REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS STORM HEARING ROOM TO PREVENT TESTIMONY

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

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REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS STORM HEARING ROOM TO PREVENT TESTIMONY

After an unsuccessful attempt to obstruct congress from carrying out its constitutional responsibility of oversight by trying to block his staff from testifying, President Donald Trump urged the GOP to “get tougher and fight”. He said, “Some GOP lawmakers are great fighters. But they have to get tougher and fight because the Democrats are trying to hurt the Republican Party for the (2020) election.” 

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Trump has good reason for wanting the Republicans to fight, because the testimony being laid out against him is devastating, and near certain to lead to his impeachment in the house. One credible witness after another is providing testimony that strongly suggest that Trump was withholding badly needed assistance to the Ukraine that was authorized by congress until they agreed to initiate an investigation into Hunter and Joe Biden, his likely political rival in the 2020 election. The picture being painted is that Trump was withholding nearly $400 million in American taxpayer money authorized by congress to help Ukraine defend against a Russian invasion for his own political gain in the 2020 election, and to the benefit of Vladimir Putin. So the testimony strongly suggest that Trump was using our money to benefit himself and Vladimir Putin.
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The GOP is no longer even trying to dispute the facts; now they’ve resorted to engaging in silly stunts and distractions in an attempt to disrupt the investigative hearing. They claim that the Democrats are holding a secret hearing where Trump is not being allowed due process. That’s a sham. There are Republicans on the committee with equal rights to question the witnesses – but instead of challenging the facts, many of them were involved in the storming of the hearing room to disrupt the proceedings. The committee is merely gathering facts like a grand jury – which Trump tried to obstruct by ordering witnesses not to appear or produce evidentiary documents. After the investigation, the impeachment debate will be public, and if he is impeached by the house, then he’ll also be provided due process in his trial in the senate.
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So the bottom line is, Trump and the GOP are engaging in every disruptive device imaginable to keep the facts from being revealed, and Speaker Pelosi shouldn’t tolerate this blatant assault on our democracy. She should have the Sergeant at Arms arrest these people, put them in jail, fine them each $10,000 a day, and have them striped of their security clearances for Inherent Contempt of Congress. This is deadly serious business. These people mounted a direct assault on the United States Constitution, so it shouldn’t be tolerated for a second.
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This stunt proves that Trump and the GOP are without limits and they’ll do whatever they think they can get away with to save Trump. So this is just the beginning.  Trump is already using language like “coup”, “treason” and implying that the people who informed on him should be executed, so next he’ll have his horde of ignorant bigots rioting in the street.
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Can you even imagine ANY judge in the United States tolerating  these rogue Republicans storming his or her courtroom like they did congress!!!? Absolutely not. They’d all go to jail. Well, congress is a coequal branch of government and deserving of the very same level of respect. 

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Vox reported, “On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard Trump’s appeal of Marrero’s decision. During that hearing, Trump lawyer William Consovoy confirmed just how far his argument goes. In response to a question by appellate Judge Denny Chin, Consovoy argued that Trump is immune from criminal investigation even if he were to shoot someone on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.” And now Trump has the FBI under criminal investigation by his corrupt attorney general, Barr, for investigating him and initiating the Mueller investigation, which also found evidence of his criminality. In addition, he's filed a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James to prevent her from turning his state tax returns over to congress (He's got his hands full there). 
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Trump envies Putin, and he’s trying his best to turn the United States into Russia. So at best, Trump is an ignorant and uninformed spoiled brat, or at worst, a budding autocratic tyrant, so we’d better start treating him like one - him, and, his Republican storm troopers.

A MESSAGE TO SPEAKER PELOSI

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EITHER DO YOUR JOB BY STEPPING UP TO THE PLATE TO DEFEND OUR DEMOCRACY, OR GET THE HELL OUT THE WAY AND MAKE ROOM FOR SOMEBODY WITH A BACKBONE.  AMERICA IS AT WAR WITH A DOMESTIC ENEMY. THIS IS NO TIME FOR WOBBLY KNEES.

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REPUBLICANS STORM HEARING ROOM

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HATRED, KILLINGS, AND THE DUBIOUS DONALD TRUMP

Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree

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HATRED, KILLINGS, AND THE DUBIOUS DONALD TRUMP

Yet more killings have taken place in Texas. This time it was in Odessa, Texas. According to the Midland, Texas police, 5 people have been killed and 21 wounded on the highway, and at the Cinergy Movie Theater in Odessa. The Cinergy shooter was killed, but they suspect 2 more shooters to be at large shooting at people at random on the highway. One of the shooters is driving a gold/white Toyota truck, and the other a hijacked U.S. Postal Service Van.

It’s no accident that the repeated violence that’s breaking out around the country is happening on Trump’s watch. The entire country seems to be taking on his unstable personality. An individual has to be mindlessly immature, ignorant and angry to support such a man in the first place, and then, when you add the hatred he spews on a daily basis to compensate for his glaring ineptitude, it turns the nation into a ticking time bomb.

In an interview with Breitbart, Trump said,“You know, the left plays a tougher game, it’s very funny, I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don’t play it tougher. I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad."

All delusions aside regarding his having the support of the military and police, what kind of president in his right mind even talks like that? He's essentially threatening the American people over being investigated by congress.  That alone warrants invoking the 25th amendment. He sounds like a kid in a sandbox telling the other kids, "You better be nice to me, because my big brother is the leader of the Crips." The man is a geriatric 8-year-old. 

But of course, Trump, his supporters and the NRA are going to say, “You can’t blame Trump for these shootings; you have to blame the people pulling the trigger”. That's a weak argument when you consider the fact that Osama Bin Laden didn’t fly any of the planes during 9/11, and neither was Charles Manson at the scene of the Manson killings. But we held them responsible for both atrocities nevertheless, because they inspired them, and there is absolutely no doubt that Trump is also inspiring the upsurge in right-wing terrorism currently taking place in America. 

So, Trump has got to go. His gross instability, complete distain for the law, and his total ignorance of the Constitution and how government works is infecting the entire nation. In a previous article, "About DonaldAbout Trump's Brand of Mental Illness”, I point out the following:

“Being rich can contribute to mental illness just as easily as poverty. Those very conditions you described can lead to a bratty and dysfunctional personality so pronounced that it led to Trump never having a real friend or anyone who really cared about him in his life. The loneliness and desperation to prove himself worthy resulting from that can lead to his becoming the narcissistic sociopath that he is.

“All through life Trump's had to convince himself that people hated him because he’s so brilliantly special that the average person is incapable of understanding him. He HAD to indulge in that delusion just to maintain his self-esteem. That’s why he’s always bragging and promoting himself, because for Donald Trump, the only thing important in life is trying to get the world to embrace his delusional vision of himself, or who he'd like to be - even if he has to bring down America, and the entire world, to do it. That explains his intense hatred of Barack Obama. Barack represents everything he's always wanted to be - and rubbing vinegar in the wound is Barack is Black. It's just killing Trump that the man he most envies in the world is a Black man, and what makes it worse is the more he tries to out-shine him, the bigger fool he makes of himself. 

“Just imagine going through life where every single person you ever came into contact with hated your guts (the guy's wife doesn’t even seem to like him). He's so arrogant, delusional, and self-absorbed that he's just not the kind of guy that anyone can like or want to be around for any extended period of time. Can you imagine being his friend and having to agonize through endless stories about how wonderful and brilliant he is all night? It must drive Melania absolutely insane.

“So, even his so-called supporters and staff don't really like him; they’re simply opportunists like himself - that's why his White House leaks like a sieve. He's just a useful idiot who allows his "supporters" to promote their own agendas - bigotry for some, and power and greed for others. But in private, they talk about him like a dog – an ignorant and incompetent dog, who could either inadvertently, or in an attempt to save face, destroy America and the world.”

And that’s exactly what’s happening. This is Trump’s last stand.  He’s even melting down with Fox News for not standing up for him.  He sees the polls, and they’re ugly. And he knows that if he loses the 2020 election and the Republicans lose the senate, he and all of his adult children are going to prison, and he’s gonna lose everything he’s stolen.

And the man doesn't care anything about America - he's incapable the thinking about anything but himself. So he's a clear and present danger to this nation. America is in the exact same position as the passengers in a 747 whose pilot put the plane on autopilot and left his 8-year-old son in the co-pilot's seat while he goes to pee. Actually, we're in worse shape, because Trump won't stop touching things he doesn't know anything about - like the economy, and international diplomacy, for example.

And he's so desperate to escape justice that I predict that if worse comes to worst on election night, he’ll resign between election night and the inauguration of the new Democratic president and elevate Mike Pence to the presidency to pardon him. But there's problem with that plan -New York Attorney General Letitia James is several steps ahead of him. As soon as she walked through the door as New York's AG she started charging Trump with violating one state law after another - and since he's spent his entire business life in New York, there are a ton of things to charge him with. She's been charging him with one violation after another every 2 weeks. At this point she has 17 charges against him and his family - and state charges can’t be pardoned away.

So, like Former CIA Director John Brennan warned Trump, the "protective cocoon" that's protecting you is "only temporary".

Eric L. Wattree

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