Trump's own words -- and staff's cover-up -- enough to impeach

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Tom Burke / Herald columnist

I wasn’t going to write about Trump this week. I wanted to write about Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood or Everett Civic Music, the best entertainment value in the Western Hemisphere.

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But I can’t write about this fun stuff because Donald Trump has forced the start of an impeachment investigation; and concern about our democracy, and the sheer mendacity of our president, takes precedence. Lord, how that man is upsetting our lives, our liberty and our sacred honor.

Trump has us confronting three issues: abuse of power, obstruction and threats against Americans. So …

• Should Trump be impeached because, according to an intelligence services whistleblower, “the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election,” and “This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the president’s main domestic political rivals.”

• Did his White House cover up what Donald Trump said and did?

• Did Trump threaten whistleblowers and potential witnesses (with death?) for treason or being a “spy.”

Now let’s be clear: This is the beginning of the impeachment investigation and nothing — except whether Trump’s words and actions are sufficient to start the process — counts. Period.

So let’s forgo Trump’s typical in-the-bunker, back-against-the-wall playbook of attacking the whistleblower; discrediting the accusations; and belittling the media as calculated distractions and leave unproved conspiracies about the Bidens or BS about the Democrats in the trash, where they belong.

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[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Every single one of these traitors who are aiding and abetting this law breaker should face ...

the music and get convicted and sentenced. Their actions are purely self motivated and not for Country as it should be. Personal vendettas and / or other cronyism behavior have descended into the Executive Branch
of government, tainting it with stain and corruption of unbridled greed and power.

[lagomorph777]

3. Trump has already admitted guilt in the written notes he released.

No need to get too fancy and wait for dozens of witnesses. Stipulate guilt and move on.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. In the NAVY

we had an expression - Keep It Simple Sweetheart.

Pelosi is right on - stick to the straight up facts and proceed accordingly. Don't get fancy.

Or as Jack Webb used to say, "The facts, just the facts."