A view from the U.S. Senate side shows the U.S. Capitol Dome (L) in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Politico: There’s a Surprisingly Plausible Path to Removing Trump From Office
It would take just three Republican senators to turn the impeachment vote into a secret ballot. It’s not hard to imagine what would happen then.
By most everyone’s judgment, the Senate will not vote to remove President Donald Trump from office if the House impeaches him. But what if senators could vote on impeachment by secret ballot? If they didn’t have to face backlash from constituents or the media or the president himself, who knows how many Republican senators would vote to remove?
A secret impeachment ballot might sound crazy, but it’s actually quite possible. In fact, it would take only three senators to allow for that possibility.
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Update: Impeachment Vote Could Be Taken by Secret Ballot (Newsmax)
WNU Editor: The author of the above post is Juleanna Glover who has worked as an adviser for several Republican politicians that include George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft and Rudy Giuliani, and the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Jeb Bush. Can anyone say "Never Trumper". But she does lay out a possible way for a U.S. Senate impeachment vote to be held by secret ballot. The question that remains unanswered is ... will the Republican Party (or at least some of them) go down this path?
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LOL. Secret ballot to remove President Trump? The GOP base would find this totally unacceptable. Any RINO who floats this would out himself. To the extent that it would be a secret at all, that's another matter entirely.
It might actually be useful in purging the RINO ranks out of office.
At a speech to the Economic Club of New York today, President Trump declared that his daughter, Ivanka, has personally created 14 million new jobs. The president announced this figure — so astonishingly ludicrous it would embarrass a Stalin-era pronouncement — and then repeated it twice more as the crowd applauded politely.
Here's Trump absurdly claiming his daughter Ivanka has "created 14 million jobs."
"14 million and going up," he adds. pic.twitter.com/7E8uSEgjtL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 12, 2019
HOW TRUMP HAS ABUSED HIS OFFICE
And more anti-Trump agitprop. Straight from Cobert.
Above 3 posts from RussInSoCal and 2 apparently from Fred R. Lapides.
"The GOP base would find this totally unacceptable. Any RINO who floats this would out himself. "
True comment ^
Time to have a political Civil War and drive out the RINOS like Buckley drove out La Rouche
To have a secret ballot is to avoid accountability.
Mick Mulvaney is reportedly telling associates Trump can't fire him because he 'knows too much'
In scathing manifesto, an asylum officer blasts Trump’s cruelty to migrants
--In this telling, by using the funding as leverage to produce better outcomes in Ukraine, Trump was acting in the national interest.
But Trump himself has other ideas. He is unabashedly arguing that, yes, he absolutely did want Ukraine to investigate one of his leading 2020 campaign rivals — Joe Biden — because, after all, Biden is indeed corrupt. And that undercuts the GOP’s generic-corruption spin.
...because Trump is desperate for Ukraine's help in order to beat.... wait for it... Biden.
LMFAO
ouse party: Trump's 10 interactions with indicted Giuliani associates — (CNN)President Donald Trump has had at least 10 encounters with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the indicted associates of Rudy Giuliani the President has adamantly claimed not to know.
Discussion: Salon
Got any Teen Vogue?
Quick Explainer: Some people don't understand why Trump's Ukraine shakedown was bribery. Let's say a politician says "if you give me $10,000, I'll give you the contract." That's obvious bribery. Next, simply substitute "investigations" for "$10,000" and "military aid" for "the contract."
TEEN VOGUE for russ
More hate-fantasy. From the land of hate-believe.
New book details Trump's deep ties to Russia
Author and counter-terrorism analyst Malcolm Nance joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Plot to Betray America.'Nov. 12, 2019
-- Former deputy campaign chair Gates testified that he was riding in a Chevy Suburban from LaGuardia Airport in New York in mid-2016 when Trump took a late-evening phone call from Stone, where the pair apparently discussed WikiLeaks' planned release of hacked Democratic emails.
twitter.com/jimsci...
--President Donald Trump called his then-national security advisor John Bolton to complain about a routine US Navy transit in the Black Sea, after seeing a CNN report that framed the operation as a counter to Russia. An aide to a top Ukraine envoy testified about this to House investigations looking into the Ukraine scandal.
Yes Grasshopper, Trump is your father.
The reason Andrew Jackson' posts are better than Frederick R. Lapides' posts is that, while his posts are over the top rah rah rah and crincgworthey, they are short.
Lapides' posts are "B Poster" BS in length and content.
President Donald Trump called his then-national security advisor John Bolton to complain about a routine US Navy transit in the Black Sea, after seeing a CNN report that framed the operation as a counter to Russia. An aide to a top Ukraine envoy testified about this to House investigations looking into the Ukraine scandal.
A Trump supporter who watches Fox News every night, suggested that liberals believe in killing babies and oppose Christian values and that is why he slashed an inflatable Baby Trump balloon.
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I am delighted to see the posts and counter posts by these two blokes. While those by Andrew are indeed short, they are non-comments and only snark. Fred's, by contrast, though perhaps too long and needlessly emphasized by code, offer, like it or not, commentary that one can accept or reject. In sum: Fred is mature. Andrew is not
Trump in deep, DEEP inside fred's brain.
Republicans used to care about protecting whistleblowers—until a whistleblower report exposed Trump’s impeachable abuses of power.
Now, their hypocrisy is putting lives at risk.pic.twitter.com/5L4T5ZtmMw
— CAP Action (@CAPAction)November 12, 2019
--U.S. Expands Mueller Election-Fraud Case Against 13 Russians
-- Trump allies received hundreds of thousands of dollars under federal health contract
Campaign, White House veterans were among 40 PR consultants on a $2.25 million contract.
More nattering from the twitter-verse.
Russ,
I am witnessing a progression. The person with, whom you are playing tag, will be real fun at Thanksgiving dinner. I suppose the other dinner guests will survive, but they will quickly wheel the person to his computer in another room and shut the door.
By Xmas he will be much worse.
The Democrats had better be working on a followup impeachment(s) in the event this one fails and Trump becomes re-elected. Heaven knows there are other things that could be raised, violation of the emoluments clause for one. Let the GOP give Trump a pass on as many as can be put forward to the Senate and let them mark themselves as facilitators.
There is nothing that would stop the Democrats from re-impeaching him on the basis of the Ukraine issue and then re-presenting it to the next Democrat controlled Senate, should that emerge.
The problem with that theory, Bob is that the Dems would have to keep the House and take the Senate. Which is looking less likely with every poll.
And with Schiff as a the "driver" of the impeachment clown car, and now the
"face' of their kangaroo show trail, it will be looking even better for the GOP by Friday.
I'm looking forward to watching these hearings (as much as I can stomach) - just to witness Schiff's goggle-eyed Trump hatred. Maybe he'll do better than the hapless Nadler.
/because we've all seen how well these public hearing go for the Dems.
EG,
LEWANDOWSKI,
EG,
MUELLER,
R,
Russ
Yes my strategy is dependent not only on the Democrats getting both houses for sure and it wouldn't be the first time for that to happen but also for the DNC to come to it senses and work for the people.
But it would be a good idea if the Democrats started talking about their strategy going forward should the first impeachment attempt fail.
At this point it is beginning to look as if the Republicans in the Senate are bailing.
Also at this point it is beginning to look as if the DNC is under fire from its base for its kowtowing to the GOP and its financial supporters.
If I was an American I would really be pissed at the Democratic party for going soft on the Republicans going back at least until the start of Obama's first terms.
the vote will not be in secret. thus the president will remain in place and him and his part will suffer at the next election
Democrats will suffer in 2020 at the ballot box when people vote them out.
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