US Politics, October 2019 — I guess statement you could say with thread. I made a thread. The thread was PERFECT.

grim lols at Trump trying his best Dr Phil impersonation

I imagine Trump looking at himself in the mirror saying "I pardon you."

“Pardon me”, he thinks to himself while knocking over a small child. “I would if I could, and maybe someday I’ll try”

wtf, scheme (if i even understand it) is monstrous and never funny for an actual president. it is an acceptable, 90s-era, dystopic, running man style gag imo.

Genuine divide among Hill Dems starting to emerge between those who want to throw fines or even jail at Rudy for defying subpoenas and those who believe—as one aide said—“they already have the Watergate tapes” and don’t need to overreact https://t.co/8l6YefmWfF

Via @sambrodey

— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 16, 2019

lock him up you absolute cowards

Anyone see the ProPublica story about Trump org apparently keeping two sets of books? That's full on tax fraud.

Okay Rudy is a private citizen and could potentially be arrested and detained for contempt of Congress.

I am more concerned with how to get government employees to comply with subpoenas and provide evidence. The guy they work for has ordered them not to cooperate with anything House Democrats ask for. He is making rhe argument that the investigation itself is illegitimate, and so therefore it is right and proper for the Executive Branch to disobey.

So say a House committee finds Pompeo (for example) in contempt, and Pompeo won't budge (because his boss told him not to, and he'll be fired if he cooperates). The Sergeant at Arms goes over to the State Department with a piece of paper saying he's there to arrest the Secretary of State. Armed DoS building security doesn't let him in the building. What then? A shootout between Capitol Police and the Diplomatic Protective Service?

That's why they should probably start with fines or withholding paychecks. But Rudy? Lock him up, at least for being such a loud, arrogant asshole.

Corey Lewendowski should have gotten the smackdown, too.

So say a House committee finds Pompeo (for example) in contempt, and Pompeo won't budge (because his boss told him not to, and he'll be fired if he cooperates). The Sergeant at Arms goes over to the State Department with a piece of paper saying he's there to arrest the Secretary of State. Armed DoS building security doesn't let him in the building. What then? A shootout between Capitol Police and the Diplomatic Protective Service?

it doesn't matter. If they don't comply with subpoenas, that's just one more obstruction of justice charge.

That at-large indicted Rudy buddy just arrested at JFK.

Trump is hoping that stonewalling = everything going to the Supreme Court (where "his guys" will side with him), but Congress has no incentive or requirement to go through the courts. Impeachment is strictly a Congressional process, which means Pelosi is in control.

Trump on Turkey/Syria via @colvinj: “All American soldiers are away from the site. Syria and Turkey can fight...They’ve got a lot of sand over there...“There’s a lot of sand that they can play with."

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 16, 2019

how does this man have anything higher than a 0.00% approval rating outside of this dumb country

Anyone see the ProPublica story about Trump org apparently keeping two sets of books? That's full on tax fraud.

sad lol that this doesn't even register as a scandal because everyone assumed this is what he was doing anyway

I assume every rich person is fiddling their taxes tbf.

It's a bit more than fiddling to lie to the IRS, tbh.

We have a much simpler system in the UK, if you're rich enough you can get away with anything short of murdering a tax inspector.

Democrats never "overreact," that's how the Dubya Gang got off

FWIW the administration is not having great success preventing testimony https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/15/donald-trump-impeachment-ukraine-investigation-046915

man, if Bolton is really the star witness that provides first-hand damning testimony that will be ... something

He's running...

(jk, I hope to hell not)

“Sand they can play with”?

That’s up there with the most racist things he’s said.

He's lost my vote, for sure.

the subject line for today's white house propaganda eblast is "Anti-Trump Rep. Schiff’s Secret Impeachment Hearings Are a Witch Hunt in a Fantasyland"

wow, fantasyland. got 'em

Uh oh, Disney lawsuit incoming!

you're bound to find more witches there tbf

keeping two sets of books

"That makes me smart!"

President Donald Trump on Wednesday insulted Kurdish forces under siege by the Turkish military in northern Syria, remarking from the Oval Office that those U.S.-allied soldiers who led the charge against Islamic State fighters in the region are “not angels.”

This was Rudy's favorite move every time the NYPD murdered a black person.

So tax fraud. We got em

Mission Accomplished. I might duck out of work early to catch a glimpse of trump getting hauled into federal court in manhattan.

I'd like to see ol' Donnie Trump wriggle...

He'll be locked up in the Bastille in no time.

Trump pulls out the juvenile arrest records for the Kurdish forces

It’s all over. Pence resigned too. Pelosi’s president.

pelosi is awaiting execution for treason

Oh no! Another turn of the screw. Crazy news day but not much different from usual

anyway

Michael McKinley, the former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo until his sudden resignation last week, will tell House impeachment investigators Wednesday that career diplomats were mistreated during his tenure and some had their careers derailed for political reasons, according to a person familiar with his testimony.

McKinley will outline how his concerns culminated with the recall of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, a punitive action he and many other rank-and-file diplomats viewed as wholly unjustified.

“The unwillingness of State Department leadership to defend Yovanovitch or interfere with an obviously partisan effort to intervene in our relationship with Ukraine for the political benefit of the president was too much for him,” said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.

Mission Accomplished. I might duck out of work early to catch a glimpse of trump getting hauled into federal court in manhattan.

― treeship., Wednesday, October 16, 2019 11:07 AM

jfc

President Trump says he wishes Russia and Syria a lot of luck as US troops pull out of northern Syria, and asserts that the former Soviet Union is now called Russia because “they lost so much money in Afghanistan that they had to downsize – a very big downsizing.”

— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 16, 2019

was a rough day when they had to lay off the Berlin Wall

so many holes in his brain, all of them weeping for death

They couldn't afford a two-word name anymore.

they couldn't pay the light bill on the "Soviet Union" neon sign in Red Square iirc

trump is big and great he makes the big words small and great for the small men we are all men, trmp good we love great again

President Trump says he wishes Russia and Syria a lot of luck as US troops pull out of northern Syria, and asserts that the former Soviet Union is now called Russia because “they lost so much money in Afghanistan that they had to downsize – a very big downsizing.”

FFS can someone in the room just for once hear this shit and say out loud " what are you even talking about, that makes no sense at all?"

I had completely forgotten about Bernie Kerik. I guess part of me wanted to believe he'd been shanked in prison.

I call for an indictment of @AdamSchiff and his arrest for intentionally making false and misleading statements while in his official capacity, to prosecute and impeach @realDonaldTrump! You cannot break the law to enforce it! https://t.co/qRrt5KG5fp

— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) October 16, 2019

uh guys

3 US diplomats incl US defense attache detained by Russian authorities, taken off train near Severodvinsk near site of mysterious radiation leak. State Dept spox to Fox: “The American diplomat’s were on official travel & had properly notified Russian authorities of their travel.”

— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) October 16, 2019

Trump touts turning the US military into something equivalent to a mercenary force for Saudi Arabia pic.twitter.com/HCTQwcMXaC

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 16, 2019

I call for an indictment of @AdamSchiff and his arrest for intentionally making false and misleading statements

I can see how a convicted felon whose eight counts of felony consisted of making false and misleading statements to investigators about his unreported interest-free quarter million dollar loan and subsequent federal tax evasion might feel like everyone who said anything not in total alignment with the objective facts should also be convicted of a felony, because, you know, fair is fair. But he may not have thought this through entirely in regard to Trump.