FOX's Judge Napolitano comes out for impeachment!

[tblue37]

Fox News legal analyst argues Trump has already admitted to ‘criminal behavior’ — and must be impeached

Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano strongly suggests President Donald Trump has committed an impeachable offense by withholding Ukraine military aid as leverage to seek campaign dirt on Joe Biden.

The conservative legal analyst and former New Jersey Superior Court judge lays out evidence in a new column posted on the Fox News website that Trump broke at least three laws as part of the scheme.

“The criminal behavior to which Trump has admitted is much more grave than anything alleged or unearthed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and much of what Mueller revealed was impeachable,” Napolitano wrote.

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The legal analyst said the founders and lawmakers who wrote campaign finance statutes specifically intended to keep foreign interference out of U.S. elections, and Mueller spent nearly two years investigating Russian efforts to sway the 2016 election — which he said makes Trump’s admitted behavior inexcusable

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More at link:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/fox-news-legal-analyst-argues-trump-has-already-admitted-to-criminal-behavior-and-must-be-impeached/

[ElementaryPenguin]

1. Yea, Judge!! A Fox News profile in courage!

[tblue37]

2. He gets attacked by Hannity and Carlson for saying such things, but he has been

critical of Trump on Ukraine, though this is his first direct call for impeachment. Maybe FOX is beginning to pivot.

If Trump loses FOX, he is toast.

We will get some clue if Napolitano suddenly stops appearing on FOX, or if the attacks on him by the opinion guys are allowed to seriously ramp up and become more vicious.

[dem4decades]

5. Fox News own Dumb and Dumber. Only question, which one is Dumber

[rpannier]

12. Dumb and Dumber: Hannity and Ingraham

Heinz Spanknobel: Carlson (Spanknobel was leader of the German American Bund)
Dumbestestestesterest: The three couch sitters

[dem4decades]

14. Dumb, Dumber and Dipshit?

[rpannier]

16. I like that. Carlson is third on that list

[durablend]

8. Maybe that's what they want?

"or if the attacks on him by the opinion guys are allowed to seriously ramp up and become more vicious."

Him and Geraldo in the room arguing and chairs being flung around the room.

[Javaman]

33. fox news is a hive mind of repuke opportunist stupidity.

as I have said before, the repukes will turn on benedict donald the moment he becomes a hindrance rather than an advantage.

we have crosses the liability Rubicon.

[Buckeyeblue]

3. I'm sure it's even worse than we suspect

If it wasn't Trump would release the call just so he could run a victory lap around "fake" news. Because that's how he operates. But that's not the case.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. When you say release the call...you mean the actual

Transcript before trump "..." it? Right? I was thinking that they would have had to have printed it out - off the secret server. Because they edited from it. It was obvious to me that it wasn't a recreation from notes and recollections like they stupidly claimed. So there's Barr (trump said he wrote the "transcript&quot and likely a couple admin assts. They would all know the gist of what trump redacted.

[Buckeyeblue]

31. I mean the actual call. Not a transcript.

I'm sure all of these calls are recorded. Let everyone listen to what was said. This will never happen because it is too damning.

If there is any real national security secrets on the call then just play it for the intelligence committees.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. I read that they used voice recognition and then edited it

for clarification and correction. Like you have to do when you create a text on your phone with the microphone. But won't getting this really take a long time? Like subpoena the courts and then maybe SC?

[mopinko]

37. all are saying no. since nixon, taping the prez is a no-no.

just a word for word transcript, voice to text software, and several stenographers.
however, that actual word for word transcript is out there.

[Vinca]

4. That's going to leave a scar. LOL.

[samnsara]

6. ...and this is only what we know about....

[Clash City Rocker]

7. They say Nixon knew he wouldn't get away with his crimes when he lost Walter Cronkite

Trump should see that he’s losing Fox News, which was his last line of defense. The bell tolls for thee, Donnie.

[SCVDem]

40. Something seems wrong.

Sorry.

President Lyndon Johnson, watching live in the White House, reportedly then turned to aides and said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”

http://www.iancfriedman.com/?p=383

[empedocles]

9. It was said, that the ratings showed, when people were worried, they turned to Uncle Walter

[Liberal In Texas]

10. Somebody go check Hell.

I think it just froze over.

[calimary]

26. No kidding!

Oh MAN! My mind is blown.

Somebody over there actually shaking off the stupor and coming to his senses?

[IndyOp]

11. When good people speak up... we have hope (nt)

[gab13by13]

13. Another hole in the dike,

for Trump's wittle fingers to plug. Trump is running out of fingers.

I remember the made up Benghazi scandal, how it consumed the news cycle every day, well;

Ukraine! Ukraine! Ukraine! A real scandal.

[kentuck]

15. If he loses FOX ??

I have long thought that he could not survive without FOX or a major propaganda outlet.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. FOX Rebirtherizing Itself as Patriot Channel

morph to the center, and never apologize, just keep the money coming in

[NewJeffCT]

19. Sadly

it looks like Brit Hume was back to toeing the company line yesterday - he was strongly critical of Trump last week, but yesterday had flipped and blamed Schiff and Democrats for playing partisan politics

[Botany]

20. I have heard that Ruppert's son and Paul Ryan (now on Fox's board of directors) have already been...

... planning for a post Trump Fox Network. They want to get away from Trump ASAP even though
people like Hannity were getting dirt on Hillary from Russia in 2016.

Judge N. knows that Trump is a crook and that installing him and rat fucking our elections was the
biggest crime in out history.

[OliverQ]

21. Too bad most Fox viewers

only watch the insane pundits like Ingraham, Carlson, and Hannity. They won't see this.

[PaulRevere08]

23. Playing both sides of the fence and totally scripted. Fox is hedging it's bets as tRump is looking

very vulnerable.

[tblue37]

28. You mean like George and Kellyanne Conway? nt

[tblue37]

25. He goes after Trump in a column on the FOX News website, too!

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitano-trump-attacks-presidency?fbclid=IwAR0zPl21DfHeJb1xu-CtrpxKr99O8M47FMdtjsSzSh0PYAIhix3k24Boj3M

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The criminal behavior to which Trump has admitted is much more grave than anything alleged or unearthed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and much of what Mueller revealed was impeachable.

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Trump has also admitted to accusing the as-yet publicly unnamed whistleblower of treason, and suggesting that the whistleblower and those who have helped him are spies and ought to be treated as spies were in "the old days" (Trump’s phrase) – that is, by hanging.

The president’s allusions to violence are palpably dangerous. They will give cover to crazies who crave violence, as other intemperate words of his have done. His words have already produced offers of "bounties" in return for outing and finding the whistleblower.

Trump also suggested that his impeachment would produce a second American Civil War. This language is a dog whistle to the deranged.

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More at link: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitano-trump-attacks-presidency?fbclid=IwAR0zPl21DfHeJb1xu-CtrpxKr99O8M47FMdtjsSzSh0PYAIhix3k24Boj3M

Notice he also says "much of what Mueller revealed was also impeachable." I think Napolitano has had it up to here with Trump's criminality, and has no more f**ks to give.

[calimary]

29. True that. But folks like him helped build this in the first place.

This polarization.

Every time I hear somebody like Scarborough decrying how horrible trump is - well hell, you helped build this Frankenstein monster. You helped seed this garden of madness. And you watered and fertilized it and tended it and gave it shape and strength. And now you don’t like the result.

But you helped build it to begin with.

[tblue37]

30. Absolutely. But we need them to speak against Trump now, though we can't trust them. nt

[njhoneybadger]

35. We need to win this battle why shoot the guy fighting along side and with you?

[honest.abe]

27. I dont trust anything that comes from Fox.

They could playing games here. Making the play for impeachment then later take it back as more information comes out so it sounds like they being "fair and balanced".

[kimbutgar]

32. I wonder when MF45 will demand Judge Napolitano be fired from fox saying he spreads fake news?

This will be interesting to see the pushback.

[ooky]

36. What you will hear from the mouths of Fox News watchers today.

"This is not impeachable". "It's only one sentence." "Americans will not support impeachment for this". "Bill Barr is a serious guy who is going to bring back the goods on the Democrats".

I got all this from about 5 minutes of looking in Fox News last night and 5 minutes this morning.

Yeah, they have commentary from Napolitano but he often disagrees with their underlying narratives. He's an agitator. But, the drumbeat is the same usual Fox News dishonest spin as always.

[40RatRod]

39. You won't get that from Shepard Smith...

...who is on at 3PM everyday. He is a class act and speaks the truth. You will swear you are watching CNN or MSNBC. He must drive FOX watchers crazy.

[ooky]

41. Agree. nt

[Martin Eden]

38. Will Faux News sever their ties with Napolitano over this?

He's gone off the reservation (Trump propaganda network).