That adds up when you consider his mysterious visit to the doctor recently. Building his story.
That adds up when you consider his mysterious visit to the doctor recently. Building his story.
Nunes is just itching to get this whistleblower's name into the public domain so the Republicans can start their smear campaign.
He just tried to order Vindman to plead the 5th, the dumb wanker.
Fortunately he got slapped down pretty quickly, but you just know he's going to keep at it.
Impeachment hearings not going well in spite of CNN proclomations.
Republicans on commitee just dig in and will in the end concede Trump may have done some things they personally do not agree with it's, "NOT IMPEACHABLE!".
Trump supporters voters are not going be swayed enough to make a difference in 2020 election.
Dems have made a mistake holding these hearings. They should be out making their case as to why folks should vote for them.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"
Disagree with that. There were some who held their noses and voted for Trump over Clinton who are wary of the constant stream of scandal and ineptitude from his administration.
The die-hard Trumps can't and won't be swayed true but they are largely irrelevant because they long ago traded objective reality for their 'alternative facts' and although it might not see it at times because they are so loud and vocal but they are very much the minority.
Besides all of which, it's less about convincing Trump voters to not vote for him again (and they were also the minority) than it is energizing those who wouldn't to get out and vote to avoid a repeat of the last exhausting four years of Keystone Cops: WH Edition and remove a man who is clearly corrupt and unsuited for the office.
Good argument. We will see in about a year.
As a registered Republican, as last time the kunt will never get my vote no matter who the Dems run against him. Not very excited about any of the Dem candidates. A shame it has come to this vote for the least objectionable. Perhaps why so many just don't bother any more.
Guess I am too old school to understand why in the world all don't vote. I was taught voting was not only a right but an obligation.
That doesn't matter. The Republicans could put Harvey Weinstein up and the trumpanzees would vote for him. Fuck, they could put a serial killer up and they'd vote for him.
They had to do something, baldy orange cunto is violating just about every norm, lining his pockets and destroying the country, and its standing in the international community.
Be grateful the world is laughing at the orange turd and not the country he "leads".
Quid pro quo narrative needs to be changed to something easily understood by those who think drumpf is a smart man
call it exchange of favours
As an Aussie I would always vote when I was living there.
While it is compuldory to vote it is not difficult to do what I did and have myself removed from the electrol roll so when I don't vote I don't risk getting fined.
The reason I did that was it is was too difficult to vote while living and workingoverseas.
Even though it is compulsory there is never 100% voter turnout.
No surprise at all...
President Donald Trump regularly struggles to "remember what he's said or been told," an anonymous senior government official behind a new exposé on the inner workings of the White House has claimed.Much of the nearly 260 pages of the anonymous official's tome, A Warning, which hit bookshelves on Tuesday, has been dedicated to sounding the alarm about Trump's alarming behavior.
While the anonymous author, who is described only as a "senior official in the Trump administration" admits they are not "qualified to diagnose the president's mental acuity," they can say that "normal people who spend any time with Donald Trump are uncomfortable by what they witness."
"He stumbles, slurs, gets confused, is easily irritated, and has trouble synthesizing information, not occasionally but with regularity," the official warns.
Often, they say, "the president also can't remember what he's said or been told."
"Americans are used to him denying words that have come out of his mouth," the senior official writes. "Sometimes this is to avoid responsibility."
However, they say it often "appears Trump genuinely doesn't remember important facts."
One clear example of that, the official recalls, is when the president claimed he was not sure if he had "ever even heard of a Category 5" hurricane, despite having been briefed on at least four other Category 5 hurricanes during his time in office.
"Was he forgetting these briefings?" the author questions. "Or more problematic, was he not paying attention at all? These are events that affect millions of Americans, yet they don't seem to stick in his brain."
The official writes that while Trump has often claimed to be highly intelligent, they say they have "seen the president fall flat on his face when trying to speak intelligently" on a number of topics on which he claims to be an expert.
"You can see why behind closed doors his own top officials deride him as an 'idiot' and a 'moron' with the understanding of a 'fifth or sixth grader,'" the unnamed senior official says.
In addition to questioning Trump's ability to recall basic terms that he has said or heard, the anonymous author also accuses the president of an "astounding" level of "intellectual laziness."
Asserting that Trump barely reads and has required that briefings be shorter and include fewer words and more pictures, the senior official says they are "bewildered how anyone could have run a private company on the empty mental tank President Trump relies upon every day to run the government."
"On television, a CEO-turned-showman can sit around a desk and bark orders at subordinates and then go to commercial," they write. "In real life, a successful CEO has to absorb a lot of information, about the economic climate, about his or her competitors, about product and consumer trends."
"How can you manage a sprawling organization if you won't read anything?" the author questions. "Not very well, it turns out.
While the anonymous official says some Trump defenders might be tempted to write their warnings off "as the musings of Never-Trumpers," they say, "that is not the case."
Anyone who has spent time with Trump and "would claim otherwise" of their account, the official says, is "lying to themselves or to the country."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum...n=Partnerships
is Trump incompetent? of course he is, but that didn't stop other POTUS before
competence is over-rated for the POTUS job, the Pentagon is running the show
And what of it? Another of his doctors famously said he was in "astonishingly excellent" health and would be the "healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency."Originally Posted by RPETER65
Only it turns out he hadn't actually said that and someone, likely Trump himself, had dictated or drafted it. He lies. Frequently and about everything.
He's an obese old man.
Are you OK? You're writing like you've had a stroke.
Ukraine widens probe against Burisma founder to embezzlement of state funds
Nov 21, 2019
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has widened its investigation into the founder of energy company Burisma to include suspicion of embezzling state funds, Prosecutor General Ruslan Ryaboshapka said on Wednesday.
Allegations of wrongdoing at Burisma go to the heart of a U.S. impeachment inquiry into whether President Donald Trump improperly pressured Ukraine’s leadership to investigate his main rival in the 2020 presidential race.
Trump wants Ukraine to launch an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, who was a board member at Burisma from 2014-2019.
The prosecutor who has investigated Burisma is Kostiantyn Kulyk, who previously met Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to discuss accusations against the Bidens.
After he took office in late August, Ryaboshapka launched a wide-ranging audit of criminal cases to see whether they had been conducted properly. Thirteen of them relate to Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky, Ryaboshapka told reporters at a briefing on Wednesday.
Burisma did not respond to a request for comment.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN1XU2N7
Gordon Sondland chooses to save himself, not Trump
WASHINGTON — Minutes after he took his seat Wednesday in the House impeachment hearing, Ambassador Gordon Sondland made himself clear: He had come to save his own reputation, not the president’s.
The process was “less than fair,” the onetime Trump loyalist complained.
But he did not blame the Democrats conducting the historic inquiry. Instead, the longtime Republican donor from Oregon laced into his bosses at the State Department and the White House — who tried to bar him from testifying and refused him access to his own files and phone records.
Then, with a batch of private emails he was able to recover and fresh recollections in hand, he let loose.
MORE https://www.latimes.com/politics/sto...self-not-trump
This a bit of a giggle.
Nunes's facial expression right before lawmakers took break from Sondland testimony goes viral
https://mobile.twitter.com/ellievhal...95784422338561
He has had a meme-able couple of days.
Vindman correcting him was hilarious, sorry, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman.
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