House Members Spar Over Impeachment at Election Security Hearing

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

House members sparred over the impeachment investigation of President Donald Trump at a hearing Friday as they debated how to prevent foreign interference in the 2020 election.

Opening a House Judiciary Committee hearing on election security, panel Chairman Jerrold Nadler took aim at Trump’s request that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy investigate Democrat Joe Biden. The revelations are shaping up as an even more serious threat to Trump’s presidency than the special counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

“President Trump has refused to acknowledge Russia’s attack, let alone publicly denounce it or outline clearly how he intends to deter future interventions,” Nadler said. “Now we have evidence that the president of the United States asked a foreign leader to interfere in our next election.”

Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican and ally of the president, said he worried that attempts to impeach Trump represent a bigger threat to democracy than election interference.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-27/house-members-spar-over-impeachment-at-election-security-hearing

[empedocles]

1. 'House Members Spar' - or ''con wingnuts snipe'?

[Wellstone ruled]

4. The exact verbage was used on

Bloomberg TV by their Right Wing on Air Talent. Program segment is called balance of Power usually featuring their Right wing White house reporter and some Tea Party slug. Then there is a two hour Segments of Hard Right Economic Talking Points.

When this hits the air,it is XM music time.

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5. Headlines and chyrons are important. Thats why I call out fox chyrons.

The House hearings yesterday, were massively undercut by fox chyrons.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Hey,thanks for the notice of those chyrons.

My neighbor works for one of the local CBS affiliates,on his Production Jobs is typing Chyrons. As he says,you would be surprised as to the effectiveness of these subliminal messages. He knows when he hits a nerve by looking at his Facebook or twitter during broadcasts.

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8. Just leting DU'ers sense what we're up against. The trump supporter situation is more complicated

than just an immovable bloc - as too often assumed here.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. So friggin powerfull.

[SunSeeker]

2. Gaetz is an ASS. Since when is impeaching a lawless president bad for democracy?

Especially one who lost the popular vote by 4 million votes!

[PerceptionManagement]

3. Gaetz said be afraid. It sucks to be a Gaetz

“I fear that the greatest risk to our democracy may not be hackers or interference with the vote, it may be the efforts by radical Democrats to try impeach a president who was duly elected,” Gaetz said.

[mysteryowl]

6. I don't get how Gaetz can even think this way.

Does he believe his words or is it a lie?

[Cartaphelius]

10. You assume he thinks and

he is not merely a supporter, he's crossed the line to presidential fluffer, "Oh your mushroom is so bigly"

[Cetacea]

11. He had a meeting with tRump at the White House Weds morning

Nunes is useless now. Keep an eye on Gaetz.