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Trump and the Giant Impeachment. Trump thread 97

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AcrossthePond55 · 31/10/2019 18:23

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

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

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TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/12/2019 09:49

Are the next stages of impeachment behind closed doors or will it be televised?

AcrossthePond55 · 02/12/2019 12:31

TV networks haven't announced their plans yet, Paws, but I expect it'll be the same as the others.

Although I expect these will be 'drier' as they're about legal grounds rather than fact finding.

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Roussette · 02/12/2019 13:06

Brutal. It was so good I had to read it twice

www.thedailybeast.com/your-trumpkins-wont-say-it-but-youre-in-deep-shit-donald-trump?ref=scroll

AcrossthePond55 · 02/12/2019 13:13

'Trumpkins', lol. Rhymes with 'blumpkins', heh heh

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YeOldeTrout · 02/12/2019 21:56

DAMN !! George Conway just publicly sniped at Kelly Anne.
6k comments within 2 hours.

Plus Duncan Hunter is finally saying he'll plead guilty... to just one of the 60 charges against him.
So many soap operas.

Trump and the Giant Impeachment.  Trump thread 97
YeOldeTrout · 02/12/2019 21:57

GTC has been tweeting cute animal things since, seriously doing the puppy dog eyes thing.

PerkingFaintly · 02/12/2019 22:35

Ouch!

TheNorthWestPawsage · 02/12/2019 23:17

Not sure if this just means there will be yet another appeal ?

BREAKING: Judge Jackson has denied DOJ’s motion to stay her ruling ordering former WH Counsel Don McGahn to testify.
twitter.com/andrewdesiderio/status/1201622036965134339?s=21

AcrossthePond55 · 03/12/2019 00:34

Roussette, my DH agrees with that CIA psych. He's said since Day 1 that they'll have to pry Scrotus' fingers off the door jambs as they carry him out of the WH screaming "NO!! You don't break up with me, I BREAK UP WITH YOU!!!!!".

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PerkingFaintly · 03/12/2019 00:46

I really think it's a viable idea to tell him he can be Ultra-President of the Universe for Life, the only winner ever, as long as he steps this way RIGHT NOW and signs on the dotted line.

His keepers already pay crowds to turn up and cheer. Just carry on doing that. He wouldn't know or care.

Roussette · 03/12/2019 08:10

Watched footage of him arriving in UK.

Walking down the plane steps with Melania, he looks very shaky. Stops halfway down and she is helping him without a doubt.

lionheart · 03/12/2019 08:58

I heard on the BBC this morning that he is trying to raise money by offering meetings and photo-ops ...

TheNorthWestPawsage · 03/12/2019 08:58

Trump to raise campaign cash on NATO trip to London
www.axios.com/trump-campaign-fundraiser-nato-london-82e8ef23-5f97-4280-bb7b-4d746bdd0d5d.html

Details: The Dec. 3 fundraiser, which hasn't previously been reported, will be hosted by Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, co-chair Tommy Hicks Jr., national finance chair Todd Ricketts, and Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale, according to the invitation.

The Trump team expects to raise $3 million from the event, according to a source familiar with the planning.
The invitation lists three tiers of donors:

For $125,000, a donor can join a roundtable, get a photo with the president and attend the reception.
For $50,000, a donor gets the photo and reception.
For $35,000, they can just attend the reception. "All contributors must provide a copy of a U.S. passport," the invitation says.

The big picture: It's standard practice for presidential campaigns to solicit money from wealthy U.S. citizens living overseas.

In 2011, President Obama's re-election campaign drew $237,000 from expatriates in the U.K., $128,000 from France and $113,000 in Switzerland, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

NBC News also reported last month that Pete Buttigieg's husband, Chasten, would embark on a three-country tour of Europe to raise money for his 2020 campaign.
Trump's ambassador to the United Kingdom, the billionaire New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, was previously a major Republican fundraiser, including to Trump's 2016 campaign.

Johnson is not listed on the invitation and would not be expected to play a role in the event, given he will be hosting Trump in his official capacity as America's ambassador to the U.K

PerkingFaintly · 03/12/2019 11:13

I'm deriving wry amusement from watching Boris Johnson play dodgems with the toxic orange.

Trump's been briefed to "stay out of the election" but I wonder how long he'll manage even a semblance of it.

What would happen if someone sidled up to him and told him the reason Johnson doesn't want a one-on-one meeting is because Trump's support might make Johnson less popular? It would be such a wound to his ego that Trump wouldn't be able to stop himself...

lionheart · 03/12/2019 11:27

Is the Queen doomed to meet him again?

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/12/2019 11:33

Just checked to be sure I'm arriving in England after Trump leaves, or I would feel obliged to get to London to make a protest of some sort, and my mobility is not what it should be!

AcrossthePond55 · 03/12/2019 12:15

He's out of the US? I thought I felt a shift in the atmospheric continuum.

You guys can keep him if you want. Pretty please?

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Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 03/12/2019 12:25

Across - I'm struggling with the fact that I will be in the UK on General Election Day 2019 (for daughter's Master's degree ceremony!) and unable to vote - am dreading Friday 13th!
Sorry about the Trump/Brexit crossover, to me they are inextricably linked as parts of the same dark forces of the capitalist far right which seem to be taking over the world at the moment.

lionheart · 03/12/2019 14:08

We're supposed to be allies, Across, so we'll take him for a little while. Smile