Friday, November 15, 2019

President Trump Impeachment Inquiry Hearings - Day 2 (Live)

WNU Editor: I am watching these hearings right now. Regular blogging will return after 12:00 EST





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Anonymous said...

The House will impeach
the Senate will dismiss
the Voters will decide at election time

November 15, 2019 at 9:54 AM
Anonymous said...

Not so sure on the impeachment.

Internal polls must be really bad for Duchess Pelosi daughter of Count Thomas D'Alesandro, Mayor of Baltimore, to take up one of Trump's signature items, the Canada and Mexico Trade deals.

Trump wins most special elections.

One of the fallouts of of Democrat chicanery and terrorism will be the firing of all appointed non-FSO ambassadors.

This is already done with district attourneys. Bill Clinton did exactly that. When GWB followed suit, Democrats called it unprecedented.

November 15, 2019 at 10:25 AM
Anonymous said...

Dimocrat Lawyer: "How did you feel?"

Ambassador: "I felt bad"

Schiff (screaming): "Impeach the Mother Fucker"

November 15, 2019 at 10:27 AM
Anonymous said...

The assertions from Trump’s dedicated supporters that Taylor’s testimony is not to be trusted does not ring true for those who worked with Taylor. On condition of anonymity, another former colleague of Taylor described to me their time working for the veteran diplomat, saying, “Ambassador Taylor is not only one of the most honorable and principled people I’ve ever had the privilege of working with but he’s kind and takes a genuine interest in the well-being of others.”

Understandably, given Trump’s erratic firing record, many past and present colleagues of Taylor — be they from his time at USIP or at State Department — refused to even anonymously provide statements in Taylor’s defense when I called them this week. The First Amendment right to freedom of speech has never been more strained than now. After Trump’s repeated attempts to cut funding from USIP, it is understandable that the institution has remained quiet. Some of his military colleagues from his earlier career have gone on record, however: three veterans described him to CNN as a “man of honor”, a “public servant” and a “role model”.

Throughout yesterday’s exhaustive five-hour hearing, Republican lawmakers repeatedly interrogated Taylor, suggesting he had “precisely zero evidence” — but he remained unflappable; so unflappable, in fact, that he was meme-ified across the internet.

As a former colleague of Taylor, I don’t find it surprising that he has been able to successfully maneuver through GOP lines of questioning, and I don’t find it surprising that he spoke out when faced with injustice. It is refreshing to see the public has recognized this, despite Republican attempts to smear the diplomat I know to have integrity.

November 15, 2019 at 10:35 AM
Anonymous said...


"Wednesday’s impeachment hearing was not a one-off but a televised sequel to the bogus Russia probe that tagged Donald Trump as an agent of Russia.

When that one flopped, Democrats quickly ginned up the low-rent Ukrainian sequel, produced and scripted by Democrat intel boss Adam Schiff"



Too bad this did not go direct to video, so that DNC poobahs can keep their flunkkies entertained during conventions.

November 15, 2019 at 10:36 AM
Anonymous said...

The president’s lawyer is the subject of a criminal investigation and a counterintelligence investigation for his dealings in Ukraine. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan and the Justice Department in D.C. are looking into his business dealings in the country, while the FBI is evaluating if his actions have been willingly or unwillingly influenced by a foreign government.

The new investigation will determine if Giuliani violated laws against bribing foreign officials. Former federal prosecutor Kenneth McCallion told Bloomberg that it’s possible Giuliani could face an extortion charge for his role in pressuring Ukraine into investigating Hunter Biden and a conspiracy theory about Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. McCallion added that a charge like that could implicate the president in a criminal activity, though he could not be charged while in office.

Unlike the prior investigations, in which no indictments have been handed down, four of Giuliani’s associates have already been charged with campaign-finance violations. Giuliani’s clients, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were indicted in early October for hiding the source of a $325,000 donation to the super-PAC America First. Then came the arrest of California businessman Andrey Kukushkin, who worked with Parnas and Fruman to move $10,000 of foreign money into Nevada politics in order to help a Russian businessman obtain commercial marijuana licenses. And on October 16, David Correia was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Nevada scheme. That prosecutors have pursued four of his associates for campaign-finance violations should concern Giuliani: “I would not be surprised if he gets indicted,” former SDNY prosecutor Mimi Rocah told Bloomberg.

Further bad news: Though the president has retained Giuliani as his personal lawyer throughout the Ukraine scandal, GOP lawmakers are reportedly pressing Trump to ditch him in order to create some distance between himself and Giuliani’s efforts to push the quid pro quo in Ukraine. “Rudy will be cut loose because he was rogue,” one Republican told Axios.
Giuliani Is Now the Subject of Three Investigations

November 15, 2019 at 10:37 AM
Anonymous said...


And Fred posted at 10:35

At least he wasn't looking up more free nude pictures. There is that.

November 15, 2019 at 10:37 AM
Anonymous said...


And Fred posts at 10:37 spamming the text of complete 'news' articles.

Clever fella has found another way to scream on the internet besides ALL CAPS or bold font.

Fred is inventive!

;)

November 15, 2019 at 10:39 AM
Anonymous said...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration unlawfully excluded millions of tons of some of the most dangerous materials in public use from a safety review, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must consider dangers posed by asbestos, lead and other toxins regardless of whether they’re still being manufactured.

Millions of tons of those chemicals are in the marketplace, in products ranging from home insulation and fire retardant to house paint and plumbing pipes.

The safety review was mandated by Congress and is the first step toward enacting potential new regulations to protect the public.

Under President Barack Obama, the EPA said it would consider the risks of those older products since they result in some of the most common chemical exposures by people.

But spurred by the chemical industry, the EPA under President Donald Trump sought to limit the review to products still being manufactured.

EPA officials will review the court’s decision, agency spokesperson Corry Schiermeyer said.

Firefighters and construction workers complained that ignoring products already in use would jeopardize their health A coalition of unions, safety advocates and scientific groups had sued to block the EPA proposal released in 2017.

November 15, 2019 at 10:40 AM
Anonymous said...


WOW! Pompous Blowhard and Fired Ambassador Yovanovitch Compares Herself

- to US Hostages in Tehran and

- The Benghazi Four!


Maybe she was under sniper fire too, like Hillary?

November 15, 2019 at 10:45 AM
Anonymous said...

Trump tweets on Yovanovitch just now!

November 15, 2019 at 10:46 AM
Anonymous said...

In an extraordinary moment during the impeachment hearings, the ousted Ukraine ambassador was asked to respond in real time to a Twitter broadside from President Donald Trump in which he accused her without evidence of causing destruction during her diplomatic tours.

"I actually think that where I've served over the years, I and others have demonstrably made things better, you know, for the U.S. as well as for the countries that I've served in," Marie Yovanovitch said when Trump's tweets were read out loud during Friday's impeachment hearing.

Story Continued Below

It was an attack House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff called "witness intimidation."

November 15, 2019 at 10:49 AM
Anonymous said...


It is a well known fact that diplomats often cause massive carnage and generals have to clean up their messes.

November 15, 2019 at 11:11 AM
Anonymous said...


White Releases Transcript of April Ukraine Call, Shows No Pre-Conditions for Meeting


TRUMP being transparent while Democrats lie

November 15, 2019 at 11:22 AM
Anonymous said...

think tank conservative Peter Wehner

We are facing a profound political crisis. What the Republican Party is saying and signaling isn’t simply that rationality and truth are subordinate to partisanship; it is that they have to be obliterated for the sake of partisanship and the survival of the Trump presidency. As best I can tell, based on some fairly intense interactions with Trump supporters, there is no limiting principle—almost nothing he can do—that will forfeit their support. Members of Congress clearly believe Trump is all that stands between them and the loss of power, while many Trump voters believe the president is all that stands between them and national ruin. In either case, it has led them into the shadowlands.

For those of us who are still conservative and have devoted a large part of our lives to the Republican Party, it is quite painful to watch all of this unfold. Perhaps too many of us were blind to things we should have seen, or perhaps the GOP is significantly different now than it was in the past, when it was led by estimable (if imperfect) individuals such as Ronald Reagan. Whatever the case, we are where we are—in a very precarious and worrisome place.

You can be critical of the Democratic Party and believe, as I do, that it is becoming increasingly radicalized while also believing this: The Republican Party under Donald Trump is a party built largely on lies, and it is now maintained by politicians and supporters who are willing to “live within the lie,” to quote the great Czech dissident (and later president) Václav Havel. Many congressional Republicans privately admit this but, with very rare exceptions—Senator Mitt Romney of Utah is the most conspicuous example—refuse to publicly acknowledge it.

November 15, 2019 at 11:26 AM
RussInSoCal said...

If Yavonovich was “intimidated“ by that tweet, She has no business in Gov’t service.

Btw - Dow is up 168.

November 15, 2019 at 11:32 AM
Anonymous said...


Peter Wehner is a country club Republican and it is questionable if he is really Christian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Wehner

"He has called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—which allocated $15 billion to promote prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa—as "one of the great achievements of the [George W.] Bush administration.""

When the going gets tough, you do not want to have to depend on Peter Wehner to have your back.

AIDS Relief is one of the great achievements? Really?

It is a good thing, but great?

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.wrapper.STI3v?lang=en

It looks like George W. Bush wasted 15 billion. Perhaps he tried to curry favor, but I doubt it worked. If they could liberals would physically crucify GWB in a second if they could get away with it.

Wehner is not a heavy hitter; he is a wimp. He is not serious.

The heavy hitters of greatness are the economy and foreign affairs.

Also Borders language and culture.

How serious was GWB on borders?



November 15, 2019 at 11:42 AM
Anonymous said...


Peter Wehner is an idiot, a moron.

"He has called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—which allocated $15 billion to promote prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and malaria in Africa—as "one of the great achievements of the [George W.] Bush administration.""

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.wrapper.STI3v?lang=en

I see no abatement in new HIV cases. There might be an inflection point at 2012. Maybe. The slowdown in new cases could be noise. This disease will burn itself out. What Bush did, did not help at all.

Is Peter Wehner capable of reading graphs or following up?






November 15, 2019 at 11:46 AM
Anonymous said...

if a guy does not think like trump, support trump, says things I dislike then call him all sorts of names. he is in think tank and you? middle school still

November 15, 2019 at 11:52 AM
Anonymous said...



Nothing that the West is willing to do will slow HIV infections significantly in Africa.

Just look at the charts from 1990 to 2018. The new HIV infections hit an inflection point before Bush became president. The disease is burning itself out from its initial rapid spread stage and now is endemic.

The only thing that will stop it is a change of culture and economics. The West does not want to preach any culture anymore.

Islam has better chance of getting HIV under control in Africa than the West and they are australopithecines.

PS: Working at a think tank does not prove a person is smart or moral.

That is having a white collar job does not prove you are smart.

Look at Hunter Biden. His daddy is still lining up jobs at age 40.

November 15, 2019 at 12:04 PM
Anonymous said...

Peter Wehner is a veteran of three administrations (Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush) and the author of The Death of Politics. He is an American writer and Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), a conservative think tank. He is also a fellow at the Trinity Forum.
Born‎: ‎Peter Hermann Wehner; Dallas, TX
Notable works‎: ‎The Death of Politics City of Man ...
‎Career · ‎Views and positions

versus: CHUD aka Anon above...who knows so much more.ho ho ho

November 15, 2019 at 12:04 PM
Anonymous said...

Trump and his allies have claimed that the president was simply seeking to root out corruption in Ukraine, a stated objective of U.S. foreign policy for years. The readout of Trump’s April call with Zelensky indicated that Trump had indeed pressed Zelensky on that issue in particular.

But the transcript released on Friday, which notes that it is not a “verbatim” account of the conversation, doesn’t even mention the word “corruption.”

The Trump White House has a checkered record of releasing summaries of his calls with foreign leaders, a practice viewed as standard in prior administrations.

November 15, 2019 at 12:10 PM
Anonymous said...

President Donald Trump's longtime friend and onetime campaign adviser, Roger Stone, was convicted in the only remaining case from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Interested in Russia Investigation?

Add Russia Investigation as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Russia Investigation news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

Jurors have returned a guilty verdict on all of seven counts including five counts of lying to Congress, one count of witness tampering and obstruction of a proceeding. Stone had pleaded not guilty and maintained his innocence throughout his trial in Washington, DC.

Stone's sworn testimony in September 2017 before the House Intelligence Committee forms the basis for most of the charges in his seven-count indictment, which includes allegations he misled the committee on several key elements of their probe. Stone was also charged with witness tampering by urging his former associate, Randy Credico, to exercise his Fifth Amendment rights before the committee.

November 15, 2019 at 12:13 PM
Bob Huntley said...


Stoic Trump supporter, Stone, found guilty on all counts and has been arrested.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/roger-stone-guilty-trump_n_5dcc42f8e4b03a7e0293cda8

Perhaps it will serve as a lesson to the other misguided fools to turn before their turning becomes redundant.

November 15, 2019 at 12:15 PM
Anonymous said...

Politics is a blood sport.

Democrats are always out for blood.

The trial was over "He (Stone) was asked about WikiLeaks' release of damaging emails about Mrs Clinton"

Stone will be pardoned.

The Democrats have lied to us. There was no hack by the Russians. It was an inside job. The download transfer speeds were too fast for it to have been a hack.

So:
- Democrats have lied to us.
- Democrats obstructed justice by not turning over the servers to the FBI.
- It is most likely that Democrats are behind the murder of Seth Rich.

But going with the adage a strong offense is better than defense, the Dems prosecuted Stone.

I appreciate that you are doing pro-bono work for the Democrats or as a left winger. Or maybe you are paid. Either way Bob we know that you are not really a good or honest person.



November 15, 2019 at 12:35 PM
Anonymous said...

Dems do this and Dems do that and Dems are bad and GOP good unless they do not kiss Trump butt then they are bad bad bad

November 15, 2019 at 12:39 PM
Anonymous said...

The American people would support gallows constructed on the front lawn of the US Capital. Leading Democratic lawmakers should be hung by their necks until they are dead. I am not wasting my time watching the so-called impeachment hearings, but I definitely would watch the traitors dancing on the end of a rope.

November 15, 2019 at 12:40 PM
Anonymous said...

fred this. fred that. names names names
I know you are but what about me?
'Witness intimidation in real-time': Democrats see more evidence of Trump obstruction

Even Republicans expressed their discomfort with Trump attacking the former ambassador to Ukraine while she was testifying.

November 15, 2019 at 2:51 PM
Anonymous said...

The White House readout, a summary of the call released hours after it occurred, claimed Trump “underscored the unwavering support of the United States for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity—within its internationally recognized borders—and expressed his commitment to work together with President-elect Zelensky and the Ukrainian people to implement reforms that strengthen democracy, increase prosperity, and root out corruption.”
Such statements are nowhere to be found in the transcript of the call released by the president on Friday. That transcript shows Trump congratulating Zelensky on his recent election win, promising to arrange a White House visit for him, and recounting the large number of Ukrainian women who participated in Trump’s Miss Universe competitions.

Nowhere does Trump mention efforts to address Ukrainian corruption, economic prosperity, or democratic institutions. Nor does he even allude to its efforts to beat back the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian territory of Crimea.

November 15, 2019 at 2:54 PM
Anonymous said...

POOR POOR ANON. A STALKER, A MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLY BOY, WHO SNIFFS EVERY DROPPING A LEAVE FOR HIM/HER!

November 15, 2019 at 4:25 PM
Anonymous said...

As Marie Yovanovitch testified that she was “devastated” to learn that Trump had trashed her to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, calling her “bad news” and saying, ominously, that she was “going to go through some things,” the president tweeted:

After reading the statement aloud to Yovanovitch, committee chairman Adam Schiff asked her to respond, to which she expressed worry that Trump’s cyberbullying, whether intentionally or not, would scare off potential witnesses who might come forward. “It’s very intimidating,” she said. Schiff obviously agreed, commenting that “some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously,” which some interpreted as a reference to another article of impeachment. Speaking to reporters during a break in the hearing, Rep. Jackie Speier said, “The president in real time is engaging in witness intimidation and witness tampering. I don’t know how much more egregious it has to get before the American people are going to recognize we have someone in the White House who conducts himself in a criminal manner on a day-to-day basis.”

The president, who perpetually views himself as a victim, of course disagreed, insisting he did nothing wrong and effectively proclaiming his right to intimidate any witness he pleases.

“I’ll tell you about what tampering is,” he told reporters at the White House. “Tampering is when a guy like Shifty Schiff doesn’t let us have lawyers.” (In fact, Republican counsel Steve Castor asked dozens of questions throughout the hearing.) “Tampering is when Schiff doesn’t let us have witnesses, doesn’t let us speak. I’ve been watching today, for the first time I started watching, and it’s really sad when you see people not allowed to ask questions.” (In fact, Republican members of Congress were allowed to ask many questions! But we digress.)

November 15, 2019 at 7:14 PM
Anonymous said...

The plight of Gordon Sondland is an object lesson in the perils awaiting those who get sucked under by the gravitational pull of Trump’s bottomless corruption and narcissism but fall just short of displaying absolute loyalty and subservience to the Trump cause.

Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, is now getting accused by at least one Trump loyalist of fabricating his latest round of testimony in league with Democrats — even though Sondland is a top Trump donor. And another leading Trump sycophant is questioning Sondland’s credibility, something Trump himself tried to do at a rally on Thursday night.

But the new story that Trump and his loyalists are telling about Sondland is deeply flawed: It elides a mountain of evidence that’s already out there on the public record, as will be explained below.

November 15, 2019 at 7:15 PM

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