even Trump, is aware of the difference.
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)But that is in the listening ear - not the speaker.
Knowing his supporters, I could probably make a decent case for criminal negligence in making the comment (based on how his supporters have reacted in the past). But that's still very different from Trump actually threatening violence.
gristy
(10,667 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)Claiming that his bluster and political vindictiveness are threats of physical violence make us look as foolish as the Trumpers who insist that we're coming to take their guns based on advocating sensible gun controll, or that we like violence and mayhem - and we have no empathy for victime of crimes committed by them furriners because we don't think all muslims should be turned away a the border, etc.
If we can't have more sense than that, we don't deserve to run the country.
James48
(4,436 posts)Nothing says you cant reopen hearings for new evidence and consideration of new articles.
Get it all.
Get Bolton on the record- on subpenoa- and find out what he has to say.
Get Parnas on the record- with his tapes, and notes.
Get everyone, and start churning out dozens of new articles of impeachment.
Extortion
Threats
Bribery
Their heads on a pike is its own article.
Do it.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)to play hard ball. Take the fight to these fuckers. Democrats can, and should, play some hard ball.
CloudWatcher
(1,850 posts)Trump commits an impeachable offense daily. We should be sending over articles of impeachment weekly until the Senate removes him.
Oh, and get the handcuffs out if they ignore subpoenas. The House does NOT need to wait for the courts to rule in their favor before compelling testimony.
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)We need to subpoena Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
This is the strange thing: The whole impeachment trial is an attempt to determine whether Trump is fit to be president. Every time Trump sends a tweet like this, he proves he isn't fit. Can't his rotten daughter and her corrupt real estate agent of a husband convince Trump to put his phone away for a couple of weeks.
lastlib
(23,251 posts)...AND EVERY electronic gizmo down to the toilet-cleaner's cellphone; every blip in every chip in the place since Shitgibbon was "elected". And this time, go to f*cking COURT for them as needed, and FIGHT the mofo for them.
And subpoena every mother's son or daughter that's worked there; drag 'em out in cuffs and irons if we have to. Get to the f*cking TRUTH about this basturd! I'm totally f*cking tired of his f*cking OBSTRUCTION!!