Countdown Clock to Trumps impeachment " STARTS"
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Since you failed to refute the post, SECOND, the point sill stands.
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You ARE a believer, SECOND, you just changed your religion.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
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Originally posted by rue:
Since you failed to refute the post, SECOND, the point sill stands.Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You ARE a believer, SECOND, you just changed your religion.
I can believe this is true: Donald Trump is at a crossroads, with a difficult choice in front of him. Yes, that sounds kind of ridiculous, given that the man has skirted accountability for his entire life. Why should this time be any different?
The challenge for him is that, this time, the stage is bigger, the forces of justice stronger and more determined, his enemies powerful, and the exposure of his probable crimes far greater than when he was scamming real estate investors and threatening Manhattan tabloids.
With Democrats in control of the House and investigations closing in from all sides, Trump’s political survival and, quite possibly, his personal freedom depends on the loyalty of Senate Republicans. For their part, Senate Republicans have no further chance of passing legislation until at least 2020, and Mike Pence is just as capable of nominating judges as Trump is. Their only loyalty to Trump, therefore, is predicated on their fear of Trump’s control of the GOP base.
But the mob is a fickle thing, especially it remains almost entirely controlled by Fox News and other right-wing media outlets. If Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, and so on collectively decide that Trump is too damaged by whatever comes of the Mueller report and other criminal inquiries to survive, they can easily turn Trump’s base against him.
Trump knows this at some level. He can also see that at least some Republicans in the Senate are growing increasingly rebellious, having rejected both his border emergency gambit and his support for the Saudi war in Yemen. After the Mueller report comes out, it is difficult to imagine even McConnell’s squad of cynical GOP senators staying fully united behind Trump.
So, as defections begin to mount, will Trump choose to try to intimidate his Senate allies with fear of reprisals? Or will he be conciliatory and try to cooperate with them on their priorities in exchange for their loyalty?
So far, the answer appears to be the former. That’s in keeping with the hard-nosed negotiating strategy Trump has used his entire life. He tried and failed to cajole senators for the emergency declaration, and Saturday’s odious tweet attacking the late Senator John McCain over the Steele dossier can only be read as a threat against current senators who cross him over the report.
Trump may survive all this. He may even win re-election. But even so, chances are slim that his usual tactics of intimidation will carry the day. He needs allies in the Senate, and attempting to browbeat them into submission may prove his final undoing.
But that’s his choice to make.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/03/16/donald-trump-has-a-tough-choi
ce-to-make/
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Since you failed to refute the post, SECOND, the point sill stands.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You ARE a believer, SECOND, you just changed your religion.
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Originally posted by rue:
Since you failed to refute the post, SECOND, the point sill stands.Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
You ARE a believer, SECOND, you just changed your religion.
You didn't describe that religion. Didn't name it, either. Are you presuming I worship the Democratic Party? I vote for Democrats because there are only two effective choices. The elections I vote in have zero third party politicians holding office. My choice is either D or R or I for Irrelevant. I'm going with D. I've seen what R does. I won't be I(rrelevant) until I am dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party_officeholders_in_the_United_
States
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I find it extremely odd that those who condemn prosecutor Mueller as a "witch hunter" are getting their ideas about him from Trump, the guy being investigated. It is as if those who repeat Trump's "witch hunt" cry never understood how a prosecutor looks into possible criminal behavior to see if there is anything worth bringing to a Grand Jury. An awful lot of Trump's people have gone to jail for tax cheating. Trump's history sure does suggest Trump has done the same.
Originally posted by THG:
Can't post this video without reminding all that Obama's administration suffered no indictments.
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www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-sc
hemes-fred-trump.html
www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2018/10/05/459124/3-takea
ways-new-york-times-bombshell-trump-investigation/
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Yep, if you did the crime then you must do the time.
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Mueller sought Michael Cohen’s emails months before FBI raid, warrants show
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III obtained court-approved warrants to search the emails of President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen in July 2017 as his office investigated whether Cohen had illegally worked for foreign entities, according to newly unsealed documents illustrating how the investigation moved quickly and quietly to scour the digital trails of the president’s associates.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-sought-michael-cohens-
emails-months-before-fbi-raid-warrants-show/ar-BBUXvfn?ocid=spartandhp
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Quote:Countdown Clock to Trumps impeachment " STARTS"
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ticky tacky
Even Nancy says impeachment is off the table. No impeachment is going to happen for at least the next 2 years.
So why are you all still talking about it, like it's a real thing?
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pointlessly posted by THUGGER:
ticky tacky
Even Nancy says impeachment is off the table. No impeachment is going to happen for at least the next 2 years.
So why are you all still talking about it, like it's a real thing?
I think Michael McDonald said it best when he said...
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Trump and Deutsche Bank were deeply entwined, their symbiotic bond born of necessity and ambition on both sides: a real estate mogul made toxic by polarizing rhetoric and a pattern of defaults, and a bank with intractable financial problems and a history of misconduct.
The relationship had paid off. Mr. Trump used loans from Deutsche Bank to finance skyscrapers and other high-end properties, and repeatedly cited his relationship with the bank to deflect political attacks on his business acumen. Deutsche Bank used Mr. Trump’s projects to build its investment-banking business, reaped fees from the assets he put in its custody and leveraged his celebrity to lure clients.
Then Mr. Trump won the 2016 election, and the German bank shifted into damage-control mode, bracing for an onslaught of public scrutiny, according to several people involved in the internal response. Next month, Deutsche Bank is likely to start handing over extensive internal documents and communications about Mr. Trump to the congressional committees, according to people briefed on the process.
In the weeks before his swearing-in, the bank commissioned reports to figure out how it had gotten in so deep with Mr. Trump. It issued an unusual edict to its Wall Street employees: Do not publicly utter the word “Trump.”
More than two years later, Mr. Trump’s financial ties with Deutsche Bank are the subject of investigations by two congressional committees and the New York attorney general. Investigators hope to use Deutsche Bank as a window into Mr. Trump’s personal and business finances. Kerrie McHugh, a Deutsche Bank spokeswoman, said: “We remain committed to cooperating with authorized investigations.”
Deutsche Bank officials have quietly argued to regulators, lawmakers and journalists that Mr. Trump was not a priority for the bank or its senior leaders and that the lending was the work of a single, obscure division. But interviews with more than 20 current and former Deutsche Bank executives and board members, most of them with direct knowledge of the Trump relationship, contradict the bank’s narrative.
Over nearly two decades, Deutsche Bank’s leaders repeatedly saw red flags surrounding Mr. Trump. There was a disastrous bond sale, a promised loan that relied on a banker’s forged signature, wild exaggerations of Mr. Trump’s wealth, even a claim of an act of God.
But Deutsche Bank had a ravenous appetite for risk and limited concern about its clients’ reputations. Time after time, with the support of two different chief executives, the bank handed money — a total of well over $2 billion — to a man whom nearly all other banks had deemed untouchable.
More at www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/business/trump-deutsche-bank.html about why Deutsche Bank stopped loaning to Trump. Short version: he lied, then broke promises for his short-term advantage, then he defaulted and counter-sued the Bank.
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Mueller makes history exposing crime spree by former Trump aides
https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/mueller-makes-history-ex
posing-crime-spree-by-former-trump-aides-1460531779810?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma
In a special report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, Ari Melber, examines how despite claims that the Russia probe is a “witch-hunt”, Bob Mueller has proven to be one of the fastest and most effective Special Counsels in U.S. history, racking up indictments at the fastest pace since Watergate. Melber runs through the numerous achievements in the Russia probe and how despite Trump’s relatively short period in office, the Mueller probe has seen “the highest rate of indictments for his aides than any president ever.” Former Chief of Staff to Bob Mueller, John Carlin, tells Ari Melber “we should be proud as Americans, but also alarmed at what he’s been able to show us has occurred.”
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