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Roll Call: Senate votes to acquit Trump on both impeachment charges.[FOX] Anchor Chris Wallace asked, “Do you believe that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president and should be removed from office?”
Romney said, “I do believe he should be removed from office. That’s the vote that I will take in a while.”
It's interesting that it was only last week that the JUNIOR Senator from Utah - (I read somewhere Romney hates being referred to as the JUNIOR Senator so let's all plan on using that when we write about him) - said he wanted the Senate to call witnesses because he felt there was more information needed. How quickly he decided today that he didn't need any additional info.The Senate voted 48-52 to reject the House’s abuse of power charge and 47-53 to reject the obstruction of Congress charge.
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Utah Republican Mitt Romney became the only Republican in Congress to defy Trump during the inquiry and trial, casting a vote to convict the president on the charge of abuse of power.
The Senate on Friday voted down a motion to allow for additional witnesses to testify as part of the upper chamber’s impeachment trial, all but ensuring a quick acquittal of President Donald Trump.Basically, The House didn't do their job as prosecutors. They failed. Their case was tossed out of court. The House had the opportunity to have John Bolton testify before Adam Schiff's Clown Show. The House chose not to pursue Bolton. They tried to pass their failure on this onto The Senate, who, correctly, would have none of this nonsense from the House.
The 51 to 49 vote thwarted Democrats’ ongoing effort to hear from current and former Trump administration officials such as acting White House Chief of State Mick Mulvaney and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
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Only two Republicans — Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) — voted in favor of the motion for more witnesses, with the former saying he believes that it was important to hear from Bolton.
Rep. Jerry Nadler raced to the podium Thursday after Chief Justice John Roberts read the last question before adjourning for the evening, blowing past House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff who attempted to stop him.
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"Jerry, Jerry, Jerry," Schiff said as he stepped toward his colleague.
“This is INCREDIBLE. Schiff tried to stop Nadler! You can hear him call him to stop. And then he showed why," National Republican Senate Committee senior advisor Matt Whitlock tweeted. "Dems ask for a closing statement on the night. Nadler, clearly fed up, jumps to his feet and scurries to the mic, ignoring audible protests of lead manager Schiff. Then Nadler gives a terrible lecturing close."
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MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell even commented on how quickly Nadler raced to the podium.
"Adam Schiff stood. He was ready to go to the podium. He only had to do about three steps to get there. Jerry Nadler had to do about 12. It's the fastest I've seen Jerry Nadler move, in the 25 years that I've known him," O'Donnell remarked.
Doing work so dirty even the DEMS didn't want to touch it. But McCain? He was only too happy and eager to oblige. And with pride...while he was dying.Late Senator John McCain provided disgraced former FBI chief James Comey with five separate reports from Christopher Steele that the FBI didn’t previously possess related to unsubstantiated allegations of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign, the Justice Department’s recent Inspector General report revealed.
There have long been questions about why it was necessary for McCain to pass Steele’s anti-Trump dossier to Comey on December 9, 2016, several weeks after the November 2016 presidential election. By then, Steele had already met numerous times with FBI agents to provide them with his controversial reports. Steele, however, was terminated as an FBI source in the fall of 2016 because he spoke to the news media.
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The IG report also verifies that a McCain aid obtained the Steele reports directly from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, meaning that when McCain transferred the anti-Trump charges to Comey he had to have known that the material originated with a firm that specializes in controversial opposition tactics.
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States the IG report:
Several weeks later, on December 9, 2016, Senator John McCain provided Corney with a collection of 16 Steele election reports, 5 of which Steele had not given the FBI. McCain had obtained these reports from a staff member at the McCain Institute. The McCain Institute staff member had met with Steele and later acquired the reports from Simpson.
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Prior to his death, McCain admitted to personally handing the dossier to Comey but he refused repeated requests for comment about whether he had a role in providing the dossier to BuzzFeed, including numerous inquiries sent to his office by this reporter.
In his book published last year, McCain maintained he had an “obligation” to pass the dossier charges against Trump to Comey and he would even do it again. “Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell,” McCain exclaimed.
Why does Nancy Pelosi’s son care about the state of soccer in Ukraine?InfoWars: Nancy Pelosi’s Son Was Exec At Gas Company That Did Business In Ukraine.
Paul Pelosi, Jr., a San Francisco-based investor, recently appeared on Ukrainian television to talk about his business in the country.
[Paul] Pelosi, executive director of the Corporate Governance Initiative, was asked why he was in Kiev.
“Today we’re here to talk about soccer,” Pelosi said.
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The House Minority Leader’s son’s work there is curious, given the Democrats’ attempts to collaborate with Ukraine to attack Donald Trump.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi Jr. visited Ukraine in 2017 to meet with government officials in connection to a business initiative.Patrick Howley @ Twitter.
Now, unearthed records reveal that Paul Pelosi Jr. was an executive of a gas industry company that did business in Ukraine – and his mother Nancy Pelosi was featured in one of the company’s promotional videos.
Journalist Patrick Howley broke the story Thursday[.]
Patrick Howley @HowleyReporterAnd this (embedded in Patrick Howley's Tweet), a fundraiser for Adam Schiff in 2013 at the home of alleged arm-dealer Igor Pasternak.
BOOM: Nancy Pelosi's son Paul Pelosi Jr. (who went to Ukraine in 2017) was a board member of Viscoil and executive at its related company NRGLab, which DID ENERGY Business in UKRAINE!
And Nancy Pelosi appeared in a promotional video for the company!
- 3:59 PM - 3 Oct 2019
Patrick Howley @HowleyReporter
Oct 3, [2019]
Here's another video NRGLab posted the SAME DAY confirming in the Youtube text description they did energy business in Ukraine: "For example, Mika Newton helped to secure the rights to build a plant for the production of SH-boxes in Ukraine."
-Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News[.]
Twitter removed a viral meme posted by President Trump which highlighted Joe Biden’s duplicity on his son’s business dealings in response to a claim by the copyright owner.
The meme showed Biden denying that he had ever spoken to his son Hunter about the latter’s overseas business dealings.
The clip then cuts to a Nickelback video with the lyrics, “Look at this photograph, every time I do it makes me laugh.”
A photograph of Biden, his son Hunter, and a man identified as a “Ukraine gas exec” on a golf course together appears on screen with hearts drawn around their heads.
Looks like Nickelback killed the meme! pic.twitter.com/v28wzTQCi3
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) October 3, 2019
The meme was removed by Twitter this morning in response to a request from the copyright owner.
Warner Media Group owns the rights to Nickelback’s music and it is likely they who asked Twitter to take it down.
The copyright claim is completely without merit as the meme is clearly transformative and therefore fair use.
This clearly seems like a political move to prevent more people from seeing the meme and uncovering Biden’s duplicity.
An alternate version appears below.
pic.twitter.com/liNane5wGr
— Ted Bracewell 🎃👻💀👻🎃👻💀👻🎃 (@Tedakin) October 3, 2019
Video: Tucker Carlson on Biden-Ukraine golfing controversy.A 2014 photo has emerged of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, golfing with a Ukraine gas company executive in the Hamptons.
The photo, which was obtained by Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight shows Biden and Hunter posing alongside Devon Archer, who served on the board of Burisma Holdings with Hunter.
It's believed the photo was taken at the Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton, New York.
In 2014, then-Vice President Biden was at the forefront of American diplomatic efforts to support Ukraine's fragile democratic government as it sought to fend off Russian aggression and root out corruption.
So it raised eyebrows when his son Hunter was hired to sit on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, a windfall moment that was part of a lucrative multi-nation consulting business.
All that matters is Hillary’s vindication.
“Three years after the historic election of 2016, she is still grappling with defeat,” intoned Jane Pauley on “CBS Sunday Morning” by way of introducing the failed presidential candidate.
“How are you doing now?” Pauley asked Hillary, her voice oozing with compassion. “And what are the metrics by which you know how you’re doing on any given day?”
It was as if she were talking to a cancer patient.
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This is the great Hillary psychodrama that has consumed the Democratic Party for almost three years. No one is willing to come out and declare that she screwed up all by herself, so they are forever doomed to repeat her mistakes. She is the real human tornado — an F5 of rage, indignation, spite and pain.
California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff read a portion of a transcript of a telephone conversation between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Thursday before the House Intelligence Committee — but the congressman largely fabricated the president’s words.None of Schiff's "essence" contains a shred of accuracy or truth.
Schiff claimed he was reading “the essence” of the president’s words to the committee’s witness, Acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire.
“This is the essence of what the president communicates. We’ve been very good to your country, very good, no other country has done as much as we have, but you know what, I don’t see much reciprocity here. I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from you, though. And I’m going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good.”
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Schiff continued, making it up as he went along: “I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand, lots of it, on this and on that. I’m going to put you in touch with people, not just any people, I’m going to put you in touch with the attorney general of the United States, my attorney general Bill Barr. He’s got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him.”
[Schiff] suggested that Trump told Zelensky, “‘And I’m going to put you in touch with Rudy — you’re going to love him, trust me. You know what I’m asking, and so I’m only going to say this a few more times in a few more ways. And by the way, don’t call me again, I’ll call you when you’ve done what you’ve asked.’ This is the sum and character what the president was trying to communicate with the president of Ukraine. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a graphic betrayal of the president’s Oath of Office.”
...the Obama administration has prosecuted more national security "leakers" than all other presidencies combined, eight to three.
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When it comes to sending these folks to jail, the Obama administration blows every other presidency combined out of the water – by a lot.
By my count, the Obama administration has secured 526 months of prison time for national security leakers, versus only 24 months total jail time for everyone else since the American Revolution.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler told reporters Friday that while his committee continues negotiating with former White House Counsel Don McGahn over an outstanding subpoena for testimony, if there's no resolution in their discussions, the committee plans to go to court seek their enforcement of the subpoena early next week.Yeah, Congress needs a 5 or 6 week
Nadler told reporters that the committee would also be filing an application for the grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report.
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"We will continue to seek testimony from key fact witnesses..our work will continue into the August recess," [said Nadler].
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to resist those calls, Nadler said the caucus will "do what we have to" to hold the president accountable. He appeared in lockstep, however, with the speaker's assessment that in order to impeach, "we must make the strongest possible case."
Former special counsel Robert Mueller declined to answer questions on why any direct mention of Fusion GPS was omitted from his 448-page report on the Russia investigation.Check out Fusion GPS' Web site. Be careful, though. It's easy to get lost in their flashy, Java-laden, confusing and complicated design.
“I’m not familiar with that,” Mueller said when asked about the indirect mention of the opposition research firm in his report.
More on Mueller's body language at Northeastern Ed: Robert Mueller was a reluctant witness. It really showed in his testimony to Congress.
- Mueller doodled: helps the process of "going through the process".
- Mueller's hand gesturing and waving a pen he was holding: a way to shed nervous energy.
- Mueller's hands tightly-folded and fingers intertwined: represents restraint.
- Mueller would stick out only the tip of his tongue: a sign that the person speaking doesn't like their own words they are saying.
- Mueller being reminded to speak into the microphone: reluctance; looking to be prompted by others.
- Mueller's mouth agape and jaw-shifting: disagreement, uncertainty, frustrated.
- Mueller leaned back in his chair - distancing himself - when the questions were adversarial, but sat straight and upright during other types of questioning.
- Overall, his body language indicated he didn't want to be there.
“He did not engage in behaviors that might suggest he was enjoying the hearing,” [said Laura Dudley, a behavior analyst at Northeastern]. “Sometimes during hearings, we see people who seem initially nervous and then begin to ‘settle in,’ appearing more comfortable, ad-libbing, and smiling. This did not happen with Mueller. If anything, he appeared more weary as the questioning continued.”When he was asked who appointed him as a U.S. Attorney, Mueller replied it was President George H.W. Bush. It was President Ronald Regan who appointed Mueller.