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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2019 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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https://news.yahoo.com/starr-report-veteran-says-trumps-crimes-are-thousandfold-worse-160226026.html
Starr report veteran says Trump's crimes are 'thousandfold' worse
Quote: | A member of the independent counsel team that recommended the impeachment of President Bill Clinton says that President Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice are “blunter by a thousandfold” than anything Clinton did and more than justifies the House Judiciary Committee opening impeachment proceedings. |
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/29/1853395/-Rep-Lieu-says-AG-needs-to-be-held-in-contempt-impeachment-might-be-the-only-way-to-justice
Rep. Lieu says AG needs to be held in contempt, impeachment might be the only way to justice
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Since the Mueller report on the Trump 2015-2016 presidential campaign was semi-released, the White House has spent time alternating between lying openly about the contents of the report, while shielding the true breadth of the report from everyone, even the Legislative Branch of our Democracy. The Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, and the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committees have been trying to line up White House officials as well as Attorney General William Barr to testify on the contents of not only the Mueller report, but those individuals’ participation in anything relating to that report. It is not simply the prerogative of the Legislative Branch to do so, it is their sworn duty to uphold the powers of their office as a check to the potentially corrupted powers of the Executive Branch.
Democratic Representative Ted Lieu of California spoke with political blogger and Washington Post op-ed writer Greg Sargent about the problems being faced by representatives during this process. The main problem, of course, is that the Trump administration continues to obstruct justice as they attempt to hide how they illegally obstructed justice. The main trick being employed is to deny House and Senate committee requests to answer questions on the record. Most recently, Attorney General William Barr began hemming and hawing over whether or not he would testify. Barr’s demands, as reported, seem to consist of him being allowed to testify in a lying sort of way, including no on the record questioning concerning the heavily redacted version of the Mueller report his department released.
This would leave House representatives no choice but to subpoena people like Barr. However, this process could be drawn out for quite some time. Rep. Lieu explains that while not all Democrats are ready to begin the process of impeachment against Donald Trump, the current obstruction into any inquiry could change a lot of minds, as the powers afforded Congress during impeachment proceedings far outweigh the ones available to them now.
“I don’t think the caucus is there in terms of launching an impeachment inquiry into obstruction of justice,” Lieu told me. But he added: “If it turns out we can’t investigate, because the White House is not complying with anything that Congress requests, then I think the caucus would support an article of impeachment on obstructing Congress in order to maximize our court position.”
Rep. Lieu also told Sargent that he believes the House should “vote to hold Barr in contempt very quickly,” if Barr doesn’t give up the full Mueller report.
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Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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why is president afraid of McGann speaking to congress, he says it would lead to his impeachment... well then he definitely should testify.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/mueller-report-shows-trump-s-repeated-efforts-to-obstruct-1508763203967?cid=eml_mra_20190429
Mueller report shows Trump’s repeated efforts to obstruct Quote: |
Rachel Maddow recalls an incident detailed in Volume II of the Mueller report between the president and Corey Lewandowski that shows how Trump’s actions check all the boxes for obstruction of justice, as anonymous sources close to Attorney General William Barr try to change the narrative about how he handled the report.
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2019 12:23 am Post subject: |
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here we go he should be in jail... it was a hack job by Barr.
https://news.yahoo.com/former-u-deputy-attorney-general-trump-not-president-193744246.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index
Former U.S. deputy attorney general: If Trump was not president, he would be indicted
Reuters Reuters•April 28, 2019
Quote: | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former top Justice Department official Sally Yates said on Sunday that if Donald Trump were not president, he would have been indicted on obstruction charges in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
Yates, a career federal prosecutor who rose to acting attorney general before Trump fired her in 2017 less than two weeks into his presidency, told NBC's "Meet the Press" the Republican president was shielded by department guidelines that a sitting president should not be indicted.
"I've personally prosecuted obstruction cases on far, far less evidence than this," Yates said. "And yes, I believe, if he were not the president of the United States, he would likely be indicted on obstruction." |
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Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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https://www.msnbc.com/the-beat-with-ari/watch/watch-trump-campaign-manager-bust-trump-for-obstruction-plot-59621445622
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Watch Trump campaign manager bust Trump for obstruction plot
In a special report, MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent, Ari Melber examines a key revelation in the Mueller report, that when Trump aides refused to carry out Trump’s bidding, Trump turned to someone off the government payroll – former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Melber breaks down how he pressed Lewandowski on “The Beat” in February about whether Trump asked him to get involved with former Attorney General Jeff Sessions or the DOJ probe and Lewandowski flatly denied it, but now the Mueller report reveals that under penalty of perjury, Lewandowski himself admitted that Trump asked him to get involved with Sessions. Melber notes one explanation could relate to reports that Trump learns about the Mueller probe from watching television and that Lewandowski "calculated that he could stay on Donald Trump's good side by deceiving his old boss on TV, while telling the truth about his old boss" to Mueller. |
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Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 11:09 am Post subject: |
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https://news.yahoo.com/tom-coleman-donald-trump-mike-pence-impeach-113308231.html
GOP Ex-Lawmaker Demands Impeachment Of Trump, Resignation Of Pence
HuffPost Lee Moran,HuffPost•May 24, 2019
Quote: | Former Rep. Tom Coleman (R-Mo.) has penned a blistering op-ed calling for the impeachment of “illegitimate” President Donald Trump.
Coleman, in his piece for The Kansas City Star published Thursday titled “Trump, Pence are illegitimate. Impeach them,” argued that if Trump was impeached, then Vice President Mike Pence should resign as otherwise “the lingering stench of corruption” would trail his administration.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, Coleman wrote, showed Trump and members of his team had “on multiple occasions welcomed Russian interference on his behalf during the 2016 presidential campaign.” Therefore, Coleman reasoned, “the president’s election victory brought forth nothing less than an illegitimate president.”
Coleman, who has criticized Trump in the past and opposed his candidacy, was voted out of Congress after 17 years in 1993.
He noted in his op-ed that House Democrats were divided over whether to begin impeachment proceedings. But “critical times require exceptional leadership,” he wrote, suggesting the “only viable option available” is for the Democratic-controlled House “to open its own investigation, hold public hearings and then determine if they should pursue removal of the president through impeachment.”
“The public would conclude Democrats are no better than the Republicans who have enabled Trump for the past two years” if they did not move to impeach him, Coleman wrote.
He concluded with this warning:
It could hand Trump a second term. Failure to pursue impeachment is to condone wrongdoing. To condone wrongdoing is to encourage more of it. To encourage wrongdoing is to give up on the rule of law and our democracy. To give up on the rule of law and democracy invites autocracy and eventually dictatorship. History has taught us this outcome. In my lifetime, it has occurred in other places including the Soviet Union and Germany, as well as in Russia and Venezuela today.
Coleman in February joined 25 other previous GOP members of Congress in calling for the termination of Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund his promised wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. |
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 10:42 am Post subject: |
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a university pyc department was tasked with reviewing the Mueller report. They found that trump should be removed because he as we know is mentally unfit meeting all the guidlines of a clear and present danger.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-instability-colors-debate-on-impeachment-for-misdeeds-60307525596
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Rep. Jamie Raskin discusses the value and utility of an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, and the consideration of the 25th Amendment as concerns about the deterioration of Donald Trump's mental health grow. |
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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https://news.yahoo.com/mueller-wrote-indictments-charging-trump-155148196.html
Mueller wrote indictments charging Trump with obstruction and witness tampering, Michael Wolff claims
Quote: | Special Counsel Robert Mueller drafted indictments against Donald Trump before ultimately deciding against charging the sitting president with obstruction of justice, according to a new book penned by author Michael Wolff.
The alleged three-count obstruction of justice indictment was immediately disputed by a spokesperson for the special counsel after first being reported on Tuesday. The Guardian reportedly viewed the indictment documents while reviewing a copy of the book Siege: Trump Under Fire. |
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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Wolfe is beyond reproach |
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