US Politics and Trump Category IV - I've never even heard of one that big before

Will Trump be impeached?

  • Hell yeah he's guilty as a mofo

    Votes: 40 21.1%
  • He's gonna keep triggering leftards until 2024

    Votes: 112 58.9%
  • Whoever made this poll clearly has no idea how impeachment works

    Votes: 38 20.0%

  • Total voters
    190
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OrbitalDawn

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Found this interesting, shows not just US, but world(well, not everywhere, but a fair chunk)

That's really cool.

I know Paris uses the same platform, but they've done some great stuff on a city-level to improve the quality of the data.


There's no such thing as a trial by media. Trump is getting a real trial as he is entitled to.

The brazen hypocrisy to whine about 'trial by media' after the treatment Obama and Clinton (and now Biden) got in conservative media is instructive. It's pretty clear they mean saying anything critical of Dear Leader is 'trial by media/lynching'.

And yeah, lol @ them not even attempting to try and talk away the contradictory whine that it's both too public and too secretive.
 

OrbitalDawn

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Deficit still ballooning.


And because none of Trump's cronies want to be left out of the corruption gig...

The Treasury Department, reportedly at the personal instruction of Mnuchin, made an area of land in Nevada owned by financier Michael Milken, who was reportedly an inspiration for the character of Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street, eligible for a federal tax break that it did not previously qualify for after alleged pressure from Milken's business partner and other landowners.
 

lumeer

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https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-courts-charles-kupperman-trump-impeachment-2019-10

Adam Schiff has announced they'll not be taking to the courts to compel White House staff to testify, but will instead interpret their defiance, under instruction from Mr Trump, as evidence of obstruction of justice.

"We are not willing to let the White House engage us in a lengthy game of rope-a-dope in the courts, so we press ahead," Schiff told reporters, according to The New York Times.

Clever. This pulls the rug from underneath Mr Trump, who was probably bargaining on the Democrats heading to court to order witnesses to testify, and thought he was going to drag out and frustrate the process with endless court cases and appeals, one of his tactics in wearing down his opponents.
 

OrbitalDawn

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https://www.businessinsider.com/democrats-courts-charles-kupperman-trump-impeachment-2019-10

Adam Schiff has announced they'll not be taking to the courts to compel White House staff to testify, but will instead interpret their defiance, under instruction from Mr Trump, as evidence of obstruction of justice.



Clever. This pulls the rug from underneath Mr Trump, who was probably bargaining on the Democrats heading to court to order witnesses to testify, and thought he was going to drag out and frustrate the process with endless court cases and appeals, one of his tactics in wearing down his opponents.

Good. It's clear-cut obstruction of legitimate Congressional inquiry, so just list the instances and move on.
 

Techne

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Fake Fox News being gaslighted by a Reaganite (of all people) telling truth. Fun times.
 

cerebus

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Sondland Testified Trump Pressure On Ukraine Was Quid Pro Quo, His Lawyer Tells WSJ

Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland believed the White House meeting sought by Ukrainian President Zelensky depended on an agreement to open a Biden probe, according to his attorney


Asked by a House committee lawmaker as part of the ongoing impeachment probe if the arrangement was a quid pro quo, Sondland responded that he wasn’t a lawyer but believed the answer was yes, his attorney Robert Luskin told the newspaper.

Sondland also told House committees that the president had told him: “There’s no quid pro quo — but Zelensky’s got to get out there and do the right thing,” his lawyer told the Journal.
 

cerebus

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READ: WH Ukraine expert's opening statement says he reported concerns about Trump-Zelensky call https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/28/politics/wh-ukraine-expert-opening-statement/index.html

Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council's top Ukraine expert, plans to tell House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he was so troubled by President Donald Trump's July phone call with Ukraine's President that he reported his concerns to a superior, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by CNN.

Vindman will also tell lawmakers that he felt Trump's efforts to press Ukraine for investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son undermined American national security.
 

Gingerbeardman

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Nunes Aide Is Leaking the Ukraine Whistleblower’s Name, Sources Say

For all the hand wringing and pearl clutching about Democrats leaking.
Funny how the name of the whistleblower isn't named in the article. Is that because the media has now magically decided that they shouldn't share this information, or is it because the "leak" never actually made it into the media in the first place? :unsure:

Judging from the opening paragraph, this entire article is nothing but TDS on steroids.
 
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