10/6/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….This makes Nervous Nancy every bit as guilty as Liddle’ Adam Schiff for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, and even Treason. I guess that means that they, along with all of those that evilly ‘Colluded’ with them, must all be immediately Impeached!”  -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 6, 2019 9:27 pm […]

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10/6/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Gerry Baker of @WSJatLarge ‘Do you think what you’ve seen rises to the level of impeachment?’ Ken Starr, Clinton Special Prosecutor. ‘I don’t!’”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 6, 2019 6:35 pm […]

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10/4/2019

FOREIGN POLICY/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “One person stands out in the flurry of impeachment-related texts cascading onto Washington this week: The guy who says what’s happening is ‘crazy’ and that he might have to quit. William Taylor, the veteran diplomat in charge of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, is being hailed within foreign policy circles as […]

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10/4/2019

CHINA/GOP/IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “Sen. Mitt Romney on Friday [10-4-19] denounced Donald Trump for calling on China and Ukraine to investigate 2020 political rival Joe Biden, saying the president’s request is ‘wrong and appalling.’ The Utah Republican’s statement marks the strongest condemnation of the president from any Republican senator. Most members of the GOP have […]

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10/4/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “House impeachment investigators widened the reach of their inquiry on Friday [10-4-19], subpoenaing the White House for a vast trove of documents and requesting more from Vice President Mike Pence to better understand President Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. The subpoena, addressed to Mick […]

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10/4/2019

DEMS/GOP/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “Republican leaders are struggling to settle on a clear message and effective strategy for responding to Democrats’ aggressive and fast-moving impeachment investigation of President Trump, thrown off by early stumbles and a chaotic White House that have upended efforts to set a steady tone. With Mr. Trump effectively functioning as a one-man […]

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10/3/2019

IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/UKRAINE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Last week the House of Representatives opened an inquiry into whether the President of the United States has committed impeachable offenses. Its investigation will focus on evidence that Donald Trump attempted to extort a foreign government — the Government of Ukraine — to manufacture charges against me, to go after my […]

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10/3/2019

CHINA/IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “President Donald Trump’s shocking request Thursday [10-3-19]  on the White House lawn that not only Ukraine, but also China, should investigate the Bidens, may have shown his open defiance of impeachment threats, but it also gave major air time to the innuendo the president and his allies have been trying to […]

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10/3/2019

CHINA/IMPEACHMENT/TRADE WAR/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump just tossed his most pressing economic issue into the morass of impeachment politics. Trump’s suggestion Thursday [10-3-19] that Beijing should investigate a political rival, moments after threatening America’s ‘tremendous power’ in the ongoing trade talks with China, exposes his long-running negotiations with the world’s No. 2 economy to […]

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10/3/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/MEDICARE/PHARMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump charged Thursday [10-3-19] without evidence that the pharmaceutical industry was behind House Democrats’ impeachment proceedings, suggesting it was payback for his administration’s effort to lower drug costs…The president was speaking at a Florida event to sign an executive order aimed at beefing up Medicare and its offshoot […]

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10/3/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘This is yet again an example of Democrats projecting THEIR criminal acts on President Trump. President Trump is an innocent man. It is a lawless coup attempt against a duly elected President.’ @replouiegohmert @BreitbartNews”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 3, 2019 3:44 pm […]

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10/3/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump was in trouble with women voters long before House Democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry against him last week. Since then, his standing has grown only worse. Nearly a half-dozen polls conducted since last Tuesday [10-1-19], when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi directed her colleagues to proceed […]

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10/2/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats moved on Wednesday [10-2-19] to compel the White House to cooperate in their impeachment inquiry, announcing plans to issue a subpoena by Friday [10-4-19] if it did not comply with requests for documents related to President Trump’s efforts to press Ukraine to investigate a leading political rival, and […]

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10/2/2019

CONGRESS/IMPEACHMENT/STATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The cryptically worded request marked urgent from the State Department’s independent watchdog set Congress on edge. The message, according to Steven A. Linick, the department’s inspector general, was that he needed to meet — and right away — with senior congressional staff members to give them copies of documents related to the […]

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10/2/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump was watching television in the White House on Wednesday [10-2-19] morning when cable news channels started airing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Adam B. Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, warning at a news conference that any attempts by the president to stonewall their impeachment investigation […]

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10/2/2019

IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nancy Pelosi just said that she is interested in lowering prescription drug prices & working on the desperately needed USMCA. She is incapable of working on either. It is just camouflage for trying to win an election through impeachment. The Do Nothing Democrats are stuck in mud!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October […]

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10/2/2019

DEMS/ECONOMY/ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “All of this impeachment nonsense, which is going nowhere, is driving the Stock Market, and your 401K’s, down. But that is exactly what the Democrats want to do. They are willing to hurt the Country, with only the 2020 Election in mind!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 2, 2019 10:19 am […]

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10/2/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “All the Do Nothing Democrats are focused on is Impeaching the President for having a very good conversation with the Ukrainian President. I knew that many people were listening, even have a transcript. They have been at this ‘stuff’ from the day I got elected. Bad for Country!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October […]

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10/1/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 1, 2019 6:41 pm […]

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10/1/2019

GOP/IMPEACHMENT/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WHISTLEBLOWER: “As President Donald Trump and his allies attack the whistleblower who kicked off the House’s impeachment inquiry, the unidentified person gained a powerful ally on Tuesday [10-1-19]: Chuck Grassley. The most senior GOP senator has fashioned a career on protecting whistleblowers during presidencies of both parties. And in the middle of one […]

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10/1/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “Donald Trump’s campaign aides expected months ago that Democrats would try to impeach the president — and he needed a way to exploit it. So this summer, Trump 2020 officials spliced news clips of Democrats discussing impeachment into a 90-second video montage, punctuated by the president imploring supporters to help him […]

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9/30/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID: ‘Rep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people. It bore NO relationship to what I said on the […]

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9/30/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “As Speaker Nancy Pelosi solemnly declared the opening of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump last week, and the steady stream of Democrats supporting it became something of a stampede, a small group of Democrats remained unconvinced. The cluster of skeptics, mostly moderate first-term lawmakers in conservative-leaning districts had dwindled to […]

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9/30/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/AUSTRALIA/IMPEACHMENT/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump pushed the Australian prime minister during a recent telephone call to help Attorney General William P. Barr gather information for a Justice Department inquiry that Mr. Trump hopes will discredit the Mueller investigation, according to two American officials with knowledge of the call. The White House curbed access to […]

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9/30/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘He misled (Rep. Adam Schiff) MILLIONS of people for the sake of making the case for impeachment. Completely fabricated account out of thin air!’ @MillerStream @BlazeTV https://t.co/ottBHQVffY” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 30, 2019 4:13 pm […]

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9/30/2019

2016 ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….they made this whole thing up. Impeachment is also a pre-emptive strike for what they think is coming on the Obama Administration’s handling of the 2016 Election.’ Jim McLaughlin, highly respected pollster. @WashTimes @FoxNews”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 30, 2019 8:50 am […]

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9/29/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/RELIGION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “….rid of Donald J. Trump – And the Democrats don’t care if they burn down and destroy this nation in the process. I have never seen the Evangelical Christians more angry over any issue than this attempt to illegitimately remove this President from office, overturn the 2016….”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 29, […]

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9/29/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats can’t put down the Impeachment match. They know they couldn’t beat him in 2016 against Hillary Clinton, and they’re increasingly aware of the fact that they won’t win against him in 2020, and Impeachment is the only tool they have to get….” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 29, […]

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9/29/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “….If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.’ Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 29, 2019 8:11 pm […]

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9/29/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘All that’s swirling around us now is Impeachment. We talk about it day and night, it’s what’s on the news, there is NOTHING that has turned up that is Impeachable. Our founding fathers set impeachment to be extremely rare. We need to get good stuff done. Let the people vote,….” –Donald Trump, […]

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9/28/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is disgraceful what the Do Nothing Democrats are doing (the Impeachment Scam), but it is also disgraceful what they are NOT doing, namely, the USMCA vote, Prescription Drug Price Reduction, Gun Safety, Infrastructure, and much more!” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 28, 2019 8:53 pm […]

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9/28/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How do you impeach a President who has created the greatest Economy in the history of our Country, entirely rebuilt our Military into the most powerful it has ever been, Cut Record Taxes & Regulations, fixed the VA & gotten Choice for our Vets (after 45 years), & so much more?…”  –Donald […]

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9/27/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “No one bothered to put special limits on the number of people allowed to sit in the ‘listening room’ in the White House to monitor the phone call because it was expected to be routine. By the time the call was over 30 minutes later, it quickly became clear that it was anything […]

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9/27/2019

ATTORNEY GENERAL/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday [9-27-19] said that Attorney General William P. Barr had ‘gone rogue,’ and questioned whether he could objectively make decisions about legal action in response to an explosive whistle-blower complaint accusing President Trump of misconduct, because Mr. Barr himself was mentioned in the document…Earlier Friday on […]

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9/27/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Democrats, moving quickly to escalate their impeachment inquiry into President Trump, subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday [9-27-19], demanding that he promptly produce a tranche of documents and a slate of witnesses that could shed light on the president’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to help tarnish […]

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9/27/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Friday [9-27-19] declared all-out Twitter war on Rep. Adam Schiff, the House Intelligence chairman who has emerged over the past week as a driving force of Democratic lawmakers’ newly announced impeachment inquiry. The president lashed out in a quartet of morning posts, incensed by the California […]

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9/27/2019

IMPEACHMENT/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For President Donald Trump, impeachment once seemed like a vacation compared to the never-ending, leak-filled Mueller investigation. The president for months genuinely believed he’d gain politically from an impeachment inquiry because he thought Democrats were out to get him on any issue they could, and such an inquiry would make that […]

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9/27/2019

IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The cascade of tweets began at 4:56 a.m. on May 1, starting with the president’s criticism of the nation’s largest firefighters union’s endorsement of Joe Biden. Over the next two hours, more than 60 retweets bashing Biden and the firefighters’ decision would follow from Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The burst of […]

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9/26/2019

IMPEACHMENT/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “‘In the course of my duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.’ Thus began an explosive criminal complaint drafted by an American intelligence […]

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9/26/2019

HILLARY CLINTON/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hillary Clinton is calling President Donald Trump a ‘clear and present danger’ to the U.S. amid the latest scandal engulfing his administration, and says that her defeat in the 2016 presidential election was like ‘losing to a corrupt human tornado.’ In an interview with Jane Pauley that will air this weekend […]

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9/26/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/UKRAINE: “Donald Trump has done it again: He’s dragged some of his closest aides and advisers into a scandal packed with potentially devastating personal consequences. That’s good news for white-collar lawyers who charge by the hour. But an investigation into allegations that Trump pressured his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Joe Biden and his son […]

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9/26/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “‘Is their a case for impeachment? Absolutely not!’ There is no high crimes or misdemeanors, no treason, no extortion, no treason.” RD Robert Ray, respected” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 26, 2019 8:19 am […]

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9/26/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s campaign is entering the darkest days of his presidency — as House Democrats begin a formal impeachment inquiry 13 months out from the 2020 election — with a singular strategy: convince voters the most powerful man in the world is now a powerless victim of partisan politics. With […]

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9/25/2019

IMPEACHMENT/MITCH MCCONNELL/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the face of an earthshaking political storm, Mitch McConnell seems unmoved. The Senate majority leader has kept a sphinxlike pose during all manner of President Donald Trump controversies. But with an impeachment cloud settling over Washington, McConnell is revealing even less than usual. The GOP leader is saying very little […]

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9/25/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE/WHISTLEBLOWER: “House Democrats rushed on Wednesday [9-25-19] to plot the course of their formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, getting their first glimpses of the secret intelligence whistle-blower complaint that touched off the investigation that could lead to his removal But even as they obtained crucial details about allegations that Mr. […]

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9/25/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “‘The Democrats have been talking about Impeaching Donald Trump since before he was inaugurated.’ @SteveDoocy @foxandfriends And for no reason other than the great success we are having with the Economy, the Military, Vets, Tax and Regulation Cuts, HealthCare, and so much more!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2019 8:11 am […]

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9/25/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump just got the impeachment battle he says he’s been itching for. Now he’ll need some new lawyers, a new legal strategy and new safeguards around him to survive a fight that could evolve in unpredictable ways. Democrats’ leap into a formal impeachment inquiry on Tuesday [9-24-19] will trigger […]

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9/24/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday [9-24-19] reacted with fury to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry, firing off a burst of tweets accusing the speaker of detracting from his keynote address at the United Nations General Assembly with ‘Witch Hunt garbage’…In five minutes of remarks, […]

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9/24/2019

IMPEACHMENT/JOE BIDEN/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “Joe Biden on Tuesday [9-24-19] said Congress has ‘no choice but to initiate impeachment’ if President Donald Trump keeps stonewalling investigations, including into Ukraine…Biden, speaking in Delaware, said if the allegations now facing Trump are true, it is an abuse of power, it undermines national security and violates Trump’s oath […]

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9/24/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “Rep. Adam Schiff has assumed control of what appears to be the single most consequential scandal facing Donald Trump’s presidency — and, for the moment, is driving a narrative that could lead to Trump’s impeachment. It was Schiff’s late Friday [9-20-19] news release earlier this month that first revealed a whistleblower had […]

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9/24/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday [9-24-19] that the House would launch a formal impeachment inquiry in response to the dispute over Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The rising furor has heightened interest in how the […]

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9/24/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “For months, dozens of House Democrats anxiously avoided even the mention of impeaching President Trump — right up until the moment that they demanded it. The sudden embrace of an impeachment inquiry by previously reluctant House Democrats — most notably Speaker Nancy Pelosi — is attributable to one fundamental fact: […]

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9/24/2019

IMPEACHMENT/NANCY PELOSI/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday [9-24-19] that the House would initiate a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump, charging him with betraying his oath of office and the nation’s security by seeking to enlist a foreign power to tarnish a rival for his own political gain. Ms. Pelosi’s declaration, […]

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9/17/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “It was meant to be the moment when Democrats started to knit a narrative of presidential malfeasance that many of them hope will trigger impeachment. But it turned into an iconic Trump-era spectacle that served instead to show how the White House and its acolytes have made a mockery of the […]

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9/13/2019

ECONOMY/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “How do you impeach a President who has helped create perhaps the greatest economy in the history of our Country? All time best unemployment numbers, especially for Blacks, Hispanics, Asians & Women. More people working today than ever before. Rebuilt Military & Choice for Vets…” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 13, 2019 7:58 […]

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9/13/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “An impeachment investigation to potentially try to remove the president of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors would seem to be fairly clear-cut. But as the House Judiciary Committee pushed ahead this week with a wide-ranging investigation it said was designed to determine whether to recommend impeaching President Trump, Democrats […]

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9/12/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to intensify its investigation of Republican President Donald Trump on Thursday [9-12-19], as lawmakers edged closer to deciding whether to recommend his impeachment. The 41-member panel adopted a resolution allowing it to designate hearings as impeachment proceedings, subject witnesses to more […]

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9/11/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “From his office on the first floor of the Capitol on Wednesday [9-11-19], the second-ranking House Democrat, Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, was unequivocal: An impeachment investigation of President Trump is not underway. Over in the Rayburn Building, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York, […]

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9/8/2019

CELEBS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…..the importance or passage of Criminal Justice Reform. They only talk about the minor players, or people that had nothing to do with it…And the people that so desperately sought my help when everyone else had failed, all they talk about now is Impeaching President Trump!”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 8, 2019 […]

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8/9/2019

CHINA/IMF/STEVE MNUCHIN/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The International Monetary Fund on Friday [8-9-19] provided little or no support for President Donald Trump’s assertion that China is manipulating its currency for an unfair trade advantage. In an annual review of China’s economic policies, the IMF said Beijing actually took steps last year to prop up the value […]

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8/7/2019

HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The House Judiciary Committee sued on Wednesday [8-7-19] to force the former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II to testify before Congress, asking a federal judge to strike down the Trump administration’s claim that top presidential aides are ‘absolutely immune’ from its subpoenas. In a filing in the […]

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8/2/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF PRES/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A majority of House Democrats are now on record publicly supporting an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to a CNN count — a sign of momentum for pro-impeachment lawmakers that is likely to ramp up pressure on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders. The current number […]

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8/1/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Monday [7-29-19], it was a soft-spoken senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri. On Tuesday, the careful chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot L. Engel of New York, threw in his support. So did Jennifer Wexton and Jason Crow, two freshmen who […]

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7/26/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Judiciary Committee on Friday [7-26-19] is moving to obtain the secret grand jury material from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in federal court, arguing they need the information in order to decide whether to impeach President Donald Trump. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday, escalates the investigation […]

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7/26/2019

DEMS/IMPEACHMENT/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The House Judiciary Committee on Friday [7-26-19] asked a federal judge to unseal grand jury secrets related to Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, using the court filing to declare that lawmakers have already in effect launched an impeachment investigation of President Trump. In a legal maneuver that carries significant political overtones, […]

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7/25/2019

BUDGET/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a 72-hour stretch this week, President Donald Trump went a long way toward putting two looming threats to his bid to retain power to rest. The first, impeachment, took a blow on Wednesday [7-24-19] when former special counsel Robert Mueller delivered muted and sometimes shaky testimony before two House panels — […]

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7/25/2019

IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…impeachment, you have a Party of one. It’s over.’ @kilmeade ‘Nancy said, Jerry, please sit down. Very bad idea. We discovered that after putting so much time & energy into the Mueller Report, it turns out Mueller didn’t know what was in his Report.’ @SteveDoocy @foxandfriends”  –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 25, 2019 […]

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7/25/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump was probably never going to be impeached by the House of Representatives before the 2020 elections. The testimony by Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, makes that a near certainty. The absence of an electrifying Washington moment in Wednesday’s [7-24-19] two-stage testimony by Mr. Mueller not only deprived […]

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7/23/2019

DEMS/ELECTION/HOUSE OF REPS/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has done everything short of publicly calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment since Democrats unleashed their oversight arsenal on the president earlier this year. But Lindsey Boylan, a former New York state official who’s giving the liberal stalwart from Manhattan’s West Side […]

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