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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums****LIVE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL 1/30/20 THREAD 2****
Thread 1 - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212928625
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)underpants
(182,603 posts)Really I think Bondi is really there in a Fox News blonde role.
crickets
(25,952 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)contribution to a campaign is a violation of law.
What might we expect now from other countries based on the argument that there is nothing wrong with foreign intervention in our election?
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)crickets
(25,952 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)official acts on the acts by another public officer. How does this apply to the President?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)OT: takes over ten seconds for me to be able to type after clicking "reply" -- my connection takes that long just to display the OP. dunno what my ISP is doing today.
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)or anyone from the outside who were involved in withholding aid and obstruction of Congress?
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Mersky
(4,979 posts)Exhibit 4 - Friday, July 19, 2019
Email: Robert Blair, Lisa Kenna, Brian McCormack, mick mulvaney, rick Perry, mike pompeo, and Gordon Sondland
Subject: Re: I talked to Zelensky just now
15:28 Gordon Sondland: He is prepared to receive Potus call. Will assure him that he intends to run a fully transparent investigation and will turn over every stone. He would greatly appreciate a call prior to Sunday so that he can put out some media about a friendly and productive call (no details) prior to Ukraine election on Sunday.
21:30 Rick Perry (replying to McCormack and Sondland only): Mick just confirmed the call being set up for tomorrow by NSC.
RP
22:25 Mick Mulvaney (replying to all): I asked NSC to set it up for tomorrow
MM
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CSPAN clip: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4850962/user-clip-demings-reviews-subpoenas-needed
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)This is the corrupt political errand.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)elleng
(130,728 posts)((OBVIOUSLY V.P. Biden's fault.))
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)He is now hunched over because he was caught.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... just trying to convince people water is dry.
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)(And the reason is those funds were DIRECTED to be spent in FY 2019... DUMB ASSES.)
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)(and THAT is the problem. They waited too late.)
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)elleng
(130,728 posts)crickets
(25,952 posts)Answer from DOJ in court down the street today: impeachment.
*laughter*
Wow.
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)doing thing for personal gain. Is there any other precedent of this?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)in the impeachment trial demand they go to court to enforce, the DOJ is in court right now telling the House that they can't go to court for subpoena enforcement. The judge asked DOJ what was the remedy and the DOJ said - "impeachment".
(and the chamber broke out in laughter)
crickets
(25,952 posts)Mersky
(4,979 posts)___
Video starts with the reading of the question from Hirono
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)better
(884 posts)I sure hope one of the Dems brings that up.
And Senator Paul should be arrested. Right now.
gademocrat7
(10,644 posts)Outing a whistleblower is a crime.
Kali
(55,003 posts)just another repuke asshole.
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Besides basing the question on a lie, the question is directed to WH counsel even though it is asking why the House did this. Even if the lie were true, only the House could explain their reasons.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)dem4decades
(11,269 posts)And ask them what it means to be an impartial juror.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,819 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,153 posts)Is he doing some sort of campaign ad for Trump in the middle of an Impeachment Trial?
I guarantee you Trump gave him this script.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,819 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,819 posts)underpants
(182,603 posts)He claimed that Obamas hot mic with Medvedev was a quid pro quo and an impeachable offense.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Mersky
(4,979 posts)If the Senate accepts the pResidents blanket assertion of privilege, what are the consequences to the American people?
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)crickets
(25,952 posts)I can hear it just looking at the screen.
BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Yup you're right idiot. That describes your team's arguments.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Link to tweet
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)that they keep calling a "transcript".
(i.e., the "do us a favor though..." part)
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... without thinking.
elleng
(130,728 posts)(Schumer to both prez + Dem counsel)
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,819 posts)uponit7771
(90,301 posts)... which is asinine seeing house procedures are left up to the house
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,819 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)hlthe2b
(102,119 posts)not that the other managers aren't also worth hearing, but he is in a different category altogether.
I hate to miss any of his responses, but I just can't stand to listen to the WH liars.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,441 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)hlthe2b
(102,119 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)The charitable assumption is that law enforcement does not want to lend credibility to whatever name he called out.
The Senate, at least, should censure his rancid ass.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,249 posts)Claire McCaskill now on ABC
Edit to add:
Tim Kaine on NBC
Coons on PBS