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Post by cliffs on Dec 22, 2019 16:13:06 GMT
DONALD TRUMP WOULD BE FORCED TO RESIGN IF KEY ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS TESTIFY IN SENATE TRIAL, ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI PREDICTS
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has said that President Donald Trump could be forced to resign if key administration officials are made to testify in his Senate impeachment trial. Speaking on the BBC Radio 4's Today show, Scaramucci argued that Trump's looming trial could be so punishing and make his position so untenable that lawmakers would not even need to remove him from office. Scaramucci—who has become a prominent Trump critic since leaving the White House—told the BBC that this is vital in ensuring "a fair process and a fair trial in the Senate. Scaramucci said the president is "pulling a party along with him" and "doesn't either understand the morality of the position that he's in or he doesn't understand the laws that he's breaking." "There's a level of shamelessness about him that I find horrifying," he added. Scaramucci said he hoped a handful of GOP senators would work with Schumer, noting senators like Mitt Romney and Lamar Alexander have "been around a very long time" and "understand what President Trump is doing." www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-would-forced-resign-if-key-administration-officials-testify-senate-trial-anthony-1478179
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Post by cliffs on Dec 26, 2019 22:45:15 GMT
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Post by ErixonStone on Dec 28, 2019 14:33:45 GMT
FWIW: Nancy Pelosi does face a primary challenge. Doubt Trump would approve, though, as her opponent is way to the left of Pelosi.
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Post by karma4u on Dec 29, 2019 23:06:33 GMT
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Post by karma4u on Dec 29, 2019 23:22:16 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Dec 31, 2019 11:46:01 GMT
Two former aides to President George W. Bush have put forward a theory for why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is currently delaying sending the articles of impeachment of President Donald Trump to the Senate.
Paul Rosenzweig, who served as deputy assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security in the Bush administration, tweeted Monday that Pelosi could want to ensure Trump “is still under impeachment” over the Ukraine scandal when he delivers a State of the Union address on Feb 4.
“Imagine what it would be like if he got to give the SOTU having been cleared by the Senate ― it would be a full-blown triumphal rant,” wrote Rosenzweig.
“But if the impeachment is still pending, it might, instead, be an unhinged narcissistic screed of almost unimaginable insanity,” he continued. “Just think of how painful it would be for 53 Republican Senators to sit in the halls of Congress, watching a live meltdown on national TV. That, alone, would be worth the price of admission.”
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Post by cliffs on Jan 3, 2020 17:26:45 GMT
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Post by ErixonStone on Jan 3, 2020 20:44:42 GMT
There's a tweet for everything.
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Post by karma4u on Jan 3, 2020 21:02:32 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Jan 3, 2020 22:13:21 GMT
But he ordered the drone strike to stop a war.....LMAO
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Post by cliffs on Jan 8, 2020 11:43:45 GMT
I have said this from the onset of this admins reign of terror. The Iran attacks are the result of Trump's foreign policy of being better than Obama
The president's strategy in Iran, as with everything else, was to show that he was greater than his predecessor. The risks in that were always obvious. Trump, by placing his personal interests and grievances above national security, has made many grave strategic errors — but also now a tactical one in Iran, with profound implications for his political prospects. He failed to realize that the once-hidden costs of his moves could come to the fore at the outset of 2020. He enters the election year facing unprecedented tests on the world stage and at home for which he and his team (fully three years into his term) seem woefully unprepared. www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/iran-attacks-are-result-trump-s-foreign-policy-being-better-ncna1111971?cid=par-xfinity_20200108 |
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Post by cliffs on Jan 18, 2020 12:16:48 GMT
WASHINGTON — As his impeachment trial opens Tuesday, President Donald Trump's instinct for creating chaos represents an imminent threat to Senate Republicans' ability to protect him, and themselves. That is, the more Trump discredits the Senate during his trial, the more he discredits an outcome engineered to help him now and as he seeks re-election. But Trump's own treatment of his trial so far — his Twitter rants, his public statements and his appointment of a television dramedy cast of lawyers to represent him — suggests deep trepidation on his part about the prospect of cutting his losses so far and walking away with the win of a quiet acquittal. Instead, he appears to be spoiling for the kind of high-profile fight — a trash-talking, institution-bashing, circus-like demonstration of raw muscle — that threatens to expose the inequity of a politically driven trial controlled by his own party. www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/trump-may-discredit-impeachment-trial-designed-acquit-him-n1118096?cid=par-xfinity_20200118I say let PAB be PAB...LOL |
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Post by cliffs on Jan 20, 2020 13:04:08 GMT
Fear of Trump drives the actions of the spineless GOP caucus, as does fear of the truth, and fear of a partisan base to which none dare speak the truth. Perhaps that should come as no surprise. For it was fear that brought us to this critical juncture in American history. Fear was what Trump used to spin up the Republican base, using stereotypes, lies and hyperbole to dismantle decades of American political discourse. More on Fear |
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Post by cliffs on Jan 21, 2020 14:11:19 GMT
51 percent of voters believe the Senate should vote to convict and remove Trump from office, according to new CNN/SSRS polling.
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Post by gregfordyce on Jan 21, 2020 20:14:26 GMT
That's pretty sad, considering how much evidence is out there of what a corrupt, lying, power-abusing, grifting, hate-mongering, fascist, authoritarian, bullying, criminal thug Trump is, even leaving aside the entire Ukraine extortion scheme.
And still - only 51% think he should be removed from office.
Americans - not exactly noted for their razor-sharp intellect and principles.
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