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Meanwhile Trump is busy winning hearts and minds by calling critics in the Republican party “human scum.”
The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!
Naturally I learned this because “human scum” is trending on Twitter. Of course it is.
Also – he pinned the tweet!
He’s frantically RTing Ever Trumpers staging their coup.
Like Rep. Jody Hice (Georgia):
Stepping out of Schiff’s dungeon for a quick update. Members and the thousands of constituents they represent have a right to know what’s going on in this “impeachment inquiry.” Schiff’s efforts to hide this process from the American people will not stand. #StopTheSchiffShow
But her emails.
Unbelievable. After all, it’s coming from that kind of source.
“Like a fatberg blocking the sewers of Capitol Hill, Trump’s sense of victimhood and love of lying is creating unbearable pressure in a system designed to flush away an extraordinary volume of political waste material.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/23/republicans-are-finally-realising-that-trump-is-his-own-worst-enemy-and-theirs
You know what would be a good way to ensure that the American people get to find out what’s going on in those depositions? They could have someone there taking down everything that was said, the questions and the answers, you might say “transcribing” it, into some kind of …. “transcript.”
And in the interests of fairness, there should be some Republicans on that House committee who get to ask questions directly or through their staff.
I mean, without those things, you can sort of understand why these Reps are upset… hang on a minute, getting some new information….
Oh.
Never mind!
I am an Australian who often engages with the New Zealand Right (lived there 11 years and met a few). I am amazed at how they swallow whole the GOP “talking points” about this being some sort of a star chamber, that Trump isn’t allowed to see his accusers and challenge their evidence, let alone mount a defence.
Now, I am sure you ‘Mercans will correct me if I am wrong, but I see the House enquiry as akin to the police and prosecutors seeking leads, hearing evidence, and deciding upon a course of action, including dropping the case or going to prosecution. It isn’t usual practice, at least in my country, for the defence to insert itself into an active police enquiry.
It is in the Senate where the equivalent of a trial will be held, and Trump will get to hear the evidence and mount a defence.
It is such a shame that Trump cannot be subjected to Rule 303.
Roj, close. More like grand jury.
Roj,
In case you missed the sarcasm of my post @2, there are 46 Republicans who are members of the three committees that were taking the depositions. Each of those House members had the right to attend the depositions and to ask questions, and presumably many of them have been doing so. In fact, unlike in public House hearings, where questioning is usually limited to five minutes per member, there are no such limits in the depositions. So while the President wasn’t directly represented in the room, his party certainly was.
This is not an unusual method of proceeding during the investigatory phase of any inquiry, not just an impeachment one. Among other examples, the Select Committee on Benghazi (aka the “Get Hillary” Committee) held closed-door hearings in a SCIF.
I’m now hearing that those 46 GOP members includes some of the participants in Gaetz’s stunt. In other words, members who were going to be allowed in the hearing room chose to barge in and yell “you can’t keep me out!”
So, the true motivations should be clear. (1) A publicity stunt by which these members send out fundraising emails bragging about what good little Trump supporters they are; and (2) an attempt to obstruct justice by delaying the hearings. Not just by the time needed to get the intruding members out, but because they brought in cell phones, the SCIF was no longer secure and it takes some amount of time to reinstitute whatever countermeasures are used in such facilities.
Screechy, thanks for clarifying that. I was wondering myself.