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Pelosi to Announce Trump Impeachment Inquiry
Speaker Nancy Pelosi late Tuesday said that she supports a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, according to a Democratic lawmaker. The purported reason is the allegation that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden. No actual evidence has been released of any wrongdoing in this matter. From The Hill:
Pelosi is expected to make her announcement at 5 p.m. on the House floor after meetings with Democratic chairmen of six committees investigating Trump and his administration and with the full Democratic Caucus.
“As soon as we have the facts, we’re ready,” Pelosi said Tuesday at The Atlantic Festival. “Now we have the facts, we’re ready … for later today.”
More than two-thirds of House Democrats publicly support launching an impeachment inquiry. Pelosi has not been among those backing an inquiry.
On Tuesday alone, more than a dozen lawmakers — including close Pelosi ally Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) — have come out in support of an impeachment inquiry in the aftermath of reports about the phone call with Zelensky.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump acknowledged he had withheld about $400 million in U.S. military aid for Ukraine just days ahead of the July 25 phone call.
Democrats have demanded the release of the call’s transcript, which Trump already cleared for distribution. “You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call,” Trump said on Twitter Tuesday morning. “No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo! This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!” .
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the Delay is the point….in case you haven’t noticed the whole outrage thing is performative.
It’s gonna be lit, y’all:
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/09/24/white-house-now-says-it-will-release-transcript-and-whistleblower-complaint-this-week/
A few words from a lawyer-type who has proven to be more reliable than others over the years:
No. I think Weld was having a Trumpian moment.
Br’er Democrats: We’re gonna get you this time.
Br’er Trump: Whatever you do, don’t throw me into that Br’er patch.
Br’er Democrats: We’re gonna throw you into that Br’er patch so hard.
Br’er: Trump: Please, no!
I never say that Trump plays 26 dimensional chess or whatever, but this rope-a-dope thing with Democrats really is his wheelhouse.
So Trump can call their bluff by releasing the whistle-blower referral to the House and Senate Committee, along with a copy of the recording.
Will that be before or after Trump releases his taxes? I am reminded that Trump also said that he wanted to be interviewed by Mueller.
I don’t want a promise from Trump, I want specific performance.
I think it’s likely that reopening the discussion of Biden’s history will have deep ramifications for Biden, but not so much for Trump, and I think this is intentional. I’m tending to believe the people laying out this narrative for the press think they’re getting a two-fer. From my standpoint, Biden is too compromised with China to be President.
Fair enough. But I think a specific promise to release by the end of the week is more likely to be acted on than a non-specific promise to do something at some random point in the future. To much attention on the matter at the moment.
Fair enough.
If … if … if …
Top Ukraine Official: “I think there was no pressure.”
NPR: “I said, ‘You’re not getting the [$1 billion]. I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a b****. He got fired,” Biden said.
Also, you’re a Trump-supporter — do you support his call to have Biden face the electric chair?
House Democrats are going to look like the partisan hacks they are.
It depends. What if Trump doesn’t release the recording? What if Trump defies the Courts?
I think that should be “briar patch,” the “Br’er” in “Br’er Rabbit” is short for “Brother Rabbit,” not “Briar Rabbit.”
He’d already said he was releasing the transcript BEFORE the Dems “demanded” it. Spartacus Moment there.
Will that be before or after Trump releases his taxes?
You so missed my point.
Why impeach when you can vote out of office?
Before Ukraine came up, I would have preferred to simply vote Trump out of office. But, if literally, Trump doesn’t turn over the whistle-blower’s referral, and/or the recordings, and defies a court order, what choice does Congress have?
I note that Jim Geraghty agreed that this could be impeachable at the 9 minute point on today’s Three Martini Lunch.
Ergo you want Trump executed because you have to sign on to 100% to any candidate, since you hod us Trump supporters to that standard.
What a novel idea for Democrats. How about you win an election fair and square, jacka–es.
You have yet to call for Biden to drop out of the race.
Until you do, you are showing your hypocritical approach to all things Trump.
Your points 2 and 3 are flat out lies. Read award-winning investigative journalist John Solomon at The Hill (no Trump-supportive site):
A closed probe is revived … by the “solid” Ukrainian prosecutor.
No, no, no. First I don’t want Trump to be executed. Second, I do not condemn or hold Trump Supporters like my sainted mother to such a standard.
It appears that Trump and Biden are opposite situations. But I would be open to disqualifying both Trump and Biden!
If this is turns out to be what is in the transcript it would seem Trump did nothing and the will all hit Biden. Making the Dems look foolish
That was the point I was making in my original post on this thread — you take out Trump on this via impeachment, and you’re not going to be able to turn around and tell swing voters what wacky-but-lovable Uncle Joe did in forcing the Ukrainians to can the prosecutor that was investigating Hunter Biden’s company is no big deal. If Hunter had some type of business history in the private sector, the Biden backers might be able to push that line, but he was getting busted in your neck of the woods for drug possession at the time of the 2016 election, and was known to have drug issues prior to that.
No foreign company hires Hunter for $600,000 a year if his last name isn’t Biden. And that’s a point not just Trump backers will make, but also Warren and Sanders supporters.
I love the paradigm the anti orange league is supporting.
Biden and Obama withhold necessary military aid in a war time situation until the Ukrainian government fires its prosecutor that is investigating corruption of a company that just happens to hire Biden’s son. While also forcing upon them a list of people that can do no wrong. This is considered a good thing for the Democrats to do.
Trump supplies military aid in a much more peaceful time and also lets it be known that the US government is no longer protecting the corrupt company, its consultant and its consultants family from any corruption investigation. This is considered a bad thing since Democrat corruption must be protected and hid at all times.
All in all it looks like Burisma got a good deal on their money since it got the full protection of the US government by hiring Biden’s son. Of course that is just normal business for the Democrats.
What a crappy precedent. Anytime a Democrat mole files a complaint based on “rumor”, the president has to release the transcript of a call with a foreign leader? That should make for poor negotiations and cooperation on security going forward. This is a disaster for America.
I guess if Trump is going to release this transcript, I want to see all the transcripts between Team Obama and Iran. I heard a rumor there were some promises made in exchange for a plane-load of cash. Just saying.
Trump should declassify and release just about everything he can about this, about Muller and FISA stuff. Any problematic conversations with world leaders by Obama, Bush and Clinton