Facts, evidence, and witnesses. Good luck. The Democrats must lay it all out in the House hearings because the Republicans will ignore it all and the Senate trial will, at best, be moot.
It’s obvious that our Scofflaw-in-Chief will be impeached by the House, and he manifestly deserves it, but it’s just as certain that he will be acquitted by the Senate. The impeachment trial in the Senate is already completely rigged. At least half of the “jurors,” the senators, are themselves co-conspirators with the accused. Consequently, the Senate impeachment trial will bear a terrible resemblance to those trials, mostly of yore, in the South where an all-white jury simply would not convict the local Klansmen of murdering or lynching some black person. The evidence presented at trial be damned; it did not matter. Not only will the jurors in the Senate trial be co-conspirators with the accused, the evidence against our latter-day Grand Dragon, Benedict Donald, undoubtedly won’t matter for very much the same reason the evidence didn’t matter to those Southern juries. BTW, while Donnie may be a Grand Dragon, the Imperial Wizard is some Russian guy…
Be sure to remind your Republican Senator(s) of that similarity, and the esteem in which you will hold him or her if they vote to acquit.
The Senate may all be traitors, but at least they are American citizens, which is still a tiny degree better than asking foreign governments, like he did before.
Toles’ comment at the bottom reminds me of what Mr Turley was trying to get across about involving the Judicial Branch. The Democrats need to try harder to get their subpeonas enforced through the courts. Even if this all ends up in the SC it will have been done. Instead, the House is rushing along with a case that is not particularly broad and no court cases as proof somebody in the courts agree with the House’s charges.
Donnie John will be impeached by the House of Representatives – probably on a party-line vote – and will then in all probability be adjudged not guilter by the Senate – also on a party-line vote.
All of this will occur because of two indisputable facts: the first is that Trump did, by his own admission, commit impeachable acts by attempting to extort or bribe a foreign entity into interfering with an American election by soliciting that entity to create fake data against a political opponent, and to falsely verify several ridiculous conspiracy theories that were started by Russian operatives in order to try to deflect attention from the fact that Russia attacked America during the 2016 election and aided in the election of an individual with clear and strong Russian ties. Through decades of carefully controlled financial manipulation, Putin owns Donald John Trump, body and soul.
The second indisputable fact is that the Congressional republicans are, likewise Russian dupes, owned body and soul, by the Russian political operation operated in America by a right-wing terrorist group known as the American Rifle Association recently being used as a funnel for Russian money laundering. The N.R.A. basically bought and paid for almost the entire republican party and by that I mean the Russians own them – and, as a little aside the Russian operative, Maria Butina, once she completed her little stint here with the N.R.A. and a tiny slap on the wrist by the mean old American “justice system”, was given a hero’s welcome upon arriving back into Putin’s graces.
If you’re curious as to how to detect a Russian operative here in America – just listen. If they speak of the Ukrainians interfering with the 2016 presidential election – they’re Russian operatives – because that’s a totally Russian talking point and has been thoroughly debunked by American intelligence, over and over and over…
Well, they’re Republican judges, so I’d say there’s a pretty good chance they’ll rule exactly that.
Didn’t you love the clown who tried to claim there are no Democrat judges or Republican judges. That idea died a well-deserved death when the Republican Supreme Court majority handed the presidency to Junior Bush in a disgracefully partisan decision none of them had the balls to even put their names to.
Kip W over 4 years ago
“Just don’t quo me on this.”
yipp_eeee over 4 years ago
Of course they’ll let him off. He’s already paid them off with campaign contributions.
Old_Curmudgeon over 4 years ago
The “Favor, Though” – {rhyme}
The “favor" which Trump imposes
is a gangster’s quid-pro-quo:
“It won’t be a bed of roses
unless youse go with the flow
and impede my impeaching
with deception and screeching.
It’s an offer youse can’t refuse,
else youse is yesterday’s news; -
- ‘cause my base will get youse deposed
{yer re-election opposed}.”
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Old_Curmudgeon over 4 years ago
Impeaching himSelf{!!} – {a rhyme}
There once was a prez who himSelf{!!} he impeached,
with the too many norms and proprieties he breached
even while Congress was checking him out{!!}.
He proved himself too bigly a lout
who with too much effrontery had overreached.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PraiseofFolly over 4 years ago
An imitation of Cole Porter’s “My Heart Belongs to Daddy” —
“My Soul Belongs to Donald”
(Wail of a Republican Lost Soul)
.
VERSE:
I used to pray
At end of day,
“My dear Lord, May
I not be tempted.”
.
But I did see
The Man for me —
From all morals
Him exempted!
.
For since I tripped the snare
Of such a clever billionaire:
.
REFRAIN:
To make a steal
On a plum business deal,
I’m nearly by good ethics fondled —
That doesn’t long last,
I wise up so fast
‘Cause my soul belongs to Donald!
.
If I might excite
A crowd to fight
On behalf of the poor living squalid,
I fantasize
A Nobel Prize —
But … my soul belongs to Donald.
.
Yes, my soul belongs to Donald,
I invested the profit in gold.
Yikes! My soul belongs to Donald
(The mere thought makes me shiver like cold).
.
And right now it’s typed in Blood Bold,
A signed legal contract to sell,
“Said Soul: Sole Possession of Donald,”
Filed on asbestos parchment in H—-.
meetinthemiddle over 4 years ago
In both houses, the GOP has already shown themselves to be unindicted co-conspirators.
Alexander the Good Enough over 4 years ago
Facts, evidence, and witnesses. Good luck. The Democrats must lay it all out in the House hearings because the Republicans will ignore it all and the Senate trial will, at best, be moot.
It’s obvious that our Scofflaw-in-Chief will be impeached by the House, and he manifestly deserves it, but it’s just as certain that he will be acquitted by the Senate. The impeachment trial in the Senate is already completely rigged. At least half of the “jurors,” the senators, are themselves co-conspirators with the accused. Consequently, the Senate impeachment trial will bear a terrible resemblance to those trials, mostly of yore, in the South where an all-white jury simply would not convict the local Klansmen of murdering or lynching some black person. The evidence presented at trial be damned; it did not matter. Not only will the jurors in the Senate trial be co-conspirators with the accused, the evidence against our latter-day Grand Dragon, Benedict Donald, undoubtedly won’t matter for very much the same reason the evidence didn’t matter to those Southern juries. BTW, while Donnie may be a Grand Dragon, the Imperial Wizard is some Russian guy…
Be sure to remind your Republican Senator(s) of that similarity, and the esteem in which you will hold him or her if they vote to acquit.
Republicani delenda est!! (Well, OK, Republicani delenda sunt!!)
Daeder over 4 years ago
The Senate may all be traitors, but at least they are American citizens, which is still a tiny degree better than asking foreign governments, like he did before.
wiatr over 4 years ago
Toles’ comment at the bottom reminds me of what Mr Turley was trying to get across about involving the Judicial Branch. The Democrats need to try harder to get their subpeonas enforced through the courts. Even if this all ends up in the SC it will have been done. Instead, the House is rushing along with a case that is not particularly broad and no court cases as proof somebody in the courts agree with the House’s charges.
wellis1947 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Donnie John will be impeached by the House of Representatives – probably on a party-line vote – and will then in all probability be adjudged not guilter by the Senate – also on a party-line vote.
All of this will occur because of two indisputable facts: the first is that Trump did, by his own admission, commit impeachable acts by attempting to extort or bribe a foreign entity into interfering with an American election by soliciting that entity to create fake data against a political opponent, and to falsely verify several ridiculous conspiracy theories that were started by Russian operatives in order to try to deflect attention from the fact that Russia attacked America during the 2016 election and aided in the election of an individual with clear and strong Russian ties. Through decades of carefully controlled financial manipulation, Putin owns Donald John Trump, body and soul.
The second indisputable fact is that the Congressional republicans are, likewise Russian dupes, owned body and soul, by the Russian political operation operated in America by a right-wing terrorist group known as the American Rifle Association recently being used as a funnel for Russian money laundering. The N.R.A. basically bought and paid for almost the entire republican party and by that I mean the Russians own them – and, as a little aside the Russian operative, Maria Butina, once she completed her little stint here with the N.R.A. and a tiny slap on the wrist by the mean old American “justice system”, was given a hero’s welcome upon arriving back into Putin’s graces.
If you’re curious as to how to detect a Russian operative here in America – just listen. If they speak of the Ukrainians interfering with the 2016 presidential election – they’re Russian operatives – because that’s a totally Russian talking point and has been thoroughly debunked by American intelligence, over and over and over…
William Bednar Premium Member over 4 years ago
Are you kidding? Trump has both the Senate and the Supreme Court in his pocket. He can’t lose.
mommadillo over 4 years ago
Well, they’re Republican judges, so I’d say there’s a pretty good chance they’ll rule exactly that.
Didn’t you love the clown who tried to claim there are no Democrat judges or Republican judges. That idea died a well-deserved death when the Republican Supreme Court majority handed the presidency to Junior Bush in a disgracefully partisan decision none of them had the balls to even put their names to.