House set to begin formal impeachment hearings

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[DHT]Osiris

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They'll roll him out strapped to a gurney & heavily sedated if necessary.
Part of me hopes this ends with him running out of the top floor of the WH and falling off a balcony on fire, like the Steward of Gondor.

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I mean if you're gonna go, go big.
 

ivwshane

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Jeeeebus ... I thought that maybe there was a small chance that Pompeo was one of the grownups ... is he knee deep in all the criming too?

Have you never listened to him while he was in congress? He’s one of the biggest partisan piece of shits there is, he’s on Nunez type level.
 

zinfamous

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Part of me hopes this ends with him running out of the top floor of the WH and falling off a balcony on fire, like the Steward of Gondor.

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I mean if you're gonna go, go big.

to be honest, I was hoping for a "David Carradine," found with a photo of Ivanka clutched in his tiny fingers....
 

UNCjigga

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New reporting from NYT claims that Adam Schiff had learned the "broad outlines" of the whistleblower's complaint before it was even filed.

"The early account by the future whistle-blower shows how determined he was to make known his allegations that Mr. Trump asked Ukraine’s government to interfere on his behalf in the 2020 election. It also explains how Mr. Schiff knew to press for the complaint when the Trump administration initially blocked lawmakers from seeing it.

The C.I.A. officer approached a House Intelligence Committee aide with his concerns about Mr. Trump only after he had had a colleague first convey them to the C.I.A.’s top lawyer. Concerned about how that initial avenue for airing his allegations through the C.I.A. was unfolding, the officer then approached the House aide. In both cases, the original accusation was vague."

Trump is claiming this report proves that the whole whistleblower incident is a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats, and even went so far as to suggest that Schiff helped write the formal complaint in order to get impeachment going.
 
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New reporting from NYT claims that Adam Schiff had learned the "broad outlines" of the whistleblower's complaint before it was even filed.

"The early account by the future whistle-blower shows how determined he was to make known his allegations that Mr. Trump asked Ukraine’s government to interfere on his behalf in the 2020 election. It also explains how Mr. Schiff knew to press for the complaint when the Trump administration initially blocked lawmakers from seeing it.

The C.I.A. officer approached a House Intelligence Committee aide with his concerns about Mr. Trump only after he had had a colleague first convey them to the C.I.A.’s top lawyer. Concerned about how that initial avenue for airing his allegations through the C.I.A. was unfolding, the officer then approached the House aide. In both cases, the original accusation was vague."

Trump is claiming this report proves that the whole whistleblower incident is a "scheme" cooked up by Democrats, and even went so far as to suggest that Schiff helped write the formal complaint in order to get impeachment going.

I'm still unclear how the Democrats could make up something that he's admitting to have done.
 
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New reporting from NYT claims that Adam Schiff had learned the "broad outlines" of the whistleblower's complaint before it was even filed.

"The early account by the future whistle-blower shows how determined he was to make known his allegations that Mr. Trump asked Ukraine’s government to interfere on his behalf in the 2020 election. It also explains how Mr. Schiff knew to press for the complaint when the Trump administration initially blocked lawmakers from seeing it.

The C.I.A. officer approached a House Intelligence Committee aide with his concerns about Mr. Trump only after he had had a colleague first convey them to the C.I.A.’s top lawyer. Concerned about how that initial avenue for airing his allegations through the C.I.A. was unfolding, the officer then approached the House aide. In both cases, the original accusation was vague."

Trump is claiming this report proves that the whole whistleblower incident is a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats, and even went so far as to suggest that Schiff helped write the formal complaint in order to get impeachment going.

Hahahahhahaha


“Well, I think it’s a scandal that he knew before,” Trump said of Schiff. “I’d go a step further. I think he probably helped write it, okay? That’s what the word is. … He knew long before, and he helped write it, too. It’s a scam. It’s a scam.”

Listen to this shit


Schiff : Crime, should resign, commited treason.
But the big D also states that "the sheet" is an exact transcript of the call.... and we already know that is a LIE. It is in no where shape or form an exact transcript .. whats more, it may be that ~20 minutes of that 30 minute call is missing from the "special transcript" :).


Is a joy to read right now... 100% unfettered meltdown... HAHAAHAHhaahahahahahahahaha
 

hal2kilo

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Have you never listened to him while he was in congress? He’s one of the biggest partisan piece of shits there is, he’s on Nunez type level.
He was very involved in the Bengazi hearings. He did things like what Schiff is demanding now. Hypocrites gonna...…….
 

dainthomas

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“Well, I think it’s a scandal that he knew before,” Trump said of Schiff. “I’d go a step further. I think he probably helped write it, okay? That’s what the word is. … He knew long before, and he helped write it, too. It’s a scam. It’s a scam.”

"That's what the word is" is the new "people are saying".

If he gets called out on something he can go "No I didn't say it ! I said PEOPLE are saying it!!! Totally different!!!!!!!"

Such a transparent buffoon.
 

Stopsignhank

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I like how the talking heads on the left leaning news shows are trying to convince me that the "majority" of Americans support the Trump impeachment because 45% of people polled now support impeachment and that number is up 10% over the month earlier.

Umm... 45% isn't a "majority", guys. Go back to night school take some remedial math classes. The only thing that 45% support shows is that the people who hated Trump in 2016 still hate Trump now.
Ironically Trump got 46.1% of the vote in the election, yet to listen to him he got a super majority of the votes.
 
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I like how the talking heads on the left leaning news shows are trying to convince me that the "majority" of Americans support the Trump impeachment because 45% of people polled now support impeachment and that number is up 10% over the month earlier.

Umm... 45% isn't a "majority", guys. Go back to night school take some remedial math classes. The only thing that 45% support shows is that the people who hated Trump in 2016 still hate Trump now.

As of this morning it was something like
45% support
40% don’t support
15% undecided

*Don’t take numbers as fact I’m running off memory.
**admittedly saying 45% is a majority is a weird thing but I don’t know how else to state it.
 

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As of this morning it was something like
45% support
40% don’t support
15% undecided

*Don’t take numbers as fact I’m running off memory.
**admittedly saying 45% is a majority is a weird thing but I don’t know how else to state it.

Plurality.
 
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ch33zw1z

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As of this morning it was something like
45% support
40% don’t support
15% undecided

*Don’t take numbers as fact I’m running off memory.
**admittedly saying 45% is a majority is a weird thing but I don’t know how else to state it.

It's the majority of polled persons.
 

UNCjigga

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Apparently, the Don in all his wisdom thinks he and the GOP can drown out impeachment talk by pivoting to healthcare. I guess they think healthcare is a topic that can bring back the voters. Like the public already forgot who tried to destroy Obamacare 4-5 times without any plan for a viable replacement.

I say go for it!!!!


 

fskimospy

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Apparently, the Don in all his wisdom thinks he and the GOP can drown out impeachment talk by pivoting to healthcare. I guess they think healthcare is a topic that can bring back the voters. Like the public already forgot who tried to destroy Obamacare 4-5 times without any plan for a viable replacement.

I say go for it!!!!

See when people try and argue that Trump is secretly some political genius I think of things like this. He wants to distract from impeachment so he's going to 'pivot' back to something that he knows nothing about, has failed miserably at in the past, has no plan for the future on, and on which he's extraordinarily unpopular.

Durrrrr.
 
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compcons

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Apparently, the Don in all his wisdom thinks he and the GOP can drown out impeachment talk by pivoting to healthcare. I guess they think healthcare is a topic that can bring back the voters. Like the public already forgot who tried to destroy Obamacare 4-5 times without any plan for a viable replacement.

I say go for it!!!!


Whoa, let's not jump the gun here.

Pelosi: Good morning Don, how are things? I hear you have your hands full with that impeachment thing. I feel terrible, but without meaningful work to do on legislation, people are just milling about the floor all bored and stuff. I tried to distract them with some talk about universal healthcare, but none of the Republicans seem interested in talking about it so itfizzled out. It would be a great distraction from impeachment talk for everyone if we could focus on that. Oh, and Gun Control.
 

SMOGZINN

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Apparently, the Don in all his wisdom thinks he and the GOP can drown out impeachment talk by pivoting to healthcare. I guess they think healthcare is a topic that can bring back the voters. Like the public already forgot who tried to destroy Obamacare 4-5 times without any plan for a viable replacement.

I say go for it!!!!



The talking points on this seem to be that they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky Democrats! Your insurance sucks today because the Democrats prevented Trump from fixing it for you, because they are EVIL! We could totally fix all the insurance problems with the magic of Free Market Capitalism if they would only let us. We could tell you our amazing perfect insurance plans except the Democrats won't let us. Due to impeachment.