Joyce Vance: If this is what the whistleblower complaint is about & it's accurate, Trump must...

[Miles Archer]

Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance

If this turns out to be what the whistleblower complaint is about & it’s accurate, Trump must leave office immediately. A president can’t offer US aid to a foreign country in exchange for prosecution of a political opponent. Heaven help us if we can’t all agree on that.

Link to tweet

[triron]

1. George Conway: "If this actually happened, Trump should be imeached and removed from

office immediately"

[burrowowl]

7. Who it s going to lake him leave?

Complicit repukes, faux news watchers, ass licking military (mercenaries?),

[triron]

10. I can't answer that. Hopefully someone figures out something in a hurry.

[Kaiserguy]

21. Time

is the only thing that will make Trump leave as long as Republicans control the Senate. Taking back the Senate should be on top of the list. Without the Senate our next President will be able to do very little and if God forbid Trump cheat enough to win our have the Senate will put an end to Trump and his corruptions.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

22. Senate control is the key. Also, OP details since Miles posted before me...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212479011

[LiberalLovinLug]

28. There is this dismissed thing called "impeachment"

Where Democrats would have the power to subpoena more information and testimony, where it would be a win win. If Senate Republicans vote "NO" despite obvious criminal and treasonous behaviour, they would pay the price for it in 2020. In fact it would probably be better if they DID vote "NO". .....but top Democrats are afraid of Trump's cult followers getting (even more) angry and crazy. More important to get some "bread and butter" bipartisan legislation pushed through. Legislation that Republicans will claim credit for.

[SayItLoud]

39. Unfortunately we know how that subpoena thingy is working out. nt

[Kid Berwyn]

26. His landlord at 1600 Pennsylvania.

We the People.

[leftstreet]

2. DURec

[msongs]

3. doj says trump is above the law. trump agrees nt

[marybourg]

6. But he's not above impeachment.

[lame54]

13. Tell that to McConnell

[SocEpi]

25. Tell that to Pelosi n/t

[obamanut2012]

41. Proof of that? Oh wait, you have none

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[dewsgirl]

5. If only...I truly think this fool could do anything and the

base that is still with him truly won't care. As long as he is sticking it to liberals. Unfortunately about 1/3 of America is hella racist. A number that used to absolutely shock me.

[CrispyQ]

19. "Stick it to the libs." A common theme among the right.

Thanks to almost four decades of unchallenged hate radio. I honestly believe that the stupidest thing the dems/left have done is ignore hate radio. And we still do.

[calimary]

24. THIS!!!

YES. I’m SHOUTING!!!

[sharedvalues]

8. Look at the timing

Link to tweet

[sandensea]

9. Lawfare - a favorite tool of authoritarians since Torquemada at least.

Cheeto must've gotten the idea from his right-wing friends in Brazil and Argentina - where weaponizing the judiciary against opponents has become par for the course.

[alwaysinasnit]

11. K&R Thanks for posting.

[SergeStorms]

12. No more democratic congressional investigations.

Vote on articles of impeachment NOW! No more evidence is needed to know that Trump is a treasonous piece of shit bent on destroying the United States of America.

TRUMP MUST GO RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

PUBLIC BEHEADINGS IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE AT HIGH NOON EACH DAY UNTIL THEY'RE GONE!

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

[ffr]

14. Restore sanity. Trump & Pence must resign immediately.

They're both involved in blackmail.

[thesquanderer]

15. Who/how did Pence blackmail? (n/t)

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Hey, Republicons, the aid tRump used as a lever is paid for by TAXPAYERS... Oh, wait

What's that you're sayin', Republicons, "taxes are for little people"? Right, we got it.

[CrispyQ]

17. Do you think we could find one republican on the street who would say this is wrong?

No. I don't. They are absolutely okay with this as long as it's their side doing it.

[berksdem]

32. 100%

rethugs could care less at this point...

[smirkymonkey]

18. K&R

[LudwigPastorius]

20. We are seeing the results of the moral hazard of not impeaching Trump.

He will continue to commit more crimes, of increasing severity, because he has not been held to account for his previous actions.

The President...SHALL be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

[dhol82]

34. I think we are seeing the hazard of not having impeached Bush.

Now they’re out of control.

[FakeNoose]

35. Absolutely, also letting Nixon fly off into the sunset

No Repuke has ever faced the consequences of misuse/abuse of power.
Now we've got Chump to deal with - the absolute worst it can get.

[dhol82]

42. Well, that was back when the Republican Party still had moral gentlemen

I think we were relieved that the ‘problem’ was taken care of without having to dirty anyone’s hands.
We live in different times. Now we have to get in the mud and wrestle with the pig.
It might have been a little easier if we had impeached Bush. That I hold against Obama. He was just way too kumbaya and let’s not rock the boat. Got us nowhere.

[lapislzi]

23. Kicking for exposure

The House needs to use the power it has, or all is lost.

[calimary]

27. Um... the power THAT WE GAVE THEM!!!

The power that WE GAVE THEM!!!!!

WE are the reason they’re in the majority, enjoying - but NOT taking full advantage of - the power that goes with that majority. Nadler and Pelosi seem more interested in being nice and fiddling with semantics and excuses while trump and the bad guys almost literally burn our country down.

Never forget this. And never let THEM forget this. They’re in the majority because WE DEMS, WE THE DEMOCRATIC BASE, worked our tails off for TWO YEARS to flip the House. TWO YEARS STRAIGHT of working, making phone calls, knocking on doors, sending letters, postcards, tweets, posts of all kinds on Facebook and elsewhere on the Internet. My Indivisible group and thousands of others (last I heard, there were 6,000 of them all over America). Nancy, you are Speaker of the House because of US, and all the work WE did. YOU OWE US!!!

I think EVERY time we reach out, in ANY way, we need to remind them of that. WE got them where they are. And we RIGHTFULLY expect results. And they ignore us (and fret all over what the CONS will think and what the independents will think) and wrongly make them the priority, neglecting US.

The GOP certainly doesn’t ignore their base. Why do our Dems ignore theirs?

[CrispyQ]

29. It's like the dems don't believe in marketing.

Capturing the narrative, framing the debate, marketing, call it what you want, I can't recall one dem slogan that stands out like trickle down economics, Cadillac queens, tax and spend democrats, no child left behind, clean skies healthy forests. Why is that? We worry more about appealing to the disaffected republicans & independents than engaging the millions & millions of non-voters.

[calimary]

43. I have a Congressman like that right now. :(

He’s a cofounder of the Problem “Solvers” Caucus, which reaps us mainly frustration. He spends most of his time running after republi-CONS and independents, most of whom probably won’t vote for him and who also did exactly ZERO work for two straight years to flip the House from red to blue. He’s one of those “Blue Dog” Dems who hasn’t stood up for impeachment and won’t see it our way of more sensible gun laws. He doesn’t want to touch an assault weapon ban, and actually won’t consider taking any guns away.

My Indivisible group has met with him a couple of times. He gets defensive easily and a few folks in his local office are like that, too.

[Mr.Bill]

31. Agree 100%. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

30. Long ago in his business Trump figured out

how to get away with committing felonies. You simply start committing them multiple times every day as soon as you wake up. He's been doing it for years before he even considered running for office.

[rurallib]

38. Basically he has done whatever he wants

and dares somebody to stop him. Nobody yet has had the guts.

And there are always all sorts of bad lawyers and other scum willing to help him destroy for a buck.

[pbmus]

33. Yes, the Con and his family should be...

[lordsummerisle]

36. k&r n/t

[Arazi]

37. Who will make him leave?

[hughee99]

40. Can they offer or deny foreign aid to get a foreign government

To fire their top prosecutor?