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House Republican impeachment attorney Steve Castor was given a heaping pile of chicken shit yesterday and failed to turn it into a delicious bowl of chicken salad.

wonkette.com/gop-lawyer-ste…
Castor's been kicking around the House since 2005, the beloved attack schnauzer of Jason Chaffetz, Trey Gowdy, and Darrell Issa, who described him as "just too good a lawyer not to have."
Which might have been overselling it just a wee smidge, particularly since the guy has the charisma of a tube sock
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The House Ethics Committee on Thursday disclosed a federal investigation into GOP @RossSpano accused of accepting an illegal campaign loan

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The freshman has faced questions about $180,000 in loans he accepted from friends last year during the closing months of his campaign, funds he later appeared to funnel into his campaign account, reporting them as a personal loan to the campaign.
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The relationship has
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Westinghouse Electric, and XCoal Energy & Resources — all signed deals to sell their goods to Ukraine, including coal, rail cars, and nuclear plant equipment.

Trump was “exchanging political favors” with Ukraine long before the telephone call with the current Ukrainian
president.

The article also shed light on how some Pennsylvania businesses got deals signed that in hindsight could have had political overtones.

nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/…
Ukraine received coal from XCoal, of Latrobe, under an agreement reached by Poroshenko and Trump during the former’s visit to the United States in 2017. The contract helped Ukraine at a time when its key coal resources were being controlled by separatist forces.
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I'm going to highlight some interesting tidbits from the Yanovitch hearing.

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We have repeatedly asked the State Department's office of the legal advisor to provide us with a written statement that we could read on their behalf so that their concerns regarding what
they term "executive branch confidentiality 'interests" could be heard by this committee. We have asked them to specify in writing particular topics with respect to which they wish us to point out their interests. And although we were told we would receive such a statement, we
have not.

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Impeachment Hearings Thread: Day One
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Full opening statements (video & text) by Intel Chairman Schiff and Ranking Minority Leader Nunes.

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What is clear from the testimonies of the acting and deputy ambassadors to Ukraine is that President Trump was running a shadow government foreign policy for personal gain, using Rudy Giuliani and amassador to the EU Sondland (a Trump campaign mega-donor) as his intermediaries.
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Oeishik M.G.C. JD
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A note on #impeachment #Ukraine

Below you will find what the Constitution of the United States says about the impeachment process.

Something to remember as we wade into this sacrosanct constitutional process: Congress has unchecked power to impeach. The House of Representatives
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The Constitution does not give the judicial or executive branch any jurisdiction to limit or obstruct the impeachment process. In fact, doing so would contravene the express mandate of the Constitution and all following judicial & legislative actions in this matter. So what's
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Adam A. Fernandez
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A short thread on #impeachment.

I have pre-existing conditions—I fear my life & that of my friends being taken away.
I have close friends with DACA—I fear their right to be here being taken away.
I'm a Latino parent—I fear my child will be discriminated against worse than I was
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OK, HERE'S HOW YOU DO #IMPEACHMENT:

Call only Republicans to testify.

Use only Republican quotes from the Clinton impeachment.

Start with #MitchMcConnell:

"Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness."
GOP #IMPEACHMENT QUOTES

Here's @LindseyGrahamSC:

“[Clinton] doesn’t have to say, ‘Go lie for me,’ to be a crime. You don’t have to say, ‘Let’s obstruct justice’ for it to be a crime. You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases.”
GOP #IMPEACHMENT QUOTES

Here's @ChuckGrassley: "The true tragedy in this case is the collapse of the President's moral authority ... there is the issue of the abuse of power and authority. This White House has perfected the art of stonewalling around the truth."
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Very curious & incredibly coincidental that Rep. Justin Amash is 1st #Republican to call 4 #impeachment and represents the district in Michigan that includes Spectrum Health and the DeVos family. Remember the weird Trump-Alfa Bank comms #countryoverparty
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The renewed interest in this weird now suggested Tor encrypted comms between a Trump controlled server, Alfa Bank in Russia, Spectrum Health and a number of other less frequent IPs, is from a recent FOIA request that included Christopher Steele notes wonkette.com/did-paul-manaf…
Have to say the FOIA requests & lawsuits resulting in discovery are not working well 4 groups trying to prove this is a witch hunt. Remember the Gubarev Webzilla lawsuit against Buzzfeed? Only helped to further validate the Steele Dossier nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/…
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Joshua Matz
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In this article, @Sulliview argues that "talk of impeachment, all-but-taboo in Big Media’s coverage of Trump, [has] moved from the margins into the mainstream." She attributes that development mainly to a prominent essay in @TheAtlantic. That's not right. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
There's no denying that #impeachment talk has accelerated over the past few months. But I'm not convinced that this past week was really such a Rubicon when considered in broader perspective, or that a handful of well-argued essays in liberal magazines are the drivers of change.
For starters, there's been no shortage of impeachment talk in mainstream publications since Trump took office. I've gathered quite a few such articles in this @ShallTakeCare database, which includes analyses tracing back to before Trump even took office. takecareblog.com/blog/impeachin…
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