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Trump’s former chief of staff says Senate impeachment trial without witnesses is ‘a job only half done’

John Kelly spoke to NJ Advance Media in advance of Friday's vote on whether to call witnesses to testify in Trump's impeachment trial.

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“If you don’t respond to 75 percent of the American voters and have witnesses, it’s a job only half done. You open yourself up forever as a Senate that shirks its responsibilities.”, John Kelly, retired Marine Corps General

Kelly said he believed former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s assertion that Trump withheld congressionally approved aid to Ukraine to pressure that government into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

James Comey and Andrew McCabe took excellent notes 😂

Lev Parnas, Michael Cohen, and Omarosa recorded the best audio and videos of Trump 😂 #IMPOTUS

Bolton, who made the claims in an unpublished book reported by the New York Times, was “a copious note taker” and was “an honest guy and an honorable guy,” Kelly said.

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., answering questions on Facebook Live on Wednesday, said that not only was acquittal a foregone conclusion, but senators would not take any other action either, such as working to block foreign intervention in American elections.

“I’m not optimistic that we have the votes in the Senate to any kind of corrective action,” Booker said.

“Remember what he has been impeached for is conduct that is threatening to our very democratic processes. That’s the threat and the worry we have.”, Cory Booker

Source: The New York Times

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The Republicans’ “Win” on Taxes Is a Loss for American Democracy

The wealthy interests that bankroll the Party have now achieved a major item on their agenda. What remains to be determined is whether this victory will help bring down the G.O.P.

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United States of #Orwellian #Plutocracy

The "HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES” no longer represents the Will of “We The People”.

“This is the biggest bank heist, not just in American history but in the history of the world,” Jeff Merkley, Democrat from Oregon

Evidently, the American public agrees with him. A new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal shows that just twenty-four per cent of Americans believe that the Republican bill is a good idea, and sixty-three per cent of them believe that it was designed primarily to help corporations and the rich.

“fog of disinformation” #MinistryOfTruth

Republican House of Lies

“The burden of taxation actually increases in this bill for the wealthiest Americans.”, Rob Portman, of Ohio

“First, this is not a health-care bill. No one loses their insurance.”, Tim Scott, of South Carolina

This was nonsense. The bill that Scott was voting for abolishes the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, a central element of the Affordable Care Act.

“This is about getting the economy going so we can save Medicare and Medicaid.”, David Perdue, the former corporate executive who represents Georgia

“The wealthy interests that bankroll the Republican Party have now achieved a major item on their agenda.”

#GOPDonors #RepublicanSWAMP #TrumpSWAMP

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73% of Americans want independent probe of Russian election meddling

A combined 61 percent of Americans say they have little to no confidence in Congress conducting a fair and impartial investigation

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Mark Murray at NBC News:

Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they want an independent, non-partisan commission instead of Congress to investigate Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Seventy-three percent of respondents prefer the independent investigation, versus 16 percent who pick Congress.

Still, a majority of Americans — 54 percent — believe that Congress should investigate whether there was contact between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, which is essentially unchanged from February’s NBC/WSJ poll.

That includes 84 percent of Democrats and 51 percent of independents who want to see this congressional investigation, but just 21 percent of Republican respondents who want it.

Yet a combined 61 percent of Americans say they have little to no confidence in Congress conducting a fair and impartial investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election.

Only a combined 39 percent say they have “some” or a “great deal” of confidence in Congress conducting a fair and impartial investigation.

These numbers come as committees in both the House and Senate are looking into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election. But the House investigation erupted in controversy after House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes, R-Calif., suggested that Trump and his associates may have been monitored by U.S. intelligence officials during the transition.

Nunes stepped aside from the investigation earlier this month.

[The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted April 17-20 of 900 adults, including more than 400 who were reached via cell phone. The poll has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.]

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We The People must make Congress and Senate fulfill the Will of the People

#RussiaGate #KremlinGate Nothing at all? Putin collaborators or more?

Paul Manafort
Carter Page
Jeff Sessions
Rex Tillerson
Wilbur Ross
Jared Kushner
Devin Nunes
Ivanka Trump
Donald Trump Jr
Felix Sater
Roger Stone
Michael Cohen
President Donald Trump

treason was specifically defined in the United States Constitution, the only crime so defined. Article III, section 3 reads as follows:

“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.”

#StayWoke

Source: nbcnews.com

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