Passed unanimously. The GOP is running?
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You linked to the Jake Sherman tweet I linked to. Did you mean to link somewhere else?
Wow. It’s a non-binding resolution, but it’s something.
And, thanks.
Also, this:
At the very least, Rudy should be disbarred.
Here’s a fairly concise summary from NPR.
I keep thinking about the whole Bill Browder/ Russia / Magnisky situation as I follow this story. I read Browder’s book before Trump was ever a serious presidential candidate, and Ive also read a lot of other material about corruption in the former USSR countries.
Browder was an American businessman doing business in Russia He and his companies were defrauded framed for a serious financial crime in a brazen and far-ranging plot that resulted in him losing all his investment in Russia. His local lawyer, Serge Magnitsky, was murdered in a Russian prison after being arrested on false charges. There were lots of corrupt prosecutors and government official among the people sanctioned by the Magnitsky Act.
I was outraged, when, in a press conference with Putin, Trump indicated that he might be willing to extradite Browder. And I’m outraged that Trump seems to be trying to engineer a similar plot against an American citizen, someone that he is supposed to be protecting and serving.
I don’t understand how anyone can be so blinded by partisan hate to equate a plan to have a private citizen persecuted by a notoriously corrupt government with justice and fairness. They probably are the same people that think that forming a joint task force with Russia to investigate election interference would be a good idea.
A long, factual piece by Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) on JustSecurity laying out a detailed timeline of the Ukraine story.
Blood in the water. They smell it.
If it goes away, they’ll go back into ‘Protect Trump at all costs’ mode. But if Trump makes this worse for himself (and there’s always that possibility), they may be willing to deep-six him.
A lot depends on the major donors. If enough of them quietly let on that they’ll support the Republican incumbents against Trumpian primary challengers, then those Republicans will act against Trump.
It’s a slim chance. But not impossible.
(And yes: in the event, Trump will be re-defined as a Democrat, faster than you can say “money talks, integrity walks.”)
All that matters is winning.
Trump called Nancy Pelosi and… like a mob boss… asked her if they could “work something out”.
No wonder the dominos fell this morning.
It’s clear what Trump’s strategy is with Biden, which is to make him the 2020 version of Hillary Clinton. I am in the camp that says the Democrats have no choice but to start an impeachment inquiry now, given the gross abuse of power. But the realist in me also sees how attention to this matter in particular could poison Biden’s candidacy.
Remember, folks, Trump’s line of attacks against Biden need not be representative of the facts as a whole; he just needs a kernel of truth to work with. The GOP and Trump managed to take Hillary Clinton’s proximity to crime, proximity to bad people, and proximity to just bad luck, and they were able to weave a tapestry of lies and spin that sunk her candidacy. Biden’s in the same position, and the Trump team sees that: they want to use the proximity to something dark and create confusion in the minds of voters.
Trump didn’t beat Hillary because he was necessarily more popular; in fact he was less so. But he was able to convince enough people that Hillary was almost as evil as he was, and that kept people who would have supported Hillary away from the polls while Trump’s energized voters showed up. That’s the end game with Biden.
That would be the very least, wouldn’t it.
For more on this … https://twitter.com/KoriWasinger/status/1176649847824355334
But wait! There’s more: Transcript Reveals Pence Knew About And Participated In Trump's Apparent Ukraine Extortion Plot · DC Tribune
It’s important to laugh as much as one can.
Huh. Is it too late for Trump to pull an Agnew-Ford switcheroo? I hope it is.
I’m an opponent of capital punishment always and everywhere (and I do NOT exclude any executions that have been carried out throughout all of recorded history*), but the idea of Barr being disbarred carries a certain visceral appeal…
*(or Scripture)
I have my answer (IMO, this was a clear enough deed that voters, and not just politics junkies, would see the problem), so I may not return to this thread. If a mod wanted to shut this down, like all the rest of the pre-impeachment-inquiry threads, I would not object.
That’s fair. I’ll refrain from commenting further here and we can let it die the True Death w/o it being locked. Great topic!
From this link:
I disagree that this is proof positive of Pence admitting that. The quote in and of itself is actually reasonable. I am worried that since this did happen, it will be used as a way to distract from the actual thing Giuliani admitted to as far as asking Ukraine to look up dirt on Biden. They will point to it and say, “see the president was just looking out for the American people, to ensure their tax dollars are being spent wisely.” It’s almost like they planned this from the start.
This is their game plan.
My guess is that the deep state hacks are furious that their clients in Ukraine aren’t getting their military aid.
That’s odd- I thought the deep state ran everything and got whatever they wanted.