Posted on 12/17/2018 5:11:53 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Put this into the category of delusional thinking...
CNBC chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood with a well-known antipathy towards Republicans and President Donald Trump stated on Sunday on the MSNBC Weekends with Alex Witt that via what he claims he was told by a No Labels founder that it is possible that the Senate could convict Trump on impeachment charges. That would mean that even if every Democrat voted to convict, they would still need 20 Republicans to vote that way for the requisite two-thirds of the Senate.
Mark that up to a personal fantasy of Harwood especially considering and it is hard to imagine at worst arcane civil FEC violations not being laughed out of the Senate chamber as a reason to remove the President:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Any Republican senator outside a Blue State (and there aren’t many in Blue States) could forget about reelection because the base of the Party would be as furious as I am at things like the Senate “Intelligence” Committee which supposedly has a “Republican” Chairman named Richard Burr who looks, talks and acts like the Democrat Mark Warner.
“Mr. Warner in Dick Burr’s shoes, wearin’ his disguise”.
Trump is not going to be removed from office over this nonsense... and the Democrats are going to face a slaughter in 2020 if they are adamant about going forward with it.
Exactly. If any one of those bastards voted to convict, I'd donate to their opposition when they run for reelection. I don't care if their opposition is a AOC look-alike.
This is the same fool who malmoderated Pubbie presidential debates.
EXCERPT-—Cohen was charged with violating FEC laws. which limit individual donations to $2,700 per election. Why are the hush money payments Cohen arranged considered illegal campaign contributions? Because he admitted that the payments were intended to protect Trump’s election chances, the $150,000 given to former Playboy model Karen McDougal in the summer and early fall of 2016 and the $130,000 that went to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in late October 2016 are deemed to be in-kind contributions to the Trump campaign. They exceed the donation limits, a violation, and neither was included in campaign finance reports, another violation.
SOURCE—— By Bill Theobald, USA TODAY, Dec 14, 1918 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-hush-money-michael-cohen-paid-stormy-daniels-was-an-illegal-campaign-donation/ar-BBQWBNp
BACKSTORY -— when the sitting president, Bill Clinton, was mired in the lewinsky sex mess,
he and his wife liberally used tax dollars to protect his (and her) election chances.
ITEM----Bill’s intimate pal, Vernon Jordan, arranged a $40,000-per-year cushy government job for Lewinsky shortly after she signed ......but before she filed...... a falsified affidavit saying she had NOT had sex with the president.
ITEM----Clinton then had another pal, his Ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, personally visit Lewinsky at the Watergate to offer her a government job to shut her up.
They even went so far as to have Lewinsky give Linda Tripp instructions
coaching Linda on how to properly perjure herself in the Willey matter to save Clinton’s presidency....
and Hillary’s ambitions. tax-paid govt workers including then-Clinton aide George Stephanopolous....now at ABC-TV.
The tax-paid office operated for eight long years.....and did nothing but shoot down, demean, defame and
lacerate any woman who dared surface about Bill’s sexual activities.
These expenditures of tax dollars saved Bill’s presidency, got Hillary elected to the US Senate...... and gave Hillary prominence to launch the rest of her political ambitions.
The FEC uttered not a word.
In what fantasy world?
If they try, IMHO it will guarantee a Trump victory in 2020.
This is a story as old as mankind. Or not so kind! Leaders arguing and posturing for positions they don’t deserve, more worried about keeping their base, their supporters, their POWER...
when they SHOULD be working for the greater good of all the people who put them into power/office! Paul warned about posturing, lying, attacking the good leader who is trying to make things great.
We had a very similar story like this in church yesterday, straight from the pages of The Bible.
John Edwards paid off a mistress, too.
If the payments could also be used for another purpose, then there would be no violation of campaign laws. Trump could argue that the payments were meant, in large measure, to avoid embarrassment to this wife and family. Cohen, (an admitted liar) can say what he wants, but that doesn't alter these side purposes one bit.
Possibly quite literally. People of reason are getting tired of this nonsense.
Excellent point.
[Any Republican senator outside a Blue State (and there aren’t many in Blue States) could forget about reelection]
I have no doubt that the Senate would vote to remove him form Office. Past performances have shown that anytime the Democrats in the Senate need votes to pass something that they really want, enough Republicans will come forward to make it happen. The Democrats are well aware of this. And the Republicans hate President Trump far more than the Democrats do. The guy did not have to look in a crystal ball to come up with that. All he had to do was look around him.
Like they did in the mid terms?
You would think so, but the reality is that the President is not truly a Republican in the GOPe sense. I am sure we could come up with a list of 20 Republican senators who dislike Trump enough to vote for conviction. Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real thing among members of both political parties
Don’t laugh my friends. It’s the back room discussions. I’d bug all the rooms if I were Trump. Our problem is Republicans. I’d disclose the FBI info on all that double crossed me.
And John Edwards used campaign donations to do it...
This whole thing is a non starter... but the dems have to placate their radical base... so if they got a parking ticket on Trump they would impeach over that.
Not going to happen.. whether they like Trump or not, they know its political suicide...
They don’t want to be the next Corker of Flake... not going to find 20 Republican Senators who are going to end their career over this nonsense,
Dems won’t even get 100% of the Dem Senators to vote for it.
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