Even James Comer Admits Biden Impeachment Is Dead
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer admitted that impeachment isn’t the best path and suggested DOJ criminal referrals instead.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer admitted that impeachment isn’t the best path and suggested DOJ criminal referrals instead.
When asked about their case for impeachment of President Joe Biden, Republicans offered up the dog ate my homework, third grade excuse of: “There’s stuff there.”
You can imagine that this man, our President, is none too amused to see the House of Representatives run around like slavish devotees of the Marjorie Taylor Greene conspiracy-laden brand of do-nothing-but-set-fires-and-then-use-fire-to-extort-entire-government-into-wasting-money-and-time “conservatism.”
A seemingly clueless Mike Johnson, now stupefyingly elevated to the position of Speaker with very little experience under his belt and a world of what he doesn’t know overwhelming the bits he can grasp, told Sean Hannity last night that he would charge ahead with impeachment against President Joe Biden.
The House Judiciary Committee interviewed senior FBI agent Thomas Sobocinski, who oversees the FBI team that’s investigating Hunter Biden, and he disputed claims made by two of the House Republicans’ “whistleblowers.”
House Republicans are planning to drag the impeachment investigation out until next year’s conventions to distract from Trump’s indictments and criminal charges.
President Biden is preparing an aggressive response to Speaker McCarthy’s evidence-free impeachment investigation.
Trump wants Mitch McConnell impeached, but senators can’t be impeached.
There is no Trumpier lawmaker in the country than Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Georgia congresswoman recently used the fact that Alabama has one of the lowest vaccine rates in the country as an applause line. The controversial Rep., who loves comparing things to Nazi Germany, has already filed articles on impeachment against Joe Biden. And…
In the 245 years of American independence, only 4 presidents have ever been impeached. Amazingly enough, though, it has happened to 2 or the last 5 people to hold the highest office in the land. Donald Trump, of course, was impeached twice. He likely would have been convicted the second time if it wasn’t for…
Susan Collins spent much of the last four years being very concerned about the actions of Donald Trump. Sometimes, she would act, like when she voted against a plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Other times, she chose not to punish Trump. She voted to acquit the ex-president during his first impeachment trial, saying…
Last week, House impeachment managers made an incredibly strong argument against Donald Trump. The former president’s lawyers struggled to convince anyone that he was innocent. Still, 43 Republicans decided to vote to acquit the president. When explaining why, though, many are hinting that they thought Trump was guilty. This was the tact taken by Mitch…
These critics seem to want blood for their own sport. The House impeachment managers were not playing such games. They were actually trying to work for and play to the American people in a time of crisis.
Plaskett and peers such as Haaland, Ocasio-Cortez, and Velazquez are making it clear the Democratic Party is evolving toward a more critical and reparative confrontation with the nation’s history of racism and colonialism that hobbles us to this day.
Tommy Tuberville first became famous while coaching college football’s Auburn Tigers. The coach won an SEC championship in 2004 before coaching Texas Tech and the Cincinnati Bearcats. Now a politician, Tuberville turned his coaching good will into an Alabama senate seat in November and has already been heavily connected to Donald Trump made to Tuberville…
When Donald Trump incited the riot on the Capitol in January 6th, he inspired many horrific acts. 5 people died as a result of the riots. 2 police officers involved in the altercation later committed suicide. The most shocking of the five deaths was that of Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick. Initial reports said that Sicknick…
Yesterday’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened with a stirring speech by Congressman Jamie Raskin. And the hearings have only become more emotional since. While watching footage of the January 6th insurrection today, Republican Senator James Lankford became visibly upset. A number of GOP lawmakers have commented on how effective the Democratic case has been….
It will most likely not matter in the long run, but Donald Trump’s impeachment trial is not going well. While his lawyers have seemed unprepared, the Democratic impeachment managers have been making concise arguments. Trump’s lawyers are in a reasonably tough spot. The evidence against their client is damning and they are struggling to argue…
Today began a battle between Republicans and Democrats over the impeachment of Donald Trump. The impeachment managers on the left started the proceedings with a powerful video and an emotional speech from Jamie Raskin. The Republican response was such a disaster that it reportedly left Donald Trump fuming in Florida. During her afternoon show, Nicolle…
Donald Trump has been the face of the Republican party for the last 5 years. And if the ex-president gets his way, he will be the face of the GOP for many years to come. Republicans who don’t want Trump to be a part of party’s future, they do have a chance to stop him….
A few weeks ago, it seemed that Democrats might have the votes needed to convict Donald Trump in his upcoming impeachment trial. Senators like Mitt Romney and Lisa Murkowski seemed likely to vote against the 45th President. Mitch McConnell, then seemed like he might be willing to convict Trump as well. It doesn’t seem, however,…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will send articles of impeachment to the Senate on Monday, an action that would soon kick off the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Trump was impeached on January 13 on a single charge of inciting an insurrection after a…
Over the entirety of his business career, Donald Trump has been involved in over 3,500 lawsuits. He has quite a bit of experience with lawyers both good and bad. During the Mueller Report, Trump had Ty Cobb, John Dowd and Jay Sekulow in his corner. In his first impeachment trial, Trump again had Sekulow representing…
Few are more clued into the thinking in DC than Jake Sherman. So it was quite notable that he recently told Mediate that Mitch McConnell and his allies in the senate are “seriously considering impeachment.” Sherman made the comments during an appearance on The Interview Podcast. He told host Aidan McLaughlin, “it’s very clear that…
This fall, Republicans elected two QAnon believers to Congress. They have both made absolute spectacles of themselves. Colorado‘s Lauren Boebert revealed the location of Nancy Pelosi during the Capitol insurrection. She also made a scene at a Capitol metal detector last night. But on Wednesday, Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene attempted to top her fellow conspiracy…
Early last year, an impeachment vote was held in the House. While the measure passed, no Republicans voted to impeach Donald Trump. Today was a different story. All Democratic members of Congress voted to impeach Trump and they were joined by 10 GOP lawmakers. The most interesting name among the Republican Reps was Liz Cheney…
The majority of Americans support removing President Donald Trump from office after he incited an attack against Congress, according to the latest Morning Consult/Politico survey. 53 percent of voters support the House’s impeachment proceedings, which kicked off earlier this morning. Impeachment articles are expected to pass and be sent to the Senate. 54 percent say…
Donald Trump has been unhinged his entire presidency. Since the lost the presidency in November, though, he has become even more unhinged. And all his crazy behavior and comments came to a head last week when a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol. And there will be consequences for his actions. First, the Democratic…
Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) said a vote to impeach President Donald Trump a second time could happen as soon as next week. The House only needs a simple majority to initiate the proceedings. “Donald Trump needs to be removed from office. And we are going to proceed with every tool that we have…
Donald Trump mocked Mitt Romney on Thursday, claiming the Utah senator would struggle to win an election in the state. This is despite Romney’s huge popularity there. The President made the comments, apparently unprompted, during an appearance in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He’s often taken aim at the Republican senator after he voted in favor of impeachment….
Donald Trump phoned Nancy Pelosi and asked her if she really intended to impeach him for pressuring the Ukrainian government to find dirt on Joe Biden. That’s according to a new book by Washington Post journalists Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan. Trump on Trial reveals the President called the Speaker of the House on 24 September, 2019 – just…
A prominent conservative has publicly called for Donald Trump to be impeached following the President’s suggestion that the election be postponed. Steven Calabresi is the co-founder of the conservative Federalist Society – a major organization that works to put right-leaning judges on the bench. He voted for Trump in 2016. However, Calabresi wrote in a New…
John Bolton has blamed Democrats for botching the impeachment process despite his own refusal to testify. The former National Security Advisor branded the inquiry “partisan.” Bolton spoke to PBS about his new book, The Room Where It Happened. He responded to Democrats saying his testimony would have been vital. “I think they know that the impeachment effort…
John Bolton’s testimony could have fundamentally altered the outcome of President Donald Trump’s impeachment, according to Adam Schiff. Bolton did not testify at the time. Congressman Schiff is Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and he spoke to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Monday. The Democrat claimed Bolton’s testimony could have been crucial. The former National…
John Bolton’s upcoming book will accuse Donald Trump of misconduct with countries other than Ukraine, according to a new report. The President was impeached for his treatment of the Ukrainian government. The former National Security Advisor’s book The Room Where It Happened will allege “Trump misconduct with other countries,”, Axios reports. There are no details yet about…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has claimed impeachment distracted the federal government from the Coronavirus. The Kentucky Republican suggested the impeachment trial made dealing with the global pandemic more difficult. McConnell spoke to conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday and took the opportunity to link impeachment to the pandemic. Hewitt praised Republican Senator Tom…
Your repeated ripping – don’t miss this, folks – let us know that you were not having it; this House is not accepting a shoe-in dictator from a variety-reality show/rally. Your calm, deliberate hands, here in the last few seconds of this game, will become an iconic image of discipline, restraint, civility, and yes, diplomacy. Historic. Heroic. Classic. Classroom stuff.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL)introduced a constitutional amendment that would raise the threshold for the House to impeach an elected official to 60%.
Democratic Senator Doug Jones is fighting to hold on to his Senate seat in Alabama, but he will vote to convict Trump and uphold the Constitution.
The White House is threatening John Bolton that he can’t publish his book as is.
It was a busy day for Chief Justice Roberts as he presided over wonderland-quality injustice in two bodies. He spent the morning allowing , for now, to implement the Cucinelli wealth test for green card applicants until the legal issues are dealt with by the courts. Then Chief Roberts presided over the McConnell-controlled Senate’s impeachment…
Recently Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters for The Washington Post Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig published their assessment of Donald Trump’s presidency to date, seeking to step out of the news cycle and “assess the reverberations†of his administration throughout the nation. Titled A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, the book layers scene…
The Trump family is not handling impeachment well as Eric Trump claimed that his daddy and family are the most harassed in history.
Pelosi blasted McConnell saying, “The public now knows why Leader McConnell has been hiding his resolution: the Clinton comparison was a lie.”
Speaker Pelosi told Donald Trump as she prepared to sign the articles of impeachment against him that no president can do whatever he wants.
Nancy Pelosi said that she was sending a message to Putin and Trump that the American people will pick the next president.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear on Sunday that new articles of impeachment could be coming against Donald Trump.
In a tweet, Trump called on the Senate not hold an impeachment trial and to dismiss the articles of impeachment against him.
Trump told associates that he authorized the strike on Soleimani because he was being pressured by Republican Senators who will decide his impeachment fate.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Republican Senators to expect the Trump articles of impeachment to be delivered to the Senate next week.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that if Adam Schiff would not have impeached Trump, the president would not have attacked Iran.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that holding on to the articles of impeachment has flushed out Mitch McConnell.
Donald Trump is refusing to turn over 20 emails between two of his top aides that discuss the freezing of aid to Ukraine.
Trump is tweeting about impeachment as he escalated tensions with Iran and pushed the United States closer to an expanded war in the Middle East.
As Mitch McConnell pushes a sham trial, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is asking all Ukraine documents and evidence at Trump’s impeachment trial.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was booed on the House floor when he claimed that Democrats hate all 63 million Americans who voted for Trump.
Sen. Lindsey Graham is already threatening to impeach the next Democratic president even before he or she is elected and takes office.
Trump sent out a whiny impeachment eve tweet complaining that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is holding House Democrats together to vote for impeachment.
Donald Trump definitely does not want to be impeached and he feels humiliation over the black mark that will forever be associated with his name.
Trump claimed that Democrats were trivializing impeachment and suggested that Republicans would retaliate for him and impeach a future Democratic president.
Kellyanne Conway tried to tell America not to be interested in impeachment while claiming that Bill Clinton, not Trump, deserved impeachment.
Trump’s Secretary of Defense refused to say if any political considerations were detailed to him about releasing the military aid to Ukraine.
Ted Cruz tried to lie and claim that there had to be a crime for the president to be impeached, but Meet The Press’s Chuck Todd caught him.
After a reporter asked Speaker Pelosi if she hates Trump, she said no, but unloaded on the president for being a coward.
Donald Trump had a devastating day during Wednesday’s impeachment hearings. Even his own constitutional expert, Jonathan Turley, conceded that swapping military aid for labelling a political opponent a criminal is an impeachable offense. This followed quibbling about procedure and a supposed need for more evidence. If the professor’s performance at Wednesday’s impeachment hearing was any…
Trump had a meltdown over the House Judiciary Committee holding an impeachment hearing while he is attending the NATO summit.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) notified Trump of his impeachment privileges and gave him until December 6 to exercise them.
In a letter to his House colleagues, Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that Trump spent months seeking foreign election interference.
Speaking before the Ohio Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia in February of 1950, Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy waved a piece of paper before his audience’s eyes, insisting he had a list of over 200 communists working in the state department. He had, of course, no such list. His anti-communist crusade is now…
Lev Parnas, one of several indicted associates of Trump’s personal lawyer and shadow State Department Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Republican Representative Devin Nunes in 2018.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) told John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Mick Mulvaney that their day is coming and they can’t run forever.
Gordon Sondland testified that Vice President Mike Pence knew about the Ukraine plot weeks before the Trump/Zelensky phone call.
House Democrats got a big win on Tuesday evening as a judge granted a rush judgment on the question of whether Don McGahn will have to testify in the impeachment hearings.
Rep. Devin Nunes claimed at the Tuesday afternoon impeachment hearing that Democrats are cooking up a “drug deal” on impeachment.
Trump has hijacked the official White House Twitter account and is using the taxpayer-funded tool to smear Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes repeated Russian talking points in his opening statement at Tuesday’s Trump impeachment hearing.
In a letter to her colleagues, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that Trump had committed bribery and extortion.
Remember in 2016 when an armed Oregon militia group, led by Ammon and Ryan Bundy, occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Princeton, Oregon? They viewed the federally managed land as an encroachment on their land use rights as ranchers and as an example of the federal government’s overreach in asserting its authority against the…
A senior OMB official has defied Donald Trump and Mick Mulvaney by showing up to testify to impeachment investigators on Saturday.
David Holmes testified to overhearing Trump running the Ukraine shakedown and told investigators that there are three witnesses who can corroborate his testimony.
The staffer who Bill Taylor testified heard Trump ask about Ukraine investigating Biden will testify on Friday.
The Republican defense of Trump was to scream at the witnesses, whine, and throw a tantrum during the impeachment hearing.
Lev Parnas says that he told the incoming Ukranian government that they had to investigate Biden, or military aid would be frozen.
Trump threw a Sunday fit and claimed that he is being denied “due process” because Adam Schiff won’t let his conspiracy theory witnesses testify.
Dr. Fiona Hill testified to the impeachment investigation that every world leader has made disparaging remarks about Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has constructed a fantasy that he has united America and that impeachment has turned the country against Democrats.
Trump praised his EU ambassador in a tweet but pretended not to know Gordon Sondland after he testified in the impeachment investigation.
Nikki Haley claimed that impeachment is the death penalty for public officials, so Democrats are giving Trump the death penalty with impeachment.
A source who “regularly talks to Trump” said Kentucky and Virginia signal to GOP they are underestimating voter intensity against Trump.
The impeachment investigation wants Mick Mulvaney to appear for a deposition on November 9, because he is at the center of the Ukraine scheme.
Lev Parnas has broken with Trump and Rudy Giuliani and is now talking to congressional investigators looking into impeachment.
House Republicans may steal Devin Nunes’s thunder by putting Rep. Jim Jordan on the Intelligence Committee for public impeachment hearings.
Trump is obsessively following the media coverage and telling people around him that he is getting “f*cking killed” on impeachment.
After last Thursday’s House vote to advance the inquiry into the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) labeled the proceeding a “soviet style impeachment process†and effectively accused democrats of hijacking the 2020 election, usurping the people’s democratic rights because of their sour grapes over the 2016 presidential election results. “Clearly,†he…
Trump broke down on Friday night as impeachment triggered him to attack the whistleblower, Democrats, and claim he did nothing wrong.
British government officials were described as stunned by the request from Trump and Barr for them to do a hatchet job on the US intelligence community.
Trump’s Russia Director at the NSC has quit and will testify before the impeachment investigation on Thursday.
Trump got no bump from the Baghdadi raid, and he failed to change the news coverage, which snapped back to impeachment.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff isn’t going to play games in court with Trump, as his committee is rolling forward with their impeachment investigation.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) met with a former Ukrainian diplomat who circulated conspiracy theories that Trump wants to have investigated about the 2016 election.