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scumbag liar-Nadler calls for Trump's removal
in committee's 658-page report on
articles of impeachment
By Edmund DeMarche
{ foxnews.com } ~ Rep. scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote that President Trump is a threat to the Constitution and should be removed from office... according to the committee's 658-page report on the articles of impeachment resolution against Trump that was submitted early Monday. The Democrats wrote that Trump abused his office by soliciting the interference of Ukraine in the 2020 election and then obstructed the impeachment inquiry into his conduct. The report did not include new allegations against the president but amounted to the committee's closing arguments for impeaching the president. "This continued solicitation of foreign interference in a U.S. election, as well as President Trump’s other actions, present a clear and present danger that the president will continue to use the power of his office for his personal political gain," the report states. The report was released at 12:30 a.m. ET., and included a dissent from the committee's minority that called the case for impeachment "not only weak but dangerously lowers the bar for future impeachments." Trump is accused, in the first article, of abusing his presidential power by asking Ukraine to investigate his 2020 rival loose lips liar-Joe Biden while holding military aid as leverage, and, in the second, of obstructing Congress by blocking the House’s efforts to probe his actions. The president insists he did nothing wrong and blasts the Democrats’ effort daily as a sham and harmful to America. scumbag liar-Nadler wrote that Trump should be removed and "disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.”...
scumbag-Schumer kicks off impeachment
trial negotiations with request for Bolton
and Mulvaney to testify
by Carlin Becker
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer started the Senate impeachment trial negotiations by sending Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a letter with an offer on the parameters... including a request for testimonies from former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. In his Sunday letter, scumbag-Schumer proposed that McConnell call both Bolton and Mulvaney, along with associate director for national security Michael Duffey and Robert Blair, a senior adviser to Mulvaney, to testify. All four requested witnesses have direct knowledge of the Trump administration's withholding of aid to Ukraine and of the Russia investigation origins. House Democrats had previously subpoenaed the men, but they declined to testify. scumbag-Schumer suggested that each side get to question witnesses for four hours each and added that Democrats would be open to testimony from anyone else with "direct knowledge" of the holdup of Ukraine aid. The New York Democrat also proposed that the Senate issue subpoenas "for a limited set of documents that we believe will shed additional light on the administration's decision-making regarding the delay in security assistance funding to Ukraine and its requests for certain investigations to be announced by the government of Ukraine." His offer signals that the Senate does not intend to rely on the House's impeachment investigation and that it is seeking an evidentiary trial. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schumer-kicks-off-impeachment-trial-negotiations-with-request-for-bolton-and-mulvaney-to-testify?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_12/15/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261 .
Chief Justice Roberts May
Decide the Next Election
by E. DONALD ELLIOTT
{ spectator.org } ~ Whatever its legal merit or lack thereof, the upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate is a political show trial that is intended to affect the upcoming presidential election for sure... So let’s consider the political implications, not the legal merits. The latest news is that the Republican leadership is thinking about trying to vote to acquit President Trump without a trial or hearing any witnesses. That has never been done, but it would be a smart move politically. Despite the president’s statements that he wants a full trial in the Senate, an impeachment trial is unlikely to help President Trump win reelection. How a Senate trial will come across to the public will depend on which evidence Chief Justice John Roberts allows and which he excludes. Most of the evidence that the Democrats want to admit could probably be presented, but a lot of the most important evidence that the Republicans want to present probably would not be allowed. Those who think that the Republicans can turn the tables on the Democrats and put Hunter Biden and FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign on trial in the Senate are probably sadly mistaken. Article I, Section 3, clause 6 of the Constitution provides that the chief justice of the United States shall preside during an impeachment trial of the president, but the Constitution does not specify what rules govern what may be admitted into evidence. In one precedent, the impeachment trial of Federal Judge James Peck in 1831, the Senate decided that the same strict rules of evidence that are used in criminal trials in court should also apply in impeachments, and in particular that any evidence must be “relevant” to the charges alleged as the basis for impeachment. Chief Justice Roberts never served as a trial judge, so there is no track record on which to base predictions as to how he will rule. It isn’t even certain what law he will apply. Until relatively recently, what evidence could be introduced in court was governed by the common law, which means judges apply and reinterpret precedents as they go along. But in 1975, the Federal Rules of Evidence were adopted to govern trials in federal trial courts. Technically, they do not apply to impeachment trials in the Senate, but it is a good bet that Chief Justice Roberts will turn to them for guidance anyway. If he does, that’s generally good for the Democrats and bad for the Republicans. The Federal Rules of Evidence were adopted when it was fashionable to do away with “technicalities”; their general philosophy is to allow evidence to be admitted for whatever weight it deserves, but only if it is “relevant” to the issues. The Republicans have been arguing that much of the evidence against the president is “hearsay,” which means that the people testifying did not observe something directly but only heard about it secondhand. Historically, hearsay was generally not admissible for the truth of its contents because it was felt to be unreliable and because the person who actually heard or saw the events in question was not subject to cross-examination. Today, however, the rule against admitting hearsay is “riddled with exceptions,” as Stanford Law Professor David Alan Sklansky rightly observes. The Federal Rules of Evidence are particularly weak on excluding hearsay. Rule 803(8)(a)(ii) provides a broad exception for “public records,” which are defined as “a record or statement of a public office if … it sets out … a matter observed while under a legal duty to report.” This almost certainly will be interpreted to allow the memorandum of conversation, a.k.a. the “transcript,” of President Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine to be admitted; query, however, whether or not it might not also be interpreted to allow into evidence various other memos and notes sent by officials to one another interpreting what the president’s intentions and motivations were in asking the Ukrainians to investigate the loose lops liar-Bidens... https://spectator.org/chief-justice-roberts-may-decide-the-next-election/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=5167b46468-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_12_16_02_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-5167b46468-104608113 .
IG Report Proves scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff
Has Been Lying About Spygate
Since The Beginning
By Margot Cleveland
{ thefederalist.com } ~ On Friday, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against President Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress... The committee vote sends the question to the full House, with a vote expected later this week. That fast timeline won’t allow for much consideration of the question, however, forcing folks to rely on House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s 300-page report detailing his committee’s “impeachment inquiry.” But following last week’ release of the inspector general’s report on FISA abuse that proved nearly every sentence wrong in scumbag/liar-Schiff’s last high-profile report his self-titled “Correcting the Record—The Russia Investigation”, scumbag/liar-Schiff’s work product should be deemed worthless. scumbag/liar-Schiff issued his “Correcting the Record” minority report on January 29, 2018, following the release of a memorandum by the then-chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), Devin Nunes. In his 10-page response, scumbag/liar-Schiff contradicted every point Nunes made. scumbag/liar-Schiff also contradicted reality. Last week’s IG report made that clear. But it takes a re-reading of scumbag/liar-Schiff’s left-celebrated memorandum to grasp the extent of deception scumbag/liar-Schiff peddled at the time. “FBI and DOJ officials did not ‘abuse’ the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign,” scumbag/liar-Schiff’s memorandum began. There’s a lot of lies to unpack in that one sentence—lies scumbag/liar-Schiff repeats throughout the memorandum. A montage of scumbag/liar-Schiff’s “no abuse” claims weaved throughout his memorandum contrast sharply with the IG’s findings. For instance, scumbag/liar-Schiff assured Americans the “DOJ met the rigor, transparency, and evidentiary basis needed to meet FISA’s probable cause requirement.” Then scumbag/liar-Schiff claims, in bold for emphasis, that the “DOJ’s October 21, 2016 FISA application and three subsequent renewals carefully outlined for the Court a multi-pronged rationale for surveilling Page.”... https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/16/ig-report-proves-adam-schiff-has-been-lying-about-spygate-since-the-beginning/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=0f3d50dc4e-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-0f3d50dc4e-83771801 .
Did The U.S. Kill An American Citizen After
Taking Out ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi?
By Todd Bensman
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Plaudits and media attention deservedly showered the October 2019 U.S. Special Forces commando raid that finally killed the most wanted man on Earth... the Islamic State’s supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But instead of plaudits and lavish coverage, an obscuring fog of mystery rose from the very next day’s U.S. Hellfire missile strike that killed al-Baghdadi’s supposed successor and chief media propagandist not far away, a man identified only as “Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir.” As I and others have reported, ISIS’s last known chief propagandist, a fellow who went by a very similar nom de guerre as the dead ISIS propagandist, was believed to be an American-born Texas convert named John Thomas Georgelas. In 2016, he was thought to have become the Islamic State’s highest-ranking American. His ex-wife and four children still live in the Dallas exurb of Plano. Was the Abu al-Hassan al-Muhaijir killed in October’s second operation this very same Most Wanted of American citizens who reportedly went by the name Abu Hassan al-Muhaijir? Oddly, the answer remains publicly unknown, and the government hasn’t said one way or another. The whereabouts of Georgelas has stood as an enduring mystery since The Atlantic published a March 2017 story by author Graeme Wood tracing his life’s trajectory into ISIS and then up its food chain through the terrorist group’s influential propaganda, recruiting, and media arm. It was Wood’s reporting that first tagged Georgelas as “the Islamic State’s leading producer of high-end English-language propaganda.” Clues had emerged by then, Wood reported, “that he may be much more.” Wood went on to consider the “extraordinary possibility” that Georgelas was the “Abu Hassan al-Muhajir” that ISIS announced on December 5, 2016 would succeed his boss in the propaganda division, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, shortly after a U.S. drone strike killed him. Georgelas had been using a very similar alias among others at the time, Wood pointed out, even though he was unsure his original identification of the name as belonging to one Texas man was more than speculative. Georgelas most definitely worked in the propaganda division in a position of influence... https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/16/did-the-u-s-kill-an-american-citizen-after-taking-out-isis-leader-al-baghdadi/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=0f3d50dc4e-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-0f3d50dc4e-83771801 .
scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff is Shameless
By Lauri B. Regan
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Last Thursday afternoon I boarded an Amtrak Acela train from Washington, D.C. to New York. While in D.C., I enjoyed spending time at the Trump International Hotel where people were happy - not just because of the holidays, but because of where they were, surrounded by people of like mind. In particular, the hotel lobby bar on Wednesday night was filled with festive people who had just left the White House Chanukah party at which Trump had signed the Executive Order on Combatting Anti-Semitism. Jews across the country were thrilled that the administration was finally doing what the Democrats in the House of Representatives had blocked. While waiting to board the train, I thought I recognized a couple of congresspeople but no one of import. That is, until I entered the train and noticed two secret servicemen and a D.C. police officer accompanying someone on the platform. I turned around and saw scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff walking towards me. Not one to shy from confrontation, I could not hold back my disgust. As he neared, I looked at his staffer and asked how he could work for such a despicable jerk and then turned to scumbag/liar-Schiff and asked him if he understood what he was doing to our democracy. He just stared blankly through those massive bulbous eyes that only exude hate and contempt. I mockingly said, “Talk about abuse of power -- how in the world do you look at yourself every day in the mirror? You’re simply an awful human being and a liar. How do you live with yourself?” He wished me happy holidays and walked away. I was looking forward to dialing in shortly to a conference call explaining the Executive Order that was being hosted by the White House and it occurred to me that as a fellow Jew, scumbag/liar-Schiff should if he weren’t a partisan, self-righteous, hateful hack suffering from serious mental illness at least be able to thank Trump for fighting anti-Semitism on college campuses. So, on my way to the restroom armed with my Trump water bottle on full display, I stopped by scumbag/liar-Schiff’s seat. I told him how elated I was over the EO and isn’t Trump just wonderful for the Jewish people; wasn’t the EO just terrific. He unsurprisingly replied that unfortunately he couldn’t agree. I responded that yes, it’s unfortunate since it’s Jews like him who are doing the most harm to our people, not Trump. I added that he’s just an awful person if he couldn’t even support an order to fight anti-Semitism and protect Jewish students on campuses. Upon arrival in New York, there were two more staffers and an NYPD officer waiting for scumbag/liar-Schiff and his entourage, escorting them away. I was wondering what he was doing in NYC but also why he needed so much protection. After all, I’ve seen Senators scumbag-Robert Menendez and Ted Cruz on the train unaccompanied; and in fact, as I was walking through Penn Station, I walked past Richard Blumenthal also unaccompanied... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/adam_schiff_is_shameless_.html .
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Constitutional Malpractice
Roger Helle: When liar-Nancy Pelosi and far Left politicians claim to be following the Constitution in their effort to impeach President Donald Trump, forgive me if I sound skeptical. I don’t think the majority of our elected officials, any party, could tell you what the Constitution says. So much of what government does has no basis in the Constitution.
In their hatred for Trump, they have twisted the Constitution into something unrecognizable. The articles of impeachment hardly compare to the articles that were drafted against Presidents Richard Nixon and scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton. Those impeachments had real bipartisan support, and this impeachment process does NOT!
I realize Democrats have hated Trump with a passion ever since Election Day. The Washington Post announced on Inauguration Day that the impeachment process had begun. This, before he had a chance to do anything! I know he is arrogant, irritating, and has a few other character deficiencies. However, being annoying and arrogant is not a justification for impeachment. Otherwise most of Washington would have been impeached.
Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff has thrown out many serious accusations with absolute PROOF, according to him, for three years. While he has produced no evidence, the mainstream media continues to repeat his lies over and over again. And they wonder why the average person no longer listens to anything they say.
The two articles of impeachment are “Abuse of Power,” and “Obstruction of Congress.” They accuse him of Obstruction of Congress because he refused to simply roll over and play dead. He wouldn’t just give in to their power grab. After the FISA abuses and a two-year-long Special Counsel Investigation that found nothing, he quit responding to demands for more testimony and paperwork to keep the scam going. With one hearing after another, changing the rules as they went, only witnesses they approved, and no due process for the president, why would the president comply?
Abuse of Power is charged because Trump dared ask about how the unlawful investigation began. Over $30 million was spent and gridlock in Congress occurred where nothing of substance has been accomplished in nearly two years. That might be one reason.
First, it was Russian collusion, then obstruction, then a quid pro quo, and finally bribery and treason. As I said before, these terms polled better in the focus groups. But the charges filed Tuesday included none of these accusations.
liar-Pelosi says that in this process of impeachment, Democrats are prayerful. This is the party that tried to remove God from their political platform during the 2012 campaign. This is the party that believes you can terminate a baby right up to the time of birth. This is the party that claims to defend women, yet overwhelmingly approved males who identify as women to compete in women’s athletic events to dominate those who really are women. So, forgive me if I have a hard time believing they’re really concerned about defending the country.
Trump supposedly endangered national security because he gave the Ukrainians weapons to defend themselves and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama gave them blankets and MRE’s. That favors Russia how?
I’ll say it again, if there is not justice for all, there is not justice at all. If you are on the Left and think this is great, you may get more than you asked for. Impeachment will become a battering ram against every president going forward.
Something to think about? ~The Patriot Post
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