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@JoeBiden
must announce that if the GOP rushes to pack the Court, the Dems will expand the SCOTUS to 11 justices, and expand the lower federal courts by 70 to 100 new judgeships, which have long been needed. In short, he will depoliticize the federal judiciary!
Time for UPS, Amazon, FedEx and other national delivery services to step up and design a supplemental system to the US Postal Service to deliver ballots for the 2020 election. Plus statewide drop boxes everywhere. Can’t let Trump win by destroying the Postal Service, his plan!
Former President George W. Bush's endorsement of Biden would put an end to the Trump presidency and save the country and the GOP from itself | By Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan for
@CNNOpinion
Anyone who cannot fathom how Hitler got control of Germany need only look at Trump’s hold on the base of the GOP and the refusal of GOP leaders who know what is happening to call out his criminal conduct.
It is extremely difficult for me to understand how Trump is even competitive in this election. Actually, it is frightening. Trump is tested. He is known. He is the most incompetent POTUS is modern America. He is a threat to America. How can voters not understand this basic fact?
BIG DAY: We have learned that we have a criminal President of the United States, who was elected by deceiving the American people. And a man who does not respect the foundation of our nation — the rule of law.
Nothing, absolutely NOTHING, is more important in 2018 than taking the US House from the GOP, and beginning the end of Trump’s horrific presidency. The well being of the nation depends on it. Don’t let a day pass without doing some act to help Democrats win control. STOP TRUMP!
Why is Joe Biden not filing a action against the Administrator of GSA demanding she authorize the transition process? It is a slam-dunk action! Why tolerate this Trump misbehavior?
I do not understand why an election campaign for the presidency is receiving special consideration for a person being held responsible for criminal behavior? (For example: Why are others who have been indicted not simply joining the race for president since they too should be
Would someone get Trump a dog. He needs a friend so he won’t endlessly vent on Twitter. He’s uninterested in government and policy. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t exercise. He has no real friends. A dog might save humankind. Admittedly, it a lot to ask of a dog. But help is needed.
I am embarrassed for our country that Trump is president. I fear for our country if he is re-elected. American democracy will end with a second term of this wannabe strongman. He is a corrupt nitwit who seeks what he can never have — legitimate greatness and true adoration.
What’s ironic about Trump being POTUS that those who elected him do not realize is he could not pass a federal civil service exam, not pass the vetting process for a high level appointment, never pass a confirmation hearing for any cabinet or other post. HE’S TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED.
Nixon, generally very competent, bungled and botched his handling of Watergate. Trump, a total incompetent, is bungling and botching his handling of Russiagate. Fate is never kind to bunglers and/or botchers! Unlike Nixon, however, Trump won’t leave willingly or graciously.
Trump and his minions think they dodged a bullet. I have a notion — only a recurring though — that Mueller delivered a bomb to AG Barr, who is now trying to figure out how to tell Trump in a way that doesn’t cause him to start World War III. Barr knows he works for a psycho.
Beto. Please reconsider your presidential run and return to Texas and defeat John Cornyn, which you can do. This is not your year for the White House but helping Dems take control of the Senate will earn you eternal appreciation from countless who matter!
Beto O'Rourke: "I'm calling upon those who are close to President Trump right now... to advise him to do the right thing and to resign from this office."
Congressional Republicans are a pathetic lot. They’ve descended into trying to out-Trump, Trump. This is the way authoritarian followers strut their stuff for their leader. It is pretty weak but if I can provoke them to show the true nature of their vile behavior that is good.
Alan Dershowitz unimpeached Richard Nixon today. All Nixon was doing was obstructing justice and abusing power because he thought he was the best person for the USA to be POTUS. When POTUS does it... etc. Seriously, that was his motive! Agree with Alan and impeachment is gone!
It is very possible that Trump wants to be impeached and convicted and leave office as a martyr. It gives him a unique standing with his followers, and he can pester his successors. He clearly does not enjoy the work of the presidency and is unwilling to do it. Time to leave!
Sending out again: Let’s impeach him now and NOT send it to the Senate rather keep investigating in the House, and add such supplemental articles as needed! Just let it hang over his head. If the worst happens and he is re-elected, send it to the Senate. But keep investigating!!
Memo To Trump’s White House Staff: FYI. Very few people who worked at Nixon’s White House later included that fact on their resumes. It doesn’t do much for a career to be on the wrong side of history, nor to have worked for the worst president in American history.
Trump thinks, acts and sounds like a mob boss. There is nothing presidential about him or his actions. Is this what the people who voted for him want? What has it done for them or the USA? A mobster can’t run the country, as Trump proves day after day. He is a mess, a disaster.
Manafort has flipped! BOOM (the sound of broomsticks breaking the sound barrier crashing to earth - NO witches). The entire Trump family now in jeopardy. No pardon for Paul from Trump. No nice things to say about Mansfort by Rudy. Nightmares at the White House will be unending.
My greatest fear is that Trump will experience a mild brush with COVID-19 and believe it is just like flu for tough guys like him, so he will become an even a worse manager of the pandemic. This is not to wish him ill but sadly his experience will influence that of others.
Today's filings are devastating for Trump. A few initial reactions. Jumping out from the opening paragraph of the Gov's memo of law for the redacted AFFIDAVIT: There are "a SIGNIFICANT NUMBER of civilian witnesses" -- who must be protected in telling the truth about Trump!
Wow. If you aren’t horrified by Trump’s performance at the Helsinki Putin/Trump press conference you don’t love our country. Trump is disgusting, only interested in himself not the American people. RESIGN MR. TRUMP, YOU ARE NOT AMERICA FIRST, YOU ARE TRUMP AND ONLY TRUMP!
Let’s impeach him now and NOT send it to the Senate rather keep investigating in the House, and add such supplemental articles as needed! Just let it hang over his head. If the worst happens and he is re-elected, send it to the Senate. But keep investigating!!
In the spirit of compromise, which I think is missing from this age, may I suggest this: Let’s impeach him now but keep investigating, and if we find more evidence, impeach him again.
Trump’s West Point speech showed a man who is physically and mentally impaired. Drinking water should not take two hands unless you are hiding a tremor. Trump’s delivery was halting, at times slurred. And his departure down a slight ramp revealed he needed a walker or golf cart.
Impeachment must include AG Barr for coverups and SecState Pompeo re Ukraine — along with President Trump. Others as their involvement becomes apparent. This is beyond a one man show!
Today, Trump held his first national security council principals meeting since becoming president some 500 days ago; this is remarkable for its delinquency. Even more remarkable is the fact the meeting only lasted 30 minutes. This is a staggering & worrying level of incompetence!
Trump’s campaign. Trump’s transition. Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s presidency. Plus Trump & family. All are now under state and federal criminal and civil investigations. This is much more damning than Watergate, and it is just getting started.
Baltimore Sun to “the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, ... [who is] not even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
There is no one it would be more satisfying to see lose in November (after Donald) than Lindsey Graham. Jaime Harrison would be a great senator and a healing selection.
Lev Parnas is contributor to Kevin McCarthy. Looks like the Minority Leader is in the Ukraine loop. When will Rudy show up in his phone records. It is as if Putin has taken control of the GOP. What in hell are they doing? Will a reporter please ask him?
If Biden announce tomorrow he will ask Kamela Harris to be his VP, Bloomberg to be SecTreasury, Elizabeth Warren SecEd, Amy Kobachar AG, and Adam Schiff DNI. Plus that he will prosecute all Trump Admin corruption.... Race over!
Two people have important decisions in the next few *hours* that can change the course of history.
Bloomberg has to decide whether he’s going to focus every dollar on destroying Bernie next few days.
Obama has to decide if he will make the most vital endorsement of his life.
GOP should be known for what it has become. It is radically racist, anti-immigrant, pro-guns, anti-NATO, pro-dictators (Putin, Xi, Kim, Erdogan, Duterte, etc), anti-globalism & free trade, populistic & authoritarian. It’s not your father’s GOP, true conservatives are gone/going.
Trump’s responses to the articles of impeachment is outrageous. He claims they violate the Constitution. He states “they are defective in their entirety.“ Clearly he’s going to move to dismiss hoping 51 Senators will end his agony. If he gets away with it, we’ve got a dictator!
Here is a GOP leader —
@kevinomccarthy
— who does not have a clue what he is talking about. Both Nixon and Clinton were investigated by SECRET grand juries! McCarthy needs better staff!
.
@GOPLeader
: "The inquiry should be suspended until the same due process rights that were given to President Nixon and President Clinton, they should be provided to President Trump."
Republicans have tanked the presidency, they’ve tanked the Congress, and today they will tank the Supreme Court. They want to “rule” not “govern.” Democracy loving America must reverse this trend on Nov. 6th. This is the most important midterm election ever. Stop GOP rule!
Having re-read William Barr’s June 2018 Memo critiquing Mueller’s obstruction investigation and now his summary of Mueller’s Report, it is clear that Richard Nixon would not have been forced to resign his office if Barr had been Attorney General. Barr wants a POTUS above the law.
You have to be a glutton for pain to listen to the Republicans SHOUT how their president is being unfairly impeached for nothing, just insisting Ukraine help him fix the 2020 election, just destroying our democracy. The GOP is pathetic. For shame, Republicans. Go home!
Trump’s is making the long nightmare of Nixon’s Watergate seem like a brief idyllic daydream. History will treat Nixon’s moral failures as relatively less troubling than Trump’s sustained and growing decadence, deviousness and self-delusive behavior. Nixon=corrupt; Trump=evil.
Giuliani is not Trump’s private lawyer (Trump pays him nothing) rather Rudy is a lawyer who has become Trump’s coconspirator. They’re using the attorney-client privilege to hide criminal behavior but it can’t be used for that purpose! Sad day that lawyers back at core of scandal!
Trump’s bitching and whining and complaining is non-stop. The presidency reveals its occupant: Trump’s not only incompetent he’s actually a wuss. Like most bullies he’s a coward. As with most autocrats he’s a very frightened person. He’s a fake leader, who thinks nasty is strong.
....The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, started as the “insurance policy” long before I even got elected, is very bad for our Country. They are Entrapping people for misstatements, lies or unrelated things that took place many years ago. Nothing to do with Collusion. A Democrat Scam!
From personal experience as a key witness I assure you that you do not visit a prosecutor’s office 7 times if they are not planning to indict those about whom you have knowledge. It is only a matter of how many days until DA Vance indicts Donald & Co.
Modern GOP has given us Nixon, Agnew, Bush II, Cheney, and now Trump and Pence. Plus the Religious Right, Tea Party, Freedom Caucus and the NRA’s every wishes. From cunning crooks to war crimes criminals to corrupt authoritarians. It is all downhill, and getting worse fast.
Willie might close the small gap Beto has behind Cruz, and help turn Texas purple. Cruz is the most disliked man in the Senate so his DC colleagues will not miss him. Cruz has all the charm of a cobra. Texas needs better, like Beto!
Most presidents grow when they assume the office. Donald Trump has shriveled and shrunken — he’s become even smaller than we believed. Trump knows how to destroy but he has built absolutely nothing, other than the largest body of lies of any POTUS! He’s waste of a nation’s time.
They divided to conquer. Then they rigged with gerrymandering. Next came their open voter suppression. None of these tactics worked, so now the modern Republican Party openly plots coups and overthrowing our democracy. Today the GOP is anti-American. It is our greatest problem!
I join with old guys/gals supporting the old guy. I’m also a product of improved healthcare with resulting longevity. While almost 5 years older than Biden, I’m as active and productive as I was 20 years ago. I have plans for the next 10 years. Go Joe!
Today Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse established the Republican corruption of the US Supreme Court with overwhelming evidence. They have not only packed the Court but they corrupted it. It only cost them $250 million, off which they have surely made billions. WATCH THE POWERFUL VIDEO!!!
Per earlier tweets my worst fears were that Judge Cannon would use her court to thank Trump for her appointment AND maybe she’d channel Justice Kavanaugh on Executive Privilege. She did both. Worse: She treats Donald like he’s special, not just a citizen! She’s not done justice!
Does anyone really miss the anxiety driven attention we had to pay to Trump. My only thoughts of him now are how soon he will be indicted and who will proceed first. For the record I have no doubt it will happen! It is only a question of when and who first — GA, NYC or the Feds?
On my way to testify at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings I have been doing 2 or 3 CNN shows each day to talk about the chaos in Trump’s White House. Trump is a growing disaster, and the nation’s biggest problem! The USA can’t take much more Trump!!
Donald Trump is so a custom to bribery and extortion as a way of business that he thinks it is normal operating procedure, and can’t believe he’s done something wrong. So Republicans, who fear his base, are going to make bribery and extortion acceptable for Republican presidents.
We are witnessing the end of democracy as we have known it for about 230 years. The GOP is not only ignoring norms of democracy but they are ignoring the laws. They are playing the system to see how far they can go and will the GOP SCOTUS let them do it?
Big difference between Trump and Obama’s presidencies is the distinction between FEAR and HOPE. Trump sells fear. Obama provided hope. Trump is trashing Obama’s legacy to foster fear, grow his frightened constituency. Trump can’t GOVERN the hopeful. But he can RULE the fearful.
The House Judiciary Committee plans to hold a series of hearings on the Mueller report, beginning next week with former Nixon White House counsel John Dean
WOW. Howell Raines (former ex editor of the New York Times on Chris Hayes show) says he reads the Mattis letter as a historic document written by a military scholar indicating that Donald Trump is a treasonous president, not to mention totally “unhinged.”
A chilling point from Paul Krugman: “I don’t think most political commentators have grasped how deep the rot goes. I don’t think they understand, or at any rate admit to themselves, that democracy really could die just a few months from now.” Think Nov. 6!
The USA is currently experiencing the greatest political con in its history: POTUS Donald J. Trump. The man has lied, cheated and bamboozled his way to the top. He’s been aided and abetted by credulous journalism and stupid GOP voters. Frankly, our democracy may not survive him!
Schumer loses seats. Pelosi wins seats in record numbers. Schumer is safe. Pelosi is being attacked by Dems who buy into the GOP attacks against her. Get smart Dems. Save the squabble for later, post-Trump!
This is playing out so far like I dreamed it could, and it can get better if the House Democrats continue to sit on the articles. This is Trump’s nightmare because more can and will come out on his guilt. Mitch’s nightmare too, notwithstanding his pretending otherwise.
Like I said, “Trump would dearly love to be acquitted by the Senate, and he will not be happy if McConnell denies him what he desires.... This suggests that Democrats have a strong hand to play if they don’t fold prematurely.” In
@PostOpinions
:
Next he will blame Hillary, then Obama, then the Democrats. Never, ever, does he take responsibility for his actions that go wrong or amiss. He’s an 8 year old in a 70 year old body. Worst president ever.
Speaking of Weisselberg I think he invoked the 5th and prosecutors immunized him not to nail Cohen or Trump, but Trump’s kids: Eric, Ivanka and Don Jr., who may be in for sphincter-tightening experiences.
I am looking for a lawyer/law firm that will file a class action against Musk. For many of us who were here long before he arrived he has ruined Twitter in too many ways to explain in a tweet!
Hope
@SpeakerPelosi
will not play into Mitch’s hands, and allow the GOP Senate to exonerate Trump for his crimes. This is how to stop it. Impeach, don’t send to the Senate and continue to investigate! Make it a campaign issue. Senate is rigged. Stop the crowning of King Donald!
We the people - the majority that backs impeachment - and the Dems need to take control back from a GOP that wants a sham trial. I agree w/
@johnwdean
-- impeach, humiliate POTUS, don't send it to McConnell, keep probing and hit the streets. My new column
BETTER BE A BIG DEAL: There was only one surprise witness during the Senate Watergate Committee hearings. On July 16, 1973 an unannounced witness appeared: Alex Butterfield, who testified to Nixon’s secret taping system — forever changing history!
No more amateurs, please! The country can’t take it. It’s going to take a decade plus to repair the damage Trump has done and continues to do. The presidency is not a place for on the job training. Period. Exclamation point!
Howard Schultz (worth $3 billion), Michael Bloomberg ($48 billion), and Jamie Dimon ($1.3 billion) all now flirting w/ running for prez because Trump showed anyone can win w/ enough money, gall, and BS. But Trump also showed America the consequences of making such a person prez.
Spying? Really, with no evidence. We’re watching Bill Barr’s reputation as a careful attorney go down the drain. His spying testimony before the Senate today could have been given by Sean Hannity. His embracing GOP conspiracy theories is embarrassing. He’s now untrustworthy!
National Guard are in all 50 states. Governors can call up the National Guard to deliver the mail on election week. Most guard have contingency plans to do this work. Only hitch, state’s must pay. A small price to preserve democracy!
I certainly hope the DOJ has had Donald Trump under electronic surveillance since they learned he had departed office with top national security secrets?!!!
One of my tasks at the Nixon White House was to keep the POTUS informed of major demonstrations everywhere, particularly in DC. It is impossible for me to believe the Trump White House was not FULLY informed about what could and would happen at the Capitol on 1/6/2021!
Republican women helped force Al Franken from the Senate for what now appears a sexual prank, reported by a GOP partisan. Yet they can’t find their voice regarding attempted rape by Kavanaugh. What do they tell their daughters or granddaughters? MeToo not much of a GOP movement!
Let’s hope Federal Judge Emmett Sullivan is to Donald Trump what Federal Judge John Sirica was to Richard Nixon! Trump says he learned from Nixon’s mistakes. Nixon went down because of the Federal Judiciary.
Parnas, Rudy, Nunes, Barr, Pompeo, Pence — there is a desperate need for a special prosecutor, immediately! Congress does not have prosecutors or a grand jury to deal with this conspicuous corruption, and these indictable characters. SDNY appears uninterested.
Americans cannot get a fair Senate Impeachment trial of Trump’s insurrection with insurrectionists on the jury. Senators Hawley, Cruz, Graham, Johnson and others who pushed the big lie are co-conspirators and should not sit in judgment of Trump, rather they MUST BE DISQUALIFIED!
If Trump starts investigating the investigators -- meaning Mueller & Co. -- the policy of not indicting a sitting president must be canceled. Trump should be indicted for obstruction of justice -- which is ongoing. Do it by every attorney in the DOJ walking out if it is not done!
URGENT: Trump wants to end America sovereignty by allowing foreign governments to help him win. It is against the law and 230 years of practice. He wants American voters to choose elected leaders beholden to foreign powers, not Americans. The act of a dictator! Supported by GOP??
That Barr has launched a criminal investigation of the origins of the Russia investigation but not launched an investigation of the Ukrainian matters smells more than fishy, it smell like whatever scum smells like! Barr sure knows how to look like an evil doer...
I have been convinced for weeks that the White House has been pushing the rumor that Mueller is finishing, about to report, and has found nothing more than we already know. This is baloney. Mueller is building a giant conspiracy to defraud the USA — 18 USC 371. Stay tuned!
The COVID-19 pandemic is way beyond Trump’s skill set. He must delegate dealing with this crisis to someone who can handle it. Only states with able governors are going to survive unless Trump gets out of the way. Trump is part of the problem not part of the solution!
Trump wants to campaign 6 days a week for Republicans. That’s a good plan. Keeps him out of trouble in Washington. His base loves him. His ego needs them. He doesn’t have a clue how to govern or lead so just let him hold rallies and talk gibberish, and play president.
So Rudy owns The Donald. Blackmailing the President of the United States on Fox News is fitting! Does America really want a POTUS owned by Rudy Giuliani. Wonder if Rudy has a guaranteed pardon if Lev or Igor turn on him in the SDNY? Trump’s presidency is like a Mafia soap opera!
.
@RudyGiuliani
went on national TV to warn
@realDonaldTrump
that he has “insurance” if the president tries to throw him under the bus. What type of blackmail do you think it is — financial, sexual, criminal or other?
Not sure why the mainstream media takes this abuse. Don’t cover these rallies and Trump will beg them to return and the media can set its terms! Trump has made media abuse part of his shtick. Media is playing his game. They should STOP!
Have covered a lot of Trump rallies, but never seen press pen as locked down as it is here in Council Bluffs. Have now been escorted to the bathrooms and yelled at by advance team for attempting to talk with Trump supporters in the crowd.
"We have a core problem. We have a President without shame, who is backed by a party without spine, that is supported by a network called Fox News, without integrity," says author
@tomfriedman
, of Donald Trump.
What is alarming is how you — Mitch McConnell — have corrupted the High Court confirmation process by denying Judge Garland a hearing and now seek to jam another sexual predator onto the Court. Thankfully the Dems are acting responsibly! Your rush is artificial, you fear truth.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says it's "disturbing" that Democrats did not reveal information on Kavanaugh accuser earlier: "It's pretty obvious this is all about delaying the process, but the accuser certainly does deserve a right to be heard"
ABSOLUTELY! Indeed, if the House cannot get a fair trial, the Articles should not go to the Senate, and the investigation of Trump must continue! If rules for a fair trial are not agreed upon make it a campaign issue everywhere!
BREAKING NEWS: Schumer’s proposal to McConnell. If he rejects these reasonable ground rules & insists on a non-trial, the House should consider treating that as a breach of the Senate’s oath & withholding the Articles until the Senate reconsiders
We all surely understand two rules about the Trump presidency: (1) tomorrow will be worse; and (2) there is no low that is too low to sink. Thus, tomorrow is always worse, and it will bring a new low. Just wait and watch!
Trump’s pathetic letter embodies all the reasons he should not be President and why he is in the mess he has created for himself. As always others will fix it (here Senate GOP) so he can do even worse next time. Real solution, resign Donald, you’re unfit!
No one cares that Donald Trump is in open defiance of the Supreme Court. We are all frog in the boiling pot, and if we don’t get out on Nov. 3 we will be cooked. End of story!
Hey Mitch, Clinton’s articles of impeachment were developed in secret grand jury proceedings by Ken Starr whose staff selectively leaked negative info. The proceedings on Trump are nothing like the circus Newt created, who impeached Clinton for an affair while he was having one!
On the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell rips into Democrats’ “impeachment obsession” on procedural grounds without defending any of President Trump’s actions.
“House Democrats have wasted no time throwing fairness and precedent to the wind,” he says.