Impeachment of Donald J. Trump

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The two are hardly the same. I am not clear that Trump flip-flopped on meeting Putin. I thought it was regarding what was said at the meeting.
No, you don’t understand.
Statement on May 27, 2014:
I own Miss Universe, I was in Russia, I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success.

Asked on October 6, 2015 if he had met Putin:
“Yes, a long time ago. We got along great, by the way.”

(We’ll leave out the time Donald Trump claimed to have met Putin in the “green room” when they were both on 60 Minutes, because he walked that back later and admitted that they had only both been featured on the same segment.)

Then after he is nominated, Donald Trump said this:
“But I have nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do, I never met Putin, I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever.”
Just taking that pageant to Moscow was reported at the time to be a $14 million dollar deal. This does not count all the real estate deals he made with Russians or the loans he got coming out of Russia. It doesn’t count efforts to get Trump hotels in Moscow or the vodka venture that failed. He has nothing to do with Russia? Sorry, but if that doesn’t move your “Is That Plausible?” meter, I don’t know if anything would.

Then after election Trump meets Putin and won’t allow notes to be kept on what was said? Didn’t allow anyone else but translators in the room? He says it is no one’s business what they’re discussing?

Yeah, that sounds like Trump can be trusted. Totally makes sense.
 
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Here’s the thing: I don’t believe anything Hillary or Bill Clinton say unless I verify it and parse it for how they’ve twisted something that has some facts in it so it gives an entirely different impression. I don’t trust them. Nothing anybody in politics says ought to be taken at face value with no scepticism or no expectation that anybody is manipulating what impression they’re making.

When it comes to Donald Trump, however, I am no longer surprised to find that he made stuff up out of whole cloth or that he’s claiming that the facts are totally different than what he claimed the facts were on a different occasion when he was talking to a different audience. It just keeps happening, to the point that I’m almost surprised when he says something that is the unvarnished truth. (It does happen.)

That is why the President’s testimony about himself means absolutely nothing to me. He has proven he’ll lie to people’s faces about things anybody with an internet connection can look up independently. I don’t think I have ever heard him admit an unflattering truth about himself, let alone apologize for saying something that wasn’t true.

Why would I assume he won’t lie on an occasion when I can’t know if he’s telling the truth or not? Of course I won’t. I can’t say he never tells the truth, but his testimony means nothing to me.
 
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Thought provoking article by Gary Kasparov.
“What do you expect? They’re all loyal Party men. They don’t worry about ‘facts’; they just do what they’re told.” — “Stalin’s Witnesses” by Julius Wachtel

But standing in the way of this scheme like a Tiananmen Square protester in front of a tank was Mitt Romney, who voted to convict the president for abuse of power. Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee for president lest we forget, struggled emotionally through his eloquent statement explaining his vote, calling it “the most difficult decision I have ever faced.”

In one brief listing of indisputable facts, Romney demolished Trump’s defense: “The president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival. The president withheld vital military funds from that government to press it to do so. The president delayed funds for an American ally at war with Russian invaders. The president’s purpose was personal and political. Accordingly, the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.”

It’s time to stop daydreaming about the GOP standing up to Trump. Romney stood, but he stood alone. The rest have become apparatchiks, eager to obey. Trump now feels unstoppable, and impunity is a very dangerous quality in an autocrat. Someone who feels invincible inevitably pushes too far, and he is never the only one harmed in the resulting catastrophe. The best way to survive nine more months of Trump is to work like hell to make sure it’s not four more years.
 
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