Tag: impeach

The president of the United States incited/commanded a mob to attack a joint session of Congress, in order to stop through murderous violence […] the legal installation of his successor. The president of the United States is quite literally guilty of felony murder, as well as sedition. He came close to getting his own vice president murdered in front of the man’s own family.

Paul Campos writing for Lawyers, Guns, and Money. Every time the microphone is turned on, this needs to be said by every Democrat. Every member of the GOP needs to be asked to acknowledge this as fact any time they are in public and every time forever from now on until Trump is removed from office, prosecuted, and if found guilty sentenced to jail. Any member of our government who denies these facts should be, at a minimum, censured. Insurrectionists like Cruz and Hawley (among many others) should be expelled and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Why Nancy Pelosi Won’t Impeach

Required reading from Elizabeth Spiers. Two particularly salient excerpts:

By implying that impeachment in the Senate is the point, Pelosi denies the importance of the process itself—without which impeachment in the Senate wouldn’t happen in any case. And others have argued better and more persuasively than I could that Senate impeachment isn’t the primary or best reason to do it. Referral to the Senate may be in fact be unnecessary and undesirable.

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A slim minority—just 19 percent—of polled opinion supported Richard Nixon’s impeachment at the outset of the Watergate scandal, and by the end of the House Judiciary Committee’s televised impeachment hearings, a strong majority supported it. And that shift in opinion translated into a massive wave of Democratic gains in the 1974 midterm balloting.

Why Nancy Pelosi Won’t Impeach

Even if it’s all true, does it disqualify him?

Kevin Cramer, sitting House member and currently running to be the junior Senator from ND, very neatly sums up the postion of the entire GOP on Kavanaugh. And, while we’re at it, it’s also their position on Trump, whether it be his many personal issues or the straight up treason of conspiring with a foreign power to impact the outcome of an election. But, yeah, both sides.

I don’t have an attorney general. It’s very sad.

Donald Trump. I’m still waiting for a journalist, anyone with access really, to ask him “In the simplest terms, what do you think the job of the Attorney General of the United States is?” I think the answer would be quite illuminating.

As a result of the fact that he vacations at Mar-a-Lago and his New Jersey golf club, demands protection for his adult children, and had his wife and youngest son stay in New York for the first five months of his presidency, Donald Trump has added $120 million to the annual cost of providing protection for the president compared with what a normal president would require. The New York Times reported that he pledged to contribute 0.8 percent of this amount ($1 million) to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey. If he follows through on this pledge, it means the public will only be down $119.0 million ($119.6 million, after taking account of the tax deduction).

Dean Baker, getting it right as usual. Even with all that taken as fact, Trump will inevitably still try to wriggle out of actually paying, try to run it out of campaign or “charity” funds. At the very least, can we hold him to spending his own goddamned money on this, even if he is making said money by renting golf carts to the Secret Service? Is that too much to ask?

[…] when he found out that I, you know, that there may be tapes out there whether it’s governmental tapes or anything else and who knows, I think his story may have changed.

Donald Trump, openly admitting to witness tampering through his comments on the possibility of taped conversations with Comey. This is fine. Nothing to see here.

I felt compelled to document my first conversation with the President-Elect in a memo.  To ensure accuracy, I began to type it on a laptop in an FBI vehicle outside Trump Tower the moment I walked out of the meeting.  Creating written records immediately after one-on-one conversations with Mr. Trump was my practice from that point forward. This had not been my practice in the past.  I spoke alone with President Obama twice in person (and never on the phone) –once in 2015 to discuss law enforcement policy issues and a second time, briefly, for him to say goodbye in late 2016.  In neither of those circumstances did I memorialize the discussions.  I can recall nine one-on-one conversations with President Trump in four months – three in person and six on the phone.

James Comey, in an excerpt from his opening statement for tomorrow’s Senate hearing. He spoke in private with Obama twice in nearly five years and one of those was a “thanks for all the fish” valedictory. Compared against NINE in four months. And Comey felt compelled to document all interactions with Trump immeidately after their first meeting. Nothing wrong here. This is fine.

Let’s cut the crap about why Hillary Clinton lost

Please read the whole thing, but here’s part of the nut:

So why didn’t she [win]? The answer is pretty simple: despite running a pretty good campaign, she got walloped by things that decidedly don’t come with the territory: Russian interference via the WikiLeaks drip; an indefensible letter released by the FBI director; and a press corps that treated the Comey letter like the OJ trial. She got slammed late in the game, and had no time to recover.

Yep.

Let’s cut the crap about why Hillary Clinton lost

I can’t see Trump resigning or even being impeached, but at this point I wish he’d grow a brain and be the man that he sold himself as on the campaign

Senior Administration Official. What part of the campaign? WHAT PART OF THE CAMPAIGN?