The Impeachment Hearings , House Vote and Eventual Trial ..All Updates ...AS EXPECTED... TRUMP SKATES

Trump is digging a deeper hole you can’t keep throwing your friends on the bus

I literally was about to post this .... I'm watching her right now .... Trump is doing his classic "I don't know him" schtick .... you can hear and smell the exhaust of the bus coming down the street to throw him under

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I believe they do this on purpose to muddy the waters of truth and make it seem like they were forced to change their story to appease the dems, even tho it's really the truth.
No other people had evidence that he was lying so he had to come clean and say the real story he was trying to cover for Trump and it came back a bit him in the ass
 
Schiff: Trump betrayed America. Soon the public will hear from patriots who defended it.


Adam Schiff Opinion contributor
Published 3:15 AM EST Nov 5, 2019

A little over one month has passed since the White House released the record of President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Americans read for themselves how President Zelensky sought more weapons critical to Ukraine’s defense, and how President Trump responded: “I would like you to do us a favor though” and laid bare his abuse of the power of the presidency.

From the call record alone, we have stark evidence that President Trump sought Ukraine’s help in the 2020 election by pressing that country to investigate a political opponent. Ukraine, which lies on the front line of Russian aggression, is financially, militarily and diplomatically dependent on the United States. The president’s corrupt pressure to secure its interference in our election betrayed our national security and his oath of office.

Trump's personal, political interests

On Sept. 24, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry and tasked the Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight and Reform Committees to ascertain the extent of the president’s misconduct. In the past few weeks, and despite the White House’s continued obstruction, we have learned a great deal about what occurred from those with firsthand knowledge of the call, and those who witnessed the president’s actions preceding and following it.

What we have found, and what the American people will soon learn through the release of additional testimony transcripts and in public hearings, is that this is about more than just one call. From closed door interviews of current and former administration officials, text messages we have obtained, and public admissions by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and President Trump himself, we now know that the call was just one piece of a larger operation to redirect our foreign policy to benefit Donald Trump’s personal and political interests, not the national interest.

The interviews we have conducted have been thorough, professional and fair, with over one hundred members from both parties eligible to attend — including nearly 50 Republicans — and equal time allotted for questioning to both Democratic and Republican members of Congress and staff. In line with best investigative practices first passed in Congress by the Republicans who now decry them, we have held these interviews in private to ensure that witnesses are not able to tailor their testimony to align with others at the expense of the truth.

Shining examples of patriotism
Over the past several weeks, dedicated, nonpartisan public servants have come forward to share what they know about the president’s misconduct based on what they witnessed over the course of months, describing and corroborating key details and events regarding U.S. foreign policy towards Ukraine. Nearly all have testified despite efforts by the White House to prevent them from telling their story. These career civil servants, diplomats and veterans of our armed services are American patriots and shining examples of what it means to defend and protect our Constitution.

Take it from a Ken Starr aide:
History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment
The witnesses have testified about the extent to which certain levers of government power were used in the service of the president’s political interests; whether congressionally approved security assistance to an ally was improperly withheld to give the president maximum leverage for his political demands; and whether a White House meeting, which Ukraine’s new president desperately sought as validation at home, was conditioned on Ukraine’s willingness to launch and publicly announce sham political investigations to discredit the unanimous conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and into President Trump’s potential political rival in 2020.

On Thursday, the House passed a resolution that lays the groundwork for the next phase of our inquiry. This week, we have begun releasing the transcripts of interviews conducted with current and former government officials, and we will soon begin public hearings.

Impeachment is correct remedy
Americans will hear directly from dedicated and patriotic public servants about how they became aware that U.S. foreign policy had been subverted for the president’s personal political interests, how they responded and how the president’s scheme jeopardizes our national security. These hearings will be different than those in the past, and, I believe, more illuminating. Instead of five-minute rounds of questioning, the format will provide equal and extended periods of questioning by professional staff or the chairman and ranking member of the Intelligence Committee to draw out key facts in a narrative format.

GOP immolation watch:
The House voted for an impeachment inquiry, and Republicans failed a test of character

While temperatures might run high and the temptation to turn this solemn process into a political circus could be irresistible to some, I hope that all members of Congress and the public will focus on the facts and the substance of the testimony, not on politics or partisanship.

For over a year, I resisted calls for an impeachment inquiry because impeachment was intended to be used only in extraordinary circumstances. But the Founders who devised our government understood that someday, a president might come to power who would fail to defend the Constitution or would sacrifice the country’s national security in favor of his own personal or political interests, and that Congress would need to consider such a remedy.

Tragically, that time has come.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
 
First public hearings in Trump impeachment inquiry to begin next week, Schiff says

Public hearings in Congress will begin next week in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Wednesday.

"Next week, the House Intelligence Committee will hold its first open hearings as part of the impeachment inquiry," said Schiff, the committee's chairman. "On Wednesday, November 13, 2019, we will hear from William Taylor and George Kent. On Friday, November 15, 2019, we will hear from Marie Yovanovitch. More to come."


The House passed a resolution last week largely along party lines formalizing the procedures in the probe.

This is a breaking story, please check back for updates.


 
The first to testify in the open Impeachment hearings next Wednesday, November 13th

George Kent- Deputy Asst. Secretary of State

Amb. Bill Taylor- Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine

Amb. Marie Yovanovitch- Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine




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Trump’s latest legal strategy on impeachment: Run out the clock

The administration is relying on the slower pace of the court system to stymie the impeachment inquiry.
President Donald Trump. | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
By NANCY COOK
11/04/2019 06:19 PM
The Trump White House’s legal strategy to keep top officials from testifying in impeachment proceedings is now focused on exploiting the slow pace of the legal system.

The goal of the run-out-the-clock approach is to tie up in courts the fight over whether top officials from the National Security Council, Office of Management and Budget and White House chief of staff’s office can appear before Congress — all while asserting expansive powers for the office of the president.


Court battles could last months, bringing the stand-off between Congress and the White House closer to the 2020 primary races. Democrats have long said they want to move quickly on the impeachment inquiry and keep it narrowly focused, with House aides tentatively hoping to wrap up the inquiry before Christmas.
“It’s a delay strategy,” said a Republican close to the White House, who argued the approach forces Democrats to impeach Trump on procedural grounds of obstructing the investigation instead of uncovering potentially more startling evidence.

If successful, the move will force Democrats to move ahead without hearing from top aides close to President Donald Trump including former national security adviser John Bolton, the budget office officials who delayed sending aid to Ukraine or the national security lawyer who chose to place the July 25 transcript call on a separate, highly classified server. The White House has claimed none of these people can testify under executive privilege, which is meant to protect conversations between the president and his top advisers.


The strategy of relying on a court’s timeline is already buying the administration more than a month: A U.S. District Court judge is not holding a hearing about whether former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman must testify until Dec. 10, cutting into the Democrats’ ambitious timeframe.

Six White House and administration officials were called to Capitol Hill to testify this week, yet none are expected to appear, according to administration officials and attorneys for a handful of these officials.

The next several days will test the White House’s game plan of not cooperating with Democrats — a stance the White House’s top attorney laid out in an eight-page letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in early October.
Involving a third body — the courts — in the impeachment inquiry could slow down Democrats’ momentum in influencing public opinion, calling witnesses and collecting evidence to determine whether the president improperly used his office to investigate a political rival ahead of the next presidential election.
Any hiccup in the impeachment proceedings, which will include public testimony in the House followed by a trial and vote in the Senate, also threatens to overshadow the early presidential contests in Iowa and New Hampshire — drawing valuable public attention away from Democratic contenders, including several sitting senators. The Iowa caucuses are scheduled for Feb. 3, 2020.


In addition to leaning on the legal system, the White House is taking a broad approach to presidential power in its fight with Democrats. White House and Justice Department lawyers claim top administration officials do not need to appear before the House because the constitution protects conversations between the president and his advisers.

“Because the President’s closest advisers serve as his alter egos, compelling them to testify would undercut the ‘independence and autonomy’ of the presidency and interfere directly with the President’s ability to faithfully discharge his constitutional responsibilities,” Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel wrote in a Nov. 3 letter sent to Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel and obtained by POLITICO.
Developed by DOJ lawyers, the argument serves as the legal underpinning for White House aides refusing to testify. Attorneys for Kupperman, Bolton and Eisenberg have said the three men would testify if the courts compel them to do so — though that resolution could take months.


The White House press office did not respond to a request for comment.
Leaning so heavily on the power of the executive branch is not without its own risks, say constitutional experts and lawyers. The White House is claiming executive privilege extends to a wide cast of officials related to the Ukraine scandal and the July 25 phone call, even if some of those officials likely did not directly interact much with the president.

“It starts to get more tenuous, the wider the circle is for executive privilege,” said a former senior administration official. For instance, Democrats on Monday called to testify Michael Ellis, who serves as a senior associate counsel to the president and deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council.
“With Michael Ellis, I bet the president does not even know who that is,” the former official said. “He is not someone who is a direct adviser to the president. None of these people are. They all have at least one or two layers between them and the president and that makes the argument for executive privilege much weaker.”
The Constitution also does not extend executive privilege to instances that involve potential abuses of power, said Michael Gerhardt, an impeachment expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“There is no provision in the Constitution that protects anyone, including the president or anyone in the executive branch, from disclosing criminal activities or abuses of power,” Gerhardt said. “The president’s efforts to impede that are really an attack on the House.”

Trump and aides say he has done nothing wrong and that his phone call with the Ukrainian president was “appropriate,” or the “perfect call,” as the president frequently calls it.

“If what you are doing is using that privilege to hide criminal activity, you can’t do that. The privilege is not there for that,” Gerhardt added. “This case will test in Congress whether a president can really abuse declarations of privilege to fend off an impeachment.”
 

Trump’s latest legal strategy on impeachment: Run out the clock

The administration is relying on the slower pace of the court system to stymie the impeachment inquiry.
President Donald Trump. | Patrick Semansky/AP Photo
By NANCY COOK
11/04/2019 06:19 PM
The Trump White House’s legal strategy to keep top officials from testifying in impeachment proceedings is now focused on exploiting the slow pace of the legal system.

The goal of the run-out-the-clock approach is to tie up in courts the fight over whether top officials from the National Security Council, Office of Management and Budget and White House chief of staff’s office can appear before Congress — all while asserting expansive powers for the office of the president.


Court battles could last months, bringing the stand-off between Congress and the White House closer to the 2020 primary races. Democrats have long said they want to move quickly on the impeachment inquiry and keep it narrowly focused, with House aides tentatively hoping to wrap up the inquiry before Christmas.
“It’s a delay strategy,” said a Republican close to the White House, who argued the approach forces Democrats to impeach Trump on procedural grounds of obstructing the investigation instead of uncovering potentially more startling evidence.

If successful, the move will force Democrats to move ahead without hearing from top aides close to President Donald Trump including former national security adviser John Bolton, the budget office officials who delayed sending aid to Ukraine or the national security lawyer who chose to place the July 25 transcript call on a separate, highly classified server. The White House has claimed none of these people can testify under executive privilege, which is meant to protect conversations between the president and his top advisers.


The strategy of relying on a court’s timeline is already buying the administration more than a month: A U.S. District Court judge is not holding a hearing about whether former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman must testify until Dec. 10, cutting into the Democrats’ ambitious timeframe.

Six White House and administration officials were called to Capitol Hill to testify this week, yet none are expected to appear, according to administration officials and attorneys for a handful of these officials.

The next several days will test the White House’s game plan of not cooperating with Democrats — a stance the White House’s top attorney laid out in an eight-page letter sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in early October.
Involving a third body — the courts — in the impeachment inquiry could slow down Democrats’ momentum in influencing public opinion, calling witnesses and collecting evidence to determine whether the president improperly used his office to investigate a political rival ahead of the next presidential election.
Any hiccup in the impeachment proceedings, which will include public testimony in the House followed by a trial and vote in the Senate, also threatens to overshadow the early presidential contests in Iowa and New Hampshire — drawing valuable public attention away from Democratic contenders, including several sitting senators. The Iowa caucuses are scheduled for Feb. 3, 2020.


In addition to leaning on the legal system, the White House is taking a broad approach to presidential power in its fight with Democrats. White House and Justice Department lawyers claim top administration officials do not need to appear before the House because the constitution protects conversations between the president and his advisers.

“Because the President’s closest advisers serve as his alter egos, compelling them to testify would undercut the ‘independence and autonomy’ of the presidency and interfere directly with the President’s ability to faithfully discharge his constitutional responsibilities,” Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel wrote in a Nov. 3 letter sent to Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel and obtained by POLITICO.
Developed by DOJ lawyers, the argument serves as the legal underpinning for White House aides refusing to testify. Attorneys for Kupperman, Bolton and Eisenberg have said the three men would testify if the courts compel them to do so — though that resolution could take months.


The White House press office did not respond to a request for comment.
Leaning so heavily on the power of the executive branch is not without its own risks, say constitutional experts and lawyers. The White House is claiming executive privilege extends to a wide cast of officials related to the Ukraine scandal and the July 25 phone call, even if some of those officials likely did not directly interact much with the president.

“It starts to get more tenuous, the wider the circle is for executive privilege,” said a former senior administration official. For instance, Democrats on Monday called to testify Michael Ellis, who serves as a senior associate counsel to the president and deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council.
“With Michael Ellis, I bet the president does not even know who that is,” the former official said. “He is not someone who is a direct adviser to the president. None of these people are. They all have at least one or two layers between them and the president and that makes the argument for executive privilege much weaker.”
The Constitution also does not extend executive privilege to instances that involve potential abuses of power, said Michael Gerhardt, an impeachment expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“There is no provision in the Constitution that protects anyone, including the president or anyone in the executive branch, from disclosing criminal activities or abuses of power,” Gerhardt said. “The president’s efforts to impede that are really an attack on the House.”

Trump and aides say he has done nothing wrong and that his phone call with the Ukrainian president was “appropriate,” or the “perfect call,” as the president frequently calls it.

“If what you are doing is using that privilege to hide criminal activity, you can’t do that. The privilege is not there for that,” Gerhardt added. “This case will test in Congress whether a president can really abuse declarations of privilege to fend off an impeachment.”
Yup and it’s going to be 1000 cuts to the GOP if he does this
 
Looks like The vice president people is throwing Trump under the bus

 
Trump's gonna need a bigger bus to throw people under ... :lol:


House Republicans looking at three possible fall guys to pin Ukraine blame and save Trump ..... Giuliani, Mulvaney and Sondland

House Republicans are now preparing to sacrifice poor Rudolph Giuliani to save President Trump. Their new argument is that Giuliani — along with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Ambassador Gordon Sondland — were freelancing the organized campaign to extort Ukraine into carrying out Trump’s political bidding, and Trump had no input into it.
But this argument requires one to pretend that numerous widely documented facts simply don’t exist — including repeated public statements by the president himself.
Which points to a morbidly amusing perversity about this new turn in the Ukraine saga: Republicans are now blaming Donald Trump’s underlings for taking their cues on how to respond to this scandal from none other than Donald Trump.

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Trump rails against impeachment: 'They shouldn't be having public hearings'

President Trump on Friday said there should be no public hearings in the impeachment inquiry as he railed against the process unfolding in the House.

"They shouldn’t be having public hearings. This is a hoax," Trump said as he left the White House for events in Georgia.

The comments mark a sharp break from Trump's allies, who have spent recent weeks complaining about the lack of transparency in the ongoing impeachment inquiry. The first public hearings in the process are set to take place next week.

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Bolton Knows About ‘Many Relevant Meetings’ on Ukraine, Lawyer Says

The former national security adviser would be an important witness in the impeachment inquiry, but his lawyer wants a court to rule on whether he should testify.

ATLANTA — John R. Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, knows about “many relevant meetings and conversations” connected to the Ukraine pressure campaign that House impeachment investigators have not yet been informed about, his lawyer told lawmakers on Friday.

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Get ready for the Republicans "traveling shenanigans roadshow" to start next week .... now that Jim Jordan has been moved into the intelligence committee ….. the real shit show circus of antics can begin … they're even stll looking for some Fusion GPS shit to possibly sink their hooks into

GOP HOLLIDAY WITNESS REQUESTS:

1) DEVON ARCHER- FORMER BURISMA HOLDINGS BOARD MEMBER
2) HUNTER BIDEN- FORMER BURISMA HOLDINGS BOARD MEMBER
3) ALEXANDER CHALUPA- FMR DNC STAFFER
4) DAVID HALE- UNDER SECY OF STATE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS
5)TIM MORRISON & LT. COL ALEXANDER VINDMAN
6) NELLIE OHR- FMR FUSION GPS CONTRACTOR
7) AMB KURT VOLKER, BILL TAYLOR, GEORGE KENT
8) THE WHISTLE-BLOWER
9) THE WHISTLE-BLOWERS SOURCES
 
Get ready for the Republicans "traveling shenanigans roadshow" to start next week .... now that Jim Jordan has been moved into the intelligence committee ….. the real shit show circus of antics can begin … they're even stll looking for some Fusion GPS shit to possibly sink their hooks into

GOP HOLLIDAY WITNESS REQUESTS:

1) DEVON ARCHER-
FORMER BURISMA HOLDINGS BOARD MEMBER

2) HUNTER BIDEN- FORMER BURISMA HOLDINGS BOARD MEMBER

3) ALEXANDER CHALUPA- FMR DNC STAFFER

4) DAVID HALE- UNDER SECY OF STATE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS

5)TIM MORRISON & LT. COL ALEXANDER VINDMAN

6) NELLIE OHR-
FMR FUSION GPS CONTRACTOR

7) AMB KURT VOLKER, BILL TAYLOR, GEORGE KENT

8) THE WHISTLE-BLOWER

9) THE WHISTLE-BLOWERS SOURCES

Adam Schiff just blew up the House GOP’s latest wacky scheme to derail Trump’s impeachment
Bill Palmer | 8:30 pm EST November 9, 2019

Earlier today, House Republicans tried to turn the impeachment process on its head by revealing a list of witnesses they’d like to call. The list was so cartoonishly absurd, all we could do was roll our eyes. It told us everything about the kinds of antics that Donald Trump’s House GOP allies are planning to rely on – and it promptly got shot down accordingly.

House Republicans almost comically announced that they want to call Hunter Biden as a witness. Yeah right. They also named Nellie Ohr and Alexandra Chalupa, two frequent targets of Trump’s lunatic phony conspiracy theories. Again, not happening. Then, just to show how idiotic and sophomoric the House GOP effort is, their list hilariously included “the whistleblower” and “the whistleblower’s sources.”

The thing is, House Republicans don’t get to make any decisions on witnesses. The House Democratic majority gets to make those decisions. Sure enough, it took House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff all of a few minutes to announce that none of these nonsense requests were going to be granted. Trump’s House GOP allies will whine about how unfair it is that they didn’t get their way, and no one will care.

Once Donald Trump’s impeachment reaches the Senate trial stage, Senate Republicans will theoretically be allowed to call any witnesses they like. But if they start trying to subpoena people like Hunter Biden and Nellie Ohr, it’ll blow back on them spectacularly, as the public will conclude that they’re trying to prop Trump up by any means – and the Republican Senators will start to lose their seats in the next election. In any case, the Senate trial is still a ways off. For now, all the House Republicans can do is whine.
 
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