OFFICIAL IMPEACHMENT TRIAL THREAD

[KEEF]

Dog and pony show starts tomorrow in the Senate... grab your popcorn!

[Warlord]

I feel sorry for the senators who are going to sit through what will be 12 hours of complete BS.

I certainly wont be watching.

[Danke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4JM7kw1PYs&feature=emb_title

[Anti Globalist]

Not gonna waste my time watching any of that.

[enhanced_deficit]

Dog and pony show starts tomorrow in the Senate... grab your popcorn!

^this.

Globalist neoconervative donorship/Deep Pockets are not going to allow bunch of "stooges" (citation pending) to sink their mssive investment in MAGA.
This "trial" would have same outcome as "corruption trial" of same top donor's other investment abroad in Polish-Israeli politician Netanyahu.

[Warlord]

So this circus starts this afternoon for anyone who isn't busy. I think i'll give it a rain check.

[RonZeplin]

The Deep State whiners will protect Donnell, nothing to see here move on.

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[fcreature]

Will be interesting to see ratings broken down by when the House prosecutions vs defense has their turns.

I for one won't be subjecting myself to the immense pain that occurs every time Schiff opens his mouth.

[Snowball]

Better dust off that crown...

[ILUVRP]

win-lose-draw this is what makes america great , i have no dog in this fight .

[devil21]

LOL. Trump's lead defense attorney, Patrick Philbin, is a product of every Ivy League and British Rothschild controlled education institution possible and yet another GWB administration retread. But yeah, Donnie is totally the MAGA champion and this impeachment trial is all very real.

Live feed from senate.gov
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/floor_activity_pail.htm

[SummersEve]

The MAGA is good, the MAGA is wise. Open your third eye to the MAGA.

[kpitcher]

Epstein's lawyers didn't help him as a client, let's see how they do with Trump as a client

[Valli6]

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https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1220044726407176192

[Warlord]

I wonder if Trump will take up Rand on the offer. He just said at Davos that he might turn up.

Anyway, I think this impeachment boring, I dont know why its getting so much coverage when it will just end with acquittal.

[Warlord]

Republican Senator Rand Paul told the Washington Post on Wednesday that 45 Senators are prepared to dismiss impeachment charges against President Donald Trump.

“There are 45, with about five to eight wanting to hear a little more,” Paul said. "I will push it at some point...The more Adam Schiff speaks, the more we become unified.”

Republicans need 51 votes to dismiss the charges. Republican leadership has indicated they do not want to dismiss the charges.

[Valli6]

Anyway, I think this impeachment boring, I dont know why its getting so much coverage when it will just end with acquittal.
It IS so godawful boring! I can't watch for more than a few seconds and I can't imagine anyone, even democrats, sitting through this tedious slog unless being paid.

Meanwhile, this NJ dog has developed Adam Schiff's Disease - probably forced to watch impeachment trial!
https://www.usanews.net/images/haberler/2020/01/The-owner-dropped-husky-because-it-looked-strange.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0UlLElTMHc

[Origanalist]

If they impeach Trump we get Pence, oh goodie.

[Origanalist]

Trump should take Rand up on his offer and go sit in and sent one tweet after another and interrupt incessantly.

[Warlord]

Trump retweeted it...

[timosman]

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1220072588799442944

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[Danke]

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[ILUVRP]

If they impeach Trump we get Pence, oh goodie.

i would rather have trump than pence , at least we know where trump stands .

[Origanalist]

i would rather have trump than pence , at least we know where trump stands .

https://i.imgflip.com/3mzhte.jpg

[Danke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpFOOBs0qUk&feature=emb_title

[Anti Federalist]

https://sellercore.com/image.php?id=292746

[Danke]

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[enhanced_deficit]

This trial does not seem to be really grabbing attention of the people, there is no 'it' factor, there is no 'Monica Lewinsky'.. no bluedress.. no display of shame/embarassment by the impeachee.

True that there are some star celeberity lawyers like highly respected Alan Dershowitz.. will he be able to create some sparks like he did during OJ trial? Time will tell but not looking very interseting thus far from average viewer's standpoint.

[Origanalist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=ueOIOWnzMwA&feature=emb_logo

[Valli6]

"Senator Rand Paul called in... this morning (01/24/20) to give updates & thoughts on the Impeachment Trial, live from Capitol Hill." About 9 minutes long, from Goober 95.1 WGGC podcast.
https://wggc.com/index.php/state-of-the-state-rand-paul-gives-big-rick-his-thoughts-on-impeachment-trial-01-24-20/

[Danke]

Schumer Whiffs Impeachment
“An old Beltway joke is that the most dangerous place in Washington is between Chuck Schumer and a TV camera. After Week One of the Trump impeachment trial, that deserves modification: The most dangerous place for Democrats is Chuck Schumer in front of a TV camera,” Kimberly Strassel writes in The Wall Street Journal.

“In fairness, Mr. Schumer was handed the weakest impeachment case in U.S. history. He began this exercise facing 53 Republican senators who spent months watching the most liberal House Democrats use secret hearings, leaked transcripts and strong-arm tactics to produce two vague and legally dubious articles of impeachment.”

Click here to read more. (https://whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&id=70764f8ec6&e=bf3f33363c)










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Democrats are demanding new documents and witnesses for the Senate trial—“even ones Democrats didn’t call for in the House. Democrats don’t seem to realize that they’re complaining that their own articles of impeachment are flimsy, lacking in substance, and failing to sway the American people or any objective senators,” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) writes for Fox News (https://whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&id=22f091ed0a&e=bf3f33363c).









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Millions of Americans are already changing the channel on impeachment—literally. According to Nielsen data, as Democrats began making their arguments Wednesday, ratings plummeted by 19 percent and lost over 2 million TV viewers from Tuesday’s procedural debates, Helen Coster reports for Reuters (https://whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&id=b994ce2d26&e=bf3f33363c).









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“Americans' confidence in the U.S. economy is higher than at any point in about two decades.” The surging optimism “likely reflects the U.S. unemployment rate's continued stay at a 50-year low. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average continues to reach record highs -- and flirts with reaching the 30,000 marker,” Justin McCarthy writes for Gallup (https://whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&id=d11ca83287&e=bf3f33363c).

[Warlord]

Robert Barnes: The Unconstitutional Impeachment of President Trump

ttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/24/robert-barnes-the-unconstitutional-impeachment-of-president-trump/ (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/24/robert-barnes-the-unconstitutional-impeachment-of-president-trump/)

[nikcers]

This is the most boring roast I have ever seen.

[Swordsmyth]

https://twitter.com/FollowQanon/status/1220139746271408128

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[Swordsmyth]

NYTimes Quashed Story About 2016 WH Meeting With 'Whistleblower' & Ukrainians On Burisma: Report (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nytimes-quashed-story-about-2016-wh-meeting-whistleblower-ukrainians-burisma-report) https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_small/public/2020-01/download.png?itok=DsATKqTm (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nytimes-quashed-story-about-2016-wh-meeting-whistleblower-ukrainians-burisma-report)

"...the subjects discussed included efforts within the US government to support prosecutions, in Ukraine and the UK, of Burisma Holdings... and concerns that Hunter Biden’s position with the company could complicate such efforts."

[Swordsmyth]

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued less than a year ago in the Washington Post that a president had a duty to investigate a candidate from the rival party if he was suspected of foreign corruption.
Schiff, reacting to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on “Russia collusion,” justified the Barack Obama administration’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, and said Mueller should have included it.
Schiff wrote that investigating a potential president — even from the opposition — was an urgent matter of national security if there were reason to believe that candidate were working for, or beholden to, a foreign country.
He wrote (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/adam-schiff-congress-must-assure-that-trump-is-working-for-the-american-people--not-foreign-interests/2019/04/22/ac403f06-6532-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html) (emphasis added):

Counterintelligence investigations differ from criminal investigations in their means, scope and ultimate disposition. Their goal is not successful prosecutions, but to identify and mitigate threats to national security. If a foreign power possessed compromising information on a U.S. government official in a position of influence, that is a counterintelligence risk. If a foreign power possessed leverage, or the perception of it, over the president, that is a counterintelligence nightmare.
Schiff added that the public deserved to see the material that the FBI found on the Trump campaign. (We know today that the FBI lied to the FISA court to obtain surveillance warrants on a Trump aide.)
Today, Schiff and the Democrats are arguing that it is an impeachable offense for a president to investigate foreign corruption by a potential president from the opposition — even when, as in the Bidens’ case, former Vice President Joe Biden had a clear conflict of interest while his son, Hunter, was on the board of Ukrainian company Burisma.
According to Schiff just last April, it is not an impeachable offense, but an urgent matter of national security for a president to investigate his potential successor.
It is the president’s duty. That is, unless the president is Donald J. Trump.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/01/24/adam-schiff-april-2019-obama-had-a-duty-to-investigate-candidate-trump/

[Intrepid]

Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) argued less than a year ago in the Washington Post that a president had a duty to investigate a candidate from the rival party if he was suspected of foreign corruption.
Schiff, reacting to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on “Russia collusion,” justified the Barack Obama administration’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, and said Mueller should have included it.
Schiff wrote that investigating a potential president — even from the opposition — was an urgent matter of national security if there were reason to believe that candidate were working for, or beholden to, a foreign country.
He wrote (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/adam-schiff-congress-must-assure-that-trump-is-working-for-the-american-people--not-foreign-interests/2019/04/22/ac403f06-6532-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html) (emphasis added):
Counterintelligence investigations differ from criminal investigations in their means, scope and ultimate disposition. Their goal is not successful prosecutions, but to identify and mitigate threats to national security. If a foreign power possessed compromising information on a U.S. government official in a position of influence, that is a counterintelligence risk. If a foreign power possessed leverage, or the perception of it, over the president, that is a counterintelligence nightmare.

Schiff added that the public deserved to see the material that the FBI found on the Trump campaign. (We know today that the FBI lied to the FISA court to obtain surveillance warrants on a Trump aide.)
Today, Schiff and the Democrats are arguing that it is an impeachable offense for a president to investigate foreign corruption by a potential president from the opposition — even when, as in the Bidens’ case, former Vice President Joe Biden had a clear conflict of interest while his son, Hunter, was on the board of Ukrainian company Burisma.
According to Schiff just last April, it is not an impeachable offense, but an urgent matter of national security for a president to investigate his potential successor.
It is the president’s duty. That is, unless the president is Donald J. Trump.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/01/24/adam-schiff-april-2019-obama-had-a-duty-to-investigate-candidate-trump/
Schiff is the epitome of a Swamp Rat.

[RonZeplin]

Swamp rat, Donnell.

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[Valli6]

Is Trump's attorney, Sekulow, wearing a huge bullet-proof vest?!

(Off topic but, I've thought lately that Rand appeared to be wearing some kind of vest in public, too.)

UPDATE - Adjourned till Monday at 1 PM ET. Finished an hour earlier than expected.

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Heres's some live links:
Cspan: https://www.c-span.org/video/?468504-1/senate-impeachment-trial-day-6
abc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j474fOoeEak&feature=emb_title

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz7N08_oTHI


Jan 23, 2020


Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), who has a long-standing interest in Ukraine, noted during a break in the Senate impeachment trial that many of the House Democrat impeachment managers now arguing that President Donald Trump should be removed for a temporary hold on aid to Ukraine voted against it themselves. She also noted that Trump, unlike President Barack Obama and the Democrats, gave Ukraine “lethal aid” to defend itself from Russia.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz7N08_oTHI

[Warlord]

Sanders is stuck in DC and can't campaign in Iowa :) He has AOC and Michael Moore campaigning for him. Maybe that was the plan.

[eleganz]

Even CNN had to admit the dems' case was weak.

[timosman]

Even CNN had to admit the dems' case was weak.

What case? :tears:

[timosman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UdrqFEhqQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3UdrqFEhqQ

[enhanced_deficit]

Potentially more bad news for GOPA wing neocons investments in US politics:



Susan Collins signals she will vote for witnesses in Trump impeachment trial

By Mark Moore
January 27, 2020
GOP Sen. Mitt Romney said Monday it’s “increasingly apparent” that more Republican senators will support calling witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial following revelations about Ukraine in former national security adviser John Bolton’s book (https://nypost.com/2020/01/27/john-boltons-memoir-now-has-a-title-release-date/).
“It’s pretty fair to say John Bolton has relevant testimony,” Romney (R-Utah) told reporters. “I think it’s increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton.”
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said in a statement on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1221822472292634625) she was “likely to vote to call witnesses” and that the “reports about John Bolton’s book strengthen the case for witnesses and have prompted a number of conversations among my colleagues.”
nypost.com/2020/01/27/susan-collins-signals-she-will-vote-for-witnesses-in-trump-impeachment-trial/

Sen. Rand Paul Says GOP Will Shaft Trump During Impeachment Trial (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?543011-EXCLUSIVE-Sen-Rand-Paul-Says-GOP-Will-Shaft-Trump-During-Impeachment-Trial&)