The Impeachment of President Donald J Trump

[jimmy olsen]

https://twitter.com/JoshDorner/status/1187000181436358661

🚨 for Trump in the
@QuinnipiacPoll
:

-Indys approve of the inquiry by a 21-point margin. Last week, they were only +5.

-Indys now back removal by 8 points. Last week, they opposed it by 6, a 14-point swing.

These are big moves in a week.

[grumbler]

Apparently 12 them are serving on committees with access and could attend the hearings if they wanted.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/addybaird/republicans-storm-scif-impeach-trump-pizza-phones

Notably, according to a list provided by Gaetz's office of the Republicans who RSVP'd to join the protest, 12 of them are members of the Oversight or Foreign Affairs committees — including Rep. Jim Jordan, the ranking member on the Oversight Committee — meaning they have been allowed to sit in on all depositions held in the SCIF in recent weeks. A spokesperson for Rep. Ken Buck, who is on the list and serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee, however, later clarified that he did not attend, though he tweeted in support.

Rep. Fred Keller, an Oversight member who joined the protest, "was acting in solidarity with those members of Congress who are not allowed in the hearings, to review testimony, or read transcripts of this secret inquiry. ... [He] believes the way this inquiry is being conducted is unfair and it needs to stop," according to a spokesperson.

It was the White House that classified the phone conversation as SCI so they could hide it for political reasons.  I love how that's biting them right in the ass.

[Syt]

[Tamas]

 

[Valmy]

Having a narcissist for a President is really terrible.

Hell I thought every politician had a bit of a narcissist streak going but it is really different when it is the real thing versus just giant egos.

[The Minsky Moment]

Principled and patriotic Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways more valuable and necessary for our Country than the Can't Do Anything in the Senate Democrats. Watch out for them, they are America's last hope!

FHP

[The Minsky Moment]

Also sign of the times that the President of the United States openly and publicly pressures the Fed to move interest rates for his own political interest, and it attracts no notice.

[Valmy]

Also sign of the times that the President of the United States openly and publicly pressures the Fed to move interest rates for his own political interest, and it attracts no notice.

Hell when he doesn't do something out of naked self interest you are almost impressed.

[frunk]

Hell when he doesn't do something out of naked self interest you are almost impressed.

When did that happen?

[Sheilbh]

Also sign of the times that the President of the United States openly and publicly pressures the Fed to move interest rates for his own political interest, and it attracts no notice.

It's interesting. I always thought if he started to try and pressure or politicise the Fed that would possibly be the sort of thing that would cause Republicans in Congress (especially the Senate) to abandon him.

[Barrister]

Also sign of the times that the President of the United States openly and publicly pressures the Fed to move interest rates for his own political interest, and it attracts no notice.

Hell when he doesn't do something out of naked self interest you are almost impressed.

Umm, Trump is notorious for how much he borrows money (and then is lax about paying it back).

Calling for lower interest rates *is* an act out of naked self-interest.

[merithyn]

Also sign of the times that the President of the United States openly and publicly pressures the Fed to move interest rates for his own political interest, and it attracts no notice.

Hell when he doesn't do something out of naked self interest you are almost impressed.

Umm, Trump is notorious for how much he borrows money (and then is lax about paying it back).

Calling for lower interest rates *is* an act out of naked self-interest.

Not when it gives the impression of a booming economy, which is the only thing he polls well on.

[Eddie Teach]

It's self-interest in both cases, whether his finances or his poll numbers benefit.

[Razgovory]

So apparently the Lt. Col who is testifying today is probably a spy and traitor.  He was born in Ukraine and thus can't be trusted.

[Barrister]

So apparently the Lt. Col who is testifying today is probably a spy and traitor.  He was born in Ukraine and thus can't be trusted.

If so, that's a pretty big failure by the Trump Whitehouse, since they put the guy in that position.