How did he lie about Trump's transcript? Nevertheless, the witnesses coming forward to give depositions are verifying the charge of extortion of a foreign government by Trump. The phone call may have been the initial 'smoking guy' but what we're learning now is that it wasn't an isolated incident but that it fit in with a regular pattern.
That's why he is throwing judiciary committee members out of deposition meetings he's ostensibly running. You know, things the judiciary committee historically attends and chairs. He's not nervous at all...
"According to some right wing rag, Schiff is getting nervous!"
It must be fun to live in another reality.
Is there any doubt why Trump got elected? Can you guys not see how easy it is for Republican media to sucker these people (which then causes 7 year old boys to be slaughtered).
They just can't think logically. It's all emotion like a 1970s housewife watching soap operas.
Says someone who's camp had droves of people literally crying their eyes out in the street and throwing almost week long temper tantrums. Just because someone won a democratic election...
The irony here is so damn thick at this point.
According to multiple left wing rags, the president:
Appeared in a Russian piss tape-
Supported Neo-Nazis and the KKK/white-nationalist-
Wanted to put all immigrants in concentration camps-
Directly supported for, or incited right wing violence-
...etc
..etc
.etc ... This is getting tiresome.
Schiff seems completely calm, in control and in command. Everything is proceeding according to plan.
It is a great sing the right wing hates him so much and sees him as the target of their vitriol. That lets us know what a great job Schiff must be doing. He wields that little rubber hammer and the Deplorables knees jump like magic.
Let me repeat this once more for the tenth time here. There are three (3) combined committees hearing depositions. The House Intelligence Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Oversight Committee. The committee that Matt Gaetz is a part of is NOT one of those three committees. He had absolutely no right -- zero -- to be there at all, none. He was desperate to inject himself inside that hearing room because he's a little trump toadie and wanted to run to the camera to disseminate in his own language, which would be pro-trump, about what was said during the deposition. These hearings aren't just 'fly by the seat of your pants' hearings. These meetings are being conducted according to judicial protocol. Matt Gaetz made a stink and delayed the beginning of the hearing for a full 45 minutes.
That's why he is throwing judiciary committee members out of deposition meetings he's ostensibly running. You know, things the judiciary committee historically attends and chairs. He's not nervous at all...
NOBODY other than the Committee members selected to conduct this investigation have any right to be there. The secrecy and privacy of these hearings is specifically intended to eliminate leakers which is precisely what Matt Gaetz is. The committee he sits on is not one of the three committees selected to listen to confidential depositions by Dept of State officials.
What is the purpose of the depositions? Oh that's right an impeachment inquiry. Who runs impeachment inquiries...by House rules? Judiciary. Its political posturing like this that robs what the Democrats are doing of authority and an air that they are doing the right thing for the sake of doing it.
You want to do an impeachment inquiry? Run it the way it is supposed to be run by precedent and House rules, and as transparently as possible.
Do you know what a deposition is? These aren't merely testimonies taken under oath, although these people that are willingly coming forward are sworn in before they're deposed. The reason depositions are given in private, behind closed doors with only a select number of congressional committee members is so their sworn statement doesn't go out publicly to those that will also be giving their own depositions. This is done in order to avoid accounts of events being conflicted, tainted or compromised so that one fits the other's narrative. The depositions are held legally as a legal binding record of their statement. There's a court reporter making a formal record of each deposition and that sworn deposition will be their statement of truth and will be compared with any diversion or adjustment in their public testimony.
There will absolutely be public hearings for some of those people who have been deposed. The networks are already synchronizing their positions in the hearing room. The public hearings will be the most vital part of the impeachment process before it moves for a vote in the House then on to the Senate for trial. Their sworn deposition will be the bedrock of their public testimony, the affidavit of the recounting of events.
That's generally why judiciary is always involved in such. FYI integrity against leaking shouldn't be left in the hands of a leaking scumbag like Schiff.
An impeachment trial in the House is much different than regular Congressional oversights hearings where a committee such as the Judicial committee solely presides over certain witnesses, like Corey Lewandowski. By the way, Corey Lewandowsky was the first Trump associate that honored a subpoena to appear to testify. It was a public hearing, a lot of grandstanding took place by arrogant Lewandowski and the big angry voice in the room like Congressman Doug Collins who is hoping to have Trump's support for his bid for the Senate in 2020.
The majority of us here, myself excluded, have not been witness to an impeachment hearing and trial in our lifetimes. It's not 'business as usual' by any means, so people such as yourself that aren't familiar with the formal protocol of obtaining deposition object because you just aren't informed as to how it works in Congress.
Those who have willingly offered to give depositions are consummate professionals. They are very intelligent, capable people who have been trained and experienced in looking out for the national interest. They are not the "deep state" as Fox and Trump have convinced you of who are engaged in a dark conspiracy to unseat Trump. What we're witnessing are people inside the 'deeply patriotic state'. These are career foreign service officers whose allegiance is to the United States and the Constitution, not to any man that's sitting in the Oval Office.
Its funny, you both claim to know what you are talking about and claiming I am ignorant of the process when I know its the reverse.
Impeachment inquiries are handled by the Judiciary committee. I didn't mention deep state at any point, I can't tell if you are going for straw man or diversion. Meanwhile you offer grandstanding instead of public inquiries and hearings or at the least, being done by one of the more impartial committees in the House. Transparency will serve the House if they are really after impeachment, their unwillingness argues to the opposite.
PS don't try to wrap yourself in the flag, Democrats have been talking about overturning half of the institutions in the US Constitution and they don't believe in the other half, spare me the horse**** rah rah.
I don't "claim" to know what I'm talking about, I read and study the circumstances and facts. That's why I knew that Matt Gaetz was not a member of any of the three committees that's been tasked with conducting deposition gathering. There had been a total of five separate congressional committees investigating Trump's taxes, his conflicts of interest involving the sprawling business interests he has not divested of and other aspects of his shadowy presidency. The House Judiciary Committee had led the charge in the Democrats' investigation of Russian election interference, and now three different committees — Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs — have taken the baton since the focus has shifted to questions surrounding Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
Only members of the three panels working on the investigation are allowed to participate, according to the House rules and the chamber's deposition regulations.
'American Thinker' isn't thinking logically. You're brainwashed totally if you believe a conspiracy theory like the one your spouting about 'there's never been a whistelblower' and 'Schiff made it up'. What do you think this is, Russia? At this juncture, the whistleblower's testimony really isn't needed. The committee has a bountiful amount of evidence as to what the whistleblower claimed. Adam Schiff is an experience prosecutor, he's not nervous at all.
Who handles impeachment inquiries? You still won't answer it. Its been the Judiciary committee for 200 years. What we have now is a dog and pony show designed to look like impeachment proceedings.
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Actually, the manner in which Schiff has been handling the so called "impeachment investigation" is just as the Russians conduct their investigations. According to Schiff and his cabal Trump is guilty, they just have to find something to pin on him. First it was the so called Russian conspiracy and after two years there was nothing to find, now it's the Ukraine conspiracy where there's nothing to find unless finding the Biden family extortion racket according to the PMS/DSA Left is okay by them....
The phone call, send his personal attorney to the Ukraine to get them to get dirt on a political opponent, openly calling on China to also dig up dirt on the same political opponent, the removal of a respected Ambassador because she would not go along with a secret effort to dig up dirt on the Bidens and who knows what else will come to light Durning the investigation. My guess at least a couple of those involved will do prison time, and while it is doubtful trump will be ousted before the election by the Senate, but it will be just one more example why trump is unfit and needs to be voted out
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More Bovine Scatology!!!!
If that's not the perfect example of mirroring, I don't know what is. Trump's entire family been hooked up tight with the Russians for well over a decade before Putin helped him win the presidency. What other US president has hosted two of Russia's top spies in the Oval Office of the White House just days after firing FBI James Comey and bragged to them that he did? What other president in US history, despite being told by every US Intelligence agency that Russia interfered in the election denied it because Putin 'said he didn't do it' ? He's so far up Putin's ass that he could play with his tonsils.