(WASHINGTON DC) – Incredibly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced yesterday that she would not be sending the articles of impeachment over to the Senate, saying that she would like a say in how the Senate Trial is going to be run, insisting that she wants to be sure it’s ‘fair’ for Democrats – indicting the partisan nature of this entire debacle.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the annual marathon session annual press conference held by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin fielded a variety of questions from domestic press including questions on Ukraine, climate change, the Russian economy, foreign agents, and the Trump impeachment hoax.
Fittingly for the jolly season, the House of Representatives’ vote to impeach Trump was more pantomime than serious politics.
“Oh yes, he is!.. Oh no, he isn’t!..” and so it went on for nearly 10 hours of to-and-fro between Democrats and Republicans. Eventually, the finale came when black-clad Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi hammered the gavel, announcing President had been impeached – only the third-ever in two-and-half centuries of 45 presidents.
Authored by Mollie Hemingway, via The Federalist,
President Donald Trump joined Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson in the club of impeached presidents Wednesday night. Like the other two, Trump will be acquitted by the Senate once the articles of impeachment are delivered.
The case for Trump’s impeachment is the weakest of the three. If we include Richard Nixon, who resigned on his way to impeachment, it’s the weakest of the four. Here’s why.
Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org
(WASHINGTON DC) – Last night, Hawaii Congresswoman and presidential candidate, Tulsi Gabbard defied House Leader Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party whip by voting “present” on two articles of impeachment being brought against President Donald Trump over alleged ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ regarding White House relations with ally Ukraine.
On Sunday, Rachel Bade reported that many Democrats, particularly freshmen, want Pelosi to name Justin Amash (I-MI) to the impeachment manager team that will present the House's case to the Senate.
The Democratic leaders in Congress really should have checked with Central Casting before picking the stars of their passion play: “The Impeachment and Destruction of Donald Trump.”
A Washington Post report this week (reposted here) has exposed the US war in Afghanistan as a vile charade. Declassified government papers reveal notes and interviews by hundreds of senior US officials which attest to systematic lies and deception in the conduct of that war. The GW Bush and Obama administrations are directly implicated in hoodwinking the American people about why the US went to war in Afghanistan in October 2001.
