This is an older episode of The Greg Gutfield Show ...but Greg and crew are spot on ...this is an example of why the left hates our President and have been calling for his removal/impeachment from day one and why he will win another term in November
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December 23, 2019, 05:20 PM
sdy
Conservative TreeHouse (CTH) has been making a case for some time to explain what Pelosi is up to.
The DEMs dropped all counts except 2 weak ones.
But DEM lawyers have been arguing in court that the Senate needs a) Lawyer McGahn deposition and b) the Mueller grand jury material.
As we suspected, albeit against much criticism, House counsel Doug Letter has responded to the DC Appeals Court arguing the forced testimony of White House counsel Don McGahn is needed for evidence in impeachment trial
This court filing today bolsters the unspoken background motive for delayed House Impeachment Managers. The House Judiciary Committee is using impeachment as support for their ongoing effort to gain: Don McGahn deposition, and Mueller grand jury material (6e). The goal is opposition research ; impeachment is a tool to establish legal standing to obtain it. Everything else is chaff and countermeasures.
a way for House lawyers to argue in court all of the constitutionally contended material is required as evidence for pending judicial proceedings, a trial in the Senate.
This would explain why all the prior evidence debated for inclusion and legal additions to “articles of impeachment” were dropped. Instead the House focused only on quickly framing two articles that can facilitate pending court cases.
Looking at the legal maneuvers from that perspective means the grand jury material is the unspoken goal and impeachment is simply the enhanced means to obtain it.
The 6(e) material relates to evidence gathered by the Mueller team for grand jury proceedings in their two-year effort to construct a case against President Trump.
Remember, the Mueller evidence was gathered during a counterintelligence investigation, which means all things Trump -including his family and business interests- were subject to unbridled surveillance for two years; and a host of intelligence gathering going back in time indefinitely.
A goldmine of political opposition research .
Obviously if Jerry Nadler could get his hands on this material it would quickly find its way into the DNC, and ultimately to the 2020 democrat candidate for president. This material would also be fuel for a year of leaks to DC media who could exploit rumor, supposition, and drops of information that Andrew Weissmann and team left to be discovered.
President Donald Trump is presiding over a “money machine” and now has the most well-funded re-election campaign in history, according to fundraising numbers released last week.
At the end of October, the Trump re-election campaign had raised over $300 million. Oddly enough, it's also noted
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The Democratic presidential contenders, collectively, have outraised Trump, but as Democratic strategists point out, that money is going to cross-purposes. Each individual candidate is using their war chest to attack others, and there’s no guarantee that any candidate alone will be able to spark the same excitement alone as the field has, collectively.
By all appearances, with the impeachment smearings added to the mix, DJT will be a steamrolling machine in 2020.
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December 23, 2019, 07:56 PM
Strambo
What's really crazy is he defeated Hillary on a budget! She far out-spent him.
In this cycle he will continue to get non-stop free 24/7 press coverage. Negative sure, but the so-called Dem contenders will be starved of oxygen just like they are now. There was another debate on the 19th, who knew?
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will lose the majority in the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump said on Dec. 23 following the Dec. 18 vote to impeach him.
Trump wrote on Twitter: “Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so.”
“She lost Congress once, she will do it again!”
......."Trump wrote in a tweet on Dec. 22 that Pelosi is trying to use the articles as leverage against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
“Crazy Nancy wants to dictate terms on the Impeachment Hoax to the Republican Majority Senate, but striped [sic] away all Due Process, no lawyers or witnesses, on the Democrat Majority House. The Dems just wish it would all end. Their case is dead, their poll numbers are horrendous!” he said.
He has repeatedly called the impeachment inquiry a “scam” and a “witch hunt.”
Pelosi, meanwhile, said early Dec. 23 that the House wouldn’t submit the articles until Democrat leaders are made aware of how the trial will go in the Senate"....
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December 24, 2019, 08:00 AM
egregore
He is low profile and never seen on TV, but my congressman Phil Roe (R-TN-1) sends me e-mails, like this one.
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Last Wednesday, was a sad day in American history. House Democrats gave in to their party radicals and voted to impeach a duly-elected president because of a partisan, political agenda. Speaker Pelosi made clear in March that impeachment divides our country if it is not bipartisan. This process wasn’t bipartisan; this vote wasn’t bipartisan; and there was no evidence supporting impeachment. This was a rigged process with impeachment as the end goal and I proudly voted against the articles of impeachment.
The impeachment inquiry didn’t begin in September. It started the moment Donald Trump was elected president. For two years, many leading Democrats claimed they have evidence President Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. It took a two-and-a-half year, $25 million investigation to prove there was no collusion. Rather than accepting these results and getting to work on the issues Americans care about, they continued on with impeachment. In July – before the call with Ukrainian President Zelensky ever occurred – 95 House Democrats voted to impeach the president. It wasn’t based on serious evidence then, and it’s not based on serious evidence now. Even as House Democrats claim this was a last resort, the truth is once they took the House majority, their goal was to impeach Donald Trump.
The American people are fundamentally fair. Rich or poor, president or factory worker – we believe all deserve fairness. This process has been anything but fair. The Democrats conducted over a month’s worth of hearings behind closed doors; blocked Republicans from calling their own witnesses; and prevented the president’s counsel from cross-examining witnesses. Imagine you were accused of a crime and were prevented from calling witnesses who could exonerate you. Worse still, you were prevented from questioning those accusing you. That is what happened these last few months in committee hearings. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff – whose staff advised the whistleblower prior to the complaint that started this charade – even read a fictional version of President Trump’s phone call transcript in the first public hearing. You can’t make it up.
When Democrats finally wrapped up their sham inquiry, they filed two articles of impeachment, neither of which constitute “high crimes” or misdemeanors, and neither of which have they proved the president is guilty. The Constitution states the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery or other high Crimes and misdemeanors.” The first article of impeachment claims “Abuse of Power.” They arrived at “abuse of power” only after polling showed the public didn’t believe their claims that the president engaged in “quid pro quo” or “bribery.” The only abuse of power that has occurred is by House Democrats. The second article of impeachment claims “Obstruction of Congress.” If House Democrats were serious about this being an impeachable offense, they should have supported the impeachment of then-Attorney General Eric Holder, who refused to comply with congressional subpoenas. This is a standard they’re only willing to apply to President Trump. Further, there is no basis in law for an “obstruction of Congress” claim, and the Supreme Court is reviewing whether the Democrats’ claim is even constitutional. The White House has complied and released two unredacted call transcripts for the public to review. Furthermore, President Trump told Ambassador Gordon Sondland to testify before Congress and tell the truth. That is not an obstruction of anything, let alone Congress.
Even with Democrats using all their authority to push their presidential impeachment, no witness they called had firsthand knowledge or witnessed the alleged quid pro quo. No witness contradicted the key facts that have remained true since President Trump released his call transcript: the transcript showed no pressure on Ukraine to open an investigation; both presidents confirmed multiple times there was no pressure; the Ukrainian government was unaware U.S. security assistance was held at the time of the call; and aid was released on September 11 without any investigation occurring. How can there be a quid pro quo without a quid or a quo? Impeaching a president with no evidence of a crime is a dangerous precedent to set and will create a new norm for what Congress considers impeachable conduct. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) stated in May that he is “concerned that if we don’t impeach this president, he will get re-elected.” That says it all. Democrats made this impeachment process as partisan as possible, turning a solemn process into a political sham. This was an embarrassment and I am ashamed by what occurred in the House.
My door is always open to East Tennesseans and I encourage constituents to continue reaching out to my office to share their views on this important issue with me. Feel free to contact my office if I can be of assistance to you or your family.
December 24, 2019, 08:25 AM
Leemur
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Originally posted by parabellum: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Emerson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor
December 24, 2019, 11:59 AM
gearhounds
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Crazy Nancy
This is fantastic- just like “crooked Hillary”, this nickname will stick to Pelosi for the rest of her days. Trump will repeat it until everybody will think it when they hear her name.
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December 24, 2019, 12:05 PM
TigerDore
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Originally posted by Keystoner:
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Originally posted by TigerDore:
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Originally posted by flashguy: I predict he'll get at least 350 Electoral votes in 2020.
flashguy
And at least 54% of the popular vote, as long as voting is monitored properly.
Which blue states do you see flipping? Kentucky?
Are you asking Flashguy or me? I didn't offer a prediction on the electoral count.
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December 24, 2019, 12:26 PM
sjtill
This looks good to me.
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December 24, 2019, 12:32 PM
fpuhan
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Originally posted by roberth:
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Originally posted by parabellum: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Emerson
A dry well, but they don't know when to stop digging.
A dead horse that they can't stop beating.
You can't truly call yourself "peaceful" unless you are capable of great violence. If you're not capable of great violence, you're not peaceful, you're harmless.
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December 24, 2019, 12:38 PM
erj_pilot
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Originally posted by fpuhan: A dead horse that they can't stop beating.
Oh...those morons will find a way and continue to beat it.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
...this is an example of why the left hates our President and have been calling for his removal/impeachment from day one and why he will win another term in November 
