Pelosi's Delay Was Because They Needed To Get Their Fake Stories Lined Up

[mudwhistle]

Do you honestly think that Donald Trump "knows" everyone who has had their picture taken with him?

Jesus.

I am willing to bet if Parnas had multiple pictures of him with Obama or Hillary -- you wouldn't say what you are saying now...stop being a hack.....

Parnas was brought into Trump's circle by Trump's own attorney.....blame him if you don't like the blowback from the people Trump associates himself with....Democrats didn't force Giuliani to buddy up with Lev and Igor..

Yeah....but the guy is under indictment...which makes him a classic target for bribery....which is one of Obama's specialties.

What does Obama's specialties mean?? Do you allow this time of dumb shit to fly in other aspects of your life??

If you found texts of your wife that showed she was having an affair...and when you confront her, she says...."It's Obama and the Deep State" -- are you going to be like..."you might be right, that is one of his specialties"

Why do you people avoid the theory of Occam's razor when it relates to your cult leader??

If Obama's personal lawyer was indicted..and that lawyer began to give evidence against Obama -- none of you will be dismissing it like you are dismissing things for Trump now...

Obama tried to bribe his pastor Jeremiah Wright into keeping silent. $150,000.00 Did Obama really try to bribe Jeremiah Wright?

 

[joaquinmiller]

Concerning the fake opinion of the GAO:

January 18, 2020
Deep Statism behind the GAO’s decision about Trump’s Ukraine funding
By Andrea Widburg


Democrats adored the Government Accountability Office press release reporting that Trump broke the law when he failed immediately to disburse the funds Congress had allocated to Ukraine. It didn’t matter that the GAO was in such a hurry to get the word out that it didn’t have an opinion prepared. What mattered was to smear Trump as quickly as possible. Here, said Democrats in Congress and the media, was more proof that Trump must be impeached.

Fortunately, sensible conservatives have learned to wait before panicking. Within hours, Joel Pollak was able to detail the seven times the GAO tagged President Obama for breaking federal laws without any repercussions:

Nevertheless, if a mere GAO finding is sufficient to justify impeachment, then President Barack Obama ought to have been impeached at least seven times over for each of the following cases in which the GAO found that the Obama administration had violated federal law.

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and United States Secret Service (USSS) were found to have violated section 503 of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, and the Antideficiency Act, in 2009 after the Secret Service reported that it had overspent on candidate protection in 2008 by $5,100,000, and used money from another program to cover the shortfall. DHS failed to notify Congress 15 days in advance of the “reprogramming.”
• The Department of the Treasury was found to have violated the Antideficiency Act in 2014 when it used the voluntary services of four individuals. “Treasury did not appoint any of the individuals to federal employment, nor did any individual qualify as a student who may, under certain circumstances, perform voluntary service,” the GAO found, adding that there was no emergency that might have justified using the individuals to perform several months of work without receiving pay.
• The Department of Defense was found to have violated the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014 and the Antideficiency Act in the infamous Bowe Bergdahl swap, when President Barack Obama traded five high-level Taliban detainees for a U.S. Army deserter. The administration transferred the five Taliban from Guantanamo Bay without notifying relevant congressional committees 30 days in advance, as required by law. Republicans complained; Democrats were silent.

(You can see the other four violations here.)

It’s also entirely possible that the GAO’s anti-Trump animus led it into making a legal error.

The money for Ukraine was part of Public Law 116-6, which Trump signed in February 2019. The law does not state deadlines for releasing some or all of the funds. It says only that the funds must be disbursed before the end of the fiscal year. Trump released them in September 2019, long before the fiscal year ended.

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (“ICA”), which the GAO cites to support its eventual decision, states a procedure if the President will hold onto the funds after the fiscal year ends. However, the ICA's language does not require the President to release the funds on a specific point before the fiscal year ends. Nor is their any language stating that the President must notify Congress if he merely considers taking advantage of the procedure to delay disbursing funds until after the fiscal year ends.

The GAO also errs when it claims that the ICA does not allow temporary holds on funds during the fiscal year for “policy reasons.” That’s not in the ICA, and 2 U.S.C. § 683 states the opposite:

Whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons. . . . (Emphasis added.)

In other words, it appears that the GAO cherry-picked legislative history to add restrictions that are not in the statute’s plain text, which is a no-no in statutory interpretation. Moreover, David Rivkin points out that presidents have often used foreign policy decisions (which are part of their constitutional purview) to determine how to disburse foreign aid..................

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...os_decision_about_trumps_ukraine_funding.html​

What crap! The blogger says, "It didn’t matter that the GAO was in such a hurry to get the word out that it didn’t have an opinion prepared."

The GAO issued its opinion on Jan. 16, 2020. What won't you swallow?

Yep...thanks for the info.....issued it's opinion around the time Pelosi announced she was turning the articles of impeachment over.
Why didn't they issue this bullshit announcement before the impeachment hearings were voted on????
The so-called crime happened in September of 2019. What took them so long?

I don't know about its schedule. I do know it had issued an opinion while your source was claiming it had not. Would you have liked the opinion sooner? Or perhaps never?

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Do you honestly think that Donald Trump "knows" everyone who has had their picture taken with him?

Jesus.

I am willing to bet if Parnas had multiple pictures of him with Obama or Hillary -- you wouldn't say what you are saying now...stop being a hack.....

Parnas was brought into Trump's circle by Trump's own attorney.....blame him if you don't like the blowback from the people Trump associates himself with....Democrats didn't force Giuliani to buddy up with Lev and Igor..

Yeah....but the guy is under indictment...which makes him a classic target for bribery....which is one of Obama's specialties.

What does Obama's specialties mean?? Do you allow this time of dumb shit to fly in other aspects of your life??

If you found texts of your wife that showed she was having an affair...and when you confront her, she says...."It's Obama and the Deep State" -- are you going to be like..."you might be right, that is one of his specialties"

Why do you people avoid the theory of Occam's razor when it relates to your cult leader??

If Obama's personal lawyer was indicted..and that lawyer began to give evidence against Obama -- none of you will be dismissing it like you are dismissing things for Trump now...

Obama tried to bribe his pastor Jeremiah Wright into keeping silent. $150,000.00 Did Obama really try to bribe Jeremiah Wright?

No, Obama didn't bribe pastor Wright.....but if that makes you feel better to believe...cool...

but ask yourself....

Did he do it with a check like this and it ended up with his personal lawyer going to prison??

 

[wamose]

All the operatives on both sides are looking for a story they can use to defame their opponent. It just so happens that old Lev has some crime issues and no doubt some money issues as well. That makes him a prime candidate to perjure himself for a little coin. Lev obviously doesn't shy away from crime. But if either party pays him to perjure himself, they have to be held accountable.

 

[mudwhistle]

Concerning the fake opinion of the GAO:

January 18, 2020
Deep Statism behind the GAO’s decision about Trump’s Ukraine funding
By Andrea Widburg


Democrats adored the Government Accountability Office press release reporting that Trump broke the law when he failed immediately to disburse the funds Congress had allocated to Ukraine. It didn’t matter that the GAO was in such a hurry to get the word out that it didn’t have an opinion prepared. What mattered was to smear Trump as quickly as possible. Here, said Democrats in Congress and the media, was more proof that Trump must be impeached.

Fortunately, sensible conservatives have learned to wait before panicking. Within hours, Joel Pollak was able to detail the seven times the GAO tagged President Obama for breaking federal laws without any repercussions:

Nevertheless, if a mere GAO finding is sufficient to justify impeachment, then President Barack Obama ought to have been impeached at least seven times over for each of the following cases in which the GAO found that the Obama administration had violated federal law.

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and United States Secret Service (USSS) were found to have violated section 503 of the Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, and the Antideficiency Act, in 2009 after the Secret Service reported that it had overspent on candidate protection in 2008 by $5,100,000, and used money from another program to cover the shortfall. DHS failed to notify Congress 15 days in advance of the “reprogramming.”
• The Department of the Treasury was found to have violated the Antideficiency Act in 2014 when it used the voluntary services of four individuals. “Treasury did not appoint any of the individuals to federal employment, nor did any individual qualify as a student who may, under certain circumstances, perform voluntary service,” the GAO found, adding that there was no emergency that might have justified using the individuals to perform several months of work without receiving pay.
• The Department of Defense was found to have violated the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014 and the Antideficiency Act in the infamous Bowe Bergdahl swap, when President Barack Obama traded five high-level Taliban detainees for a U.S. Army deserter. The administration transferred the five Taliban from Guantanamo Bay without notifying relevant congressional committees 30 days in advance, as required by law. Republicans complained; Democrats were silent.

(You can see the other four violations here.)

It’s also entirely possible that the GAO’s anti-Trump animus led it into making a legal error.

The money for Ukraine was part of Public Law 116-6, which Trump signed in February 2019. The law does not state deadlines for releasing some or all of the funds. It says only that the funds must be disbursed before the end of the fiscal year. Trump released them in September 2019, long before the fiscal year ended.

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (“ICA”), which the GAO cites to support its eventual decision, states a procedure if the President will hold onto the funds after the fiscal year ends. However, the ICA's language does not require the President to release the funds on a specific point before the fiscal year ends. Nor is their any language stating that the President must notify Congress if he merely considers taking advantage of the procedure to delay disbursing funds until after the fiscal year ends.

The GAO also errs when it claims that the ICA does not allow temporary holds on funds during the fiscal year for “policy reasons.” That’s not in the ICA, and 2 U.S.C. § 683 states the opposite:

Whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons. . . . (Emphasis added.)

In other words, it appears that the GAO cherry-picked legislative history to add restrictions that are not in the statute’s plain text, which is a no-no in statutory interpretation. Moreover, David Rivkin points out that presidents have often used foreign policy decisions (which are part of their constitutional purview) to determine how to disburse foreign aid..................

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...os_decision_about_trumps_ukraine_funding.html​

What crap! The blogger says, "It didn’t matter that the GAO was in such a hurry to get the word out that it didn’t have an opinion prepared."

The GAO issued its opinion on Jan. 16, 2020. What won't you swallow?

Yep...thanks for the info.....issued it's opinion around the time Pelosi announced she was turning the articles of impeachment over.
Why didn't they issue this bullshit announcement before the impeachment hearings were voted on????
The so-called crime happened in September of 2019. What took them so long?

I don't know about its schedule. I do know it had issued an opinion while your source was claiming it had not. Would you have liked the opinion sooner? Or perhaps never?

There's alot that you don't know or care to pay attention to.

 

[mudwhistle]

Do you honestly think that Donald Trump "knows" everyone who has had their picture taken with him?

Jesus.

I am willing to bet if Parnas had multiple pictures of him with Obama or Hillary -- you wouldn't say what you are saying now...stop being a hack.....

Parnas was brought into Trump's circle by Trump's own attorney.....blame him if you don't like the blowback from the people Trump associates himself with....Democrats didn't force Giuliani to buddy up with Lev and Igor..

Yeah....but the guy is under indictment...which makes him a classic target for bribery....which is one of Obama's specialties.

What does Obama's specialties mean?? Do you allow this time of dumb shit to fly in other aspects of your life??

If you found texts of your wife that showed she was having an affair...and when you confront her, she says...."It's Obama and the Deep State" -- are you going to be like..."you might be right, that is one of his specialties"

Why do you people avoid the theory of Occam's razor when it relates to your cult leader??

If Obama's personal lawyer was indicted..and that lawyer began to give evidence against Obama -- none of you will be dismissing it like you are dismissing things for Trump now...

Obama tried to bribe his pastor Jeremiah Wright into keeping silent. $150,000.00 Did Obama really try to bribe Jeremiah Wright?

No, Obama didn't bribe pastor Wright.....but if that makes you feel better to believe...cool...

but ask yourself....

Did he do it with a check like this and it ended up with his personal lawyer going to prison??
View attachment 301070

Wow.....Cohen is one of Trump's lawyers.....and he produces a check that doesn't say what it was for.
Now that's some pretty weak evidence.

Well....at least you can't claim Trump was guilty of income tax evasion.....or trying to hide the payment.....whatever it was meant for.
And.....a Trump check signed by Trump isn't proof that Trump actually handed this to Cohen.
I get these kinds of checks from the federal government all of the time....but I can't say that Trump handed it to me personally.

 

[Crepitus]

The problem with every one of the Democrat Party's scams is that they seem too well timed. On the surface they appear difficult to believe....but they always seem to have someone ready to make a public announcement in the press that supports whatever fraudulent issue they're pushing at the moment. You have to assume the worst of Donald J. Trump to believe that he is guilty of these horrible crimes....but that's been the plan all along. That is why they've been trashing the president in the press to such an extent. To create hatred in the public. That way...anything they make up could be believable. Classic brainwashing 101.

Everyone was shocked that Nancy Pelosi withheld turning over the articles of impeachment for roughly a month. Some people thought she was going to use it to hang over the head of the president forever and never turn them over to the Senate and not have her shoddy work exposed. Well, in part, that's what she eventually admitted to. She bragged on news programs and HBO that Donald Trump was now impeached "FOREVER"....fulfilling predictions that most on the right had been making since the left started making accusations of their so-called impeachable offenses. The impeachment was admittedly purely political. The impeachment is, according to Pelosi, "sad and tragic, and follows the constitution.....but TRUMP IS NOW IMPEACHED FOREVER!!!" This appears to be the only promise that Pelosi has delivered to her voters....a clown-show impeachment using fake evidence that is pure hearsay and based on nothing but opinion.

Pelosi claimed that she wanted fairness when she hung onto the articles. Everyone laughed at her weak attempts to bully the Senate. Now we discover that the delay was for several other reasons....but the primary reason was so they could plan media releases that supported their positions.

They had to get their phony Ducks in a row first.

Some people even claim it was because her custom made gold pens hadn't arrived from Amazon yet. But what they really wanted to do was get a witness who wasn't even at the trial to drop a bombshell. So right on cue, the very day they announced they would be turning over the articles, one miraculously drops.

Fake news story #1 - So-called Trump insider Lev Parnas claimed to the press that he knew Trump knew everything.....but what we have discovered is Lev Parnas has never met Trump and is currently under indictment for criminal activity. This is their bombshell witness. Someone who never had to be put under oath. Only an idiot with TSP would buy this load of crap. Not only did the Dems use someone who was never under oath as an outside witness...but this guy is a Russian born operative.

GOOD GOD!!!! The Democrats have some balls. I bet their supporters on the left think this is brilliant. The primary difference between Lev Parnas and Michael Cohen is he's Russian Soviet. Democrats can always find a felon that's willing to spill the beans for a few inducements....maybe a lighter sentence. But now they're importing them.

Fake news story #2 - The GAO claims that Trump broke the law when he withheld funds to Ukraine. Problem with this story is they had to cherry pick the law to be able to make this claim. Who cares that Public Law 116-6 supports the president's right to hold onto funds for any reason he deems necessary. A law signed by Trump in 2019. Text - H.J.Res.31 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019

The law does not state deadlines for releasing some or all of the funds. It says only that the funds must be disbursed before the end of the fiscal year. Trump released them in September 2019, long before the fiscal year ended.​

Links

Who is Lev Parnas? Soviet-born operator thrust into Trump impeachment scandal

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/pelosis_pen_not_mightier_than_trumps_sword.html

Text - H.J.Res.31 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019

So what you're saying is "it's a conspiracy".