Impeachment of Trump is "inevitable" ~ Mitch McConnell
From the New York Times;In response to:
As Inquiry Widens, McConnell Sees Impeachment Trial as Inevitable
Carl Hulse
The New York Times•October 19, 2019
WASHINGTON — It was only a few weeks ago that the top Senate Republican was hinting that his chamber would make short work of impeachment.
But this week, Sen. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, sat his colleagues down over lunch in the Capitol and warned them to prepare for an extended impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
According to people who were there, he came equipped with a PowerPoint presentation, complete with quotes from the Constitution, as he schooled fellow senators on the intricacies of a process he portrayed as all but inevitable.
Few Republicans are inclined to convict Trump on charges that he abused his power to enlist Ukraine in an effort to smear his political rivals. Instead, McConnell, R-Ky., sees the proceedings as necessary to protect a half-dozen moderates in states like Maine, Colorado and North Carolina who face reelection next year and must show voters they are giving the House impeachment charges a serious review.
It’s people like Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who will be under immense political pressure as they decide the president’s fate.
“To overturn an election, to decide whether or not to convict a president is about as serious as it gets,” Collins said.
McConnell is walking a careful line of his own in managing the fast-moving impeachment process. On Friday, the senator wrote a scathing op-ed criticizing the president’s decision to pull back troops from northern Syria, calling it a “grave strategic mistake,” without naming Trump. But McConnell, who is known for his ruthless partisan maneuvering, also views it as his role to protect a president of his own party from impeachment, and in a recent fundraising video, he vowed to stop it.
The mood among Republicans on Capitol Hill has shifted from indignant to anxious as a parade of administration witnesses has submitted to closed-door questioning by impeachment investigators and corroborated central elements of the whistleblower complaint that sparked the inquiry.
They grew more worried still Thursday, after Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, undercut the president’s defense by saying that Trump had indeed withheld security aid from Ukraine in order to spur an investigation of his political rivals. Mulvaney later backtracked, but the damage was done.
“I couldn’t believe it — I was very surprised that he said that,” said Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., who mocked Mulvaney’s attempts to take back comments, that had been broadcast live from the White House briefing room.
“It’s not an Etch-A-Sketch,” Rooney said, miming the tipping movement that erases the toy drawing board. “There were a lot of Republicans looking at that headline yesterday when it came up, I certainly was.”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who is seen as potentially open to removing Trump from office — told reporters that a president should never engage in the kinds of actions that Mulvaney appeared to acknowledge.
“You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative,” she said. “Period.”...
As Inquiry Widens, McConnell Sees Impeachment Trial as Inevitable
Carl Hulse
The New York Times•October 19, 2019
WASHINGTON — It was only a few weeks ago that the top Senate Republican was hinting that his chamber would make short work of impeachment.
But this week, Sen. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, sat his colleagues down over lunch in the Capitol and warned them to prepare for an extended impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
According to people who were there, he came equipped with a PowerPoint presentation, complete with quotes from the Constitution, as he schooled fellow senators on the intricacies of a process he portrayed as all but inevitable.
Few Republicans are inclined to convict Trump on charges that he abused his power to enlist Ukraine in an effort to smear his political rivals. Instead, McConnell, R-Ky., sees the proceedings as necessary to protect a half-dozen moderates in states like Maine, Colorado and North Carolina who face reelection next year and must show voters they are giving the House impeachment charges a serious review.
It’s people like Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who will be under immense political pressure as they decide the president’s fate.
“To overturn an election, to decide whether or not to convict a president is about as serious as it gets,” Collins said.
McConnell is walking a careful line of his own in managing the fast-moving impeachment process. On Friday, the senator wrote a scathing op-ed criticizing the president’s decision to pull back troops from northern Syria, calling it a “grave strategic mistake,” without naming Trump. But McConnell, who is known for his ruthless partisan maneuvering, also views it as his role to protect a president of his own party from impeachment, and in a recent fundraising video, he vowed to stop it.
The mood among Republicans on Capitol Hill has shifted from indignant to anxious as a parade of administration witnesses has submitted to closed-door questioning by impeachment investigators and corroborated central elements of the whistleblower complaint that sparked the inquiry.
They grew more worried still Thursday, after Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, undercut the president’s defense by saying that Trump had indeed withheld security aid from Ukraine in order to spur an investigation of his political rivals. Mulvaney later backtracked, but the damage was done.
“I couldn’t believe it — I was very surprised that he said that,” said Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., who mocked Mulvaney’s attempts to take back comments, that had been broadcast live from the White House briefing room.
“It’s not an Etch-A-Sketch,” Rooney said, miming the tipping movement that erases the toy drawing board. “There were a lot of Republicans looking at that headline yesterday when it came up, I certainly was.”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who is seen as potentially open to removing Trump from office — told reporters that a president should never engage in the kinds of actions that Mulvaney appeared to acknowledge.
“You don’t hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated for a political initiative,” she said. “Period.”...
The more evidence that is seen by the Senators and the public, the more difficult it will be to allow Trump to remain in office and the more likely Senate seats will be flipped from Republican to Democrat and/or Independent, if they do not remove him.
While I do not claim to be Nostradamous, I also will not hold my breath to hear the apologies from Trump rah rahers, who called me every name imaginable, because I predicted early on, that Trump would eventually be impeached. For me, the prediction was simple. Trump is a life long criminal and screw up. He's failed at just about everything he's ever done. If not for his father's money he would be deeply in debt. It was just a matter of time
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'Publican Mitch McTurtle Energizes Supporters Of (And Donors To) 'Publican Prez.
Shrewd tactic!
'Crats may realize Impeachment is a 'Publican money machine & cannot be relied upon to beat the drums & keep the money rolling in.
Entrusting the task to 'Publicans ensures the cash will continue to flow.
Kind ingenious, if one thinks 'bout it.
In Other Breaking News -
DOG BITES MAN!!
Politico editor Michael Hirsh resigned in November 2016 after publishing the home address of white supremacist Richard B. Spencer on Facebook.
FAKE!!!
There.
I've distracted from the message by attacking the source.
So Riz needn't bother doing so.
No need to thank me.
That's what I do. Because that's who I am
'Publicans will be energized to beat hell, money will flow like water & 'Crats could get blood-bathed clear down the ballot in '20.
But, of course - Even 'Crats couldn't be THAT politically un-savvy
Right
Keep up great work Democrats! Best Republican campaigners country ever see!
They can't even be honest about themselves.
e - You didn't need to announce that you are no expert at American politics. It's evident.
A lot of the Russian bots were predicting a Trump win.
Explain to the 'CRATS how The Don's not playin' 'em like a violin...
"Tara McGowan, a Democratic digital strategist who worked for a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC in 2016, said that Trump’s 'ability to very quickly define any event or issue on his terms and energize his base' through online advertising 'provides him with a huge competitive advantage over Democrats.'
“'This approach enables Trump to set the narrative on his terms and paint himself as the iconoclast that is always under attack from the ‘fake news media’ and Democratic ‘witch hunt,’ and it clearly works as they continue to perpetuate it every chance they get,' McGowan added."
More @ -
"Tara McGowan, a Democratic digital strategist who worked for a pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC in 2016, said that Trump’s 'ability to very quickly define any event or issue on his terms and energize his base' through online advertising 'provides him with a huge competitive advantage over Democrats.'
It's been shown time & time again, that they are programmed to regurgitate whatever nonsensical lies that Trump spouts. But, his base is not the majority.
Did a sniper routine from Trump Tower like that guy in Las Vegas.
Packed a truck of dynamite and played Timothy McVeigh in a day school.
But no American worthy of the title American would. Impeachment(s) will help expose the depths of corruption and depravity in Trumps party.
Let Moscow Mitch play his games with his muppets. Truth is truth despite Giuliani's idiotic pontification.
Hillary had a much more realistic view;
Point to me the proof that the Russians hacked the Dem server
HINT: There is none
On June 15, 2016, CrowdStrike, a private computer security company working for the Democratic National Committee, announced that it had detected Russian malware on the DNC’s computer server. The next day, a self-described Romanian hacker, Guccifer 2.0, claimed he was a WikiLeaks source and had hacked the DNC’s server. He then posted online DNC computer files that contained metadata that indicated Russian involvement in the hack.
On July 22, 2016, just days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks published approximately 20,000 DNC emails.
You and Trump want to deny that. It shows where your true allegence lies.
How did the midterm elections go ?
Which president is about to be impeached ?
Lets face it. BOTH parties are a mess.
Perhaps that's why we both are independents.
However, in recent years the Democrats are much more the party to help the average American and the environment, and have more forward thinking.
The Republicans help the rich and cling to the past.
@ Miclee
So, if YOU can't handle the truth, go to some other site, where your pro-Russia stance will do you more use. Perhaps a Ukrainian site.
No one of your education can tell me that the worst candidate from either party in over 200 years could have been chosen because he was the best candidate. Several things are not adding up. Forgive me for not believing you, but your statements are inherently contradictory.
After all the Blue Wave/Red Tsunami hoopla, it turned out to be remarkably UNremarkable - anticlimactic, one might say.
Didn't a large number of freshman women get elected ?
Didn't the "brilliant" Trump tell them to "go back to your countries", despite them being born in the US ?
Uneventful ?
Many were under the (false) impression that Trump was in cahoots with Russia when the 2018 midterms took place. Now many know better and are realizing that the criminality happened on the other side. Mueller was in a position to exonerate Trump of the erroneous collusion charge ahead of those midterms by the way... the fact he didn't is a clear indication of election interference.
That and many other reasons - including the latest Democrat charge of impeachment - is why Repubs should win big in 2020.
@chancer_returns
chancer_returns•48 mins ago•Dublin, Ireland
Dear Jim
Many were under the (false) impression that Trump was in cahoots with Russia when the 2018 midterms took place. Now many know better and are realizing that the criminality happened on the other side. Mueller was in a position to exonerate Trump of the erroneous collusion charge ahead of those midterms by the way... the fact he didn't is a clear indication of election interference.
That and many other reasons - including the latest Democrat charge of impeachment - is why Repubs should win big in 2
LINK REGARDING IMPEACHMENT OUTLOOK:::::::::::
Certainly there were events.
But in sheer numbers for mid-terms?
Well...yeah. Agreed.
"Uneventful" is a useful term
you will see that he was well aware of the collusions between Trump and his team with Russia. There were over 100 connections that were well known and people lied about them. Trump himself changed the story several times about the meeting with the Russian 'lawyer' in Trump Tower NY in an attempt to get 'dirt' on Hillary.
a lot of the rest of the world simply does better understanding topics in school.
In addition most Americans are too busy working hard and raising too many kids. Thus, they struggle financially in debt and believe they don't have time to read. Instead, they sedate themselves with ridiculous 'reality' TV shows, soap operas, and shows featuring movie stars. They want to be entertained, rather than educated.
So sadly, there's actually some truth in the need to dumb things down for them. However, it shouldn't have to be done for Senators. Regardless, those who haven't read Mueller's report, should not be commenting on it.
The reality remains, that in the report is details of lots of collusion between the Trump team and Russia.
Rasmussen has T approval at 47.
Gallup at 40 - 40 is a very bad news number next november!
Its possible Moscow Mitch knows bad things are coming up regarding Trump and wants to save his own backside. Only six republican senate seats are coming up. Even if Trump loses, if they can please the constituency of the borderline seats they may be able to save themselves! If not, its all over!
and the same woman met with members of the DNC the day before and the day after .
you are acting like a child again Jimmy . As for getting dirt , the whole Steele dossier you know well Jimmy was pumped up Russian dirt collected for the rotten cow Hillary . You are not in front of your students now Jimmy boy .
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