“President Trump, members of his family and his private businesses filed a federal lawsuit late Monday against Deutsche Bank and Capital One in an attempt to block the financial institutions from complying with congressional subpoenas.”
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Trump apologists like Brobonk remind one of cult members.
Oh for crying out loud, Tanner! Just because someone disagrees with you, they’re a cult member?
Whattamaroon!
No, just because someone supports Trump they are a cult member. You know, like the way they ignore factual evidence because of their faith?
More witch hunt, just to try and delay-delay-delay the inevitable. Dude had his entire life investigated with a fine-tooth comb by some of the best liberals in the business, and all we got was no collusion…but possible obstruction of the investigation into the non-existent collusion.
Dems trying to make as much noise as possible so the fake news has something to distract you with when the real bombs drop: Report on Comey coming in the next couple of weeks. FISA applications, emails, texts, and other docs being released soon. Then the IG report, and indictments of the criminals who tried to overthrow an elected president.
You mean the investigation into Paul Manafort that Trump tried to obstruct? Manafort did some pretty bad shit. Aren’t you happy that he’s getting prison time and his illegally acquired assets are being forfeited?
Not to mention the investigation into Flynn.
For a witch hunt, they sure are finding lots of witches!
Witches aren’t real. Traitors are.
The Mueller investigation was never really about Trump. It was designed to investigate and detail Russia’s interference into the 2016 election, of which there was a massive amount, and to determine whether the Trump campaign participated in that interference.
Trump MADE it about him, as he makes everything about him. If he had let Comey do his job in the first place, there would have been no special counsel at all. If he had let the special counsel do his job, only Part I of the finding would have come back – and that basically cleared the Trump campaign of any significant wrongdoing.
Where Trump got in trouble was his own interference into the investigation itself – the Part II – and there would have been no Part II if he had just let the professional investigators do their jobs.
He wasn’t just interfering into the portions of the investigation that involved “non-existent collusion.” He was also obstructing the investigations into people who were discovered to have committed serious crimes, like Manafort, and those who were lying to the investigators, like Flynn.
And needless to say, nobody has any interest in overthrowing an elected President if that President is not guilty of crimes, because nobody stands to gain from that except Mike Pence. The Democrats would certainly get no benefit. If Trump were removed from office, Mike Pence would become President and would be free to name anyone he cares to name as his VP, because the GOP controls the Senate. Everything else would remain the same. Bottom line – nobody has a MOTIVE to remove Trump except Pence, but everyone has the DUTY to remove him if he committed any impeachable offenses. (And frankly, I’m not sure that he did. That is certainly a debatable issue.)
Obstruction of Justice is an impeachable offense. Barr, a political hack, declaring there was no obstruction of justice by Trump is transparently partisan.
Impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. In reality, an impeachable offense is whatever the House says it is, and a convictable offense is whatever the Senate says it is.
If the House casts a totally political vote to impeach, and the Senate convicts on that basis, there is no legal appeal. The president can’t turn to the courts and say “Waah! Those things I did weren’t really high crimes and misdemeanors.”
(It’s pretty obvious that the courts can’t intercede since if they did so, the Senate has the right to remove THEM from office on the basis of that improper behavior alone! Impeachment is the legislative check on both the executive and the judicial branch. To word that another way, if either side ever gets 67 votes in the Senate, they could impeach all the Supreme Court justices they dislike. Scary, and unlikely, but true.)
Back to the subject, “impeachable offense” is so loosey-goosey that a President (or other civil officer) can be impeached/convicted for acts he or she committed before taking office, and some people have actually been removed on that basis.
However, while we’re in a reality check, there is basically nothing Trump could possibly do that would cause 67 Senators to vote for his removal. He could shoot Tom Hanks and Robert Mueller on the White House lawn while using the other hand to jerk off Putin to climax on a picture of Jesus. It would not matter. There would not be 67 votes against him.
The Democrats could impeach Trump today in the House, but conviction is a liberal wet dream. Moreover, once Trump is cleared of all charges in the Senate, he would then be able to crow about exoneration. And for once in his life, perhaps the first time, he would be right.
It is possible that Trump might go to jail after his term is over, but the only way to end that term is at the ballot box.
Good and very thorough answer (IMHO) UncleScoopy.
Yes, the House can just make up the charges as they go along. Don’t forget they decided — in the case of Judge Alcee Hastings — that it was an impeachable offense to accept bribes as a sitting federal judge even AFTER you’ve been acquitted of those charges. Not only can the House decide what the offense is; they are the exclusive arbiters of what the facts are too!
It always amazes me that Hastings flies so far below the radar, given how few successful impeachment trials there have been in the Senate in US history, probably not more than a dozen, including the two in the 1990’s.
And how come no one ever asks Alcee Hastings for HIS opinion on impeachment, given that (1) he is one of only 2 living people who have been successfully impeached; and (2) he is one of the very people who will vote on any articles of impeachment that surface in this Congress, since he’s been ‘serving’ as a Representative from Florida for more than 20 years now!
Talk about a Member of Congress being an expert on a matter likely to come before the House!
Hey, that’s totally something innocent people do! It is a nice change though to see him actually sue instead of just threaten. Variety, spice of life…