All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Tero]

[Brian Peacock]

"My great and unmatched wisdom" - so how much coke do you think he's doing at the moment?

[JimC]

He has to be the most psychologically damaged western world leader ever...

[Rum]

"My great and unmatched wisdom" - so how much coke do you think he's doing at the moment?

I was actually frightened when I read that statement.

[pErvinalia]

Real delusion.

[Tero]

man on left is Devon Archer
both Archer and Biden Jr betrayed America by serving on Burisma board
Trump claimed Archer was the CEO

[Svartalf]

He has to be the most psychologically damaged western world leader ever...

mmmh, hitler and mussolini come to mind, Stalin does not count as Western.

[Brian Peacock]

Trump washes his hands of the Kurds say 'they didn't help us with Normandy.'

[Svartalf]

fuck frump with pence's dick. those Kurds did more good to the USA than he ever did.

[Tero]

“If Democrats were interested in fairness, they would follow the same process as previous impeachment proceedings. Instead, they just make up the rules as they go along,” said Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio,

Case Western law professor Jonathan Adler said the administration’s assertion that the House must vote to conduct the inquiry is without legal merit. It is instead a political argument to voters that they shouldn’t consider the investigation legitimate.

“As a political matter, if the House leadership wants to take some of these issues away from the White House, they could take a vote on the floor. They may decide politically to do that even in the absence of a legal requirement to do so,” he said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ump-taunts

[Joe]

I just figured Pelosi was giving Democrats in swing districts a break. They don't have to explain a vote for an impeachment inquiry, since she made the decision.

[L'Emmerdeur]

It's amusing to see Trumpists blithering about established precedent as if they hadn't happily gone along with their Dear Leader stomping all over established precedents for years.

[L'Emmerdeur]

A couple of Rudy's helpers in Operation Scuttle Biden are guests of the US government for the moment.

'Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine Henchman Arrested Over Trump Group Donation'

Two Soviet-born businessmen with ties to Rudy Giuliani were arrested Wednesday on federal charges of violating campaign-finance laws through a six-figure donation they facilitated to President Donald Trump’s official super PAC.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were taken into custody at Washington’s Dulles airport. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman confirmed that the two were headed out of the country and that the timing of the arrest—before 6 pm on Wednesday—was prompted by fears of them escaping prosecution. Both men were about to board an international flight with one way tickets. Berman and local FBI Agent and charge William Sweeney made brief statements and left without taking questions. They said the case remained open and the investigation is ongoing.

...

Parnas and Fruman are central to an ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump. The two men assisted Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, in his efforts to dig up dirt on Trump’s political opponents in Ukraine. Among the objectives they sought was the removal of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, whom Giuliani believed was standing in the way of investigations he and Trump wanted to see launched into Joe and Hunter Biden’s work in the country.

The campaign-finance allegations against them are inextricably linked with that effort. Prosecutors say their extensive political contributions, beginning in early 2018, were designed to curry favor with American policymakers in an effort to advance Parnas’ and Fruman’s political and business endeavors.

“I can’t comment at this point,” Giuliani told The Daily Beast.

[Seabass]

You can't swing a dead cat in White House without hitting an impeachable offense.

Trump Urged Top Aide to Help Giuliani Client Facing DOJ Charges

President Donald Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani, according to three people familiar with the 2017 meeting in the Oval Office.

Tillerson refused, arguing it would constitute interference in an ongoing investigation of the trader, Reza Zarrab, according to the people. They said other participants in the Oval Office were shocked by the request.

Tillerson immediately repeated his objections to then-Chief of Staff John Kelly in a hallway conversation just outside the Oval Office, emphasizing that the request would be illegal. Neither episode has been previously reported, and all of the people spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the conversations.

more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... oj-charges

[JimC]

If you urge someone to do something illegal, but they refuse, have you committed a crime?