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US Person predicts that a vote by Senate Repugnants to protect an obviously guilty extortioner-in-chief on partisan grounds will not sit well with voters in 2020. Just ask the yahoos at the World Series in Washington, DC who chanted, "Lock him up!" More bad news for the Orange King: a top NSC official identified by ambassador William Taylor, Tim Morrison, witnessed the infamous September 25th telephone call to Ukraine's president in which Il Douche attempted to extort political dirt on Joe Biden in exchange for releasing life-saving military aid. Morrison, through his attorney, said he will honor the House subpoena to testify on Thursday, despite directions from the chief executive to defy legal process.
Breaking: {25.10.19}A federal judge ruled that the Impeachment is de juris, therefore investigating House committees are entitled to review grand jury evidence behind the Mueller investigation. Defenders of King Orange claim the impeachment is a sham because no formal vote was held by the House to begin an inquiry as it did in the Clinton and Nixon impeachments. The ruling by chief judge Beryl A. Howell of the DC federal district court destroys that specious process argument. A floor vote to begin an impeachment inquiry is NOT required by the Constitution or the House's own procedural rules. With the additional evidence now available to support Robert Mueller's conclusion that Il Douche obstructed his investigation, an obstruction article will most likely be included in the final bill of impeachment along with extortion, violation of the oath of office, illegal campaign finance violations, and violation of the "phony" foreign and domestic emolument clauses of the Constitution.
The Repugnants wanted QPQ? They got more than they wanted in the form of sworn testimony from career ambassador William Taylor, who tied the Malignant One directly to an extortion of Ukraine for a damaging political smear of Joe Biden in return for release of military aid it needs to fight the Russians and their militias on their eastern border. What congressional investigators did not get is the paper trail from OMB showing that its director and now acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney withheld, on direct instructions from Il Douche, the military aid appropriated by Congress until Ukraine's government committed publicly to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Obviously Mulvaney is now fearful of self-incrimination and refused to respond to a subpoena for his testimony and supporting documentation. Congressional committees will treat the refusal as a negative inference of his complicity in his boss' criminal conspiracy to influence the 2020 election. The regime feebly attempted to justify the hold up of vital aid as a fight against corruption. But the WaPo has reported that millions in anti-corruption aid to Ukraine was cut from the annual foreign aid budget requests to Congress.
The point that cannot be lost in the avalanche of damaging disclosures concerning the rogue Ukraine policy conducted by goomba Rudy 'Ghoully' and others (e.g. Sondland, Perry) is that the emotionally unstable occupant of the Very White House did the same thing in 2016 when he solicited Russian interference in an election through intermediaries. Arguably, that interference materially aided his election to the high public office he now disgraces. After a counter-espionage investigation was begun by the FBI, the fake mobster made repeated attempts to obstruct the investigation including firing the FBI director, James Comey. The only reason Special Counsel Robert Mueller did not indict Trumpillini for that crime is the "phony" DOJ policy memo which says a sitting president cannot be indicted. This Watergate inspired doctrine has been rejected by the federal district court in Manhattan (now on appeal to the 2nd Circuit)* considering state subpoenas for the Orange King's tax returns as inconsistent with the separation of powers doctrine fundamental to the US system of government. Consequently, obstruction of the Mueller investigation should be included in any bill of impeachment to come out of the House. US Person says: Look Nancy, the evidence of obstruction is already there without McGann's testimony, so use it. The Republic's survival depends upon it!
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*There, Trumpillini's lawyers made the ridiculous argument that a sitting president is absolutely immune from legal process. One only has to look at history to see that the argument's only merit is to delay an impeachment trial in the Senate. The Orange King boasted about getting away with shooting someone on 5th Avenue, about which a Circuit court judge had the audacity to ask his lawyers if the state would be powerless in that event. Imagine the judge's incredulity when His Yugeness' mouthpiece answered in the affirmative! In 1804 Arron Burr, Vice President of the United States, actually shot and killed Alexander Hamilton on the New Jersey Palisades in a duel. New Jersey promptly indicted him for murder. New York did too, but realizing the mistake since the killing took place in New Jersey, re-indicted him for the misdemeanor of issuing an invitation to duel in New York. Burr fled south to St. Simons' Island, Georgia to wait out the aftermath. Neither indictment resulted in his conviction. Repugnants are notoriously fond of historic precedent when it suits their political ends.