Representative Lee Zeldin appears on Fox News to discuss the ongoing House impeachment inquiry and how HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff is manipulating the release of transcripts that are adverse to his political agenda.
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How worried are the lead democrats? They are taking risk after risk, banking on the public giving them a free pass on holding a kangaroo court v the President.
Something appears desperate about their activity. Could it be the house of cards is creaking and about to fall? Boy I hope so🙏
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Schiff called President Trump a “charlatan” in the oval office and Pelosi called him an “imposter” this weekend.
Why would you openly show your bias while trying to impeach him? Something is happening that they seemed scared about. We can only hope and pray!
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It’s obvious: every one of these people are hip-waders deep in Ukrainian corruption, which they’ve been indulging in for decades. Now, both Presidents are determined to drain the swamp. There is no one to give them six hours. The Ukrainian Government has resumed criminal investigations, and both governments are making that mutual assistance treaty mean something.
Biden, Schiff, Nadler, Pelosi, Obama … all of them know they’re guilty! 😱
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In what parallel universe that the DUMBOcRATS inhabit is it logical to ‘DEMAND’ the the President appears before them while his ACCUSER the ‘WHISTLEBLOWER’ does not and remains ANONYMOUS.
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My opinion – if it is done properly they are going to get folks on both sides of the aisle.
The “President’s” may only end up holding a bunch of scoundrel hole cards for future use. Not the result I want, but maybe useful for this President.
Surely going to be interesting.
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Romney’s son is apparently on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. (Where have I heard that scheme before?)
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I think that’s actually false. But if you find some reliable evidence definitely post it here.
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Top Romney Adviser Worked With Hunter Biden On Board Of Ukrainian Energy Company
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/26/top-romney-adviser-worked-with-hunter-biden-on-board-of-ukrainian-energy-company/
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False rumor that AFAIK was spread on Reddit.
Here is the actual fact:
“Joseph Cofer Black, a national security adviser for the 2012 Mitt Romney campaign, sits on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian oil and gas giant that paid at times more than $83,000 per month to Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son.”
Ref. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/26/former-mitt-romney-adviser-sits-on-burisma-board-of-directors/
So I guess the rumor mill could not resist and got Romney’s son confused with the former Romney campaign adviser.
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Re: Solamere
The two articles are on the same page and both interesting (at least to me) for three reasons: the obvious voting machine conflict of interest, the Allen Stanford connections (“Why would a member of the Romney family go into business with former Stanford associates, and give the press a misleading answer about their histories?”) and the China connections (mentioned twice in the second article by Stephanie Kraft, Valley Advocate, November 01, 2012)!
https://constantinereport.com/tagg-romneys-team-of-crony-capitalists-drug-pushers-ponzi-schemers-a-voting-machine-manufacturer/
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Pigglosi’s son Paul, Jr.
The mittens connection is his senior personal adviser Joseph Cofer Black, who also just so happens to be a long-time CIA employee as well.
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Not Romney’s son, but rather his chief of staff during his Presidential run. As a representative of Bain Financial, I believe.
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For Russia, it’s hard for me to see how the gang of eight on both sides of the aisle and on both sides of the rotunda, escape. They are either perjurer in train8bg, co-conspirators, complicit, or useful idiots…not good choices.
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So, they are guilty. So what, nothing will happen.Half the country could care less what they did. Not one “swamp” person has been prosecuted. NO ONE. Less than a year until the next “election” (aka voter fraud to put a Dem back in office) and its back to business as usual.
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Fanbeav,
God fearing folk are always more self-aware, the left not so much. Not sure this explains it, but if you have no shame then you have very little character.
The dems are on the run for certain.
I would upvote ✅ you but for some reason WordPress makes it impossible.
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POTUS told us last week… He ‘caught the swamp’ All of them, iirc, he said. So they know he knows it all. And all roads do lead to corruption in Ukraine and likely a whole lot of misdirected US taxpayer funds laundered through various entities in Ukraine to the swamp denizens.
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He “caught them all” is one of the few anchors we have in this storm, Sharon.
So what we are waiting for is to see if we have an AG who will bring the country back around to the rule of law or not.
Heck! Sundance and other bloggers have already put out enough information and evidence that anyone paying attention has “caught them all” too.
The only unanswered question is what will happen to the traitors of the coup.
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The Republicans played it right at last week’s hearings, taking a page from the leftist playbook by using a little play acting to demonstrate for viewers the unfair schifty process, forcing him to gavel everyone down and asking him if he’s still going to block Republican witnesses and access to transcripts, etc. I hate that we have to drop to their level, but it gets the point across and flustered schif for brains, who expected the Republicans to do as they always do and politely sit quietly and get hosed. A picture’s worth a thousand words,l alnd this waps a helpful picture.
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I’m not sure I would call it play acting. The republicans attempted to obtain their due process rights, and the left was exposed by their reaction to the Republicans legitimate actions.
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I don’t think they’re dropping to the Democrats level. The Republican “points of order” etc. are actually legit; all the more making the dems look sneaky. That said, if the Republicans DO start using dem tactics, okay by me. This is war!!
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of course you play the game your are in … not the one you would prefer to be in … its not going down to their level … its playing on the field they have chosen … make them own it good and hard …
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They have backed themselves into a corner that has no way out.
If their only strategy ar this point is to scream, ‘political retaliation’….it will hit them in the face the minute they say it.
Their crimes perpetrated years ago is what we are talking about with their prosecution.
Further the investigation into these crimes started months ago, not just now.
If Attorney Barr does what is right, only facts and evidence matters.
They can scream like 8 year olds all day.
They need the practice for the prison choir every night at 2am.
I bet the acoustics are great.
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Sorry to say i am watching a great country becoming a laughing stock with no end in site.The republicans in the senate are cowards, as they could stop this in its tracks if they wanted to. Also POTUS needs to start firing Vindman , Taylor et al and charge all and sundry with treason. AND by POTUS i mean Barr.
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The so-called coward Republicans may just be guilty of graft like their Democrat
Counterparts.
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And the President may be holding off on firing the Vindmans for the same reason he held off firing Mueller.
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That is what I’m having trouble figuring out too. Are the dems under the impression that when this all collapses and they’re exposed there will be no retribution? Do they actually think the other half of the country will forget this and go on like it never happened?
What I think is they don’t give a rat’s and in fact will continue the resistance. Which is the reason that severe punishment needs to be handed down, without hate but with righteous (cold) anger. If not they will continue with re-doubled efforts.
We can not continue like this. We can not have two competing views on governing systems. This is not, nor will it become a socialist country. I believe they have a right to there opinion but advocating for, agitating and conspiring for an overthrow of our system should land them in prison.
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Even if the host of cards falls, they’re still at 48%. The true independents note mashed up just a sliver of the electorate. Even a shift of 20% in the independents is just a minimal (but important) change in the overall voter percentage. Sadly with “team politics” and the small percentage not on a team. It all comes down to mobilizing a higher percentage of your team. There are always moments if paradigm shift, but they are always transient as long as the education system continues to churn out brainwashed young adults.
Three push for the judiciary,the economy and immigration are worthy immediate goals, but without education reform were are just rearranging the deck chairs. In my opinion, shool vouchers to make available a free market option for all should be an absolute priority. Add a bonus it would disproportionately benefit minorities in a productive way which might break the pattern of government dependence and associated Democratic loyalty.
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Bill Hemmer sure has perfected his ‘concern’ look.
Question – Hemmer mentions the testimony that Sondland was keeping Mulvaney abreast of things. I thought during that time that Mulvaney was still at OMB and not Chief of Staff. Is my timeline memory wrong?
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For a short time, I think Mick was doing both jobs plus still keeping eye on. Warren’s Consumer Financial Center…whatever its bame is. Unlike most of Congress & the government, Mick can multi-task.
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He was doing both jobs and he might still doing both. The people at the Consumer Protection Agency work against him too. He says they are impossible (almost) to fire.
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I went home for lunch today and FNC was in heavy impeachment mode, breathlessly yapping about tomorrow’s audition winners. nauseating.
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Mulvaney was involved in Ukraine with his OMB hat. He has been named as a member of the “irregular channel”. I believe he was included for the financials/fraud is Ukraine too corrupt for military aid
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Congressman Zeldin wouldn’t follow Pencil Neck into combat. Neither would anyone else in their right mind.
Doesn’t say much for the majority members of the Committee, does it?
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Getting old. I swear I first read the headline as *Led Zeppelin* Discusses House Impeachment Fiasco… I was sort of looking forward to it.
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Howard: Me too! And it would have sounded so much better too!
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Led Zeppelin discusses, Stairway to Heaven and the house of the unholy that is located in the basement.
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Little: That was their other famous song “Stairway to Hell”!
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One of my favorite memes is the one that goes something like:
“There’s a stairway to heaven, and a highway to hell. What does that say about the predicted traffic pattern?”
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Me, too. After reading the Led Zeppelin part of your post, followed by ‘House’… I saw Houses of the Holy.
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The public has already tuned out this farce of an impeachment inquiry. The polls are showing that the country sees this for what it is…a media hyped witch-hunt with out a crime having been committed. The longer this charade goes on, the more it’s going to hurt the Dems.
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Maybe it is that both sides are dug in so there is no mystery to be solved and no minds to be changed.
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Minds WILL be changed once the message is discovered to be a fraud. This is precisely how/why President Donald J. Trump has risen to the Presidency and become our fearless leader. There is no fraud in his message. Nothing sneaky. No mental gymnastics to decipher hidden meanings. Minds entrenched for generations were changed overnight upon his entrance. And the number of newly Woke have more than doubled since the last election. First generation immigrants who barely speak my language now understand what many here have known for a very long time. I see it in their eyes, and I hear it in their voices.
This website is unique, in that it readily posts pictures and clearly identifies those who have abused the People’s trust and seek to usurp power. This ensures that every card in the deck will have face when it goes to print.
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As has been pointed out, they need to take a vote in the House. They can not do so until they have the votes. The votes depend on D’s in Trump districts. Those D’s rely on public perception in those districts. They are doing what Dems do best, using the full force of the left wing media to drive that narrative that Trump should be impeached.
Problem is, the narrative is so false and so overblown that it is not fooling enough people. Sure, it “fools” the diehard left wingers and rabid anti Trumpers but it isn’t selling to rational people. And that doesn’t appear to be changing, especially in the Dem led Trump districts.
That means that about 15-20 Dems must be willing to die on their swords for AOC, Maxine, and Pencil Neck. That’s a tough sell. Congresscritter is now a lucrative profession.
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Also when they ask for 8 years worth of tax returns most tax payers can see that is harassment -particularly since Pres Trump has only been in office for 3 years.
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Absolutely correct. They don’t have the votes and the people have seen this game before. Something needs to be done about the biased media. Don’t know what but something. I deleted their channels from my cable box. Anything I watch is over the air.
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The hate in Shiff ‘s face is so huge. How can a person hate so much for no important reason? It must be tormenting his soul to incredible pain. Probably equal to being invaded by hot red ants. I feel sorry for the people who had to interact with him daily
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The idea of Schiff being invaded by hot red ants-along with Pelosi, the Squad, The Black Caucus and all the rest of the Kill-Trump-Contingent…… it just cheers me right up!
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And throw in the anti-Trump Republicans. Looking at you Mitt Romney.
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Yes, he’s a miserable human being and he wants everyone else to be miserable too.
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I think he may well have a hidden important reason that has something to do with corruption.
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IT looks like piglosi dentures are about to fallout of her mouth!
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If they do, her taxidermist will be receiving a sternly worded letter along with a fish wrapped in a newspaper.
;o)
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For some very evil men …it seems their last stand is in a bunker..
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Burnette: Stairway to Hell.
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This isn’t a comment on all things legal, but it IS an observation from a small elevation overlooking this bizarre bazaar: Democrats and TDS victims have nothing but failure, after failure, after failure to show for the plethora of transgressions that have been assigned to Candidate-and-President Donald J. Trump, and this is rapidly eroding the patience of fair-minded people along with disintegrating the credibility of the haters. Their motives and “cover” are more transparent than his administration, really, really thin…..
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They mean to win by any means possible. Because they know that once they win they’ll never have to conduct another circus like this. They will simply be able to pass Bills of Attainder (not called as such, of course, that might offend the sensibilities of some NeverTrumpers), without all this fuss about appearances of legality.
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Four facts that don’t change.
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Its all here in ‘The Vindman’ factor it seems
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In a just world vindman would be at the inverted tip of the pyramid on his next oer, holding up the world. Morrison already said his judgement is suspect. Kiss of death.
Maybe he can have bad brad’s old cell.
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I love how near the end Zeldin says instead of submitting testimony Trump should submit a signed copy of Don Jr’s “Triggered” book. lol Zeldin is great.
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Well…the harpies are flying.
Evelyn Farkas, Chrissy Teigen, Christine Blasey Ford, and now Samantha Power all have weighed in. Cannot wait to find out who the next one will be to embarrass other persons with ovaries. Maybe Stormy Daniels will circle the block — or the drain — again.
Toil and trouble.
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In the same play Shakespeare gave the witches the line “Fair is foul and foul is fair/Hover through the fog and filthy air.” Perfectly describes the upside down, inside out Kafkaesque “hearing” (or “trial”) conducted by Schiff, Pelosi and their evil cabal. To be sure calling it exceedingly foul barely says it at all.
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The harpies are flying. Wow What a great choice of words. Thanks
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The hens are sqawking!
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I like your phrase Sherri.
The thing they are missing is the only ones who care are the super lefties who will never entertain a different narrative and want POTUS gone no matter what.
Normal people out in the world do not care. The Democrats have cried wolf too many times to resonate with anyone outside of the NY/DC bubble.
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It’s like the last Seinfeld episode….
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Oh my my… this reminds me of Sidney Powell’s ‘work on the side’ – cutting things from the side with a sharp knife can be far more effective than trying to punch your way out from in the guts of it. Shifty Shiff and his circus of lawyers and media sycophants might just get ‘whacked’ by another lawyer. https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-official-sues-politico-targets-schiffs-role-in-impeachment
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I keep hearing the questions of how can you hate someone so much that you behave as the democrats have been behaving. While there is hate, the hate is coming from fear of what is being uncovered. They have no choice but to do this because it is all that they have now.
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If any man in the town of Fleabag were accused of stealing a horse, we’d have a trial. We’d give him the 5th, 6th and 14th, and read him his Miranda rights. Before a trial by jury. All this for a common two-but thief. But not, apparently, for the President of the United States.
A bunch of this man’s Fleabag neighbors gather in the local hotel cafeteria, already certain he’s guilty. They demand to see his tax returns, hoping to find something more to accuse him of. They go into the town’s fallout shelter and there hold secret meetings that he isn’t allowed to attend, and they issue press releases every day, all of which are immediately published by the Fleabag Rag. A group of carpenters is set busy constructing an ominous-looking scaffold in the town square . . .
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Mike: Then Clint Eastwood strode into town! Finished it for you!
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-official-sues-politico-targets-schiffs-role-in-impeachment
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This is why it was not enough for Radcliffe to point out that CBS was using an unreleased transcript and then sort of “move on” with the interview. He should have stopped the interview on CBS, stated that CBS had illegally obtained sworn testimony from behind closed doors, and announced for the cameras that CBS News is involved in a criminal conspiracy to railroad President Trump.
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Yes yes yes!! That would have been huge!!
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The courts have generally supported the right of the press to publish even classified info, so I suspect CBS is not in legal jeopardy, but whoever leaked it to them is or should be.
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Yep, that’s my point. The simple fact that the interviewer did not state up-front that she had been leaked “secret” testimony tells you that she is in on the con. That’s what I mean when I say that Ratcliffe should have stated this up front. A crime was committed, CBS is party to that crime, but the leaker (most likely Schiff and his staff) has broken the law and increased the corruption of the already-corrupt fake impeachment.
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Agreed, the repubs let this kind of thing slide too often which normalizes the behavior as no big deal.
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He has gone on record in the public domain saying that leaking has occurred.
Adam Schiff needs to be charged.
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Why can’t AG Barr say, I am concerned and have seen some evidence that may imply this impeachment hearing is nothing more than another political exercise against the President of the United States so I have launched an investigation on how the predicate of this impeachment hearing began and if we find that there was deliberate and planned malice to harm the President we will look to indict any perpetrators.
Especially after the speech he gave about the relentless attacks by the Judiciary and Legislative Branches on the Executive Branch.
Unprecedented yes, but necessary absolutely.
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Good question. I could be all wrong but I think it’s because the AG is part of the executive branch and the AG reports to the Presiden so he cannot intervene on a fight between the executive and legislative branches. I’m going to do some reading.
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But Barr could appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the corruption by American Officials in the Ukraine, and then request testimony under oath by all the people brought before Schiff thereby getting a full hearing on what went on.
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I might be wrong. According to a document from the DOJ about separation of powers:
Many specific aspects of the Constitution’s separation of governmental powers embody the founders’ “profound conviction … that the powers conferred on Congress were the powers to be most carefully circumbscribed” and the founders’ recognition of the particular “propensity” of the legislative branch “to invade the rights of the Executive” (Federalist No.73). Executive branch lawyers thus have a constitutional obligation, one grounded not in parochial institutional interests but in our fundamental duty to safeguard the liberty of the people, to assert and maintain the legitimate powers and privileges of the President against inadvertent or intentional congressional intrusion. https://www.justice.gov/file/20061/download
Executive branch lawyers have a constitutional obligation to assert and maintain the legitimate powers and privileges of the President against inadvertent or intentional congressional intrusion.
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But the Founders also wrote much more about this all-important “separation of powers” principle. Specifically, they observed that the fundamental reason to deny the Congress any Judicial powers was because … well, we would get precisely what we have here. Any action would de-evolve into a Bill of Attainder, which is specifically prohibited by §1.9.3.
Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi are right now trying very hard to pass a Bill of Attainder against the President, bypassing House rules to do so and denying the President of the United States the rights that we would grant to any common thief. And they don’t seem to perceive any problems with this. Instead, they believe everything that “Lawfare, Inc.” tell them, and now they want to give them even more money. 🙄
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The democrats just aren’t interested in the truth or to bring this country together or to even allow it to heal. They are about dividing us, and they aren’t even the least bit interested in bringing this country together. But not only dividing us but to increase the difference between us. They want to pour salt on a gaping wound. I’m not surprised by them at all. The last 6 republican president the democrats tried to impeach 5, the only one to escape their wraith was Gerald Ford. This is what the democrats do, when they lose national elections. They can lie, slander and defame them and there is no legal recourse as Congress has given themselves immunity from legal torts and slander and defamation lawsuits.
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They want so badly to win in 2020 and even if they can’t impeach Trump they can brainwash the idiot public to think that Trump really did do something wrong. Reminds me of the Traythug debacle.
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Sorry for the pointless discursion but every time I see Congressman Lee Zeldin’s name in print, my brain fills in “Congressman Led Zeppelin.” Rock on dudes and dudettes. 😉
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Hear that? Hear it? Yeah me neither- nothing about hearings in the Senate.Oh widdle liddle Lindsey, come out come out wherever you are. Phoney fake Republicans hiding under their desks. What despicable creatures.
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Trump should submit written answers to all of the Democrats questions. Ok, actually just one answer to all the questions:
“Read the transcript!”
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Lee gave a superb explanation of the tactics of Adam Schiff last week. He pointed out that Schiff read excerpts of Trump’s tweet – leaving out the Ukraine President saying that Yovanovitch was terrible – selectively leaking the parts of the information that appeared to make his case and leaving out the part that was ESSENTIAL for understanding Trump’s point. Schiff is a liar and I was thrilled with Lee’s explanation of why Schiff is a liar.
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Also, Trump should agree to provide written testimony in exchange for Adam Schiff being sworn in as a witness and the GOP minority gets unlimited time to question him on the origins and conduct of the fake impeachment probe. Schiff is a liar, and needs to be put under oath.
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Won’t make any difference. If Schiff is on the floor of the House or conducting official House business he is exempt from all rules governing speech. That’s how he was able to get away with his lying Ukraine transcript. In the House he’s untouchable.
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Not if he’s sworn in as a witness. This is easily flipped around as “what is Schiff hiding?” It doesn’t have to result in testimony, only the optics of the guy who has been lying refusing to testify.
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Zelden has the perfect amount of respectful Schiff. None.
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There is no way I would ask the President to testify in any form if I were his lawyer. I would cuff him to his chair and say it’s for his own good and the good of the country. Every time he says or tweets something the Democrats twist it into more nonsense. I would ask him to reconsider for the benefit of the Nation and after this all gets tossed in the Senate if he still feels he has to say something in his defense then he can say I told you so. Democrats have gone off the rails and they will drag anyone down with them whether they are honest or not. PASS Mr President. Don’t go near this with a ten foot pole. It will only come back to bite you and cause more damage to the American people. We’re tired of this nonsense and want it to end now, not later. Your agenda is much more than this and you can do so much more for our country if we move on from all this. PASS
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President is playing with Schiff and Poli-Grip.
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How many times have we heard President Trump say that he would “consider” or “think about” doing something his base and advisors oppose? Remember For example, the Paris Accord?
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