Gabbard: Impeachment would only tear U.S. apart

[RandySF]

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) said in a new interview that she opposes an effort by dozens of House Democrats for an impeachment inquiry into the president, saying it would cause further divisions within the U.S.

In an interview on "Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren," the 2020 candidate for president took a firm stance against impeachment, putting her at odds with other Democratic candidates for president including Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

"I don’t [support impeachment,]" Gabbard said. "You know, I think it’s important for us to think about what is in the best interest of the country and the American people, and continuing to pursue impeachment is something that I think will only further to tear our country apart."

"Make no bones about it: We need to defeat Donald Trump. But I think it’s important for our country’s sake and our future that the voters in this country are the ones who do that, and I believe that we will," Gabbard added.

132 House Democrats have come out in favor of beginning impeachment proceedings, though the issue is not supported by Democratic establishment leaders such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has called for investigations into the president to continue.

A Monmouth University poll in August found that 57 percent of Americans want to see Trump replaced with a different president, but also found that just over a third support beginning impeachment proceedings.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/460398-gabbard-impeachment-would-only-tear-us-apart

[donkeypoofed]

1. She is NOT a real Democrat

She's not worthy of being listened to - except by Breitbart listeners.

[SergeStorms]

2. Says the republican backed 'presidential' candidate.

We know who you are, Tulsi. We don't want anything to do with you. Please go away.

[Zorro]

3. Fuck that

Doing nothing in the face of blatant corruption is tearing the country apart.

[dalton99a]

4. Please don't hurt the president's feelings

Fuck that

[brush]

5. Of course she doesn't want impeachment. Her right wing fans wouldn't like that.

[pbmus]

6. Says the Assad apologist....

[yaesu]

7. she has no idea what she's talking about. nt

[Guilded Lilly]

8. I firmly disagree. Impeachment is there so we don't HAVE to wait to vote treacherous men out.

[Perseus]

9. Of course she opposes it...

And most of us oppose you. Go home.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. Having Spanky in the Oval office is already tearing the country apart.

Tulsi's grasp of reality is nebulous at best.

[NurseJackie]

11. She's overdue for withdrawing from the race. What's the delay?

Surely she knows she has ZERO chance at being our party's nominee.


Ho-hum! Any day now.

[barbtries]

28. for some reason i thought she had.

wishful thinking i guess. her position on impeachment is wrong.

[NurseJackie]

30. Has she? That's how little attention she gets from me.

[poli-junkie]

32. Per Putin's orders, she'll run as a 3rd party candidate

a la Jill Stein.

[JI7]

52. it's about hurting the nominee and doing all she can to make sure they lose

[NurseJackie]

71. Yes.

[MBS]

74. Agreed. nt/

[AllyCat]

12. Then step aside because the GOP and Putin are doing that right now

[waveiscoming]

13. Really smart tactics

She isn't appealing to the democratic primary voter. Her motive is everything but appealing to the primary voter. Trying to build up a brand to profit from.

[pnwmom]

14. She's always been successful in appealing to people like Steve Bannon, Mike Cernovich,

Matt Drudge, Trey Gowdy, and Breitbart. Why stop now?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/tulsi-gabbard-maga-debate

On Wednesday night, Matt Drudge, the reclusive Drudge Report impresario, tweeted that Gabbard had won his site’s online debate poll. As of Thursday afternoon, Gabbard was featured on the top left of the Drudge Report, with several linked headlines like “SHOCK: GABBARD WINS FIRST DEBATE POLL…” and “AND SHE IS MOST SEARCHED NAME DURING DEBATE.”

Breitbart News devoted a lot of its debate coverage to Gabbard, writing several articles about her. Breitbart writer Joel Pollak livestreamed his exchange with Gabbard in the spin room after the debate, the only candidate who got that treatment.

“The Drudge straw poll has you winning by far,” he asked her. “What was it that carried it for you?”

SNIP


Mike Cernovich, the “new right” social media personality, tweeted Wednesday night about the increase in Google searches for Gabbard, writing, “Tulsi Gabbard was breakthrough star of the night.”

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

15. Horseshit Tulsi

[Dawson Leery]

16. It's primary time!

[Cha]

17. Gee Gabbard.. Notice much?

WE'RE ALREADY TORN APART!

[liberal N proud]

18. trump has already torn this country apart

He has created the trump supporters who are anti anything not enabling trump. They are a with us or against us crowd.

[PoliticAverse]

19. Tulsi Gabbard echos Nancy Pelosi's comments and gets torn apart...

Gabbard:

You know, I think it’s important for us to think about what is in the best interest of the country and the American people, and continuing to pursue impeachment is something that I think will only further to tear our country apart.

Pelosi:

I’m not for impeachment. This is news. I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it.

[JI7]

25. Pelosi has made many comments including in support of impeachment

she is the house leader so she has to think about all the members and to not make it as if impeachment had to do with her rather than evidence presented.

stop making excuses for gabbard .

[pnwmom]

35. You just compared something Pelosi said way back in MARCH -- before Mueller's report was issued

or the intervening scandals came to light -- with something Gabbard says NOW. (And of course you provided no links, but it was easy enough to check.)

For months, House has been openly involved in investigations preliminary to impeachment proceedings, as documented in court filings. So Nancy has changed her mind since March about allowing impeachment proceedings to go forward.

Gabbard has not.

[PoliticAverse]

37. The person that's pushing for impeachment is Jerrold Nadler. Pelosi opposed impeachment

even after the Mueller report.

See: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/24/pelosi-nadler-rebuff-impeachment-mueller-hearing-1432925

[pnwmom]

39. LOL. You still can't point to any current Nancy quotes -- and you can only point

to old ones where she said that it was "premature". That's not what Gabbard is saying.

And since your July quote, dozens more Democratic representatives have come out in favor of impeachment.

[PoliticAverse]

40. So the last Pelosi quotes have her opposed to impeachment but there are none of her supporting it.

And since your July quote, dozens more Democratic representatives have come out in favor of impeachment.

Yes, thanks to the work of people like Nadler.

[pnwmom]

41. And thanks to constituents of Representatives across the country who have been

demanding their Reps take action.

Pelosi wants to ride a wave of impeachment demands coming from the voters, and that's fine. But Gabbard's standing there with a stop sign.

[PoliticAverse]

43. The bottom line is that both Gabbard and Pelosi currently oppose impeachment. n/t

[pnwmom]

45. Pelosi has always been open to it, if support develops. Gabbard hasn't been and still isn't.

And that probably has something to do with Gabbard's support by people like Trey Gowdy and Steve Bannon. She'd never retain it if she were for impeaching Trump.

[PoliticAverse]

46. Pelosi specifically said support needed to be "bipartisan" - in other words

Pelosi will support impeachment when Republicans join in. Don't hold your breath on that happening anytime soon.

[JI7]

49. so Pelosi is open to impeachment unlike Gabbard

[PoliticAverse]

50. Yeah, open to impeachment just like Republicans will be. n/t

[JI7]

51. lol, funny the lengths you have to go to to defend Gabbard's bullshit

who claimed Mueller said that trump did not collude with russia.

[PoliticAverse]

53. Funny the length some people will go to defend people that oppose impeachment. n/t

[JI7]

54. yes, as we see you doing

[PoliticAverse]

56. Unlike Pelosi and Gabbard I support impeachment. How about you? n/t

[JI7]

57. i support impeachment and voting when it can actually pass like Pelosi .

[PoliticAverse]

59. If Democrats waited for that Richard Nixon would have completed his 2nd term. n/t

[JI7]

61. uh, no , Nixon resigned because he knew he would be impeached . Democrats who have come out for

impeachment have been going to pelosi to let her know .

Katie Porter talked about it and said Pelosi was fine with her decision . didn't try to convince her otherwise.

Democrats control the house so it's a matter of getting the numbers which is mostly democrats to support it.

[PoliticAverse]

63. uh yes. It was the impeachment hearings that developed the evidence that made Nixon's impeachment

and conviction a conclusion.

[JI7]

64. and that's what democrats are working on but unlike back then the Institutions are filled with Trump

Trash like Barr that is making it difficult to get evidence. but they are working on it.

[brush]

65. Pelosi saying premature is not the samd as DINO Gabbard saying she's against it. Get it?

[honest.abe]

75. Pelosi's most recent comments suggest she will push for impeachment once there is enough support.

“The public isn’t there on impeachment. It’s your voice and constituency, but give me the leverage I need to make sure that we’re ready and it is as strong as it can be,” Pelosi told Democrats during a caucus-wide conference call on Friday afternoon, according to a source on the call.

Pelosi made the comments in response to Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), who shared how people in her district wanted to talk about impeachment.

While advocating for a cautious approach, Pelosi didn’t rule out the possibility of impeachment. The Democratic leader has faced continued pressure on the issue as the number of Democrats who have come out in support for impeachment in some form has swelled to at least 130.

“The equities we have to weigh are our responsibility to protect and defend the Constitution and to be unifying and not dividing. But if and when we act, people will know he gave us no choice. If he cannot respect the Constitution, we’ll have to deal with that. It’s about patriotism, not partisanship,” Pelosi said Friday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/458618-pelosi-asks-democrats-for-leverage-on-impeachment

[StarfishSaver]

81. For someone who doesn't want impeachment, Pelosi sure is letting a lot of impeachment stuff happen

right under her nose.

https://occupydemocrats.com/2019/09/07/house-dems-announce-rule-changes-to-make-trumps-impeachment-inquiry-just-like-nixons/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/house-impeachment-hearings-881390/

[kozar]

20. Tulsi is a plant,,, nt

[bearsfootball516]

21. I'm getting a very Jill Stein-ish vibe from her.

She tries to come across as authentic, but there's a hidden agenda underneath.

[kozar]

22. yep,,

everything she posts is more R than us,, she is nothing more than a vote stealer.


Koz

[MBS]

72. me, too.

I don't trust her. At all.

[Rebl2]

26. Just

what I was thinking.

[bamagal62]

29. This!

[Mike Nelson]

23. How odd...

... Impeachment will tear people apart more than what? Gabbard is too late for the party... The things Crooked Donald has said and done have not done any tearing apart? In my opinion, impeachment will be mild, compared to what Crooked Donald has already done. I am in favor of timely impeachment. I don't want a vote clearing Crooked Donald before the election, and/or giving President Pence any advantages.

[YOHABLO]

24. I think what Tulsi Gabbard has to say about impeachment is irrelevant.

So she's an x-military, a veteran. So am I. No one gives a rat's ass what I say. Especially on this site.

[Brainfodder]

27. A little late Tulsi?

DUH!

[crazytown]

31. There's a job with Tulsi's name on it

ready to go at FNC.

[markpkessinger]

33. Impeachment is about more than whether it succeeds in removing Trump from office

. . . It is about the message that is sent to future Presidents about the kinds of behavior that will go unchallenged. The surest way to guarantee that we will see more presidents like Trump, and even worse (if that's possible), is to fail to send that message loud and clear NOW!

[Joe941]

34. We need to impeach!

She is sounding like pelosi.

[guillaumeb]

36. Tulsi Gabbard.

Noted.

[paleotn]

38. Go away, Tulsi.

No one cares what you think. Hawaii should be embarrassed.

[elias7]

42. I think Trump's flouting the rule of law and his poisonous discourse are tearing US apart

I think avoiding impeachment reeks of political expediency betrays our constitution

[katmondoo]

44. We will be celebrating and dancing in the streets. Impeach him.

[Tipperary]

47. This country is pretty much ripped apart now.

We need someone to bring us together.

[JI7]

48. Gabbard Claimed Mueller Report said that Trump did not Collude with RUssia to influence elections

Link to tweet

?lang=en

[MBS]

73. yup, good reminder. n/t

[JI7]

55. can you imagine this thread if Trollberliner/Princetonian was still here

[EffieBlack]

58. Aww - I miss my Boo

But it feels like he never really left, somI don’t feel too terribly lonely ...

[JI7]

62. don't bee too upset i'm sure they will be back

maybe next time as Harvardian ??

[EffieBlack]

66. Lol

[RhodeIslandOne]

70. LOL

Wait, Princetonian got tombstoned?

LULZ

[mr_lebowski]

79. I don't think that was the same person ... they had different styles of writing

Got the sense Oberliner was much older than Princeton-dude for one thing.

Could be wrong but it never crossed my mind til you mentioned it.

[JI7]

82. it was a little different like they adopted a different personality

but there were some similarities like the obsessive posting . and their problem with black and lgbt people. it wasn't so openly bigoted but more like dismissive.

but i guess it's possible they were different in which case i would say princetonian was just a straight up putin troll . this poster seemed to always be there when other trolls came on posting bs which ended up getting removed and they were banned. he was even defended banned trolls .

while oberliner was the usual flame bait seeking troll.

[crazytown]

60. Off to Fox Tulsi

Tucker's expecting your call.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

67. We have a five year old child who has access to the nuclear launch codes.

He has to be removed from office, just to keep the world safe.

To hell with "splitting the country." It's not going to have a chance to heal until Trump and his ilk are gone.

[sprinkleeninow]

68. Hogwash.

Bye Felicia!

[RhodeIslandOne]

69. Time to show yourself out, Tulsi.

[riversedge]

76. We are already torn apart.

[myohmy2]

77. yes...

...but the country is already torn apart...the Constitution needs to be enforced and applied to this thing called trump...

...would the political climate get worse?...probably

...however, I think the question of impeachment is rapidly becoming moot...campaign season is sucking all the air out of the impeachment balloon...we must hurry up before trump escapes

...impeach...

[DetlefK]

78. Tucker Carlson, Greta van Susteren... Anyone notice a pattern who Tulsi Gabbard talks to?

[WePurrsevere]

80. Too late, Tulsi & every day that Trump remains it gets worse. Besides...

Sometimes it's more important to take a stand for what we believe is correct, and against things we feel to be wrong, than to do nothing for the sake of a supposedly united country that is mostly more symbolic and a dream than real.

It's not like we haven't taken a stance in this way before. During both the Revolutionary War and in the Civil War, we physically fought against our countrymen in an attempt to set our country on the difficult path of freedom and democracy. The detractors said then much the same back then as they do now and are just as wrong.