Well I don’t know what search terms you used but my first hit on “Comey lied to Congress” is:
CNN: FBI issues ‘supplement’ to clarify Comey’s incorrect congressional statement
Instead of demanding from others, how bout sharing your thoughts?
Its the same thing, imo. And sufficient grounds for termination.
Nah. The Republican party of 2017 is not the Republican party of 1973. No integrity in positions of leadership. Ryan? McConnell? Don’t make me laugh. Even McCain wussed out when Trump insulted him during the campaign.
First Congress has to locate a pair of gonads. Preferably attached to the same person. Not gonna happen. Not even if Trump shoots someone in cold blood on Pennsylvania Avenue.
In the global scheme of things, I think Comey’s statement on the emails is about as serious an error as is Jeff Session’s omission of having met with the Russian Ambassador.
And yet, one was fired, and one was promoted. I wonder why.
So mis-speaking and within a few days sending a correction is the same thing as lying in your opinion? Ok. Got a good read on the value of your opinions then for future reference.
Where were Dem gonads when Bill Clinton committed perjury?
If the shoe were truly on the other foot, we’d have the Senate evaluating videotaped statements of Trump saying, “I nailed her… I nailed her… I nailed her twice, and was the best she ever had…” and coming to a conclusion as to whether he has actually slept with any of those women and whether he should be removed from office for his outlandish claims.
Got plenty of threads on that other subject buried in the pile-feel free to look them over.
Or Clinton could have been impeached for blatent sexual harassment. But, as we see in threads like these, many of us put politics before principle.
Ftr, Trump ought to be made to step down on a threat of impeachment. He isnt good for the nation. But do you really want President Pence?
You know what I find interesting? I wonder why Republicans don’t want President Pence.
Notwithstanding the fact that the phrase was used by the English to punish losing a ship by neglecting to moor it, the political reality (as opposed to the legal reach) today is: Congress will need to identify a federal crime, and have probable cause to believe the President is guilty of that federal crime.
I think you’re saying that even with such evidence, they might not impeach.
I agree. I mean that such evidence (probable cause of guilt of a federal criminal statute) is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition.
I think they do want him, it’s just that the process of getting from Trump to Pence will be immensely damaging to the party, at least in the short term. There’s a big mountain to climb between Point A and Point B.
If there were a quick and politically painless/harmless way to do it, they’d do it in a heartbeat.
Care to hazard a guess as to what might be sufficient for this Congress to impeach this President?
I’m in sales, and I make statements to customers all the time. If I make a blatantly incorrect statement to my customers, but then I immediately contact them to correct my error, then that is not lying.
But this is a distraction - the question is not whether Comey has ever done things that he shouldn’t have. That’s what the administration is trying to distract everyone with. The question is whether Trump was trying to obstruct the investigation into Russian ties to his campaign. And Trump has admitted that’s what he was doing.
I can’t do much more than speak in generalities.
At a minimum: probable cause, federal criminal law, plus public antipathy. Now wait, I hear you cry. We already have public antipathy!
No, not really. Despite sincere and fervent vows in the immediate aftermath of the election to break out of echo chamber bubbles, I think most political commentators are reporting what they see inside their echo chambers, where, indeed, antipathy to Trump boils merrily away. But you asked what I think it would take, and my answer is: antipathy for Trump’s hijinks from the base that elected him. That doesn’t exist.
Again, this is my opinion, which you solicited.
Whatever Republicans “think” it is.
Losing an election.
The Republicans aren’t a party – they are an extremist political faction that has declared war on the Democrats and they are now actively deconstructing institutions that are the bedrock of our constitutional republic. You have to think strategically in order to defeat these…“people”.
Cite, please.