And Adam Schiff is now just tearing it up again. "Some of you I am sure are sitting there and you know Trump's guilty But you're thinking do we really need to remove him from office? So ask yourself if Russia or China or some other country comes to Trump offering something that personally benefits him at the expense of the country. At the expense of our own National Security. Can you sit there and tell yourself yes I know I can trust him? I know he will do the right thing.You know you can't. You know he will sell the country out if it personally benefits him. Which is why its not enough to just admit Trump is guilty. For our country and for our own National Security you know me must be removed."

 

Adam Schiff Closes Impeachment Trial Day Three With Powerful Speech: ‘Right Matters, Truth Matters’ If Not, ‘We Are Lost’

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/adam-sc...ght-matters-truth-matters-if-not-we-are-lost/

 

Trump’s Doral Resort Spikes Its Room Rates Ahead Of His RNC Visit

DORAL, Fla. ― The president’s Miami golf resort that puts money into his pocket more than doubled its room rates just before the White House announced his Thursday visit ― possibly increasing taxpayer costs for staff who must travel there in advance.

Donald Trump’s plan to address the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting at Trump National Doral next to the Miami airport has been in the works since mid-January, about the same time that the resort raised the nightly rate for its least expensive rooms from $254 to $539.

That higher figure is just under the maximum per-night rate federal government rules permit for a hotel in South Florida, and is triple the normal “per diem” rate employees are supposed to follow.

The White House would not reveal how much Trump’s Secret Service agents or other members of his “advance” team are paying for the days prior to his visit. Trump is only scheduled to be at the property for a few hours, but at least two dozen staff typically need to get there a few days ahead of time to prepare for his arrival.

Doral officials refused to discuss how much they are charging for U.S. government employees staying there for Trump’s visit. The Trump Organization, the president’s family business that owns and operates the resort, also did not respond to queries from HuffPost.

A Secret Service spokesperson declined to give details about the visit: “For operational security reasons, the Secret Service does not discuss our protectees or our protective means and methods. This includes personnel numbers associated with a particular protective visit.”

Robert Weissman, president of the liberal watchdog group Public Citizen, said the episode illustrates Trump’s continued use of his office to enrich himself. “What better way to defend yourself in an impeachment trial over abuse of power than to jet to your private golf resort on the public dime, secure lots of publicity for the club on the public dime, and then, possibly, rip off taxpayers by forcing them to pay extra for the staff whose costs at the resort are billed to ‘we the people,’” Weissman said.

Room Rates Spiked With Trump’s Visit
If, in fact, two or three dozen government employees have spent several days there, that would have put tens of thousands of public dollars into Trump’s cash registers, between the room rates and the higher-than-average cost for food at the on-site restaurants. That is on top of the $500,000 or so that the RNC is likely to wind up paying for staff hotel rooms, meeting rooms and catering for its three-day gathering, as well as the $1,000 or more each of the 168 individual RNC members is paying out of pocket to attend.

RNC officials declined to reveal how much, exactly, the meeting is costing its donors. However, records filed with the Federal Election Commission show the RNC already paid Doral $169,763 on Nov. 6, likely as a deposit for the meeting. The party previously spent $602,765 at Doral for its 2018 spring meeting, and $84,822 for a lunch fundraiser it held there in June 2019.

The timing of that November payment means the RNC settled on holding its winter meeting at Doral just 18 days after Trump backed down from his plan to award a multimillion-dollar government contract to the resort to host the Group of Seven conference there this June.

Trump had claimed he would not make any money from the contract, but never made clear how that was possible. He is the sole beneficiary of the trust that owns Trump Organization, and Trump Organization owns his hotels and golf resorts, including Doral.

Because Trump insists on playing golf at his own properties, American taxpayers have been the source for at least a few million dollars that have gone to the Trump Organization in the form of rooms, meals and other expenses for Secret Service agents and other government employees who have stayed on-site with Trump at his golf courses in Florida, New Jersey, Scotland and Ireland. The exact amount is not known because the White House refuses to release those records.

Trump was not originally planning to attend this week’s RNC meeting. He started considering doing so early last week, which was when the hotel also raised its room rates for the nights of and just prior to his visit.

For the latter half of December and the first days of January, Doral’s website advertised rates as low as $254 per night for nonrefundable rooms for the days of the RNC meeting, and a $299 rate that allowed cancellation until five days before the first night of the booking, according to HuffPost’s tracking of the room rates.

Those numbers suddenly jumped to $459 a night on Jan. 13, soon after the White House first began planning for a potential Trump trip to the meeting. The next day it jumped to $539 a night, before falling to $499 per room on Jan. 15, but with rooms only available for the final night of the RNC meeting, and the first two nights sold out.

Rooms for RNC members, in contrast, were available in a block for $289 per night.

Yet even that rate appears to be substantially more than what the market will bear. On Monday, for example, the hotel website was showing rooms available for that night at just $209. On Tuesday, the least expensive room available was $224 a night.

Making Money Off The Presidency
The jump in room rates at Doral continues a pattern of Trump properties hiking rates to take advantage of campaign and election-related events hosted by Republicans.

In 2016, Trump nearly quintupled the rent he charged his campaign for space in Trump Tower after he secured the GOP nomination and had access to the RNC’s donors, from $35,458 a month to $169,758, even though the number of employees remained the same.

In 2017, according to documents obtained by the group Property of the People under the Freedom of Information Act, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach refused to lower its room charges below the legal maximum $546 a night for administration officials staying there, despite State Department requests to bring them into line with the government per diem of $182. The White House ultimately also approved a $1,005.60 bar tab after the State Department would not do so.

And in November, according to the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel a few blocks from the White House raised its rates threefold ― to more than $1,300 a night for its cheapest rooms ― for nights coinciding with a fundraising retreat for Senate Republicans. That hotel has similarly raised its cheapest rates to $1,600 for this November’s election night.

“Not only is the president personally profiting from his office by the increased political patronage of his business, the business raises rates when he does so he’ll profit even more,” said CREW’s Jordan Libowitz. “What we’re seeing is a blending of Trump’s political career and his business, which is certainly not something you want to see from the president of the United States.”

It is also questionable whether Republicans and other supporters are getting their money’s worth at Doral when they have so many other South Florida options to choose from. Trump likes to boast that his resort is first-rate, but it has suffered financially since Trump became president while also suffering in contrast to other resorts in the area.

While the city of Doral is in Miami-Dade County, it is removed from the attractions most people have in mind when they think of Miami. The golf resort boasts plenty of ornate chandeliers and baroque fountains — but lies directly beneath the flight path of Miami International Airport’s takeoffs and landings, and is miles from the closest beach.

During the RNC’s meeting there in 2018, the troubled property appeared to be skimping on maintenance costs. At least one of the guest buildings smelled of mildew, as did its guest rooms, while the restaurant on the lower floor in the main lodge had a mustiness tinged with the fraternity house odor of spilled alcohol.

Nearly two years later, at this current RNC meeting, the mustiness appears to remain, at least in some areas. The downstairs restaurant, however, seems to have eliminated the stale beer odor.

 

White House counsel Cipollone snubs Rep. Nadler, scores major win for Trump’s legal team

President Trump’s legal team marked its first major victory in the ongoing impeachment trial in an effort to sway public sympathies in favor of the president.

During debate on the impeachment case in the Senate Wednesday, White House counsel Pat Cipollone fiercely criticized House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler for making false allegations against President Trump.

This comes after Nadler accused the president and his attorneys of lying to the Senate. However, Cipollone said Nadler has shown disrespect for the legislative body.

“We’ve been respectful of the Senate,” he stated. “Mr. Nadler came up here and made false allegations against our team, he made false allegations against all of you, he accused you of a cover up.”

Additionally, Cipollone called out Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for pushing false allegations regarding the Ukraine phone call. He pointed out how Schiff knowingly manufactured a fraudulent version of the call and read it to the American people. The White House counsel slammed the California Democrat for the ultimate lack of transparency.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1219727369424056321

 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Thursday came up with a bizarre explanation for why President Donald Trump shouldn’t be removed from office: He didn’t think he was doing anything wrong.

“If thought he was doing something wrong, he would probably shut up about it,” Graham told reporters.

A House investigation determined that Trump withheld authorized military aid to the country because leaders declined to investigate former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. Graham claimed Trump believes Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but acknowledged it was Russia that had hacked the Democratic National Committee.

“All I can tell you is from the president’s point of view, he did nothing wrong in his mind,” Graham said.

 

Adam Schiff is quite the dramatic speaker,
and I can finally get rid or this

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So Graham is going with the insanity defense.

That is the excuse the Trump supporters came up with on Day One and three years later they are still trying to use the excuse that Trump is just too fucking stupid and inexperienced to know he's breaking the law. Just how fucking stupid do they think the American people are?

 

Legal experts explain how House impeachment managers destroyed Trump’s defenses on Thursday

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/le...nagers-destroyed-trumps-defenses-on-thursday/

 

Moscow Mitch and the Republicans will not be able to say Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and the House Managers didn't warn them. They be as corrupt as they want right now in order to coverup for and protect Trump hiding behind his unconstitutional obstruction. But they will pay a huge price for that because the truth is going to keep coming out and shine a glaring spotlight on their corruption and cowardice.

‘Take Her Out’: Trump Apparently Caught on Tape Demanding Ouster of U.S. Ambassador Yovanovitch

*That claim has already been proven a lie during the House investigation and impeachment hearings.

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/take...manding-ouster-of-u-s-ambassador-yovanovitch/

PS Adam Schiff is on TV right now reminding everyone that he told you so exactly what Trump's lawyers and Moscow Mitch were going to do at the start of the trial. The first day Schiff said what Trump's attorneys and Moscow Mitch were doing is saying they would not agree to call witnesses now and would settle the question later in the process But then when they actually got to that point they would turn around and say its too late to call witnesses and it would take too long.

Then he addressed why it would take no time at all and why the Senate can do what the House could not. He pointed out that if the House had tried to call these witnesses Trump would try to play "rope a dope" with them and use "executive privilege" to make them fight through the courts which could take years. But that is not the way it is in the Senate because they have the Chief Justice of the United States sitting right there and the reason he is there is to be able to rule on things like claims of executive privilege right then and there. And since courts almost always rule against the administration on claims of executive privilege Roberts would have to go against about 100 years of court providence and established law which he would not do.

So once again Schiff exposes the corruption of Trump, Moscow Mitch, and the Republicans on national TV. And once again proves they are about 5 steps ahead of team Trump.

 

Epic Fail: House Managers Use the President’s Public Trolling as Reasons to Remove Him from Office
Posted at 5:30 pm on January 24, 2020 by Stu Cvrk

The NY Times, like the rest of the legacy media, are fixated on the Senate impeachment trial as they try to explain, rationalize, and support House impeachment managers presentation of their case. The latest attempt at cheerleading involved Adam Schiff’s spinning of the President’s public statements as “proof” of his underlying intentions in his alleged coercion of Ukrainian President Zelensky to investigate the Bidens. This article by Peter Baker attempts to explain Schiff’s strategy in this regard while ignoring some basic truths about our president:

The strategy seeks to capitalize on Mr. Trump’s astonishingly unfiltered approach to politics, which has led him again and again to say openly what other presidents with more of an understanding of the traditional red lines of Washington — or at least more of an instinct for political self-preservation — would never say in front of a camera.

In effect, the managers are challenging the president’s own penchant for announcing his motivations without apparent regard for whether it could get him into trouble. At the same time, the managers are challenging the senators to take Mr. Trump at his word about what really drove him to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into Mr. Biden and other Democrats.


Note that first paragraph. Baker recognizes that President Trump uses an “unfiltered approach to politics” but fails to understand the reason and the intent of the President. As a member of the chattering class, Baker has been conditioned to expect politicians – particularly US presidents – to act a certain way within the bounds of what the political class has brainwashed people to believe as proper decorum. That means conveying an air of gentility and courtesy in public, equivocation in public speaking to avoid divulging private thoughts about opponents, making vague promises that are never delivered upon, and turning the other cheek when attacked by Democrats and the media.

President Trump has turned all of those expectations on their heads over the past several years, as he speaks in a brusque and direct manner, openly and publicly counterattacks when attacked by opponents, tells us what he is really thinking, makes and keeps his promises, and uses his public statements as part of his political strategy in raising public awareness on matters that the legacy media refuse to cover as they serve the Democrat narratives. Baker and others simply don’t understand that the President’s blunt-speaking manner is the President’s purposeful and highly effective political strategy for communicating to the American people.


Now the House impeachment managers, in the absence of any direct evidence OF THE PRESIDENT’S REAL ACTIONS to provide their case for impeachment, seek to use the President’s public utterances – not his actions – as a key basis for removing him from office. Here is more on the strategy they pursued on Thursday from that article:

[H]ere he was on the South Lawn of the White House publicly calling on Ukraine to investigate a campaign rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. There he was calling on China to go after Mr. Biden, too. There he was declaring that he would willingly take foreign help to win an election. And there he was back in 2016 calling on Russia, “if you’re listening,” to hack into Hillary Clinton’s email.

Baker, the impeachment managers, and the rest of the media still believe the President to be a bumbling fool who is out of his depth. In their minds, only a fool would publicly make what they believe to be self-incriminating statements. How many times do these clowns need to be successfully trolled by the President before they figure out that ALL of the President’s public statements are purposeful. They both trigger his political opponents – who can’t help themselves in responding – and raise awareness and questions in the minds of thinking Americans.

Who among us doesn’t believe that the Bidens have been cashing in on Joe’s political career, including in Ukraine? What do you suppose the average American thinks about Hunter Biden’s $50,000 per month retainer with Bursima – which is more than many Americans earn in a single year? The Democrats know they will suffer severe political damage when the truth is finally told – just as Chapter 3 in Peter Schwiezer’s new book, Profiles in Corruption, lays out in gory detail. In 2013, Hunter Biden’s traveled to Beijing on Air Force Two with his father, after which his Rosemont Seneca Partners firm concluded a $1.5 billion deal with the Chinese government. That’s already on the public record, and the President’s public request for China to “investigate the Bidens” – words, not actions, once again! – raises that awareness of the Bidens’ corruption in the public consciousness as part of his highly effective political strategy. How do we know that strategy is effective? Because the Biden campaign recently sent out a defensive memorandum to many legacy media organizations warning them not to spread false accusations and “debunked conspiracy theories” against Biden and his son.

And Baker and the House managers still try to spin that joke made by President Trump during the 2016 campaign in which he laughingly requested that the Russians help find Hillary Clinton’s “lost emails.” Do they still seriously believe that that joke is at the core of the President’s supposed “collusion with Russia” that the Mueller report debunked but somehow continues? I don’t know about you, but I laughed out loud when I first heard the President ask the Russians for help on Hillary’s emails – which is anecdotal evidence right there of the effectiveness of the President’s direct approach to politics, as well as his ability to mercilessly troll his enemies.

Finally, there was this from that NY Times article:

Mr. Schiff said Mr. Trump’s own words made clear that he learned nothing from the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. “He was at it again,” Mr. Schiff said, “unrepentant, undeterred, if anything emboldened by escaping accountability from his invitation and willful use of Russian hacked materials in the last election.”

Now that is just a bald-faced lie by Schiff (one among many these last few days). He repeats the false allegation that the President invited and willfully used “Russian hacked materials in the last election.” There is ZERO evidence of that in the Mueller report, which concluded there was ZERO collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. That’s just another “Schiff special” – a complete fabrication.

The Democrats and their operatives in the media conflate words with actions in their desperation to remove the President from office. The new strategy is to somehow force President Trump’s removal for his public statements, not his actions. That’s the Democrats’ new standard for impeachment and removal of a sitting US president? The Founders are rolling over in their graves on this one.

The end.

 

Attaboy

 

No one has to believe me. But if you ever wondered what one of those founders might actually be like. If you were watching Adam Schiff right now you would know.

 

I’m waiting for sorcery to become one of the articles of impeachment. That Trump is Evil has to enter into all this by Democrat reckoning. Schumer might say that we have to burn the witches to save their souls. So the pyre could be on the lawn of the White House. Nothing is too hyperbolic in this caricature of justice.

 

Shooter tried.
Lord knows, he tried, to listen to Shiff.

But 20 minutes of his fake flag waving holier than thou lies just wore Shooter out.

Whatever else happens, Shiff should get an academy award.

 

So I watched Adam Schiff's closing arguments and realized I had forgotten what an American was or what that felt like. Then when Schiff finally finished and they went back to the panel there was Maya Wiley. And she kind of had an orgasm on national TV. And I was like yeah ... what she said.

 

Obviously Adam Schiff did well in drama class, I heard after he get laughed out of politics, he wants to go to Hollywood and become an actor, DeNiro said he'll protect him

 

Is that was that sound was...is it over yet, did the assassin squad hightail it out of town yet?

 

Ok guys I do need your help here. What exactly "is your head on a pike"?

Maybe some PR hack can help me out there.

 

Fox News legal analyst says there is 'ample and uncontradicted' evidence that Trump should be removed from office

The most prominent legal analyst for Fox News, Judge Andrew Napolitano, published an op-ed Thursday arguing that there is "ample" evidence that President Donald Trump should be removed from office.

Napolitano's piece came as the Senate entered day two of opening arguments in Trump's Senate trial following his impeachment by the House of Representatives last month.

Trump was impeached with charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Both relate to his efforts to pressure Ukraine into launching politically motivated investigations targeting his rivals while withholding military aid and a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The first investigation Trump demanded focused on Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural-gas company that employed former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, until last year.

Trump has baselessly accused the Bidens of corruption related to Hunter's work for Burisma, which was previously investigated by the Ukrainian prosecutor general.

The second investigation centered on a bogus conspiracy theory suggesting Ukraine interfered in the 2016 US election. There is also no evidence to support that claim.

Earlier this month, the Government Accountability Office, a federal watchdog, determined that Trump's Office of Management and Budget violated the law when, at Trump's direction, it ordered a freeze on nearly $400 million of military aid to Ukraine.

In his op-ed, Napolitano wrote that, while the GAO found that Trump acted unlawfully, the question of whether he acted criminally — a higher standard — is still up in the air.

Still, he wrote, conduct need not be a federal crime to be impeachable.

"For example, as others have suggested, if the president moved to Russia and ran the executive branch from there, or if he announced that Roman Catholics were unfit for office, he would not have committed any crimes," Napolitano wrote.

"Yet, surely, these acts would be impeachable because, when done by the president, they are the moral equivalent of crimes and are so far removed from constitutional norms as to be impeachable."

Even though the House did not accuse the president of specific crimes, Napolitano said "there is enough evidence here to do so."

Specifically, he said, federal law bars soliciting foreign interference in US politics, which can include seeking an item "of value" from a foreign government.

"There is no dispute that Trump did this," Napolitano wrote, referring to Trump's efforts to force Ukraine to deliver political dirt on Biden, who is one of the 2020 Democratic frontrunners.

"In fact, the case for this is stronger now than it was when the House impeached him last year. Since then, more evidence, which Trump tried to suppress, has come to light."

Indeed, as Insider reported last week, since Trump was impeached, there have been at least ten developments that strengthen the case for his impeachment.

They include emails being released to various news outlets detailing concerns within the Pentagon and other agencies about the legality of Trump's aid freeze.

The Trump administration continued to withhold the aid from Ukraine until it was reported on by Politico in late August and details of Trump's scheme began trickling out to Congress and the public in early September.

On September 11, after Congress requested an unredacted version of a whistleblower complaint describing concerns with Trump's conduct, the president finally released the funds.

"Those emails demonstrate conclusively that Trump ordered a halt on the release of the $391 million within minutes of his favor request, and the aid sat undistributed until congressional pressure became too much for Trump to bear," Napolitano wrote.

He added that the timeline "implicates" two other potential crimes. The first is bribery, and the second is contempt of Congress.

When congressional committees spearheading the House impeachment inquiry requested documents and witness testimony from the administration, the White House ordered current and former executive branch officials and agencies not to comply.

The White House argued that the subpoenas were an undue burden, and that the judiciary needed to weigh in to enforce the subpoenas.

But Napolitano noted that the Constitution gives the House of Representatives the "sole power" to impeach federal officials.

"The House does not need the approval of the judiciary to obtain evidence of impeachable offenses from executive branch officials," he wrote.

In all, the House made "valid, lawful, constitutional arguments" for the president's impeachment, he said.

Napolitano wrote: "What is required for removal of the president? A demonstration of presidential commission of high crimes and misdemeanors, of which in Trump's case the evidence is ample and uncontradicted."

 

Media fawns over Schiff during impeachment arguments

Fox News contributor Dan Bongino and Fox Nation Lara Logan weigh in on Adam Schiff's credibility and media coverage of the trial.


https://video.foxnews.com/v/6126404094001#sp=show-clips