triplehorn

All the R's shouting that impeachment is about 'trying to overturn the 2016 election result' have selective amnesia for the 2018 result. 2018 was about the public wanting to curb the results of 2016. Dems should consider offering that choice rebuttal a bit more often.

Every single fucking claim Trumpers have made to call the Mueller investigation and everything that spawned from it "illegitimate" is in ruins. complete ruins. every.single.one. Trump campaign. Mike Flynn. Paul Manafort. Roger Stone. And yet, just as he did with the Mueller report, here is Barr again trying to spin a false narrative. As head of the DOJ, Barr is abusing the public trust to cover-up for a mobbed up fraudster. Criminal pieces of shit, all of them.

It's not just being full of shit. This crop of GOP is engaging in widespread systematic disinformation.

DOJ IG report reveals Manafort was under FBI investigation two months before he joined Trump campaign ---> money laundering.

choke on it, Barr.

Clearly R's concept of a winning strategy is relinquishing all costs for defense while maximizing investment in volume of crime.

You get what you pay for, R’s

Pelosi voted NAY for the 2002 AUMF that lead to the Iraq invasion. Not leading impeachment of Bush in 2007 when she took the gavel for the first time for 2002-2003? I get where you're coming from, but the realities 3-4 years later were more complicated than that. Not saying she or anyone gets a pass, just that calling her "supremely awful" for that is your radical showing. ------>>>> Of particular note in the clip above, notice she specifically mentions they are waiting on the courts to rule in order to provide testimony and evidence from the Mueller investigation before dropping the sledgehammer on Trump/Russia 2016. It's coming. and fuck that traitorous tub of goo Bill Barr.

for those keeping tabs - 3 days ago: today, as expected: Mentioned on last page, it's now a total of 3 Trump finance cases that could be considered by SCOTUS for cert at its conference I understand is scheduled for next Friday 12/13. It's not likely, but conceivable, SCOTUS could deny cert on all 3 cases thereby upholding the lower courts' rulings. That would mean the timeline for said tax returns and Deutsche Bank/Trump financials just hit warp speed to land with the relevant House committees' ongoing impeachment inquiries. If SCOTUS takes the cases, it's still appears pretty damn unlikely Trump wins any of them, but it will take longer. If that happens, it will be important to see if SCOTUS expedites its rulings to early 2020 as opposed to by June.

c'mon man. No one is clinging to that, never were. House has only started multiple months of impeachment related moves. Senate and all Congressional GOP are now coming to grips that they are caught in a Promethean nightmare having to absurdly lie and deny reality on an unending daily basis. It doesn't matter that this batch of GOP actors is uniquely skilled at corrupt deception. Even the most artful dodgers need breaks and pivots. That's not going to be possible. Look at what Devin has been puvlicly reduced to in the last 48 hours. More to follow.

Just getting started.

There’s a possibility SCOTUS could consider 3 cases a week from today related to House impeachment at their 12/13 conference - House Mazars (tax returns), Manhattan DA Mazars, and Deutsche Bank financials. To anyone, what are the odds of SCOTUS denying cert on one or all of these cases? More specifically, do they accept them on the face of it because of POTUS/impeachment implications, even if the grounds for appeals is weak as shit clock-running, or will they have the fortitude to deny cert if clearly appropriate ?

omg Devin has been reduced to a gibbering slapdick. He's a puny lying boy. The incredibleness:

Good on her for not letting that shit stick. Guy was trying to make this about a personal vendetta. Instead he gave her an alley-oop to hammer down the fact this is about upholding the Constitution and rule of law, plain and simple. More of that please.

bold strategy: Also, about that SCOTUS conference on Friday the 13th of December:

gee why might that be ? what an easy read. ain't gonna happen.

It certainly has setup potential for GOP seeking re-election. Clowning it on televised impeachment hearings now will look indefensibly shitty later when more comes out. They're giving their opponents pre-packaged campaign ads if/when it gets several notches worse into 2020.

This post and your previous one last page make a case for drawing out the impeachment process indefinitely in order to act a seatbelt on ongoing Trump criminality. Look what happened the day after the Mueller testimony to Congress last summer- Trump was emboldened to extort the Ukrainian president to influence the 2020 election in broad daylight. Handing the case over to the Senate now for acquittal would be a similar green light. Pelosi/House are doing both. They're advancing articles of impeachment based on the House Intel investigation into the Trump/Zelensky bribery scheme right now. Meanwhile there are 6 different House committees doing impeachment inquiries and a lot more hanging in he courts to build on what they've got. Have we heard from all 6 yet ? nope. Has Pelosi stated a timeline for a full House vote to impeach? nope. Conceivably the House Judiciary committee could vote on articles of impeachment re Ukraine bribery scheme without progressing to full House floor vote. Again, they're doing both and it's smart. Nothing is lost with their current tactics and yet they maintain options.

What Pelosi and Dems understand - when corrupt Senate acquittal is a foregone conclusion, the simple calculus is the longer this goes, the more perilous it gets for Trump/GOP Congress. It's a function of both more severe evidence coming forth after Trump's appeals are exhaustedin multiple cases (tax returns/DB financials/Mueller 6(e) materials/McGahn compelled testimony (multiple others then compelled to testify), and proximity of manifest GOP Congress' corrupt complicity to the 2020 election. What Pelosi is doing now is saying the evidence we have today is damning and sufficient as a stand alone to impeach this motherfucker. But she's stating that without defining when a full case will be handed over to the Senate. If she came out and said we can't impeach "now" because of needing the evidence currently tied up in the courts, it would diminish the meaning, strength, and magnitude of evidence they already have - which is a shit ton. So her approach today is to stoke it, keep the pressure and momentum going forward, and merge it with the court outcomes into 2020 (that could end up being resolved a lot sooner than expected).

They are fighting it. It’s in the courts by way of the Don McGahn case.

Pelosi didn’t say anything about an impeachment vote this year.

These R's are so full of shit that every witness should just fucking embarrass them with direct assaults on their derelict stunts. If anything it highlights how spineless they are in covering up Trump's abuse and criminality. Need more of this:

Just last night, Schiff pointed out that there are 6 different House committees conducting investigations for impeachment. House Intel was just the first to submit a report to House Judiciary. There's more in the chute, which doesn't even include waiting on SCOTUS to rule on several huge subpoena cases. R's are blowing so much fucking smoke with blatant misdirections and falsehoods.

attempted Jedi mind trick? R's want this to be over fast so try to paint D's as being scared and wanting to rush this. It's sublime. And the approach will similarly end up on the R's growing trash heap of failed feints.