Pelosi officially announces impeachment inquiry

Here is my faithful summary of Lamar Alexander's statement..

• Trump did it.
• Trump's behavior was inappropriate.
• We have ample proof that he did it. We do not need additional witnesses.
• It was not bad enough to remove him from office.
• No Republicans voted for the impeachment in the House. Impeachment only works when there is bipartisan support.
• The voters can sort it out.

Alexander's full statement is available at https://www.alexander.senate.gov/pub...t-witness-vote

This is going to be the most controversial paragraph from his statement..

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It was inappropriate for the president to ask a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent and to withhold United States aid to encourage that investigation. When elected officials inappropriately interfere with such investigations, it undermines the principle of equal justice under the law. But the Constitution does not give the Senate the power to remove the president from office and ban him from this year’s ballot simply for actions that are inappropriate.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

How do the impeachment managers not feel like children trying to have an adult conversation with adults and how do Democrat voters such as Seran not feel sorry for them? Because this is downright embarrassing to watch.

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Imagine a bunch of BacKKKlashes and Serans, but in Congress.

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especially someone as celebrated at John Bolton

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I know we break out the fancy china for national John Bolton day.

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Originally Posted by Seran

Yeah, it's pretty amazing all of the evidence dragged up despite all the opposition and obstruction presented by the White House. I totally get why you and Senate Republicans are terrified of the idea of witnesses, especially someone as celebrated at John Bolton stepping up and like everyone else, pointing out Trump is lying. Despite his being the command and thief, he's still a newcomer to the party and he's really choosing the wrong folks to alienate.

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https://youtu.be/a7WN3XKkCTI

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Originally Posted by Seran

The Judiciary is an entirely separate branch of the federal government. The House enacted their /sole/ constitutional right to investigate and impeach a sitting president. The President, for all that he did managed to land himself a second impeachment charge. I imagine the third, fourth and fifth impeachment charge will follow the same format.

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Holy shit and we thought cwolff was a fucking dumbass. :lol:

Grats on making cwolff seem like a reasonable person.

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Originally Posted by Parkbandit

You know John Bolton isn't this guy, right?


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But it's really this guy:

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Originally Posted by Neveragain

I know we break out the fancy china for national John Bolton day.

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This is one of the most white people gifs I've ever seen. Possibly even whitepeopler than the Snuggie gifs.

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Watching the media already lose their minds over the expected vote against more witnesses is one of the best things ever.

Ever notice it’s always on Republicans to “do the right thing” and side with Democrats? Like the default position is always that Democrats are right so whatever they do is good and Republicans better “get on the right side of history.”

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

Watching the media already lose their minds over the expected vote against more witnesses is one of the best things ever.

Ever notice it’s always on Republicans to “do the right thing” and side with Democrats? Like the default position is always that Democrats are right so whatever they do is good and Republicans better “get on the right side of history.”

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That's because republicans are usually too spineless and chicken shit to stand up for anything and let democrats walk all over them in hopes that they'll one day be in the cool kids club, despite the fact that 99% of those tard democrats aren't cool at all.

Huge drop in the stock market when the Senate decided not to have witnesses at the trial. I think it's because investors were disappointed that they won't have anything good to watch on teevee once this is over and definitely not because it means Trump will remain in office.