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swag

(26,480 posts)
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 03:19 PM Jan 2020

Where things stand (Walter Shaub)


Where things stand:
- Trump tries to coerce Ukraine into sabotaging our election by investigating his leading rival
- Trump hides records
- Trump sabotages hearings by withholding records
- Trump sabotages hearings by blocking witnesses
- Trump's guilt STILL overwhelmingly proven
- Trump lawyers say House lacks needed records and witnesses
- Trump boasts on TV that he has those records
- Republican Senators say quid pro quo is needed
- Witness comes forward with the quid pro quo
- Republican Senators wonder if they can get away with not calling witnesses
- Republican Senators threaten to call witnesses against Trump's rival to do the investigation Ukraine wouldn't do
- A Republican Senator admits their goal is to sabotage the rival
- Republican Senators hint at outing a whistleblower, whose life is in danger, to intimidate others
- Republican Senators debate some more whether they can get away with not calling witnesses
- Republicans Senators consult polls, not their consciences or Senate history
- CREW reveals that every impeachment trial completed by the Senate in over 200 years has had new witnesses
- Meanwhile, Trump has called on China to investigate his rival
- Trump's lawyers have said there are no limits on a president who thinks his reelection is good for the country
- Russia, who Trump previously asked to sabotage an election, has hacked records tied to Trump rival
- And here we are on Thursday, January 30, 2020
- Republican Senators are still consulting polls, instead of their consciences or history, to see if they can get away with not calling witnesses
- The clock ticks as it counts down to Trump's next attempt to sabotage the election

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Where things stand (Walter Shaub) (Original Post) swag Jan 2020 OP
It's over Johnny. dem4decades Jan 2020 #1
I have no doubt that Dump is currently attempting to sabotage the election. fleur-de-lisa Jan 2020 #2

fleur-de-lisa

(14,615 posts)
2. I have no doubt that Dump is currently attempting to sabotage the election.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 03:23 PM
Jan 2020

I don't think he ever stopped. Why would he? He got away with it in 2016 and he won't be convicted by the Senate in 2020.

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