Of course you can’t, and you are totally perv even to suggest such a thing!
But Congress can determine what constitutes a High Crime that justifies impeachment. Apparently $390 and below is only a Low Crime.
No, he didn’t. Obama transferred his assets into treasury bonds and index funds and openly declared what those assets were. It’s sort of the opposite of a blind trust, which is designed to avoid a conflict of interest by hiding the President’s assets from everyone, including the President. Obama instead made his assets very transparent so the public could decide if he was doing anything to further his personal financial interests.
Little_Nemo:
No, he didn’t. Obama transferred his assets into treasury bonds and index funds and openly declared what those assets were. It’s sort of the opposite of a blind trust, which is designed to avoid a conflict of interest by hiding the President’s assets from everyone, including the President. Obama instead made his assets very transparent so the public could decide if he was doing anything to further his personal financial interests.
You are right. I thought I’d read that he had. Here’s a link that explains why he didn’t, as you already pointed out: Obama’s Reasons for Rejecting a Blind Trust
Thanks for the correction.
Leaving office as a victim and martyr of a “left-wing witch hunt” may have much more appeal to Trump than having to run the country.
Maybe he could just declare bankruptcy and move on to his next presidency.
ThelmaLou:
Not to sound like a broken record, but so what? What will happen then?
The only way Trump will leave office before his term is up (besides in a mahogany, gold-trimmed, satin-lined box) is voluntarily. And the only way that will happen is if he can do it while looking like a winner. The “looking like” part is the most important. Truth, reality, facts–those have NO meaning to him. Everything is “how it looks.” I think if he could find a way today to leave office, look like the World’s Greatest Winner of Everything, plus make everyone who opposed him (especially if they’re poorer) look like the World’s Biggest Losers, he would be out of there in a New York minute.
Maybe getting the Nobel committee to award him a prize (any prize) would do it.
Now there’s an idea. What if we get Projammer to give him a participation trophy?
bobot
May 18, 2017, 9:21am
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Trump could bookend his Russian elf-on-the-shelf with that and his Purple Heart.
Wow raventhief . Thanks! Looks like a real Shit Box for the 1%ers that have Shit For Brains and Bad Comb Overs.
Meanwhile, Flynn, who was on the Turkish payroll, put the kibosh on a plan that the Obama administration had been working on to use Kurdish help to drive ISIS from Raqqa. (The Erdogan regime hates the Kurds.) This was on January 10.
Oh, and he found out on November 30 that he was under investigation by the DOJ, but waited until January 4 (when he told Trump’s chief lawyer, Donald McGahn , about it) to tell anyone on the Trump transition team about it. That was still three weeks before Sally Yates supposedly broke the news to them, and 40 days before he actually got fired.
You can’t even go to bed these days and have things be the same when you wake up. Watergate never moved this fast.
There is a tide in the affairs of men …
You have ruined cinema forever for me.
When it happens, I’ll have to change my username to GreatAllSeeingAllKnowingWizardAndProphet
TRUMP: Don’t worry, Mike. A President and Vice President can’t be impeached for the same crime.
PENCE: Yeah, that’s not true. At all.
TRUMP: Really? I have the worst fucking attorneys.
Monty
May 18, 2017, 12:23pm
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Trump’s not going to get impeached until those who can impeach him realize they won’t get reelected if they don’t impeach him. The problem with that is the fools who support Trump also support those currently in the House. Those fools sympathize with Trump. They believe his nonsense. And the representatives know this and rely on it.
And, of course, “The Right Builds an Alternative Narrative About the Crises Around Trump” [https://nyti.ms/2qt104K ]
WASHINGTON — Enemies from within have launched a “deep-state” smear campaign, news organizations are acting with ulterior motives, and the worst attacks are yet to come.
Pushing back against the biggest threat so far to Donald Trump’s young presidency, his most fervent supporters are building alternative narratives to run alongside the “establishment” media account — from relatively benign diversions to more bizarre conspiracies.
“They’re going to say that Donald Trump has Alzheimer’s,” said the president’s friend and longtime associate Roger Stone, who made an online video laying out how the president’s own cabinet could trigger a never-used provision of the Constitution’s 25th Amendment to stage a coup on the grounds that Mr. Trump is mentally unsound. “This is the game plan. Watch carefully,” Mr. Stone swore…
Geez, Alzheimer’s is the most benign thing Trump could be accused of.
Continuing:
With varying degrees of credibility and credulity, conservatives have fed stories that Mr. Trump is the victim of sabotage by an adversarial intelligence community full of Trojan horse holdovers from the Obama administration.
The only thing missing from the catalogue of conspirators is the name Hillary Clinton . Although when the article mentions the DNC staffer who died, shades of Vince Foster come to mind.
Well, when you have alternative facts, you have to do something with them.
I heard the Hillary Clinton Hit Squad was going to take out Roger Ailes.
So if he suddenly shows up dead, you’ll know.
It’s hard to keep up here.
Exclusive: Trump campaign had at least 18 undisclosed contacts with Russians: sources
Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the Nov. 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said.
O-kay. Hey - didn’t we hear something about this last February?
Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence
Yeah. That was last Valentine’s day. It’s all coming back to me …
Phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Donald J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election, according to four current and former American officials.
American law enforcement and intelligence agencies intercepted the communications around the same time they were discovering evidence that Russia was trying to disrupt the presidential election by hacking into the Democratic National Committee, three of the officials said. The intelligence agencies then sought to learn whether the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election.
The officials interviewed in recent weeks said that, so far, they had seen no evidence of such cooperation.
But the intercepts alarmed American intelligence and law enforcement agencies, in part because of the amount of contact that was occurring while Mr. Trump was speaking glowingly about the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin. At one point last summer, Mr. Trump said at a campaign event that he hoped Russian intelligence services had stolen Hillary Clinton’s emails and would make them public.
The officials said the intercepted communications were not limited to Trump campaign officials, and included other associates of Mr. Trump. On the Russian side, the contacts also included members of the government outside of the intelligence services, they said. All of the current and former officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the continuing investigation is classified.
But I distinctly remember the White house officials, including Sean Spicer, denying that …Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories
Acting at the behest of the White House, the officials made calls to news organizations last week in attempts to challenge stories about alleged contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign team and Russian intelligence operatives, U.S. officials said.
The calls were orchestrated by the White House after unsuccessful attempts by the administration to get senior FBI officials to speak with news organizations and dispute the accuracy of stories on the alleged contacts with Russia.
The White House on Friday acknowledged those interactions with the FBI but did not disclose that it then turned to other officials who agreed to do what the FBI would not — participate in White House-arranged calls with news organizations, including The Washington Post.
Oh. Ah. Hm. I wonder if those guys still answer the phone when Spicy rings.
But hey - speaking of Donald’s back channels, wasn’t there something last month about them too?
Blackwater founder held secret meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel
article about Blackwater:
The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between Moscow and President-elect Trump, according to US, European and Arab officials.
The meeting took place around Jan. 11, nine days before Trump’s inauguration, in the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean, officials said. Though the full agenda remains unclear, the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would likely require major concessions to Moscow on US sanctions.
Though Prince had no formal role with the Trump campaign or transition team, he presented himself as an unofficial envoy for Trump to high-ranking Emiratis involved in setting up his meeting with the Putin confidant, according to the officials, who did not identify the Russian.
United Arab Emirates? You mean the guy who was just here visiting last week?
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article about UAE visit last week:
Shaikh Mohammad and Trump underlined the keenness of the two countries to continue to strengthen the distinguished relations to serve their mutual interests.
The also explored the prospects of economic cooperation and the importance of expanding their mutual trade ties to further enhance economic growth and achieve prosperity and wellbeing of the UAE and American people.
Yup. Hunh. Vlad and Donald sure have a lot of catching up to do. Remind me who Eric Prince is, again?He’s the founder of mercenary group Blackwater USA, notable for their involvement in the previous Iraq war, and Betsy De Vos’ brother
Yup.
Yup.