Countdown Clock to Trumps impeachment " STARTS"
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UPDATED: Monday, April 14, 2025 23:28
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Originally posted by JJ:
Hold onto your hats folks. I hear there are subpoenas about to be served.
tick tock
JJ
I heard that too.
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Quote:Will 2,555 days be enough time for Trump to choose one final reason from his varied reasons for firing Comey? And then not change his answer?
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Only 2,555 days remaining on the Impeachment Clock.
How exciting.
www.vox.com/2018/5/4/17316428/sanders-trump-giuliani-fire-comey
At the time of the firing, Trump gave a clear answer to the question of why Comey had been fired in the form of a letter — signed in his own name and addressed to Comey — that was released to the public.
The letter said, “I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have accepted their recommendation and you are hereby terminated and removed from office, effective immediately.”
The attorney general’s letter didn’t really say anything of substance, but the letter from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein made a clear argument: Comey had violated Justice Department guidelines in his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation in ways that were improperly detrimental to her political candidacy and to the public’s confidence in the FBI’s nonpartisan nature.
That was a sensible enough story, albeit a little fishy in light of Trump’s repeated and vocal calls to “lock her up.”
And indeed, two days later in an interview with NBC News’s Lester Holt, the president offered a totally different explanation:
Quote:Trump, in other words, appeared to be saying that he fired Comey because Comey refused to shut down the FBI’s investigation into Russian intervention in the 2016 election.
He [Rosenstein] made a recommendation, he’s highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy. The Democrats like him, the Republicans like him. He made a recommendation. But regardless of [the] recommendation, I was going to fire Comey. Knowing there was no good time to do it!
And in fact when I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, “You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should’ve won.”
The White House has since backed away from this explanation since it seems like an egregious abuse of power and arguably a kind of obstruction of justice. But they never really came up with an alternative explanation. But Wednesday night on Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, now working as a lawyer for Trump, offered a new one.
“He fired Comey because Comey would not, among other things, say that he wasn’t a target of the investigation,” Giuliani said. “He’s entitled to that. Hillary Clinton got that. Actually, he couldn’t get that.”
This also seems improper, though in a somewhat different way. And it led naturally to the question for Sarah Huckabee Sanders at Thursday’s briefing — why, definitively, was Comey fired?
And she refused to answer: "He doesn't have to justify his decision." Sanders’s statement from the podium was a reminder that Trump really is on some level an abnormally rotten, abnormally dangerous figure to hold such high office.
He fundamentally rejects the notion that the American state exists to serve the public interest and that he, in his role as president, is likewise a servant of the public. He instead wants to “run the government like a business” (as the cliché goes) in the most literal and retrograde way imaginable — for his own personal benefit, constrained if at all by the letter of the law or, more properly, by what he can manage to get away with under the law.
It’s of course true that, legally speaking, Trump can fire the FBI director for any reason he wants or for no reason at all. He can legally fire nuclear missiles at Mexico or legally encourage goons to murder his political opponents on the streets of Washington and then pardon the killers.
The presidency is an odd office, fairly weak in legislative authority compared to a prime ministership, but exhibiting some odd pockets of super stre
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Originally posted by second:
The presidency is an odd office, fairly weak in legislative authority compared to a prime ministership, but exhibiting some odd pockets of super strength, especially in the national security realm. It ought to be occupied by someone with a sense of basic responsibility, shame, dignity, and ethics.
But it isn’t.
Yeah. It's a shame that a majority of the people who voted in the primaries decided early on that it wouldn't be either way.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The presidency is an odd office, fairly weak in legislative authority compared to a prime ministership, but exhibiting some odd pockets of super strength, especially in the national security realm. It ought to be occupied by someone with a sense of basic responsibility, shame, dignity, and ethics.
But it isn’t.
Yeah. It's a shame that a majority of the people who voted in the primaries decided early on that it wouldn't be either way.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I suggest we change the way voting in primaries in this country is done.
I'd call it the "failsafe clause".
Instead of picking Republican or Democrat, you just get to vote for both. This way, if your guy or gal doesn't win the seat, you at least had a say in which person would be there when your pick lost.
I know some people would say this is a bad idea because people would intentionally be trying to game the system and actively vote against a front runner on the other side, but I disagree with this way of thinking.
I would think what this form of voting would eventually lead to is more moderate candidates on both sides that would be more appealing to everyone. The ones closest to the fringes would have the least likely chances of becoming President when the General election comes because they wouldn't make it past the primaries.
I think it's pretty safe to say that neither Hillary or Trump would have been running in the General if the Primaries were done in this manner.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Watch how central Roger Stone could be to the Mueller probe
New reporting reveals the Mueller investigation is focusing on one of Trump’s closest confidants, Roger Stone, for reasons “beyond” his alleged connection to Wikileaks. Ari Melber breaks down how Stone is closely tied with indicted former Trump campaign manager
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-live-ari-melber
JJ
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Dershowitz: Trump team playing 'into the hands' of Mueller investigation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dershowitz-trump-team-playing-
into-the-hands-of-mueller-investigation/ar-AAwPZUX?ocid=spartanntp
JJ
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Quote:17 months, 8 years, what's the difference to T?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JJ:
I expect something to happen in the next two months.
tick tock
JJ
Well that's a relief. This thread is already 15 months old.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:17 months, 8 years, what's the difference to T?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JJ:
I expect something to happen in the next two months.
tick tock
JJ
Well that's a relief. This thread is already 15 months old.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that sometime in the future Trump will no longer be president.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Only 2,550 days remaining - as of Monday.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:One thing I can say with absolute certainty is that sometime in the future Trump will no longer be president.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:17 months, 8 years, what's the difference to T?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Well that's a relief. This thread is already 15 months old.
Originally posted by JJ:
I expect something to happen in the next two months.
tick tock
JJ
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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