Broadcast, cable news networks to preempt regular programming for Trump impeachment coverage
Well, this will get interesting twit responses.
"If you are ever asking yourself 'Is Trump lying or is he stupid?', the answer is most likely C: All of the Above" - Seth Meyers
The more people that know about it; the more doubt it sews in the minds of the moderate or undecided voter, the better.
And Trump's barely coherent twitter ramblings on the matter aren't exactly going to turn people to his side.
Republicans are doing their damnedest to downplay this or switch the subject. Letting them know that that's not possible, and that Trump threatens to drag them down with him? Now that might be the only way to force them to grow a spine on the matter, if only out of desperate self-preservation.
And above all I want for Trump to have to testify under oath. That'll be the near-instant nail in his coffin.
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Words to live by.
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I don't think Trump could not implicate himself in whatever crimes it was he committed. He's obviously very mentally unbalanced, and having him go before people who are actually going to grill him instead of pitch him softball questions like Fox, or in a debate format where he can just spout random nonsense until the next question arises, or in a press interview where he controls the narrative flow, would sink him utterly. And I'm pretty sure the republicans know this.
His words would have consequences. His answers would be held to legal scrutiny. Things that Trump cannot cope with.
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Trump is going to go fucking apeshit once those start up. We already know he watches 6+ hours of television a day....
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We'll see if Roberts let's the Prosecutor subpoena Trump. I sincerely hope they do. And that he does.
There's no way that they would allow him to testify live. The Republican senate will just allow pre-recorded responses via video.
Because they don't want to give away too much of their strategy. The White House is already ignoring subpoenas from the House for staff. They would bat Trump's aside like a birdie. It will be a much different story when SCOTUS Chief Justice Roberts is enforcing the subpoenas.
(I need to check to see if the GOP tried to get Clinton to testify in the Senate trial - and what happened if they did)
Honestly if Trump testified I don't think anything useful would come of it in terms of information. At this point I'd expect it to be him just shouting nonsense and namecalling anyone 'opposed' to him rather than actually spouting off anything useful.
And I'd like all of that to be a matter of public record. And everything he'd say would be under oath.
I don't anticipate Trump would be able to shed any light on the matter; the facts all seem pretty well known at this point. It's really more a matter of his dumb ass not knowing what is and isn't illegal, seeing as he's used to doing or saying whatever he wants and having other people cover for him, and him saying something incriminating or later being found to have lied under oath when new information comes out.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
The goal at that point, as you said, would be more to reiterate how much Trump fucked up using his own words. Something that can't be hand-waved or ignored, and put him in a position where he's forced to face direct retorts and rebuttals to his nonsense.
Hammer home how unfit he is for his office, if nothing else, and have the soundbites on standby going into 2020.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
As much as I would like to believe that, but his followers have been hand-waving and ignoring anything problematic he's said since, well, before the election. If they can reconcile his contradictions, shifting statements and outright admissions, then they can hand-wave and ignore even statements under oath. The emperor has been strutting about naked for years, and we had people defending his fashion sense ever since.
It’s not Trumps idiotic sycophants that need to be swayed. They’ve already sold their souls to the devil, as it were.
It’s the independent voters and republicans who are on the fence about trump in this whole matter. They are the people that need to be reached, and who these proceedings, (because the republican establishment will refuse to hear them) are in service to.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.