wirinet:
More than 700 historians sign letter calling for House to impeach Trump

You mean 700 rabid anti Trump liberal historians? no one is
interested in their biased opinions.

Secret FISA Court Makes Rare Public Statement, Chastises FBI for Misleading Them

https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/MIsc%2019%2002%20191217.pdf

And some funny characters on this platform were trying to gaslight and claim the IG report found no wrongdoing by the FBI. Jokers!

Rick Gates Sentenced To 45 Days In Jail, Three Years Probation

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rick-gates-sentenced-to-45-days-in-jail-three-years-probation

Paul Manafort associate Rick Gates was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation and 45 days in jail, which he will be allowed to serve on weekends. He was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson noted that, in weighing the sentence, she also had to consider the signal it would send to others who committed similar crimes.

Gates served as deputy chair for the 2016 Trump campaign, and, before that, as a key business partner of Manafort during his lobbying efforts in Ukraine.

Unlike Manafort, however, Gates began cooperating with prosecutors early in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and continued to do so for more than 21 months after pleading guilty to conspiring against the United States and lying to the FBI.

...Trump's campaign manager, long time attorney, longtime political operative & his National Security Advisor have all been found guilty of felonies. 2 in prison, 2 on the way...yet TreasonTrump would say his campaign team had done nothing wrong...

basilico:



Let's admit that the media does not like Trump and actively blows out of proportion any thing he says or does.
Clinton got over 65m votes . It's a breeze for her to get 700 of her supporters most likely her donors to write anything.

Agreed that there is a no love lost between Trump and popular media, but what does that have to do with anything. Trump had never liked the media, so it's understandable that the media also does not like Trump. It's similar to the case in Nigeria, Buhari has always hated the press from his military dictatorship days, and the media too does not like Buhari.
The only difference in Trump case is that the constitution prevents Trump from persecuting the media. He has tried to, but the courts will not allow him to.

What has Clinton got to do with it? Do you have proof that Hillary Clinton asked her supporters and donors to write the letter? All allegations against trump is attributed to Clinton, deepstate or the Democrats. You don't even want to discuss the allegations themselves, that is called escapism.

Obstruction of Congress is a made up crime. Trump asserted executive privellege and requested his colleagues not to appear before the witchunt committee led by Schiff. He went to thecourts seeking an interpretation . Schiff does not want to wait for the court, because they badly need to impeach the president on Wednesday.
Going to the third branch of govt is now an obstruction of Congress and now is an impeachable offence.

Are you insinuating that executive privileged stops the executive arm of government from being answerable to the congress? So whenever the congress summons the president or any other member of the executive, he can cite executive privileged to avoid answering to congress. I wish Hillary (through Obama) had cited executive privileged to avoid testifying to congress in the numerous Bengazi and email server investigations.
You are saying the executive is no longer answerable to the legislature. That's the very definition of dictatorship. Because, the legislature is supposed to represent the people.

In the case of abuse of power The Ukrainian President said he was not blackmailed. But the Dems say that Trump coerced him. The transcript of the call is out And nowhere does it imply blackmail , only that the media reporting selectively edited the call.

It's not about what Zelensky said, it's about what the diplomats and state department officers involved with Ukraine says. Zelensky would be stupid to say he was blackmailed by Trump. He has clearly said, he does not want to involve himself or his country with America's domestic politics. If he said Trump pressured him to investigate the Bidens, the Republicans and people like you would have descended on him and Ukraine. You already accuse Ukraine of being anti-Trump

Joe Biden got paid 900000 USD for lobbying on behalf of Ukraine.

Proof and details, and the crime according to US laws.

Hunter Biden was being paid 1m USD by Burisma per year for 3 plus years just for seating on its board. He never travelled to Ukraine by the way so how can I be a board member and never even travel to the main theatre of operations, never mind that he had been just been kicked out of the Navy over drugs a month before he was made a board member.Hunter can't even speak Ukrainian.

Same thing - state the crime and laws broken. Was the law broken by Hunter Biden US laws or Ukrainian laws? Sitting on board of companies is no big deal. During annual general meetings, anyone can be appointed to the board of any company. It could be for any number of reasons determined by the shareholders. Okonjo iweala is a board member of over half a dozen international companies. T. Y. Danjuma is a member of board of director of a dozen companies. Who sits on a board of a company is the perogative of the company. It's not the business of anybody else and it can never be a crime. Hunter Biden was not the only person on the board of Burisma.

Victor Shokin was sacked because he was investigating Burisma and had also frozen some of its assets. In Feb 2016 Latvia authorities notified Ukraine that they had flagged some transactions thru their financial system from Burisma to Hunter Biden and three other Burisma board members. Then in March 2016 Biden forced Shokin out by threatening to withhold aid if Shokin was not fired. Joe gave them 6 hours to fire him or the aid 1b USD would be withdrawn. There is a video of him bragging how they had to fire the son of a bitch ie Victor Shokin.

Usual false narrative of Republicans. Victor Shokin was alleged by anti corruption organisations in Ukraine, the EU, The UK, the IMF and the US of being corrupt and aiding corrupt oligarchs. They all demanded his sacking in unison. So it was not Joe Biden's saying sack Shokin because he is investigating Burisma.

4 witnesses including Shokin were denied visa to America by the US ambassador.Shokin was also poisoned twice. The US ambassador gave The New prosecutor a do not investigate list. The aid delivered to Ukraine was by advice from Yavanovich the ambassador who testified the other day was also being funneled to a George Soros NGO active in Ukraine.

Usual right wing conspiracy theories.
Witnesses for what? Who was conducting an investigation that need witnesses? The Democrats led house only called for witnesses some 3 weeks ago, and the senate is yet to decide whether to call witnesses or not.

In addition Obama sent Ukraine blankets and biscuits instead of lethal aid. Which Trump did this year. Dems are claiming that withholding of vital aid that Obama never provided is detrimental to America's national security.

Yes everybody agreed that Trump's aid to Ukraine was better than Obama's, the bone of contention was the tying of conditions (investigate the Bidens) to the aids.

Wirinet with all respect does Bidens action required the president to demand investigations ?

Yes, the president can demand investigations if he thinks a crime had been commited, like he demanded investigations into the FISA warrant that started the Russia interference probe. He can however not demand personally for foreign leaders to investigate the Bidens or any other US citizens (especially with blackmail ). He has the justice department who can liaise with other countries through legitimate means to investigate crimes commited in foreign countries.
The irony in this whole Biden issue is that Barr and the justice department wanted nothing to do with the Ukraine issue.

TheShopKeeper:
Rick Gates Sentenced To 45 Days In Jail, Three Years Probation

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rick-gates-sentenced-to-45-days-in-jail-three-years-probation

Paul Manafort associate Rick Gates was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation and 45 days in jail, which he will be allowed to serve on weekends. He was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson noted that, in weighing the sentence, she also had to consider the signal it would send to others who committed similar crimes.

Gates served as deputy chair for the 2016 Trump campaign, and, before that, as a key business partner of Manafort during his lobbying efforts in Ukraine.

Unlike Manafort, however, Gates began cooperating with prosecutors early in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe and continued to do so for more than 21 months after pleading guilty to conspiring against the United States and lying to the FBI.

...Trump's campaign manager, long time attorney, longtime political operative & his National Security Advisor have all been found guilty of felonies. 2 in prison, 2 on the way...yet TreasonTrump would say his campaign team had done nothing wrong...

Trump's campaign team did nothing wrong. You can't be charging people with process crimes and things they did before they even joined the Trump campaign then turn around to pin it on the Trump campaign. can you name just one person that has been convicted for something they did for or on behalf of the Trump campaign? Rick Gates was sentenced for his lobbying efforts in Ukraine long before he joined the Trump campaign

wirinet:

So it's now about Clinton's and no longer about Hunter and Joe Biden? I had thought Trump's defence on why he blackmailed the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden was because Hunter Biden commited a crime in Ukraine, now you guys are adding another defence of Clinton committing a crime in Qatar.

It will be an interesting senate trial. The senate would try Joe and Biden Biden, Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff and probably Obama instead of Trump. So finding any of them gully automatically means Trump is innocent.

Where did I link Trump's defence to the story I posted about the Clinton Crime Family? where did I even mention impeachment in that post? or are you suffering from impeachment Derangement Syndrome that is making you to see impeachment everywhere

A FISA Court Judge has issued an unprecedented public rebuke of the FBI

In a stunning rebuke of the FBI, the FISA court severly chastised the FBI for the FISA abuses brought to light in the recent Inspector General’s Report. She said the frequency of unsupported & contradicted FBI claims "calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable"

There were at least 17 significant "errors”

Someone must be held accountable!

Reasons Democrats want to impeach

• Booming Economy
• Record job creation
• Historic tax cuts
• Isis Destroyed
• Building the wall

They couldn't do it!
All they did was talk about doing it.

#Trump2020

garetz:
Reasons Democrats want to impeach

• Booming Economy
• Record job creation
• Historic tax cuts
• Isis Destroyed
• Building the wall

They couldn't do it!
All they did was talk about doing it.

#Trump2020

Lols!!! This is the most stupid shit ever posted on cyberspace. Somebody brought the economy out from recession plus the tax cut skyrocket the deficit. Y'all need to donate your brain to the doctors.

McCabe: I am "Shocked And Horrified" By IG Report, There Were "Very Serious Mistakes" But No Bias Was Found


who believes this bastard

...Trump's letter to Pelosi on eve of Impeachment...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Letter-from-President-Trump-final.pdf

President Donald Trump on Tuesday savaged House Democrats' impeachment proceedings in a six-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi that read like a collection of his most vitriolic tweets.

The fiery missive, frequently punctuated with exclamation points, came loaded with hyperbolic assertions — including the president's claim that "more due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials" and his accusation that Pelosi and House Democrats “view democracy as your enemy!”

Trump charged that the current impeachment drive “represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power” by Democratic lawmakers that he argued has been “unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.”

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“By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American democracy,” he wrote.

The heated correspondence comes a day before the House is expected to vote on articles of impeachment charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, likely making Trump the third president in U.S. history to be impeached.

kopfschmerzen12:


Lols!!! This is the most stupid shit ever posted on cyberspace. Somebody brought the economy out from recession plus the tax cut skyrocket the deficit. Y'all need to donate your brain to the doctors.

Reasons why all blacks should be voting for Donald Trump in 2020!

• Put Black unemployment rate at all-time low

• Put Black poverty rate at all-time low

• Prison reform
(Reduces sentences for Blacks)

• Rebuilding Black communities

• Funded historically Black colleges

Yes! All you need to ask someone who opposes Trump is... is there something about the lowest black unemployment in history you don’t like?

garetz:


Reasons why all blacks should be voting for Donald Trump in 2020!

• Put Black unemployment rate at all-time low

• Put Black poverty rate at all-time low

• Prison reform
(Reduces sentences for Blacks)

• Rebuilding Black communities

• Funded historically Black colleges

Yes! All you need to ask someone who opposes Trump is... is there something about the lowest black unemployment in history you don’t like?

CRAP!!! Don't know where to start curing your ignorance. Go and suck the balls of your orange lord.

kopfschmerzen12:



CRAP!!! Don't know where to start curing your ignorance. Go and suck the balls of your orange lord.

You can't argue with the statistical facts. Trump's administration has been great for Blacks

...Early morning twitterants from the Twitter-in-Chief...

...The modern Impeachment process currently used by the Democrats was invented by the Republicans in 1998 by hiring the #1 Constitutional expert brilliant Solicitor General Neal Katyal to re-write the modern Impeachment Process so that all future presidents can be easily removed... 'over as little as a BJ' . . . the Republicans were warned that it could backfire when Democrats took control one day but the Republicans laughed it off then...now they are crying wolf...

basilico:



Let's admit that the media does not like Trump and actively blows out of proportion any thing he says or does.
Clinton got over 65m votes . It's a breeze for her to get 700 of her supporters most likely her donors to write anything.

Obstruction of Congress is a made up crime. Trump asserted executive privellege and requested his colleagues not to appear before the witchunt committee led by Schiff. He went to thecourts seeking an interpretation . Schiff does not want to wait for the court, because they badly need to impeach the president on Wednesday.
Going to the third branch of govt is now an obstruction of Congress and now is an impeachable offence.


In the case of abuse of power The Ukrainian President said he was not blackmailed. But the Dems say that Trump coerced him. The transcript of the call is out And nowhere does it imply blackmail , only that the media reporting selectively edited the call.

Joe Biden got paid 900000 USD for lobbying on behalf of Ukraine. Hunter Biden was being paid 1m USD by Burisma per year for 3 plus years just for seating on its board. He never travelled to Ukraine by the way so how can I be a board member and never even travel to the main theatre of operations, never mind that he had been just been kicked out of the Navy over drugs a month before he was made a board member.Hunter can't even speak Ukrainian. Victor Shokin was sacked because he was investigating Burisma and had also frozen some of its assets. In Feb 2016 Latvia authorities notified Ukraine that they had flagged some transactions thru their financial system from Burisma to Hunter Biden and three other Burisma board members. Then in March 2016 Biden forced Shokin out by threatening to withhold aid if Shokin was not fired. Joe gave them 6 hours to fire him or the aid 1b USD would be withdrawn. There is a video of him bragging how they had to fire the son of a bitch ie Victor Shokin.

4 witnesses including Shokin were denied visa to America by the US ambassador.Shokin was also poisoned twice. The US ambassador gave The New prosecutor a do not investigate list. The aid delivered to Ukraine was by advice from Yavanovich the ambassador who testified the other day was also being funneled to a George Soros NGO active in Ukraine.

In addition Obama sent Ukraine blankets and biscuits instead of lethal aid. Which Trump did this year. Dems are claiming that withholding of vital aid that Obama never provided is detrimental to America's national security.

Wirinet with all respect does Bidens action required the president to demand investigations ?


Facts don't lie, the truth is slowly creeping out.
What is corruption in your esteemed opinion?

You nailed it right there

Let's all say a prayer for Trump

Third president to be impeached.

Democrats are just petty, what’s with “my children”, “my grand children” just whipping up sentiments.

kokaneprodigy:
Democrats are just petty, what’s with “my children”, “my grand children” just whipping up sentiments.

And the ones comparing impeachment to Jesus prosecution are saints? Donate your brain for medical examination.

kopfschmerzen12:


Lols!!! This is the most stupid shit ever posted on cyberspace. Somebody brought the economy out from recession plus the tax cut skyrocket the deficit. Y'all need to donate your brain to the doctors.

The scandal free whom the fed kept the interest rates at 0% for 7.5 years

garetz:
McCabe: I am "Shocked And Horrified" By IG Report, There Were "Very Serious Mistakes" But No Bias Was Found


who believes this bastard

They are basically arguing incompetence rather than malice.

wirinet:

Trump can only become president of a country like the US, where the media (and the Russians ) hold sway. In the UK, France and even China, a neophyte with zero experience in government (apart from numerous failed businesses), with many criminal allegations, can never rise to be a councillor, not to talk of a president or prime minister.

The quality of the US president had been going down for about 2 decades. From an actor (Ronald Reagan) to Bush senior (at least he was CIA director ) to Clinton, then to Bush junior (spoilt brat that used his father's influence) to Obama ( even Obama had just about 7 years experience as a senator with zero executive experience). To me the worst is Trump.

In the near future, these series of bad executive and general political leadership will take a toll on US. Forget the stock market and strong economy. It's the result of decades of momentum that is eventually slowing down. US infrastructure is not improving, the education is not improving, foreign expertrates that drive a significant part of technology and the economy are being driven out by Trump. It's only a matter of time before all these bad decisions will start taking a toll.

I don't know where you have been since January but the Mueller report exonerated Trump from all this Russia nonsense.

The extent of Russian interference was paying for facebook ads supporting a client over another. The Russians had ads they supported both Trump and Clinton, that's it. That's your so-called Russian interference.

Timbuktuo:


I don't know where you have been since January but the Mueller report exonerated Trump from all this Russia nonsense.

The extent of Russian interference was paying for facebook ads supporting a client over another. The Russians had ads they supported both Trump and Clinton, that's it. That's your so-called Russian interference.

It seems Trump has infected his worshippers with a lying disease. Muller report never exonerated Trump and never called the Russian interference nonsense.
This is what the Mueller report said;

"A statement that the investigation did not establish particular facts does not mean there was no evidence of those facts.”

Mueller firmly established Russian interference to the benefit of Trump and detriment of Hillary;

"a Russian entity carried out a social media campaign that favored presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaged presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.”

“a Russian intelligence service conducted computer-intrusion operations” against the Clinton campaign and then released stolen documents.

Mueller found at least four acts by Trump in which all elements of the obstruction statute were satisfied – attempting to fire Mueller, directing White House counsel Don McGahn to lie and create a false document about efforts to fire Mueller, attempting to limit the investigation to future elections and attempting to prevent Manafort from cooperating with the government.

Mueller categorically stated, “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. ”
I don't know where you guys got the "Mueller exonerated Trump " from.

"....the country is now divided into two dueling factions — the “I’m going to wear my MAGA hat and punch you in the face if you disagree” group and the “I’m going to punch you in the face because of your MAGA hat” group.

That political and cultural gulf virtually guarantees that this impeachment cannot end with any consensus like the one that emerged after the proceedings against Nixon and Clinton — that the system had worked."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-goes-his-presidency-so-goes-his-impeachment-trump-disrupts-and-divides/2019/12/18/5755b986-2048-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html

Fifth Pentagon official announces resignation within a week

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/politics/fifth-pentagon-official-announces-resignation-within-a-week/article/563823

The departure of Ambassador Tina Kaidanow, a longtime State Department official who joined the Pentagon in 2018, represents the fifth high-level official at the Defense Department to either exit or announce plans to leave the Pentagon this week.

There has been so many resignations in the past week that a scorecard is needed to keep track of the names and their positions. Let's see if we can put this in some sort of order. The list is based on reporting from Defense News.

*On December 12, it was announced that Randall Schriver, the Pentagon’s top Asia policy official, would be leaving shortly.

*On December 13, Jimmy Stewart, who served as the acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness since October 2018, announced his retirement from federal service.

*On Tuesday, December 17, Steven Walker, who served as the 21st head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, will leave the position on Jan. 10 for an industry job.

*On Wednesday, December 18, Kari Bingen, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, announced she will resign effective January 10.

*Tina Kaidanow, the senior advisor for international cooperation in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment,

The additional five vacancies will add to a number of openings within the Defense Department, with six of the 21 deputy assistant secretary of Defense policy jobs still empty. Let's see, that will make 11 openings out of 21 positions.
And The Hill is reporting that there are several other roles being filled in an "acting capacity" - like the chief management officer, comptroller, deputy undersecretary of Defense for policy, Secretary of the Navy, and assistant Defense secretary for international security affairs.

Mark Meadows to leave Congress at end of term...possible choice at VP candidate to replace Mike Pence...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mark-meadows-to-leave-congress-at-end-of-term

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., will not seek re-election, he confirmed in a statement Thursday. The four-term Congressman said that he will be retiring at the end of his term.

“This was a decision I struggled with greatly. These last 8 years, I have been so blessed to serve the people of NC-11 and help give a voice to millions of Americans who feel Washington, D.C. has forgotten them,” he said in a statement. The staunch supporter of President Trump touted the accomplishments he has seen the administration achieve.

"Since serving alongside President Trump, I have been a witness to historic economic prosperity, unemployment levels I only dreamed of when I took office, tax and regulatory reforms that are putting the American worker first, our Israeli embassy moved to Jerusalem, and trade deals that were once thought impossible," he said. "I have seen our law enforcement and first responders receive the support they deserve and our military once again put on a path to maintain its superiority."

Meadows went on to say that his work with Trump and the administration "is only beginning," and he is "fully committed to staying in the fight with him and his team."

@coluka, your head dey there!

All the 3 letter agencies from CIA to FBI to NSA will be dismantled and rebuilt by Trump and they know it, reason they have been trying to take him out. These organizations have become so powerful and almost like countries of their own in the pockets of the deepstate that Trump can't easily get hold of them when they should be under him.

coluka:
Horowitz says far more reforms and changes are needed than what FBI Director Wray wrote about in his response letter to the IG report.

Apparently, Mitch is going to comment on Pelosi not passing the articles to the Senate.

He can aquite without them, according to the constitution.

Watch out, guys!

I'm even surprised that they are not more than700, there thousands of crazy left wing historians in the country who want the US to be communist/socialist country, they must have gone missing.

coluka:

You mean 700 rabid anti Trump liberal historians? no one is
interested in their biased opinions.