# The Trump Impeachment Inquiry **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 24, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771 "2019-09-24T20:23:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 38
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/741 "2019-09-26T20:46:21Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I’m not calling for Biden to be impeached, or jailed. I’m calling for an investigation. If he’s really done nothing wrong, why would he / you be concerned about / oppose an investigation? [Stop! Irony is already dead!](https://images.app.goo.gl/TbyATt37hm1MTdwd6) ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/742 "2019-09-26T20:46:49Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I’m not calling for Biden to be impeached, or jailed. I’m calling for an investigation. If he’s really done nothing wrong, why would he / you be concerned about / oppose an investigation? You can’t even prove that Hunter Biden exists. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/743 "2019-09-26T20:47:34Z")
Not to hijack, but I don’t remember “Sharpie-to-the-weather-map-gate”. What was that about? ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/744 "2019-09-26T20:48:17Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I’m not calling for Biden to be impeached, or jailed. I’m calling for an investigation. If he’s really done nothing wrong, why would he / you be concerned about / oppose an investigation? Well he’s definitely not in a position to be impeached. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/745 "2019-09-26T20:49:06Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > That’s true, but since we are talking about shoes being on the other foot, let’s try this out: there is no person named Hunter Biden. He does not exist. Trump is calling for an investigation into an imaginary person. > [@Ravenman](#): > > Ok, then Hunter Biden does not exist. > [@Ravenman](#): > > You can’t even prove that Hunter Biden exists. Whatever point you’re trying to make with these posts is lost on me. It seems like I’m supposed to take it as an invitation to prove the existence of Hunter Biden, but I’m not interested in proving something that we all already agree on (at least, I suspect you actually believe Hunter Biden exists). ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/746 "2019-09-26T20:49:37Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Not to hijack, but I don’t remember “Sharpie-to-the-weather-map-gate”. What was that about? Man, that was like two and half Mooches ago. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/747 "2019-09-26T20:50:08Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > Well he’s definitely not in a position to be impeached. Yes, I’m aware. He’s working on it though. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/748 "2019-09-26T20:51:06Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Man, that was like two and half Mooches ago. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/749 "2019-09-26T20:51:14Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Not to hijack, but I don’t remember “Sharpie-to-the-weather-map-gate”. What was that about? lol, wut? Seriously? OMG. > **[The incredibly absurd Trump/CNN SharpieGate feud, explained](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/6/20851971/trump-hurricane-dorian-alabama-sharpie-cnn-media)** > > SharpieGate is the worst. So, Dotard tweets that the hurricane is going to hit Alabama. The NWS said there was a slight chance of some weather, but all predictions put the path of the hurricane along where the hurricane eventually traveled, and the Alabama projection was already withdrawn by the time Dotard tweeted this. So people mentioned this correction. And Trump doubled-down. And produced a NWS weather map with a sharpie extending the possible impact of the hurricane to… Alabama. The NWS station in Birmingham told everyone the President was wrong. They got smacked upside the head, with the NWS putting out a false statement supporting the President and not their forecasters. This went on for _nine days_. > **[Hurricane Dorian–Alabama controversy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dorian%E2%80%93Alabama_controversy)** > > In addition to Florida - South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated. Looking like one of the largest hurricanes ever. Already category 5. BE CAREFUL! GOD BLESS EVERYONE! > September 1, 2019 You, uh, do know that he once proposed to buy Greenland and then cancelled a meeting with Denmark when they refused to sell it, right? And this was just \ a month ago? [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/23/donald-trump-greenland-purchase-sovereignty-denmark-227859](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/23/donald-trump-greenland-purchase-sovereignty-denmark-227859) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/750 "2019-09-26T20:51:59Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Not to hijack, but I don’t remember “Sharpie-to-the-weather-map-gate”. What was that about? Three weeks ago, someone in the Trump administration (possibly Trump himself) used a Sharpie to extend the National Hurricane Center’s “cone of uncertainty” map in order to support his claim that Alabama was in the path of Hurricane Dorian. Huge kerfuffle for a few days, until all this hit. > **[The incredibly absurd Trump/CNN SharpieGate feud, explained](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/6/20851971/trump-hurricane-dorian-alabama-sharpie-cnn-media)** > > SharpieGate is the worst. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/751 "2019-09-26T20:56:38Z")
[Resigning](https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1177323533464211458)? I know. Probably not. A guy can hope though? ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/752 "2019-09-26T20:57:14Z")
Thanks. There’s just so much crazy bullshit coming from this administration it’s hard to keep up. Sometimes I need to just take a few days off from following the news. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/753 "2019-09-26T21:00:54Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Yes, Joe Biden pushed _HARD_ for the firing of the prosecutor overseeing the investigation of his son’s company. “If true”, that makes it an official act of corruption on Joe Biden’s part. We should investigate to let the truth of the matter come to light. No, if you’d actually bother to read the intel on what was going on in the Ukraine, the US (not Biden personally) AND the UK AND the people of Ukraine were all pushing to get rid of the prosecutor because he WASN’T doing enough to combat corruption, including looking into the company H. Biden had joined the board of and it’s owner, both of which had been under investigation for years before H. Biden even joined. > **[Trump–Ukraine scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Ukraine_controversy?fbclid=IwAR06QcblFFk_NjA_r1osQbmjXIR52XGGC3hNkakDH3_LADRYkC8xm6Lvr1A)** > > The Trump–Ukraine scandal was a U.S. political scandal that arose from the discovery of U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine and other countries into providing damaging narratives about 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden and giving misinformation relating to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Trump enlisted surrogates within and outside his official administration, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney Genera... [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/here-s-what-we-know-about-joe-and-hunter-biden-in-ukraine?fbclid=IwAR0tt80BUwOcehLFvyeL6YUoLdcl\_u62P\_Ep7Ii\_fw2gmDFKXYFJp2b8H\_A](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-25/here-s-what-we-know-about-joe-and-hunter-biden-in-ukraine?fbclid=IwAR0tt80BUwOcehLFvyeL6YUoLdcl_u62P_Ep7Ii_fw2gmDFKXYFJp2b8H_A) ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/754 "2019-09-26T21:01:06Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > [Resigning](https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1177323533464211458)? > > I know. Probably not. A guy can hope though? I bet it is good. He doesn’t call press conferences I thought? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/755 "2019-09-26T21:02:48Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > [Resigning](https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1177323533464211458)? > > I know. Probably not. A guy can hope though? Tweet says 4:45pm. Do you know what time zone? ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/756 "2019-09-26T21:04:02Z")
Assume 18 minutes ago. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/757 "2019-09-26T21:05:32Z")
THanks. Got the radio on. ---
**Author:** ![Kelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a587f6/32.png) [@Kelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelby)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/758 "2019-09-26T21:10:14Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I think a note of caution is in order. This is not for everybody. The right wing bubble is designed to suck people into their way of thinking. Too much exposure could cause permanent political realignment. **Too many guys start watching Fox or listening to Limbaugh, Savage, and the like and before they know it, they develop immunity to factual information and critical analysis**. I’ve broken more bullshit detectors than I can count, but that’s about the only real cost. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/759 "2019-09-26T21:12:32Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > I bet it is good. He doesn’t call press conferences I thought? Naw, he’s been doing them often, sorry. Usually of the “let me pause while this helicopter is waiting for me” variety, but also pressers in the WH. I wouldn’t expect much, hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if the WH did this just to fuck with people’s afternoons. But resigning? Naw. Not even close. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/760 "2019-09-26T21:14:07Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Naw, he’s been doing them often, sorry. Usually of the “let me pause while this helicopter is waiting for me” variety, but also pressers in the WH. > > I wouldn’t expect much, hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if the WH did this just to fuck with people’s afternoons. > > But resigning? Naw. Not even close. Thanks, I though I read something about not having actual press conferences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771.md?page=39)