White House releases April 21 readout of Trump’s call with Zelensky, controversy ensues
November 15, 2019
With all of the craziness happening today, this bit of craziness also happened. Kerry Eleveld at Daily Kos reports: In an effort to seize the narrative [today], the White House released a transcript Friday morning of Donald Trump’s first phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 21, immediately following Zelensky’s election to office. … Read more
Trump engages in illegal witness intimidation during testimony live on TV
November 15, 2019
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified to lawmakers on Friday that when she read how President Trump had talked about her to his Ukrainian counterpart in a July phone call — saying ominously that “she’s going to go through some things” — the color drained from her face. “It sounded like a threat,” she … Read more
Get me Roger Stone! Guilty on all counts (Updated)
November 15, 2019
I have waited most of my adult life for this moment of justice: GOP ratfucker Roger Stone has been convicted and is going to prison. It’s about damn time! He has been allowed to get away with criminal behavior for years and avoid being held accountable through his connections. (There is still a risk that his … Read more
The Cancer of White Nationalism Needs to Leave the White House.
November 15, 2019
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Much has been written in previous articles about the depths the Republican Party has sunk to in embracing the stench of bigotry, xenophobia, anti-immigrant, Anti Semitism, and White Nationalism-Nativism. The Reactionary players in this tragedy have included figures such as Kelli Ward, Andy Biggs, and Paul Gosar in Arizona. People of dubious characters like Iowa … Read more
Trump loses in court again on his taxes, will ask the Supreme Court for help (don’t count on it)
November 14, 2019
While the fist public impeachment hearing was absorbing public attention yesterday, another court ruled against Donald Trump on the disclosure of his financial records and taxes. This time it was an en banc panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. CNN reports, Appeals court hands Trump another loss, saying Congress can seek his tax returns: … Read more
Some thoughts about the first impeachment hearing
November 14, 2019
The first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday went exactly as I predicted it would. Democrats approached the proceedings with a high degree of sobriety and seriousness. Republicans engaged in disruption, distraction, and disinformation in an effort to undermine the credibility of the proceedings. They only served to undermine their own credibility. The State Department experts on … Read more
In Individual One’s America, Tyrants are Catered to and Good Samaritans are Prosecuted Twice.
November 14, 2019
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Two other events, in addition to the reality versus alternate reality impeachment inquiry hearings, have occurred this week which illustrate the upside-down trajectory the 2016 Popular Vote Loser has put this country on. First, a person accused of harboring illegal aliens in Arizona is facing a second trial prosecuted by federal authorities. The accused, Scott … Read more
Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review of the Russia investigation to drop soon
November 14, 2019
Donald Trump’s new “fixer,” Attorney General William “Coverup” Barr, has been globetrotting around the world in his personal review of the origins of the intelligence communities’ investigation into the the Trump campaign in 2016. This is in addition to John H. Durham, the federal prosecutor whom Barr assigned to review the origins of the Russia … Read more
