Trump IMPEACHED by the US House; US Senate Trial Allows No New Witnesses & Acquits Trump

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"In light of the President’s ill-advised statements, his lack of respect for the rule of law and his well-documented habit of condoning violence by his supporters, I am concerned that he may disclose the whistleblower’s identity," a letter from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to intelligence officials warns.


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Schumer warns Intel officials that Trump could expose whistleblower identity
"All they have is a whistleblower who's disappeared. Where is he?" Trump asked.

 

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They could have killed him?

 

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They're really putting in work. I look forward to the leaks.

 

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[Hamza B.]

Sureeee.

In other words: "I refuse to believe any facts that go against my preferred narrative."

 

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"It will be said of House Republicans, when they found they lacked the courage to confront the most dangerous and unethical president in American history, they consoled themselves by attacking those who did."


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Schiff claps back at Republicans after GOP censure resolution against him fails
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) hit back at Republican lawmakers on Monday evening after a GOP resolution attempting to censure him failed on the House floor.

 

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JUST IN: A group of Senate Democrats has introduced legislation that would block the Trump administration from holding meetings with foreign heads of state at Trump-owned properties after he initially scheduled the 2020 G-7 summit at his Florida resort.


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Democrats introduce SWAMP Act to ban meetings with foreign leaders at Trump properties
“It’s time for Congress to step in and make it crystal clear: President Trump cannot profiteer off of his meetings with foreign leaders — not with the G-7, not ever,” Merkley said in a statement.

 

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BREAKING: House Democrats on Monday are asking a federal judge to dismiss them from President Trump’s lawsuit challenging a New York law that allows congressional committees to request his state tax returns.


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House Democrats ask judge to dismiss Trump lawsuit over NY tax return law
The new law allows the chairs of Congress’s tax committees to request public officials’ state tax returns.

 

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Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich is renewing his call for eliminating the White House press corps, saying that the reporters are all “enemies” of President Trump after his acting chief of staff indicated that Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in part to get the country to investigate an unproven theory related to the 2016 election.


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Gingrich calls for eliminating White House press corps in wake of Mulvaney briefing
"Why would you call on people who get up every morning saying, ‘I hate Donald Trump, I wonder how I can make his life miserable?'”

 

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JUST IN: The White House personnel office has told President Trump his rumored top picks to fill the Homeland Security secretary position are ineligible by federal law because neither pick has been confirmed by the Senate in their current position.


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Trump's top picks for Homeland Security chief are ineligible for job: reports
Ken Cuccinelli and Mark Morgan are widely perceived as Trump's favorite candidates.

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...af1e9c-f40b-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html
Putin and Hungary’s Orban helped sour Trump on Ukraine
Greg Miller
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President Trump’s effort to pressure Ukraine for information he could use against political rivals came as he was being urged to adopt a hostile view of that country by its regional adversaries, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, current and former U.S. officials said.

Trump’s conversations with Putin, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and others reinforced his perception of Ukraine as a hopelessly corrupt country — one that Trump now also appears to believe sought to undermine him in the 2016 U.S. election, the officials said.

Neither of those foreign leaders specifically encouraged Trump to see Ukraine as a potential source of damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, nor did they describe Kyiv as complicit in an unsubstantiated 2016 election conspiracy theory, officials said.

But their disparaging depictions of Ukraine reinforced Trump’s perceptions of the country and fed a dysfunctional dynamic in which White House officials struggled to persuade Trump to support the fledgling government in Kyiv instead of exploiting it for political purposes, officials said.

The role played by Putin and Orban, a hard-right leader who has often allied himself with the Kremlin’s positions, was described in closed-door testimony last week by George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, before House impeachment investigators, U.S. officials said.

U.S. officials emphasized that while Putin and Orban denigrated Ukraine, Trump’s decision to seek damaging material on Biden was more directly driven by Trump’s own impulses and Kyiv conspiracy theories promoted by his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani.

In their early May phone call, Putin “did what he always does” in seeking to undercut the United States’ relationship with Ukraine, said a former U.S. official familiar with details of the conversation. “He has always said Ukraine is just a den of corruption.”

The efforts to poison Trump’s views toward Zelensky were anticipated by national security officials at the White House, officials said. But the voices of Putin and Orban took on added significance this year because of the departure or declining influence of those who had sought to blunt the influence of Putin and other authoritarian leaders over Trump.

Officials cited the departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, both of whom had backed U.S. military assistance to Ukraine but were no longer in position to protect that stream of funding when it was suspended in the weeks leading up to Trump’s July 25 phone call.

National security adviser John Bolton was also seen as a fervent backer of Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, but his relationship with Trump deteriorated rapidly this year before he was pushed out of the White House last month.

“Over time you just see a wearing down of the defenses,” a former White House official said, describing the struggle to contest the influence of Giuliani, Putin and Orban.

The House impeachment inquiry is centered on Trump’s alleged attempt to use the power of his office to coerce Ukraine into taking measures that the president hoped would help him in the 2020 election.

There is no evidence that Putin spoke about Biden or endorsed Giuliani’s unsubstantiated claims that it was Ukraine — and not Russia — that had interfered in the 2016 election. Still, officials said that treating Ukraine as a pawn is consistent with Putin’s approach toward the former Soviet republic.

American policy has for years been “built around containing malign Russian influence” in Eastern Europe, a U.S. official said. Trump’s apparent susceptibility to the arguments he hears from Putin and Orban is “an example of the president himself under malign influence — being steered by it.”

The official and others spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of internal discussions at the White House and the ongoing impeachment inquiry.

The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

In his testimony, Kent indicated that U.S. officials were encouraged by Trump’s initial phone call with Zelensky after his April election and hoped the president would see the new leader as a potential partner in long-standing U.S. efforts to help Ukraine fend off Russian aggression and battle internal corruption.

Instead, Kent testified, Trump’s view of Zelensky and Ukraine seemed to sour in the ensuing months, with Trump voicing disdain for Kyiv, ordering the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed, blocking Vice President Pence from attending Zelensky’s inauguration and suspending the flow of $391 million in military and other aid to the country.

Trump spoke with Putin by phone and met with Orban at the White House in the weeks between Zelensky’s April 21 election and his May 20 inauguration. Trump also spoke with Putin on June 28, during a global summit in Japan, and by phone on July 31, days after the call in which he solicited a “favor” from Zelensky.

Trump has consistently refused to accept evidence that Russia interfered on his behalf in the 2016 election. Last week, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confirmed that Trump had ordered aid to Ukraine suspended in part to compel Kyiv to investigate a debunked conspiracy theory that a hacked Democratic National Committee computer server was taken to Ukraine in 2016 to hide evidence that it was that country, not Russia, that interfered in the presidential election.

In a heated exchange at the White House last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif,) confronted Trump by saying, “With you, all roads lead to Putin.”

Trump turned to Putin for guidance on the new leader of Ukraine within days of Zelensky’s election. In a May 3 call, Trump asked Putin about his impressions of Zelensky, according to a Western official familiar with the conversation. Putin said that he had not yet spoken with Zelensky but derided him as a comedian with ties to an oligarch despised by the Kremlin.

Before running for president, Zelensky starred in a television sitcom in which he portrayed the Ukrainian president.

The May conversation with Putin coincided with a White House visit by Orban that many in the administration had opposed because of the Hungarian leader’s moves to undercut democratic institutions in that country and his combative relations with U.S. allies in Europe.

“I can tell you, knowing the president for a good 25 or 30 years, that [Trump] would love to have the situation that Viktor Orban has, but he doesn’t,” David Cornstein, Trump’s ambassador to Hungary, said in an interview published by the Atlantic this spring.

The May visit from Orban began with an hour-long meeting between Trump and the Hungarian leader with no note-takers, officials said. Bolton and the Hungarian foreign minister joined afterward.

Senior U.S. diplomats said they had limited insight into the private conversation between Trump and Orban, let alone how Trump’s views of Ukraine have formed. But one official familiar with the encounter said that it became “clear that the meeting with Orban had solidified” Trump’s pessimistic view about Kyiv and Zelensky.

Orban’s grievances toward Ukraine are grounded in a historic border dispute and the claimed mistreatment of a Hungarian-speaking minority that resides in Ukraine. But Orban’s animosity toward Zelensky is also ideological, officials said, noting that Zelensky has positioned himself in opposition to Orban as a Western-leaning reformer.

White House and State Department officials had sought to block an Orban visit since the start of Trump’s presidency, concerned that it would legitimize a leader often ostracized in Europe. They also worried about Orban’s influence on the U.S. president.

“Basically, everyone agreed — no Orban meeting,” said a former White House official involved in internal discussions. “We were against it because [we] knew there was a good chance that Trump and Orban would bond and get along.”

The effort to keep distance between Trump and Orban began to fray earlier this year with the departures of senior officials and the emergence of new voices around the president. Among the most important was Mulvaney, who became acting chief of staff in January and was seen as sympathetic to Orban’s hard-right views and skepticism of European institutions. In Congress, Mulvaney’s former Freedom Caucus colleagues last year backed Orban’s efforts to kill a small U.S. grant designed to nurture independent media outlets in Hungary.

Mulvaney’s involvement in approving the Orban visit was one of several instances in which he overruled national security officials, officials said. At the same time, Mulvaney also facilitated an arrangement in which Trump directed other diplomats, including the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, to work with Giuliani on his Ukraine agenda.

Julie Tate and Shane Harris contributed to this report.





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@Mephistopheles tell your momma to suck my dikk you fakkit. Concern trolling is one thing but you're in here gloating and happy that we're "wrong" about trumps chances of getting impeached. Yea I'm fuken angry at this Orange motherfukker. I wish he lives for another 10 years and witness's his children lose everything while he's constantly being shyt on by every facet of society and got true wealth or lack of it is exposed and shoved in his face every single day till he takes his last breath.

We all say he's the symbol of white insecurity for his supporters but truly he's the perfect representation of white supremacy which is the reason all of us on here get so passionate with our hate for him

 

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@Mephistopheles tell your momma to suck my dikk you fakkit. Concern trolling is one thing but you're in here gloating and happy that we're "wrong" about trumps chances of getting impeached. Fuk the feds i ain't worried about them and apologies to the coli owners for bringing any unwarranted heat. Yea I'm fuken angry at this Orange motherfukker. I wish he lives for another 10 years and witness's his children lose everything while he's constantly being shyt on by every facet of society and got true wealth or lack of it is exposed and shoved in his face every single day till he takes his last breath.

We all say he's the symbol of white insecurity for his supporters but truly he's the perfect representation of white supremacy which is the reason all of us on here get so passionate with our hate for him

Please renove the third sentence like I did in the quote. It's not needed and doesn't help the site. I understand you hate the man and need to vent, we all do, but it won't help if the site we use to vent isn't around because of stuff like that.