Posted on 11/15/2019 4:34:53 AM PST by Textide
Live thread for today's round of the House Impeachment Hearing starring Marie "happy face" Yovanovitch.
Link to Nov 13th thread on FR.
No, but the fake media is teeing up for the tears caused by mean old Republicans. You knew immediately, this morning when the warning was thrown out about tears.
“His own mouth will be his undoing.”
How many times has this been said and then proven wrong?
His mouth is the reason for his success. His words are designed to provoke the Left into doubling down on bad strategies. Using this technique, he has framed the debate on countless issues with the result that the Democrats publicly strike an unpopular political position, leaving the President with the popular one.
An example:
1) By saying “outrageous” things about the rapists and murderers flooding across the border, candidate Trump seemingly left himself wide open to the accusation that he is a racist and a xenophobe, and that he believes brown people are rapists and murderers. A lot of people here expressed the “concern” then, that his mouth would be his undoing.
What really happened? The Democrats, who had in the past taken reasonable positions on border security in defense of American union workers, and against wealthy corporations exploiting cheap labor, suddenly shifted gears and adopted extreme open borders positions, because they thought by doing so they could hang Trump out to dry for racism and xenophobia. They were eager to take the opposite position of whatever he said, in order to differentiate themselves and signal their virtue and demonstrate their non-racism.
Trump knew they would react this way and purposely tweeted to trigger this reaction - with the result that now they have to run their campaigns on an extreme open borders platform which is very unpopular with the American people. Meanwhile, Trump gets to run on the populist side of the issue, and gets to peel off union workers, anti corporation liberals and other demographics who typically voted with the Democrats.
He has used the same strategy with China trade, America First, bringing troops home, gun control, religious freedom, tax policy - you name it. He strikes a smart political position - but in a provocative and politically incorrect way - causing the Democrats to scurry to take the opposite position to prove him wrong. If he wants to bring troops home, they say we shouldn’t! If he says America First, they say America last! He has cultivated this polarized relationship on purpose to bait them into political traps.
And it always starts with him “mouthing off” in tweets - and there are always people on FR saying it will be his undoing.
LOL
Like we want to keep women, barefeet, pregnant and in the kitchen.
Even Trump isn’t THAT sexist!!!
Bret Baier
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That was a turning point in this hearing so far. She was already a sympathetic witness & the President’s tweet ripping her allowed Schiff to point it out real time characterizing it as witness tampering or intimidation -adding an article of impeachment real-time.Bret Baier added,
John Roberts
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Wow....this is really unprecedented. @realDonaldTrump and Amb Yovanovitch are talking to each other in real time through @Twitter and Television... Something I never thought I would ever see.
7:34 AM - 15 Nov 2019
Witness intimidation is when a threat is made. If anything, this was witness criticism, and not even close to as severe as the criticism she will receive in the hearing.
That is the choice of the incoming President. Unless directed otherwise, career personnel submit their resignations. I have seen it done that way as well.
As she is just walking back in now ...
Oh isn’t he just sooo precious!
We women are just too fragile to handle answering tough questions!
It is not intimidation. It is confrontation. The President has the legal right to confront hostile witnesses.
Pelosi keeps on yapping that no one is above the Law.
Dipstick doesn’t know the corollary:
No man is beneath the Law.
Dear FNC: I never thought I’d ever see my own government engaged in a seditious plot to remove a sitting president.
The United States ambassador to a war-torn country might cry when being questioned by Congress?
That's enough reason to disqualify her right there. How can she stand up to America's competitors if she can't stand up to Congress?
-PJ
Aaaaand.....we’re back.
Republican questioning beginning.
They certainly paint these Dem female witnesses as weak, weeping witches.
Trump baited the Democrats today into impeaching him for the crime of ridiculing an ex-ambassador.
He has them right where he wants them. They’re trapped, not him.
Agree 100%
Agree with Ari too.
Seems more appropriate setting for human resources.
LOL!
I’m glad Nunes isn’t going to question her much.
Schiff is trying to stop Stefanik from questioning LOL!
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