Trump's Mini-Series of the Week

[bodysong]

“Well remember, people who go on TV are never under oath,” Conway said.

"White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was asked
four times by Fox News on Thursday morning to
“flat-out” refute claims from Rudy Giuliani associate
Lev Parnas that President Donald Trump was fully
“aware” of what he was up to in Ukraine.

She didn’t give a straight answer once.

(nearly every legitimate publication and media outlet
is pointing and laughing)

 

[bodysong]

Trump Impeachment Trial Underway

And now the real farce begins.

- James Joyner

Thursday, January 16, 2020

That Trump abused the power of his office in the Ukraine affair
and then again to stymie Congress in its investigation is not in
serious dispute. But it’s virtually inconceivable that any
Republican Senators will vote to convict—let alone enough to
provide the sixty votes needed to remove Trump from office.

Thus, we’re almost certainly in store for a farce.

https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/trump-impeachment-trial-underway/

Putin wanted to remain in a position that would enable him
to corrupt Ukraine-

Trump wanted to enable the old-school Ukranians (corrupt)
in order to continue his own corrupt operations

Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was in the way...

(but, she did get away. And went home to the USA!)

Under Mr. Putin, Vladislav Surkov, a longtime Kremlin adviser,
wrote in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a Moscow newspaper, earlier this
year, Russia “is playing with the West’s minds.”

https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/its-putins-world-were-just-living-in-it/

 

[bodysong]

So the idea is to make the managers speak to an
empty Senate at midnight?

Because the Senators may be told they have to stay
there but they won't. They didn't last time.

LImited TV, rushing it through in the dead of night ---

If that isn't a cover-up I don't know what it is.
— digby (@digby56)

January 20, 2020

White House calls for Trump acquittal in ‘rigged’ impeachment
as Senate prepares for swift trial

January 20, 2020

Both the Democratic House managers and Trump’s
legal team are battling to persuade a small group of
swing GOP senators who will decide whether they
will need additional witnesses and evidence to
determine Trump’s fate.

McConnell’s organizing resolution, which he circulated
late Monday afternoon, offers each side 24 hours to make
its opening arguments, starting on Wednesday but compressed
into two session days. It is unclear whether Democrats would
press to use all their time, which could push testimony past midnight.

After the House managers and Trump’s lawyers make their case,
senators will be allowed 16 hours to question the opposing sides.

The proceedings Tuesday will formally begin with a debate over
the McConnell resolution.

53 Republican senators are expected to support the rules as
written by McConnell. Once those parameters are set, the
formal arguments will begin.

After spending several hours in a nearly empty Capitol,
holding talks with staff on the trial resolution, McConnell
left at 7 p.m. Monday, saying the final touches were now
in place.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...283aac-3b8f-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html

 

[KeithD]

Fine with me for McConnell to do his worst and most disrespectful. It will all play great in the November elections up and down the line. This sort of Republican crap will be easily understood by the voters. The Republicans didn't do well in 2016 (No, Trump didn't win with the actual voting public) and they haven't improved their game since then.

 

[YDB95]

Fine with me for McConnell to do his worst and most disrespectful. It will all play great in the November elections up and down the line. This sort of Republican crap will be easily understood by the voters. The Republicans didn't do well in 2016 (No, Trump didn't win with the actual voting public) and they haven't improved their game since then.

My thoughts exactly. The dirtier McConnell plays, the more riled up the Democratic base will be. And the Republicans know they're in trouble when that happens, which is why we've been seeing so much effort at voter suppression.

 

[bodysong]

Giuliani, whose involvement in the Ukraine scandal is
at the heart of the president’s impeachment, continually
left the hosts of the Fox News slack-jawed as he prattled
on and bulldozed right through their efforts to keep him
from incriminating and implicating himself.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-a...-end-rudy-giuliani-interview-repeatedly-fails

-Colby Hall

Jan 24th, 2020

This is an opinion piece.

The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

Watch Fox & Friends Desperately Try to Wrap Up Rudy Giuliani’s
Hot Mess of an Interview: ‘We’re Done!’

https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/wa...giulianis-hot-mess-of-an-interview-were-done/

 

[bodysong]

Our horrible president* kicked off his Sunday morning by tweeting
an ugly threat to Rep. Adam Schiff, probably because he recognizes
Schiff as someone who is uncovering his crimes and he’s afraid.

Trump knows how fanatical his followers are, of course.
This is his craven style — to incite his followers in a way
he can deny if one of them carries out his implicit suggestions.

- Charles Johnson

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/49601_Impeached_President_Threatens_Rep._Adam_Schiff

Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN,
and probably a very sick man.
He has not paid the price, yet,
for what he has done to our
Country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2020

On Sunday morning Trump also aimed a threat at House Intelligence
Committee Chairman, Adam Schiff, saying that he “is a
CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man.
He has not paid the price, yet…”

Here Trump is baselessly alleging that Schiff is both “corrupt”
and “sick,” two traits that are more recognizable in Trump himself.
And what “price” does Trump have in mind that he’s implying Schiff
will soon be paying?

News Corpse, Daily Kos, Deadline

https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/tr...ing-new-threats-to-politicians-and-the-press/

Evil Fuck and a Sick Fuck
Mentally ill and corrupt- That is what Republicans
chose as their King.

 

[bodysong]

State of the Dis-Union 2020

Trump is living it up, while people are crying

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/04/iowa-caucus-debacle-democrats-vote-counters-app

'People were breaking down crying':
Iowa vote-counters tell of caucus debacle

Precinct captains say the night had run smoothly –
but when they turned to the party-managed app things
went badly wrong

The app for transmitting results was not working
in many places. A telephone hotline back-up system
quickly became jammed. The TV cable news shows,
eagerly awaiting results, rapidly turned to covering the
ever-lengthening delay.

“The website wasn’t working, so we had to go to this hotline,
where we had to wait, like, an hour to get anybody on the other
line,” Marroquin (Matthew Marroquin, a 20-year-old caucus
captain for a satellite precinct in Buena Vista county in north-
western Iowa) said over the phone at about midnight on
Tuesday morning. “And when we did, we got people on the
other side who were breaking down crying. The whole thing
took forever.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/04/iowa-caucus-debacle-democrats-vote-counters-app