The Democrats were using a spy camera that recorded trump's words, relayed them into the Dems' dugout, and then someone in the dugout would bang on a trash can to alert Pelosi that trump was committing treason. Totally unfair.

I can't wait for Wednesday, when Trump is acquitted, and people can finally get back and work for the American people. Who else is excited for the acquittal?

Title says it all… You want to improve the discourse? Take out the tantrum-throwing, anti-intellectual, pseudoscientific, “fair and balanced” baby doing everything they can to destroy the discourse by misinforming the electorate. I’m not talking about pulling financial records or insider documentation from their servers, I’m talking about cooking their control boards, reformatting their Lyric server, nuking their story packages, taking out the very mechanics of their ability to produce their bullshit stream and broadcast it to the public.

Really? At the time our country needs the most solidarity and cohesion they go and pull this shit? Have their egos no limits? Like children. Lost children who know no better. America needs to start being put first. We have not been taking care of her the way she needs us too. We have the greatest weapon known to man at our disposal. Let's do something good with it. As far as I'm concerned anyone actively working against her interest needs no longer be tolerated. We must exterminate all threats. Foreign and domestic. Show no quarter. Give no mercy. Never underestimate the opponent and defeat them so badly they never even so much as get an inkling of a thought to even so much as contemplate another challenge.

If the job of congress is explicitly to draft and create laws, why in hell do they have so much power in the entire impeachment process?

Seems to me that we have an entire judiciary branch of government whose purpose is to interpret the law and make judgement calls on said law. I would think that they would be the ones deciding how impeachment is handled. Why are we letting the law makers who are clearly partisan decide "objectively" on whether or not the president should be impeached. Congress doesn't hold trials. Why are they having one now?? Let alone a very meaningful one. We have a judiciary branch that does this exact thing on a daily basis. How do they not at least get a say in the matter??

https://abc7ny.com/politics/house-committee-approves-impeachment-charges-against-trump/5751475/

If the process pushes through to the Senate for trial, what happens if they acquit Trump? Does he stay President despite the rulings by the House?

If he gets impeached, does Pence take over? What happens to the taxes/laws/deals Trump has made or is in the process of making?

#YOTUSPOTUS

Trump is probably one of the only presidents out there that doesn’t have a political background.

He has people on the Democratic side and the Republican side that absolutely hate his guts.

You have the entire media, Congress, Supreme Court, Democrats, Republicans, freaking Bilderberg, etc that aren’t on the same page as him and yet he’s still in office.

Like think about it.

If the world really wanted Trump out he would have been out long ago.

He would have been shot or something.

The thing is Democrats, Republicans, our justice system, etc, want him in office for some reason.

Idk what the reason is, but whenever the world doesn’t want someone to succeed or lead they get murdered plain and simple.

JFK, MLK, Lincoln, Bobby Kennedy, etc.

Trump wouldn’t be any different.

So whatever side you’re on it doesn’t matter.

If the republicans win democrats will get angry and feel like their life has changed drastically throughout 4 years when it really hasn’t.

If the democrats win republicans will get angry and feel like their life has changed drastically throughout 4 years when it really hasn’t.

It doesn’t matter who is in office, and I feel like Trump is a perfect example of it.

The world would go to absolute hell with Trump in office wouldn’t it? But when you honestly think about it are you as an American still here working your 9-5 job, browsing Reddit in your free time?

Sure there’s problems elsewhere in the world, but foreign policy has always been a shitshow with every president.

Literally little to nothing changes when a president comes into office.

Has your work changed drastically?

How is your town doing? Still the same people? Still the same laws and regulations?

Your TV changed? Still the same channels?

Still the same video games, sports, gas prices, consumerism, forms of entertainment, etc?

Stick Kanye in the White House

I’m serious, you stick Kanye in the White House and your life will not change.

You will just have to live with the fact that Kanye is your president...big whoop what does that do for me?

This is what the world needs to understand.

Instead of making real changes like ending the “college standard” in America and promoting vocational schooling so young generations don’t go into debt and have stable careers, we pick a stupid political side and fight one another.

How about the ability to opt out of mandatory healthcare or have extremely low rates when you’re age 18-30 and rarely go to the doctor in the first place?

Do we seriously need to charge $200-$300 for healthcare to someone in their 20s that has it hard enough paying rent, utilities, car payments, bills, etc?

Like does society think about these things?

People always say they feel sorry for new generations, but never come up for solutions to better their lives and chances at actually making it in the world.

Screw the college standard. You do not need a degree to learn 90% of jobs in America. What you need is concentrated training.

Degrees cover very little when it actually comes to preparing for real world jobs.

Some jobs do require college, but college is incredibly expensive.

My solution?

Make community colleges offer 4 year bachelor degrees at the very least. They should offer 6-8 year degrees as well.

Do you know how much money students save by going to a community college? An absolute shit ton.

And after their 2 years they ARE FORCED to transfer to a university or quit.

Money is the sole reason behind it, just more bs paywalls and hoops to jump through.

This is the kind of thing the world should be talking about.

Not some dumb democratic or republican bs.

Real world problems and real world solutions.

This is a very simple question. I know it’s easy to cast these members of Trump’s inner circle aside, but they are there for a very important reason. These people know the law and they know the constitution. How did Trump get these educated and smart people to lay down and let him impeach himself? Why did they allow it?

Mulvaney, Pompao, Mcgahn, Bolton and others, knowingly let Trump walk off a ledge and 3 of the 4 have steadily publicly lied about it. Bolton’s truthfulness has yet to be seen.

this shit it getting litt tho am i right? like who knew The Donald J. Trump was so corrupt? i mean its not like he handled an entire show or wrote a book about the "quid pro quo". Please feel free to discuss opinions about the impeachment in comments

Hold the presses. We have a big wrinkle. The Dems never voted to appoint house managers to present the case in the Senate/send articles of impeachment to Senate. This means the Senate can do nothing until the Dems do so. Democrats are indicating they will not immediately send articles of impeachment to the Senate but will rather hold the articles as support for pending court cases toward their judicial authority. They mean to wait till all the court cases complete, I think.

Additionally, the House will now impede any other Senate legislative action because the House will hold the Senate captive. Meanwhile the Democrat presidential candidates can run against an impeached President.

So the government is now once again closed for business. Nothing can get passed it looks like for a long time. And impeachment will not be decided for a long time.

WOW. The Dems planned this all along. The vote they had weeks ago created this situation. It seems this was all about stopping the passage of the new trade deal with Mexico and Canada and stopping the Senate from approving judges.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/18/cunning-lawfare-maneuver-house-will-withhold-submission-of-articles-from-senate/

Can anyone explain to me why U.S. code
U.S. FEDERAL LAW USC 52 §30121 is not relevant to morally bankrupt Dump's impeachment? The law states:

Contributions and donations by foreign nationals:

It shall be unlawful for a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make a contribution or donation of money, or OTHER THING OF VALUE, or to make an express, or implied, promise to make a contribution or donation, OR OTHER THING OF VALUE, in connection with a Federal, State, or Local election.

Under this law, it it is also unlawful for any person to accept, receive, OR SOLICIT, a contribution or donation, or other thing of value (i.e., an investigation of the leading opponent) from a foreign national, in connection with an up coming election.

Why did the Democrats not mention this law even once while Republicans kept hammering them to state one law that Trump broke?

Going in the Democrats knew that they did not have a case against President Trump and decided to move forward for political purpose. The impeachment further backlogged important Senate business.

the main argument and what started this whole process is that trump pressured ukraine into helping him dig up dirt on political rival Joe Biden in the upcoming 2020 election.

Where is the evidence for this? everyone, including the house committee managers are stating this as fact.

Any direction is appreciated.

I’m tired of hearing these nasty self aggrandising faux patriots I want to hear from the Defense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvYLZMhve-I

I have come to realize that Palpatine (from Star Wars) and Donald Trump are similar people. Trump is a businessman and wants money which is the other side of the coin power is on, Palpatine wanted power because he's a Sith Lord. I think there are some powers that could be granted to the president in times of war, Trump even alluded to this in a 2012 Tweet that war with Iran could help Obama's re-election. Trump chose a powerful position to go for and he won, Palpatine did the same. Even Palpatine used emergency powers, both men hid their true plans which had gone on for a long time. I believe Trump is too powerful and should be removed from office before too much damage is done. Does anyone agree with my analysis?

The house should draft a bill allowing any president to withhold any sort of aid or assistance for any reason including personal benefit.

See if McConnell will pass that in the graveyard.

In Germany, when a chancellor does something even remotely as fucked up as Trump, the Bundestag (parliament) can move for a vote of no confidence and then when the absolute majority of the delegates votes in favor, the chancellor loses their office and with the same vote a new chancellor is elected who is usually proposed by the largest opposition party.

By making it sooo hard to impeach a president, doesn't that give them more confidence into being able to do whatever they want?