The selling of ta Donald Trump impeachment goes public….
House Democrats announced Wednesday that they will hold their first public impeachment hearings next week, marking an escalation of their investigation into President Trump‘s dealings with Ukraine.
Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that lawmakers initially plan to call in three witnesses as Democrats begin making their case to the public that Trump pressured a foreign power to investigate political opponents.
Schiff said that William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, and George Kent, a top State Department official, will testify next Wednesday. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is then expected to testify next Friday.
Democrats have been moving towards holding public hearings this month as they shift the impeachment inquiry to a public phase after initially holding a series of depositions behind closed doors with current and former administration officials.
The House voted last week largely along party lines to pass a measure outlining the procedures for impeachment, and House Democrats this week released a series of transcripts of the previous closed-door depositions….
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Pence Rerouted Foreign Aid to Favored Christian Groups
ProPublica: “Decisions about U.S. aid are often no longer being governed by career professionals applying a rigorous review of applicants and their capabilities. Over the last two years, political pressure, particularly from the office of Vice President Mike Pence, had seeped into aid deliberations and convinced key decision-makers that unless they fell in line, their jobs could be at stake.”
Politicalwire…
Meanwhile Trump and his followers seemed to be totally obsessed with the identity of the “whistleblower.
Why?
What difference does it make?
The only explanation was offered by NeverTrumper Bill Kristol,
Trump and many of his followers are bullies.Never underestimate how petty vindictive bullying and namecalling is to the Trump cult:himself, his followers and his media mouthpieces.It somehow seems to vindicate the essential mean spiritedness of the whole Trump movement,
The whistleblower is no longer a factor….
The House has the eyewitnesses….
Comrade Jack, although you watch Fox News (is it real? is it fake ?) far more than I, you seem to be woefully ignorant of the most elementary principles of Trumpism-Stalinism.
The right-wing Noise Machine are probably hoping to show that The (s0-called) Whistleblower once voted for a Democrat school-board candidate in 1988, and therefore any of his/her assertions, like those of Peter Strozk & Lisa Page, are merely fake news from the Deep State — riddled, as we know, with partisan Obamakins, Clintonites democratic socialists and other treasonous Enemies of the People — fake news designed to promote the Greatest Witch-Hunt in American History (sorry, Salem) and the Democrat Conspiracy.
Blindingly obvious, once you think about it.
The name of the whistle blower is irrelevant now that we have testimony that not only confirms what she/he said, but goes into more detail.
Republicans want this publicized so that the whistle blower can feel threatened for her/his safety and to discourage other whistle blowers from exposing the corruption of the Trump administration. Republicans want this publicized for purely nefarious purposes.
Gym Jordan would disagree Zreebs, and, of course Ms. Lindsay refuses to even read the transcripts. We need to get her one of those t-shirts they were wearing in Kentucky Monday night.
Thank goodness Linda Tripp never got bullied!
Jim Jordan has been put on the House Intel Committee to be Trump’s muscle….
BTW?
Referee says he told Rep. Jim Jordan that Ohio State doctor performed sex act in shower
The referee said the response of Jordan and another former coach was, “Yeah, yeah, we know.”…
NBC News…
I never have understood why Republicans think Coach Jordan is such a superstar.He showed nothing in his questioning of Hillary Clinton during the infamous Benghazi Hearings.
Jordan is a rather pedestrian Right Winger with nothing particularly to suggest himself as some great inquisitor.His major talent ,as far as I have seen ,is for talking very loudly and purposefully talking off topic.
Come to think of it,when defending the likes of Trump?
Maybe that’s the “talent” called for!
Actually?
None of the them seem to be rocket scientists if they are Trumpist’s eh?
House Republicans will ask for a Hunter Biden appearance…
Schiff will not honor it….
We know Republicans couldn’t care less about this.
Just a feint to provide cover for their Leaders shenanigans
True THAT!
I think people should demand Gym Jordan resign. We now know he looked the other way when young wrestlers were being molested.
Trump got his back….
He’s safe…
But back in the spot light….