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September 24, 2019

Impeachment is finally on the Table.

“Remember boys and girls. This impeachment inquiry is not centered around the transcript trump is releasing tomorrow. It is being centered around the whistle blower complaint that is about multiple calls made by the president.

Don’t fall for right wingers trying to frame this as one call. It’s not. It’s about this whistleblower reporting on the corrupt actions of POTUS over multiple calls.

Also, don’t forget to register to vote and to call your congressmen today

Yep. And the whistleblower has asked to speak to congress directly.” ~ Redditor

After months of wavering, the Democrats are about to take a stand.

I bet 90% of people just reading the headlines think, “Trump’s gonna be gone!” That’s far from the truth.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to announce momentarily an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.

This announcement follows the allegations surrounding Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

 

@heatherscope: Intel Chairman Adam Schiff spoke after Pelosi. He told the caucus that Trump wasn’t asking Ukraine to “dig up dirt,” he was asking Ukraine to “manufacture dirt” on his opponent.

This ain’t partisan. You can try to make it so, but that ain’t helpful for America.
 
I’m all for them just waking up as if from a bad dream and becoming good humans who will work for all decent Americans and humans everywhere. That failing, yeah, they need to be held account for their own admitted actions.
 

Redditor: Here’s a roadmap to at least the very basic Articles of Impeachment [Congress] should vote on.

  1. Emoluments Clause Violations

  2. Campaign Finance Crimes

  3. Sexual Harassment and Assault

  4. Tax Fraud

  5. Conspiracy to Undermine the US Election (multiple sub-points)

  6. Obstruction of Justice and Witness Tampering

  7. Foreign Bribery of Russian Government Officials

  8. Misuse of Charity Funds for Political and Private Gain

  9. Failure to Faithfully Uphold the Oath of the Office of the Presidency (multiplemultiplemultiple sub-points here)

  10. Failure to Appoint Ethical and Competent Officials for the Departments that Serve the Executive Branch

This video will go live when Nancy Pelosi goes live:

 

Trump, basically admitting to the whole thing:

“That call was perfect. It couldn’t have been nicer. Even the Ukrainian government put out a statement that that was a perfect call There was no pressure put on them whatsoever. But there was pressure put on with respect to Joe Biden. What Joe Biden did for his son, that’s something they should be looking at,” ~ Trump.

~

A republic, if we can keep it.

If you are an American, contact your representative. You can find them here: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

https://www.speaker.gov/contact

Direct to Nancy Pelosi

These two articles sum up so much:

Impeach Trump. But don’t necessarily try him in the Senate. ~ Lawrence Tribe

Donald Trump vs. the United States of America. ~ David Leonhardt

“If there was ever a time to take 2 minutes to do this—this morning is that time.”

Via Reddit, some sources to read up on: 

2017: Former Ukrainian President Poroshenko meets with “cyberesecurity expert” Giuliani and pledges cooperation with the US

March 20, 2019: Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko discloses an investigation of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. Un-aired comments are claimed to disclose re-opening an investigation into Burisma and Biden

May 1: Giuliani reported to be pressuring Ukraine to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden

May 20: Zelensky becomes President of Ukraine

Mid July: Trump puts hold on Ukraine aid

July 25: Trump calls Zelensky

August 12: Whistleblower report filed

September 12: Trump releases aid to Ukraine

September 19: Whistleblower report (but not contents) revealed to the public Further details have inevitably trickled out.

The issue of a Biden investigation didn’t suddenly come up during that July phone call – it’s been going on for a long time. The former, Poroshenko administration was very compliant, and all of this new stuff relates to resetting the relationship with the new, Zelensky administration. Giuliani would certainly have spoken with Zelensky while he was still a private citizen.

Trump pulled funding for Ukraine’s defense against Russian separatists who already took Crimea days before personally pressuring Zelensky to go after Biden, and reinstated that funding when it became apparent that this phone call would become public.”

More, via Reddit:

This formal impeachment inquiry brought to you by: 2018 Voters

You can join the 2020 crowd by registering to vote here: https://www.vote.org/register-to-vote/

It takes less than two minutes.

Even if you think you are registered, you can verify by checking here: https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

Edit: If you voted blue in 2018, you literally made this happen. Your vote counts. If you didn’t, that’s okay. Wield your power the next election cycle, there’s still a lot of work to be done. ~ reddit

 

 

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