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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBS News is reporting that the Trump team has threatened GOP senators that if they vote against
Trump, "their head will be on a pike".
Putting aside for the moment that this threat is a crime, how can the House Managers use this tomorrow? In a normal trial where jurors had been threatened, there would at the least be an inquiry by the presiding judge as to whether individual jurors were aware of the threat; had anyone directly communicated with them; did they feel intimidated, etc.
Could Schiff and company request such an inquiry as tomorrow's first order of business?
Could news reports of the threat be made a part of the record?
DAMN THIS DESPICABLE SONOFABITCH!
cilla4progress
(24,782 posts)"just joking." Excuse they use all the time and seem to get away with!!
triron
(22,025 posts)madaboutharry
(40,231 posts)Atticus
(15,124 posts)madaboutharry
(40,231 posts)PSPS
(13,620 posts)Atticus
(15,124 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)It's posted under the Latest Breaking News Forum right now.
Kali
(55,026 posts)might be a few who don't like being threatened, could be a good thing after all. keep it up, spanky.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)explanations for your vote. It's another to have the threat be graphically made public and you to be seen as bowing to it.
Some of these "good ol' boys" don't cotton to being publicly shamed.
Pass the popcorn!
Cosmocat
(14,575 posts)Went into rolling over like a dog and showing their belly passive mode to him even before he got elected.
He could walk into a room and literally piss on every one of them, order them to lick themselves clean, they would, then come out in their damp suits and publicly kiss his ass.
And this bootstrap cramp always applied to the others for them. It never applied to them, it's just what they demand of everyone else. When going gets tough, they give their good little farmers subsidies which never get paid back.
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elleng
(131,176 posts)Barred so far from presenting witnesses, the House managers prosecuting the president have focused on turning his own words against him.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/us/politics/trump-videos-impeachment-trial.html?
dchill
(38,557 posts)Asking for an enemy...
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)I thought y'all had "solutions" related to a certain Constitutional amendment for this sort of anti-Murikan gubbermint takeover.
fierywoman
(7,696 posts)tinrobot
(10,926 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,659 posts)yellerpup
(12,254 posts)that if they convict him he loses his power to primary against them. Anyone for freedom? Vote for it!
Duppers
(28,127 posts)to these dense rethugians senators ...but works only if enough of them vote to remove him.
yellerpup
(12,254 posts)and make sure they put the monster out of his misery.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)it would destroy the GOP - Pence and the religious right against the deplorables.
I'd love it, but I think that the GOP fears that as well.
yellerpup
(12,254 posts)But IMO he's already destroyed the GOP. Women won't vote for Pence. I don't know how it will turn out but it's going to be bad for all of us if he's not removed from office.
dustyscamp
(2,228 posts)airmid
(500 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,746 posts)He's so effing nuts.
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)When the final tally is 90-10 to remove, let him squirm over who to cry about as his bags are being packed.
DenverJared
(457 posts)Jeff Flake had already said that 35 republicans would vote to remove if the ballot was held in secret.
onenote
(42,779 posts)Constitution Article 1,Section 5
Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal
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First of all, the Democrats aren't going to ask for an unprecedented "secret" vote.
Second, there easily are 20 Senators that would demand a recorded vote.
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)DenverJared
(457 posts)Some senators like Collins and Gardener will lose either way - they'd rather go out swinging and be seen as principled in their legacy.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Would be the most venomous in the attacks on this story as fake news.
GoCubsGo
(32,096 posts)if they let this dirty thug off.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)How many counts is that now?
nuxvomica
(12,450 posts)As soon as I heard him say that, I figured Trump had personally threatened the senators and Cipollone was saying that just for them.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)who knows?
crickets
(25,986 posts)mitch96
(13,929 posts)Ok hit 'em where he understands... Bloomberg and Styre offer 1 million to each senator who flips
The orange shit stain understands this and is powerless or "moneyless" to do anything about it.
Yes I know it won't happen but I can dream can't I ?
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Proud Liberal Dem
(24,445 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,152 posts)That would be another Article of Impeachment they can file against him.
In the meantime, if the Republicans want to get this nightmare over they need to convict him. And then immediately, convene the RNC to remove their current officers and replace them with members that will not kowtow to Trump. At the same time denying Trump access to any of the financial and other resources that normally would be available to him.
monmouth4
(9,711 posts)coeur_de_lion
(3,684 posts)They should be jumping at the chance to get rid of him.
Bunch of fucking cry babies.
MineralMan
(146,337 posts)Sounds like something that should be seriously investigated to me.
Feh!