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"Sooner or later, I'm assuming she's going to send them over," he said. "It seems to me a rather absurd position to say, after you've impeached the president, you won't send the papers over to the Senate for the impeachment trial mandated by the Constitution."

Even Moscow recognizes Donny has been impeached. He’s number 3!

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Mitch must know his Heidelberg Catechism well:

Q: What is Thy only comfort in life and death?

A: That I with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Donald J. Trump; who, with his precious electoral victory in 2016, hath fully satisfied for all my sins, and delivered me from all the restraints of moral integrity.

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Pelosi withholding the transfer of the articles of impeachment is a stroke of genius. GOP isn't used to being on the receiving end. Democrats are fighting for what is right.

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Burning BushToday  07:10 am JST

I think Trump and his followers are rather proud of Trump surviving the Impeachment. 

Trump doesn't sound very proud. He sounds like a whiny, overgrown 8 year-old.

(Cue for some chronically unfunny person to write "just like liberals, lol.")

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Let those witnesses speak!

Funny, in 1998 Schumer was dead set against calling anymore witnesses after the trial and now he demands lol?

The Dems had their chance.

If he (deDonnie) got nothing to hide, he got nothing to fear!

if the Democrats have nothing to hide and are really honest in their endeavor to find the truth then Pelosi should send the articles over to the Senate. But they know that they really don’t have a strong case and this is the reason why they’re holding onto this as long as they can.

He is not the all-mighty, he is not (yet) the Great Leader of the USA!

Tell that to the goalpost moving Democrats, please!

Boy, do they have short memories...

https://youtu.be/yeB9s7CvdhE

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15 polls in the last week at RCP. 3 of them above 48% approval. Polls that used to always be 40% are 45 or 46.

Dems are losing the public with this nonsense impeachment and the delays.

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Oh Hunter Biden is speaking too? Nothing to hide, right?

Let those witnesses speak

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Funny, in 1998 Schumer was dead set against calling anymore witnesses after the trial and now he demands lol?

As pointed out many, many times... the House doesn't hold a 'trial.' It holds investigations akin to a grand jury.

It is in the Senate that a trial happens. So saying 'witnesses after the trial' would literally mean witnesses after Clinton was not removed from office and the whole proceedings were over.

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They were talking today to the judge about adding more articles of impeachment (to not send to the Senate). “We impeached him twice!”

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It is in the Senate that a trial happens.

No, the Senate is theoretically the Jury, they can convict and remove the President based on the articles that were given to them by the investigative House Democrats. It passed the House, the Judiciary and now it’s in the Republicans hands and the Dems don’t have the right or power to impose anything on the Senate.

So saying 'witnesses after the trial' would literally mean witnesses after Clinton was not removed from office and the whole proceedings were over.

In Clinton’s trial pretty much on the day of the trial both sides came together to iron out their differences to get the witness that they needed to move forward, it was quick and it was behind closed doors.

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@klausdorth

Don tilting at "windmills" again?

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Why do the Republicans support foreign meddling in U.S. elections?

And why would any Americans (regardless of party) support an American president who quite openly seeks help from foreign adversaries?

Reagan must be rolling over in his grave.

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Someone seems desperate to get it over with..........

McConnell doesn't rule out witnesses in standoff over Trump impeachment trial

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcconnell-schumer-pelosi-trump-impeachment-trial-witnesses-154126305.html

Maybe because...............

House committee raises prospect of more impeachment articles

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-committee-raises-prospect-more-202506355.html

The 4-D Chess Master is going to have a major fit over the holidays!

U.S. House says McGahn testimony still 'critical' to impeachment case

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-house-says-mcgahn-testimony-191548430.html

Oh, my......

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Impeach him 10 more times. Nobody cares until it’s sent to the Senate for acquittal. Being impeached only by your partisan enemies means nothing any just cheapens impeachment as a tool.

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Nobody cares until it’s sent to the Senate for acquittal.

haha I’m sure your team would like to believe that. But the fact is his name is forever associated with impeachment. It’s his well deserved legacy.

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"We haven't ruled out witnesses," McConnell said

LOL yes, you've ruled out witnesses. You are giving false information to your undereducated base to sound tough. A trial would be a liability so you are best off having no trial.

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Stoemcrow:. Why do the Republicans support foreign meddling in U.S. elections?

Because it benefits their party.

The end.

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Don't send the inquiry to the Senate. Impeach him and send to the Senate at a later date. Don't send until the Senate agrees to a real trial. According to Lawrence Tribe, there is nothing in the Constitution that says the House has to refer the inquiry to the Senate for a trial. Just vote to impeach and wait. I guarantee this would drive Trump crazy and he would commit more offenses.

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It has begun.....

Analysis: Trump more negative, prolific on Twitter amid Democratic impeachment inquiry

https://www.yahoo.com/news/analysis-trump-more-negative-prolific-173341356.html

So far I see this, can anyone add anything else to the list:

Russia attacks democratic emails of Hillary Clinton,

Trump asked Russia to find the emails on air during debate.

Hired Manafort who had strong ties to Russia

Manafort, Trump Jr meet with Russian Lawyer who promises dirt on Hillary

Trump fires Comey who is looking into Trumps collusion with Russia, an obstruction of justice

While talking with Russian officials he says the pressure is off him now that Comey is gone

Michael Cohen who had contact with Russia and denied it only to say it was true

National Security Adviser Michael Flynn meeting with Russian officials in DC, he lied about then said it was true

Trump has gone to great lengths to conceal detail of meeting with Putin, he even took the notes from the interrupter

Trump after being told by security advisors Russia was behind the hack, he goes on stage with Putin and says he believes Putin

Gave their polling data to Russian oligarchy, this is collusion by any definition

Bribery type of conspiracy to hush money for indiscretions

quid pro quo accepting something of value from a foreign country

Rudy Giuliani now saying "I never said there was no collusion

Cohen hiring IT firm to rig early pool results in favor of Trump

Trump might have told Michael Cohen To Lie to Congress About Trump Tower Moscow

18 U.S.Code 2 - Principals, for those interested: (a) Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission, is punishable as a principal.

Trump repeatedly told supporters on the campaign trail that he had no business in Russia

Giuliani backtracks on comments Trump sought Trump tower Moscow deal throughout 2016 while Trump was denying the whole thing

Ethical issues raised after China grants Ivanka Trump 5 trademarks amid trade talks with United States

Section 1512 of the US criminal code, Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant is guilty of a felony. Trump did this against Cohen on air threating his father-in-law, now Cohen fears for his family's safety and doesn't want to testify to Congress. This carries 20 years in prison.

Other Trump achievements

lost 10 cabinet members

lost 65 executive staff, the highest rate of staff turnover

18% increase in US trade deficit

Since Feb 1st DOW down 3,000 ($3 trillion in value), The worst December stock market since the Great Depression

exploded deficit to $779 billion

67 golf club visits, the most days golfing

lost 40 house seats

Longest government shutdown

Largest corporate tax cuts

Biggest single-year increase in uninsured Americans

First President to never break 50% approval rating

according to Fact Checker database, Trump has made 7,645 ‘false or misleading claims’. In the month of October 2018 he said 1,200 things that were false or misleading.

Recent achievements:

-Over a phone call with newly elected president of Ukraine, Trumps asked for help looking into Biden for military aid.

-Still is blocking tax returns even though he stated he wants them to look at them

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Democrats are fighting for what is right.

Or what's wrong!

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Trump has not been impeached if it doesn't move to the senate. All lip service. The dumbocrats deserve Pelosi.

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So basically stalling for time so that the liberal media can create more things that will be excluded from the actual articles of impeachment.

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Maybe you should have gotten all your witnesses and gathered all your supposed evidence before rushing through an impeachment vote?

gonna look even more ridiculous when you try to impeach him again.

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"Sooner or later, I'm assuming she's going to send them over," he said. "It seems to me a rather absurd position to say, after you've impeached the president, you won't send the papers over to the Senate for the impeachment trial mandated by the Constitution."

Pelosi wouldn't know what the Constitution, which she continually talks about, was if it hit her on the head.

The longer she holds onto those articles of Impeachment Lite, the more foolish she looks.

Pelosi withholding the transfer of the articles of impeachment is a stroke of genius.

Har! More like she's having a stroke.

GOP isn't used to being on the receiving end.

They're not on the receiving end, they haven't received anything yet. Har!

Democrats are fighting for what is right.

Har! They're fighting for damage control at this point.

Oh my!

Trey Gowdy sounds off on Pelosi delaying Senate impeachment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds6iur0EdxI

Oh my!

Democrats tease new charges to Trump impeachment -

Brit Hume reacts to partisan battle over impeachment trial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9dEKojq6k

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Trump has not been impeached if it doesn't move to the senate. All lip service. The dumbocrats deserve Pelosi.

LOL! Says no one ever!

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If you can't beat him, impeach him!

Oh my...

Steve Hilton: The truth about impeachment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgnygL2J4VI

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Pelosi withholding the transfer of the articles of impeachment is a stroke of genius.

This is her attempt at playing 4D chess. She is in fact a psychopath.

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Says your impeachment inquiry Dem donor witness Feldman.

is he " no one" now? You guys loved him a few weeks ago.

LOL! Says no one ever!

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Pelosi is a boss. She totally schooled the entire Republican Party, and half her own party, with the whole impeachment pushback after the Mueller report, then with her doing it properly when Trump clearly broke the law beyond any reasonable doubt. And finally, holding the impeachment papers to expose the publican abandonment of ethics is a stroke of genius.

“I call her Nancy”.

He should call her “boss”.

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Trump is not a bull in a China shop, he's a matador and the Democrats are the bull focused on the red cape.

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Before House vote: Are the Democrats hateful and nuts enough to impeach the best president we've ever had?

After House vote: Well, they're hateful and nuts enough, but they ain't got the balls to send us their articles of Impeachment Lite in line with the Constitution. Jeez...

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Someone seems desperate to get it over with..........

I recall in 1998 the Democrats did exactly that.

Maybe because...............

...or maybe..

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/18/politics/impeachment-polling-donald-trump/index.html

The 4-D Chess Master is going to have a major fit over the holidays!

Not really. Because McConnell can’t wait to kill this ASAP!

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Here is why McConnell 'blinked'.

Yesterday under the freedom of information act many of us just learned today that an official from the White House budget office directed the Defense Department to “hold off” on sending military aid to Ukraine less than two hours after President Trump’s controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to internal emails.

As more evidence surfaces it makes the Senate vote to acquit much more challenging before the American people.

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Don't send the inquiry to the Senate. Impeach him and send to the Senate at a later date. 

Ok, so Dems don’t just want to blow up the constitution they want scorched Earth...wow!

Now you do know that Pelosi is being played right now by McConnell. So many judges have been confirmed in the lower appellate courts over 80 that cements the Republicans strongholds and the Democrats are worried about flimsy impeachment that will go nowhere.

Don't send until the Senate agrees to a real trial.

Why should the Senate do what the House wants? You guys...ROFL!

According to Lawrence Tribe, there is nothing in the Constitution that says the House has to refer the inquiry to the Senate for a trial. Just vote to impeach and wait. I guarantee this would drive Trump crazy and he would commit more offenses.

there is nothing in the constitution that says the Senate has to follow what the houses or that they even have to take this up for a trial, they can to miss this entire farce whenever they want.

Either way Trump gets a second lease on life thanks to the Democrats, well played.

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As more evidence surfaces it makes the Senate vote to acquit much more challenging before the American people.

But it will happen and no amount of circus political leftist shenanigans will change that outcome, he won’t be convicted or removed. It just won’t happen.

-sorry....

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Ok, so Dems don’t just want to blow up the constitution they want scorched Earth...wow!

Let me explain it in greater detail:

Article I, Section 2, Clause 5 provides:

The House of Representatives . . . shall have the sole power of impeachment.

Article I, Section 3, Clauses 6 and 7 provide:

The Senate shall have sole power to try all impeachments.

Article II, Section 4 provides:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Notice the distinct lack of requirement that the House transmit the articles of impeachment before the president is impeached?

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Pelosi is committing abuse of power by not sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate. Not sending the articles of iImpeachment to the Senate is in violation of the Constitution. That's not a small matter. And since she is not sending them, that's obstruction. The two exact same things they are trying to get Trump on.

Trump being a great president who actually has been keeping promises made is one way of being re-elected. The fact the Democrats have shown they're far more concerned with illegals than Americans is the other. Trump should win a historical landslide victory this election.

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Trump's budget officials ordered the Pentagon to deny Ukraine aid 90 minutes after Ukraine call, new documents found

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-budget-officials-ordered-pentagon-174256210.html

President Donald Trump's budget office appointees reportedly began ordering the Pentagon to hold aide to Ukraine approximately 90 minutes after Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to newly released documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.

> The newly released documents show a budget official's email to select budget and Pentagon officials shortly after Trump's July 25 phone call with Zelensky, in which Trump discussed former Vice President and fellow 2020 contender Joe Biden and his son and asked Zelensky to "do us a favor."

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[Trump's[ a matador and the Democrats are the bull focused on the red cape.

Indeed. A very stable genius.

"A windmill will kill many bald eagles. It's true."

--King Donnie XIV

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More words of wisdom from the stable genius:

"You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe."

I truly can't believe that 40% of Americans are in thrall to this guy.

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The Senate shall have sole power to try all impeachments

Senate leaders also have the power to not hold a trial especially if the impeachment is politically partisan in nature.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Which there aren’t any that meet that definition. If Clinton wouldn’t get removed for having sex with an intern or lying in his deposition which is a very serious crime, not to mention 11 indictments, then there’s zero hope of Trump getting removed from office over a stupid phone call. Won’t happen.

Notice the distinct lack of requirement that the House transmit the articles of impeachment before the president is impeached?

Ok, so no crime, let’s charge the guy with something and pray it works. Nope, but on the other side, it’s politically making Trump stronger, so I won’t stand in the Dems way of giving us the President for another term.

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there aren’t any that meet that definition

So you're OK with a president holding up congressionally appropriated military aid in exchange for a foreign government helping dig up dirt on that president's political rival and not telling congress about it?

Or that didn't happen?

Which?

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So you're OK with a president holding up congressionally appropriated military aid in exchange for a foreign government helping dig up dirt on that president's political rival and not telling congress about it?

They got the aid, nothing was kept or withheld. When Zelenskiy says there was no quid pro quo Dems could care less what he says, let’s just impeach him anyway on what, we will just make it up as we go. As far as Biden is concerned, yeah, I’m very concerned about that. I was also concerned about the last president only giving the Ukrainians rations and blankets.

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Well, looks like at least some Republicans are not out of their mind and show some brain:

Oh, you mean the never Trumper Republicans, the old rhinos that could never win an election, ever? Even with all the brainpower that they have combined, they still could never win an election. Kasich and the Krystol’s are from a long ago extinct era.

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