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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 04:29 PM Jan 2020

Trump shows anxiety as arguments begin in Senate impeachment trial

trump on Wednesday hardened his opposition to allowing former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in his Senate impeachment trial, citing national security but adding a note of apprehension: “I don’t know if we left on the best of terms.

“You don’t like people testifying when they didn’t leave on good terms,” Trump said at a news conference before departing from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “And that was due to me, not him.”

Trump’s comments about Bolton, whom he fired in September, suggested his heightened anxiety, just hours before formal arguments for removing him from office were to begin. The Senate, for only the third time in history, is sitting in judgment of an impeached president, considering whether Trump abused his office and obstructed Congress by bartering military aid for Ukraine’s help against his political rivals.

The Senate’s Republican majority is expected to prevent his ouster, which would require a vote of two-thirds of the senators, but the rare indignity is certain to undermine his legacy.

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Trump shows anxiety as arguments begin in Senate impeachment trial (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper Jan 2020 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2020 #1
Anxious knowing this is just the beginning of a long, very hazardous, year. empedocles Jan 2020 #2
Something smells to high hell Wellstone ruled Jan 2020 #3
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2020 #7
apology??????? enid602 Jan 2020 #4
Sweatin' like the pig he is. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 #5
An Impeached Forever president of a corrupt cesspool government will always be his legacy, ancianita Jan 2020 #6

Response to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Something smells to high hell
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 04:43 PM
Jan 2020

with the Moscow Mitch Gang of 53. My observation is,McConnell is our defacto President and as Nordquist said all we need is a functioning digit ,the Orange Anus is the functionary Digit supplier. Mitch guaranteed a hung jury and the Orange Anus nodded in agreement.

Watch for some resignations to pop in the coming weeks.

This seems to be what Moscow Mitch referred to a few weeks ago,my job is not done changing the Federal Court System for five decades to reflect my personal views.

ancianita

(36,058 posts)
6. An Impeached Forever president of a corrupt cesspool government will always be his legacy,
Wed Jan 22, 2020, 09:17 PM
Jan 2020

even with no vote.

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