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mia

(8,358 posts)
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 04:49 PM Oct 2019

Trump's campaign manager calls impeachment inquiry a 'seditious conspiracy' as another witness testi

Source: Washington Post

President Trump’s reelection campaign manager Brad Parscale on Monday branded the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry a “seditious conspiracy” and called for the resignation of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as another witness testified behind closed doors.

Parscale's comments came as House investigators heard from Fiona Hill, the White House’s former top Russia adviser.

Earlier in the day, Trump renewed his call to unmask the whistleblower whose complaint sparked the impeachment inquiry, which is focused on Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his son at a time when U.S. military aid was being withheld from the country.

With Congress returning to Washington after a two-week recess, several other depositions are also planned, including that of Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, who is scheduled to appear Thursday under subpoena.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates/2019/10/14/b1ae2a70-ee08-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html

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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
13. and committing sedition while doing so
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 08:31 PM
Oct 2019


Sedition usually involves actually conspiring to disrupt the legal operation of the government.

Sounds that way to me...

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
3. William Shakespeare wrote about tRUMP's messaging/messengers in the play Macbeth.
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 04:57 PM
Oct 2019

The line is "It is a tale … full of sound and fury; signifying nothing", written in 1606 AD.

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
6. Does this moron even understand the words he is saying or is he just saying words?
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 05:10 PM
Oct 2019

conspiracy
[kənˈspɪrəsi]
NOUN
a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

There is no secret plan, it's quite open what the House is lawfully doing, they intend to indict (impeach) trump.


sedition
[sɪˈdɪʃən]
NOUN
conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.

The house is not rebelling, it's exercising it's co-equal authority as expressed and spelled out in the constitution.



SergeStorms

(19,148 posts)
7. Crocodile tears for Trump's chief propagandist.
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 05:23 PM
Oct 2019

It's really hard to finance and run a campaign when you're being impeached. Blah, blah, blah......... up yours, Brad.

lastlib

(23,140 posts)
8. One side's "Constitutional duty" is the other side's "treason".
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 05:30 PM
Oct 2019

For me, it's the former. Proceed with self-fornication, Parscale. With an old rusty, manure-encrusted, tetanus-infected pitchfork. Sideways. Then give your master a turn, too.

Grokenstein

(5,721 posts)
9. This was never going to end peacefully.
Mon Oct 14, 2019, 06:19 PM
Oct 2019

They're going to make certain of it.

All we can do is make them pay dearly for their obstinate self-destructive stupidity so that the ones who are left standing crawl back under their rocks and stay there for a while.

Mc Mike

(9,111 posts)
14. The guy from the mall? Hipster face hair? He's in charge of the executive branch's anti sedition
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 05:54 AM
Oct 2019

efforts?

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