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It's Been 3 Weeks! Nancy Pelosi Continues Withholding Articles Of Impeachment From Senate
The Federalist ^
| 01/08/2020
| Tristan Justice
Posted on 01/08/2020 9:22:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats behind closed doors Tuesday that the she would continue to hold the passed articles of impeachment back from the upper chamber until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered details on how a trial will be conducted.
Pelosis comments as reported by the Washington Post showcase the Democrats latest power grab to bend the impeachment proceedings in the Senate to their will demanding the testimony of new witnesses.
After the House passed two articles of impeachment, one for abuse of power and one for obstruction of Congress by an almost uniform partisan vote, Pelosi announced she would be withholding the articles from moving forward to the Senate.
Pelosis decision to bring a halt to the impeachment process comes as Democrats aim to amp up pressure on Republicans to conduct the trial in the Senate on the Democrats terms even after operating an unfair process rushed in the House.
The impeachment proceedings lodged against President Donald Trump were kicked off by an anonymous whistleblower complaint alleging Trump conspired with the Ukrainian president to interfere in the next U.S. presidential election. The complaint, marked credible and urgent by the intelligence community inspector general but not by the Department of National Intelligence sparked rampant speculation by impeachment-hungry Democrats and the mainstream media as a smoking gun to end the Trump presidency.
Soon after knowledge of the complaint surfaced in the media however, the White House declassified and released an unredacted transcript of the July 25 phone call in question under the complaint between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Democrats have tried incessantly to paint the call as damning evidence illustrating that Trump invited Ukraine to get involved in the next election by investigating the Biden family in exchange for nearly $400 million in military aid. The withheld aid was ultimately released without a Ukrainian investigation.
In reality, a true and honest reading of the transcript exposes an American president urging the Ukrainian leader to root out corruption in the eastern European nation and requesting that Zelensky investigate the origins of Ukraines peddling of the Russian collusion hoax in the United States.
In more than two months of rushed proceedings, Democrats failed to unearth evidence worth of a high crime and misdemeanor, that warrants the extreme measure of impeachment despite the entire process run in the lower chamber being slanted to disadvantage Republicans. To the contrary, the Democrats own witnesses exonerated Trump of any wrongdoing regarding Ukraine.
Democrats impeached the president anyway, and now Democrats are demanding the Senate call additional witnesses to prolong the process and find the incriminating evidence to oust Trump from the Oval Office. Incriminating evidence will be hard to find however, as the House hearings exposed to the public, there isnt any.
Pelosis present play to prohibit the process from moving onward has further undercut the entire premise of a rushed procedure in the House, which sought to remove the president from office as quick as possible citing Trumps hold on power as an urgent threat to the survival of the republic.
McConnell has made clear his desire for a fair and quick trial in the Senate and has pushed back on Democratic demands to call more witnesses to prolong a process that has been a sham from the start launched in a desperate effort to reverse the results of the 2016 election.
Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham proposed changing the Senate rules regarding impeachment altogether to remove Pelosi from the process and begin the trial proceedings without the House speakers approval.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, joined by a dozen Republican senators has proposed dismissing the impeachment trial altogether.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: couppeachment; impeachment; pelosi; senate
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To: SeekAndFind
House Democrats have overplayed their hand. The Turtle is going to do things his way, with or without their approval.
Checkmate.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:25:38 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: SeekAndFind
Oh, is that still going on?
To: circlecity
21 days and Nancy still hasnt been been able to get the Senate GOP to surrender. FAIL!
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:31:03 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: SeekAndFind
Is it not interesting that a women of such demonstrated lack of intellect can successfully lead one of our two dominant political parties?
Oh, forgot about the Hillabeast - an even more repulsive intellect-challenged idiotess.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:32:34 AM PST
by
Da Coyote
(is)
To: SeekAndFind
Those Impeachment articles are like a tomato sitting on the kitchen windowsill. The longer they sit there the more rotten and moldy they become.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:33:52 AM PST
by
McGavin999
(“Look into it” does not mean dig up dirt, it means find the truth)
To: SeekAndFind
This crazy broad thinks she runs the Senate.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:34:19 AM PST
by
dainbramaged
(Eenie meenie chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak!)
To: SeekAndFind
Click the Pic
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:35:55 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Da Coyote
What on Gods green earth led her to underestimate Mitch McConnell is something youd have to ask her.
Hes stiffed her and that wasnt in her calculations for sure.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:36:00 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: SeekAndFind
Hey, when you are Jihadist of the year 2019 you can do whatever you want.
shell cut your head off and you wont even know you are bleeding according to her dour spawn and the enmeshed propagandists. See how effortlessly and joyfully they work together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Th4a9QhGng
We the people...in order to form a more perfect union...have been overtaken.
Wheres Hunter, Joe? Opening up Santas presents? After all...it was Ukrainian Christmas yesterday.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:36:24 AM PST
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: Da Coyote
Corruption and extortion really dont require great intellect.
To: Da Coyote
It’s even scarier that she is third in line for the Presidency. Hmm, is that why she’s holding the articles? Trying to get two birds with one stone.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:38:19 AM PST
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
To: SeekAndFind
Like the Nobel Peace Prize, leftists have ruined any validity and meaning of the word “impeachment.”
From here on out impeachment will be considered a partisan, political joke and no one will take it seriously. Thank you Democrats.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:40:38 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: NTHockey
Pence is next, after Trump. Mark my words. Then Pelosi can be King.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:41:54 AM PST
by
dhs12345
To: NTHockey
The Senate will remove BOTH Trump and Pence? In her wet dreams.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:42:07 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: SeekAndFind
The turtle needs to show Pelosi his middle finger and explain:
“These are the details—any questions?”
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:49:05 AM PST
by
cgbg
(The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
To: cgbg
The Senate GOP unveiled its trial blueprint based on the 1999 Clinton model.
If Nancy doesnt like it, she can go fly a kite. What the Senate does is none of her business.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:52:25 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: SeekAndFind
House has no say over the Senate. None. Pelosi has dementia. She’s obviously confused and often slurs her words. As such she is a fitting leader for the baby-killers.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:52:44 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: goldstategop
House Dems are in no hurry to be the Senate’s punching bag.
...........
And the State of the Nation address is coming......Trump is coming......
To: SeekAndFind
Sorry Mrs. Pelousy, but your “Articles of Impeachment” window of opportunity has expired. If you wish, you can reapply in one calendar year, with an additional fee. However, you are not authorized to dictate any further orders to the Senate or any other governmental body or institution when your term as Speaker of the House expires later this year. Have a nice day.
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posted on
01/08/2020 9:54:31 AM PST
by
Richard Axtell
(I am at a loss, how much lower will they go before all hell breaks loose?)
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