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Post by Admin on Dec 23, 2018 17:52:26 GMT
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN on Sunday that it appears that Trump is at the center of “several massive frauds against the American people,” and that he may have committed “impeachable offenses.” It is Nadler who would oversee a potential impeachment of the president, and he may have even more evidence to consider by the time he takes over the judiciary committee next month. “The entire question about whether the president committed an impeachable offense now hinges on the testimony of two men: David Pecker and Allen Weisselberg, both cooperating witnesses in the SDNY investigation,” a source close to the president told NBC.
Pecker is the CEO of AMI, which is cooperating with the SDNY in order to avoid prosecution. Weisselberg is the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization who knows more about Trump’s financial dealings that almost anyone. In August, he was granted immunity by federal prosecutors in exchange for his cooperation, which could aid a number of investigations. This is not good for Trump, especially as Nadler and other congressional Democrats circle the president like vultures. Rep. Adam Schiff (R-CA), the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has hinted that his party could seek to obtain Trump’s tax returns as they investigate potential financial crimes. On Wednesday, he argued that the Justice Department should “re-examine” its policy of not indicting a sitting president. “I don’t think that the Justice Department ought to take the position — and it’s certainly not one that would be required in any way by the Constitution — that a president merely by being in office can be above the law … by waiting out the statute of limitations,” he said on CNN.
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2019 18:12:54 GMT
When the 116th Congress is sworn in on Thursday, the Democratic Party will control the House of Representatives ― and the new committee chairs are ready to finally conduct rigorous oversight of the president’s administration for the first time.
“For the last two years, the president has had no oversight, no accountability from Congress,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said on “CBS This Morning” on Wednesday. “We’re going to provide that oversight. We’re going to use the subpoena power if we have to.”
Democrats will almost immediately begin to investigate the many controversial policies and scandals of the Trump administration.
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Post by Admin on Jan 4, 2019 18:01:12 GMT
President Trump sought Friday to push back against talk of impeaching him that has intensified since Democrats took back control of the House, arguing that his adversaries want to remove him from office because of his popularity and success. “They only want to impeach me because they know they can’t win in 2020, too much success!” Trump wrote in one of two tweets Friday morning that addressed the subject. House Democratic leaders have sought to tamp down immediate talk of impeachment, counseling that they should wait for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to file a report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Post by Admin on Jan 6, 2019 17:56:33 GMT
Donald Trump spent two hours alone with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in July and we still have no idea what was specifically said or agreed between two of the most powerful men in the world. (Only two interpreters, bound to silence, were present.) Quite a lot, probably. First off, there are new concerns about Trump’s continuing susceptibility to talking points that can have only one source – Russian propaganda. More of this later. Second, it belongs in a long trail of events that have either deliberately left serious blanks in the historical record or delayed by many years discovery of the truth. We live in a moment in America when the discovery of information is in daily hand-to-hand combat with the deliberate suppression of information. For the second time in recent history the fate of a presidency might well rest on the unhindered discovery and exposure of essential evidence. Nothing is as central to the health of a democracy as overcoming a cover-up.
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Post by Admin on Jan 11, 2019 17:47:31 GMT
Members of President Donald Trump's campaign and transition team had more than 100 contacts with Russian-linked officials, according to an analysis by the Center for American Progress think tank and its Moscow Project. CAP, a liberal think tank, used publicly available court documents and reporting to tally up the number of contacts with Russian-linked officials, which includes those with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and others tied to Russian intelligence, banks and politicians. The organizations counted each meeting and message as a separate contact. The number of contacts was raised to 101 this week, according to CAP, after it was reported that Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, a former campaign aide, shared polling data with Manafort's former Russian business partner Konstantin Kilimnik. Contacts between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russians are under scrutiny in special counsel Robert Mueller's two-year investigation into Moscow's interference in the presidential election.
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