(11-23-2019, 01:45 PM)BIAD Wrote: How do you like your covfefe...? I mean coffee. Now is it coffee or cofer, and if it's the latter,
then do you like your cup of Joe -or Cofer, Black?
Covfefe means, "I will stand up". Google and Wikipedia wiped it off the internet to make President Trump look stupid.
(11-23-2019, 01:45 PM)BIAD Wrote: How do you like your covfefe...? I mean coffee. Now is it coffee or cofer, and if it's the latter,
then do you like your cup of Joe -or Cofer, Black?
Covfefe means, "I will stand up". Google and Wikipedia wiped it off the internet to make President Trump look stupid.
True story!
Yep...! So I heard. But I was trying to be enigmatic by vaguely hinting at the name 'Joseph Cofer Black'!!!!
(Re Burisma Director's Board & ex-CIA) Link.
(11-23-2019, 01:45 PM)BIAD Wrote: How do you like your covfefe...? I mean coffee. Now is it coffee or cofer, and if it's the latter,
then do you like your cup of Joe -or Cofer, Black?
Covfefe means, "I will stand up". Google and Wikipedia wiped it off the internet to make President Trump look stupid.
True story!
Yep...! So I heard. But I was trying to be enigmatic by vaguely hinting at the name 'Joseph Cofer Black'!!!!
(Re Burisma Director's Board & ex-CIA) Link.
Oh, Sorry! Went right over my head. Probably because this post was first on the page and I had no reference to look back on.
(11-23-2019, 07:10 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Oh, Sorry! Went right over my head. Probably because this post was first on the page
and I had no reference to look back on.
No problems... I was trying to be amusing as well!!
*Note to self: you are not amusing*
Here ya go - 9 hours of a shit show. I can't believe how unfair this hearing is.
Wait... Yes, I can. It's how the democrats do things because it's the only way they can win.
Bullies on the playground, so to speak.
Quote:On Saturday, the Democratic lead House Intelligence Committee released parts of the transcript of National Security Council official Tim Morrison and purposely left out key information to continue their anti-Trump witch hunt.
The House Democrats purposely waited until Saturday to release the transcript because they knew it made President Trump look good and even when they did release it, they purposely left out key information.
Quote:First, the committee withheld the transcript since October 31, only releasing it after the first public hearings began last week. Morrison’s testimony was rumored to be very good for President Donald Trump’s defense — Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) had described Democrats in the room during the closed-door hearing as “sucking lemons” — and Republicans would have made good use of it, had they had the transcript available. But it was not provided.
In the interim, Democrats had sole possession of the document. Schiff does not allow copies of the transcripts to be released to Republicans, either in paper or electronic form. If they want to read transcripts, they must do so one by one, in the presence of a Democrat committee staffer. Not only is that rule humiliating, but it also allows Democrats to control the flow of information and to prepare their public arguments with no fear of timely Republican rebuttal.
In the Morrison case, Democrats released “key excerpts” that highlighted the few facts in his testimony that, they believe, help push the case for impeachment. Chief among these is that Morrison confirmed that he heard U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland claim that he told a Ukrainian official, in a private “sidebar” meeting, that aid would be released if the Ukrainian prosecutor general would publicly announce an investigation into Burisma.
But that is just hearsay evidence, as is Morisson’s confirmation of Charge d’affairs William Taylor’s testimony (repeated in public last week) that Sondland, after speaking to President Trump, “there was no quid pro quo, but President Zelensky must announce the opening of the investigations and he should want to do it.”
Schiff purposely left out key quotes from Morrison that made President Trump look good.
“I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed” Morrison said while talking about the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This quote doesn't even show up in the Democrats' “key excerpts” document.
Check out the transcript below:
Quote:THE CHAIRMAN: Okay. I just wanted to follow up a bit on this.
One of the concerns, and there may be an overlap between the first two concerns you mentioned about the caII, and if the call became public. First, you said you were concerned how it would play out in Washington’s polarized environment and, second, how a leak would affect bipartisan support for our Ukrainian partners.
Were those concerns related to the fact that the President asked his Ukrainian counterpart to look into on investigate the Bidens?
MR. MORRISON: No, not specifically.
THE CHAIRMAN: So you didn’t think that the President of the United States asking his counterpart to conduct an investigation into a potential opponent in the 2020 election might influence bipartisan support in Congress?
MR. MORRISON: No.
THE CHAIRMAN: And you weren’t concerned that the President bringing up one of his political opponents in the Presidential election and asking a favor with respect to the DNC server or 2016 theory, you weren’t concerned that those things would cause people to believe that the President was asking his counterpart to conduct an investigation that might influence his reelection campaign?
MR. MORRISON: No.
THE CHAIRMAN: That never occurred to you?
MR. MORRISON: No.
THE CHAIRMAN: Did you recognize during the — as you listened to the call that if Ukraine were to conduct these investigations, that it would inure to the President’s political interests?
MR. MORRISON: No.
Check out some more fact highlighted by Breitbart:
Quote:
Morrison contradicted Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Democrats’ star witness in the closed-door hearings, who reported to Morrison directly. Morrison testified that while he admired his subordinate’s patriotism, he was irritated that Vindman failed to report concerns about the call directly to him. He said Vindman never raised concerns that something illegal had happened. He also said he accepted all of Vindman’s proposed edits to the call record, contrary to Vindman’s testimony. And while he did not think that Vindman was a leaker, he testified: “I had concerns that he did not exercise appropriate judgment as to whom he would say what.” He said that Vindman’s sloppy practices were partly the result of his own predecessor at the NSC, Dr. Fiona Hill — another one of the Democrats’ star witnesses, who, like Morrison, is due to testify publicly this week.
Morrison testified that other foreign aid being offered by the U.S. at the time was reportedly under review — not just to Ukraine. And he confirmed earlier testimony that the aid being held up did not include the essential Javelin anti-tank missiles, which were being delivered to Ukraine through a separate procurement process.
Morrison testified that he had no concerns that President Trump asked President Zelensky, during the July 25 phone call, to meet with his personal attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Morrison kept NSC lawyers informed about what was going on — not because he was concerned Trump had done anything wrong, but because he wanted “to protect the president” from whatever Sondland was doing.
Quote:[/url]Rep. Doug Collins @RepDougCollins
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The minority hearing day must take place before the #JudiciaryCommittee considers articles of impeachment. The demand has been made, and the rules are clear.
Well, what about that! The only witness the Republicans called to join the hearing scam last week got attacked, and he's not even a Republican; he isn't even a Trump supporter. Regardless, he appeared to be the only one testifying without bias in my opinion. The other three have ties to the Deep State Swamp. If you go digging on them, you'll find it.
So, tell me again who the violent party is? It's always the Left...always!
Quote:Jonathan Turley, the sole Republican witness during the House Judiciary Committee's first public impeachment hearing Wednesday, said he was "inundated with threatening messages" after his testimony, which argued that Democrats do not have enough evidence to support articles of impeachment against President Trump.
"Before I finished my testimony, my home and office were inundated with threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University for arguing that, while a case for impeachment can be made, it has not been made on this record," Turley wrote in an op-ed for The Hill on Thursday.
The law professor at George Washington University Law School appeared alongside three other legal scholars with opposing views Wednesday and warned that Democrats would be ill-advised to rush to a vote on impeachment articles because they do not have a complete record of witness testimonies and supporting evidence to prove that Trump abused his power to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden's business dealings there in exchange for military aid.
"My objection is not that you cannot impeach Trump for abuse of power but that this record is comparably thin compared to past impeachments and contains conflicts, contradictions and gaps, including various witnesses not subpoenaed," Turley said.
"I suggested that Democrats drop the arbitrary schedule of a vote by the end of December and complete their case and this record before voting on any articles of impeachment," he added. "In my view, they have not proven abuse of power in this incomplete record."
Despite his testimony, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that Democrats will proceed with articles of impeachment against Trump.
"I remain concerned that we are lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger," Turley said.
Wednesday's hearings elicited fiery remarks from both sides of the aisle. Republican lawmakers decried the impeachment proceedings as a sham, and testimony by Democratic witness and Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan derailed the caucuses' efforts to expose potential abuse of power by Trump after she made remarks jabbing at the president's youngest son, 13-year-old Barron.
Turley called out Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., for his "heated attacks" after Swalwell tried to use the professor's prior record as the attorney for Judge Thomas Porteous, who was impeached and removed from office in December 2010, against him.
He also criticized the negative news coverage of his testimony, writing that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank "attack[ed] my credibility."
"There is an intense 'rancor and rage' and 'stifling intolerance' that blinds people to opposing views. My call for greater civility and dialogue may have been the least successful argument I made to the committee," Turley said.
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall right now and see the hissy fits going on at the Biden's household?
How will this affect the Trump Impeachment? Seems that call led to some REAL crimes, right? Only problem for the Left is that the crimes were committed on "their" side. Oh yes, just wait. This will all lead back to Daddy Bidden and Obummer too.
Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall right now and see the hissy fits going on at the Biden's household?
How will this affect the Trump Impeachment? Seems that call led to some REAL crimes, right? Only problem for the Left is that the crimes were committed on "their" side. Oh yes, just wait. This will all lead back to Daddy Bidden and Obummer too.
Here is the entire Impeachment Hearing from yesterday. I only watched about 15 minutes and turned it off. It's mind-blowing what they are trying to get away with.
Nadler announces his two articles of impeachment to move forward with the Dems scam on American voters.
Hurry, let's get this to the Senate so we can bring our own witnesses and get this BS done and over! At least the Republicans will do a FAIR trial, and the democrat party will go down the drain afterwards.
Here are the over 11 hours worth of hearings from yesterday. Nadler adjourned before taking the vote, which all the members expected to happen before leaving. The reason he did this was because most people had gone to bed and he wanted it to be seen by all Americans.
What a POS!!!
And here is the vote from this morning. We all know how it turned out, but I'm posting it here to show our grandkids who the despicable people in our government were in 2019; those who tried to overthrow a President elected by the people because THEY didn't like him.
But, never fear, Graham and McConnell have both stated they will acquit President Trump in the Senate.
This whole impeachment sham has been bad for the democrats, and they will learn just how bad on election day 2020.
12-15-2019, 02:10 AM (This post was last modified: 12-15-2019, 02:12 AM by Mystic Wanderer.)
Democrats are becoming Republicans at a speedy rate. I see people on Twitter everyday who say they have left the Democrats after the fiasco they've put President Trump through for the past 3 years, and they will be voting for him in 2020.
Thanks to the latest sham, the Impeachment, now we have Democrat Congressmen joining the walk away movement.
Bad news for Nancy Smancy. She has damaged her party so bad, they want nothing to do with the corruption.
Quote:New Jersey Democratic Congressman Jeff Van Drew, who has strongly opposed the Democrats’ impeachment efforts, is leaving the Democratic Party and becoming a member of the Republican Party after meeting with President Donald Trump.
“Van Drew’s congressional and campaign staff were informed he was planning to switch parties on Saturday, according to Democratic sources,” Politico reported. “The question was now when, not if, Van Drew was joining the Republican Party, according to several Democrats with knowledge of the ongoing conversations.”
Van Drew reportedly met “at length” with Trump on Friday and his decision to switch parties is supposed to be officially announced in the near future, a top GOP source told Politico.
The Washington Post reported that his decision to switch parties delivered “a political jolt to Democrats ahead of next week’s expected vote to impeach the president.”
News of Van Drew’s defection went viral online moments after the story broke with many noting that the move is highly damaging to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment efforts.
Federalist co-founder Sean Davis tweeted: “Nancy Pelosi isn’t just hemorrhaging votes for her impeachment gambit, she’s now facing wholesale defections from the Democrat party because of its impeachment hysteria.”
Bryan Dean Wright, a Democrat and former CIA officer, responded to the news by writing on Twitter: “Turns out people get tired of defending a party that’s spent the past three years embracing Socialists, anti-Semites, and hysteria.”
Yes, they do, and I think there will be a lot more to follow, especially since Al Green said they would keep impeaching President Trump over and over again if he gets reelected. And he will.
Quote:In a recent interview with USA Today, Van Drew said, “My job isn’t really to like or dislike him. My job is to exact as much goodwill and help for my district and for this nation and for this world that I possibly can while he’s president.”
On the issue of impeachment, Van Drew said, “To some folks, that’s reminiscent of what was done to kings and queens many years ago. Everything our country doesn’t stand for.”
Graham says he will do all he can to get this impeachment sham thrown out as quickly as possible when it comes to the Senate. Some politicians disagree with him. They think he should drag it out through next summer/fall and keep the Democrats busy so they can't campaign, and also bring in witnesses that Shity Shit would not allow to come forward in the House.
Trey Gowdy agreed with Graham on a clip from Fox news. He says we should get it out of the way in a hurry, and we can always bring out the damaging evidence for Democrats in other ways, hopefully in trials.
What do you guys think? Should we drag it out, or get it over with as soon as possible?
Quote:Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that he will do everything he can to make the Democrat-led impeachment effort “die quickly” in the Senate.
“This thing will come to the Senate, and it will die quickly, and I will do everything I can to make it die quickly,” he said.
Graham made the remarks on Saturday during an interview with CNN‘s Becky Anderson at the Doha Forum in Qatar.
A critic of Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, Graham affirmed he wants the Senate to end the impeachment saga “as soon as possible for the good of the Senate, for the good of the country.”
“I think the best thing for America to do is get this behind us,” Graham said, adding that he didn’t think it would be helpful to hear from any more witness and would prefer to proceed to a vote based on the records presented to the House.
“I don’t want to call anybody. I don’t need to hear from Hunter Biden, I don’t need to hear from Joe Biden,” he said.
Graham also denounced the Democrat-led House impeachment effort as “partisan nonsense” during the interview.
“If you don’t like President Trump, you can vote against him in less than a year. It’s not like a politician is unaccountable if you don’t impeach them,” Graham said.
“Clearly, I wasn’t a fan of his campaign, right? But here’s the way it has to work. When you lose, accept it.
“The American people didn’t believe that [Trump was, as his critics said, a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot]. They made him their president.”
House Judiciary Democrats approved two articles of impeachment against Trump on Friday, one for abusing the office of the presidency and the other for obstructing the Congress, on a party-line vote, The Epoch Times reported.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) later told reporters at a weekly press conference that the Senate has yet to decide on the process that the Senate trial will follow if Trump is impeached by the House.
“It could go down the path of calling witnesses and basically having another trial, or it could decide—and again 51 members could make that decision—that they have heard enough and believe they know what would happen, and could move to vote on the two articles of impeachment sent over to us by the House,” he said. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) ® speaks to press after a Senate Republican policy lunch at the U.S. Capitol in Washington in a file photograph. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)
During an interview with Fox News before House Judiciary Democrats approved the articles of impeachment, McConnell said he will coordinate with the White House counsel’s office and the people who are representing the president to figure out how to handle the impeachment process in the Senate.
“There will be no difference between the President’s position and our position as to how to handle this to the extent that we can,” he said, adding, “We have no choice but to take it up.”
He also told Fox News that there was “zero chance” that Trump will be removed from office and that one or two Democratic Senators may vote with his caucus.
Trump said he did not have a preference for either a long Senate trial or a short one.
“Look there is—we did nothing wrong. So I’ll do long, or short,” he told the reporters. “I’ve heard Mitch, I’ve heard Lindsey. I think they are very much in agreement on some concept. I’ll do whatever they want to do. It doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t mind the long process, because I’d like to see the whistleblower, who’s a fraud.”
Here is a list of 31 Freshman Democrats that people need to call to voice your opinion if you are against impeachment.
If they vote to remove a duly elected President over these two articles they are using, without evidence I might add, then remember their names come 2020 and vote them out!
Quote:Democrats changed the rules, stacked the hearings with second-hand and third-hand witnesses, blocked Republicans from their day of witnesses, cut off Republicans from any decisions or requested witnesses, blocked Republicans and the White House from interviewing their original “whistleblower” Eric Ciaramella who is linked to Schiff, John Brennan, Susan Rice and Joe Biden.
Democrats blocked the White House from confronting their accuser, interrogating their accuser and providing witnesses – a basic right of every American citizen.
The entire process has been a complete sham.
There are 31 Democrats who are representing districts President Trump won in 2016.
These 31 Democrats WILL LOSE THEIR SEAT if they DARE to vote for this sham impeachment!
12-19-2019, 10:07 AM (This post was last modified: 12-19-2019, 10:08 AM by BIAD.)
Well, they went and did it. I assume Nancy Pelosi will be hoping that she's finally shut up the far-left of her party.
Quote:Donald Trump is impeached and faces trial in the US Senate.
'Donald Trump has become the third US president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives,
setting up a trial in the Senate that will decide whether he remains in office.
The House voted on two charges - that the president abused his power and that he had obstructed Congress.
Nearly all Democrats voted for the charges and every Republican against.
President Trump's Republicans control the Senate so it is highly unlikely he will be removed from power.
As voting took place in the House, Mr Trump was addressing a campaign rally in Battle Creek, Michigan.
He told a cheering crowd: "While we're creating jobs and fighting for Michigan, the radical left in Congress
is consumed with envy and hatred and rage, you see what's going on." The White House released a statement
saying that the president was "confident that he will be fully exonerated" in a Senate trial.
What happened in the votes?
After 10 hours of partisan debate on the merits of the two impeachment charges against President Trump, the House
called for votes at about 20:30 local time (01:30 GMT).
The first charge is abuse of power, stemming from Mr Trump's alleged attempt to pressure Ukraine to announce
investigations into his Democratic political rival, Joe Biden. It passed by 230 votes to 197, almost completely on
party lines. Only two Democrats opposed - New Jersey's Jeff Van Drew, who is set to leave the party, and Minnesota's
Collin Peterson.
The second charge is obstruction of Congress, because the president allegedly refused to co-operate with the
impeachment inquiry, withholding documentary evidence and barring his key aides from giving evidence.
It passed by 229-198. Democrat Jared Golden of Maine voted for the first charge but opposed this.
No Republicans supported impeachment, although ex-party member Justin Amash, from Michigan, did.
Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard voted "present" on both charges - effectively an abstention.
Two members were absent for personal reasons.
Being impeached places Donald Trump alongside only two other presidents in the nation's history - Andrew
Johnson and Bill Clinton...'
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They are absolute Children.
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