Tag Archives: impeachment

Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump’s defense attorney, conceded in 1998 that there “certainly doesn’t have to be a crime” for impeachment to be pursued. “If you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president, and who abuses trust, and who poses great danger to our liberty,” he said, that’s all the justification you need.

By Mark | January 21, 2020

Now that the articles of impeachment have been relayed from the House to the Senate, and all of our Senators have sworn under oath to provide “impartial justice,” we’re ready for the trial of Donald J. Trump to commence. While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has yet to come forward with the rules that will […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 2020, abuse of power, Adam Schiff, Alan Dershowitz, Constitution, constitutional law, corruption, cover-up, criminal defense, Donald Turmp, election interference, George Stephanopoulos, high crimes and misdemeanors, impartial justice, Jeffrey Epstein, Joe Biden, massage, military aid, Mitch McConnell, national security, Russia, Senate, Ukraine, underwear | 106 Comments

Parnas implicates both Barr and Pence in the Trump administration’s plan to coerce Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Joe Biden

By Mark | January 15, 2020

I’ll keep this brief, and just get right to the point. This evening, Trump administration bag man Lev Parnes told Rachel Maddow not only that Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani were directing his activities in the Ukraine, but that both Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Bill Barr were aware of their plan to […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged corruption, Donald Trump, Igor Fruman, Joe Biden, Lev Parnas, Mike Pence, quid pro quo, Rachel Maddow, Rudy Giuliani, Ukraine, William Barr | 41 Comments

Parnas files appear to show that people working on behalf of the President were monitoring the movements of U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and her security detail

By Mark | January 14, 2020

On the eve of handing the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump off to the Republican-controlled Senate, House Democrats played the last card they had left in their hand, going public with a cache of documents given to federal investigators by Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who, as you may recall, was arrested on charges of […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged assassination, bitch", call to action, corruption, Donald Trump, Fraud Guarantee, Gordon Sondland, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Kiev, Lev Parnas, mafia, Marie Yovanovitch, Mimi Rocah, mob hit, Robert F. Hyde, Rudy Giuliani, stalking, surveilance, Susan Hennessey, Ukraine, Viena, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky | 68 Comments

Of course we’re going to war

By Mark | January 2, 2020

News has just broken that the Trump administration, without any congressional debate, has assassinated Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds force. I hate to think it of my own government, but I can’t help but wonder if this had more to do with changing the narrative around impeachment than it did making the […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged assassination, Donald Trump, Iran, Quds, Revolutionary Guard, terrorism, war | 22 Comments

Christianity Today: “Trump Should Be Removed from Office”

By Mark | December 20, 2019

Remember how, not too long ago, we were talking here about Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to shore up his support among evangelical voters as Congress started moving toward impeachment? Well, it apparently didn’t work so well. Yesterday, the influential evangelical magazine Christianity Today, which was started by Billy Graham back in 1956, published a scathing […]