All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

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Trump has been a bit quiet. He did post a game over video of himself a couple of days ago, but no real Trumpian response with insults. I am posting the expected Trump above.

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Democrats Vow Trump Probes to Go On After Impeachment Trial Ends

“The investigations and oversight will continue,” said Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York, head of the Oversight and Reform Committee, the lead investigative panel in the House. “We’ve got several cases.”

In addition, there are multiple court cases running on separate tracks seeking access to his tax returns, testimony from former White House officials and financial records to show whether the president is unlawfully profiting from foreign governments. Three of the cases will be considered by the U.S. Supreme Court in the spring.

“It just makes us more wizened and more knowledgeable about all the different ways the other side is going to evade oversight, and to plan accordingly,” Krishnamoorthi said.

Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican leader, said he has no doubt that House Democrats will now intensify their Trump investigations. “That’s their only agenda,” he said.

One of the cases before the Supreme Court involves Maloney’s committee and centers on whether the Constitution prohibits subpoenas issued to Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, LLP.

The committee wants Mazars to provide non-privileged financial records relating to Trump and certain of his business entities. Trump sued in April to block the panel’s subpoena for eight years of financial records held by Mazars.

The Judiciary Committee, led by New York Democrat Jerrold Nadler is seeking to view transcripts, papers and other secret grand jury materials from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The panel also has sued to enforce a subpoena issued last year for testimony by former White House Counsel Don McGahn.

Maloney and other House committee leaders said they aren’t concerned about a backlash from voters fatigued by continuing probes of Trump on top of the impeachment effort and Mueller’s inquiry.

Krishnamoorthi said it’s GOP lawmakers who should be concerned.

“I think Republicans will pay a price for voting down repeatedly motions for more information,” he said. “I think our political process has interesting consequences at the polls. One consequence could be that stonewalling could not be a good thing for your electoral prospects.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn’t saying whether House Democrats will specifically pursue Ukraine-related testimony and evidence their impeachment managers were unable to obtain during the trial. That includes hearing from former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

She told reporters Thursday that “we do believe there is more truth for the American people to know.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... trial-ends

[Joe]

Well, if it was serious enough to impeach Trump for refusing subpoena's on Ukraine matters, it's serious enough to pursue in the courts.

And politically, every incriminating thing that comes out is another talking point against GOP Senators.

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[Sean Hayden]

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Dwyer added that the report concluded it would be so much easier to simply march in unthinking lockstep to an all-powerful ruler.
https://politics.theonion.com/report-fi ... 1841390886

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Just like Hillary, Trump has a mystery illness. I call it campaign brain tumor
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https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/ ... 8221755397

Bill Maher...the oranges of the investigation
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Setting aside Trump’s slobbering, narcissistic adoration of himself, everything else in those tweets was either grossly misrepresented or utterly false. Lou Dobbs of the Fox News business channel is one of the Fox family’s most ardent Trump-fluffers. But his show is hardly a national success. It has no business programming competition because CNBC is airing reruns of shows like Shark Tank at the same time. And Dobbs’ audience is about a quarter of the size of his time period competition on MSNBC. As for Dobbs covering Trump “fairly & objectively,” that’s so hysterically ludicrous it hardly warrants a response.

Trump’s claim that his “poll numbers are the highest since election,” is a pitiful statistic to brag about. His approval rating is sitting on an abysmal 44 percent, and has never hit 50 at any time during his presidency. That’s an achievement no other president can claim. Even the Fox News poll shows Trump is broadly unpopular. His disapproval, however, remains well above a majority of the American people, as it has for the last three years. There is even a majority favoring his impeachment and removal from office.

https://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=43943

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Trump fan watching Superbowl

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https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog ... ssion=true

Finally, there is the cost of the tax giveaways-the increase to our national debt. The president and his advisers promised that their 2017 tax cuts would pay for themselves. There was extensive reporting on the second year anniversary of the tax cuts in December that this claim has proven false. However, just last week, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doubled down on this myth.

CBO estimates that the tax cuts will add $1.9 trillion to our national debt. Deficits already have rocketed higher, from $585 billion during the last year of the Obama administration to $984 billion in 2019. CBO forecasts the deficit will reach $1 trillion this year and an average $1.3 trillion between 2021 and 2030.

[JimC]

A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon we're talking real money...

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After 8 years, I think Trump golf trips will add up to a billion.

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He's doing it again. Clapping for himself.

[Sean Hayden]

You'd have to pay me to watch it.