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Countdown Clock to Trumps impeachment " STARTS"

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 8:44 AM

“FBI investigators and others,” Bloomberg reported, “are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a controversial SoHo development in New York with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008.”

In a more rule-bound environment, Mueller’s interest in opening Trump’s books would probably be checkmate for the president. It is widely suspected that a peek under the hood of the Trump organization will reveal serious financial crimes. Assuming that informed speculation is correct, Mueller would uncover the wrongdoing and bring down a president, or Trump would fire Mueller and Congress would step in to edge Trump out.

This is assuming our system of checks and balances hasn’t broken down. Republicans have given every indication over the course of the past several months that no malfeasance, no matter how naked and severe, will impel them to rein in Trump or impeach him.

That leaves the crisis to be decided by the midterm election. That election is 16 months away. Between now and then, Trump’s DOJ and his sham election-integrity commission will seek to disenfranchise as many Democratic voters as possible, while the president himself beseeches further foreign interference aimed at Democratic candidates. Absent the necessary election sweep, everything Trump will have done for his own enrichment and protection will have been ratified, and a point of no return will have been crossed.

https://newrepublic.com/article/143984/were-brink-authoritarian-crisis

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 9:35 AM

Somebody should probably arrest Trump or something. Everybody knows he did it, right?

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 9:52 AM

Ye! Now youre finally getting it!


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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 10:58 AM

What are you waiting for then!?

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:09 PM

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Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
What are you waiting for then!?

Trump’s recklessness is raising the stakes. The claims that Trump and his legal team are putting forward are already radical: that Trump can’t be charged with obstruction of justice because it’s in his power to terminate an investigation at any time. Although he came close, Nixon would not go that far. As president, Trump is different. Trump is preparing to drive the political system over the cliff.

Bob Bauer wrote on the blog Lawfare that Trump firing Robert Mueller would end the investigation and leave only impeachment as a remedy, with Trump counting on Republicans in the House and the Senate to support him no matter what. If the Democrats took back the House in the 2018 midterm elections, Trump could be impeached, but he would remain in power since Democrats won’t have the two-thirds votes necessary in the Senate to remove him. Emma Loop of BuzzFeed interviewed four Republican senators about whether firing Mueller would be a mistake. Only one, Marco Rubio of Florida, unequivocally said yes.

One of the main reasons for elevating Mueller as a public figure — to make him a household name — is so that firing him would become a more politically costly act. If Trump fires Mueller before the Democrats can make it a national issue, then the public will be playing catch-up with the story. The better known Mueller is, the more costly his firing would be to Trump.

If Republican Senators won't defend Mueller’s job, and Mueller is fired, they’ll be tainted as enablers in the next election.

https://newrepublic.com/article/143986/america-dont-let-donald-trump-f
ire-robert-mueller

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:40 PM

Fox News says Trump wants an Attorney General that will fire Mueller. To fire Mueller, Trump must first fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions because Sessions cannot fire Mueller, only the Deputy Attorney General can since Sessions has recused himself. Sessions resigned from the Senate to take the Attorney General job and he isn't quitting another perfectly good job just to please a fickle Trump.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/video/trump-wants-an-attorney-general-that-will
-fire-cia-dir-mueller-says-ben-shapiro/vi-AAoQ0Nd?ocid=spartanntp


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 5:51 PM

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Originally posted by G:

Being president and not giving a sh*t must be the most exciting thing for Trump since... ever. He is unburdened by party or consequence. It's as if he's playing chicken with all of us. "What? I shouldn't fire Mueller?? Watch me!"

Trump thinks that the worst that could happen is he writes more books like Nixon did in retirement. And Trump will have an advantage that Nixon didn't -- Trump has money to hire ghostwriters to do the actual work of writing his books. Trump's books will be better than Nixon's, Trump's will be the best, ever! Believe me.
www.google.com/search?q=Nixon's+books

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 6:25 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Trump is preparing to drive the political system over the cliff.



Sounds good to me.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 6:55 PM

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Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Trump is preparing to drive the political system over the cliff.



Sounds good to me.

The last time that happened, James Buchanan was President. It was before the steering wheel was invented, but Buchanan froze -- he couldn't steer left or right when the nation got to a curve in the road and the whole system went over a cliff. He didn't anticipate what happened next. When the political system crashed and burned at the base of the cliff, it was the Civil War. Buchanan is now considered the worst President, ever. But Trump wants that title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Buchanan#Secession

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Wednesday, July 26, 2017 7:21 PM

If civil war happens, they're not coming for me and my collective nothing.

Hope you built that moat.

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