You can't make this stuff up even if you dreamed up the hokiest political thriller for a novel. A two bit, con man criminal and human sewage - who somehow got shoehorned into the presidency - but now finds himself in the cross hairs of impeachment, suddenly transmutes into his own worst enemy. Even as Marie Yovanovitch was testifying about “the smear campaign against me,” Trump hurled new insults at her on Twitter, in real time.
As I watched this brave professional's shoulders slightly sag and her complexion blanch at the insults, I realized then this animated 2-legged turd called Trump had finally succeeded in hanging his miserable ass in real time. All the Republican efforts to defend this slime now went into the dumpster, i.e. in efforts to combat the narrative that Giuliani had mounted a smear campaign against her, given she left her post in April. So how could she have first hand knowledge of the plan? It was all "hearsay" all over again.
And then Donny Dotard delivered his twitter smears before nearly 15 million live viewers, e..g.
“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.”
Forget about trying to twist the language into literal pretzels to now absolve him because of unclear "intentions" - those were supremely evident for all to see - especially given Ms. Yovonavitch was in the middle of being asked about the smear campaign- led by Giuliani, two of his associates — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who have since been indicted — and the right-wing news media. Hell, even FOX News' Chris Wallace was taken aback ruminating on whether the Repuke defenders like Devin Nunes and Jim Jordan, would be able to protect their master with any kind of straight face. Another pundit on CNN said "It would have been better, more strategic, for Trump to have not interjected himself. The GOP planned defense that Yovonavitch could not have first hand knowledge was just destroyed in real time in an impeachment hearing."
But as Chris Matthews pointed out, this orange derelict is a guy who always wants to "punch back"at anything remotely threatening his fragile ego or wannabe autocracy. After all, what was this POS doing during Monday's hearing? He was entertaining one of his favorite autocrats in the White House: Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
As Nicole Wallace chimed in:
"Donald Trump is now squarely on the side of the corrupt actors in the Ukraine."
Justifiably then, Democrats accused the degenerate presidential pretender of real-time “witness intimidation” and tampering, suggesting it could form the basis for an article of impeachment. Well, indeed it is impeachable and committed in front of millions on live television. At the very moment she was testifying about how Trump had denigrated her, the repulsive POS was assailing Ms. Yovanovitch, insulting her diplomatic career and reasserting his right to remove her, prompting Democrats to suggest he was trying to intimidate a witness.
Earlier Ms. Yovanovitch said she was "devastated" when she came under fire from Trump’s fake personal attorney and Trump's reprobate spawn Don Jr. last spring. But she then admitted she was even more stunned in September this year when she learned that Trump himself had disparaged her in his now-famous July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president.
Again, let's remind ourselves all of this was out in the open, especially given the transcript of the actual referenced phone call eventually made its way into daylight. So the deflecting issue of "second hand" information and experience ("She wasn't there for the actual phone call") was basically irrelevant - points I also made cogently in my post yesterday re: Jim Jordan's idiotic "it's all hearsay" babble.
“It was a terrible moment,” she told the House Intelligence Committee on the second day of public impeachment hearings. “A person who saw me actually reading the transcript said that the color drained from my face. I think I even had a physical reaction. I think, you know, even now, words kind of fail me.”
In regard to the Reeps' claim that "a president can appoint anyone he chooses and you serve at his pleasure", Yovanovitch did not disagree - only observing he could have simply dismissed her from her position as opposed to also smearing her reputation, then insinuating his added threats, i.e. she "was going to go through some things,”. A comment that Ms. Yovanovitch told the committee had taken her breath away when she read a reconstructed transcript of the call.
But let's remind ourselves again this guy we have for a president is really little different from a Mob boss. He believes he can dispense threats - not even veiled (like to the whistle blower)- and not have any kind of payback. Worse, the maggot thinks he has "free speech" to bark out these threats when anyone with sense - as former Sen. Claire McCaskill pointed out - knows that means you are not entitled to abuse that power. Like tweeting out witness intimidation in the middle of a damned impeachment hearing when the witness is there delivering her testimony.
What I liked most about the hearings, apart from Marie Yovanovitch's courage in the face of all those cameras and the intimidating circumstances, was Adam Schiff's willingness to bang the numerous Reeptard efforts to disrupt (with spurious 'points of order') into oblivion.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Mr. Schiff's gavel repeatedly went down just before the witness read her opening statement - as Reep after Reep tried to sow chaos.
'Moron of the day' award today goes to Utah's Reepo Chris Stewart as he opened his line of supposed questioning by grandstanding, i.e. blathering:
"For three years we've heard these outrageous and frankly unbelievable accusations about Russian collusion that we now know are absolute nonsense! "
All of which is somewhat amusing - and pathetic - given the fact that less than four years ago he had compared Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. This according to Richard Gehrke in The Salt Lake Tribune 2 days ago.. We also now know, after the Mueller report (Part I) release, e.g.
The accusations made weren't "nonsense" at all. Indeed, the failure to launch a coherent and compelling impeachment proceeding at that time (largely owing to AG William Barr's whitewashing of the report using his own 'summary') - actually emboldened the Traitor-in chief to then use the subsequent Ukraine bribery ploy to try to take down Biden. If he got away with it once with the Russkies (targeting Hillary Clinton) he could do it again, right? Only this time using Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.. Same M.O., different country. Same objective: steal an election.
All in all it was a good day for the good guys and we can only look forward to the day, the hour, when the whole corrupt Trump Imperium collapses as even more professionals from the State Dept. and other agencies have their say.
Update: Nov. 16
As might be expected Trump's slimey toad enabler (William Barr) has now seen fit to defend his master, invoking the discredited myth of the "unitary executive". That is, that a president has almost absolute power and the Article I powers of congress are subjugated to the executive. Thus, wielding this bunkum, he asserted at a Friday night Federalist Society spiel (NY Times today):
"Trump’s opponents 'essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple by any means necessary a duly elected government,'.
Uh no, you arrogant, obtuse, animated offal. We see it as a constitutionally sanctioned effort to check and remove a pestilence and traitor - who was NEVER "duly elected". He was shoehorned into power with the help of Vladimir Putin and the Russians. (Which the Mueller report makes clear and which you sought to dilute with your whitewash summary.)
MY advice? Go suck a raw root, Trump's toad.
The fat toad added: "While the president has certainly thrown out the traditional Beltway playbook and punctilio, he was up front about what he wanted to do and the people decided they wanted him to serve as president,”
No, Toady, I didn't "decide" nor did more than 67 million other people- who voted against Trump- so don't conflate "the people". Especially given the majority non-Trump voters led to his popular vote minority. So don't try to turn a turd into a Tootsie roll. Now, go back to your toad hole and cease interjecting yourself into a justifiable process to correct what went awry back in 2016. The swine has abused his powers with a clear bribe in order to damage Biden and help his reelection, and now he's got to pay!
See Also:
Excerpt:
"Attorney General William Barr is racing to complete a new “report” before Thanksgiving. And if Barr’s very poor summary of the Mueller report threw Trump a lifeline by distorting the real findings of the special counsel investigation, this new report looks to be more like an atom bomb, designed to incinerate Washington by putting the whole Justice Department behind a conspiracy theory that rewrites history and declares open warfare on political opponents. And Republicans are already meeting with Barr to plan a “roll out” for this supposedly classified report in order to maximize its impact."
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Update: Nov. 16
As might be expected Trump's slimey toad enabler (William Barr) has now seen fit to defend his master, invoking the discredited myth of the "unitary executive". That is, that a president has almost absolute power and the Article I powers of congress are subjugated to the executive. Thus, wielding this bunkum, he asserted at a Friday night Federalist Society spiel (NY Times today):
"Trump’s opponents 'essentially see themselves as engaged in a war to cripple by any means necessary a duly elected government,'.
Uh no, you arrogant, obtuse, animated offal. We see it as a constitutionally sanctioned effort to check and remove a pestilence and traitor - who was NEVER "duly elected". He was shoehorned into power with the help of Vladimir Putin and the Russians. (Which the Mueller report makes clear and which you sought to dilute with your whitewash summary.)
MY advice? Go suck a raw root, Trump's toad.
The fat toad added: "While the president has certainly thrown out the traditional Beltway playbook and punctilio, he was up front about what he wanted to do and the people decided they wanted him to serve as president,”
No, Toady, I didn't "decide" nor did more than 67 million other people- who voted against Trump- so don't conflate "the people". Especially given the majority non-Trump voters led to his popular vote minority. So don't try to turn a turd into a Tootsie roll. Now, go back to your toad hole and cease interjecting yourself into a justifiable process to correct what went awry back in 2016. The swine has abused his powers with a clear bribe in order to damage Biden and help his reelection, and now he's got to pay!
See Also:
Excerpt:
"Attorney General William Barr is racing to complete a new “report” before Thanksgiving. And if Barr’s very poor summary of the Mueller report threw Trump a lifeline by distorting the real findings of the special counsel investigation, this new report looks to be more like an atom bomb, designed to incinerate Washington by putting the whole Justice Department behind a conspiracy theory that rewrites history and declares open warfare on political opponents. And Republicans are already meeting with Barr to plan a “roll out” for this supposedly classified report in order to maximize its impact."
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