Facts:
OK, so it's a serious clown show. Happy now?Those Republican House members sure are acting serious for this to be a clown show.
It's a clown show that is denying Republicans their civil rights, by the party that claims to be the champion of civil rights.Those Republican House members sure are acting serious for this to be a clown show.
"Denying Republicans their civil rights"? How so?
Yes, it is. When they are conducting foreign policy in a manner that isn't accountable to congress.
Using the same tactic some of you on PJ use -- the writer, on your read, John Solomon.... says Ukrainian law enforcement... believes.
This is false. If a president conducts foreign policy - no matter how crappy - it is, by definition, not “shadow policy”. He is foreign policy’s origin. Period. No lies. No dilution. No obfuscation. Just focus - and honesty.
You're right. We better have an investigation and find out the facts.
There are consitution and legal means for him to conduct foreign policy. Using his personal lawyer to do so isn't one of them. Pompeo is accountable to congress, Guiliani is not, and therefore has no business conducting foreign policy.
It’s still not “shadow” policy if the originator of USA foreign policy conducts, blesses, or authorizes it. This just fact. For example, when Iran-Contra was all the rage, that was foreign policy. Even when actions and/or policies are illegal, they are still foreign policy...executed or authorized by the president.
It's a shadow policy because it is being done behind congressional backs, who have constitutionals rights and responsiblities to oversee foreign policy.
I think they are in the process of doing that right now
It’s not shadow if the originator does it. The singular author of foreign policy CANNOT operate a “shadow policy”.
The definition of "shadow policy" is not even what's important.
Go ahead and impeach him. Just. Stop. Lying.
An impeachment inquiry. Look it up.
This is the inquiry part of the impeachment process. Once they're done with the public hearings, they will decide whether or not to draw up articles of impeachment. If they do, then the House will vote on each article. If at least one article receives a majority vote, then the matter will go to the Senate for trial.
Solomon has turned himself into a pariah in journo world.Trump would like to make it appear it was Ukraine interfering in our past election -- not Russia/Putin. Rem. he asked for their help in locating the so called missing e-mail server in his Ukraine call/transcript.
I put this link on awhile back and some of the repubs on PJ ridiculed the source.
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Trump's whole Ukraine scheme may have started because he has terrible taste in news sources
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Because, as has happened a thousand times on as many topics, Trump read or heard something he thought was bad for an opponent. He then became convinced it had to be true, and kept trying to make it true, no matter how many Giuliani trips to Kyiv came up dry. Trump just kept on insisting that there had to be someone who would support the story he wanted to believe—even if it took extortion to find that agreement.
Trump took in an article that had an explosive claim about Biden. And in an effort to “prove” that claim, Trump sent Giuliani on a series of trips to Ukraine, Spain, and elsewhere—with the State Department providing him information and support. When that didn’t generate the proof Trump wanted, he put a hold on Ukraine’s military aid and got on the phone with the country’s president to tell him to make up something about Biden. Or else. And all of that appears to have come from stories that were written by Solomon, who had a terrible reputation for producing incomplete and slanted reporting.
In a way, Solomon was the author of Trump’s downfall.
They went back to 2012 and 2014 trying like the dickens to dirty up Obama. Sheesh.
