Trump and the Giant Impeachment. Trump thread 97

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With credit to Stephen Colbert (and Roald Dahl) for the title.

Vote taken, public House hearings to begin. Here we gooooooo!!!

Still at breaking news stage, but BBC article will be here:

Trump ally Roger Stone convicted of lying to Congress
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50438196

Convicted on all counts, sentencing 6 Feb. Released on own recognizance pending sentencing.

Nunes is such an asshole. "Here we are again, down in the basement for more of these hearings", as if a basement is synonymous with 'nefarious goings on". "Down in the basement", Mr Nunes, as in where many of the rooms where Govt business is conducted are located?

It's going to become my new catchphrase...

"Hey Across, did you hear what XX did?"

"I did. That was really 'down in the basement', that was!"

Oh I don't know. Getting to the bottom of it, and deep-diving to find out what's really going on, seem positively appealing.

Time for Stone to decide if he wants to sit quiet like a good boy and hope for a pardon, or drag a few down with him.

Meanwhile, Trumpty Dumpty has toilet-tweeted in the middle of the hearing that the ambassador giving evidence, "The Woman," in his charming phrase, was responsible for everything that went bad everywhere she went. She shot those helicopters down in Mogadishu.

responsible for everything that went bad everywhere she went
says mr 'all that I touch turns to shit and ashes' trump

Yovanovich is impressive.

I think Stone will keep Schtum. I think he's been 'promised' a pardon and is stupid enough to believe that Scrotus' promises actually mean something.

I hope he lasts longer in jail (?) than Epstein.

Or that Trump will still be in a position to issue pardons by March when he gets sent down.

I doubt Stone thinks Scrotus' promises are worth anything – but he may think he has enough leverage to extort a pardon.

Bet he knows where a LOT of bodies are buried (figuratively speaking, that is. Thought I should clarify).

Beware the Ides of March. I like the sound of that.

theweek.com/speedreads/878716/trump-blows-republicans-entire-yovanovitch-hearing-strategy-single-tweet

Poor Queen.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/15/donald-trump-to-be-hosted-by-the-queen-ahead-of-uk-election

when he gets sent down
it's a wonderful image but, would they?
I mean wouldnt it risk making him a martyr or something like that?

Yanovitch was applauded at the end of that ...

foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/03/far-from-the-front-lines-javelin-missiles-go-unused-in-ukraine/

Ms Maddow.

Is it just me, or has someone added background music to that Maddow clip? If they have, why on earth do that?

It's distracting.

War crimes.

www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/trump-pardons.html

nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/impeachment-roger-stone-guilty-yovanovitch-giuliani-trump-ukraine.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&utm_source=tw

edition.cnn.com/2019/11/15/politics/trump-war-crimes-intervenes/index.html

.......distracting.......... perhaps. But maybe it keeps people happy. Why not ask her?

Because I don't think it was done by her: it goes on over the whole thing, the same tinkly little nonsense, even when it cuts to a different set of presenters.

Sounds like the 'troops' have been at it. I'd still ask - I reckon she'd care how she was coming across.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marie-yovanovitch-trump-impeachment-hearing-standing-ovation-ukraine-a9205206.html