The Chosen One, he of "unmatched wisdom," has declared to Congress "I am above the law:"
That's some powerful, though risible, gaslighting going on there. It seems to us it's the old "I'm rubber, you're glue..." argument that The Chosen One and his lickspittle Republican enablers use quite frequently. Maybe we're missing something?“To fulfill his duties to the American people, the Constitution, the executive branch, and all future occupants of the Office of the presidency, President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances,” White House counsel Pat A. Cipollone wrote to top congressional Democrats.
The White House letter, which lacked substantive legal arguments and echoed Trump’s political broadsides...Oh, guess not.
We yield to our panel of experts to discuss the matter--
It’s hard to count the number of ways that this letter is, constitutionally and legally, garbage. https://t.co/OIrf1awCHX— George Conway (@gtconway3d) October 8, 2019
Yes! Utter and total garbage. Rotten, smelly BS-filled garbage. @gtconway3d is being restrained. https://t.co/IJMmhX3pnM— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 8, 2019
It’s as though the White House is unfamiliar with the difference between impeachment in the House and trial in the Senate. It’s also as though the White House is unfamiliar with the Constitution generally.— Justin Amash (@justinamash) October 8, 2019
WATCH: @Neal_Katyal on the White House letter claiming impeachment is “illegitimate:”— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) October 9, 2019
“I think this 8-page memo can only be described as, ‘Please impeachment me because I got nothing else going on.’” #inners pic.twitter.com/Z3PTPZF4EF
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Typical Trump grandstanding, gaslighting, brazenly lying. The old bully tactic where you pound the table when you're lacking facts and you're guilty as sin.
ReplyDeleteI read in my local paper this morning that our Republican Senator Rob Portman, who is actually chair of the Ukraine Caucus, won't vote to impeach Trump if the vote comes to the Senate. He believes Trump was wrong to use Ukraine to find dirt on Biden, but it wasn't illegal, just bad judgment. He thinks the voters can decide next November.
So I sent him an email today and told him he was a coward and should be ashamed of himself. And I told him he was not doing his job as a representative of our state or our Constitution.
Contact your representatives and remind them to stand up for our country and our rights. They cannot go on protecting him and they are going to have to pay for it down the road, if not in the coming election, then in those that follow. Speak up!
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