Stark Raving Madness
Don't be surprised by the possible accusations as the House holds a key hearing Monday. The House Judiciary Committee report released Saturday hints throughout that President Trump might have committed treason against the United States. The report outlines the dems case against the President. Thus far every attempt to take down this President has failed and now they shoot wildly, making more outrageous & unproven claims.
Now it seems that the radicals running the House Judiciary Committee intend to falsely accuse the President of the ultimate crime. Maybe this is why we've been hearing all these leftist tools talking of "Putin." To just make a random hateful accusation is beyond the pale. Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler and the anti-American squad should all be censured.
The House Judiciary Committee report redefines "treason" to include what it calls “betrayal,” and declares: “Although the Framers did not intend impeachment for good faith disagreements on matters of diplomacy, they were explicit that betrayal of the Nation through schemes with foreign powers justified that remedy.”
In other words they are telling us that a quid pro quo with the Ukraine = treason.
Of course normal human beings don't believe that, but hate-filled progressives will keep repeating it until we are all totally repulsed by them. We will find out more tomorrow as Jerry Nadler deliberately scheduled the proceedings dealing with the so called "evidence for impeachment" to conflict with the Justice Department's IG Report, which is being released tomorrow. Nadler & Pelosi are crafty that way. Let's not forget that only last week we witnessed Adam Schiff s ubpoena & release the call records of attorneys, Congressmen & journalists.
In the meantime public opinion is starting to turn against them:
An Emerson poll released two weeks ago found support for impeachment has dropped from 48% to 43% since October, while opposition to impeachment has risen from 44% to 45%.
Independents stand out in the shift, with 49% opposing impeachment and only 34% supporting impeachment. In October, 48% of independents supported impeachment and 39% opposed.
https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/november-national-poll-support-for-impeachment-declines-biden-and-sanders-lead-democratic-primary
And then there is this:
Today CNN host Dana Bash, in a rare moment of acting like a journalist, put Chairman Nadler on the spot and Nadler showed even CNN's dwindling followers what he's made of:
Bash: “I want you to listen to something you said during the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998.”
“They must never be a narrowly voted impeachment or an impeachment substantially supported by one of our major political parties and largely opposed by the other. Such an impeachment would lack legitimacy and produce divisiveness and bitterness in our politics for years to come,” Nadler said in the 1998 clip.
Bash: “So right now you’re moving forward against impeachment without support from one Congressional Republican. Is it fair to say that this impeachment, in your words back then, will provide divisiveness and bitterness for years to come?”
Nadler: “No, I think that what puts bitterness and divisiveness into our politics is the conduct of the president who questions the patriotism of people who don’t agree with him, who calls political opponents human scum, who talks about the fake press, who derides the judiciary, who attacks all of our Democratic institutions”
Bash: “So you are willing to impeach the president with no Republican votes, correct?”
Nadler: “We’re going to impeach the president".... “If we impeach the president, we’ll impeach him on adequate and urgent grounds to defend our Democratic Republic.”
Bash: “And if there are no Republican votes — so be it?”
Nadler: “It is up to them if they want to be patriots or partisans"
Beyond the hypocrisy note the slip of the tongue where Nadler says we are going to impeach then in the next breathe corrects himself with "if we impeach". These are disgusting human beings who have no business serving in congress. Let's see to it that they are voted out in 2020.
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IG Report tomorrow.....That's the real story
House madness will only be background noise.
Rules of civility are in effect
Which they are already saying is going to be nothing.
"They" being those who's lawyers had the right of review and who have been leaking everything to the media?
Well, we'll soon find out about the IG report, but Barr and Durham are just getting started.
After all this drama Trump will not be removed from office, and the Dems like an electable candidate.
Good luck going forward.
late-breaking news. from the NYtimes
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr recently approved making public new details about a former F.B.I. informant at the heart of conservatives’ allegations about the Russia investigation, deciding to release information that had been blacked out in a highly anticipated inspector general’s report due out on Monday.
A representative from the office of the Justice Department inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, told the former F.B.I. informant, Christopher Steele, on Sunday that the Justice Department had decided to allow for the release of the information, two people briefed on the situation said late on Sunday.
Mr. Steele was given no details about the information itself, nor was he told how it would affect the report’s portrayal of him, the people said. Mr. Horowitz is expected to be critical of Mr. Steele, a British former spy who compiled a dossier of salacious, unverified information about President Trump. F.B.I. officials relied to some degree on the dossier to seek a court order for a wiretap of a former Trump campaign adviser , and the president’s allies have seized on the issue to make broad claims about the sprawling Russia investigation.
The notice to Mr. Steele on the eve of the report’s release was highly unusual. Like the other witnesses interviewed for the inspector general’s report, Mr. Steele had earlier reviewed the findings that are pertinent to him, and he was given a chance to comment on them. In this case, Mr. Horowitz’s office did not detail for him the additional information and gave him no opportunity to respond for the report to be released on Monday.
So this IG report will be nothing but just wait until Barr and Durham are done?
Gee this sounds familiar.
We know Barr's resume was the 4 page 'summary' of the Mueller report.
This report Barr will release is how he keeps his job.
in this case, barr removed redactions
how is that hiding something?.
Sounds quite a bit like the impeachment proceedings. Molehill turned into a mountain.
Could not make out what you were trying to say.
Barr is a whack job that thinks presidential powers are untouchable. He thinks a president is a king while in office.
He has a history of cleaning up after republican presidents and had a hand in giving pardons to the people involved in the Iran-Contra affairs.
Funny that the people that supposedly want to drain the swamp are happy and put all their faith in a man that has a history of covering things up and getting people off.
Treason is what this administration is guilty of. Stark raving madness, describes this 'president' and his supporters very well.
Wishing dosen't make it so.
The truth.
Can you handle the truth?
People claiming that nonsense clearly have no understanding of what treason actually is.
And it shows!
"Professional Politician" Hillary "Clinton"..... being defeated by a "Non-Professional Politician" Donald "Trump" !
Sure they do.
Treason: noun. The crime of saying mean things on Twitter, especially when those things offend very angry, emotional leftists.
Can I ask you a question? Why do you support a known liar, crook, bigot , and moron to be president of the United States? Are you proud of that?
Only if I can ask you one in return.
As we've discussed repeatedly, I don't support Trump. I voted against the Yankee Asshole.
I oppose idiotic fuckwittery. I oppose brainless hysteria. I heap scorn and derision on anyone who is so pathetically weak that they let their emotions override their reason. That includes those who are so out of control that they declare anyone who falls short of their own level of hysteria to be some sort of enemy.
Such people are dangers to modern civilization and should be ostracized from the community like the lepers of old, lest spread their disease to others. Unlike lepers, these are disgusting, sickly people who eagerly choose this infection and then wallow in their own emotional illness because they lack the fortitude to choose reason.
So your turn.
Why do you allow your hatred of a man who has almost no influence on your daily life to drive you to such an emotional state that you abandon those things you would otherwise hold dear?
The real story is the insatiable imaginations of right wing conspiracy theorists.
Let's see, nearly all of the FBI executives who handled the Russia/Trump counter intelligence investigation have left the bureau. Some have been fired. Others have resigned under intense scrutiny. Several have become the subject of federal investigations themselves, and two have joined CNN as legal analysts.
So much for a conspiracy theory
Lets face it. It doesnt matter (to you) what the IG says. Conspiracy theories, old and new, will cover it all. That is taken for granted.
I'd say that's a given.
It matters when he makes a criminal referral. I guess people at the Justice Department don't.
The IG is very limited in what he can look at. It's the Durham investigation that I'm focused on.
You were focused on the IG report until you werent, is that it? lol.
The only way Durham will find anything is if Barr rigs it. Which is not out of the realm of possibility by the way.
I'm still interested in it, John, even though all those being investigated got to leak out all their BS, thanks to their being granted a right to review the material.
The only way Durham will find anything is if Barr rigs it.
Oh that's right - try and discredit it. You afraid those rotten scum bags will get caught?
BTW, from Mark Meadows:
"I just got out of a nearly 2 hour briefing on the IG report. It is deeply disturbing. Some former FBI and DOJ officials are about to have some serious explaining to do. More details to come shortly."
I dont believe in far right conspiracy theories , although thanks to people like some of those we see on NT , there is an endless supply of them.
Your'e like those who didn't believe Christ.
Of applications for warrants to spy on US citizen Carter Page, IG says "numerous instances in which factual representations in those applications were inaccurate, incomplete, or unsupported by appropriate documentation."
What are you quoting Vic?
Stark raving madness? Really?
Incandescent light bulbs, toilet flushing, "Stable genius" thing, "I've got the biggest brain" thing and "Putin likes me." Now that is stark.
The true madness is the trump enablers.
Yup and they keep posting the same debunked lies over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
There are millions of us and the numbers are continuing to grow.
'There are millions of us and the numbers are continuing to grow.'
No, they're shrinking.
It's just that all that stark raving madness or batshit craziness really stands out.
The biggest of a few things
Wooooow! What an asshole.
Remember when ohhh . . . about day before yesterday or so . . . When Democrats thought the “patriot” meant the same thing as “fascist?” Whatever’s convenient in the moment, I guess.
Nadler proceeded that with this
Do these morons even listen to themselves? He is guilty of the very thing he is accusing Trump of.
I know, I know; but Trruuummmmppppp!!!!!!
Hopefully the Democrats will get the beat down in the upcoming elections they more than deserve.
A Grade A.
Remember when ohhh . . . about day before yesterday or so . . . When Democrats thought the “patriot” meant the same thing as “fascist?”
Come to think of it, I do! I recall leftist professors making excuses for Joe Stalin and Mao and most of all those memorable days when they defended draft dodgers and those moving to Canada. They also feel deeply in love with "Che" Guevara and Fidel Castro. Suddenly, we are to believe that they are wrapped in the flag they used to burn.
And this aiding and abetting thingy?? Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Nicaragua, Panama, Vietnam, Philippines and others that the U.S.government/CIA/State Department "assisted" in regime change? Wonder why those President's weren't "Impeached"????
One could argue that a US president aided in the rise of the Shah of Iran while another US president was complicit in his demise. JFK definitely gave the Ok to the coup that got Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated. You are 100% right. Those were far more serious than asking for an announcement of an investigation.
Did Kennedy ask a South Vietnamese official to help him win re-election?
Did he ?
Neither did Trump, However even if Trump had the intention of using information on Joe Biden to win an election it would pale in comparison to being involved in a coup that brought down a foreign leader.
'it would pale in comparison to being involved in a coup that brought down a foreign leader.'
Wow John - just shows you're not as old as you try to make yourself out to be.
No, JFK inserted troops in Vietnam to help CHANGE A REGIME - little bit more stronger than winning a "re-election".
Jeezzzz.
See that's what they do. They aren't satisfied with the quid pro quo being exposed. Then then have to embellish it to say the President was trying to interfere in the 2020 election. What Hunter Biden did differs from what Joe Biden did. Joe Biden got a prosecutor fired. He admitted it. That's all there is to Joe Biden's involvement. We all know it. Progressives have to build on that with what others were thinking and trying to do.
Hunter Biden was a POS who was being used by Burisma for protection. Joe Biden wanted to protect his son. End of story.
Liberal types NEVER want a story ended. They'd lose votes if that happened.
Liberal types are the Best of the Best authors of the..... "Never Ending Story" !
If the story "Ends", they sell books no more !
Bedtime stories
JFK never added combat troops to Vietnam he called them advisors.
That Vietnam thing really went well, didn't it?
One is legitimate foreign policy (even if proven wrong by history) and the other is asking a foreign government to influence a US election. Not remotely comparable.
"LEGITIMATE" foreign policy means we are allowed to go into any country we wish and change leadership because we don't agree with their ideas/policy of government??? Oh yeah - forgot - just ask the Native Americans how beneficial that was.
Yes John - TOTALLY comparable. So, you are saying that it was fine that your Aunt allowed the CIA and State Department to overthrow and dismantle the Nicaraguan government - the Libyan government - and the Bushes and their predecessors could "rearrange" governments of the ME???
Sounds to me like you're really approving of FORCEABLE change over diplomatic change.
Chicago rubbing off on ya, eh??? J/K.
Trump asking the president of a foreign country to investigate someone Trump is running for U.S. president against is not legitimate foreign policy.
I will be sooooo glad when all of this is over.
When Trump asked Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden
as soon as Trump said that he had committed an impeachable offense. In their hearts everyone knows this, but the charade that he is the real victim is carried out by those who dont care what he does.
They know, they just don't care.
No more than the left cares about Joe Biden being guilty of the very thing Trump is being accused of. Unlike Trump, Biden had the audacity to brag about it; and throw Obama under the bus as well.
If Biden wins the presidency we will see how eager the left is to eat one of their own. They might even get their wish to impeach someone before they assume the presidency.
Biden and his son aren't guilty of anything.
You don't even know. Your'e waiting to find out what the impeachable offense is like everyone else.
Nope, don't look over there!
It's not only Biden. Many Presidents have had quid pro quo's in the course of diplomatic relations. What would pallets of cash for Iran's cooperation mean?
No, they're not guilty of anything.
Then neither is the President. It's called "the shoes on the other foot test"
No, Joe Biden and his son not being guilty doesn't mean this 'president' isn't guilty.
That makes no sense.
That debunked nonsense again?
Are you saying it didn't happen?
Talk about spin. I should not expect anything else.
Dems bad, repubs flawless, in some demented alternate reality.
Funny that Mulvaney admitted on tv what you all still deny.
And the impeachable offense is?
You wouldn't need to wait to find out what Nadler says it is if it was valid.
I dont need to wait for Nadler. One of the constitutional experts at the hearing last week said exactly that Trump's very ask of an investigation of Biden by a foreign government is a violation of federal campaign laws and is an impeachable offense. You cannot ask for a thing of value from a foreign government in connection with a US election.
You have to be an IDIOT to think that Trump was concerned about "corruption" in Ukraine when he asked Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden. And he did ask Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden specifically. Would you like me to quote it for you again Vic?
It is not an impeachable offense, but do pursue it. This hate filled quest must play out until it ends with democrats losing everything. I'm with ya, John.
Every time you seed an article about this we learn that you are not familiar with the facts.
Of course it's an impeachable offense. This 'president' is committing one impeachable offense after another.
You always have so much substance for us that you need to launch another personal attack.
Yet you can't name it for us.
We are watching impeachment hearings and you don't even know the articles talked about? I know Trumpers don't want to hear what he's done, but if you want to discuss impeachment you ought to at least know what they are talking about. Willfully obtuse isn't a good look.
Apparently, neither do you. John says "abuse of power." What say you?
I haven't watched a minute of these biased "hearings", because I know how the whole shebang will end.
And you don't want facts to get in the way of the conspiracy theories.
Abuse of power is an impeachable offense. So is obstruction of justice. So is bribery. So is extortion.
Blah blah.
What happend to RUSSIA RUSSIA ?
"(Joe) Biden stopped the prosecution" and "(Joe) Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution"
Little Joe's being let go scott free for AIDING AND ABETTING by withholding $1.5 BILLION dollars in aid that Congress had already approved.
See, that is not true. Biden was doing the business of the USA and our allies removing a corrupt Ukrainian prosecutor who was NOT investigating corruption. Biden wasn't doing anything on his personal behalf, he was acting in his official capacity. The Burisma crap has already been investigated and nothing was there. If we are going to look at political spawn that is something that needs to include the Trump family and others in congress, senate and appointees. Nothing to do with the impeachment except as an excuse to go after Biden and deflect from Trump's crimes. Republicans are taking Putin's lies and using them to defend Trump at the expense of OUR country and the Ukraine and the benefit to Russia. Allowing them to dodge responsibility for interfering in 2016 and allowing them to continue right now and into 2020.
Biden and his son have yet to be investigated.
This morning democrats will try to pin an impeachable offense on the President of the United States.
Right now some leftist demonstrator is making noise and has to be removed.
Some Trump nut in the audience jumped up at the start of the impeachment hearing today and began screaming "we voted for Donald Trump"
Sir, we dont need to hear about your personal mistakes.
Is that what you heard? I heard "He abused his power". Too bad Nadler isn't trying to persuade anybody. Instead he keeps talking to the hate-filled wing of his despicable party
You were wrong again Vic. video
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Oh, great we finally have a protester who isn't a leftist. Thank Kaplan & Nadler for getting the audio out there.
Keep saying it John. Keep reminding them why they must get out and vote!
Since 2017 Trump's existence as president has resulted in subpar performance by Republican candidates in the vast majority of contested elections across the country.
Keep telling yourself that John. Anytime you want to wager on the 2020 election just let me know.
There have been a lot of tight races between republicons and democrats since 2017. That tells us a lot.
I'm sure John will want to get into the details of those!
Your seeds are becoming more and more irrelevant as this thing goes along. Now your defense of Trump is that you think he's going to win the election. Yikes.
You guys failed to prove your case & no amount of arrogant lectures from Dem donors can change that.
What as apposed to yours that have been irrelevant since I came to NT? Russia... Russia.... Russia. Collusion...Obstruction But Hillaryious Hillary got the popular vote.
Nadler is a joke just like a majority of the Democrat leadership and their lemmings are to dumb to see it.
One thing always stands out about your comments. They are fact free.
We do hear a lot about Hillaryous though. Someone who was last relevant over three years ago.
Let's see we have two lawyers, films and signs with talking points! If only they could spoon feed the American public with BS?
When you have obvious impeachable offenses, you don't have to put on such a show. Nothing meets the Constitutional criteria for impeachment.
John, iv'e never disputed a quid pro quo. It simply dosen't rise to an impeachable offense.
Again, Please tell me what the Articles of Impeachment will be???
There was an entire scheme to with hold the aid as a quid pro quo, not just a few words on a phone call.
Trump abuses the power of his office. He is not fit to be president of the United States. Not remotely fit.
Abuse of Power? Does that fall under any of the 4 criteria for impeachment?
There was an entire scheme to with hold the aid
In a largely overlooked portion of his testimony, one of the Democrats’ star witnesses stated that the National Security Council found that the 55-day pause in U.S. military aid to Ukraine was lawful .
“There was an opinion, legal opinion, rendered that the hold was legal ,” Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman told the House Intelligence Committee on November 19."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/legal-actions-led-to-trumps-impeachment/?
"Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone, “ I would like you to do us a favor ” and examine alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election, what he suspected to be Ukrainian hacking of DNC computers (atop Russian skullduggery), and corruption accusations against the Bidens. This request conformed to America’s Treaty with Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters. President Clinton signed this pact in July 1998. The Senate ratified it in October 2000.
The U.S. and Ukraine agreed to “ provide mutual assistance … in connection with the investigation, prosecution, and prevention of offenses, and in proceedings related to criminal matters.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/12/legal-actions-led-to-trumps-impeachment/?
So what?
Why didnt Trump suggest that the US Senate investigate Biden? If he's so concerned with what Biden did in Ukraine he surely would have done that.
His scheme was entirely for political purposes.
LOL.
I know, It's a big joke!
Laugh this off:
The US Senate? To conduct an investigation? The agreement we have with the Ukraine for aid, demands that they clean up their act. That includes "The black ledger", Burisma and Alexandra Chalupa!
Citing polls is not a defense against abuse of office charges.
That's going to be it - "abuse of power"? That's hilarious!
He like every other president has the right to conduct his own foreign policy, just like Obama did.
He does not have the right to ask a foreign government to investigate his election opponents.
Whether you like it or not, Joe Biden was an election opponent of Trump's on July 25th. Both had official campaigns for the office of president of the United States.
This is not in dispute Vic. The only question is if any Republicans and erstwhile Trump supporters are going to care.
Throw independents in there too, since a lot of them seem to be against impeachment.
Those polls prove my point about how dems are burying themselves with this impeachment quest.
And whether you like it or not, Hillary Clinton was Donald Trump's opponent when her campaign used buffers to purchase dirt on Trump. That dirt known as the Steele Dossier was used by government officials to launch investigations of Trump & his campaign.
How about exchanging America’s most sensitive technology, including but not limited to nuclear missile and satellite technology, possibly in exchange for millions of dollars in campaign contributions? (aka Chinagate)
You had no problem with that. Again you fail to pass the shoes on the other foot test.
Clinton , through a lawyers office, contracted for opposition research on Trump. At that time she was unaware of a "Steele Dossier". Steele was also not a government official of a foreign country.
By the way, point out where she stood on a stage and asked a foreign government to steal Trump's private emails or papers (as he did to her).
Correct
At that time she was unaware of a "Steele Dossier".
And when she was aware of it they used it.
Steele was also not a government official of a foreign country.
He was a former British Intelligence officer. Between 2014 and 2016, Steele created over 100 reports on Russian and Ukrainian issues, which were read within the US State Department. His information for the infamous Dossier supposedly came from Russian sources.
By the way, point out where she stood on a stage and asked a foreign government to steal Trump's private emails or papers (as he did to her).
That is a blatant lie: Candidate Trump said “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
You know, the e-mails that Hillary had destroyed after they were subpoenaed, with Obama's FBI giving the man who destroyed them immunity from prosecution!
Emails that where on the server ceased by the federal Government after Hillarious Hillary deleted all the incriminating evidence?
what does "ceased" mean ?
Where did you come up with this 'the shoe is on the other foot test' malarkey?
"malarkey" ? Have you joined the Biden campaign?
For your info - the shoe on the other foot test comes from a distinguished liberal law professor.
Vic, hours after Trump asked Russia to "find" Hillarys emails, operatives of the Russian government tried to hack her private computer system.
Gosh....that would mean Trump isn't as inept and Stupid as the Liberals try to make him out to be....huh !
Possibly, but it also means COLLUSION , lol.
John, you keep saying that. It dosen't change what Trump said nor does it change the fact that Russia tried to hack the GOP server as well!!!!!
Soooooo …… Possible..... "IS" Collusion ?
Oh no JR you got me, I misused the wrong seized, thank god you now validated every left wing conspiracy post you ever posted with that catch.
"ceased" is not pronounced "ceaze".
But this is amusing. Keep going.
He's been withholding aid to Lebanon since October.
What's up with that?
Ummmm….. Hezbollah ?
Isn't that the enemy?
“We’re going to impeach the president".... “If we impeach the president, we’ll impeach him on adequate and urgent grounds to defend our Democratic Republic.”
What Nadler, Pelosi and Schifty really mean:
"If we impeach the president, we’ll impeach him on adequate and urgent grounds to defend our own "Democrat" Election .
"defend our Democratic Republic.”
Sorry Nadler - guess you need to go back to your Civics 101 class in Kindergarden.
Interesting, especially since the U.S. is a CONSTITUTIONAL Republic, not a Democratic Republic.
The "Constituent is not to be recognized at this time" !
There is a rule that a witness may not defame the President. What did I just hear?
The truth is a defense against libel.
Nadler first claimed he was a witness then refused to have him sworn in and then said he wasn't a witness and he is gone and not coming back. He broke House rules. And he will get away with it!
The truth
So far it's been underwhelming!
Bad news Vic. Trump is guilty. All the GOP games they want can not change that.
He is? When can we expect a conviction?
… on Sandys friends aunt telling her dad that his sisters boyfriend heard something from his 5th cousin that troubled him.
I don't know. What did you just hear?
Democratic counsel Barry Berke defamed the President as a witness. It is against House rules. Now he is asking questions
How did he defame the 'president' as a witness?
He didn't. That fantasy whopper came straight out of the GOP talking point bonanza on Faux News.
Maybe you should have listened to the minority members. Oh, that's right, shut then down and then seat your counsel as a witness and then have him walk up to the dais and grill his fellow witness.
None of the "witnesses" today were there during the commission of the crime, they were attorneys for both parties. Trying to claim you can't call the fellow parties attorney because they were a "witness" to the preceding's previously is ridiculous. It's not as if the opposing sides attorney can be categorized the same way a mere witness to a crime might be. So it's obvious that the Democrats aren't calling someone who is actually "testifying" aka "I saw the defendant do 'etc.' ", they are merely testifying as to the process so far.
If I had someone who says they saw me pick my nose and eat it, tell the judges everything they saw, then they got up and were one of the judges, well obviously that would be improper. A witnesses testifying as to a crime being committed also being one of the judges of the crime? Totally improper. Now, if you're going to call one of the jurors from a grand jury and ask them to testify as to what they saw during the grand jury, why do we have a problem with this? He's not a partial party that supposedly saw the key event and thus could testify to something he didn't really see. The Democrat attorney was simply testifying as to what he saw during the testimony and procedural testimony, but that would effect in any way the actual State department employee testimony of the facts so far established.
This crap is going to cost Democrats dearly come election time.
And the best part is that they don't even know it yet!
"Stark Raving Madness "
Council for the democrats …. Burke....testifies as a witness (long drawn out "I Felt" speech) for the Democrats, then immediately jumps up to the Bench to become the Democrats bestest of all litigators to question witness's.
Final Thoughts
The hearing debacle
Today's journey into Jerry Nadler's dystopian reality show left us all angry and once again bitterly divided. The affront to human decency began with the openly partisan witness/counsel/interrogator Barry Berke calling the President of the United States a "clear & present danger." He then engaged in a 30 minute tirade from the witness chair, without ever being sworn in. He then got to grill his fellow witnesses for another 40 minutes or so before leaving the hearing room.
We were then subjected to a day of bitter partisan bickering about the monstrous act the President committed, the rules adopted by Nadler for this particular hearing and the fact that Adam Schiff was not available for questioning. We were all left wondering what comes next as even Nadler dosen't seem to know. Unlike the powerful Articles of Impeachment which would have been used against Richard Nixon, we haven't got a clue as to what the Articles will be on this one. One thing is for sure - as soon as Pelosi knows she has the votes - a vote on the Articles of Impeachment will be taken, as public support for impeachment is collapsing.
The IG Report (Part II)
The long awaited IG report was kind of a mixed bag for everyone. The big winner was Carter Page. He was totally exonerated. He was never a Russian agent nor should have he been used the way he was by the FBI.
We learned that the FBI left out vital information in order to keep getting warrants to spy on Page.
We learned that the FBI uned various informants to keep tabs on the Trump campaign.
FBI officials misled the FISA Court.
Most important of all - Both AG Barr and US Attorney Durham disagreed with some of the IG findings. That is totally understandable. IG Horowitz ran a very limited investigation into the DOJ only. He could not even interview those no longer working within the Department. Durham, on the other hand, has broad powers to investigate all the intelligence agencies and convene Grand Juries and prosecute individuals. He need not worry about colleagues within the DOJ or the disposition of liberal DC juries.