Posted on 01/18/2019 6:34:25 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Former Attorney General Eric Holder called for impeachment proceedings to begin if a report from Buzzfeed News saying President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign are true.
“If true - and proof must be examined - Congress must begin impeachment proceedings,” Holder tweeted Friday.
“[William] Barr must refer, at a minimum, the relevant portions of material discovered by Mueller. This is a potential inflection point,” he added, referring to Trump’s nominee for attorney general.
Holder, who is reportedly considering a 2020 presidential run, has cast himself as a staunch opponent of Trump’s, particularly over the White House’s sprawling legal entanglements.
The BuzzFeed News report says that Trump met with Cohen, his former attorney and fixer, at least 10 times to discuss the tower while maintaining to the public that he had no business ties in Russia. Two law enforcement officials told Buzzfeed News that the president backed a plan for him to visit Russia and meet with President Vladimir Putin to begin negotiating the project’s construction.
“Make it happen,” the report says Trump told Cohen around the time.
Cohen admitted in November to lying to Congress about Trump’s Moscow property plans. He made the false statements while testifying before two congressional intelligence committees in 2017.
He reportedly told special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016 and obstruction of justice, of the pressure to lie.
The report was met with swift reaction from a number of Democrats who demanded answers, with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) saying, “We will do what’s necessary to find out if it’s true.”
Cohen was sentenced in December to three years in prison on multiple charges, including lying to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project.
Go ahead and try it.
I’m with you fellers. (In my best Delmar voice from Oh Brother Where Art Thou)
Gopher Everett?
That is a very big ‘if’ and if all they have to support the claim is the word of a known liar like Cohen then bring it on. They will be laughed out of court.
A lie about a private business deal is about as risible as a lie about sex.
And for little Eric’s edification, it was a private matter.
Trump wasn’t President at the time and if didn’t involve abuse of presidential power or misappropriation of taxpayer money.
So Cohen lied about it. So what, even if its true?
Their tongues should be removed.
It is being reported that the Buzzfeed reporter that broke this “story” admitted on CNN that they had no evidence and had seen no evidence.
I smell some Schiff...
Does 2% of The population believe this crao?
This is slash and burn politics.
And that's why I believe this is more than just TDS.
Democrats are obsessive about impeaching Trump, and will stop short of nothing to get that done. It's just the way they operate.
Hell, even Nixon was unjustly (and quite successfully) railroaded.
That’s my thinking too. They need to get moving on impeachment before the Ginsburg vacancy.
Their strategy is transparent. It won’t work.
Does 2% of The population believe this CRAP?
Be prepared. If the Left attempts a coup, they must be stopped by any means necessary.
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I’m to the point where I want the Dems to go here. Let’s get this over with. They want trump out and yes, it’s a coup. Normal citizens need to step up, and I’m not talking about some useless protest. If the left gets away with bouncing trump out of office and nothing happens to them then what’s the point of this website? What’s the point of the rule of law? What’s the point of pretending our constitution means jack shit?
OK, so you hire an attorney in order to protect yourself legally, but then you go and not just “instruct” your attorney to act illegally thereby incriminating yourself, but you allow a record of this illegality. And, furthermore, the attorney you hire is not a very good one at all, who just goes and breaks the law despite his presumed training, violates attorney-client privilege and attempts to incriminate his own client to whom he was providing legal guidance.
Does this make sense to anyone who is not a Democrat?
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/eric-holder-repeatedly-lied-to-congress/
“Holder: If Trump directed Cohen to lie, impeachment proceedings ‘must begin’..”
How about your career of lies on behalf of Obama...like Fast and Furious for openers? FU.
Right out the censored maggot who lied and demanded others lie regarding Obama collusion with Iran, Cuba etc. How fitting.
Frankly I cannot wait for democrats to try and impeach. I want to see that circus.
Holder has no authority to call for anything.
Ah shut up Holder ye stink nose racist. You are not going to get rid of our POTUS. Getting rid of your criminal big bossy azz mouth is another thing.
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