CNN analyst: It's a 'problem' for Dems
that impeachment witnesses never met Trump
Fox News,
by
Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
11/14/2019 4:30:06 AM
A prominent CNN commentator pointed out a "problem" House Democrats have following the first public hearing in their impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor and State Department official George Kent were the first witnesses to offer their testimony in the open and were grilled for several hours over their knowledge of Trump's conduct with Ukraine. GOP lawmakers specifically questioned the witnesses about their previous testimony, which relied heavily on second- and third-hand knowledge.
Following the hearing, CNN Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin suggested that the vocal observation from Trump's defenders was "legitimate."
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mobyclik 11/14/2019 6:37:24 AM (No. 234600)
I think the Rats and the Lying Media will keep this clown show up until the vote for impeachment, knowing full-well the Senate will toss it. But, they've got what they wanted for their upcoming campaigns, using the words ''the impeached president'' fifty billion times leading up to the election. Hmm, kinda makes me think they're mainly looking for payback for a REAL impeached president, the stain making Clinton perv.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
millstream 11/14/2019 6:51:24 AM (No. 234618)
I think the prospect of an impeachment trial in the senate and the subsequent sequestering of all those democrat presidential candidates will scare the dems into "censuring" rather than impeachment
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Daisymay 11/14/2019 7:30:28 AM (No. 234651)
I think Jim Jordan was the Star of the day. He pointed out, rather comically, the trail of he sald, then she saids! It showed how absurd it was even having those Two guys on. Mr. Bow Tie apparently had an ax to grind the most. He did not like it that he and his Compadres were not being listened to. Guiliani and his team were suddenly taking charge! Things were just not as he was used to and he was upset at that! Day one, Democrats 0, Republicans 1.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
janjan 11/14/2019 7:39:20 AM (No. 234658)
These two clowns are not ‘witnesses’. They haven’t witnessed anything and are too far down the totem poll to talk to anyone directly. They are there because they don’t agree with Trump’s foreign policy approach like that somehow matters and should be reason for his removal. Trump has probably never heard of either one of them. Fire them both.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/14/2019 8:29:20 AM (No. 234701)
Pencil Neck who was all starched up looked like he came out of the Alfred Hitchcock movie, Funeral Home.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/14/2019 8:39:53 AM (No. 234710)
It's the new TV Movie of the Week: Clueless in DC.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Clinger 11/14/2019 8:50:44 AM (No. 234720)
At the risk of being over confident, I wish that this could go to the senate so we could expose the Ukraine episode in the coup saga, but I can't see how the senate could possibly vote to proceed with a hearing based on fourth hand hearsay regarding someones opinion of policy.
I loved the Devin Nunes opening statement. Jim Jordan gets a gold star.
I would ask that people consider that these fools are the people who tell you that they can manage healthcare better than the private sector.
These are the same fools who think the earth is going to incinerate in 11 years. These are the same fools who think that they can tax more without strangling the economy, or they know better and they don't care as long as they get more favor to sell.
The entire country should be enraged at the Shiff show we saw yesterday.
But alas, half of the country see them as the saviors who need to pull out all the stops to protect humankind from the racist misogynistic Nazi Islamophobic, LGBQTophobe, hating deplorable class.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/14/2019 8:52:43 AM (No. 234724)
One must wonder how much of this is being driven by Hillary in her desire to "get even" with Republicans over the blue dress wardrobe malfunction of husband Bill? Impeachment's keeping Bubba out of the news cycle following the jailhouse murder of Jeffrey Epstein.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/14/2019 9:06:04 AM (No. 234744)
The very definition of "witness" is that one saw or heard something. Schiff is filling in slots with imaginary players in his imaginary impeachment process. I'm surprised that anybody gives him the time of day but then this is the government. They do not have to show performance or results they just have to go through the motions. As Rush explains, these are people dedicated to a process.
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Azzzholes on GMA talked about some other small BS....it was killing them not to launch into their Impeachment diatribe
MAGA KAG
USA USA USA
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 11/14/2019 9:17:55 AM (No. 234760)
Since some of us are handing out "I-think's," I'll add my own thinks to the list: First, we are all looking at the unjustice of this and thinking it will never fly, but since when has a coup ever been carried out "according to the laws of the land"?
Second, if we're thinking the Senate will hold a trial by the long-standing rules, we'd better think again. They can change the rules just as easily as the House did. In short, if it's up to the Senate, we're screwed.
And lastly, waiting until Nov. of next year to do something about this may just be too late.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
stablemoney 11/14/2019 9:39:44 AM (No. 234793)
What foolish tools these 2 witnesses have allowed themselves to become. Before the nation, these 2 arrogant fools have allowed Schiff's appointed attorneys to lead them by the leash, and tell them what their testimony is. That would be embarrassing to the knowing, the aware, but these 2 witnesses are blinded by their arrogance and self importance. Both witnesses are knowingly exchanging their testimony for future career opportunities that the Democrat Party will provide in exchange for their blind loyalty, and throwing their integrity overboard. Neither witness is going to get anything from a Republican administration, and they know it. Still, these 2 men have to live with joining the conspiracy to destroy the President. That is enough to make their smiles look old, their faces cracked, and their words forgotten. All lies. All bearing false witness. What worthless individuals. What wasted and corrupt lives.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Firebase 11/14/2019 9:42:40 AM (No. 234799)
Taylor seems like he's been indoctrined by the Democrats, trying to say anything he can to make Mr Trump look bad. Hurray for hearsay! Some Democrats reiterated the same talking points that have been on the news for months and months, as if THAT is where they get their "evidence". It's as if it was a witch hunt refresher course and red meat for the piranha Democrat base. It's all circular evidence and hearsay, nothing legally binding. Democrats have nooo problem being subjective and making up their own laws as they go.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Franz 11/14/2019 9:45:51 AM (No. 234805)
One of the impression I came away with is that they considered themselves the experts and considered President Trump to be incompetent because he didn't follow their words of "wisdom." I guess wounding their egos is an impeachable act in there eyes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
qr4j 11/14/2019 9:50:30 AM (No. 234815)
I go back to a point Mr. Trump has made in his own way: If he were going to commit a high crime or misdemeanor, would he do so when there were 25 witnesses present and he knew they were there on the call? Even the biggest idiots in the world of crime -- and Mr. Trump is NOT one of them -- know better than that.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
NotaBene 11/14/2019 10:38:50 AM (No. 234876)
Were the Senate to remove our Donaldus Magnus it will be the end of the Republican Party. Donald Trump Jr. will run and I will vote for him to drain the Swamp.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 11/14/2019 11:28:42 AM (No. 234918)
#17: If Trump is impeached, he can't hold office again. Then what?
Yes, I know that no crime has been committed, but the Dimms will say he did and forever declare him an illegitimate president.
Something needs to happen BEFORE we get to this point because by then, the republic will have already been destroyed beyond repair.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
h24015 11/14/2019 12:41:44 PM (No. 234980)
The above posts are reasonable and very well thought out - thank you for some sense in the midst of this insanity.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
little guy 11/14/2019 1:16:06 PM (No. 235012)
Those two clowns are latter day Benedict Arnold's! They are true traitors to America and their careers as "diplomats" should be over as of now. Who can trust either one of them? If you were to become their next supervisor, expect them to undermine you every time they disagreed with you. The mark of a true scoundrel.
If you don't like your boss or the road your company is traveling down, you owe it to yourself and your own moral compass to quit! As a matter of principle. You don't stab your leader in the back ... just because he doesn't listen to you! Get another job where you feel more respect. Or suck it up and do the job you're being paid to do!
I am disgusted that no one has called out these so-called witnesses for what the are --- they are merely disgruntled employees who like throwing bombs! And are trying to screw their boss to get even for some perceived slight.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Omen55 11/14/2019 4:56:34 PM (No. 235213)
Losing Toobin is a big problem for dem.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
snakeoil 11/14/2019 7:12:03 PM (No. 235340)
Am not an expert on this stuff. But PT would have to be impeached and CONVICTED. Requiring a 2/3 majority of the senate. Both Andrew Johnson and Slick Willie were impeached but the votes weren't there for removal. And even if he were are removed from office there is nothing in The Constitution that would prevent him from running again. All of this is just the latest attempt to smear PT and damping his chances for reelection. Fortunately he is running against a collection of clueless clowns. I'm betting on PT.
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