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*to the tune of Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher by Elton John*
Merry inpeachmas Donald Trump~
We all celebrate the day~
Cause it's one day closer to your death~
The House speaker’s assessment came a day after a historic open hearing in which two career diplomats expressed concerns about the president’s actions regarding Ukraine.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that testimony presented by two career diplomats during Wednesday’s open impeachment hearing “corroborated evidence of bribery” by President Trump in his relations with Ukraine.
Her comments come as Democrats seek to build a case that Trump sought to withhold military assistance and an Oval Office meeting until Ukraine announced investigations into former vice president Joe Biden and his son, as well as an unfounded theory that Ukrainians interfered in the 2016 presidential election to hurt Trump.
Earlier Thursday, Trump asserted that “normal people” would close the case on his impeachment after Wednesday’s nationally televised hearing.
His assessment underscored the clash that emerged after the six-hour hearing, with Democrats saying it provided damning evidence of a president using his office to advance his political interests, while Republicans argued it laid bare a desperate attempt to oust Trump from office.
The White House, meanwhile, could release a transcript Thursday from an April call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. That call took place earlier than the July call that is at the center of impeachment inquiry.
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11:20 a.m.
Pelosi says testimony of diplomats ‘corroborated evidence of bribery’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) used the word “bribery” Thursday to describe Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, going further than she previously has done in outlining House Democrats’ accusations against the president.
Wednesday’s testimony by acting ambassador to Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent corroborated “evidence of bribery” and supported allegations that Trump violated his oath of office, Pelosi said at her weekly news conference.
Her comment comes two days after House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) also floated the idea that Trump committed bribery.
“On the basis of what the witnesses have had to say so far, there are any number of potentially impeachable offenses, including bribery, including high crimes and misdemeanors,” Schiff said in an interview with NPR on Tuesday.
At her news conference, Pelosi also forcefully pushed back against the efforts by Trump and his allies to dismiss the testimony of Kent and Taylor as “secondhand.”
“That is such a fraudulent proposition put forward by the Republicans,” Pelosi said. “We are not here to be manipulated by the obstruction of justice of the administration.”
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10:40 a.m.
Trump demands to hear from whistleblower
Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday morning to weigh in on the impeachment inquiry, including a four-word question: “Where’s the Fake Whistleblower?”
Democratic leaders have said it is no longer necessary to hear from the whistleblower whose identity sparked the impeachment inquiry because key aspects of his complaint have been corroborated by other witnesses.
Trump and his Republican allies have advocated that the whistleblower testify in a public hearing.
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Phroyd
Everyone's saying to impeach Trump
But why don't we do what our ancestors did and hit him where it hurts?
Let's boycott his ass and start dumping his crap.... Not in the ocean because his companies have already messed that up, let's dump it on his front porch.
We'll make a tea party where he can see it.
Yes ... more concerned about the Approval Rating of doing what is not only Necessary, but Required!
Phroyd
The more posts I see on Trump’s impeachment I see
The more I realize that very few of you know what impeachment fucking means
Breaking news: Donald Trump has been impeached from US office for the third time in presidential history. But I think he’ll still be in office anyway.