The House is now investigating whether Trump lied to Mueller.
This seems like a notable development.
Stepping back, one has to realize that the Republican version of events requires me to believe that the singular issue that Donald Trump is concerned about for non-personal reasons is corruption in Ukraine. And that all the people testifying (many from his own administration) that his concern about corruption in Ukraine being personally motivated are wrong or lying. And that he hid the evidence and won’t allow witnesses about his discussions about corruption in Ukraine because reasons unknown.
Look, I can buy the argument that this was wrong but not impeachable, though I disagree with that strongly. But, we are well past the point of believing that the Republicans disagreeing that this was wrong are making good faith arguments about what happened.
Shit fire, what the hell is impeachable? Reagan sold weapons to Iran to support people who was directly told not to, GeeDubya lied us into a futile and expensive war. But a blowjob? Well, that’s right out!
Biden is the chosen candidate of Never-Trumpers so he has all of the Democrats and some of the genuine hardcore Republicans and, in general, he is the preferred and most likely candidate to go up against Trump - particularly if we are talking about what the numbers would say at the time period during which the events unfolded as opposed to right now and particularly if we use actual polling data rather than a subjective opinion of who is and isn’t easy to beat.
From the article:
Trump in 2017: I have “one of the great memories of all-time’”
Now, now, you’re being unfair and quite obviously partisan. I for one see the principled Republican side of this. He got impeached, not for improper sexual conduct or marital infidelity (that would have been silly), but for *saying *he didn’t get the blowie, when he in fact did. And that’s quite obviously of national import.
After all, if the President can lie about such a thing, there’s simply no telling what else he might be lying about ; and if there’s anything that simply can not be supported by anyone regardless of political affiliation, it is a President who is not explicitly truthful at all times and about any topic, no matter how intimate or personal ; and no matter where their individual self-interest lies or drives them. Presidenting is about national trust and utmost integrity, ultimately.
Your final sentence is missing a word, must be a typo. It should have read.
Lets us concentrate on what I call the tale of two firings.
On the one hand you have Biden firing Shokin, on the other side you have Trump firing Yovanovitch.
Shokin Firing:
Hunter Biden joined the board of the company after the case had already been closed. While he was prosecutor, Shokin showed no interest in prosecuting Bursima or any other company for corruption. This why Shokin was widely recognized as a corrupt prosecutor. It is why everyone in the state department was in favor of his removal as well as a number of our European allies, and it is why Guiliani/Trump wants him back in his old seat. Had Biden actually wanted to shield Bursima from investigation, he probably would have been better off acting against his own state department to keep Shokin on in exchange for Shokin continuing to do what he had been doing all along.
Yovanovitch:
Yaqvonivich is recognized as an exemplary state department employee. Even the Republicans in the impeachment hearings couldn’t seem to praise her enough. No explanation has been given for her firing except that she was “bad news”, that she opposed reinstating the highly corrupt Shokin and that she may have preferred the previous Ukrainian president to one whose sole qualification is that he played a president on TV. The sole evidence of this is the word of our CIC who tells an average of 13.5 lies a day.
Oh please. Oh please. Oh please. Oh please. Oh please.
Let me know when Biden talks about his daughter’s Rita’s in an interview, brags about barging into a beauty pageant dressing room, and talks about how we took the airports during the revolutionary war.
Reminder of Trump’s written responses to Mueller’s questions:
If this happens, put it on pay-per-view. Seriously, I’d pay good money to watch this.
That should be daughter’s ass.
That is a very intriguing auto-correct. :dubious:
Now I know what the Beatles song “Lovely Rita” is about!
Sorry, I shouldn’t be such a ritahole.
I’m sure sure the evangelicals would say that Donald is just peachy because the Bible says don’t covet your neighbor’s ass, it didn’t say anything about your daughter’s ass.
In defense of dt it must be said that none of these answers were accompanied by him doing impressions of a handicapped person. They were in writing but still, give credit where it’s due.
Didn’t he say he had the best memory?
It should also be pointed out to him that Crooked Hillary spoke under oath in front of a Congressional investigative committee for 11 hours in one day and managed not to perjure herself, yet he couldn’t manage a single minute under oath during the Mueller enquiry for fear of perjuring himself.
I think we can confidently say that he did not write a single one of the answers.
It doesn’t matter what the judge says about Trump’s financial records-because they are NEVER going to be turned over. Is anyone here gullible enough to think the hold will be for just a few days or weeks?
You are correct. It will never happen.
And he will never testify before Congress or anywhere else, except maybe at his own criminal trail (someday).