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horncyclist

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  1. I don't know. People are pissed. And as incompetent as people are, this steady drip of corruption has to move the needle. Watch public opinion polls. I agree if he gets reelected American democracy is done.
  2. If there's enough damning evidence they'll force him to resign or remove him. Most GOP Senators have been quiet through this. They're doing political calculations right now to see at what point sticking by Trump is more costly than the fallout of dumping him. We're quickly reaching that point. They don't care about Trump and they definitely don't care about his base. They care about power and Trump is risking losing it.
  3. Iran's apparently trying to interfere in 2020: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/04/iran-tried-hack-us-presidential-candidates-journalists-effort-that-targeted-hundreds-microsoft-finds/ I'm sure Republicans would be just fine with Elizabeth Warren going on CNN to encourage them? That's cool now, right?
  4. Someone, probably Bill Taylor, will admit it and the documents speak for themselves. Witnesses lie, holy shit, the dishonesty.
  5. In fairness to Monica, that appears to be a fake tweet. Very accurate though.
  6. How the hell do you spin those text messages as clearing Trump? There's no way Volker explained those away. Traitorous fucks.
  7. And the media in Nixon's day was much more concentrated. It's far easier today to spin a false narrative through social media and partisan outlets like Fox news.
  8. With these latest developments, think about how if the whistleblower doesn't complain, then Ukraine probably issues that statement announcing an investigation of Hunter Biden in some form.The public would only have seen that and all we would be talking about is Biden's corruption. Regarless of if Ukraine actually investigated or if there was anything there, that statement from Ukraine and the fallout would have significantly hurt Biden. And the President would have compelled it using our foreign and diplomatic power. How is that not impeachable? Holy shit. And if thats wrong but not impeachable (looking at you GOP) them where's the line?How are the actions above any different than promising sanction relief to Russia in exchange for a 2016 effort again? (Oh, which by the way, probably happened and we don't know because Trump OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE 10 times). This is insane.
  9. Other than just straight up lying to the public--I don't see how Republicans defend this. They had gone all in on "there was no quid pro quo" but contemporaneous evidence shows clearly there was. The President withheld military aide to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rival, making clear the quid pro quo through official diplomatic channels.
  10. You could do a lot in a deposition too, much of which was probably done today. Under any normal circumstances, these guys are fucked. I don't see a defense here.
  11. So the quid pro quo-- if it wasn't already clear-- is spelled out in text messages by diplomats charged with executing the deal? That's what was just released, right? July 25 8:36 am Volker texts: “Heard from White House-assuming President Z. convinces Trump he will investigate / ‘get to the bottom of what happened’ in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to Washington.”
  12. Next he'll tweet his coronation.
  13. That seems pretty damning. Contemporaneous evidence confirming the quid pro quo?
  14. Kasparov with the same sentiment above: This is it GOP, do we have a constitution or not?
  15. Yeah, this is right. If this goes by without consequences where is the line? Why not just cancel the 2016 election?
  16. You can't look at one poll. Even if he's popular, it doesn't change the fact that he's a moron criminal shredding our constitution on a daily basis. Hitler was popular too.
  17. The decision allowed for the imposition of tarriffs on $7.5 billion of goods. There was no award. He mostly just spews complete nonsense these days.
  18. Obama apparently got it in April 2007. There's a way to prioritize it and honestly all of the top 5 dems--and probably Beto too--should have it.
  19. People shouldn't get that close to her at this stage. I'm terrified about political violence and thought she already had secret service protection.
  20. She needs Secret Service protection. Wtf.
  21. Most bizzare thing in the article: Mifsud met Papadopoulos when he and his Italian wife, Simona Mangiante, a lawyer and part-time lingerie model who had hoped to launch her acting career with a role playing French actress Brigitte Bardot in a British film, both worked for a company Mifsud ran. Mangiante told The Daily Beast that she met Mifsud while doing some legal consulting for the European Parliament. His ties to Russia seemed potentially useful to her husband, who was then an integral part of the Trump campaign’s foreign-policy advisory panel at the time.
  22. Please let this be the end. The thing is when the house of cards come down, I'm not so sure who escapes. You have to think Pence is compromised. President Pelosi? How does she navigate that?
  23. You wonder if this outcome--one way or another-- is inevitable at this point. Whether Trump wins or loses--whether there's interference or fraud or not. If Putin wanted to divide America it seems Project Trump is succeeding beyond his wildest expectations. I'm hopeful a leader like Warren could emerge and unite enough the country that we can move on somehow but at the same time I've never been so pessimistic.
  24. I said this a day or two ago but it bears repeating that if he's not removed in the next 3-4 months, I don't know if he will be--absent dying in office. He'll rig the election--one way or another--and that will be it. Think about how much damage he could then.
  25. Unbelievable that the party that spent the last 20 years or so screaming about the Constitution is ripping it up. Lincoln, also a Republican, did it to save the Union. Today's republicans are doing it to save....Trump.
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