Impeach Trump Y/N

After Wednesday’s presentation, Sen. Lindsey Graham—one of Trump’s fiercest advocates in the Senate and a House manager in the last impeachment trial, of Bill Clinton—went up to Schiff to applaud him for a job well done. “He’s well spoken, he did a good job of creating a tapestry, taking bits and pieces of evidence and emails and giving a rhetorical flourish, making an email come alive, sometimes effectively, sometimes a little over the top,” Graham told reporters on Thursday morning. “But quite frankly I think they did a good job of taking bits and pieces of the evidence and creating a quilt out of it.”

Nice compliment there from Sen. Graham. But he'll still vote the party line to stonewall, cover up, and acquit. I ardently hope that all these yahoos will pay a heavy price at their next election, however unlikely that outcome may seem atm.

DC’s WTOP coverage sure wants to try and make this seem like it COULD GO EITHER WAY

10 or 11 plane crashes and maybe

at the last minute Ronald Reagan's ghost arrives in the Senate chamber and moans, "Who the hell is Donald Trump?"

i have news via talking points memo!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/report-trump-recorded-telling-parnas-and-fruman-to-take-her-out-about-yovanovitch

President Trump was recorded telling two buddies of Rudy Giuliani’s that he wanted Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch fired in April 2018, ABC reports.

“Take her out!” Trump reportedly said on the recording to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, after being told that the career foreign service officer was “badmouthing” him in Kyiv.

Fruman reportedly made the recording, which occurred at a small April 30, 2018 dinner at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Todd Blanche, an attorney for Fruman, did not immediately return a request for comment.

“Get rid of her!” a voice that appears to be Trump’s reportedly said on the recording. “Get her out tomorrow. I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it.”

Parnas reportedly told Trump on the recording that “the biggest problem there, I think where we need to start is we gotta get rid of the ambassador. She’s still left over from the Clinton administration.”

“She’s basically walking around telling everybody ‘Wait, he’s gonna get impeached, just wait,” Parnas reportedly added.

but don't worry, there's an explanation

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) dismissed the recording as a reflection of how New Yorkers talk. “Totally different style,” Sen. Johnson said.

thought he didn't know Parnas

a reflection of how New Yorkers talk

I don't see Trump saying "standing on line" there

Ron Johnson (R-WI) is an expert on the nyc dialect, though

fuhgeddaboutit

I say don't you know
You say you don't know
I say, take her out!

eyyyyy, i'm presidentin heah

*opens the white house window to address loud press corps*

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

*slams window shut*

TS: "locker room talk" vs "new york talk"

"Get her out tomorrow. I don’t care. Get her out tomorrow. Take her out. Okay? Do it.”

(sound of stuck window being yanked open)

"Hey! Hey asshole! I'm trying to sleep up here!"

"Why don't you shut the fuck up!?"

(another window opens)

"What the fuck is going on down there?"

"None of your fucking business!"

"What was that?"

"I said, none of your fucking business!"

"What ... well, I ..."

"Did you just tell my wife 'none of your fucking business'?!"

"Yeah, I did! Why don't you fuck off, too!"

"Fuck you, I'm coming down there right now to kick your ass.!

"I'll be waiting here, asshole. I'll be here."

"Don't go anywhere, you asshole!"

(window slams shut, someone rumbles down the stairs and exits into the dimly lit alley.)

"What the ... Donald Trump?!"

(Trump takes the phone from his ear)

"Now what the fuck are you going to do, huh? You come at me, you gotta go through my security goons. They're gonna ... hey, where did they go?"

"I guess they don't like you either, asshole."

(Sound of Trump getting his ass kicked)
(Window opens again)

"I said knock it the fuck off! I've gotta get to work at 4am tomorrow. I'm gonna call the cops, so help me ... Wait, are you kicking Donald Trump's ass?"

"Yeah, asshole had it coming."

"Oh. Well, wrap it up in a couple of minutes, I've got to get some rest."

"No problem! We cool?"

"Yeah, we cool. Just keep it down, ok?"

Ron Johnson (R-WI) adopting his brothers-in-GOP's 'steamed ham!'-level rhetorical calisthenics in proud service of a man who, under the right circumstances and with little provocation, would also absolutely call for Ron Johnson (R-WI) to be gotten rid of.

under the right circumstances

Like if he even knew who he was.

would like to hear the audio on these tapes.

and actually, if the audio DOESN'T leak soon, doesn't that make the GOP even LESS willing to vote to consider new evidence? if the broader public hasn't had a chance to hear trump's voice saying and doing the exact things he says he never has, then republicans certainly won't want to consider new evidence because that would mean exposing the audio.

in other words, leak that shit, Fruman legal team

Don't know about the audio, but the video just leaked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UceGF3M56bE

This sounds to me like an open goal for any top Trump advisors who want to get rid of a rival, just tell Trump they heard that rival "bad-mouthing" him. Stephen Miller has probably used this gambit about a dozen times already.

women are too emotional to be leaders

In much the same way that it's those on the left who are brittle, mewling snowflakes.

I say don't you know
You say you don't know
I say, take her out!

I started reading this in a Foghorn Leghorn voice. Now I want to hear a Foghorn Leghorn remix of 'Take Me Out'.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVxmffCWoAA1kda?format=jpg&name=360x360

Jake Tapper: You think Trump is actually concerned about corruption?

GOP Sen. James Lankford: Yes, I do.

Tapper: Can you provide me any examples of Trump expressing concern about corruption?

Lankford: You're trying to put me on the spot! pic.twitter.com/Z0EXj3KB1y

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) January 24, 2020

Was a time when you could make a baseless, truth-perverting assertion without some wiseacre challenging that God-given right. Truly, a fallen world.

Look, I'm not gonna come on this show and just sit here and let you interview me like this

I talked to your producer and nobody said anything about questions

Oh, I thought you said "Eruption," Trump's a huge Van Halen fan. Corruption, hell no he's not concerned about that.

schiff getting into an interesting discussion of what will face swing state republicans who vote for impeachment. nothing new, but rarely publicly acknowledged. he's doing this in the service of an argument amount moral courage.

anyway, in the midst of this i realized how badly Amy Klobuchar wants to stand up and tell everyone that what the people really want to hear about is how are you going to unite this country and how are you going to defeat donald trump, well you could do worse than supporting a candidate who has never lost, Amy Klobuchar

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/impeachment-senators-drinking-milk.html

It's so unfair that the networks stuck Trump with this shitty time slot. His show would be doing much better if it was on on Thursday nights — everybody knows that's when you get the really big ratings.

After having been treated unbelievably unfairly in the House, and then having to endure hour after hour of lies, fraud & deception by Shifty Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer & their crew, looks like my lawyers will be forced to start on Saturday, which is called Death Valley in T.V.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 24, 2020

fuck him and his fucking TV dots

Saturday night took out both Twin Peaks and Freaks & Geeks, he knows what happens to cult-things in that time slot.

but the Golden Girls thrived!

cult status xp

Would you like some cheese with that whine, there, President Fusspot? Jesus.

It's a wonder that he doesn't regularly lapse into wracking sobs. BUT MOOOOM IT'S NOT FAAAAIIIIR!!!!

Would he rather have this on prime time where everyone would see it?

Yes, for the defense portion.

trump defense starting in on the key question: proving that lots of people were and are concerned about corruption in ukraine

didn't think about that. kind of blows up the entire case against trump

The defense seems extremely weak, but I'm biased. Would be interested to know if this is convincing anyone.

they just finished for the day, after 1 hour. guessing they'd rather save their important arguments for the primetime goldmine of MTW, noon-8pm

Maybe they have a lot more to discuss Monday, but today seemed extremely thin.

the thing is, though - did you know that LOTS of people are concerned about corruption in ukraine? not just trump?

and all those documents the various agents didn't release to the house investigative committees because the white house wouldn't let them, and the people that won't testify in court because the white house wouldn't let them...

did you know the only reason the white house wouldn't let them is because the requests for documents were made before the house officially voted for the impeachment inquiry? that's the only reason.

*points to television screen at 11am on a saturday*

you are very relaxed. your tension and stress is gathering into one sphere, shrinking, and flying out of the top of your head. you can hear it receding now. it is in the hallway. your stress has put a coat on and stepped outside. you can hear the stressball rolling down the sidewalk, and now it is completely gone. listen to the lack of stress. you believe everything i say. the president is actually very concerned about corruption in many countries. he has done nothing wrong. it is normal to withhold aid in a secretive process that your own team is confused about, using rudy giuliani and some guys from a company called Fraud Guarantee as the point people for a shadow diplomacy campaign over the course of several months. tide is the best laundry detergent. it gets your clothes cleaner, faster than the alternatives. your mother used tide. your children will use tide. now i want you to concentrate on the tips of your eyelashes. feel your energy in the thinnest of hairs, now spreading to the bottom and top lids and down the ridges of your nose, dripping down into your mouth and flowing through your body's network. understanding is washing over you and altering your dna. when you wake up, turn on the television and find a middle aged white man who yells. this man is your new teacher. live in love, love to live.

Trump, who recently tweeted that bribery should be legal, is very concerned with corruption. Makes you think.

iirc they can't bank hours today by pushing things into Wed. of next week. I *think* the rules stipulate x hours over three days, which means they have to finish by Tues.

more likely they are lazy and want to go home and have no case in the first place