'Toontime: Double Whammy

More: If you read anything on line today, Monday, read this: https://history.house.gov/Institution/Impeachment/Impeachment-List/ Richard Nixon is not on the list because he resigned before a vote on a bill of impeachment was held on the floor of the House (the Judiciary Committee had voted to pass on three articles of impeachment, then the Supreme Court forced the turnover of the 'smoking gun', secret White House tapes). There is no doubt the vote would have been in favor of a referral to the Senate, since Democrats, then as now, controlled the House of Representatives. The important point is that no other president has ever been accused of jeopardizing national security to obtain advantage over a political rival by soliciting the aid of a foreign government in an election.  Nixon's abuse of power was solely domestic. As US Person has stated before, Trump's "Russia Connection" is worse than Watergate.

{29.09.19}You know Il Douche is afraid of impeachment now, after his attempted shake-down of Ukraine for personal gain is exposed.  He ludicrously tried to accuse Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) of "TREASON" and "lying to Congress" for accurately summarizing his conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Il Douche is certainly NOT a lawyer; and he has no understanding of not using his office for personal advantage BECAUSE HE DID IT AGAIN WITH AUSTRALIA! No other modern president has refused to completely divest themselves of control of their businesses. That is the case because he intended to use the prerogatives and publicity attached to the office to promote the Trump Organization from the beginning of his bizarre political odyssey; unfortunately for the Republic, the rubes fell for it.

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Wackydoodle sez: Now that's slow walkin!

{28.09.2019}Now that a whistle blower has provided the "smoking gun", the impeachers in the House should not ignore the abundant record evidence of Il Douche's crimes and misdemeanors already provided by Robert Mueller.  The telephone call to Ukraine's president to "do us a favor" merely corroborates Il Douche's willingness to criminally corrupt the US election process through foreign influence which dates back to the Russian offer of assistance to his 2016 campaign.  His consistently corrupt state of mind was also admirably exposed in an interview with George Stephanopolis wherein he stated he would be willing to receive political dirt from a foreign country, and that he never called the FBI in his life.

Chairman Jerry Nadler stressed in a private meeting with his Judiciary Committee, which has the constitutional authority to recommend impeachment articles to the full House, that the House should not sideline other potentially impeachable offenses, including those outlined in the Mueller report and allegations that Trump is violating the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses of the Constitution.  US Person has one question for Ms. Nancy: where is the freakin' resolution of the House convening an official Impeachment Inquiry?  You have the votes now!  Do you expect a federal judge reviewing a Judiciary committee subpoena or habeas writ to take your word for it?

The process is now moving at comparative 'ludicrous' speed, after being stalled over the summer by the House leadership with new subpoenas issued to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and evidentiary preservation orders issued to the White House.  Testimony from officials mentioned in the corruption complaint is scheduled next week before the House Foreign Relations Committee.  One of those, Special Envoy for the Ukraine, Kurt Volker, resigned his post on Friday.  New players have also been snared in the growing net of exposed corruption:  Attorney General William Barr, consiglierie Rudy 'Ghouly' Guliani, and unnamed sources in the White House who provided information to the CIA whistle blower*.

Chairman Schiff, who now has the lead investigative role in the House, will keep his Intelligence Committee working over the two week recess.  Significantly, three investigating committee chairs wrote the State Department that, “The subpoenaed documents shall be part of the impeachment inquiry and shared among the committees. Your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the House’s impeachment inquiry." The whistle blower complaint is better than an eighteen minute gap. It is next to self-incrimination by Il Douche. His message to Zelensky was crystal: cough up dirt on Joe Biden, or no anti-tank missiles to fight the Russians crossing your eastern boarder.

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BC Idonwanna sez: Speaker have strong back!

*Not only did Il Douche illegally try to extort an in-kind campaign contribution from the Ukrainian president in the form of an Ukrainian investigation of Joe Biden, but his underlings in the Very White House abused the national security apparatus to cover-up his criminality and abuse of power. If House investigators are successful in dislodging Trump's verbatim transcripts from beyond-top-secret storage on the stand alone server maintained exclusively by the NSC, US Person predicts here that they will find equally illegal deal making with Russian President Vladimir Putin based upon Don Veto Trumpillini's life long pattern of corrupt behavior and mobster mentality. In a blatant demonstration of just how damning this evidence is, Il Douche, in true mobster style, attempted to intimidate White House personnel who may have given information to the CIA whistle blower.