The 149th Week of Donald's Derp

[JackLuis]

45 years after Nixon, another US president faces impeachment

On August 7, 1974, a trio of top Republican leaders went to the White House and told President Richard Nixon that party support was eroding and impeachment was inevitable.

He resigned the next day.

Fast forward 45 years, and another US president, Donald Trump, is facing impeachment by the House of Representatives and a potential trial in the Senate.

Unlike Nixon, however, Trump appears to enjoy — at least for the time being — the support of Republican lawmakers, and has given no hint that he’ll buckle in the face of what he calls a partisan “witch hunt.”
“Partisanship is so much stronger today than it was back in the days of Watergate.”

Trump is accused of withholding vital military aid from Ukraine, a country at war with Russia, in a bid to elicit political dirt on potential 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden.

Adam Schiff, chairman of the Democratic-controlled House committee conducting the impeachment inquiry, claimed that Trump’s conduct goes “beyond anything Nixon did.”

“What we’ve seen here is far more serious than a third-rate burglary of the Democratic headquarters,” Schiff said in a reference to the 1972 breakin.

“One is just about domestic politics,” Caldera said, while Trump “withheld military aid to an ally at war.”

“He’s not advancing legitimate US national or foreign policy ends,” he said. “He’s basically trying to stir the pot to create problems for a political rival.”
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At the end of the day, Caldera said, Democrats — with or without a smoking gun — are going to have to “convince the American people that what was done (by Trump) was an abuse of power.”

“If there’s public support for impeachment, than that creates the cover for Republican members to be courageous,” he said. “Without that, they’re not going to be courageous.”

Some might call it TREASON!

 

[JackLuis]

Mike Pompeo: Secretary of nothing — and a disgrace to West Point


State Department documents released are only the beginning: group says


EXPOSED: Paper trail between Pompeo, Giuliani and Trump revealed in State Department documents

Pompeo is just holding on because he can not find a lifeboat!

 

[JackLuis]

#NunesResign trends as indicted Giuliani associate implicates top Republican in effort to dig up Biden dirt


Nunes busted on MSNBC: Devin Nunes isn’t just covering for Trump — he’s ‘covering for himself’


Nunes could be in as much trouble as Trump over Ukraine: Former prosecutor says he may have committed a federal crime

The sheer hypocrisy that he has shown up on his high horse over the last couple weeks, preaching what’s right and wrong and conspiracy theories, turns out, according to Parnas, he was trying to do the exact same thing that’s on trial here,”

Resign Now Devin, or go down in flames!

 

[JackLuis]

The 149th week starts out pretty shitty for Rethuglicunts!

Trump is self-confessed guilty of extortion of an ally in time of war!

Pompeo is exposed as a 'do nothing' bystander in the disintegration of the State Department!

Nunes is exposed as a hypocrite and accessory to treason.

Pence is implicated and starting to squirm!

Rudy is hip deep in what ever he was cooking up with the Chuckle Fucks. Under investigation!

Barr is wondering how he can avoid the indictments.

The Senate is investigating who jiggered the Trump and Pence Tax Audits?

So Saturday is off to a great Start.

 

[jaF0]

Now listen here see... The Enforcer, see, he's got the dish on the Don see....


Rudy Insists He Has 'Insurance' on Trump
Newsmax | Sat Nov 23, 2019 21:18 UTC

President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani seems to suggest he's got dirt on his client that will keep him from turning on the former mayor of New York City.In an interview with Fox News

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/rudygiuliani-levparnas-corruption-lawyer/2019/11/23/id/943047/

So, like maybe the Enforcer needs some .... protection or something, like from a falling house, or flying monkeys.

 

[jaF0]

Rudy Giuliani Appeared to 'Publicly Blackmail' President Trump For the Second Time In Fox News Interview
Law & Crime | Sat Nov 23, 2019 21:00 UTC

Appearing on Fox News Saturday morning, Rudy Giuliani made comments that several legal experts said amounted to blackmailing President Trump.


Rudee, Rudee, Rudeeeee!!!

 

[KeithD]

I have no problem with them both going down together. I suspect Rudi has to stand in line with the dirt he has on Trump. Of course, Cohen spilled the beans on the dirt he did together with Trump--to Trump's benefit--and it's Cohen of the two who is in prison so far. So far.

 

[jaF0]

Report: Defense chief, Joint Chiefs chairman raised concerns on Navy SEAL case
San Jose Mercury | Sat Nov 23, 2019 22:30 UTC

Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley have raised serious concerns with the White House in the last 48 hours after President Donald Trump signaled he would block the Navy from ejecting Eddie Gallagher from the SEALs, ...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11...s-chairman-raised-concerns-on-navy-seal-case/

 

[phrodeau]

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...onway-must-have-done-some-bad-things-to-crazy

"Kellyanne is great but she’s married to a total whack job. I think, she must have done some number on him, Ainsley," Trump told "Fox & Friends" co-host Ainsley Earhardt.
"I don’t know what Kellyanne did to that guy because I don’t even know him … he’s got to be some kind of a nut job," Trump continued. "She must have done some bad things to him because that guy’s crazy."

Lock her up!

 

[JackLuis]

Giuliani-Chucklefux-Hairball Lawyers-Dmitry Firtash Traveling Band: Now With MORE COWBELL!

HOLY COW! Devin Nunes is even deeper in the manure than even we thought! In a massive Friday night news dump (betcha Daily Beast was hot on their trail), CNN busted the GOP plot to smear Joe Biden wide open. Remember Thursday the Beast reported Devin's four-day, taxpayer-funded field trip facilitated by Lev Parnas to A COUNTRY in Europe last December? Well! Turns out Devin and three congressional aides spent $4,000 per day, per person, of your money to jet off to Vienna and pump corrupt former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for dirt on Joe Biden. So Nunes has been part of this drug deal from the very beginning.

"Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December," Parnas's lawyer Joseph Bondy told CNN. So a full year ago, before Joe Biden had even declared his candidacy, Devin Nunes was using government resources to smear him in cahoots with the president's former attorney and his Ukrainian-American fixer? Cool, cool.

Wonkette has been following the Rudy & the Chuckelfucks for some time and has linked in the Nunes link to Parnas which predated Old Handsome Joe's entry to the Presidential race!

Rudy is involved so you know this is a clusterfuck of clusterfuckery!

 

[KeithD]

https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...onway-must-have-done-some-bad-things-to-crazy


Lock her up!

I think Trump must be salivating for Kellyanne to do bad things to him too--not when Melania is around, of course.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump and the ‘imposter syndrome’: Living life in fear of being exposed as a fraud

A few days ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strongly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s totally wrong and inappropriate Twitter attack on a long-serving U.S. diplomat during the impeachment procedures. Referring to the President, she said:

"He should not frivolously throw out insults. But that’s what he does. I think part of it is his own insecurity as an impostor. I think he knows full well that he’s in that office way over his head, and so he has to diminish everyone else."

The article is the usual psyco-babble about how fucked up the PeeResident is. The short form is this fucker's nutz, needs to be removed from office, and it made absolutely sure he will never return.

But we will have to wait until the Senate is ready to dump his carcass on the waste dump of history.

 

[jaF0]

Another swamp creature headed for the vacuum?

Prosecutors zero in on Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg
The CT Mirror | Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:00 UTC

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.'s criminal investigation of the Trump Organization is scrutinizing the actions of one of the president's oldest and most trusted deputies, CFO Allen Weisselberg,

 

[JackLuis]

Donald Trump and his insane clown posse

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/jordan_commondreamsphoto-400x240.jpg
I post this a bit of humour, as Headline of the week. Accurate article too.

 

[JackLuis]

Bill Moyers: Nixon ‘never admitted his crimes’ — while ‘Trump announced his in public’

Following a week of public impeachment hearings in the House Intelligence Committee, renowned public broadcast journalist Bill Moyers on Friday expressed alarm at President Donald Trump’s attacks on the witnesses who came forward to inform the public about the president’s misconduct in office—and the complicity of top administration officials.

“For President Trump to vigorously denigrate them, to malign them, with [Trump’s personal attorney Rudy] Giuliani leading a smear campaign against these fine public servants, is disgusting, it’s repulsive, it’s abominable,” Moyers said in an interview with MSNBC‘s Chris Hayes late Friday.

Trump confessed in public and Mick confirmed he did it on Nation Wide TV! "Lock 'em up, Danno!"

 

[JackLuis]

Rudy Giuliani appeared to be ‘unraveling at the seams’ during Fox News interview: presidential historian

Appearing on CNN’s “New Day” early Sunday morning, noted presidential historian Douglas Brinkley marveled at the continued appearances by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in support of Donald Trump calling it a “weird dog and pony show” being put on by the two.

Speaking with hosts Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul, Brinkley noted that Giuliani — who appeared on Fox News on Saturday and made a veiled threat at Trump — appears to be “unraveling.”

Rudy has slyly said he has Insurance to avoid being under the Bus. Will the Trumpster call his bluff?

 

[JackLuis]

Nunes goes off on CNN with accusation of ‘criminal activity’ for reporting on Ukraine meeting

In a telephone interview with Fox Business host Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, embattled Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) accused CNN of engaging in criminal activity for reporting that the attorney for Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas said the lamwmaker met with a corrupt Ukraine official in Vienna.

Asked by the Fox host, “Bottom line, were you in Vienna with Shokin?” Nunes demurred before going on a bit of a rant.

“I really want to answer all of these questions, and I promise you I absolutely will come back on the show and answer these questions, but because there is criminal activity here, we’re working with the appropriate law enforcement agencies, we’re going to file all this, everyone is going to know the truth, everybody is going to know all the facts, but I think you can understand that I can’t compete by trying to debate this out with the public media when 90% of the media are totally corrupt,” he explained before adding, “And because this is criminal in nature and because it’s so bad, it’s so slanderous, we’ve got all the facts on our side, and we’re going to file in federal court because I’m not going to sit here and try to compete against the media that I have no chance of winning this.

Nunes mocked for CNN lawsuit threat over Ukraine report: ‘He also sued a fake cow, so there’s that’

The Freak from Fresno is at it again!

 

[bodysong]

November 24, 2019

Devin Nunes Spent $57,000 on Flights to Europe

Reports filed with the Office of the Clerk for the House of Representatives
show that Nunes claimed expenses for a four-day trip to Europe at the time
in question between November 30 and December 3.

Four entries for "commercial airfare" were claimed for Scott Glabe,
George Pappas, Derek Harvey and Nunes himself.

Each claimed $14,201.43 for their visit—which included daily allowances—
and came to a total of $56,805.72.

https://www.newsweek.com/devin-nunes-spent-57000-flights-europe-allegedly-investigate-bidens-1473765

Just want to point out that Devin Nunes spent nearly $57,000 of taxpayer
money for the flight(s) he took with his 3 aides to allegedly dig for dirt
on the Bidens.
— Avi Bueno (@Avi_Bueno) November 24, 2019

"To put this into perspective, $57,000 is the average annual salary in Devin Nunes​' district."

November 23, 2019

#NunesResign Trends

If this CNN report is accurate, that would mean that Nunes and his colleagues
sat there every day accusing Schiff of meeting with the whistleblower (he didn’t)
and never disclosed that Nunes met with Shokin to get dirt on Biden.

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) November 23, 2019

 

[JackLuis]

Kellyanne Conway Struggles to Defend Trump's DNC Server Conspiracy Theory on ‘Face the Nation’

KAC hacks up a hairball and tries to look pleased with herself.

 

[JackLuis]

Trigger Warning!


He's Just a GURL Who'll QUID PRO QUO! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody

Randy summarizes the last week in song!

 

[JackLuis]

Sec Navy quit/fired!

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has been quit-fired over Trump's insistence that convicted warcrimer and Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie" Gallagher be allowed to keep his status as a Navy SEAL. The New York Times clarifies that Defense Secretary Mark Esper lost his shit when he found out Spencer tried to cut a deal with the White House, and demanded Spencer's resignation. This morning David Ignatius writes that "Spencer had tried to find a compromise" that would have seen Gallagher walking out of the Navy with his trident as long as the White House stayed out of the affair, but the White House got butthurt when they found out Spencer threatened to quit over what he felt was Trump's perversion of military justice. Spencer's "hold-your-nose solution" was blown apart and he was subsequently quit-fired, but he walked out the door with this blistering resignation letter.

A last an Honourable Trumpinista!

 

[phrodeau]

I read the letter. I doubt that Trump did.

 

[JackLuis]

Feds eye ‘more than a half dozen potential charges’ against Rudy Giuliani: Wall Street Journal

A new batch of federal subpoenas uncovered by the Wall Street Journal shows that prosecutors are eyeing more than a half dozen possible criminal charges against Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.

According to the Journal, subpoenas issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office have been sent out to multiple people with ties to Giuliani and his associates, and they indicate investigators casting a wide net into the Trump attorney’s potential wrongdoing.

“Subpoenas described to The Wall Street Journal listed more than a half dozen potential charges under consideration,” the WSJ writes, before detailing the charges of
“obstruction of justice,
money laundering,
conspiracy to defraud the United States,
making false statements to the federal government, serving as an agent of a foreign government without registering with the Justice Department,
donating funds from foreign nationals,
making contributions in the name of another person or allowing someone else to use one’s name to make a contribution,
along with mail fraud and wire fraud.”

Rudy meet Bus!

 

[JackLuis]

How can we expect Republicans to judge Donald Trump fairly — when nearly all of them are in on the crime

https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cruz-400x240.jpg​

As Republicans love reminding us, in tones that often suggest they feel this outcome is tragic, Donald Trump never fully consummated his extortion plot against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This was because Trump, much like convicted rapist Brock Turner, was caught mid-act and therefore unable to bring his entire scheme to completion. And as with Turner’s father grousing that his son only got “20 minutes of action,” Trump’s Republican defenders like House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., argue that because the conspiracy was unearthed before Zelensky gave in to Trump’s blackmail, it doesn’t really count as a crime to have blackmailed Zelensky in the first place.

Over the weekend, it was reported that the White House hosted a meeting with Republican senators — including Graham, Mike Lee of Utah, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and John Kennedy of Louisiana — literally so they could literally work with Trump on strategy for an impending impeachment trial.

Trump is often treated like an outlier, a man who is violating all the norms and laws and customs that supposedly defined Capitol Hill. That belief doesn’t square with the fact that, at this point, pretty much every elected Republican in D.C., along with their entire staffs, isn’t just tolerating Trump’s Ukraine conspiracy but is actively participating in it. This is leading to a surreal situation where the very institutions that are supposed to work as a check on Trump’s crime and corruption are, in fact, thick with co-conspirators. In the case of the Senate, it’s fair to say that the institution is run by the president’s co-conspirators.

We're gonna need a bigger Paddy Wagon!

 

[JackLuis]

Right-wing NYT columnist does 180 on impeachment and burns Trump to the ground in scathing op-ed

“If the congressional testimonies of Marie Yovanovitch, Bill Taylor, Gordon Sondland, Alexander Vindman and especially, Fiona Hill, make anything clear, it’s that the president’s highest crime isn’t what he tried to do to, or with, Ukraine,” Stephens asserts. “It’s that he’s attempting to turn the United States into Ukraine. The judgment Congress has to make is whether the American people should be willing, actively or passively, to go along with it.”

One way in which the Trump-era U.S. is resembling Ukraine, according to Stephens, is “the criminalization of political differences.” The Times columnist explains, “Years before Trump led his followers in ‘lock her up’ chants against Hillary Clinton, then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych did exactly that against his own political rival, Yulia Tymoshenko, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on a variety of byzantine charges after she had narrowly lost the 2010 election. She spent three years in prison before her release during the 2014 Maidan Revolution. Key to Yanukovych’s efforts to discredit Tymoshenko was — who else? — Paul Manafort.”

So will the "Patriotic Republicans" stand by and watch America be turned into a Eastern European shit hole?

It appears the worms are turning!