Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Lacey

The only reason why Trump is not currently under indictment is that he is a sitting President. Charges would already be pending against any other person who had done similar things. The only constitutional recourse we have is impeachment, and that is moving forward. The political peril, as well as the legal danger for the President, is increasing all the time. If you do not realize this, it's because you are willfully ignorant about the testimony so far. None of it is favorable for the President and his partners in crime, and all of it is from reliable and first-hand sources. Many federal laws relate to Trump's abuse of power and criminalize them. However, as I said before, the only constitutional recourse we have is impeachment, and that will happen. Trump's impeachment is inevitable. Removal from office is not likely. Indictments, after he leaves office, are a real possibility unless the incoming President pardons him, but that, of course, doesn't stop all the state-level indictments that will haunt him for years and decades afterward. Just look at the recent ruling about the Trump charity by a New York judge. Not only did the Trump family have to admit to persistently illegal conduct and close the charity, but they also had to disperse any remaining money to the United Way, the United Negro College Fund, and the Holocaust Museum. This ruling is fitting since the most significant misuse of funds was $264,000 to renovate a fountain outside of a Trump property in New York City. History will judge Trump as the most incompetent and corrupt President we have ever had no matter what happens, and it's a well-deserved judgment.

The avalanche of evidence keeps on coming:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/469695-nsc-official-testified-there-was-no-doubt-trump-wanted-quid-pro-quo

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

OK, Greg and Rich, and maybe Mel. We know you worship all things Trump so how do you guys feel about the Trump "charities"?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/potus-to-pay-2-million-admits-misuse-of-trump-foundation-funds-in-settlement-with-ny-ag

Of course Donny has spun it, and I'm sure you guys will, too, with your GOP talking point but the fact remains: "The Trump Foundation has shut down, funds that were illegally misused are being restored, the president will be subject to ongoing supervision by my office, and the Trump children had to undergo compulsory training to ensure this type of illegal activity never takes place again,” Attorney General Letitia James said in statement. “The court’s decision, together with the settlements we negotiated, are a major victory in our efforts to protect charitable assets and hold accountable those who would abuse charities for personal gain."

The whole thing is just a witch hunt and Trump's the victim of Democratic operatives...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

The whole thing is just a witch hunt and Trump's the victim of Democratic operatives...

Please see the following from Lindsey Graham for further information:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lindsey-graham-claims-trump-donor-gordon-sondland-is-in-cahoots-with-democratic-operatives
You'd think the Cons on the forum would be keeping up on a conspiracy theory as important as this one...

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Imagine the howls of indignation that would have emanated from the GOP and Fox News and Richard if Obama had said that he was going to attend a May Day parade in Russia. Trump does it, though, and they don't even flinch. These are the same people that completely lost their sh!t when Obama shook hands with Raul Castro and called him a boot-licking disgrace. It would be funny if it weren't just so sad to see the GOP turned into the cult of Trump. Hillary tried to warn us that Trump would be Putin's puppet, and boy was she right.

What we do have emanating from Fox News and the GOP are the conspiracy theories that pop up to "explain" the testimony describing the quid pro quo in the House investigations.  Alas, Vindmen is supposedly some sort of double agent engaged in espionage while Graham advocates the notion that the Trump administration was collectively too dumb to know what it was doing in the Ukraine and the revised testimony heard in the House last week was due to recruitment and manipulation by "democratic operatives". As a consequence of the latter, Lindsey Graham concludes and professes that any testimony in the House contrary to the interests of the Trump administration in the Ukraine is "crap". 
PS: For the record, one of the participants in the Fox News commentary on the Vindmen espionage theory, a former federal attorney who appeared along with the Fox News host and Alan Dershowitz, has now recanted the story and apologized for it while being interviewed on CNN. 

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

You guys better be careful. Steven will post a meme. 

No need for that since Fox News today is posting it's headline that Don junior thinks the Mueller investigation "is a joke" while their other lead story accuses the Democrats of staging a "coup in the House"...

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Wow....the level of fantasy is hitting an all time high in here today LOL

Just reporting on what they're saying on Fox...

Originally Posted by James Lacey

They are desperately throwing everything they can at the wall to see if anything will stick. The approach now seems to be to claim that Giuliani went rogue and was working in his interests. Any day now, Trump will dismiss him as someone who just got coffee during the campaign. Sondland is a braggart that Trump barely knew and was freelancing. A total lair and part of the swamp. Lev Parnas, one of Giuliani's Ukranian buddies who was arrested and charged with corruption, is a never Trumper and unreliable. They are all guilty of treason and human scum! It would be funny if it weren't all so predictable.

It's a cult:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2019/11/10/scaramucci-likens-trump-to-support-cult-fox-news-vpx.cnn

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

I gotta say how brilliant it was of Donny to tweet intimidation to a witness who is testifying to congress in real time. They could had dismissed her as not knowing anything about the phone call, but then the twitter in chief does what he does best by blowing everything up. I'd LOL but it's not really funny.

Yeah, even the GOP was cringing on that one...

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

Rod, do you think Trump is going to be removed from office? Do you think he'll not be reelected in 2020?

Darian,
While he should be removed from office, but given the comments from the Republican senators, especially the overt nonsense from Lindsey Graham, I doubt he will be convicted despite overwhelming evidence. 
Another Trump-backed Republican governor lost last night in a red state so that obviously doesn't bode well for Trump. If the Democrats nominate a centrist candidate such as Biden, Trump's fear of him will be justified when he loses re-election. Despite "Moody's" landslide prediction for re-election of Trump, the reality is Moody will be proven wrong just as it was in 2016 when it predicted a Clinton win...

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Most likely, the Senate will vote to acquit. Impeachment in the House is almost a certainty. Trump will lose the popular vote in 2020 by an even more historic amount than he did in 2016. He has a real chance of winning the electoral college again. All subject to change, of course, as facts on the ground evolve.

As far as impeachment goes, the lion's share of facts are in but they're becoming more public now that the hearings are taking place. If you're a Fox news viewer, you can forget about the facts unless Fox shows up at the hearings and televises them in real time and they don't always do so. Otherwise, you'll get the Fox news political commentators pounding in the Trump script and vice versa. 
As most of you should know, there was a recent shooting  this past week at Saugus high school and the latter is about 9 miles from my home and about 4 miles from my work. I could hear all of the sirens that morning and at first, I thought we had another fire in the area because the area has had its share of them. Then the horrible news followed by comments overheard from the residents. First, one Trump voter, and I'm paraphrasing of course: "Well what  are ya going to do? Check all the backpacks of every kid that goes to school?" Another resident: "If they can check your bags in an airport, then they can check at a school, too." That shut down the Trump voter who then switched back to the impeachment and commented that the "Dems" witnesses were asked by a Republican in the house what was impeachable in the transcript of the call released by the White House? Of course, we know from Vindmen that it wasn't a complete transcript and key words were missing but the Trump voter doesn't know it because he watches Fox news. Concurrent with that, a Democratic member of the house tried to get the bipartisan measure for background checks thru when a solo Republican senator nixed it because it didn't go thru her committee first. As a result, despite all of the hearings and bipartisan support of the measure, nothing has been done in congress. Prevention of foreign election interference with back-up paper ballots are needed? Blocked by Moscow Mitch. Ditto for health care legislation. 
And so it goes...