Trump Fires Warning Shot At Intelligence IG After First Public Impeachment Hearing | Talking Points Memo

thebishop · November 14, 2019, 1:33am

This.

esva · November 14, 2019, 1:48am

Thumb screws?

blogamator · November 14, 2019, 1:51am

I’m not on board with the secret ballot proposition. I understand why the anonymity may allow them to vote against Trump. But it comes at the cost of the annihilation of the Republic Party, or close to it.

I can just as easily see them not voting to convict, hiding in the bunch so as not to have to take direct responsibility for giving their mob-ratking a pass, and saving their Republic Party to boot, at least for the short-term. Seems the better choice of their lose-lose situation I think.

So, no secret ballots. there’s too much uncertainty. Besides, about 92% of everything Republics do these days is done in some form of bad faith.

playitagainrowlf · November 14, 2019, 1:52am

I thought we were supposed to switch over to saws this year, but drills still work. I’ll check the charger…

mattinpa · November 14, 2019, 2:00am

Thank you for humoring me. You can never go wrong blaming McConnell. He’s like the devil, the ultimate source of so much evil that you really might as well just blame him for most things and write off your minimal losses when he’s not to blame.

castor_troy · November 14, 2019, 2:02am

Only for the outsourced stuff, which Soros wants to project that innocent people in certain Middle-Eastern countries might have perpetrated.

So easy mistake to make. For the SorosEndorsed™ assassinations, drills are still the tool.

danny · November 14, 2019, 2:22am

I guess the IG didn’t read the Transcript. If he had read the Transcript, he would gave seen that it was A Perfect Call and Perfectly Appropriate and Legal, Not Even A Little Bit Illegal.

darrtown · November 14, 2019, 2:24am

We tax payers sent Rick Perry to Ukraine for the inauguration of Zelensky supposedly to help him with his anti-corruption agenda. While there Perry did a deal with the Ukrainians such that his mega donor buddy could undercut a bid for a drilling deal and get it done …well …corruptly. And make a bunch of money. Which sends exactly the wrong message to the government of Ukraine.
So it isn’t just trump who is corrupt. Like a moth to a flame trump attracts corruption to himself. Now he has apologists all through the republicans and the right wing media. I do not think trump can keep this mountain of shit covered up.

castor_troy · November 14, 2019, 2:29am

Well said. Nixon couldn’t keep what was a third-rate-burglary involving a few people under wraps.

And this has so many players now that I’m really astounded. And keeping in mind that Felix Sater is involved, and he’s been a Fed informant for literally decades…

At the end of this is going to be the whole story of russkie influence deals in America, as perpetrated through willing and corrupt Americans receiving cash in exchange for selling their country out.

rucleare · November 14, 2019, 2:33am

Why oh why am I being dragged into this? Now there are black SUVs with tinted windows and SOROS Corp. license plates parked at each end of my street…

castor_troy · November 14, 2019, 2:37am

Because you are a core member of the SorosFoundation™, even if you’ve skipped the last 4 staff meetings (Along with the coffee and bagels provided free of charge, dunno why you did that).

Which is a change from when, exactly? They’re there to keep us safe.

(Do find it a bit odd that they didn’t use the undercover ones with the generic plates, though…)

rucleare · November 14, 2019, 2:40am

@playitagainrowlf didn’t tell me that you guys have free bagels at the meetings. Bummer…

Volvo_Birkenstock · November 14, 2019, 2:41am

Oh, I suspect Trump is also getting a piece of the action. The whole roiling snake pit full of them are corrupt. Trump increased the depth of the swamp by an order of magnitude.

Rick Perry as Secretary of Energy is simply ridiculous, too. Let’s just be kind and say that he is intellectually challenged and not up with really managing the Department of Energy. The dumb shit didn’t even realize that the DoE was responsible for fabricating weapons-grade fissionable materials.

left_in_washington_state · November 14, 2019, 2:43am

He’s not a ginger!!!

ajm · November 14, 2019, 2:47am

Accusing troublesome people of crimes they did not commit is one of the tactics Putin used in his takeover of Russia.

arawak · November 14, 2019, 2:47am

And just think the WH memo of the conversation contained the “least” egregious passages. Yet we are scandalized. Imagine what the IC IG would have thought.

Though, in truth, the WH would NEVER have released as much as a memo to the IC IG. tRump would have fired him within weeks of the request.

castor_troy · November 14, 2019, 2:48am

Duh. That’s why you attend. The $100 bills they come wrapped in are just extra (do have to wipe off the excess cream cheese in the bathrooms later, but it’s still worth it).

rascal_crone · November 14, 2019, 2:56am

No. The scary thought is that McConnell and other supposedly sane GOP elite are working hard to keep him in office.

rascal_crone · November 14, 2019, 2:59am

As if they had a sense of ethics either.

pb · November 14, 2019, 3:22am

I get the distinct impression that Dump utterly fails to appreciate the damning nature of the so-called “transcript” of his perfect call with Zelinsky. I guess if he knew how bad it is, he wouldn’t have released it. Still, for anyone who is not a complete idiot, the extortion and the corruption and the trying to get a foreign gov’t to manufacture dirt about Dump’s political rival are laid out plain as day right there. But Dump has his head so far up his ass that he doesn’t even see it. Shocking really. Not entirely unexpected, but still a little shocking.