Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry
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Anonymous
Yes, and Trump pushes the media. He has brilliantly manipulated the media for years. |
Anonymous
+1. That and self-promotion are his only talents. |
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“A federal judge Wednesday gave the State Department 30 days to release Ukraine-related records, including communications between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
In response to an emergency motion from the watchdog group American Oversight, Judge Christopher Cooper ordered lawyers for the group and the State Department to come together to narrow the scope of the documents in the request -- eliminating those that would likely be exempt from release -- and produce documents in the next 30 days.“ https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/23/politics/judge-orders-state-department-to-release-ukraine-records/index.html?__twitter_impression=true |
Anonymous
In all fairness he is also one of the greatest tweeters of all time. |
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Via Scott Horton
"When drafting the Constitution’s Impeachment Clause, the Framers had a specific historical episode in mind. In 1649 the English House of Commons impeached King Charles I for treason. Charles was alleged to have unlawfully subverted English democracy, and the final article of impeachment charged that he colluded with England’s foreign adversaries in his campaign against his domestic political rivals. Proving that last charge required an inquiry into Charles’s diplomatic communications. Much of his trial devolved into a tedious debate over whether he could assert the king’s ordinary privileges and immunities. At one point Charles infamously insisted that he was immune from impeachment altogether because “the king can do no wrong.” Charles lost this debate. His personal “Papers and Letters” were all taken as evidence. His secretary was compelled to testify about his negotiations with England’s foreign adversaries. Within a month of being impeached, Charles was found guilty and beheaded." |
Anonymous
The tweeting is self-promoting media manipulation. It’s not a separate talent. |
Anonymous
Yes, that is a core component of his manipulation. |
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Coming attractions:
Depositions scheduled for next week — Charles Kupperman, former deputy assistant for national security affairs, Monday 10/28 Timothy Morrison, special assistant to POTUS and senior director to Europe and Russia at National Security Council, Thursday 10/31 |
Anonymous
This is from an op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal. It’s a really interesting article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/impeachment-trumps-executive-privilege-ask-george-washington-11571784069 |
Anonymous
Paywall. This one is good: https://www.lawfareblog.com/three-lessons-first-time-head-state-was-impeached “During the Constitutional Convention debates over the Impeachment Clause, Benjamin Franklin cited the impeachment of Charles Stuart as one of the principal reasons the impeachment process needed to be formalized in the Constitution. And Gouverneur Morris supported the idea, arguing that Congress needed the power to impeach a president for “treachery” and “corrupting his electors.”” |
Anonymous
How DARE he defend himself from the unrelenting attacks of mainstream! 
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Anonymous
I think a better wording is, “unrelenting facts.” |
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Madison Debates
Friday July 20, 1787 https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_720.asp “Mr. DAVIE. If he be not impeachable whilst in office, he will spare no efforts or means whatever to get himself re-elected. He considered this as an essential security for the good behaviour of the Executive.” “Col. MASON. No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice? Above all shall that man be above it, who can commit the most extensive injustice? When great crimes were committed he was for punishing the principal as well as the Coadjutors. There had been much debate & difficulty as to the mode of chusing the Executive. He approved of that which had been adopted at first, namely of referring the appointment to the Natl. Legislature. One objection agst. Electors was the danger of their being corrupted by the Candidates; & this furnished a peculiar reason in favor of impeachments whilst in office. Shall the man who has practised corruption & by that means procured his appointment in the first instance, be suffered to escape punishment, by repeating his guilt.” “Mr. Govr. MORRIS'S opinion had been changed by the arguments used in the discussion. He was now sensible of the necessity of impeachments, if the Executive was to continue for any [FN12] time in office. Our Executive was not like a Magistrate having a life interest, much less like one having an hereditary interest in his office. He may be bribed by a greater interest to betray his trust; and no one would say that we ought to expose ourselves to the danger of seeing the first Magistrate in forign pay, without being able to guard agst. it by displacing him. One would think the King of England well secured agst. bribery. He has as it were a fee simple in the whole Kingdom. Yet Charles II was bribed by Louis XIV. The Executive ought therefore to be impeachable for treachery; Corrupting his electors, and incapacity were other causes of impeachment. For the latter he should be punished not as a man, but as an officer, and punished only by degradation from his office. This Magistrate is not the King but the prime-Minister. The people are the King. When we make him amenable to Justice however we should take care to provide some mode that will not make him dependent on the Legislature.” Many more great thoughts from our framers. Can’t paste them all. |
Anonymous
That is exactly how he is manipulating the message/media. He always claims he is the victim. Top notch gaslighting. |
Anonymous
Frankly, given what we now know, I think the idea for at least a portion of his tweets comes from Russia. I think it was they who crafted the birtherism and got Donald going with that, for instance. |