Here is my question to Senate Repubs

[Paulie]

It should also be noted that when Mike Pompeo was heading up one of the Benghazi Inquiries, he demanded tens of thousands of documents from the State Department, and then castigated Hillary Clinton's State Department for not producing the documents fast enough, and threatened to charge the Obama Administration with Obstruction of Congress, because they took too long.

Pompeo's State Department has refused to turn over a single document and has tried to block staff from testifying.

And hopefully, following any Senate action on the matter the Republicans will ignore the Democrats altogether. They are the failing part of the federal government, and if they can't be readily removed, they should be ostracized.

Once re-elected, Trump needs to institute an overall purge of all Executive departments.

Let’s go a step further and dismantle some of them. Can we start with education?

 

[Paulie]

Members of the POT (party of Trump) and their right wing media cohorts are free to express their opinion that the impeachment inquiry is a sham. But those allegations don't change the constitutional authority given to the House committees to lawfully conduct it. So riddle me this.
We know for an absolute certainty Trump has obstructed the inquiry by refusing to release requested documents and by ordering that subpoenaed witnesses not testify. Therefore, we know one of the articles of impeachment will include a charge of obstruction.
Senate Repubs can disingenuously claim the extortion of Ukraine does not, in their minds, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But how will they get around the fact Trump has obstructed the inquiry?

As an aside, it should be noted the Trump admin may open itself up to the commission of another impeachable offense. The hypocritical Trump lackey known as Lindsey Graham has requested from the State Dept. documents pertaining to Joe Biden's activities with respect to the US government's demands the corrupt prosecutor Shokin be removed from office because he refused to prosecute cases of corruption in Ukraine. If the admin acquiesces to this request while blocking the release of documents sought by the House Intel Committee in the course of its impeachment inquiry it runs the risk of being charged with selectively releasing documents for investigations it favors. Representing yet another abuse of power.

You can't charge a President with obstruction when he exercises his Executive Privilege outlined in the Constitution. The commies in the House do not run the entire government, and get what they want by demands.

There is no dispute over whether there is a right for the prez to claim EP regarding certain conversations. But this bogus claim of absolute immunity for members of the admin to keep them from testifying is unprecedented and non-existent. Simply put, there is no such thing. Nixon found that out when the SC unanimously ruled Congress had the right to get the tapes.

This would all be well and good if the democrats had anything first hand. Any clear cut evidence at all of bribery or extortion. But they don’t. So at the end of the day, considering this is still a representative republic we live in, the PEOPLE decide how the process runs. The elected congress merely represents us. They act on BEHALF of us, not IN SPITE OF us. If the people don’t agree that there’s any evidence of wrong doing even after the democrats witnesses have all testified, then this whole executive privilege thing is moot anyway. The dems made their case, and it isn’t convincing the people. That’s where it literally ends right there. It’s amazing to me that you people don’t understand the way a representative republic works.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Members of the POT (party of Trump) and their right wing media cohorts are free to express their opinion that the impeachment inquiry is a sham. But those allegations don't change the constitutional authority given to the House committees to lawfully conduct it. So riddle me this.
We know for an absolute certainty Trump has obstructed the inquiry by refusing to release requested documents and by ordering that subpoenaed witnesses not testify. Therefore, we know one of the articles of impeachment will include a charge of obstruction.
Senate Repubs can disingenuously claim the extortion of Ukraine does not, in their minds, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But how will they get around the fact Trump has obstructed the inquiry?

As an aside, it should be noted the Trump admin may open itself up to the commission of another impeachable offense. The hypocritical Trump lackey known as Lindsey Graham has requested from the State Dept. documents pertaining to Joe Biden's activities with respect to the US government's demands the corrupt prosecutor Shokin be removed from office because he refused to prosecute cases of corruption in Ukraine. If the admin acquiesces to this request while blocking the release of documents sought by the House Intel Committee in the course of its impeachment inquiry it runs the risk of being charged with selectively releasing documents for investigations it favors. Representing yet another abuse of power.

You can't charge a President with obstruction when he exercises his Executive Privilege outlined in the Constitution. The commies in the House do not run the entire government, and get what they want by demands.

There is no dispute over whether there is a right for the prez to claim EP regarding certain conversations. But this bogus claim of absolute immunity for members of the admin to keep them from testifying is unprecedented and non-existent. Simply put, there is no such thing. Nixon found that out when the SC unanimously ruled Congress had the right to get the tapes.

This would all be well and good if the democrats had anything first hand. Any clear cut evidence at all of bribery or extortion. But they don’t. So at the end of the day, considering this is still a representative republic we live in, the PEOPLE decide how the process runs. The elected congress merely represents us. They act on BEHALF of us, not IN SPITE OF us. If the people don’t agree that there’s any evidence of wrong doing even after the democrats witnesses have all testified, then this whole executive privilege thing is moot anyway. The dems made their case, and it isn’t convincing the people. That’s where it literally ends right there. It’s amazing to me that you people don’t understand the way a representative republic works.

Impeachment inquiry television ratings.

 

[Care4all]

Members of the POT (party of Trump) and their right wing media cohorts are free to express their opinion that the impeachment inquiry is a sham. But those allegations don't change the constitutional authority given to the House committees to lawfully conduct it. So riddle me this.
We know for an absolute certainty Trump has obstructed the inquiry by refusing to release requested documents and by ordering that subpoenaed witnesses not testify. Therefore, we know one of the articles of impeachment will include a charge of obstruction.
Senate Repubs can disingenuously claim the extortion of Ukraine does not, in their minds, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But how will they get around the fact Trump has obstructed the inquiry?

As an aside, it should be noted the Trump admin may open itself up to the commission of another impeachable offense. The hypocritical Trump lackey known as Lindsey Graham has requested from the State Dept. documents pertaining to Joe Biden's activities with respect to the US government's demands the corrupt prosecutor Shokin be removed from office because he refused to prosecute cases of corruption in Ukraine. If the admin acquiesces to this request while blocking the release of documents sought by the House Intel Committee in the course of its impeachment inquiry it runs the risk of being charged with selectively releasing documents for investigations it favors. Representing yet another abuse of power.

You can't charge a President with obstruction when he exercises his Executive Privilege outlined in the Constitution. The commies in the House do not run the entire government, and get what they want by demands.

But he didn't 'exercise' executive privilege Ray... exercising executive privilege requires the person subpoenaed showing up for the hearing, the President's formal request of executive privilege being in place, and then when questions are asked of the witness, they HAVE TO BE ANSWERED HONESTLY, unless they involve executive privileged things, of which the White House Lawyer sitting near the witness in the hearing objects, and calls executive privilege...

like eric holder, he went before congress, answered lots of questions, but certain things, he called executive privilege on... of which republicans still charged Holder with obstruction of Congress...

all other questions have to be answered...

What this president is claiming is something HE MADE UP, called BLANKET IMMUNITY, saying NONE of the executive branch or administration EVER has to comply with subpoenas of Congress to testify....AND none of the subpoenas for documents of OUR GOVT can be turned over, simply because this wanna be king says so?

DO YOU understand HOW DANGEROUS that is to our Democracy? HOW it breaks the CONSTITUTION regarding equal branches of government and the critical importance of those equal branches, in order to keep us a democratic republic??

Ray, this is serious.... not partisan if you spend one nano second thinking about the precedent and consequences of Trump's overreaching of power. now, and for all future presidents?

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

Yes, it is executive privilege, especially when it's nothing more than another commie witch hunt which this is. There is nothing impeachable if a President withholds money for a short time. Other Presidents have done the same. Even if there was a quid pro quo, it's not illegal. Joe Biden did that and admitted so on record. There is no impeachable offense by our President asking a foreign leader to look into something; he never once used the word "investigation." And bribery is not asking a favor. A favor is an act of friendliness and good will without expectation of anything in return.

So there is nothing Trump did in that phone call or afterwards that is an impeachable offense. The charges made by the commies are all made up. That's a good enough reason for Trump to stop them from trying to get his people. If they had any real charges, that might be one thing. But like the Russia investigation, like the Kavanugh hearing, it's nothing more than another attempt to put Trump in a bad light for political purposes only.

It's what he did long before and right before that phone call, that makes that phone call clear as day, along with his own confession, Mulveney's too, amd Sondland's evidence of who was involved in the conspiracy... All The President's Men....

And then there is Giuliani, his personal Campaign lawyer's involvement....

please spare us this idiocy that this was all on the up and up, and just for the USA and so called corruption in the Ukraine...

of which the Ukraine was CLEARED of corruption and given the ok to receive the military aid money by the Pentagon after their 3 month extensive investigation, BACK IN JUNE 2019, before Trump's call, late July.

AND the president has no power or right to call on a foreign gvt to have their govt investigate ANY U.S. CITIZEN, without the DOJ doing the investigation in to them, if they found predicate to do an investigation of an American citizen doing business in a foreign country, and the DOJ protecting our citizen's rights in the foreign country, while working with the foreign country's General Prosecutor.

Let alone Trump asking a foreign country that he is claiming is corrupt, to start a criminal investigation of a political rival's son...

that breaks campaign laws as well....

this ALL deserves an impeachment, regardless of what happens in the Senate... or we will have all presidents, continue to be above the law... and no one is above the law,

and most certainly not the president, who actually takes an oath, to faithfully execute the law...imo.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

are you actually claiming they are NOT hiding something that is relevant to this inquiry?

They are not. They are simply moving to stymie Schiff's Star Chamber. All witnesses will show for the Senate trial, should the Democrats decide to continue the show.

 

[Cellblock2429]

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

are you actually claiming they are NOT hiding something that is relevant to this inquiry?

They are not. They are simply moving to stymie Schiff's Star Chamber. All witnesses will show for the Senate trial, should the Democrats decide to continue the show.

/——/ How many democRAT Senators would be yanked off the campaign trail for the Senate Trial?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

are you actually claiming they are NOT hiding something that is relevant to this inquiry?

They are not. They are simply moving to stymie Schiff's Star Chamber. All witnesses will show for the Senate trial, should the Democrats decide to continue the show.

/——/ How many democRAT Senators would be yanked off the campaign trail for the Senate Trial?

All of them.

 

[Cellblock2429]

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

are you actually claiming they are NOT hiding something that is relevant to this inquiry?

They are not. They are simply moving to stymie Schiff's Star Chamber. All witnesses will show for the Senate trial, should the Democrats decide to continue the show.

/——/ How many democRAT Senators would be yanked off the campaign trail for the Senate Trial?

All of them.

/—-/ I mean the number, wise guy. How many?

 

[Cellblock2429]

Members of the POT (party of Trump) and their right wing media cohorts are free to express their opinion that the impeachment inquiry is a sham. But those allegations don't change the constitutional authority given to the House committees to lawfully conduct it. So riddle me this.
We know for an absolute certainty Trump has obstructed the inquiry by refusing to release requested documents and by ordering that subpoenaed witnesses not testify. Therefore, we know one of the articles of impeachment will include a charge of obstruction.
Senate Repubs can disingenuously claim the extortion of Ukraine does not, in their minds, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But how will they get around the fact Trump has obstructed the inquiry?

As an aside, it should be noted the Trump admin may open itself up to the commission of another impeachable offense. The hypocritical Trump lackey known as Lindsey Graham has requested from the State Dept. documents pertaining to Joe Biden's activities with respect to the US government's demands the corrupt prosecutor Shokin be removed from office because he refused to prosecute cases of corruption in Ukraine. If the admin acquiesces to this request while blocking the release of documents sought by the House Intel Committee in the course of its impeachment inquiry it runs the risk of being charged with selectively releasing documents for investigations it favors. Representing yet another abuse of power.

Repeat after me
President Donald J. Trump, do this until he's out of office on Jan. 2025
No matter of whining it's not fair I don't like the orange man will not work

/——/ @RealDonaldTrump “Polls have now turned very strongly against Impeachment, especially in swing states. 75% to 25%. Thank you!”

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

are you actually claiming they are NOT hiding something that is relevant to this inquiry?

They are not. They are simply moving to stymie Schiff's Star Chamber. All witnesses will show for the Senate trial, should the Democrats decide to continue the show.

/——/ How many democRAT Senators would be yanked off the campaign trail for the Senate Trial?

All of them.

/—-/ I mean the number, wise guy. How many?

6.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Members of the POT (party of Trump) and their right wing media cohorts are free to express their opinion that the impeachment inquiry is a sham. But those allegations don't change the constitutional authority given to the House committees to lawfully conduct it. So riddle me this.
We know for an absolute certainty Trump has obstructed the inquiry by refusing to release requested documents and by ordering that subpoenaed witnesses not testify. Therefore, we know one of the articles of impeachment will include a charge of obstruction.
Senate Repubs can disingenuously claim the extortion of Ukraine does not, in their minds, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But how will they get around the fact Trump has obstructed the inquiry?

As an aside, it should be noted the Trump admin may open itself up to the commission of another impeachable offense. The hypocritical Trump lackey known as Lindsey Graham has requested from the State Dept. documents pertaining to Joe Biden's activities with respect to the US government's demands the corrupt prosecutor Shokin be removed from office because he refused to prosecute cases of corruption in Ukraine. If the admin acquiesces to this request while blocking the release of documents sought by the House Intel Committee in the course of its impeachment inquiry it runs the risk of being charged with selectively releasing documents for investigations it favors. Representing yet another abuse of power.

You can't charge a President with obstruction when he exercises his Executive Privilege outlined in the Constitution. The commies in the House do not run the entire government, and get what they want by demands.

But he didn't 'exercise' executive privilege Ray... exercising executive privilege requires the person subpoenaed showing up for the hearing, the President's formal request of executive privilege being in place, and then when questions are asked of the witness, they HAVE TO BE ANSWERED HONESTLY, unless they involve executive privileged things, of which the White House Lawyer sitting near the witness in the hearing objects, and calls executive privilege...

like eric holder, he went before congress, answered lots of questions, but certain things, he called executive privilege on... of which republicans still charged Holder with obstruction of Congress...

all other questions have to be answered...

What this president is claiming is something HE MADE UP, called BLANKET IMMUNITY, saying NONE of the executive branch or administration EVER has to comply with subpoenas of Congress to testify....AND none of the subpoenas for documents of OUR GOVT can be turned over, simply because this wanna be king says so?

DO YOU understand HOW DANGEROUS that is to our Democracy? HOW it breaks the CONSTITUTION regarding equal branches of government and the critical importance of those equal branches, in order to keep us a democratic republic??

Ray, this is serious.... not partisan if you spend one nano second thinking about the precedent and consequences of Trump's overreaching of power. now, and for all future presidents?

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

Yes, it is executive privilege, especially when it's nothing more than another commie witch hunt which this is. There is nothing impeachable if a President withholds money for a short time. Other Presidents have done the same. Even if there was a quid pro quo, it's not illegal. Joe Biden did that and admitted so on record. There is no impeachable offense by our President asking a foreign leader to look into something; he never once used the word "investigation." And bribery is not asking a favor. A favor is an act of friendliness and good will without expectation of anything in return.

So there is nothing Trump did in that phone call or afterwards that is an impeachable offense. The charges made by the commies are all made up. That's a good enough reason for Trump to stop them from trying to get his people. If they had any real charges, that might be one thing. But like the Russia investigation, like the Kavanugh hearing, it's nothing more than another attempt to put Trump in a bad light for political purposes only.

It's what he did long before and right before that phone call, that makes that phone call clear as day, along with his own confession, Mulveney's too, amd Sondland's evidence of who was involved in the conspiracy... All The President's Men....

And then there is Giuliani, his personal Campaign lawyer's involvement....

please spare us this idiocy that this was all on the up and up, and just for the USA and so called corruption in the Ukraine...

of which the Ukraine was CLEARED of corruption and given the ok to receive the military aid money by the Pentagon after their 3 month extensive investigation, BACK IN JUNE 2019, before Trump's call, late July.

AND the president has no power or right to call on a foreign gvt to have their govt investigate ANY U.S. CITIZEN, without the DOJ doing the investigation in to them, if they found predicate to do an investigation of an American citizen doing business in a foreign country, and the DOJ protecting our citizen's rights in the foreign country, while working with the foreign country's General Prosecutor.

Let alone Trump asking a foreign country that he is claiming is corrupt, to start a criminal investigation of a political rival's son...

that breaks campaign laws as well....

this ALL deserves an impeachment, regardless of what happens in the Senate... or we will have all presidents, continue to be above the law... and no one is above the law,

and most certainly not the president, who actually takes an oath, to faithfully execute the law...imo.

The military and other agencies clear the money for every US President, but other Presidents still held money until whatever it is they were looking at met their satisfaction. Why do you people on the left feel the President has no power in our government just because our President is Trump?

Show me the statue that a President has no right to ask a leader of another country to look into extremely suspicious matters involving our representatives. If Zelensky looked into the matter (which he didn't) and found something a little more concrete than suspicion, THAT'S the time to get other agencies involved. Republicans don't believe in making crimes up without evidence. That's what Nazi left does.

One more time: Trump did not ask for any investigation. He asked Zelensky for a favor to look into it. Impeachment is for high crimes and misdemeanors, neither of which Trump is guilty of.

 

[Paulie]

Members of the POT (party of Trump) and their right wing media cohorts are free to express their opinion that the impeachment inquiry is a sham. But those allegations don't change the constitutional authority given to the House committees to lawfully conduct it. So riddle me this.
We know for an absolute certainty Trump has obstructed the inquiry by refusing to release requested documents and by ordering that subpoenaed witnesses not testify. Therefore, we know one of the articles of impeachment will include a charge of obstruction.
Senate Repubs can disingenuously claim the extortion of Ukraine does not, in their minds, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But how will they get around the fact Trump has obstructed the inquiry?

As an aside, it should be noted the Trump admin may open itself up to the commission of another impeachable offense. The hypocritical Trump lackey known as Lindsey Graham has requested from the State Dept. documents pertaining to Joe Biden's activities with respect to the US government's demands the corrupt prosecutor Shokin be removed from office because he refused to prosecute cases of corruption in Ukraine. If the admin acquiesces to this request while blocking the release of documents sought by the House Intel Committee in the course of its impeachment inquiry it runs the risk of being charged with selectively releasing documents for investigations it favors. Representing yet another abuse of power.

You can't charge a President with obstruction when he exercises his Executive Privilege outlined in the Constitution. The commies in the House do not run the entire government, and get what they want by demands.

But he didn't 'exercise' executive privilege Ray... exercising executive privilege requires the person subpoenaed showing up for the hearing, the President's formal request of executive privilege being in place, and then when questions are asked of the witness, they HAVE TO BE ANSWERED HONESTLY, unless they involve executive privileged things, of which the White House Lawyer sitting near the witness in the hearing objects, and calls executive privilege...

like eric holder, he went before congress, answered lots of questions, but certain things, he called executive privilege on... of which republicans still charged Holder with obstruction of Congress...

all other questions have to be answered...

What this president is claiming is something HE MADE UP, called BLANKET IMMUNITY, saying NONE of the executive branch or administration EVER has to comply with subpoenas of Congress to testify....AND none of the subpoenas for documents of OUR GOVT can be turned over, simply because this wanna be king says so?

DO YOU understand HOW DANGEROUS that is to our Democracy? HOW it breaks the CONSTITUTION regarding equal branches of government and the critical importance of those equal branches, in order to keep us a democratic republic??

Ray, this is serious.... not partisan if you spend one nano second thinking about the precedent and consequences of Trump's overreaching of power. now, and for all future presidents?

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

Yes, it is executive privilege, especially when it's nothing more than another commie witch hunt which this is. There is nothing impeachable if a President withholds money for a short time. Other Presidents have done the same. Even if there was a quid pro quo, it's not illegal. Joe Biden did that and admitted so on record. There is no impeachable offense by our President asking a foreign leader to look into something; he never once used the word "investigation." And bribery is not asking a favor. A favor is an act of friendliness and good will without expectation of anything in return.

So there is nothing Trump did in that phone call or afterwards that is an impeachable offense. The charges made by the commies are all made up. That's a good enough reason for Trump to stop them from trying to get his people. If they had any real charges, that might be one thing. But like the Russia investigation, like the Kavanugh hearing, it's nothing more than another attempt to put Trump in a bad light for political purposes only.

It's what he did long before and right before that phone call, that makes that phone call clear as day, along with his own confession, Mulveney's too, amd Sondland's evidence of who was involved in the conspiracy... All The President's Men....

And then there is Giuliani, his personal Campaign lawyer's involvement....

please spare us this idiocy that this was all on the up and up, and just for the USA and so called corruption in the Ukraine...

of which the Ukraine was CLEARED of corruption and given the ok to receive the military aid money by the Pentagon after their 3 month extensive investigation, BACK IN JUNE 2019, before Trump's call, late July.

AND the president has no power or right to call on a foreign gvt to have their govt investigate ANY U.S. CITIZEN, without the DOJ doing the investigation in to them, if they found predicate to do an investigation of an American citizen doing business in a foreign country, and the DOJ protecting our citizen's rights in the foreign country, while working with the foreign country's General Prosecutor.

Let alone Trump asking a foreign country that he is claiming is corrupt, to start a criminal investigation of a political rival's son...

that breaks campaign laws as well....

this ALL deserves an impeachment, regardless of what happens in the Senate... or we will have all presidents, continue to be above the law... and no one is above the law,

and most certainly not the president, who actually takes an oath, to faithfully execute the law...imo.

Your mistake is thinking this is only about Ukraine. It’s global. Our tax money has been stolen from us for decades under the guise of foreign aid.. not just to Ukraine, but all over the world.

 

[Paulie]

The only thing the Democrats want these witnesses for is to try and get them caught in a perjury trap, or get them to refuse to answer certain questions because of it's executive content. Then the Democrats will run around on MSM claiming Trump's people are hiding something. It's just more dog and pony show for them.

are you actually claiming they are NOT hiding something that is relevant to this inquiry?

They are not. They are simply moving to stymie Schiff's Star Chamber. All witnesses will show for the Senate trial, should the Democrats decide to continue the show.

/——/ How many democRAT Senators would be yanked off the campaign trail for the Senate Trial?

All of them.

Damned if they do and damned if they don’t at this point. It’s already game over and has been for almost 3 years now. Everything we’re watching play out now is simply theater.

 

[Cellblock2429]

are you actually claiming they are NOT hiding something that is relevant to this inquiry?

They are not. They are simply moving to stymie Schiff's Star Chamber. All witnesses will show for the Senate trial, should the Democrats decide to continue the show.

/——/ How many democRAT Senators would be yanked off the campaign trail for the Senate Trial?

All of them.

/—-/ I mean the number, wise guy. How many?

6.

/—-/ So, Old Joe must be licking his chops for a Senate trial.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Members of the POT (party of Trump) and their right wing media cohorts are free to express their opinion that the impeachment inquiry is a sham. But those allegations don't change the constitutional authority given to the House committees to lawfully conduct it. So riddle me this.
We know for an absolute certainty Trump has obstructed the inquiry by refusing to release requested documents and by ordering that subpoenaed witnesses not testify. Therefore, we know one of the articles of impeachment will include a charge of obstruction.
Senate Repubs can disingenuously claim the extortion of Ukraine does not, in their minds, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But how will they get around the fact Trump has obstructed the inquiry?

As an aside, it should be noted the Trump admin may open itself up to the commission of another impeachable offense. The hypocritical Trump lackey known as Lindsey Graham has requested from the State Dept. documents pertaining to Joe Biden's activities with respect to the US government's demands the corrupt prosecutor Shokin be removed from office because he refused to prosecute cases of corruption in Ukraine. If the admin acquiesces to this request while blocking the release of documents sought by the House Intel Committee in the course of its impeachment inquiry it runs the risk of being charged with selectively releasing documents for investigations it favors. Representing yet another abuse of power.

Comrade Traitor. In the Constitution (yes I know, it BURNS) can you point to where the Executive is defined as an inferior branch to Congress? The Stalinist party has run an inquisition against Trump for over three years. Lying Schitt and his Soviet Star Chamber have exactly WHAT legal authority over the executive branch? Tell me, can AG Barr arrest Lying Schitt and Nazi Piloshiti for OBSTRUCTING THE PRESIDENT?

Why, or why not?

Yes, your latest witch trial failed utterly, you're angry and want to lash out at Orange Man Bad.

******* Communist logic:

We tried to LYNCH HIM, but he RUND, so weez GOTTA LYNCH HIM.

 

[Uncensored2008]

It should also be noted that when Mike Pompeo was heading up one of the Benghazi Inquiries, he demanded tens of thousands of documents from the State Department, and then castigated Hillary Clinton's State Department for not producing the documents fast enough, and threatened to charge the Obama Administration with Obstruction of Congress, because they took too long.

Pompeo's State Department has refused to turn over a single document and has tried to block staff from testifying.

Comrade Traitor, is the State Department a co-equal branch of the federal government? Or is it an inferior department?

You Stalinists are dumb as a pile of bricks.

 

[Uncensored2008]

It should also be noted that when Mike Pompeo was heading up one of the Benghazi Inquiries, he demanded tens of thousands of documents from the State Department, and then castigated Hillary Clinton's State Department for not producing the documents fast enough, and threatened to charge the Obama Administration with Obstruction of Congress, because they took too long.

Pompeo's State Department has refused to turn over a single document and has tried to block staff from testifying.

No doubt the hypocrisy of Repubs is just stunning. There are no shortage of examples from Pompeo, Graham, Gowdy, Jordan, etc.
There's going to be a ruling on the McGahn case on Monday. I don't see how the court can rule he will not be compelled to testify unless the decision is left to Trump appointees. Once the ruling is made it gives the obstruction charge even more substantive legal backing. It is not disputable that Trump has obstructed a fully authorized impeachment inquiry...........just as Nixon did. It only takes one count of the articles of impeachment to pass to remove the prez. I don't see how the Repubs can vote against the charge of obstruction without twisting themselves in knots.

The Democrats will never see 67 Senate votes on this matter.

Will Nazi Piloshiti be stupid enough to send it to the Senate? Lying Schitt can't run a Soviet Star Chamber in the Senate. I love the idea of Graham calling all of Lying Schitt's senior staff under oath and questioning them: "When did Congressman Schitt first meet with Eric Ciaramella? Did the Congressman give money or anything of value such as legal counsel to Eric Ciaramella in exchange for the complaint?"

We'll see, but if this goes to the Senate, it will be a total disaster for the Stalinists.

 

[whitehall]

More whining from the let when the political coup isn't going too well. Ho-hum.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Members of the POT (party of Trump) and their right wing media cohorts are free to express their opinion that the impeachment inquiry is a sham. But those allegations don't change the constitutional authority given to the House committees to lawfully conduct it. So riddle me this.
We know for an absolute certainty Trump has obstructed the inquiry by refusing to release requested documents and by ordering that subpoenaed witnesses not testify. Therefore, we know one of the articles of impeachment will include a charge of obstruction.
Senate Repubs can disingenuously claim the extortion of Ukraine does not, in their minds, rise to the level of an impeachable offense. But how will they get around the fact Trump has obstructed the inquiry?

As an aside, it should be noted the Trump admin may open itself up to the commission of another impeachable offense. The hypocritical Trump lackey known as Lindsey Graham has requested from the State Dept. documents pertaining to Joe Biden's activities with respect to the US government's demands the corrupt prosecutor Shokin be removed from office because he refused to prosecute cases of corruption in Ukraine. If the admin acquiesces to this request while blocking the release of documents sought by the House Intel Committee in the course of its impeachment inquiry it runs the risk of being charged with selectively releasing documents for investigations it favors. Representing yet another abuse of power.

You can't charge a President with obstruction when he exercises his Executive Privilege outlined in the Constitution. The commies in the House do not run the entire government, and get what they want by demands.

There is no dispute over whether there is a right for the prez to claim EP regarding certain conversations. But this bogus claim of absolute immunity for members of the admin to keep them from testifying is unprecedented and non-existent. Simply put, there is no such thing. Nixon found that out when the SC unanimously ruled Congress had the right to get the tapes.

Based on WHAT, Comrade Traitor? What obligation does the EXECUTIVE BRANCH have to play along with a Soviet Star Chamber put on by partisan scum on a witch hunt?

None. And you Stalinists know it.

 

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You funny mans.

It's well within Trump's authority to request aid with an investigation. Biden himself had a hand in the treaty.

Text - Treaty Document 106-16 - Treaty with Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters

The phrase you seem unable to understand is "for personal benefit".

Look that up and get back to me.

Good luck in the Senate.

99 percent of the demrat case is hearsay, opinion and hot air. None of which will make it to the senate floor. What most of the so called witnesses said in hearings and what being reported by so called press are two different tales.

That is an outdated talking point dismantled by the testimony given during the Intel Committee hearings. It's origins are found in the efforts to discredit the whistleblower complaint. But the info contained in the complaint has been fully corroborated. We know what happened, when it happened, who was involved in what happened, and who knew about what happened.
However, there is more first hand testimony that could be given were it not for the Obstructionist-in-Chief's refusal to allow people like Bolton to testify. Which is why your erroneous assertion has more than a tinge of irony in it. The right wing complains about a lack of first hand accounts of events while the Orange Turd prevents them from being given.

/—-/ Read the transcript. It blows Shytface‘a narrative out of the water.

1. It's not a transcript.

2. It doesn't run counter to the whistleblower's complaint, and in fact is as incriminating as most of the testimony.