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“It’s idiotic to think that Trump is too strong to launch formal impeachment proceedings. It’s even more idiotic to assume that once that process begins it’ll drive his numbers up.” – Princeton historian Kevin Kruse
“Pelosi’s arguments against initiating impeachment are so obviously weak. This is starting to feel more like House Dems actually just don’t know what they’re doing.” – Susan Hennessey, executive editor of Lawfare
“Congressional Dems targeted Nixon over Watergate right after his landslide 1972 reelection. His Gallup poll approval rating fell from 65% when Senate hearings began in February 1973 to 39% five months later. Trump’s Gallup approval stands at 42%.”
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Puesto Loco™
@PuestoLoco
.@SpeakerPelosi is peddling 3 MYTHS:
• Impeachment will make Trump more popular
• Impeachment is worthwhile only if it ends with removing him from office
• Trump will lose in 2020 so voters, rather than Congress, can deliver the consequences he deserves
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
2• “If Trump weren’t president, he’d probably be in jail. That’s the view of a group of hundreds of former federal prosecutors who signed an open letter stating his conduct would warrant criminal obstruction of justice charges if he lived anywhere except in the White House.”
3• “Few Americans have actually read the Mueller report, and walking the country through all the damning material in high-profile public hearings has the potential to hurt Trump far more than the Democrats in Congress.”
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Puesto Loco™
@PuestoLoco
“The House Dem Caucus is not on a path to impeachment & that’s where Trump wants us to be” – @SpeakerPelosi. She calls on Trump’s family to have an “intervention” but refuses to use the House’s “intervention” tool: impeachment.
Home next week. Call your reps. #Impeachment
“We were getting about 2 to 1 calls that were opposing impeachment. Now the calls are 3 or 4 to 1 we need to be moving forward..it’s getting too out of hand. We’re getting closer & closer to that [impeachment] point.” – @RepKatieHill
“a 'growing majority' of Democrats think #Impeachment is 'inevitable.' “I think [ @SpeakerPelosi ] fully understands that – her caucus understands impeachment's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when"– @RepJohnYarmuth
cnn.com/2019/05/22/pol…
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Puesto Loco™
@PuestoLoco
.@SpeakerPelosi’s risky, dictatorial stance on not having impeachment investigations is starting to erode. She prefers to gamble with the courts & drag it out to nowhere like in 2008. washingtonpost.com/politics/pelos…
Eliminating America’s rule of law –
18 USC §1512(b) – Witness Tampering. Felony, punishable by up to 20 years.
Will @theJusticeDept prosecute? No.
Will @SpeakerPelosi prosecute? No.
thehill.com/policy/nationa…
Eliminating America’s rule of law –
2 USC § 192 – Refusal of witness to testify. Misdemeanor, punishable by minimum 1 month to 12 months jail.
Will @theJusticeDept prosecute? No.
Will @SpeakerPelosi prosecute? If she doesn’t, she’s Trump’s No.1 enabler.
thehill.com/homenews/house…
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Kevin M. Kruse
@KevinMKruse
House Democrats are worried about possible political blowback from an impeachment inquiry into a president whose crimes have already been laid out in detail by others and who currently has a pathetic 38% approval.
For comparison, Nixon had just been re-elected in a landslide and stood at 65% approval when Democrats launched the Senate Watergate inquiry in February 1973.

The full airing of evidence and testimony against Nixon quickly eroded his support, bringing it to 39% in July 1973.
It's idiotic to think that Trump is currently too strong to launch formal impeachment proceedings or, short of that, a committee to air the evidence and testimony against him.

It's even more idiotic to assume that once that process begins, it'll somehow drive his numbers *up*
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Joseph Britt
@Zathras3
Vigorous #impeachment discussion yesterday between polls and elections expert @NateSilver538 (con) and former Harry Reid person @AJentleson (pro). The subject is worth a thread.
2. As with most issues before Congress, substance and politics are closely related but distinguishable. As to substance, the argument -- persuasive to me -- is that obstruction of justice, contacts with Russians seeking to influence a US election, corruption and the rest...
3...will do mortal damage to American democracy if tolerated. Not proceeding toward impeachment proceedings means tolerating all of these things, though it is possible to deceive oneself on that point. The political argument @NateSilver538 makes is about American voters.
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Thomas Wood 🌊
@twoodiac
He’s clearly lost control of the narrative. It’s because of Mueller--and this is just the beginning.

Voters don’t want impeachment, but they are ripe for investigative hearings.

And in Nov of 2020, voters are going to TAKE HIM DOWN. politi.co/2PshBzV
I stand by my claim that voters are “ripe” for Congressional hearings, despite polling that has found them--at least for now--to be ambivalent and pretty evenly divided about them. 1/35
2/35 politi.co/2PshBzV
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cyberobserver
@OSINTResearcher
#Trump campaign #BradPascale in #Romania makes me ponder a few questions:
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-Using trip to influence US Romania emigrant voters?
-Purpose is to offer #socialmedia manipulation advice for #EU May vote?
-Perfect opportunity to meet with other election manipulators in the region?
Romanian American diaspora
States-Leanings-Delegate#
NY-Dem-29
CA-Dem-55
FL-LeansR-29
MI-LeansD-16
PA-Tossup-20
IL-Dem-20
DE-Dem-3
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As Romanian immigrants in America steadily increase, the population of Romanian voters might be heavily influenced by the strong ties to political and religious opinions held by leaders in Romania.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_…
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Larisa Alexandrovna
@larisa_a
1. I am so sick of hearing that the ONLY reason Trump should be impeached is if he conspired with a foreign power to steal the election. Let's remove that entire smokescreen and look at impeachment as a tool and why Trump needs to be impeached EVEN WITHOUT conspiracy allegations.
2. First, let's be clear about the ramifications of Pelosi's impeachment-is-too-divisive bullshit. We heard this before, about 15 years ago, when she took impeachment "off the table" even though the Bush administration lied us into an illegal war of aggression and ...
3. And violated Geneva conventions to make torture part of the intelligence toolbox. Here is what I opined then: "When Speaker Pelosi declared that the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney was “off the table,” she not only abdicated her Constitutional..."
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Zach Everson
@Z_Everson
Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

bit.ly/2EPCSy1
National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
Two errors in the 2nd graf of Breitbart's Trump Hotel DC article:
-holdings aren't out of @realDonaldTrump's hands: trust isn't blind & he can profit from it
-Trump Org told Congress it was estimating foreign receipts—not auto donating in full
bit.ly/2CpL7z2
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