Posted on 01/26/2020 9:27:13 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the Democratic lawmaker leading the impeachment case against him, Representative Adam Schiff, has “not paid the price, yet” for his actions, a statement Schiff said he viewed as a threat.
The vitriol from Trump against Schiff and other Democrats followed three days of their arguments in his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate on charges he abused the power of his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political rival, and then tried to obstruct an investigation by Congress.
“Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!” Trump said on Twitter.
Asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if he took the Republican president’s social media post as a threat, Schiff said, “I think it’s intended to be.”
Schiff said on NBC he was making the argument “that it’s going to require moral courage to stand up to this president.”
“This is a wrathful and vindictive president,” he said. “I don’t think that there’s any doubt about it and if you think there is, look at the president’s tweets about me today, saying that I should pay a price.”
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Censure requires a simple majority.
So if censure requires a simple majority, the Senate should absolutely do it—for the record, for history, for the American people whose votes Schitt is trying to throw away.
Maybe Trump was just tweeting a parody.
“This baloney impeachment was conducted by the Democrats to provide a smokescreen to delay or prevent the prosecution of Democrat leaders for the crimes they have committed.”
That is it....you won the entire Internet.
“This would need to happen, but judging how weak the pubbies are when they are in control of house, senate and presidency, “
You can come out of your cave, now.
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