Probably Not a Big Deal
Breaking news this morning:
US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland has been told by the State Department to not appear this morning before the House.
Sondland was set to be on the hot seat Tuesday as House investigators pressed him about text messages he exchanged related to President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the freezing of foreign aid to Ukraine.
It’s really not a very big deal. They are probably just doing it because he has something to hide.
Trump tweets the reason —
… he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican’s rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out …
Wait, wait. We removed the Republican congressmen from the committee? We don’t let them ask questions?
So who’s keeping a list of the Articles of Impeachment? Add this.
Power of the purse; defund State, and any other department who won’t do their Constitutional duty.
1https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/eu-ambassador-coordinated-ukraine-scheme-on-personal-cell-phone-state-dept-wont-turn-over-to-congress-schiff/
2All those impeachable offenses are adding up. It won’t be long before they look like the Big Stack of pancakes at IHOP!
3Can’t State Department officials be arrested for obstructing testimony?
4IDK, isn’t ordering someone to violate a subpoena illegal?
5Gravedigger of impeachment: Mitch McConnell has already agreed to whitewash Trump.
“Time after time, the president came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he had the opportunity to choose the noble and honorable path. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness — for the simple reason that he did not want to endanger his hold on public office.”
— Sen. Mitch McConnell on Bill Clinton in 1999.
6OT monster scam #35 – Leave the bitches holding the bag.
Minnesota Cheek –
Edit:
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign would love to flip in 2020 — and a Trump rally was scheduled for this Thursday, October 10 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. But Trump’s reelection campaign, according to Minneapolis’ KTTC-TV, is threatening to sue the Target Center for asking the campaign to pay for expenses associated with the event up front.
KTTC reports that in a letter sent to the Target Center on Monday, the 2020 Trump campaign alleges that it was asked to pay $530,000 up front to cover security and other expenses and would withhold use of the facility if it didn’t receive that payment.
And in the letter, according to KTTC, Trump’s campaign describes the bill as “an outrageous abuse of power by a liberal mayor trying to deny the rights of his own city’s residents just because he hates the president” and notes that the U.S. Secret Service handles security-related costs of such events.
Why you goddamn Democrat!
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was elected in 2017 as a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), which was formed in 1944 when the Minnesota Democratic Party merged with the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party. Before becoming mayor, Frey served in the Minneapolis City Council.
Located in Downtown Minneapolis, the Target Center is an arena that is often used for sporting events as well as concerts.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/trump-campaign-threatens-to-sue-minneapolis-target-center-for-asking-them-to-pay-530000-in-rally-related-expenses-up-front/
7Is there anybody left who CAN arrest the scofflaws and enforce the investigation? Trump is not only drunk with power, he’s also delirious.
8Somebody needed footnotes with his script of talking points this AM. A malicious Captain Kangeroo? We only had three channels back then, which one was Gaetz watching? (Rhetorical question. Captain Kangeroo was ancient history to Gaetz, somewhere between the construction of Egyptian pyramids and six transistor radios)
Matt Gaetz: “What we see in this impeachment is a kangaroo court and Chairman Schiff is acting like a malicious Captain Kangaroo.”
9Megasoid #8 – about time rally venues are paid in advance for this scofflaw team! So many people and organizations have been stiffed that this should be the rule for all rallies. Good for Mayor Frey for protecting his city from this expense because we know that Team45 won’t pay after the fact!
10maggie @3,
This Trumpian-Rethuglican crap looks and smells like a ‘Big Stack of Cowpatties’ in a stygian feedlot [extra-sulfurous, since the debbil is a frequent guest at TH & Mar-a-Pendejo].
It’s past time for the House Democrats to bullwhack their sorry asses and neuter ’em all, particularly to gomerize the Bullshitter-in-Chief, which should be a trivial job once begun [he of the ‘tiny bits’ in reality].
The timid Dems reallyreally need to start playing hardball for keeps, there is only one way to deal with this enemy, pure raw force and power. Cut ’em off, lock ’em up, expose ’em, kick ’em in the ‘nads, nuke ’em, whatever it takes. This is war, it’s no longer a ‘gentlemen’s disagreement’ like those of sixty years ago.”Pelota Maya”, beat ’em and cut their heads off.
Cool place:
11https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GreatBallCourt-interior.jpg
I’m curious — can a person who’s a former administration official but currently NOT one be ordered by the administration not to testify or respond to a subpoena?
12I keep watching the obstruction or other impeachable offenses happen and I wonder if it is the strategy to delay any impeachment efforts. After all, how can they decide and vote on the actual charges when each day there is new evidence to add?
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