Posted on 10/03/2019 8:00:30 PM PDT by Helicondelta
The White House is planning to send Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter as soon as Friday arguing that President Trump and his team can ignore lawmakers' demands until she holds a full House vote formally approving an impeachment inquiry, 2 sources familiar with the letter tell Axios.
Why it matters:
By putting in writing the case that Trump and his supporters have been making verbally for days, the White House is preparing for a court fight and arguing to the public that its resistance to Congress' requests is justified.
Trump wants to force House Democrats in vulnerable races to be on the record if they favor pursuing impeachment, these sources tell us.
Republicans also say the minority party can exert more influence over hearings and other aspects of an inquiry once it is formalized with a vote.
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
This is outrageous! How dare Trump fight back! /s
“Please don’t throw me in that Briar patch”.
Democrats held a vote in the House to impeach President Trump just a few months ago. It failed miserably. Pelosi knows that this impeachment talk is only increasing Trumps popularity numbers and adding millions and millions of dollars in campaign contributions for President Trump.
“I can’t spare this man. He fights.”
The Dem’s plan is to whistle-blow Trump out of office
“two sources familiar with the letter”— again people close to him doing what traitors and leakers do...
Clearly this is obstruction
Axios is a collection of idiots.
That said, Trump has to be acreful here as some demands of the house must be met.
“some demands of the house must be met”
Why? If Trump cooperates do you think the house will say he’s not guilty?
No, President Trump is legally 100% correct here.
You either start impeachment proceedings with a House Roll Call vote or you don’t.
There’s no in-between. If you don’t, you can’t demand or subpoena anything.
Everyone needs to understand the law. Otherwise, you fall for the dog and pony show signifying nothing.
Don’t do that.
Enjoy the Trump presidency while you can folks. Because there'll never be another Republican President who'll fight the Dems.
You counting Don Jr. Out before he even has a chance?
“Trump wants to force House Democrats in vulnerable races to be on the record if they favor pursuing impeachment, these sources tell us.”
Superb idea Mr. President. Let the Rat politicians show the people which side they’re on and then let the people vote accordingly.
Nope, lots of ‘inbetweens’ here.
The House has much authority outside of impeachment to request info from the Administration.
Trump has to respect that, in those cases,.
Paul Sperry is reporting the “whistleblower” actually worked in the Ukraine for Barry in 2016 digging up dirt on Trump.
https://twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1179962400554008576?s=21
Livermore, CA Mayor Explains Trump's Popularity
excerpt:
My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.” Here’s my answer: We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency.
We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain?
We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same. This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.
I don’t find anything “dignified,” “collegial” or “proper” about Barack Obama’s lying about what went down on the streets of Ferguson in order to ramp up racial hatreds because racial hatreds serve the Democratic Party.
I don’t see anything “dignified” in lying about the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi and imprisoning an innocent filmmaker to cover your tracks.
The Left has been engaged in a war against America since the rise of the Children of the ‘60's. To them, it has been an all-out war where nothing is held sacred and nothing is seen as beyond the pale.. It has been a war they’ve fought with violence, the threat of violence, demagoguery and lies from day one – the violent take-over of the universities – till today.
The problem is that, through these years, the Left has been the only side fighting this war. While the Left has been taking a knife to anyone who stands in their way, the Right has continued to act with dignity, collegiality and propriety.
With Donald Trump, this all has come to an end. Donald Trump is America ’s first wartime president in the Culture War.
(more at link)
Exactly...Insert “spies” for “sources.”
Where is the vote Dictator Pelosi
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