Lev Parnas also stated in his interview with Rachael Maddow that the investigations Trump wanted in Ukraine had nothing to do with corruption and everything to do with the Bidens and getting the announcement of an investigation into them.
Not a shock to those of us in the reality-based community, mind, but it'll be a rude awakening for the Trump cult.
"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
O’rly now? So could we possibly see him receive impeachment as well? I mean, I feel like this falls under high crimes etc. Even if he was not directing people, if he knew what was going on, he was complicit in allowing it to continue instead of blowing the whistle on it or simply telling them to stop.
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Clearly he’s a deep state Democrat planted in Trump’s circle.
Edit: (Hopefully /s is not required)
Thanks, been unable to keep track of all this stuff recently with a LOT of real life stuff keeping my attention, so this place and another politics section I frequent are my main news sources right now.
This place makes actually one of the better news sources I have come across.
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And with all this new stuff coming out and even implicating Pence. My next question....
How much did McConnell know and WHEN did he know?
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Parnas also said that Ukraine getting the military aid was predicated on them giving Trump the investigation announcements he wanted. Again, not a shock to the reality based community but another rude awakening for Trump World.
"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
Agreed regarding good sources of information.
I would bet McConnell is actually free and clear of the Ukraine mess. This seems to be mostly an Executive Branch recipe with a touch of insecure Congressmen for spice. Now, the NRA and the payoff for his wife being SecTrans is an entirely different matter.
So much confirmation of everything we know, so much more new damning information implicating many other people, so many new witnesses to subpoena. This interview is a fucking nuke on the administration.
The info on Nunes is spectacular. I am almost stunned speechless by the brazenness of that scumbag.
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Agreed on both. The Truth and Reconciliation Committee will take decades to resolve the horror Trump wrong upon this country.
And yeah, it's way past time to make the DOJ an independent department.
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Then the only place it could reside is under the SCOTUS. Which would work, too.
Well, the current administration has already proven that it can't function properly under the administration as corrupt as this with what he has done, especially with Barr.
It can't be under the Senate as old Moscow Mitch the Bitch has shown they can be and they can't function under Congress as the Republicans shown how to abuse it for 2 years before losing the majority.
It can't properly function under either of them given what has been shown with the GOP in power.
It needs to operate separately from all of them.
Where would you put them then since all 3 of them are off the table of viable options?
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Fun conversation here - just shit over other's ideas without suggestions of your own. Maybe pony up since you obviously have other ideas....
I'm sure one of the many fallouts after the Committee is established because of the Impeachment will be a recommendation of a more independent DoJ.
Personally, I would say to have them be an independent branch of elected officials or force them to be made up of equal parts of both parties on the board and it only takes 30% to actually initiate something so that we don't have a single party moving in lockstep like we have had the Republicans do for the past decade+ to try and block everything.
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That's exactly how most of the world does it, where prosecution is not an adversarial system, but a civil system of judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys working together.
Personally, if DoJ was to be under one branch, I'd think it should be the Legislative, IE Congress.
Not possible as their head becomes another nomination from Congress or the Senate or we end up with another Barr situation with another fuck up in charge.
And why wouldn't the have any place on being one of the checks and balances against the others? If Congress screws around, they could intervene on the individuals doing so without having to worry about the Senate screwing around or the president.
This would be an added check on that power. It isn't like they are able to choose who replaces them. It just stops stuff like this or stuff were we have indefinite ACTING positions because those in power refuse to do their damn job due to partisan issues.
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When I say making them their own branch, I didn't mean giving them direct control over the judges, I meant in their capacity to investigate things independently without interference from the other branches and no person in power there could be chosen from the other branches either.
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No way oversight with Congress. Terrible idea as well. Best place is under Judiciary, with a nomination and term limit set up for the top spot. IIRC there was a thread about this awhile back....
But I definitely think the DoJ will come under heavy scrutiny after the Impeachment and removal (most likely by election) of Trump.
Your daily reminder that the White House is the only source of governing legitimacy for any agency of the executive branch, cabinet level on down, and most of them were invented out of whole cloth within the last 80-90 years.
Well, Nancy sure showed Mitch, huh? So leverage, much pressure.
Who said they would have no oversight? If they overstepped their authority, you would have it where the other branches could intervene.
Allowing them to be under the authority of the president with a partisan majority in the senate is giving them no effective oversight.
Allowing them to remain under the president after the abuse it has shown has proven to be even MORE stupid and leading to levels of abuse we are currently seeing.
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Well, delaying them did allow more to come out, but honestly think Pelosi is doing it wrong on this one. I already mentioned earlier how they could do it to truly screw up McConnell's whole year. She has the leverage if she just has a clue how to use it.
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