Mr. Trump has said in the past that he is eager for Republicans to mount a robust defense of his actions during a trial that would include witnesses. But his Republican allies in the Senate have expressed misgivings about creating a circuslike trial. In his remarks on Tuesday, Mr. Trump appeared willing to accept whatever Mr. McConnell decided.
“He’s very smart guy, a very good guy, a very fair guy,” Mr. Trump said. He criticized Democrats for trying to influence the Senate process, saying that “they treated us very unfairly, and now they want fairness in the Senate.”
Trump took to Twitter to make a big prediction, which is that Nancy Pelosi will lose the Congress in 2020 due to her highly partisan and hypocritical role in impeachment:
“Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so. She lost Congress once, she will do it again!”
“He’s very smart guy, a very good guy, a very fair guy,” Mr. Trump said. He criticized Democrats for trying to influence the Senate process, saying that “they treated us very unfairly, and now they want fairness in the Senate.”
Trump took to Twitter to make a big prediction, which is that Nancy Pelosi will lose the Congress in 2020 due to her highly partisan and hypocritical role in impeachment:
Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so. She lost Congress once, she will do it again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2019
“Pelosi gives us the most unfair trial in the history of the U.S. Congress, and now she is crying for fairness in the Senate, and breaking all rules while doing so. She lost Congress once, she will do it again!”
I’d certainly like to think this is true given exactly what Trump said here. I’d like to think that so many Trump supporters will come out of the woodwork because of the unfair impeachment that his wins across the board will be even bigger than 2016.
But we must also acknowledge how animated the left was in 2018, such that Beto came within 3 points of beating Ted Cruz in Texas. In other words we cannot be complacent in the slightest if we intend for Pelosi to lose big time. I doubt that will be much of a problem, but just wanted to point it out nonetheless.
Yesterday Trump reminded people how the dossier came about and was used to spy on his campaign:
The Democrats and Crooked Hillary paid for & provided a Fake Dossier, with phony information gotten from foreign sources, pushed it to the corrupt media & Dirty Cops, & have now been caught. They spied on my campaign, then tried to cover it up - Just Like Watergate, but bigger!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2019
He’s right again. Just another reason Trump supporters should come out en masse in 2020.
Rachel Maddow says 'implosion' of NRA would be 'biggest' political story if not for impeachment
ReplyDeleteMSNBC host Rachel Maddow claimed Tuesday night that the "implosion" of the National Rifle Association (NRA) would be the biggest political news story if it weren't for the impeachment of President Trump.
Maddow began by touting the NRA's "legendary" power and major influence over politicians -- and then highlighted the rather turbulent year for the prominent guns rights organization. This included the revelation of Russia agent Maria Butina's attempt to infiltrate the group during the 2016 election and reports of the nonprofit's suspicious spending, which sparked an avalanche of lawsuits and investigations.
"Over the last few months, over the course of this year, we have watched this conservative political behemoth with really no equal in conservative politics, we have watched it collapse at breathtaking speed," Maddow told her viewers.
The liberal cable news star then pointed to the exit of NRA President Lt. Col. Oliver North and how the "drama" that has unfolded unleashed a "cascade of terrible and increasingly damning and embarrassing revelations" on the NRA's spending of donations, including the $200,000 reportedly spent on NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre's clothes and over $240,000 on lavish trips abroad.
"And the reason all of this is not just embarrassing but potentially is real troubling for the NRA is that the NRA is a nonprofit organization and there are rules, there are laws about how a non-profit can spend its members' money," Maddow explained. "Take all of Wayne LaPierre's spending habits with NRA members' money, add that to evidence that hundreds of thousands of dollars flowed from the NRA to its own board members, that's them paying themselves. Add in the red flags about the way the NRA has diverted money from what's supposed to be its charitable foundation. Put it all together and it's no wonder the NRA appears to now be very worried about an ever-widening investigation by the attorney general of the state of New York."
"If the NRA’s behavior has been bad enough, New York could conceivably revoke its nonprofit status and shut it down which is what the state of New York just did with Donald Trump’s charitable foundation this year.”
Maddow claimed that the troubles at the NRA are not only a "huge deal" but a "show-stopping deal," pointing to its shutdown of NRATV.
"The once fearsome NRA, the most powerful entity in conservative politics... I mean, they're in free-fall," Maddow continued. "And I think it's fair to say that in any other time, in any other news environment, the implosion of one of the country's most fearsome conservative political machines... we would be watching that slow-motion car crash endlessly. That would be the biggest political news story in the country for a long time, but with this president in the middle of an impeachment, it's like ... just one more tree falling in the forest."