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By Lisa Mascaro WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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yakyak
HA!
umbrella
Thanks you pathetic dems. Your games have just increased the size of our great President's majority at the Elections this year.
Wolfpack
Looking forward to hearing from the witnesses. We may finally get to hear the other side of the story left out by the Puppet of Putin Pelosi in the biased House inquiry. Wonder if Schiff will make up more “damming” testimony out of thin air? He is good at making up things.
Blacklabel
So when Trump is “cleared” in this matter will liberals react the same way as when their liberal heroes are cleared? Avenatti thought he was cleared too! MAGA
JJ Jetplane
Trump should get a fair trial and a fair decision. However, that won't happen. Its election time and too many Republicans are worried about alienating their voters. They don't want to be known to Trump voters as the ones that ousted Trump.
Yubaru
It certainly wont be impartial that's for sure!
non party
I thought she will keep it under her lap for a year and would send it to senate in 2021 January. It is like a hatchery of Nansi farm. Hope the chicken will come out.
Serrano
Can you believe THAT is number 3 in charge??
Frightening. Unfortunately that situation is going to remain until the Republicans take back the House.
Billy J. Bell
This is the greatest threat to American Democracy that I have seen in my lifetime -- it's nothing but a politically motivated treasonous attack on, not only on Mr. Trump but America.
And thank God Mr. Trump won or we would never have known about the massive corruption at the DOJ, FBI and CIA.
bass4funk
These are some of the dumbest people to occupy the House. Can’t wait until McConnell puts a fork in this farce and calls it done. What a waste!
Blacklabel
Ok now do Nancy. She says “Vadimir Plootin” shouldn’t decide who is president.
MSR Japan
This Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and other Republicans want to subpoena Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of a gas company in Ukraine, Burisma, while his father was vice president.
^^
Lets investigate this , lets leave no stone unturned hahaha, rotten to the core democrats.
Trump will walk, nothing will happen except the dems will be made to look like the corrupt clowns they are, and the american people will ALL be able to see they are the enemy within.
Blacklabel
Yep and all 2020 Dems should recuse themselves from the trial. But they won’t by their own values and no one will make them to to so.
bass4funk
Ok, but maybe it feels good to the average partisan Democrat, but to the average American, not really and especially to Clinton who thrived like weed after that, didn’t stop him from partying with Epstein, opening up a law firm...even though he can’t practice law, but still can make the bucks with speaking engagements etc. so Trump will be more than fine, he’s got the economy, latest poll has him at 53% with the public, so as long as that holds out, he’ll slide right into a second term, no problem. Now if the Dems could destroy it in order for him not to win, you betcha they would try.
Most think the same about the Democrats thinking.....or lack of it.
The Democrats stepped all over the constitution, made up a fairytale impeachment case which will go down in history as the most partisan ever, but hey, if it helps them to suck their thumbs and hold their blankets and gives them a sense of purpose, fine. I guess....
Right back to you. Lol
The Dems did. it with Clinton, so.....
Serrano
Number 3 is a delusional drunk.
This impeachment is the biggest mockery in American history.
Blacklabel
Yesterday a partisan Trump hater proved they can’t read in context. so there is that.
Black Sabbath
Good. The majority of America supports both impeachment and a fair trial in the Senate.
In fact, over 65% of Americans wan't the Senate to call witnesses.
But Moscow Mitch ain't interested. I guess that's why they call him Moscow Mitch.
Serrano
Have they found the evidence file for the articles of Impeachment Lite yet?
Pelosi standing next to a poster with the American flag and the words "TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS" is the height of hypocrisy. When is she going to fix her sorry district of San Francisco?
The Democrats are focusing on the wrong guy. They should focus on the guy who said this:
"I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired."
Yes, let's call Quid Pro Joe Biden to the stand. His high on cocaine Zero Experience son Hunter too.
OnTheTrail
Schiff will have a short walk from manager to witness at least.
Blacklabel
Yeah I’ve heard they plan to “march” these articles over to the Senate. The memes just makes themselves.
SuperLib
Or, to put it in other words, Trump is officially for sale, courtesy of the GOP.
bass4funk
No, but liberals keep beating up a dead horse that doesn’t benefit them in any possible way.
Let’s try again: Parnas — who is already charged with making false statements — appears to have made false — or, at best, inconsistent and materially misleading.
Where I’m from we call that a credibility issue, now you guys tried it with Stormy, McDougal, Cohen, all the funny witnesses in the impeachment farce and each time, it was supposed to be this smoking gun, now for the 12th time, this really should be the smoking gun? Yeah, ok.
Watch that one fail as well.
bass4funk
democrats can’t talk about credibility. So basically I should be supporting corrupt Democrats that continue to have a hissy fit because they can’t win an election and her own merits because of the lack of quality the candidates have and a lie and twist the constitution in order to meet their objective and they continue to feel again and again.
He’ll be pardoned, so no worries.
Yeah, anyway...it’ll be great for the country once McConnell wraps this Democrat fake circus up.
bass4funk
But Trump is still the President, oops!
Where is she these days?
Seems like he’s trying to get back into Trump’s good graces again...
All gone by the wayside. Turley, one of the very few SmartMedia rational and sane Democrats said, Pelosi is playing into Trump’s hands, my old friend Van Jones doesn’t think any of these candidates can beat Trump. I love when smart Dems realize the truth and not BS their way into hoping that a miracle will happen.
bass4funk
I can’t even count how many times you’ve said that about some witness. I guess you have a deep liberal insight. Lol
As well as Joe and Hunter and the Whistleblower, let’s see where and how far the Dems take this.
You do what you can to stay alive in this business, look at the house Democrats they need a job as well
Laguna
Dealing with McConnell is like playing Calvin Ball: There are no rules until the instant he says there are, like that "no nominee for SCOTUS in a presidents last year of office."
So now McConnell and other Repubs are saying it is fair game to contingent foreign aid duly approved by Congress (and thus which must legally be supplied) on the recipient providing partisan support - in this case trying to dig up dirt on a potential political opponent. Oh, and then try to cover it up by lying, blocking evidence, and preventing testimony.
McConnell & Co. may play their Calvin Ball and will probably prevail. If so, how many of the right-wing posters here think such behavior is now legitimate?
bass4funk
I think the talking points on the liberal airwaves have been pushing the narrative to reiterate the saying “he will be impeached for life!” Oh, no! Wow! Omg! Well, he’s just hurt and incapable and unable to deal with life and work, he’s sulking, crying, sitting in the corner because “those” words hurt him more than a knife in the cheek. ROFL! Words in themselves have no bite or tangible meaning. It won’t block or stop this guy from doing his job, Dems can hurl that, it it goes back to the old sticks and stones argument. Dems can hold onto those words and in the meantime, McConnell will make sure this farce will come to its quick conclusion...without the drama.
Yup, proud of it!
yakyak
Can you believe THAT is number 3 in charge??
Jimizo
Before we even look at the scam artist and compulsive liar at number 1, number 2 thinks Jesus ran around on dinosaurs chasing the gays out of town.
Number 3 is at least sane.
PTownsend
If 'the Democrats stepped all over the Constitution' while Trump's in office and his appointee Barr is running the Department of Justice, why has that been allowed? Or is this just another alt right lie flung out in despair.
bass4funk
You don’t know what I know or don’t know, but I can tell you this much, keep hope alive! Some liberal said that, can’t remember which....hmmm...
bass4funk
No, he was on the Democrats hotlist the moment he decided to run and after he was inaugurated. The Dems failed the people and all the more reason why they won’t get the WH this cycle, nor should they.
bass4funk
Bring it on...one side has no evidence,
Seems like we may get to see E..., I meant the whistleblower after all.
The Democrats never had any, but these con criminals occupy the House, sad, so very sad.
PTownsend
'Trump complained....' i.e. whined once again, trying to convince his followers he's a victim. What a thin skinned, spoiled class brat.
'Hoax' is another term from the global alt right glossary used when one of the right's messiah's been accused of yet another wrong, and the evidence shows they indeed stepped in it.
McConnell is as 'nakedly partisan' as nakedly partisan can get, while he and his fellow GOP are getting campaign contributions from oligarchs and protecting Russians meddling in US politics. Why are Republicans like Mitch, Trump, Graham, Rubio, Cruz and others selling out the republic? Cue 'For a few (million) dollars more'
bass4funk
Yeah, now that the articles are in the hands of the Senate watch it come to a quicker end.
SuperLib
Oh, no. That impeachment tag will be on him forever, one of the first things mentioned in the history books.
u_s__reamer
Lev Parnas has launched a torpedo (Giuliani) that would sink anyone's ship but that of POTUS protected as he is by a flotilla of Republican weasels fiercely determined to rip up the US Constitution in order to thwart due process for a proven scam artist who has the craven GOP in his pocket like a latter-day Dr. Caligari.
lincolnman
I just love it when Trump and the Trumpers show their utter hypocrisy by dissing their team members who were just 24 hours earlier "heroes"....
Tillertson, Cohn, McMastera, Mattis - the Greatest, none better, top-tier.....then; stupid, dumb, out of touch....
Omarossa - The Best......then; a dog...
Sessions: No one better as AG....then: a big-eared Rube....
Cohen - No better lawyer, smart, my guy.....then; a lying dog...
Sondland - Hero....then; scum...
Now Parnas...a member of Rudy's team...and then; a liar....
Be careful Melania...
SuperLib
Parnas and Giuliani at lunch right before the arrest:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjnsoisrYfnAhX5KDQIHeOwCpQQjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Ftrump-impeachment-inquiry%2Fgiuliani-sought-private-meeting-ukrainian-president-documents-show-n1115691&psig=AOvVaw3agW3LkSX91Z5BHcukvWWg&ust=1579237783618703
You had no idea he was in Trump's corner. How sad the bubble is.
But yes, I do agree with you, Giuliani's man has a credibility issue. You and I don't trust him, but Rudy sure did.
starpunk
America is still a republic? Donnie Caligula doesn't think so. 'One nation under God'? Trump just called himself 'the Chosen One' and his cult thinks they're better than God.
Trump is an immature sociopathic juvenile with delusions of divinity and he is GUILTY of treason and crimes against humanity + the Constitution.
He has also failed his master Putin, his dysfunctional family, democracy, the US traditions of government and justice, the human race, himself and the real God.
stormcrow
If Trump wasn't the president, he'd be in prison right now for what he's done chatting with his partners-in-crime.
CrazyJoe
Appears to be a very competent group and I wish them well. The sooner Trump is gone, the better.
This should be a slam-dunk in the senate, but the republican senators know that Trump could shine a bad light on any of them, and the senators know Trump is a rat when it comes down to it. If you don't stand up for Trump, your dirty laundry gets aired out later that night on Fox News.
SuperLib
Actually, I said it. It's meaningful to me and the primary reason why I wanted Democrats to go through with it since it's the right thing to do. Tagged for life and in the history books. Mission accomplished.
What he thinks is meaningless to me. He put himself above country, making him a traitor. A low-class loser.
Just your posts.
His job is playing golf and promising deals he can't deliver on.
He will work hard to get a guilty man off. We both agree on that.
lincolnman
Yep. Parnas is a real bad dude - just look at who he is hanging out with - right Trumpers?
lincolnman
Well, thanks for confirming the hypocrisy...they're great before they aren't...
And your right about Sessions - that's a flip, then a flop, then a flip-flop...tough to figure out each day whether he's up or down...
FizzBit
Then they held a vote for shooting the other foot.
lincolnman
I believe you - I bet you can't count either...
Bring it on...one side has no evidence, the other has tapes, e-mails, audio recordings, transcripts...and the "drug deal"...
Thanks - more proof that there's no integrity, no values, no morality - for Trump and Trumpers, "you do what you can to stay alive"....to include flout the Constitution and break the law (USC 52, 30121)...
Pukey2
I hope the impeachment comes with the offer of a straitjacket!
plasticmonkey
Again, no substantive arguments from the Trump supporters. Simply regurgitating the angry and vacuous talking points they get from Fox 'n' Little Friends.
Because there simply is no legitimate defense of Trump. He's a corrupt, self-serving demagogue and con man. The only ones who can't see the obvious evidence of this just don't want to look at it.
Trumpism is a cult.
Numan
Lev Parnas implicates Trump on the eve of Senate impeachment trial
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lev-parnas-implicates-trump-on-the-eve-of-senate-impeachment-trial-025646046.html
Lev Parnas: Ukraine scheme was always about the Bidens, 'never about corruption'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/lev-parnas-ukraine-scheme-always-023500937.html
LOL! Oh, my...............!
Numan
So, did Flynn, Manafort, Giuliani and Pappadabolous..........., but you had no problem supporting the other Trump associates, while they were being convicted or indicted!
Parnas has evidence to back up his statements. Ooops!
What's your point?
SuperLib
What's the point of living on borrowed time? Be a man and take your lumps. Duped.
PTownsend
Remember the very recent posts when Trump supporters said humor is good. No doubt they'll get a kick out of their other hero Putin laughing at his trump.
lincolnman
Oh my....excerpts from Parnas' interview....
It was all about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and also Rudy had a personal thing with the Manafort stuff,” Parnas said of the efforts to convince Ukraine’s government to announce an investigation of the Bidens, “but it was never about corruption, it was strictly about Burisma, which included Hunter Biden and Joe Biden.
I don’t know those gentlemen,” Trump said in October about Parnas and Fruman, despite the fact that the men had been photographed together numerous times. He lied, Parnas said, adding, He knew exactly who we were.
Trump knew exactly what was going on,” Parnas said, adding he “wouldn't do anything without consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president.
Mr. Barr had to have known everything," Parnas said, adding that he was in the room when Giuliani and others spoke with the attorney general.
Remember the call summary - Donnie said to Zelinsky after "I would like you to do us a favor though"......."I'll have Rudy call you".
Its all unraveling - at the perfect time. Even Repub Senators are now going to want Bolton to tell them about the "drug deal"...and Barr too...
SuperLib
OMG......Trump fans had no idea about Clinton being completely cleared in Trump's forced investigation. Not a single one of them. And they all put out that conspiracy dozens of times.
Absolutely amazing.
ulysses
So Rudy, Donny's personal lawyer, was running a surveillance operation on the American ambassador to Ukraine.
We can understand the Russians doing it, the Chinese doing it, but why was Donny doing it????
This is not just corruption, its an effort to undermine the American foreign policy and those who administer it. And the GOP thinks Donny did no wrong???????
Stupid is an understatement to describe these nutless nutters....
SuperLib
Laughing at Trump? The UN laughed at Trump during his speech. He's a clown on the world stage. People literally laughed at him when he talked about his accomplishments. Out loud.
Numan
Credibility? That is rich coming from someone supporting Trump and his falsehoods and actions! LOL!
By the way, Flynn was also caught lying, but he took a plea deal that helped get scores of other people arrested and convicted thanks to Mueller!
Parnas good friends with the Trumps and Trump's other associates!
lincolnman
Keep beating that dead horse Serrano. Even your Repub witness Volker said it was BS...
And who does Barr have under investigation for 8 offenses related to Ukraine? Hint: He's Trump's personal lawyer - and his two business partners have already been arrested. Go Rudy!
Hummmm.... Yesterday a Trumper here said McConnell was a cocaine addict...and switched genders...
so what concessions did the supposed Master get for the trial? By the end her own team was tellling her to hurry up and just send them. All i have heard is from **Cocaine Mitch that if she **wants witnesses, its of course not just going to be her witnesses. I think we found Hunter!
You're impeached Donnie - wear your big red "I" with pride...
lincolnman
Donnie starts a third Middle East war with Iran, he's impeached for soliciting foreign influence in our election, the budget deficit is the highest in our history, Australia is burning due to climate change, and at his rally yesterday he says this;
Remember the dishwasher? You’d press it, boom! There’d be, like, an explosion. Five minutes later you open it up, the steam pours out,” he said. Trump then criticized newer models, claiming women – just women – across the country have to now wash their dishes “10 times.
Anybody have a new dishwasher? I’m sorry for that,” he told the crowd, promising that under his presidency their “dishes will be beautiful.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/15/trump-rails-against-refrigerators-promises-cleaner-dishes-milwaukee-rally
Is there any more evidence needed to show how far gone his mind is? Resign Donnie - severe Alzheimer's is nothing to be ashamed of...
1glenn
It is a sad day when our President is impeached, but his blatant corruption has left us no choice.