And the DNI needs to be able to go to an independent council when issues like this arise. Maguire having to go to the President and the DOJ when THEY are the ones who committed the crime is ridiculous.
Also Schiff is killing this. Intelligence Committee >>>>> Judicial Committee
Swalwell is up. He's good. I don't like him necessarily as President, but I think he's a very effective congressman. Maybe someday a senator.
Isn't this different though because Chump both committed the initial crime AND put the coverup in motion? I don't recall if Nixon himself personally ordered the bugging of the DNC headquarters but I don't think he did.
Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois) is playing this very smart. He is destroying the argument that this is biased because there is zero evidence the Whistleblower has any known political affiliation and that the IG was a Trump appointee so he also has zero bias against Trump. Now going over the "note taking" for the transcript.
Schiff has these guys so on point it is brilliant!
The media actually did a pretty good job last night cause the "no quid pro quo" argument died off pretty quick and the "yes, there was a quid pro quo and I as a prosecutor would suck at my job if I couldn't prove it with this evidence" argument held up.
XM POTUS 124 says this whole thing isn't as ****ing as some have made it, yet there is more there than a big nothing-burger.
Just middle of the road.
There are plenty who'd take the check to be the Washington Generals. Tweety. Scarborough. Smerconish. There are hundreds of these worms.
Nixon didn't order the bugging. He made sure Liddy and his pals were funded and then let them do whatever they thought would work. The problem is that after the Watergate burglars were caught there was a risk of everything being made public. The irony is that if they'd just handled it like a normal case of burglary the Post would never have bothered and there would have been nothing to investigate.
In this case, you have the soon-to-be ex-president breaking the law, ordering others to also break the law AND cover it all up. I understand the Senate Republicans are willing to put up with almost anything, but how many of them would really have a problem with a President Pence administration? As long as they hold the senate in 2020 it doesn't matter who the president is.
I understand the Senate Republicans are willing to put up with almost anything, but how many of them would really have a problem with a President Pence administration?
The narrative now appears to be that he couldn’t have covered this up because he released the transcript.
I expect Maguire to resign tonight. He was thrown to the wolves and used as a human shield. He seems like he takes this seriously and isn't a stooge.
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They released it because Schiff found out about the whistleblower and Nancy revved up the impeachment engine. If those two things hadn't of happened no one would know anything.
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They released it because Schiff found out about the whistleblower and Nancy revved up the impeachment engine. If those two things hadn't of happened no one would know anything.