As if this day isn’t crazy enough with impeachment news and a plunging stock market, the 2020 Election had a significant development: Sen. Bernie Sanders, 78, was hospitalized in Las Vegas. “During a campaign event yesterday evening, Sen. Sanders experienced some chest discomfort. Following medical evaluation and testing he was found to have a blockage in one artery and two stents were successfully … Read More
More On “The Coup”
Many developments in the past 12 hours. Let’s start with Trump: 11 tweets in the last hour. 12 if you count the one he delooted. — The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) October 2, 2019 Yeah, he’s been busy. I will get to the “delooted” tweet in a moment ….People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and … Read More
Trump Defense Still Muddled
Mere minutes ago, Trump tweeted this: He’s still with this perplexing defense. It doesn’t matter that the whistleblower had second hand information about the call. We’ve now seen the transcript of the call, and IT IS TROUBLING. How we got here is irrelevant. But even then, the House committees will talk to first hand sources about the call, and there … Read More
Impeachment Weekend
Compared to last week, there was little development over the weekend on the impeachment inquiry, but for a lot of eyes on the Trump team’s defense, as well as GOP reaction in Congress. From the talking heads on Sunday’s news shows, it looks like the Trump team defense is going to be… ineffective. On this particular day, the GOP decided … Read More
Trump Throwing Everything At The Wall Seeing What Will Stick
Trump sounds upset this morning: Donald Trump’s day so far: – Attacks CNN for removing the apostrophe from Liddle’– Refers to the apostrophe as a “hyphen”– Makes up word “discribing”– This is somehow happening– He’s cracking under the pressure of impeachment– Trump is going to prison– It’s still only 7am — Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) September 27, 2019 Yeah, I won’t … Read More
Fruity-G: Rudy Is Mental
Today’s Atlantic: Even among the president’s closest allies, Giuliani is now the subject of scorn. When I reached him by phone this morning, following House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s release of the full whistle-blower complaint at the center of the Ukraine scandal, he was, put simply, very angry. “It is impossible that the whistle-blower is a hero and I’m … Read More
Crazy Day Number Three: Whistleblower Complaint Release; DNI Joseph McGuire Testifies [And Updates]
The whistleblower complaint has been released, and it alleged what we already know about (Trump’s attempt to get Ukraine to investigate Biden), plus more. It talks about how the White House handled records of the conversation and perhaps other conversations. Essentially, the complaint alleges that the White House would “lock down” words of the transcript. The whistle-blower, moreover, identified multiple … Read More
In Other News…
The Senate has voted 54-41 to terminate President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border and to stop the diversion of military funds to pay for a wall along the border.
As Trump-Zelensky Call Is Released, DOJ Quietly Moves To Cover Its Ass
Around the same time, the Justice Department released three important bits of news. First, the DOJ revealed that the inspector general for the intelligence community referred the matter to the Justice Department for a possible criminal campaign violation, but the DOJ judged it was not a campaign finance violation and took no action. According the NY Times, both the Inspector General and … Read More
Document Dump: The Trump-Zelensky Phone Call
Just released by the White House. This is NOT verbatim, as the footnote in the document notes. One could argue that it is a crafty attempt to get us to overlook the ellipses by packing the actual text with completely insane and probably criminal comments. FYI: Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz reveals on @MSNBC that he and other members of Congress … Read More
Pushback
It has been an interesting experience observing the defenses of Trump and his talking heads against the whistleblower and yesterday’s announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry. Absurd almost. Trump’s first tweet about it was saying it was “fake news.” That phrase is almost reflexive now. A few made some half hearted attempts at claiming the “deep state” was involved, although … Read More
Breaking: Pelosi To Call For Impeachment Inquiry; Trump Will Release Transcript Of Zelensky Call And Whistleblower Complaint
The open to @JakeTapper‘s newscast this afternoon: “This is a historic day.” pic.twitter.com/yo7N2qvadM — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 24, 2019 Speaker Pelosi will make a statement at 5 p.m. following the House Democratic Caucus meeting. Advisory coming… — Drew Hammill (@Drew_Hammill) September 24, 2019 Only two presidents have been impeached: Andrew Jackson and Bill Clinton. (Nixon resigned before the House … Read More
Impeachment Murmurs Get Louder
Oh, it’s getting ugly out there. Even at Fox & Friends, they can’t mask the trouble Trump is in: Steve Doocy: “If the President said ‘I will give you the money but you’ve got to investigate Joe Biden,’ that is really off-the-rails wrong.” pic.twitter.com/2lxUPDERJM — TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 24, 2019 Jonah Goldberg, a conservative columnist, says the most noxious … Read More
What Are We Waiting For?
Basically the Democrats want a video of Trump killing a guy with his bare hands, followed by a phone call to Putin where he says,”here is my bank account where you can the deposit the ten million we agreed to.” How cut-and-dried do things have to be before Democrats finally get some balls? It seems the Democratic political ecosystem, though, … Read More