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Senate acquits Trump in historic vote as re-election battle looms

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As expected.

25 ( +26 / -1 )

What a waste of time and money this whole mess was. Like there was ever going to be any other outcome.

And saying 'but he will go down in history as being impeached'? Ask Bill Clinton how much he cares about that.

18 ( +33 / -15 )

and next to his name for as long as there are humans on the planet will be an asterisk denoting he was impeached.

Right next to Bill Clinton's. As much as you want it to, that tiny footnote means absolutely nothing to history.

14 ( +26 / -12 )

One more thing . . .

The Democrats should ask Mitt Romney if he has any plans this November.

10 ( +19 / -9 )

At least four more years, and hopefully more, for PRESIDENT Trump. MAGA!

9 ( +27 / -18 )

Congratulations to President Trump and the people of the USA.

8 ( +25 / -17 )

there ya go ... now ( if you wanna beat him ) go to the polls ...

8 ( +14 / -6 )

Awesome! On top of yesterday's SOTU address, the President is on a roll! Four more years!

7 ( +27 / -20 )

Old Mitt might as well scoot on over and join his loser friends.

7 ( +18 / -11 )

The impeachment failed because THERE WAS NO IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE! Obstructing Clinton from White House occupation was the best possible outcome of the 2016 election. MAGA! KAG!

7 ( +22 / -15 )

They have confident that at least they have Romney to support to one article. The have confident. Nancy said they will do it with out no "hatred" to republican party and to the voters of America.

She is just dumb enough to try it also. With their party in turmoil, and the US public tired of this mess, she and her radical members would loose all support from their constituents. The repubs and Trump will ostracize Mitt and he will have to jump ship.

The Dems and the MSM media have lost what little credibility they had. The medias job is to report unbiased news and to serve as a kind of outside observer for checks and balances of power. The problem is they have become biased, just a mouth piece for the Dems, and its hard to trust anything they say. The Dems and MSM did this to themselves. Highly incompetent and now transparent about who they really are.

7 ( +16 / -9 )

It’s times like this in the past that Avenatti would have been deployed but alas he is in jail. So what’s next “bombshell”?

6 ( +13 / -7 )

Anyone with a brain knew he was never gonna be removed, waste of time and money. Besides shams, lies and non stop attacks on Trump, have dems done anything these last three years? They'll probably shamefully attempt something else and fail and then fail in November.

5 ( +10 / -5 )

Acquitted forever! I'm taking the day off and celebrating with a keg of Kavanaugh beer :D

Four more years!

At least four more years, and hopefully more, for PRESIDENT Trump

He will have almost 5 more years.

4 ( +22 / -18 )

storm: Hey, Russia, if you're listening . . . 

Congratulations! You've WON! 

Actually the opposite is true. The Russian effort to cause turmoil and the overthrow of the American government was thwarted. The Russian dossier was injected into the election by Hillary and the DNC. All of the divisive efforts by Putin and Democrats have failed. The coup attempt failed - Russia, Hillary, Pelosi, Nadler, and the DNC lost. American democracy stands victorious.

4 ( +16 / -12 )

"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans engineered a stripped-down trial with no witnesses or new evidence."

Speaker Pelosi and Democrats engineered a stripped- down impeachment inquiry held mostly in secret with no ability for the President to defend himself unlike any other impeachment in American history.

4 ( +13 / -9 )

*and next to his name for as long as there are humans on the planet will be an asterisk denoting he was impeached.*

And next to his name for as long as there are humans on the planet will be an asterisk denoting he was acquitted forever :D

Republicans officially approving of Donny corrupting the office of the president

No, it's Republicans officially putting an end to this impeachment scam which has hurt the country.

4 ( +14 / -10 )

At last this dem farce is over. Our great President Trump can continue with the business of renewing our country. 4 more years from November is just a dead cert as this dem farce has boosted our great president's popularity even more.

4 ( +15 / -11 )

Hannity and Carlson are just the answer to the onslaught of anti Trump lectures we get daily from Don Lemmon. Actually what Hannity says, its mosty just straight truth about how looney the Dems are, to be honest.

Pelosi always saying "diversity is our strength" Well her team has to be to most diverse bunch of loons, where did these people come from, and how did they get elected?

4 ( +11 / -7 )

Bass: But they wanted to and pushed for this impeachment farce and it once again blew up in their face.

?

Even you said he was guilty, obviously based on the case the Democrats made.

4 ( +7 / -3 )

Bass: if Trump were guilty

You said he was guilty, but that he shouldn't be removed. Hats off to the people who convinced you.

4 ( +6 / -2 )

Being a Republican I’m fully aware that what Trump did in this whole Ukraine saga was wrong! Everyone know it that you don’t try to influence our elections and politics with foreign aid! Trump keeps doing one wrong thing after another. The whole Russian interference thing finished and then he goes around doing the same thing with Ukraine! Mike Pence would make a much better President than Trump on any given day despite having huge flaws in himself! America deserves better and I applaud Mitt Romney for standing by his values.

4 ( +7 / -3 )

As evidenced by his second place finish by millions in the popular vote

And he became first in the EC to win the Presidency.

Thanks Vlad! And haven't I worked on that punch list you gave me...2020 here we come...

?? In September you said that blackface wasn't racist,

I said, the Dems are tolerant of Blackface when it’s their people, when it’s a conservative doing it, he has to resign.....odd.

What's odd is you denying what you posted yesterday - your words....

Limbaugh: “I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

Bass: Laws implemented and created by Democrats

Limbaugh: “Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”

Bass: Well....

*Lombaugh: ** [To an African American female caller]: “Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”*****

Bass: I remember conservatives clings to their guns and religions....

Limbaugh: “Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”

Bass: California seems happy with this.

You agreed with every one of Limbaugh's racist, hate-filled comments...

You proved it yesterday - and before that when you said you agreed with Donnie's discrimination against black tenants.

You can't run away from your own posts...

4 ( +6 / -2 )

CNN keeps harping about "he will forever go down as impeached" Nobody cares, but their Dem friends they support and love so well, will go down as the most butt hurt losers in recent history.

Note to Trump.....cover your A...because they are still coming for you. They have said they can and will impeach multiple times.

3 ( +18 / -15 )

It looks increasingly like it needs to be torn up if a farce like this is permissible.

Why?

They might as well have let Donald Trump himself decide if he got convicted or acquitted, and that's the kind of thing I only imagine happening in failed states and banana republics. 

You’re right, the Democrats are running their party like a banana republic. Once again, liberals that hate Trump in the US and on JT were proven wrong again, the man is acquitted for life, he’ll always have to wear that around his neck. Lol

Nancy Pelosi clearly isn't the only one who wants to tear up the Constitution.

No, she’s the only one and in doing so, she spat in the very face of the people it was directed at.

Speaker Pelosi just ripped up:

One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.

The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.

The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller.

A service member's reunion with his family.

That's her legacy, and her party as to how they think about the race, vets and single mothers.

3 ( +12 / -9 )

There will a statement about this whole impeachment sham from our forever acquitted President tomorrow. That will definitely be must see TV. If you hated the SOTU yesterday, you are in for a treat. I would love to see John Durham walk out with a stack of indictments. But I really cant handle any more winning this week, so save that for later.

3 ( +10 / -7 )

so we are right back where we started, and the approval ratings are higher than ever,

Total waste of time that could have been spent doing something positive for the American people. Nancy and her people will be paying a huge price in November for losing this.

3 ( +11 / -8 )

you forgot to mention (at least) one more ..... you know that Limbo, eh I mean, Limbaugh guy.

And?

Getting the Presidential medal of Freedom from her highness, Melania.

He should. When you have close to 150 million conservative listeners in the States and a few million worldwide tuning in for 3 hour show daily, that’s something powerful right there. That’s nothing to laugh at most liberals on the radio don’t even get that many listeners. That’s why the majority of them don’t get on the radio as much.

Now ain't that something.

Sure is!

A guy who called a woman slut and prostitute and more here:

I can make a list of nasty things the Democrats have said throughout the years and it’s a long list, so I don’t get what your point is.

But I guess that's ok with you and those Trump followers, too.

No more than it is when you guys allow and accept the insults and lies they hurl daily.

3 ( +10 / -7 )

The Democrats will continue to target Trump by scraping up whatever offenses they can find. If plan A fails, they go to plan B then C there are always D, E and F, etc... They're a bunch of sore losers with nothing to do.

3 ( +10 / -7 )

It's extremely depressing and the worst is yet to come, one fears. The parallels with what happened in Europe in the 1920s and 30s are obvious...

Exactly, the constant attacks on press, the support of foreign dictators, demonizing the minorities....

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Speaker Pelosi and Democrats engineered a stripped- down impeachment inquiry held mostly in secret with no ability for the President to defend himself unlike any other impeachment in American history.

This is completely inaccurate. Donny was given the chance to defend himself and declined to do so. Let’s not rewrite history before noon.

3 ( +6 / -3 )

Good job Republicans! You have sealed your doom for the next several decades. The stain of you colluding and conspiring with the Great Orange Crime Boss, the one that will forever wear the big scarlet "i", is done and in the history books.

This was a great act of political suicide - as was your standing ovation for Rush Limbaugh yesterday - as this avowed white supremacist and admitted drug addict was given an award so Donnie could lock up his KKK-loving base. Real Americans just looked on with disgust.

Now we can expect more bombshells to come from all the participants in the QPQ as they run and try to hide (Pence), or cut a deal (Parnas). And wait until Bolton's book comes out and entertains us all with tales of the "drug deal"...oh my....

I had to smile at Nancy ripping up his hate speech while he smiled on obliviously - what a diss...

Donnie must have flown into a rage last night...careful Donnie, you don't want another midnight run to Walter Reed...

3 ( +7 / -4 )

Lincolnman your reaching....:-)

Reaching? is that the same as "grabbing"? Nope, never done that... I know someone who has bragged about it though...

denial is the haven for losers; accept your party is a mess, that would be a start for change

So tell us what you think about Bolton - Repub conservative icon or "Backstabber" and "tool of the left"?

3 ( +6 / -3 )

Acquitted. Pelosi tried to tear up the Constitution and she lost. Pelosi’s partisan impeachment kangaroo court will stain her forever - Trumps acquittal ensures that.

Pelosi and Schiff have polarized America more than at anytime since the Civil War. Trumps re-election chances have actually gone up. I am guessing it won’t be long before the #resistance comes up with additional, ever more far fetched schemes to overthrow the American government. And Trumps chances for re-election will only grow as the country watches this single-minded crusade get ever more crazed.

I am almost a little anxious for the impeachment and trial for the next Democrat president. Whomever it is. If a Dem president attempts to litigate a congressional subpoena- immediate impeachment and trial. Boom! That’s America in the wake of the Lefts #resistance.

2 ( +16 / -14 )

Its baffling to Americans too.

Only to the haters, looking at Trump’s rising poll numbers, it was baffling how the haters continue to fight a losing battle.

How can someone commit crimes so openly, over and over again and no one has the balls to say anything.

What crimes? Only Mitt voted and that was on the first article only.

But then you have to remember our history, the remnants of racism and their one last hurrah before they sink forever!!!

Yeah, that baseless claim rings more hollow with each passing day.

2 ( +12 / -10 )

Funny how people seem to equate impeachment with guilt.

2 ( +11 / -9 )

The way the democrats see it:

The charge of Abuse of Power: President Trump is putting the average working American first.

The charge of Obstructing Congress: President Trump is thwarting their ultimate goal of implementing their Socialistic agenda.

No.

Today is indeed a "solemn occasion". So, yes, let's celebrate.

I just wish immigrants would stop interjecting themselves into American politics. They should go back to their countries and make them better places to live instead of leeching off the US.

2 ( +4 / -2 )

Yes, but not to the point of voting for an impeachment.

So, you thought he was guilty of wrongdoing but also supported the idea of not having witnesses testify?

2 ( +4 / -2 )

The US appears to suffer from lingering bad karma --which it has failed to overcome -- from its previous civil war, exacerbated by the irresponsible propaganda disseminated by cable TV news. Since 1990 its citizens have constantly harped on how America emerged victorious from the Cold War, without realizing that the economies of both the US and Soviet Union were bled white by the voracious appetites of their military-industrial complexes. (The polluted environment, crumbling infrastructure and deteriorating inner cities are evidence of this.)

Humanity is clearly headed for a new Dark Age.

2 ( +4 / -2 )

lincolnman your reaching....:-)

denial is the haven for losers; accept your party is a mess, that would be a start for change

2 ( +7 / -5 )

No, the Senate does

Absolutely incorrect. The House decides what’s impeachable. The Senate decides if the person that’s been impeached is guilty of the actions. Let’s try to be somewhat accurate.

2 ( +5 / -3 )

It’s quite humorous watching you deflect and obfuscate to avoid admitting your were incorrect.

And as he continues to get pummeled, he'll write more about the imaginary libs/dems/socialists living in his (and other far right nutjob's heads), up the attack level and keep switching topics until the thread's shut down.

2 ( +4 / -2 )

Saw an old saying by Lincoln making the rounds amongst those that left the GOP. The corrupt senate majority can revel in their arrogance at spitting in the face of the people, but we the people of the US have to call them out on it.

Lincoln stated: *“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who would pervert the Constitution”*

Take heed cult 45ers and GOP lackies. This was from a man of the Republican party well before the current degenerates took control and rammed it into the ground.

2 ( +5 / -3 )

The Dems still didn’t push for Nordham to leave office as well as his Lt. Gov. For wearing a Blackface....hypocrites these liberals.

?? In September you said that blackface wasn't racist, and that people getting angry at Justin Trudeau for doing it was just "PC garbage way out of control". Which is it?

2 ( +5 / -3 )

Apparantly "friends" from the Russian IRA and China CCP propagandists are thanking our resident Trumpeteers. I kept telling you that you sold your souls as Americans... for makeshift "patriotism" and hypocritical circle-jerks. Mmm, the karma bus is coming.... and it's gonna hit like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

2 ( +5 / -3 )

Bass: Yes, but not to the point of voting for an impeachment.

And I give you credit for that since a lot of your compadres here are actually chalking it up to conspiracy theories or "misunderstandings." Pretty crazy stuff, like people walking around saying OJ was framed.

More hats off...

The whistleblower. Talk about courage. He or she must have known the GOP would try to out their identity and be targeted with death threats. These are the real patriots. Without people like this we'd all be getting daily updates on a corrupt investigation into Hunter Biden courtesy of Ukraine, but since person stepped forward that was taken off the table.

Hats off to the IG who read the complaint, put politics aside, and decided it was relevant and credible. Without him, again, we'd be getting daily Fox updates about Ukraine's investigation into Biden.

Hats off to the diplomats who testified knowing the GOP and their supporters would try to smear their good names. Thank you for your service. I'm glad the US still has people like this serving our interests overseas. Intelligent and absolutely fearless.

Hats off to Ambassador Yovanovitch who handled herself with class and grace while Rudy was running around smearing her good name and getting her fired. She's good people. Hopefully she will reconsider and go back into public service. We need more people like her.

Everyone knew the result from Day 1 but no one thought we'd get the amount of exposure to the level of corruption that we saw. You can't put that back into a bottle. Everyone knows Trump is guilty. Everyone knows what he did.

Hats off to the brave men and women who made that possible and stopped a corrupt investigation.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

Pelosi's tearing up Pinocchio's SOTU trash talk was an eloquent retort to the Republicans' shameless dissing of the US Constitution. The Dems should add one more "foot note" to Trump's CV by making him the first Potus to be impeached twice: incriminatory evidence proving him unfit for office is everywhere to be found under the slimy rocks of his sleazy world.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

Not in the Senate at the last minute. What could’ve happened would be that maybe both sides would come together and think on any adequate solution to end it and come to some Resolution that both sides can agree to and they could do that behind closed doors but to outright, but to demand witnesses, No.

Why were you so afraid of witnesses?

Only if they Dems did a one for one exchange and the Dems weren’t willing to allow Hunter, Joe or E..., I mean the whistleblower testify. Mitch called their bluff and they folded. Not surprised

So, you know Donny is guilty even without hearing from witnesses, but you’re completely okay with him being above the law.

1 ( +5 / -4 )

By far the best part of Trumps SOTU speech was when he gave Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedom. The hate and anger was palpable. They were stunned. Trump then turns around and honors a former black WWII fighter pilot. They were choking on their hate by then. The #resistance has consumed the Dems to the point they have lost their minds. Just sitting back now and waiting for the next inevitable coup attempt.

1 ( +5 / -4 )

bass4funkToday  11:03 am JST

And I also said it wasn’t an impeachable offense.

Another quirk of your broken system is that you don't decide what's impeachable and what isn't. Your democratically elected Representatives do, seemingly on an ad hoc basis. Still, who cares if the system's broken when it still delivers the result that you want.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

Another quirk of your broken system is that you don't decide what's impeachable and what isn't.

No, the Senate does

Your democratically elected Representatives do,

And yet, liberal haters of Trump I’m the US and Europe (as if that helps) don’t seem to realize that.

seemingly on an ad hoc basis. Still, who cares if the system's broken when it still delivers the result that you want.

But if it rendered the verdict you wanted, you’d praise our judicial system. Interesting.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

Why not? Especially with his ties to a company where he worked in a position that he got because his father was the VP at the time, with zero experience making over 80k a month, I definitely think that’s relevant and worth looking into, but hey, now that this farce is over, we can all have a Corona.....the beer...

So, you think it’s okay to call witnesses that are irrelevant? Odd. Seems to me you just wanted to score political points instead of making sure justice is served.

1 ( +4 / -3 )

What surprised me the most last night at the SOTU was not all of Donnie's outright lies and fairy tales...it was all the Repubs standing up and clapping when the Dimwit gave the Medal of Freedom to Limbaugh...

Makes you angry don’t it? Lol

Yep, outraged in fact, as with most Americans except for the KKK...

While there are a few racist nutters like Repub Steve King (what's offensive about the term white supremacy?), most responsible Repubs don't agree with the hate speech and racist rants.

Like the way Nancy spat on the last surviving Tuskegee airmen and ripping the SOTU speech in front of his great-grandson? How about when Biden said, can’t go into a 7-Eleven without hearing an Indian accent, why do liberals worship Byrd, a former Grand Wizard or Wilson who played “A birth of a Nation” in the WH. So when liberals glorify and hold on to hate speech that’s ok, right?

Second "But What About" today - thanks for agreeing with me again...

Yet they got on their feet last night and applauded someone who has said "Slavery wasn't so bad", and told a Black women "take that bone out of your nose"...plus even more disgusting things.

The Dems still didn’t push for Nordham to leave office as well as his Lt. Gov. For wearing a Blackface....hypocrites these liberals.

And the third....

Donnie will wear the scarlet "I" forever

...as well “A”

A__hole?

all the Repubs who stood last night will forever wear a big yellow "C" on their backs - C for Coward...

Dems had on their backs DD “Dumb and Done”

And the fourth...

And voters will remember that in Nov...

Liberals Home Depot has your boxes ready at a discounted price.

The cleaners called, your sheet is ready to pick up...

1 ( +3 / -2 )

Blakclabel: Please buy Bolton’s book.

If Bolton wanted book sales he should have lied and said Trump never engaged in QPQ and it's all just a Dem conspiracy with Deep State. He'd sell 10 times the number of books and be on Hannity for a week straight.

Bass: Like the way Nancy spat on the last surviving Tuskegee airmen and ripping the SOTU speech in front of his great-grandson?

Gotta love it when a Trump fan supports his discrimination against blacks then throws in some made up stuff about Pelosi as if we should be angry about it. Remember.....YOU supported racism. Pelosi isn't here reading this forum.

1 ( +5 / -4 )

There it is again. That phrase that people keep bleating. Stop watching leftists news pundits already. Trump is mainstream America. There is no "base" man you guys are just baaa baaa all over the place.

Really? Leftist news pundits? Guess that includes Fox News and his 2020 Campaign adviser...right?

Care to give us a "baa"?

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6090320727001#sp=show-clips

1 ( +4 / -3 )

It is OVER........ The end of the evil attack... Always final victory for Trump and for America. Four More years.. FOUR more Years.... Four more Years................................

I heard Nancy and her failed team is planning for another Impeachment .... Once source of Nancy's aid said they are planning it do fast, so that before November election they can impeach Trump. And they underlined impeaching president Trump before November is a national emergency. They have confident that at least they have Romney to support to one article. The have confident. Nancy said they will do it with out no "hatred" to republican party and to the voters of America.

NEXT IMPEACHMENT IS COMING.................... and Democrats want to impeach president before November 2020...

0 ( +12 / -12 )

ulyssesToday 07:35 am JST

A trial without witnesses, a trial where witnesses were openly intimidated and a trial where followers of one cult were warned their necks were on the line if they voted with their conscience!!

klausdorthToday 07:40 am JST

This is the sentence people should look at:

"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans engineered a stripped-down trial with no witnesses or new evidence."

That's what it was. How can you have a trial without witnesses? In any court witnesses are heard, but not when it comes to Donnie and his followers. Nice charade!

As a non-American I find this impeachment palaver totally baffling. No witnesses allowed, especially not John Bolton, and then the "jury" is the Republican-controlled Senate which is obviously going to find him not guilty. Particularly after they were told they'd be fired if they voted against Trump. A bizarre affair. What was the point?

0 ( +10 / -10 )

OK. Now that we have this wasted time and money from the worlds most powerful and influential nation behind us, let’s do some real, serious leading, please. Regardless of the outcome, Washington has become a laugh stock of the world.

0 ( +4 / -4 )

Please buy Bolton’s book. That’s the least you can do considering how many times his name came out of your mouths. Send Parnas something for his prison account too.

0 ( +3 / -3 )

Time to hold the people who wasted the last 6 months on this accountable. Think about all the political deals that weren't made because they wasted all this time.

Immigration laws could have been updated to remove the carrot for illegal immigrants and given DACA kids a path to citizenship.

No worries. With the new census data, the Democrats will follow the Republicans in drawing new districts to ensure their current state majorities on the coasts stay that way for the next decade.

Pelosi knew this would happen. She was forced into it to retain control of the House. Too bad.

0 ( +3 / -3 )

What surprised me the most last night at the SOTU was not all of Donnie's outright lies and fairy tales...it was all the Repubs standing up and clapping when the Dimwit gave the Medal of Freedom to Limbaugh...

Makes you angry don’t it? Lol

While there are a few racist nutters like Repub Steve King (what's offensive about the term white supremacy?), most responsible Repubs don't agree with the hate speech and racist rants.

Like the way Nancy spat on the last surviving Tuskegee airmen and ripping the SOTU speech in front of his great-grandson? How about when Biden said, can’t go into a 7-Eleven without hearing an Indian accent, why do liberals worship Byrd, a former Grand Wizard or Wilson who played “A birth of a Nation” in the WH. So when liberals glorify and hold on to hate speech that’s ok, right?

Yet they got on their feet last night and applauded someone who has said "Slavery wasn't so bad", and told a Black women "take that bone out of your nose"...plus even more disgusting things.

The Dems still didn’t push for Nordham to leave office as well as his Lt. Gov. For wearing a Blackface....hypocrites these liberals.

Donnie will wear the scarlet "I" forever

...as well “A”

all the Repubs who stood last night will forever wear a big yellow "C" on their backs - C for Coward...

Dems had on their backs DD “Dumb and Done”

And voters will remember that in Nov...

Liberals Home Depot has your boxes ready at a discounted price.

0 ( +4 / -4 )

Absolutely incorrect. The House decides what’s impeachable.

Of course.

The Senate decides if the person that’s been impeached is guilty of the actions.

They thought he wasn’t. Finished, move on, y’all lost again, bitter pill.

0 ( +4 / -4 )

So, you think it’s okay to call witnesses that are irrelevant? Odd. Seems to me you just wanted to score political points instead of making sure justice is served.

No different than what the Democrats wanted, they tried to to score political points in hoping that they could remove this president and failed miserably again.

0 ( +4 / -4 )

Noidall: Trump is mainstream America. 

As evidenced by his second place finish by millions in the popular vote.

0 ( +4 / -4 )

Your new savior Bolton refused.

The economy saved Trump. Trump is so confident now that he will never leave the WH even if he is defeated. It's guaranteed. There better not be another 2008 or it's down with Trump at the election and his Republican supporters. But again, Trump will never leave anyway.

0 ( +2 / -2 )

Trump being impeached and Trump being acquitted is a clear show of how ridiculous the US political system is and the western justice system.

and you point the finger at Japan???

-1 ( +3 / -4 )

To send a case to trial knowing you still have witnesses you havent bothered to call because you are in a hurry to impeach before Christmas for politics. thats the sham.

There were 18 witnesses, one of whom we still havent heard from because Schiff is hiding his transcript and wouldnt put him in public testimony. what is Schiff hiding?

Guilty or not but to hold a trial and block witnesses is a total sham...

-1 ( +4 / -5 )

Doesn't work like that in an impeachment trial...Well this one is a first every other impeachment trial has had witnesses.

Not in the Senate at the last minute. What could’ve happened would be that maybe both sides would come together and think on any adequate solution to end it and come to some Resolution that both sides can agree to and they could do that behind closed doors but to outright, but to demand witnesses, No.

So, you thought he was guilty of wrongdoing but also supported the idea of not having witnesses testify?

Only if they Dems did a one for one exchange and the Dems weren’t willing to allow Hunter, Joe or E..., I mean the whistleblower testify. Mitch called their bluff and they folded. Not surprised.

-1 ( +3 / -4 )

Well, anyway....Trump is acquitted and that’s for life! Yippie!

It won’t help after Donny’s out of office and is brought up on criminal charges. YIPPIE!!!

I was never afraid, none of the Republicans were afraid, they said if you want Bolton then you have to give one or both Biden’s and or the whistleblower seems fair to me

Why would you want to hear from the Bidens or the whistleblower? The Bidens were irrelevant and the whistleblower’s information was superseded by Donny’s own people. This means you and the republicans were afraid of witnesses.

I never thought he was guilty to be impeached, but that part is over now.

Okay. But you do admit what Donny did was inappropriate and you are okay without it. Amazing how willing you are to excuse republicans being repugnant.

-1 ( +4 / -5 )

Good job Republicans! You have sealed your doom for the next several decade

I don't think it will be that long. The global rich will always support Republicans, but given the currently largest demographic is diminishing and concomitant with that the part of the R's base made up of white nationalists, I think they know this is their last shot at control and are taking all they can for themselves while their Trump reigns.

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No one is surprised that 20 Republican Senators failed to join with the Democrats in voting to remove Trump from office. Disappointed, but not surprised. Trump has taken over the GOP, like Adolf took over the National Socialist Party.

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Muh Bolton Bolton Bolton Parnas.

its all done, you lost. Give it up.

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You said he was guilty,

And I also said it wasn’t an impeachable offense.

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bass4funkToday  11:56 am JST

"Another quirk of your broken system is that you don't decide what's impeachable and what isn't."

No, the Senate does

The Senate decides if a President who has been impeached gets acquitted or convicted, again making things up as it goes along according to whatever suits the majority. You don't seem to know a lot about this Constitution you love going on about.

Mr. NoidallToday  11:58 am JST

Your democratically elected Representatives do, 

And That's exactly what happened.

I know. So?

Trump's acquitted. It happened. Get over it.

I was expecting it.

Put your hate for the man aside.

I think you'll find I'm a lot less... emotionally invested in Trump than people who write a dozen or so comments here about him every day.

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The Senate decides if a President who has been impeached gets acquitted or convicted,

They did.

again making things up as it goes along according to whatever suits the majority. You don't seem to know a lot about this Constitution you love going on about.

I do, but it seems like most Europeans really don’t understand ours, but it wouldn’t be the first time you guys got it all wrong.

I think you'll find I'm a lot less... emotionally invested in Trump than people who write a dozen or so comments here about him every day.

But you still make comments on a lot of his policies you don’t know or really understand,

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Gotta love it when a Trump fan supports his discrimination against blacks

And yet, Pelosi denigrated them last night by tearing up his SOTU.

then throws in some made up stuff about Pelosi

No, just go on YouTube, CNN, FNC, NYT it’s all there.

as if we should be angry about it. Remember.....

You don’t have to be, the farce is over, he won and the Dems lost....again.

YOU supported racism.

I didn’t, Nordham, Wilson and Byrd did.

Pelosi isn't here reading this forum.

Neither is Trump.

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Another democratic blunder! Trump 2020 almost guaranteed.

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?? In September you said that blackface wasn't racist,

I said, the Dems are tolerant of Blackface when it’s their people, when it’s a conservative doing it, he has to resign.....odd.

and that people getting angry at Justin Trudeau for doing it was just "PC garbage way out of control". Which is it?

Not me. But I do think if liberals are tolerant of racism, but condemn it when it’s a conservative, something is terribly wrong with liberal hypocrisy.

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As evidenced by his second place finish by millions in the popular vote

And he became first in the EC to win the Presidency.

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The whistleblower. Talk about courage. He or she

He.

must have known the GOP would try to out their identity and be targeted with death threats. These are the real patriots. Without people like this we'd all be getting daily updates on a corrupt investigation into Hunter Biden courtesy of Ukraine, but since person stepped forward that was taken off the table.

Well, anyway....Trump is acquitted and that’s for life! Yippie!

Hats off to the IG who read the complaint, put politics aside, and decided it was relevant and credible. Without him, again, we'd be getting daily Fox updates about Ukraine's investigation into Biden.

Let’s see what Barr and Durham will find out, the jury is out on that one still.

I'm glad the US still has people like this serving our interests overseas. Intelligent and absolutely fearless.

I’m happy with the defense and now they masterfully orchestrated the defense, intelligently it with some of the best legal minds in the country and the efforts were flawless and led to this obvious and predicted outcome.

Hats off to Ambassador Yovanovitch who handled herself with class and grace while Rudy was running around smearing her good name and getting her fired. She's good people. Hopefully she will reconsider and go back into public service. We need more people like her.

Everyone knew the result from Day 1

That is was all BS, they sure did.

but no one thought we'd get the amount of exposure to the level of corruption that we saw. You can't put that back into a bottle. Everyone knows Trump is guilty. Everyone knows what he did. 

Liberals can keep saying that, but the impeachment is over and once again the Democrats failed, if Trump were guilty he be removed, he would be in jail and if it helps liberals sleep at night to say that to themselves to give them solace and comfort, they should continue doing that. ROFL!

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It won’t help after Donny’s out of office and is brought up on criminal charges. YIPPIE!!!

Well, has more than enough money to hire the best legal counsel, so he’ll be fine. Lol

Why would you want to hear from the Bidens or the whistleblower?

Why not? Especially with his ties to a company where he worked in a position that he got because his father was the VP at the time, with zero experience making over 80k a month, I definitely think that’s relevant and worth looking into, but hey, now that this farce is over, we can all have a Corona.....the beer...

Okay. But you do admit what Donny did was inappropriate and you are okay without it.

But never amounted to him being impeached.

Amazing how willing you are to excuse republicans being repugnant.

I don’t. I would’ve been perfectly fine if they would have tried to censure the president. That would have been a smarter move.

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What surprised me the most last night at the SOTU was not all of Donnie's outright lies and fairy tales...it was all the Repubs standing up and clapping when the Dimwit gave the Medal of Freedom to Limbaugh...

While there are a few racist nutters like Repub Steve King (what's offensive about the term white supremacy?), most responsible Repubs don't agree with the hate speech and racist rants.

Yet they got on their feet last night and applauded someone who has said "Slavery wasn't so bad", and told a Black women "take that bone out of your nose"...plus even more disgusting things.

Donnie will wear the scarlet "I" forever - all the Repubs who stood last night will forever wear a big yellow "C" on their backs - C for Coward...

And voters will remember that in Nov...

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A trial without witnesses, a trial where witnesses were openly intimidated and a trial where followers of one cult were warned their necks were on the line if they voted with their conscience!!

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So can any Trump supporters tell me this...have they ever heard of a trial without witnesses besides this one?

Doesn't work like that in an impeachment trial.

The Democrats job and in this case they control the house, it is their job to act as the prosecution in together all evidence, they clearly didn’t do that and they could have and should have, that is their fault.

The Republicans Job in the Senate Is to hear the evidence that has been gathered by the house Democrats and go over the evidence and hear the arguments they are the jury and they have the power to sentence and or remove a sitting president their job is not to do the job of the house. Now the Democrats are trying to put a gun to the Senates head and force them to change the rules (as Democrats always do) when things don’t go their way, but at least Mitch didn’t fall for that.

Guilty or not but to hold a trial and block witnesses is a total sham...

No, the sham was that the Democrats are sneaky and thought they could once again try and change the constitution. The Senate wasn’t having it.

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Why were you so afraid of witnesses? 

I was never afraid, none of the Republicans were afraid, they said if you want Bolton then you have to give one or both Biden’s and or the whistleblower seems fair to me. But the Dems didn’t want that, they just wanted Bolton and thought the GOP would just roll over and grant them that wish and not expect a witness of their choice in return? Man, these liberals....lol

So, you know Donny is guilty

I never thought he was guilty to be impeached, but that part is over now.

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Such a "dark day in history" so much doom and gloom

No its not, its just the pain of change, and more will surely come. Years of both neo cons and radicals, destroying America for the sake of their own short term gains, and long term interest of foreigners.

I find it very interesting that MSM sends its reporters to Japan, who give us such glossy images of Japan; a Japan that can do no wrong, but never dig even an inch deeper to find that Japan doesnt welcome immigrants and pay the free health care. They welcome them, then work them to death.

I want to see my country be more than just some stop over for immigrants to come and make bank, then go home and criticize it. Serve in our military, then return to their country while taking a pension.

I remember when Trump got elected there were these Japanese industry leaders having a hissy fit on TV; how dare them dumb Americans disrupt the industry Japan had created for them. The reality is they had blocked all US competition in Japan while lobbying for access to every market in the US.

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Good job Republicans! You have sealed your doom for the next several decades.

You keep saying that and once again you are wrong and continue to getting wrong.

The stain of you colluding and conspiring with the Great Orange Crime Boss, the one that will forever wear the big scarlet "i", is done and in the history books.

We conservatives go with the Golden “A” which Mitch bestowed on to the President.

This was a great act of political suicide

Yeah, Nadler, Pelosi really looked like garbage and where was Schiff? He slithered back into his burrow somewhere?

as was your standing ovation for Rush Limbaugh yesterday - as this avowed white supremacist and admitted drug addict was given an award so Donnie could lock up his KKK-loving base. Real Americans just looked on with disgust.

Dems worship Wilson and Bryd, far worse.

Now we can expect more bombshells to come from all the participants in the QPQ as they run and try to hide (Pence), or cut a deal (Parnas). And wait until Bolton's book comes out and entertains us all with tales of the "drug deal"...oh my....

No one cares anymore, but please, please continue to elevate this President, make it too easy for him to win, but knowing you Lincoln, you’ll be saying the same thing for the next for years, he’s going to get it, it’s coming ROFL.

I had to smile at Nancy ripping up his hate speech while he smiled on obliviously - what a diss...

Yes, and she made an even bigger fool of herself by spitting in the eye of the last remaining Tuskegee airman Unbelievable!

Speaker Pelosi just ripped up:

One of our last surviving Tuskegee Airmen.

The survival of a child born at 21 weeks.

The mourning families of Rocky Jones and Kayla Mueller.

A service member's reunion with his family.

So basically, she just showed the world, Blacks mean nothing to her, even Turley thinks she should resign if she can’t act rationally and calmly, but he warned her as well....smh.

But That's her legacy.

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Good job Republicans! You have sealed your doom for the next several decades.

You keep saying that and once again you are wrong and continue to getting wrong.

Very convincing...

The stain of you colluding and conspiring with the Great Orange Crime Boss, the one that will forever wear the big scarlet "i", is done and in the history books.

We conservatives go with the Golden “A” which Mitch bestowed on to the President.

Never saw Donnie wear a gold tie - lots of red ones though - understandable given he gets them made in China...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYoOPgeTMQc

This was a great act of political suicide

Yeah, Nadler, Pelosi really looked like garbage and where was Schiff? He slithered back into his burrow somewhere?

Was waiting for Bolton to show up so he could walk him into the front row...

as was your standing ovation for Rush Limbaugh yesterday - as this avowed white supremacist and admitted drug addict was given an award so Donnie could lock up his KKK-loving base. Real Americans just looked on with disgust.

Dems worship Wilson and Bryd, far worse.

But What About - thanks for agreeing with me that Rush is a white supremacist hate monger...

Now we can expect more bombshells to come from all the participants in the QPQ as they run and try to hide (Pence), or cut a deal (Parnas). And wait until Bolton's book comes out and entertains us all with tales of the "drug deal"...oh my....

No one cares anymore, but please, please continue to elevate this President, make it too easy for him to win, but knowing you Lincoln, you’ll be saying the same thing for the next for years, he’s going to get it, it’s coming ROFL.

Sure, come talk to me after Parnas releases another video next week or when Bolton's book comes out. And ready to answer yet; is Bolton a conservative icon or a "tool of the left"?

I had to smile at Nancy ripping up his hate speech while he smiled on obliviously - what a diss...

Yes, and she made an even bigger fool of herself by spitting in the eye of the last remaining Tuskegee airman Unbelievable!

She spit into Donnie's eye - and he's still blinking. And I'm sure after watching Donnie give an award to someone who said to Black Americans "Slavery wasn't so bad" and "take that bone out of your nose", he was ready to give Nancy a hug...

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Noidall: We can even take statements from people who heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend that Trump was messing around.

This was a great strategy from Trump and directly preys on people who lack critical thinking making it a home run with his base.

All you have to do is say there were no direct witnesses which technically is true. Except when you realize there were no direct witnesses because Trump blocked them all from testifying, not that they didn't exist. It would be like me putting a gag order on everyone at my bachelor party then telling my fiancee that all she heard is just hearsay....since I made it that way. Just leave out the last part.

Bolton changed all of that but this one is still duped anyway because he still hasn't added 2 plus 2. Trump bet on that. Literally. They sat in an office and devised this plan to trick their supporters and we can see it here perfectly. Hand it to Trump to know his deplorables.

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@nonparty heard Nancy and her failed team is planning for another Impeachment 

Is this something reported by the Internet Research Agency or a similar pro-authoritarian, anti-democracy organization paid by an authoritarian state? Please provide a link.

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Even you said he was guilty, obviously based on the case the Democrats made.

Yes, but not to the point of voting for an impeachment.

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TheLongTermerToday  07:56 am JST

The medias job is to report unbiased news and to serve as a kind of outside observer for checks and balances of power.

Do Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson know that?

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Hats off to Pelosi and Schumer for exposing the corruption of the administration for all to see. They did an excellent job laying out the evidence to the point a lot of Republicans had to default to "guilty but not worthy of removal."

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Schiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy

this was last week. Dems were trying to sneak it into the trial. Your new savior Bolton refused. So make sure to buy that book!

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what Trump did was not a smart move, but as a first term president with no political experience, I can excuse it. Hopefully he learned from it, and will continue to keep his push keeping his campaign promises.

whats bigger than anything Trump did, and discredits any accusation of wrong doing, is the fact that the man has been "guilty" of every wrong doing from the day he took office, all the while, doing great things for the US, but these things are never reported by the dems media.

The onslaught of attacks by these vile people has discredited any legit arguments they might have. The consistently try to speak for everyone with their biased dialogues and editorials, akin to brainwashing and group think with their opinions and bias.

No thank you, I can think for myself, and I think allot of other people are fed up with these people telling us what to think, like they have some morale high ground or are some authority.

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ulyssesToday 08:14 am JST

As a non-American I find this impeachment palaver totally baffling.

Its baffling to Americans too.

How can someone commit crimes so openly, over and over again and no one has the balls to say anything.

But then you have to remember our history, the remnants of racism and their one last hurrah before they sink forever!!!

It's extremely depressing and the worst is yet to come, one fears. The parallels with what happened in Europe in the 1920s and 30s are obvious...

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The way the democrats see it:

The charge of Abuse of Power: President Trump is putting the average working American first.

The charge of Obstructing Congress: President Trump is thwarting their ultimate goal of implementing their Socialistic agenda.

Today is indeed a "solemn occasion". So, yes, let's celebrate.

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@thelongtermCNN keeps harping about "he will forever go down as impeached" 

Thanks for sharing what CNN said. I don't watch it. Is your point that CNN's reporting accurately?

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I wonder how Sir Impeached A Lot will abuse his power next. Any predictions? I predict he'll use the power of president to get himself re-elected by whatever means he can.

And he'll need to know, as the people know the senate has stopped protecting them from their own people.

The founders are rolling in their graves.

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Trump being impeached and Trump being acquitted is a clear show of how ridiculous the US political system is. The Obama presidency was another clear reason of how screwed up the system is. There is no teamwork and no politician actually does their job. Their job is to the American people yet Democrats and Republicans fail at that every year.

Democrats gunning for him in his final year of being president was self-serving and an attempt to grab the spotlight and momentum heading into the election. Republicans all acknowledging that Trump overreached and knew fully what Trump did yet forgoing to remove him was grossly negligent and an horrible act of self-preservation over duty.

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As a non-American I find this impeachment palaver totally baffling.

Its baffling to Americans too.

How can someone commit crimes so openly, over and over again and no one has the balls to say anything.

But then you have to remember our history, the remnants of racism and their one last hurrah before they sink forever!!!

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President Donald Trump was acquitted

and next to his name for as long as there are humans on the planet will be an asterisk denoting he was impeached. Current Republican backers and others comprising the global 'elite' might be smirking knowing how much richer they're getting thanks to Trump, but future generations, those other than greedy boomers, will continue to learn even more about his corruption.

How many Trump associates in jail and waiting trial?

Nepotism: How much have Ivanka and Jared made outside the US while he's in office, and why are they there along with Giuliani and Barr's kids?

How much have his properties profited from taxpayer funded trips so he can play golf?

What was his relationship to Jeffery Epstein?

Which big oil and gas, which big defense industries getting richer while he's in office does he have shares in?

How much is his family making working with Chinese Communist Party members?

What is his relationship to Russian oligarchs? Organized crime?

And so many others.

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Yawn. Republicans officially approving of Donny corrupting the office of the president. Nothing newsworthy, historical, or shocking.

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Mitt did good, but he should have done that long time ago. Talking to Donny about Secretary of State job doesn’t give him much credibility.

Also he brought in God!!!

Anyone who really believes in God would have nothing to do with a misogynist, bigot like Donny!!!

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@blacklabt’s times like this in the past that Avenatti

Thanks for the reminder of Trump and Stormy Daniels. How much did Trump have to pay after trying to cover up another lie? Avenatti is just one more worm who's been exposed during the Trump era.

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Argue Argue Argue. Don't any of you get tired of all the bickering? First world problems.

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Funny how people seem to equate acquittal with innocence.

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Hey, Russia, if you're listening . . .

Congratulations! You've WON! You along with every other foreign power have been blessed with the Republican Seal of Approval to meddle and muck around with U.S. presidential elections.

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Well, the US has officially gone down the path of abandoning the rule of law. Trump is now officially free to use the presidency however he wishes, and Congress has told him he's welcome to do whatever he wants, regardless of the ethics and legality of it.

I wish I was Trump. Nice position to be in, in control of the strongest military and economy in the world, and the freedom to use them to his own ends to whatever degree he wants.

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WolfpackToday  07:37 am JST

Acquitted. Pelosi tried to tear up the Constitution and she lost.

It looks increasingly like it needs to be torn up if a farce like this is permissible. They might as well have let Donald Trump himself decide if he got convicted or acquitted, and that's the kind of thing I only imagine happening in failed states and banana republics.

SerranoToday  07:32 am JST

*At least four more years, and hopefully more, for PRESIDENT Trump*

Nancy Pelosi clearly isn't the only one who wants to tear up the Constitution.

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So this is how democracy dies... by thunderous applause of the Republican Party.

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Ridiculous!

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