House Dems Response To WH Filing | Talking Points Memo

In response to the White House arguing in a filing Saturday that the impeachment articles are “constitutionally invalid,” House impeachment managers wrote in a formal response Monday that President Trump made a “chilling assertion” by arguing that the Senate cannot remove him from office even if the House validates the articles of impeachment.


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Desperate people do (and assert) desperate things.

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Little League has a slaughter rule. Becoming more necessary every time TeamTrump swings and misses…

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Liddle Donnie is hellbound to be removed.

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“President Trump maintains that the Senate cannot remove him even if the House proves every claim in the Articles of impeachment. That is a chilling assertion. It is also dead wrong,”

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Where in that document did Trump assert that the Senate could not remove him from office? I could only get a little ways into the 171 pages of nonsense before I had to quit reading.

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Strange kind of desperation, like a student desperate to finish his term paper but is guaranteed an A.

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That is a chilling assertion.

Unless you shoot someone on 5th Avenue, and have the GOP hide the gun, provide an alibi, and cover-up the corpse…

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His lawyers—and those in the GOP—could watch him shoot somebody and deny it ever happened. Although they probably would call the garbage men to clean up the litter on the street.
It’s totally gobsmacking.

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They wouldn’t deny it, they’d just claim it wasn’t a crime. That, in fact, it was the right thing to do. And business as usual, as all NYC residents of Trump Tower have always done.

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It’s in the ‘McConnell provision’.

It’s a tricky measure, but that’s because ‘Cecil’ will eventually use it, when he either claims to not know Trump or decides to cut Trump loose.

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I keep hoping this whole Trump debacle is all just a Quinn Martin Production.

So disappointing…

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You cannot find a cherry without a stone
You cannot find a chicken without a bone
You have to have a skillet if you must fry
and a trial must have a witness to testify.
Young Don spent lots of money when he would wench
and judges threw their law books down from their bench.
Don makes you wait for payment
a long, long while,
but you need to call a witness
to have a trial.

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If I didn’t need to call my aunt, I’d have led with the obvious, “previously on…”

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I don’t think Trump quite understands the whole meaning behind “King Day.”

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Nixon and his bunch are rank amateurs by comparison to Trump’s bunch. JFC on a popsicle stick, they are a sick bunch of anti-Americans.

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“The Fugitive — In Color!”

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If Putin can tell his legislature that they can’t touch him this past weekend, so can The Second Coming of God here?

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I wish they would let him stay in Davos but I assume one can’t golf there all year long. He’ll have to go into exile in Macaw…or Gitmo?

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