Trump blows up effort to blunt impeachment damage

Trump blows up effort to blunt impeachment damage
The White House's release of Trump's first Ukraine call runs into the president's own tweets.
The White House on Friday set out to cast President Donald Trump as above the fray of the impeachment proceedings on the second day of televised hearings.
By 11 a.m., that effort had run into Trump's Twitter feed.

Shady actors the world over have learned how little it takes to remove a U.S. ambassador who does not give them what they want. - Marie Yovanovitch

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Staffer Claims To Have Heard 2nd Call About Ukrainian ‘Investigations’
• White House budget official is prepared to testify on frozen Ukraine aid
• Trump shows GOP senators summary of his first call with Ukraine president
• Lindsey Graham Blocks Senate Resolution Condemning Armenian Genocide
• International students urged to leave Hong Kong as escalating violence pushes city to "edge of doom"

Remarkable:  the day Yovanovitch was recalled for false allegations by Giuliani spread by Fox News and Donald Jr, she was attending an event honoring a woman who had acid thrown at her and later died for outing corruption in Ukraine. - Amy Siskind

Richard Nixon Is Finally Going To Prison
Jurors have reached a verdict in the trial of Roger Stone, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump who was charged with lying to Congress and witness tampering.
The verdict came Friday, two hours after the jury began its second day of deliberations.

Do you think Roger will get a Trump tattoo in prison???? - irishrygirl

Republican Shenanigans

• McCarthy: My views on impeaching Trump won't change even if top diplomat's testimony is confirmed 
• Chris Wallace on Yovanovitch testimony: "If you're not moved, you don't have a pulse."
• Bret Baier says Trump tweet added an article of impeachment in real time
• Trump says impeachment is ‘very hard on my family’
• Donald Trump Jr. may have bulk-purchased his own book to juice sales 
• DOJ investigating GOP Rep. Ross Spano over alleged campaign-finance violations
• Judge slams feds over murky stance on McCabe
• Matt Bevin concedes Kentucky governor's race

recap—
Cohen: 3 yrs in prison
Manafort: 4 yrs in prison
Stone: GUILTY AS F*CK
Flynn: awaiting sentencing
Rudy's partners: arrested
Individual-1: getting his dipsh*t ass impeached

Hillary: enjoying a nice walk in the woods, probably

me: laughing at all you "lock her up" morons - Jeff Tiedrich

Rudy Has Under the Bus Insurance
President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says in a new interview that he isn't worried about the prospect of the president turning on him, but joked that he has "very good insurance" in the event that he does. 

If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
If you lie down with Donald Trump, you get up with jail time. - Middle Age Riot

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Well. I think we can all agree that that the one reason Donald Trump is not currently in prison is that he's  the president of the United States. - LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Schiff accuses Trump of 'witness intimidation' for tweet attack on Yovanovitch
• House passes Ex-Im Bank reboot bill opposed by White House, McConnell
• Harris introduces bill to prevent California wildfires

Witness intimidation is a crime, no matter who does it. Full stop. - Hillary Clinton

America is not only the America of Donald Trump. It’s also the America of Maria Yavonovitch. - Dan Rather

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FUN FACT: With a simple majority vote, the Senate could decide to make the vote on convicting Trump and removing  him from office a SECRET ballot. - Jon Cooper

Business/Tech News

• NBC analysis: Day one impeachment testimony lacked ‘pizzazz.’ Social media: What?
• Hulu is raising price of its live TV service to $55 a month
• Alibaba Launches Mega Share Sale With $12 Billion Retail Tag
• Hong Kong in first recession for a decade amid protests

After today, can we put a moratorium on the use of the word pizzazz and start using razzle dazzle ? - Roland Scahill

Another Reason For Trump To Hate Bezos
The Washington Post reported Bezos may be interested in purchasing the Seattle Seahawks. According to Forbes, the Seahawks are valued at $2.7 billion, the 15th most valuable team in the NFL.

Roger Stone in happier times

Weird how a story about Hillary Clinton keeping emails in a different server never lacked pizzazz. - Jake Mccoby

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Odd News

• Florida man wears 'f--- the police' shirt to court — and wins the case
• Indiana Supreme Court suspends 3 judges over late-night brawl
• Hawaii man proposes to girlfriend while surfing
• Our galaxy spat out a star so fast that it’s never coming back
• Pop-up Hotella Nutella offers a hazelnut-themed experience

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Artists gotta art.

Peace.

New revelations from first public hearings paint damning portrait of Trump

New revelations from first public hearings paint damning portrait of Trump
Dramatic new disclosures on Day 1 of the House impeachment hearings painted an incriminating picture of Donald Trump as a President instinctively willing to sacrifice America's interests for his own.
In the most critical step so far in the investigation into Trump's alleged scheme to coerce Ukraine's help for his reelection campaign, Democrats posed a question to every US citizen at the core of this dark national chapter.

Jim Jordan is pretending that the impeachment witnesses are Ohio State wrestlers and he’s an assistant coach. - Full Frontal

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• The Trump Administration Detained a Record 69,550 Migrant Children This Year
• Grand Rapids to pay $190K to Latino US citizen wrongfully detained by ICE
• Italian ship attacked by pirates in Mexico, two crew hurt
• North Korea says US offered to resume nuclear talks in December
• Trump hosts Turkish President Erdogan at White House despite criticism on Syria

Stephen Miller is proof that only in America could a young Jewish boy grow up to be a Nazi. - John Fugelsang

The Effects Of GW Bush Normalizing Torture
The new movie The Report — which comes out Friday and tells the true story of a U.S. Senate staffer who doggedly investigated the CIA's use of torture after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — is a look back on a controversial part of our country's past. But the CIA's torture program continues to have huge implications at the U.S. military court and prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where 40 accused terrorists are still being held.

Trump’s former physician might run for Congress. He’s the guy who withdrew as nominee for VA secretary over allegations he was abusive at work, overprescribed drugs, and had substance issues. Hell, with a resume like that, why not go right for president?? - Bette Midler

Hey, There's Another Impeachment Involving a Trump!
University of Florida’s student president is facing impeachment after using $50,000 in mandatory student tuition fees to pay for a campus visit from Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend, senior Trump campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle.

Donald Trump Jr. always looks to me like a guy who’s ready to slink up to some woman minding her own business at a bar and say, “Hey honey, buy you a drink?” - Stephen King

Republican Shenanigans

• Nixon WH Lawyer John Dean: First Day of Trump Hearings Yielded More Damning Testimony Than All of Watergate
• Devin Nunes Decries Impeachment Hearing as 'Carefully Orchestrated Media Smear Campaign'
• 'Truth matters': Prosecutors urge jury to convict Roger Stone
• Manafort sought to hurt Clinton 2016 campaign efforts in key states
• Trump is reportedly mulling firing intelligence community inspector general
• Ex-GOP congressman says Trump's "increasingly erratic behavior" has lost Republicans the suburbs
• Fox News regular tells Lou Dobbs that George Soros controls a large part of the State Department and activities of FBI agents
• Kellyanne Conway after CNN plays George Conway remarks: 'I'm embarrassed for you'
• Sessions vows to 'work for' Trump endorsement

The American people deserve to know what Donald Trump is hiding in his tax returns. - Joe Biden

Hark, A New Immigration Whistleblower!
A new anonymous whistleblower has accused the Trump administration of requiring U.S. asylum officers to enforce an illegal and immoral policy “clearly designed to further this administration's racist agenda of keeping Hispanic and Latino populations from entering the United States.”

Breaking with White House tradition, this year on Thanksgiving Trump will pardon a turkey only after it gives him dirt on Joe Biden. - OhNoSheTwint

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Rock The Voter News

• Impeachment hearing breaks into laughter after Democrat invites Trump to testify
• Democrats call for Stephen Miller to resign after leak of xenophobic emails
• Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick joins Democratic presidential race
• Hillary Clinton warns of threats against female politicians
• Jimmy Carter 'up and walking' after brain surgery

I’m fully expecting Fox News to air highlights from the Clinton impeachment hearings all day instead of covering Trumps - Roland Scahill

Vetting Isn't a Priority at the White House, Apparently
A senior Trump administration official has embellished her résumé with misleading claims about her professional background — even creating a fake Time magazine cover with her face on it — raising questions about her qualifications to hold a top position at the State Department.

Impeachment is way more democratic than the Electoral College. - David Frum

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Business/Tech News

• Trump has made this false claim about China and tariffs at least 100 times
• Chinese national pleads guilty in U.S. court to stealing Phillips 66 trade secrets
• Court rules against warrantless searches of phones, laptops
• Alcohol industry races to save tax break by year-end deadline
• Nothing says Christmas like $30 Trump Pence wrapping paper and $60 ‘Keep America Great’ ornaments

In 1996 Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes created a television channel whose sole goal was to manipulate and frighten millions of gullible Americans with right wing propaganda. 

They succeeded. - Andy Lassner

How To Dig Yourself Deeper Into the Hole
In its effort to sell off the lease to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, the Trump Organization has put together a glossy investor brochure complete with pictures showcasing the hotel's grandiose architecture, its central location and its spa's Himalayan salt chamber.
The hotel's biggest selling point though, according to a copy of the brochure seen by CNN, is the one thing that the Trump family insists it didn't take advantage of: profiting off foreign governments.

The Circle Of Life 2019 - Asking your kids for computer help so you can help your parents with theirs. - Conan O'Brien

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When you can’t afford a car with parking sensors

Odd News

• 'Perfectly healthy' rescue pup has a tail on his forehead
• NASA Reverses Course After Giving Asteroid Nazi Name
• Mystery as NASA Mars Rover finds oxygen which scientists ‘struggle to explain’
• Tempers flare over rebuilding of Notre-Dame spire
• 'One-in-a-million' deer with three antlers caught on camera

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1950's air conditioned lawn mower. She's gonna run over that guy on her next pass.

Peace.

New edition tomorrow

I was tied up in errands in Santa Cruz that took hours longer than expected.  Times like this I wish I had a helicopter to fly over those mountains. Mea culpa. I'm exhausted!

You know Trump is having a hissy fit after today's testimonies. Good. We'll soon receive his tweet wrath!

The best part is that Trump released the "transcript" that nails his bribery. And his chief-of-staff Mick Mulvaney verified it, live, on TV.  They are truly dumbasses.

Peace.