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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 8:51:21 GMT -6
On Thursday morning Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined FOX and Friends and suggested that President Trump wants to have witnesses Hunter Biden and Eric Ciaramella called in to testify before the US Senate.
Senator Ted Cruz: We are likely to see a trial in January… We’re going to do substantially better than the House. Both sides will state their case. We’ll respect due process, will have their say. But then unlike the House the President gets to present his case. His team gets to defend him. We’ll listen to those opening arguments. We’ll listen to the president’s team lay out evidence. The next stage will be senators asking questions… At that point I think there’s going to be a debate about whether to shift to a second stage of a trial of bringing in witnesses. I imagine the White House is going to have to access as a legal matter do they want witnesses? My view is the President wants to call witnesses. The President wants to call witnesses like Hunter Biden, the whistleblower. The president is entitled to do so in the senate and the senate should allow him to do so. But that’s a question for the White House legal team to make.
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Post by kcrufnek on Dec 19, 2019 9:28:49 GMT -6
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wore black at her funeral Wednesday night after she walked her caucus off the cliff. Pelosi had to silence cheers from Democrats on the House floor as she adopted the first article of impeachment. Watch Pelosi raise her hand and shoot Democrats a dirty look to silence them: Did you see her doing the Pledge? How did she not burst into flames? |
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 9:54:59 GMT -6
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed Democrats and Speaker Pelosi for their “slap-dash impeachment.”
And McConnell UNLOADED on Pelosi for suggesting that she may not send the articles of impeachment over to the US Senate.
Mitch McConnell: “It looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet… This is really comical!”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 9:57:06 GMT -6
Democrats in the House of Representatives rushed through a slapdash impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Party leaders refused to call witnesses that Republicans wanted, refused to wait for the courts to mediate conflicts, refused to hold a fair and comprehensive hearing of evidence from both sides.
And now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is saying that even though the two weak articles of impeachment were approved on a near party-line vote on Wednesday, she won’t pass them along to the Senate until, well, until she feels like it.
Then why the rush? Why push through two thin articles that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls “constitutionally incoherent”? If she’s just going to wait now, why the rush?
Pelosi said she may delay the handoff of the articles because she thinks Republicans in the Senate won’t hold a fair trial.
“We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side,” Pelosi told reporters after the part-line vote in the House. “And I would hope that that will be soon. … So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us. So hopefully it will be fair. And when we see what that is, we’ll send our managers.”
Asked if she would pledge to send the articles to the Senate soon, Pelosi said: “That would have been our intention.” But she added that “we are not having that discussion. We have done what we set out to do.”
But again, why rush the process only to withhold the articles from the Senate?
“Pelosi’s comments, which echo suggestions raised by other Democrats throughout the day, inject new uncertainty into the impeachment timetable and send the House and Senate lurching toward a potential institutional crisis,” Politico reported. “Though the House adopted two articles of impeachment charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of congressional investigations, it must pass a second resolution formally naming impeachment managers to present the case in the Senate. That second vehicle triggers the official transmission of articles to the Senate.”
McConnell pointed out the travesty. “Pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate,” he said in a moving speech from the floor of the Senate on Thursday.
And McConnell blasted House Democrats as nothing more than “a politic faction of the House of Representatives has succumbed to a partisan rage.”
The Constitution’s framers, the Senate Majority Leader said, “built the Senate to provide stability … to keep partisan passions from boiling over,” adding, “Moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.”
McConnell also described Trump’s impeachment as “the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.”
Trump also pointed out the absurdity of Pelosi’s plan to withhold the articles from the Senate.
“Now the Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate,” Trump wrote on Twitter Thursday morning. He claimed the timing of the trial was up to the Senate, and that if Democrats didn’t transmit the articles of impeachment “they would lose by Default!”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said: “Not allowing the Senate to act on approved Articles of Impeachment becomes Constitutional extortion and creates chaos for the presidency. It also sets in motion a tremendous threat to our Constitutional system of checks and balances.”
If House Dems refuse to send Articles of Impeachment to the Senate for trial it would be a breathtaking violation of the Constitution, an act of political cowardice, and fundamentally unfair to President [Trump].”
Graham also said: “There is a reason one person can’t be Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader at the same time!”
Impeachment managers must be appointed by a House resolutions, but Thursday is the last day the House will be in session until Jan. 7.
If Democrats don’t appoint managers, that means there was no need to rush through the solemn process.
And it will be clear evidence that the slapdash push to impeach the president was nothing more than purely partisan politics.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 9:58:32 GMT -6
Wonder who he is referencing here? dailycaller.com/2019/12/18/ag-barr-john-durham-private-actors/Attorney General William Barr provided new details Wednesday of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe and said in an interview on Fox News that the federal prosecutor is looking into the activities of federal agencies outside the FBI, as well as those of “private actors.” “He’s not just looking at the FBI,” Barr said of Durham. “He’s looking at other agencies … and also private actors, so it’s a much broader investigation.” Barr did not elaborate on which “private actors” are part of the Durham probe. WATCH: Barr tapped Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, in May to investigate federal agencies’ surveillance and investigative activities related to the Trump campaign. Durham’s probe has run parallel to a Justice Department inspector general’s investigation into the FBI’s surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Primis Player Placeholder Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, found extensive evidence of “significant inaccuracies” in the FBI’s applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page. The applications, which relied heavily on information from the unverified Steele dossier, asserted there was probable cause to suspect that Page was a Russian agent. (RELATED: William Barr Blasts ‘Irresponsible Press’ Over Coverage Of FISA Abuse) Horowitz found the FBI failed to disclose exculpatory information about Page and derogatory information about Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the dossier. Steele worked in 2016 on behalf of Fusion GPS, an opposition research firm hired by the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee. Horowitz’s report debunked one of the Steele dossier’s main allegations of Trump-Russia collusion: that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen visited Prague in August 2016 to meet with Kremlin operatives to discuss paying off hackers. The report said the allegation was “not true.” Horowitz also said the FBI was unable to corroborate Steele’s allegations that Page was part of a “well-developed conspiracy of co-operation” involving the Trump campaign and Russia. Steele told the FBI in early October 2016 that he believed one of the main sources for the allegation was a “boaster” prone to embellishment. Barr said Wednesday that Durham is looking at issues beyond the FBI’s FISA applications. “Also, he’s not just looking at the FISA aspect of it. He is looking at all the conduct both before and after the election,” Barr said. |
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:01:32 GMT -6
Omar didn't like this lol : dailycaller.com/2019/12/18/ilhan-omar-stop-it-mccarthy-tlaib/Report: Ilhan Omar Yells ‘Stop It’ On House Floor When McCarthy Cites Tlaib’s ‘Impeach The Mother F**Ker’ Comment Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar was reportedly caught on audio yelling “Stop it!” multiple times during Wednesday night’s impeachment proceedings as House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy brought up a fellow “Squad” member’s prior comments about impeachment. “Democrats have wanted to impeach President Trump since the day he was elected, and nothing was going to get in the way, certainly not the truth,” McCarthy said. “Madam speaker, Chairman Schiff said he had evidence, more than circumstantial, of collusion. That was false. In January, where we all stood in this body, we stood up, we raised our hands, we swore that we’d uphold the Constitution.” After a round of applause presumably from fellow House Republicans, McCarthy brought up Tlaib’s comments to supporters, spoken shortly after being elected, about helping fellow Democrats “impeach the mother f**ker.” (RELATED: Rand Paul Stands His Ground With Neil Cavuto On Impeachment, Earns A ‘Clever’ On Last Response) “And a few mere hours after that, Congresswoman Tlaib said she was going to ‘impeach the mother f-er,'” he said. At which point someone, later reportedly identified by PBS Newshour senior reporter Daniel Bush and others as Rep. Omar, could be heard yelling “Stop it!” at least three times. (RELATED: McCarthy Challenges Pelosi To Meet Her Own Standard For Impeachment) “Those were not my words,” McCarthy said. |
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:03:12 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/12/19/mitch-mcconnell-adam-schiff-impeachment-speech-video/Mitch McConnell: Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Timeline Is ‘Antithetical To American justice’ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell chastised House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff during a speech on the floor Thursday morning. The Kentucky Republican challenged Schiff’s previous explanations for the rushed impeachment inquiry, namely that Democrats “might not have gotten to impeach the president in time for the election.” “The following is something that Adam Schiff literally said in early October,” McConnell continued. “Any action that forces us to litigate or to have to consider litigation will be considered further evidence of obstruction of justice. That’s Adam Schiff.” WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 17: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media after attending the Senate Republican policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, on December 17, 2019m in Washington, DC. Leader McConnell spoke about the Democrats request to have witnesses at the Senate Impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) “Here is what the chairman effectively said and what one of his committee members restated just this week. ‘If the president asserts his constitutional rights there is that much more evidence he is guilty.'” McConnell claimed “that kind of bullying is antithetical to American justice.” (RELATED: Pelosi Won’t Rule Out Withholding Articles Of Impeachment Until Democrats Get A ‘Fair’ Trial In The Senate) He closed by calling the inquiry the “thinnest basis for any house-passed presidential impeachment in American history. The thinnest and the weakest, and nothing else even comes close.” Primis Player Placeholder The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment Wednesday night, but several members of the Democratic caucus broke from the yay votes. Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard voted ‘present,’ while Minnesota Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson and New Jersey Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who recently announced plans to switch his party affiliation, both voted no. Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden split his decision, voting yay on abuse of power and nay on obstruction of Congress.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:04:22 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/morning-after-impeachment-trump-slaps-dems-by-pointing-out-what-was-historic-about-itOn Wednesday, House Democrats led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally accomplished what members of the party have been pushing for since even before Donald Trump was inaugurated: they successfully voted to impeach him, alleging that he is guilty of “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress.” As the left-leaning mainstream media repeatedly told the American public, the moment is “historic.” But as Trump pointed out the morning after his inevitable impeachment, the Democrats’ actions are “historic” in a way they desperately wanted to avoid. “I got Impeached last might without one Republican vote being cast with the Do Nothing Dems on their continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in American history,” Trump tweeted early Thursday morning. “100% Republican Vote. That’s what people are talking about,” he wrote in another post. “The Republicans are united like never before!” The impeachment of Trump is indeed “historic” because, unlike Bill Clinton, Trump was impeached without the other party casting a single vote in favor of it. The first article of impeachment, “abuse of power,” passed Wednesday by a vote of 230–197–1. The only thing bipartisan about the vote was the opposition to it – two Democrats joining with the fully “united” Republicans to vote against it. In the end, 228 Democrats voted for it, while 2 Democrats joined all 195 Republicans to voted against it. The lone independent member of Congress voted for the article. The second article of impeachment, “obstruction of Congress,” suffered another defection from the Democratic ranks. The final vote, 229–198–1, included three Democrats joining all 195 Republicans in opposition. With both articles of impeachment passing with entirely partisan support and bipartisan opposition, Trump is now the first president to be impeached without a single vote in favor from his own party. Click to find out more about a new promotion Don't miss this content from our sponsor The impeachment of Bill Clinton on Dec. 19, 1998 – almost exactly 21 years earlier – included some Democratic votes in favor of it. Clinton was impeached for “perjury to a grand jury” by a final vote of 228–206, with 5 Democrats joining 223 Republicans in support, while 5 Republicans, 200 Democrats and the lone independent voted against it. The second article, “obstruction of justice,” passed 221–212, with 5 Democrats joining 216 Republicans in favor of it, while 12 Republicans joined the 199 Democrats and the independent member against the charge. Two other articles of impeachment (abuse of power and another perjury charge) against Clinton failed. The only other president to be impeached is Democrat Andrew Johnson, who was easily impeached by the Republican-controlled House in 1868 by a vote of 126 to 47. The Democratic Party had only 47 seats in the House. In his early morning Thursday tweets, Trump also noted that the Democrats are now considering withholding the impeachment articles, a gambit Democratic strategists have been floating over the last week as a way of maintaining political “leverage.” “Now the Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate, but it’s Senate’s call!” Trump wrote. “‘The Senate shall set the time and place of the trial,'” Trump added. “If the Do Nothing Democrats decide, in their great wisdom, not to show up, they would lose by Default!” The Democrats’ impeachment articles are expected to fail by a wide margin in the Senate, which requires a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, for conviction and removal. Both Johnson and Clinton were ultimately spared of conviction by the Senate.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:05:01 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/defiant-trump-at-michigan-rally-i-dont-know-about-you-but-im-having-a-good-timeOn Wednesday night, as House Democrats voted to impeach him, an ebullient President Trump defiantly stated at a huge rally in Michigan, “I don’t know about you, but I’m having a good time.” Trump stated, “What a victory we had in Michigan … I’m thrilled to be here with thousands of hard-working patriots as we celebrate the miracle of Christmas, the greatness of America and the glory of God … And did you notice everybody is saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again? Did you notice? I remember when I first started this beautiful trip, this beautiful journey, I just said to the First Lady, ‘You’re so lucky, I just took you on this fantastic trip.’ It’s so much fun; they want to impeach you; they want to do worse than that. By the way, it doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached. The country is doing better than ever before; we did nothing wrong, and we have tremendous support in the Republican party like we’ve never had before.” Trump joked, “I don’t know if you know this, but probably ten years ago I was honored; I was the Man of the Year, by I think, somebody, whoever, (laughter) I was the Man of the Year in Michigan, can you believe it? Long time … And that was long before I ever decided to do this; I was happy; I had a beautiful life. What the hell did I do this for?” (laughter) Trump added, “But look how we’re doing? Do we love it? I love it,” bringing a sustained ovation. Trump turned to the impeachment proceedings targeting him, asserting, “With today’s illegal, unconstitutional, partisan impeachment, the do-nothing Democrats — and they are do nothing; all they want to do is focus on this; what they could be doing — are declaring their deep hatred and disdain for the American voter. This lawless, partisan impeachment is a political suicide march for the Democrat party. Have you seen my polls in the last four weeks? Crazy. It’s crazy. You know why? We have an election right down the road. I announced three months ago that I’m running. I’ll give you a little clue; I announced because I figured once I announced, they’d never impeach; nobody would be so stupid; but they’ve been trying to impeach me from day one.” Trump brought up Hillary Clinton, saying, “I hear she wants to run again. Wouldn’t that be great? Oh, we would love that. You think the Democrats are screwed up? Wait until that happens.” Trump asserted, “It’s all gonna end soon, and it’s gonna come out a beautiful, great victory for the Republican party and for this nation,” prompting chants of “Four more years!” Trump continued, “So that’s it. We have the greatest country. We’ve turned around the ship. We need four more years.” He concluded with his traditional promises: “Together we will make America wealthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:06:35 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/piers-morgan-mocks-dems-on-impeachment-trumps-laughing-all-the-way-to-reelectionOn Wednesday, Piers Morgan, disgusted by the partisan impeachment House Democrats pushed through against President Trump, declared that Democrats had made a giant mistake, concluding, “Trump’s laughing all the way to reelection.” Morgan began by citing The Washington Post’s Congress reporter and CNN political analyst Rachael Bade tweeting a picture of herself with her colleagues captioned, “Merry Impeachmas from the WAPO team!” Morgan commented, “Of course, all it did was confirm what has been self-evident since the day Trump won the 2016 Election: most of America’s mainstream (media) hates him and is absolutely thrilled to see him impeached.” The he turned to the Democrats, writing, “So, of course, are the Democrats, which was obvious when they exploded into raucous cheering in the House of Representatives as their leader Nancy Pelosi solemnly announced Trump’s fate – before she frantically silenced them like a crazed kindergarten teacher.” Noting Pelosi “was dressed in funereal black and bore a face of unrelenting gravity – with a slash of blood-red lipstick,” but that she had said that impeaching Trump brought her no pleasure, Morgan snapped, “Oh pur-lease…. spare me this pious, disingenuous nonsense. The truth is that she and her party have been plotting this since Trump set foot in the White House. They couldn’t beat him at the ballot box in 2016 and fear they won’t be able to beat him at the ballot box in 2020.So, they’ve concluded impeachment may be their only route to stop him.” Morgan derided the House Democrats for their performances on Wednesday: “They raged; they sighed; they rolled their eyes; they wiped away fake tears; they invoked every great American historical figure they could think of; they told their personal stories of family courage … and so they banged on, sucking the very life out of the holiday season with every indignant self-aggrandizing breath.” He reasoned, “The Democrats were always going to win this impeachment vote because they control the House … This was a 100% partisan pleasure-dome, though the only people deriving any actual pleasure from the unedifying spectacle were the politicians lapping up TV exposure to tens of millions of Americans like ravenous parched camels arriving at an oasis after weeks of traipsing across the Sahara Desert.” Then Morgan turned to Trump saying at his Battle Creek, Michigan rally on Wednesday, “This doesn’t feel like an impeachment to me, does it to you?” Morgan answered Trump’s rhetorical question, writing, “No, frankly. It feels like a pathetic joke at America’s expense.” Explaining that there is no way the Senate would convict Trump, and that Pelosi has mentioned she might not send the impeachment articles to the Senate, Morgan summed up, “This is therefore a staggeringly futile exercise of unprecedented proportions. Yet that hasn’t stopped all the usual half-witted bunch of obsessive Trump-loathing celebrities exploding with false dawn ecstasy as they proclaim it as the end of their nemesis. From Bette Midler and Cher to John Legend and Amber Tamblyn, they raced to spew their glee all over Twitter.” He snapped, “To which my response is this: what are you clueless clowns all celebrating? Are you just too dumb to see what’s actually happening here? Do you not understand it all ends in a big loss for Trump-haters and a big win for Trump?” Morgan stated, “The bottom line is that for many Americans, this is a hard-to-understand scandal involving something that didn’t happen involving a leader they’ve never heard of in a country they know little about. That’s why the latest polls show plunging support for impeachment. That’s why the Democrats don’t have a cat in hell’s chance of it succeeding. That’s why Nancy Pelosi will need to keep that black dress and mournful face for next November. And that’s why Trump’s laughing all the way to re-election.” He concluded, “As he’ll be saying to himself today: Merry Impeachmas!”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:08:13 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/mark-levin-explains-why-pelosi-withholding-impeachment-articles-would-be-unconstitutional-and-disastrous-for-demsMark Levin Explains Why Pelosi Withholding Impeachment Articles Is Unconstitutional And Disastrous For Dems House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering withholding the Democrats’ articles of impeachment — passed without a single Republican vote — from the U.S. Senate in an attempt to pressure the Republican-controlled Senate to cave to Democratic demands on how to conduct a “fair” impeachment trial. But constitutional lawyer and conservative commentator Mark Levin says such an act would be “brazen[ly]” unconstitutional and would provide Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with a golden opportunity. “So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us,” Pelosi told reporters after the vote Wednesday. “That would’ve been our intention, but we’ll see what happens over there.” As Politico pointed out, Pelosi’s comments “echo suggestions raised by other Democrats throughout the day” and “inject new uncertainty into the impeachment timetable and send the House and Senate lurching toward a potential institutional crisis.” “Though the House adopted two articles of impeachment charging Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of congressional investigations, it must pass a second resolution formally naming impeachment managers to present the case in the Senate,” Politico explains. “That second vehicle triggers the official transmission of articles to the Senate.” In a series of posts on social media early Thursday, Levin called out Pelosi for considering the “brazen unconstitutional act” and laid out a plan for McConnell and his fellow Senate Republicans for how to respond if Democrats should got that route. “Nancy Pelosi was apparently advised by leftwing Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe to delay sending the impeachment to the Senate. So she’s unilaterally sitting on the impeachment. This is another brazen unconstitutional act,” Levin wrote, in a thread that’s starting to gain some attention online. “Here’s what Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans must do in response: The Senate has the sole power under the Constitution to adjudicate an impeachment. Therefore, Pelosi is attempting to obstruct the Senate’s power to act on its constitutional authority,” the Fox News host continued. “McConnell should immediately put an end to this and declare the impeachment null and void as the speaker has failed to complete the impeachment process by timely sending it to the Senate for adjudication,” Levin added. “McConnell has no less authority to unilaterally make such a decision than Pelosi does to withhold the administrative notification of an impeachment to the Senate either indefinitely or [with] conditions,” he concluded. “Her effort to cripple the presidency [and] blackmail the Senate must be defeated.” Levin’s four-part thread begins below: As The Daily Wire pointed out after Pelosi’s loaded comments at the presser Wednesday evening, her suggestion that Republicans might not be “fair” in how they conduct the impeachment trial comes “after Democrats held secret hearings for weeks to develop the basis for their impeachment attempt and, according to Republicans, selectively leaked portions of the depositions to the media that were beneficial for advancing the Democrats’ narrative.” Trump, meanwhile, appears to be enjoying himself post-impeachment. At a rally in Michigan, Trump referenced the Democrats’ big vote, telling the massive crowd: “They want to impeach you. They want to do worse than that. By the way, it doesn’t really feel like we’re being impeached. The country is doing better than ever before. We did nothing wrong, and we have tremendous support in the Republican Party like we’ve never had before.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:10:00 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/political/why-pelosi-plans-delay-sending-impeachment-articles-senateNancy Pelosi has suggested she will delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate in order for Democrats to build up more evidence against Trump and delay a swift acquittal. Last night, the House voted along party lines to impeach Trump, a partisan move that enables Democrats to continually undermine and discredit Trump as the “impeached President.” However, with the effort virtually guaranteed to fall flat in the Senate, Democrats are planning to delay and drag the process in yet another underhanded stunt. Following the impeachment vote, Pelosi said she would withhold the articles of impeachment until the Senate makes rules that she determines will be “fair” to the prosecution. “We have legislation approved by the Rules Committee that will enable us to decide how we will send over the articles of impeachment,” Pelosi told reporters Wednesday. “We cannot name [impeachment] managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side.” She added that “so far, we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us” in the Senate. Nancy Pelosi: "We have legislation approved...that will enable to decide how we send over the articles of impeachment." "We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side...so far we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us." t.co/KV8jBJCHcL pic.twitter.com/LcgasQXGHv — ABC News Politics (@abcpolitics) December 19, 2019 The Conservative Treehouse blog describes this as a “cunning Lawfare ploy” that was a “pre-planned procedural process by design.” “Now the delay in sending the articles of impeachment allows the House lawyers to gather additional evidence while the impeachment case sits in limbo.” “The House essentially blocks any/all impeachment activity in the Senate by denying the transfer of the articles from the House to the Senate. Additionally, the House will now impede any other Senate legislative action because the House will hold the Senate captive. Meanwhile the Democrat presidential candidates can run against an impeached President.” This additional evidence could include Mueller grand jury material, a deposition by former White House counsel Don McGahn and less Trump’s financial and tax records. Knowing that the Senate will never vote to impeach Trump, Democrats plan to use the House impeachment vote as yet another tool with which to undo the results of the 2016 election, keeping Trump under a permanent cloud of suspicion right through 2020. However, as Byron York noted rather pointedly, this is entirely disingenuous consdering the Democrats pre-impeachment utterances: "How do Democrats impeach and withhold when they've been telling everybody Trump must be removed right now because he poses an immediate threat to our elections? Would Dems go straight from pre-emptive impeachment to deferred impeachment?" And remember, the public is now against impeachment broadly...
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:10:54 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/19/mitch-mcconnell-pelosi-too-afraid-to-send-impeachment-articles-to-senate/WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Senate Republican is denouncing the “unfair” House impeachment of President Donald Trump and reassuring Trump and his supporters that “moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.” Sen. Mitch McConnell, in remarks prepared for a Thursday floor speech, accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of being afraid to send “their shoddy work product to the Senate” after she threw uncertainty into the impeachment process by refusing to say when she would send two impeachment articles to the Senate for a trial. A trial in the Republican-controlled Senate would almost certainly result in Trump being acquitted of the charges. McConnell described Trump’s impeachment as “the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history.” Want Breaking News from Breitbart Direct to Your Inbox? Takes Just 2 Seconds... Enter your email address SIGN UP “The framers built the Senate to provide stability,” McConnell says in his Senate floor remarks, according to excerpts released by his office. “To keep partisan passions from boiling over. Moments like this are why the United States Senate exists.” The House impeached Trump on two charges—abusing his power and obstructing Congress—stemming from his pressure on Ukraine to announce investigations of his political rival as he withheld U.S. aid. In a news conference late Wednesday, Pelosi declined to say when she would send the articles to the Republican-led Senate. Until the articles are submitted, the Senate cannot hold the trial. McConnell was meeting later Thursday with Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to begin negotiations on how to conduct next year’s Senate trial. The two leaders have a poor relationship and McConnell holds a tactical edge if he can keep his 53-member Senate majority united. A day after his impeachment, Trump was quick to lash out at Pelosi. “Now the Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate,” Trump tweeted Thursday morning. He claimed the timing of the trial was up to the Senate, and that if Democrats didn’t transmit the articles of impeachment “they would lose by Default!” But there is no Constitutional requirement on Pelosi to send them swiftly — or at all. Pelosi said House Democrats could not name impeachment managers — House prosecutors who make the case for Trump’s conviction and removal from office — until they know more about how the Senate will conduct a trial. “We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side,” Pelosi said. “And I would hope that that will be soon. … So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us. So hopefully it will be fair. And when we see what that is, we’ll send our managers.” McConnell rejected a proposal earlier this week from Schumer, D-N.Y., to call several witnesses. McConnell also said that he is coordinating with the White House and declared that “I am not an impartial juror.” Pelosi said that McConnell “says it’s OK for the foreman of the jury to be in cahoots with the lawyers of the accused. That doesn’t sound right to us.” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham blasted Pelosi’s move that would potentially delay the Senate trial, where she said Trump was sure to get a “fair shake” compared to the House. In an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Grisham said Pelosi’s announcement was “Just another gimmick and more changing of the rules.” Asked again if she could guarantee that she would send the articles to the Senate, Pelosi said at the news conference: “That would have been our intention.” But they will see what the Senate decides, she said. “We are not having that discussion. We have done what we set out to do,” Pelosi said. Complicating any decision to delay are House Democrats’ arguments in recent weeks that Trump’s impeachment was needed “urgently,” arguing his actions were a threat to Democracy and the fairness of the 2020 election. Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, a member of Pelosi’s leadership team, said after her remarks that Democrats want impeachment proceedings that are “judicious and responsible and deliberative.” He said that while Senate will decide its own procedures, “the speaker’s only point is before she sends it over she needs to understand what that is” because it will influence who the impeachment managers are. Asked about never sending the articles over, Cicilline said, “I would not speculate that anyone’s even contemplating that.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:15:56 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/19/clyburn-i-would-delay-transmitting-impeachment-articles-to-senate-as-long-as-it-takes/Clyburn: I Would Delay Transmitting Impeachment Articles to Senate ‘As Long as It Takes’ On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) stated that he is willing to delay transmitting the House’s impeachment articles to the Senate for “As long as it takes” to get concessions on how the trial will be conducted, and that if he were in charge, he would potentially never transmit the articles. Clyburn said he is willing to hold the articles “As long as it takes. Even if — if he doesn’t come around to committing to a fair trial, keep those articles here. So, keep it as long as it takes.” Co-host John Berman then asked, “Are you suggesting it’s possible you will never transmit the articles of impeachment?” Clyburn responded, “If it were me, yes, that’s what I’m saying. I have no idea what the speaker will do.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:34:48 GMT -6
On Thursday morning the Democrat Speaker spoke again to reporters following the Democrat vote to impeach President Trump based on non-crimes.
Pelosi told reporters she has a spring in her step today!
Nancy Pelosi: It really is interesting to see the response we are getting, bipartisan, across party lines. I myself have to say I have a spring in my step because of the moral courage of our caucus to see them all, so many, 100 members voted to floor, that’s all we had time for, to go to the floor and speak about our Constitution… So clearly, so patriotically, so prayerfully…
What the hell is she talking about?
Bipartisan support?
They didn’t get ONE Republican vote!
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:36:54 GMT -6
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was reticent to impeach President Trump. Deep down, she knew the partisan move would be a loser for Democrats in 2020.
But the far-left wing of the party pushed her into doing it. And now that it’s done, she doesn’t want to talk about it — at all.
While the House of Representatives’ part in the saga is concluded — next in line is a trial in the Senate — Pelosi is holding on to what little power she still has by refusing to hand the articles of impeachment over to the higher chamber.
And reporters on Thursday wanted to know why.
Pelosi bobbed and weaved in answering one question of the matter, but when another reporter began to ask on the same topic, Pelosi cut him off and held a finger in the air and said: “Any other questions on other — anybody want to talk about Mexico free trade agreement? Anybody care about that? Jobs for the American people? Progress in addressing globalism? … Important issues that relate to the economic vitality of our communities?”
“Any other questions? Because I’m not going to answer any more questions on this. Clearly you understand, when we see what their process is, we will know who and how many we want to send over. Not until then. I’m not going to go there anymore,” the agitated Pelosi said.
“We cannot name managers until we see what the process is on the Senate side,” Pelosi told reporters on Wednesday after the party-line vote in the House. “And I would hope that that will be soon. … So far we haven’t seen anything that looks fair to us. So hopefully it will be fair. And when we see what that is, we’ll send our managers.”
Asked if she would pledge to send the articles to the Senate soon, Pelosi said: “That would have been our intention.” But she added that “we are not having that discussion. We have done what we set out to do.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said: “Not allowing the Senate to act on approved Articles of Impeachment becomes Constitutional extortion and creates chaos for the presidency. It also sets in motion a tremendous threat to our Constitutional system of checks and balances.”
If House Dems refuse to send Articles of Impeachment to the Senate for trial it would be a breathtaking violation of the Constitution, an act of political cowardice, and fundamentally unfair to President [Trump].”
Graham also said: “There is a reason one person can’t be Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader at the same time!”
Impeachment managers must be appointed by a House resolutions, but Thursday is the last day the House will be in session until Jan. 7.
Trump also pointed out the absurdity of Pelosi’s plan to withhold the articles from the Senate.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:40:33 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-rep-tlaib-posts-video-celebrating-impeachment-vote-trump-respondsWATCH: Democrat Rep. Tlaib Posts Video Celebrating Impeachment Vote; Trump Responds On her way to vote “yes” on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) posted a video of herself on social media celebrating her affirmative vote and the impending impeachment. “Hi, everyone! I’m on my way to the United States House floor to impeach President Trump,” Tlaib says in the video, smiling ear-to-ear, “on behalf of my incredible district, #13DistrictStrong.” WATCH: Trump reacted to the post on Thursday morning. “This is what the Dems are dealing with,” the president captioned the video of Tlaib’s celebration. “Does anyone think this is good for the USA!” In her scripted opening statement at the start of the impeachment debate Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) asserted that “no member, regardless of party or politics, comes to Congress to impeach a president.” But that is demonstrably untrue of Tlaib, who called for the impeachment of Trump since the day she won her Congressional seat, infamously shouting, “We’re gonna impeach the motherf***er!” “People love you and you win. And when your son looks at you and says, ‘Momma, look you won. Bullies don’t win.’ And I said, ‘Baby, they don’t, because we’re gonna go in there and we’re gonna impeach the mother***er,'” the congresswoman said following her election win to a room full of supporters. Notably, Tlaib’s promise to “impeach the motherf***er” came six months before Trump even made the call to his Ukrainian counterpart that Democrats are using to advance the partisan impeachment effort. The video from the Democratic representative only gives more credence to Republicans’ complaints of total partisanship (as does the actual impeachment vote, which did not include a single Republican vote in favor of either article). Attempting to cast impeachment as a nonpartisan, somber event, top Democrats reportedly handed down instructions to avoid cheering and act “solemn.” “House Democratic leaders told caucus members not to cheer or applaud when today’s impeachment vote totals are announced, and Democratic members described the day as sad and solemn,” Axios reported Wednesday. “One Democratic member from a Trump-won district said the instruction is: ‘Don’t cheer, keep it solemn,’” the report added. Moreover, Pelosi and other Democratic women wore black to emphasize just how “solemn” the occasion of partisan impeachment was. Tlaib, clearly, did not take the instructions too seriously. And she wasn’t the only one. Throwing a wrench in Pelosi’s attempt to present the proceeding as heavy, some Democrats broke out in cheers and took selfies when she announced the affirmative votes on both articles of impeachment. The disastrous moment forced Pelosi to publicly try to quiet them, as reported by The Daily Wire. Here are some other questionable remarks from leading Democrats that showcase the impeachment case as completely partisan, via The Daily Wire: www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rnc-hammers-democrats-in-new-ad-highlighting-their-words-on-impeachmentSocialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY): “This is about preventing a potentially disastrous outcome from occurring next year.” Dina Titus (NV): “I’d like to impeach the bastard right now.” Adam Schiff (CA): “That charlatan in the White House.” Nancy Pelosi (CA): “An imposter,” and “We cannot accept a second term for Donald Trump.” Maxine Waters (CA): “He really should be punished,” and “ I am not running for anything except the impeachment of Trump.” Rashida Tlaib (MI): “We’re gonna impeach the mother**ker.” Al Green (TX): “If we don’t impeach this president, he will get reelected.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 10:42:56 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/political/let-them-impeach-and-be-damned-history-repeats-itself-vengeance"Let Them Impeach And Be Damned": History Repeats Itself With A Vengeance “Let them impeach and be damned.”Those words could have easily come from Donald Trump, as the House moves this week to impeach him. They were, however, the words of another president who not only shares some striking similarities to Trump but who went through an impeachment with chilling parallels to the current proceedings. The impeachment of Trump is not just history repeating itself but repeating itself with a vengeance. The closest of the three prior presidential impeachment cases to the House effort today is the 1868 impeachment of Andrew Johnson. This is certainly not a comparison that Democrats should relish. The Johnson case has long been widely regarded as the very prototype of an abusive impeachment. As in the case of Trump, calls to impeach Johnson began almost as soon as he took office. A southerner who ascended to power after the Civil War as a result of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Johnson was called the “accidental president” and his legitimacy was never accepted by critics. Representative John Farnsworth of Illinois called Johnson an “ungrateful, despicable, besotted, traitorous man.” Johnson opposed much of the reconstruction plan Lincoln had for the defeated south and was criticized for fueling racial divisions. He was widely viewed as an alcoholic and racist liar who opposed full citizenship for freed slaves. Ridiculed for not being able to spell, Johnson responded, “It is a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.” Sound familiar? The “Radical Republicans” in Congress started to lay a trap a year before impeachment. They were aware that Johnson wanted their ally, War Secretary Edwin Stanton, out of his cabinet, so they then decided to pass an unconstitutional law that made his firing a crime. To leave no doubt of their intentions, they even defined such a firing as a “high misdemeanor.” It was a trap door crime created for the purposes of impeachment. Undeterred, Johnson fired Stanton anyway. His foes then set upon any member of Congress or commentator who dared question the basis for the impeachment. His leading opponent, Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania demanded of them, “What good did your moderation do you? If you do not kill the beast, it will kill you.” As with Trump, the Johnson impeachment was a fast and narrow effort. On paper, his was even faster, since Johnson was impeached just days after the approval of an inquiry. But the underlying investigation began more than a year earlier and was actually the fourth such effort. Yet it also was largely based on the single act of firing Stanton. It collapsed in the Senate due to seven courageous Republicans who voted to acquit a president they despised. One of them, Edmund Ross of Kansas, said that voting for Johnson was like looking down into his open grave. Ross then jumped because he felt his oath to the Constitution gave him no alternative. The Trump impeachment is even weaker than the Johnson impeachment, which had an accepted criminal act as its foundation. This will be the first presidential impeachment to go forward without such a recognized crime but, like the Johnson impeachment, it has a manufactured and artificial construct. The Trump impeachment also marks the fastest impeachment of all time, depending on how you count the days in the Johnson case. Take the obstruction of Congress article. I have strongly encouraged the House to abandon the arbitrary deadline of impeaching Trump before Christmas and to take a couple more months to build a more complete record and to allow judicial review of the underlying objections of the Trump administration. But Democrats have set a virtual rocket docket schedule and will impeach Trump for not turning over witnesses and documents in that short period even though he is in court challenging congressional demands. Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton both were able to go to court to challenge demands for testimony and documents. The resulting judicial opinions proved critical to the outcome of the cases. Under the theory of the House, members can set any ridiculously short period and then impeach a president who, like Trump has done, seeks judicial review over claims of executive privileges and immunities. It is another trap door impeachment. Democrats did subpoena documents until October but have not issued any subpoenas for critical witnesses such as John Bolton. They did not hold a vote for an inquiry until the end of October. They set a vote for December to manufacture a time crush. NEVER MISS THE NEWS THAT MATTERS MOST ZEROHEDGE DIRECTLY TO YOUR INBOX Receive a daily recap featuring a curated list of must-read stories. Your email... The same is true with the abuse of power article. I testified that the House had a legitimate reason to investigate this allegation and, if there was a showing of a quid pro quo, could impeach Trump for it. Democrats called highly compelling witnesses who said they believed such a quid pro quo existed, but the record is conflicted. There is no statement of a quid pro quo in the conversations between Trump and the Ukrainians, and White House aides have denied being given such a demand. Trump declared during two direct conversations, with Republican Senator Ron Johnson and Ambassador Gordon Sondland, that there was no quid pro quo. One can question the veracity of his statement, as he likely knew of the whistleblower at the time of the calls. But there is no direct statement in the record by Trump to the contrary. Democrats and their witnesses have instead insisted that the impeachment can be proven by inferences or presumptions. The problem is that there still are a significant number of witnesses who likely have direct evidence, but the House has refused to go to court to compel their appearance. The House will therefore move forward with an impeachment that seems designed to fail in the Senate, as if that is a better option than taking the time to build a complete case. With half of the country opposing impeachment, the House has approved two articles of impeachment designed to play better On CNN than in the Senate. Meanwhile, a lack of tolerance for constitutional objections is growing by the day. Some critics have actually cited Johnson as precedent to show that impeachment can be done on purely political grounds. In other words, the very reason the Johnson impeachment is condemned by history is now being used today as a justification to dispense with standards and definitions of impeachable acts. One commentator has embraced the use of Johnson as precedent with a statement that might make every “Radical Republican” from the 19th century smile, saying, “At least they impeached the motherf—-r.” Indeed, many Democrats seem to be taking away the wrong lesson on impeachment from Johnson himself, who declared, “Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.” This is how history not only repeats itself, but repeats itself with a vengeance.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 12:14:04 GMT -6
CBS ANCHOR: What impact do you think this could have on future presidents?
JONATHAN TURLEY: It is going to have a significant impact, I think it will be a largely dysfunctional one. The problem I have is that this sets the standard quite low for impeachment.
They ultimately rejected the four articles that I originally testified against, including bribery, and went with the two that I thought were legitimate, but they did not obviously follow my advice and try to build a record to try to support those two articles.
The problem I have is that judging by how they define these two articles, you could impeach every living president on this type of allegations.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 12:16:48 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/12/19/ag-barr-comey-nonsense/AG Barr Hits Back At Comey’s ‘Nonsense’ Attorney General William Barr hit back Wednesday at James Comey over the former FBI director’s attempts to downplay his role in Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. In an interview with Fox News, Barr disputed Comey’s claim in a “Fox News Sunday” interview that the investigation was run “seven layers” below him. “The idea that this was seven layers below him is simply not true,” Barr told Fox’s Martha MacCallum in an interview that aired Wednesday. “I think that one of the problems with what happened was precisely that they pulled the investigation up to the executive floors, and it was run and birddogged by a very small group of very high level officials,” he added. (RELATED: AG Barr Says Durham Is Looking At ‘Private Actors’ In Investigation Of Trump-Russia Probe) Barr and Comey were responding to the findings of a Justice Department inspector general’s (IG) report that found “significant inaccuracies” in the FBI’s applications for surveillance orders against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The report said the FBI withheld exculpatory information regarding Page and derogatory information regarding the Steele dossier, which the FBI cited extensively in its applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against the Trump aide. Primis Player Placeholder The report also said that Comey was involved in plans to open Crossfire Hurricane and that he reviewed the initial Page FISA application. FBI agents updated Comey on the status of the investigation every two to four weeks, the report said. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which approved the FBI’s four Page applications, excoriated the bureau in an order released publicly Tuesday for providing “false” and “misleading” information to assert that Page was an agent of Russia. WATCH: Comey acknowledged in his interview Sunday that he was “wrong” to have previously asserted that the FBI did nothing wrong during the surveillance process. He also tried to downplay the IG’s findings. He chalked the errors up to “sloppiness” on the part of the FBI. He accepted some responsibility for the errors but ultimately pinned them on career FBI agents who carried out the day-to-day activities of the investigation. Barr took another jab at Comey for whitewashing his role in the investigation. “I think leaders have to own their decisions and are fair game if they make bad decisions,” he said in his Fox interview. Barr also said he objects to allegations from Comey and others that his criticisms over the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia probe is an attack on the bureau itself. “One of the things I object to is the tack being taken by Comey, which is to suggest that people who are criticizing or are trying to get to the bottom of the misconduct are somehow attacking the FBI,” Barr said. “I think that’s nonsense.” “We’re criticizing and concerned about the misconduct of a few actors at the top of the FBI, and they should be criticized if they engaged in serious misconduct. That doesn’t mean that we’re criticizing the FBI,” he continued.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 12:18:59 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/chuck-schumer-trying-to-drive-wedge-between-senate-republicans-over-impeachmentDemocrats may have been celebrating the House vote officially impeaching President Donald Trump Wednesday night, but the party was short-lived; now, it seems, they’re setting about the work of avoiding a Senate trial which will, no doubt, acquit the President and leave him in office, and perhaps no worse for wear going into the 2020 presidential election. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been working desperately to make Republicans the villain in the Senate impeachment trial story, first sending a three-page letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), demanding to be allowed to rectify the flaws in the House’s impeachment case by bringing witnesses in the Senate trial, and now it appears he’s trying to drive a wedge between Republican legislators and their leadership, claiming that impeachment will be a “sham” — and the GOP will be responsible — if the Senate trial doesn’t happen. Schumer repeated the latest Democrat talking point on CBS News Thursday morning, claiming that McConnell is required to be an “impartial” witness — a responsibility he believes McConnell has abrogated by communicating with the White House ahead of the Senate trial. Click to find out more about a new promotion Don't miss this content from our sponsor “The Senate has always been lodged with the responsibility to be impartial jurors and judge this … we want to make it that way again,” Schumer claimed to CBS. “The truth should come out, and we are pushing to get the truth – not a sham trial where nothing new is learned.” But that’s precisely how the Senate trial works — typically, the Senate investigates the evidence that forced the House to an impeachment vote, and that’s the system Schumer pushed for in 1998, ahead of former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment hearings. The Senate is not charged with relitigating the issues investigated by the House or repairing a House case that doesn’t quite make sense. Sources close to Schumer tell The Hill that the Minority Leader hopes to convince some more moderate Republicans that witnesses are necessary, and that a trial would be “sham” without additional evidence. “Absent a deal with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Democrats are expected to force floor votes on their requests for trial documents and witnesses, including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton,” the DC-based outlet reports. “Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), backed by members of his caucus, is working to put Republicans in a bind and drive a wedge between GOP leaders, who say they don’t want witnesses, and a handful of moderate and retiring senators viewed by Democrats as persuadable.” Schumer claims that any Senator who doesn’t want a true trial is “complicit” in the White House’s criminal behavior (which Democrats, oddly enough, have yet to prove): “Each individual senator will have the power, will have the responsibility to help shape what an impeachment trial will look like. Do my Republican colleagues want a fair, honest trial that examines all the facts, or do they want to participate in the cover-up?” The White House is reportedly working to shore up the support in the Senate, visiting and aggressively courting “questionable” Senators like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and others. White House senior aide Kellyanne Conway has been meeting with Senate Republicans behind closed doors all week, seeking assurances that the Senate GOP won’t splinter.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 12:20:41 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-torches-dems-accuses-them-of-cold-feet-on-senate-trial-offers-to-reinstate-1999-impeachment-rulesMcConnell Torches Dems, Accuses Them Of ‘Cold Feet’ On Senate Trial, Offers To Reinstate 1999 Impeachment Rules Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wasted no time taunting House Democrats, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, for threatening to withhold their “slapdash” articles of impeachment, pushed through on a party-line vote Wednesday night, if the Senate doesn’t accede to their wishes and allow Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to repair major holes in the Dems case against President Donald Trump. Speaking on the floor of the Senate Thursday morning, McConnell threatened to cancel the Senate trial altogether if Democrats refuse to hand over the articles of impeachment, as is required by the rules outlining the impeachment process and mocked Pelosi and her team for getting “cold feet” after rushing through the impeachment process in the House. “Mr. President, looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial,” McConnell chuckled. “They said impeachment was so urgent that it could not even wait for due process, but now they’re content to sit on their hands.” “This is really comical,” he added. “Democrats’ own actions concede that their allegations are unproven. The articles aren’t just unproven, they’re also constitutionally incoherent.” Schumer and others are demanding a full trial in the Senate and want the ability to bring witnesses and take testimonly in an effort to repair gaping holes in the House Democrats’ case against President Donald Trump. McConnell, who reserves the right to schedule, control, and manage the Senate trial, is having none of it. He also chided Pelosi over the idea that, somehow, the President will suffer if Democrats delay the Senate trial, and offered to take the heat from Pelosi’s Democratic base for refusing to get the trial moving quickly. “It’s beyond me how the Speaker and Democratic Leader in the Senate think withholding the articles of impeachment and not sending them over gives them leverage,” McConnell said. “Frankly, I’m not anxious to have the trial. If she thinks her case is so weak she doesn’t want to send it over, throw me into that briar patch.” Click to find out more about a new promotion Don't miss this content from our sponsor Democrats are hoping that a later trial will injure the President more effectively, putting him on the defensive closer to Election Day, while avoiding Senate rules that require at least three leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to leave the campaign trail for weeks just as the primaries are getting started. They also seem concerned that the White House will put up a more effective fight in the Senate, where Republicans — not Democrats — are in charge of the process. McConnell has offered a single olive branch to Schumer and Pelosi: instead of relitigating the Senate trial process, he says he’ll simply reinstate the rules Democrats drafted in 1998, ahead of President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, which resulted in a partisan acquittal. “In 1999, all 100 senators agreed on a simple pre-trial resolution that set up a briefing, opening arguments, senators’ questions, and a vote on a motion to dismiss,” McConnell added in his remarks. “Senators reserved all other questions, such as witnesses, until the trial was underway. That was the unanimous bipartisan precedent from 1999. Put first things first, lay the bipartisan groundwork, and leave mid-trial questions to the middle of the trial.” “If 100 senators thought this approach was good enough for President Clinton,” McConnell added, “it ought to be good enough for President Trump.” He probably won’t find many Democrats to agree, however, as he pointed out earlier on in his remarks. Impeachment hasn’t been on the table for just a few weeks. It’s been on the table since January 21, 2017.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 16:18:46 GMT -6
Right on cue, Adam Schiff is now after VP Pence:
Adam Schiff went on with Rachel Maddow last night to push their Trump-Ukraine conspiracy — something that was completely debunked everywhere after three weeks of testimony except on CNN, MSNBC and the fake news media.
During their conversation Schiff announced he was going after Vice President Mike Pence next and may have “acquired evidence” that the Vice President is hiding information in the House Ukrainian investigation.
Adam Schiff: Well, we have acquired a piece of evidence, classified by Jennifer Williams, something she alluded to in her open testimony. Then going back and looking through her records she found other information that was pertinent to that phone call that we asked her about and made that submission. There is nothing that is classified in the document but the vice president’s office has said they are going to classify… It is not proper to classify something because it would be embarrassing or incriminating. And that submission does shed light on the vice president’s knowledge. We think the American people should see it.
Jennifer Williams testified before Congress in November and offered nothing. She worked for Vice President Mike Pence. So now Schiff has Democrats thinking Williams holds the key to Pence’s impeachment.
Then President Pelosi will RULE!
These people are crazy!
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 16:20:41 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 16:21:46 GMT -6
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7811103/Ilhan-Omar-named-adulteress-court-lover-wife-formally-divorce.htmlDemocratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was named as an adulteress in divorce court Thursday by her lover’s former wife as the couple formally ended their marriage.
Beth Jordan said she wanted to ‘make a statement’ about her husband Tim Mynett having an affair with the radical Democrat, during the 16-minute hearing in Washington D.C.
Mynett left the court after the hearing grinning and clapping his hands in glee. He said he was happy with the proceedings but would not comment further.
The hearing ended abruptly shortly after Jordan, 55, spoke publicly of 37-year-old Omar’s affair with Mynett, 38. DailyMail.com first revealed the affair in July, a week after revealing that Omar had split from her husband.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 16:22:30 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 16:24:29 GMT -6
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-19/trump-lawyers-ask-if-pelosi-delay-means-trump-not-yet-impeachedLawyers close to President Donald Trump are exploring whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to temporarily withhold articles of impeachment from the Senate could mean that the president hasn’t actually been impeached.
The White House legal theory, according to a person familiar with the legal review, is that if Trump has been officially impeached, the U.S. Senate should already have jurisdiction. Backers of the theory would argue that the clause of the U.S. Constitution that gives the Senate “the sole Power to try all Impeachments” indicates that the impeachment isn’t formalized until the House reported the charges to the upper chamber.
Speaking Thursday in the Oval Office, Trump said it was “unconstitutional” for Pelosi not to submit the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 16:33:05 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/12/19/levin-mcconnell-pelosi-impeachment/Conservative radio host Mark Levin said Thursday that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should immediately nullify impeachment. Levin spoke out in a Thursday Facebook post after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump Wednesday night. Levin discussed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “brazen unconstitutional act” of “unilaterally sitting on the impeachment” and laid out a plan for McConnell to immediately nullify impeachment. “Here’s what Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans must do in response,” Levin wrote. “The Senate has the sole power under the Constitution to adjudicate an impeachment. Therefore, Pelosi is attempting to obstruct the Senate’s power to act on its constitutional authority.” US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi presides over Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump as the House votes at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on December 18, 2019. - The US House of Representatives voted 229-198 on Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for obstruction of Congress. The House impeached Trump for abuse of power by a 230-197 vote. The 45th US president is just the third occupant of the White House in US history to be impeached. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi presides over Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump as the House votes at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 18, 2019. (Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) “McConnell should immediately put an end to this and declare the impeachment null and void as the speaker has failed to complete the impeachment process by timely sending it to the Senate for adjudication,” Levin added. (RELATED: House Votes To Impeach President Trump) The conservative radio host said that McConnell has “no less authority” to do this than Pelosi has to keep administrative notification of impeachment from the Senate. “Her effort to cripple the presidency and blackmail the Senate must be defeated,” Levin wrote.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 16:37:56 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/19/mccarthy-pelosi-admitting-defeat-by-not-sending-impeachment-articles/During a press conference on Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is “admitting defeat” by not sending articles of impeachment over to the Senate. McCarthy said, “Now, we have the own speaker of the House who is so embarrassed that she admits the failure of this impeachment that she will not even send it to the Senate. … She’s admitting defeat by not sending it, by refusing to send the impeachment over, she knows this outcome is not good. She knows the facts are not there. There’s no basis for it.
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Post by soonernvolved on Dec 19, 2019 16:40:21 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/12/19/intel-community-blog-founder-admits-nunes-was-right-about-spygate-from-the-beginning/Intel Community Blog Founder Admits Nunes Was Right About Spygate From The BeginningDECEMBER 19, 2019 By Tristan Justice The co-founder of the prominent intelligence community blog, Lawfare, admitted that a recent report from the Justice Department inspector general on FBI FISA abuses for Trump campaign surveillance has destroyed their own credibility.
On a Thursday podcast hosted by Stewart Baker, a partner at the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, the blog’s founder, Bobby Chesney admitted that the damming report from the DOJ IG documenting FBI abuses and vindicating the infamous Nunes memo on the discredited Steele Dossier alleging Russian collusion has been destructive to his publication’s reputation. “Is there somebody who since the release of the Horowitz paper, someone in political life or a pontificator looks better or worse as a result of this report and why?” Baker asked the panel of three legal experts who specialize in the intelligence community. I feel like all of us, who, you might call us the ‘Lawfare crowd’ who were often denounced or criticized at least in the older days as being too quick to credit and too trust the good faith and completeness of the efforts of the FBI in this kind of context. A lot of us look bad right now and we’re sort of watching anxiously to see how the broader OIG investigation sheds light on whether this was a one-off problem or a broader problem but there’s not question that a lot of our positions don’t look as persuasive as a result of how this has turned out. Chesney’s humbling admission comes after three years of a continued push from Democrats charging the Trump campaign of colluding with the Russian government in a wild conspiracy theory offered legitimacy by the mainstream media. Trump of course, was completely exonerated after a two-year special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller who found not one person on the Trump campaign, let alone Trump himself was working as a Russian agent. A new report unveiled earlier this month from the Justice Department inspector general revealed the gross abuses of the FISA process committed by the FBI to guarantee warrants for its spying operations on the Trump campaign referred to as “Crossfire hurricane.” The inspector general found 17 significant omissions and errors from FISA applications requesting permission to continue its deep-state campaign to convict the president of being a Russian asset and overturn the results of the 2016 election. Among the revelations from the report is the fact that FBI officials knew as early as January 2017 that the sources used from the Steele Dossier which were the basis for their warrant applications had provided junk intelligence and pushed onward with their surveillance operations regardless as if it were credible. The inspector general’s findings have further vindicated the infamous memo authored by Republican California Congressman Devin Nunes rebuking the Steele Dossier while contradicting the rival memo from House Democrats pushing now-completely debunked narrative. The media derided the Republicans’ findings and vilified Nunes while providing glowing coverage of California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff who was the lead perpetuator of the Russia hoax in the House. A great example of the types of disproven analysis published at Lawfare comes from Lawfare’s executive director, Susan Hennessey who also works as a CNN national security and legal analyst. Even after the release of the Mueller report and the DOJ IG report, Hennessey maintained that there was “no Russia hoax” despite her own boss’ admission. She has yet to retract this analysis.
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