Speaker Pelosi names the Impeachment Managers

The Honorable Adam Schiff (D-CA) is the Lead Manager.

More evidence on Trump's crimes revealed.

Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is calling for an investigation into “what happened” after newly released evidence suggested that Trump officials were monitoring her movements before Rudy Giuliani and allies pushed her out of her role. 

 Why were they monitoring her? 

 The newly released evidence shows that the president's personal lawyer wanted Yovanovitch out of the way so that Trump could proceed with his crimes.




Documents Provide New Details of Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Ukraine 

The dozens of pages of notes, text messages and other records lay out work conducted by Rudolph W. Giuliani and an associate on behalf of the president.


"...dozens of pages of notes, text messages and other records lay out work conducted by Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, and his associate Lev Parnas on behalf of the president. They include handwritten notes scrawled on a sheet of hotel paper at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Vienna that mention getting President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to announce an investigation of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son. 

 House Democrats released the records even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a Wednesday vote to name House prosecutors and send the articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump to the Senate to begin the trial. The material undergirds the accusations against Mr. Trump, and highlights how much is still to be learned about the scope of a scheme that the impeachment charges call a blatant effort to solicit foreign help in the 2020 election. 

 The documents, provided by Mr. Parnas, contain a series of exchanges between him and a Ukrainian prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko, who was helping Mr. Giuliani unearth damaging information about the Bidens."

Exposing this lying liar never gets old

The Depraved and Deranged GOP preznit...

retweeted this photoshopped image out on Monday. 

Yes. You read that correctly. 

The POTUS, acting like a 12-year old bully, sent around to millions of his mentally stunted followers this image of the person who is second in line to the presidency of the United States and of Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer.

What's the message here?

Possibly to insult every American Muslim by implying that all Muslims are terrorists and to suggest that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer  are terrorists.

This was sent out by a mentally unstable and deteriorating scoundrel. And that wreckage of a human being represents the current Republican Party.

My 11 year old grandson has more impulse control, intelligence, and human decency than the fool who is currently defiling the Oval Office.

President Dotard bragging about committing war crimes and other Trump atrocities:

The question Americans have to ask is, Did President Dotard lie AGAIN about imminent  attacks on American embassies? None of his people back that claim up. 

Did he lie? AGAIN?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Also, President Dotard's rationale for killing Suleimani is falling apart as well. Another lie?

The Trump Administration’s Fluctuating Explanations for the Suleimani Strike

Over 10 days, officials have struggled to rationalize the decision that risked a war with Iran

SUNDAY SCIENCE BLOG

Hillary cleared; Trump impeached

Remember "Lock Her UP!" at Trump's mob rallies? Remember those t-shirts depicting Hillary behind bars?  

President Dotard made his own DoJ investigate Hillary Clinton again, looking for something, anything, to charge her with and put her away.

But what happened to President Dotard's vendetta? 

NOTHING.

To all President Dotard's cultists: 

Trump's own Justice Department found NOTHING. 

Hillary is NOT going to jail, she's not charged with anything. It's Trump who's been impeached and in the Mueller Report found to have obstructed justice.

"Deep State?"

No. Truth. 

It's what the Trump cultists fear most.


Justice Department Effectively Ends Clinton Investigation After Finding Nothing: 

A prosecutor was investigating Trump’s claim that the FBI did not properly look into Hillary Clinton’s role in a uranium deal while she was secretary of state.

The Republicans' "president" will speak this morning about the Iran crisis.

I'll be away from tv and other communications. I'll read about the lies he tells later in the day.

Meanwhile this:

We Can’t Afford Trump as Our Commander in Chief

He lacks the counsel, character and credibility to lead us into war.

“Donald Trump has not made a single public statement since ordering last Thursday’s operation that has not been either unhelpful or counterproductive,” Noah Rothman, the associate editor of Commentary, wrote on Monday. Rothman is conservative, does not routinely bash Trump and defended Suleimani’s killing itself. 

But in his essay, titled “A Dangerous Man in Perilous Times,” he noted that “the best anyone can say about Trump’s spasmodic conduct is that it won’t matter.” “Serious moments demand sober and rational minds at the helm, and the president’s behavior so far does not inspire confidence,” Rothman added. 

 No, it makes you tremble.

BREAKING NEWS: MORE THAN 12 IRANIAN MISSILES LAUNCHED AT TWO U.S. BASES IN IRAQ, PENTAGON CONFIRMS

"War is the failure of diploimacy. It's the failure of statecraft. And it is the failure of humanity. We're seeing lots of failures combine tonight in horrifying ways." --Ned Price


The nuclear agreement with Iran was successful diplomacy and statecraft. This didn't have to happen.

The Pentagon stated that Iran attacked two Iraqi bases housing US forces.

Number of casualties unknown at this time.



Report: Iranian TV named "Dubai" specifically as possible arget. Rhetoric designed to cause panic and it will. Iranian state TV warning other nations in region not to assist US military.


Rand Paul breaks with Trump: "He 'got bad advice' on killing of Soleimani." --The Hill

Richard Engel: "Iran making treats of mass escalation. To attack more bases in Iraq. To unleash Hezbollah. To unleash shiite militias in Iraq. To attack Israel and Dubai. Making it clear it is ready for a widespread campaign if this escalates further with a US response."

Lawrence O'Donnell: "These threats of war crimes and mass murder by Iran make this the most dangerous night in history of American military in the Middle East and Trump has no idea what to say. White House says Trump won't make a staement tonight. He is literally speechless.

The Republicans' "president"* is a liar.

At a crucial time for our country, millions of Americans as well as people around the world, do not believe the explanations are coming out of Trump's White House from him and his people about the Iran crisis.

Trump has based his entire political career on lies. I believe nothing he or his people say about the reasons for assassinating Suleimani.

Trump has no credibiity here or abroad.

DISGRACED LIAR

No one believes Trump:


“This is where having credibility — and having a president who didn’t lie about everything — would be really, really helpful,” Samantha Power, the former United States ambassador to the United Nations, wrote recently. 

 A president with credibility would be better able to persuade foreign governments to help protect American diplomats and military members who are now at risk. 

 A president with credibility would be more likely to beat Iran in the global court of public opinion. 

 A president with credibility would be able to set clear red lines that might influence Iran’s behavior in coming weeks. 

 But President Trump has no credibility. His political rise was built on a lie (about Barack Obama’s birthplace). He has told thousands of untruths since becoming president. He appears to be lying again — about why he ordered the assassination of Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s most significant military leader. 

 Over the weekend, Senator Chris Murphy, the Connecticut Democrat, tweeted the following: “The moment we all feared is likely upon us.” Murphy was referring to Trump’s rash behavior. But Murphy just as easily could have been referring to Trump’s credibility. 

The United States has entered a serious national security conflict, and the whole world knows our president is a habitual liar."




*Why do I label Trump "the Republicans' "president?" Because he appeals only to his base. He visits only the states that supported him in 2016. He has insulted New York, California, Puerto Rico, and other areas of the country where he did not win. 

Trump has divided an already divided country and made it worse.

Trump predicted that President Obama would go to war with Iran in order to get re-elected in 2011. We've seen and heard the videos of him saying so.

And this is where we are. Ready to go to war with Iran so that Trump can avoid impeachment and get re-elected.

He's a monster.

President Dotard threatens to destroy Iran's cultural heritage sites

President Dotard actually tweeted out his threat to break international and U.S. law this weekend.

Destroying cultural heritage sites is a war crime

"President Trump threatened to destroy 52 Iranian sites — “some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture” — on Twitter on Saturday. This may seem like a small issue in the midst of an international crisis, but, as others have noted, his tweet amounts to an announcement of an intention to commit war crimes. 

 A part of the Hague Convention of 1907, signed over a century ago, says that “all necessary steps must be taken” to spare “buildings dedicated to religion, art, science, or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals, and places where the sick and wounded are collected.” Similarly, the Geneva Convention Protocol I, signed in 1949 and amended in 1977, renders unlawful “any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples.” 

 Federal law in the United States says that violating these international conventions would constitute a war crime. Anyone who violates them could be imprisoned or, if death results from their actions, be sentenced to death. Members of the Trump administration should be on notice that they can be held liable under these provisions. 

 Trump’s threatened actions would be morally reprehensible even outside the law, because they would destroy centuries-old places of profound importance not just to Iranians, but to all of human civilization."


The GOP's idiot president:

Mar-a-Lago Guests and Israel Had More Prior Knowledge 

of Strike on Soleimani Than Democratic Leaders

Trump was dropping hints to guests at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida days before the attack, telling them to expect something “big” very “soon” in Iraq

"Days ahead of the assassination of high-ranking Iranian military and intelligence official Gen. Qasem Soleimani, President Donald Trump was dropping hints to guests at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, telling them to expect something “big” very “soon” in Iraq. “He kept saying, ‘You’ll see,’” a source who was at Mar-a-Lago told The Daily Beast. 

The Trump administration also forewarned Israel of the intended killing. “Our assessment is that the United States informed Israel about this operation in Iraq, apparently a few days ago,” said journalist and commentator Barak Ravid, who has sources within Israel’s government, according to the Los Angeles Times. 

Another source, an Israeli army officer, told the paper that the attack “did not come as a surprise.” Meanwhile, contrary to tradition, Trump neglected to inform top Democrats including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ahead of the strike."


In case you've forgotten:

Flashback: Trump Warned That a ‘Weak’ and ‘Ineffective’ President Would Start a War With Iran to ‘Get Re-elected’

Believe nothing this lying liar says.

"For a president who repeated his determination to withdraw from the caldron of the Middle East, the strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, who for two decades has led Iran’s most fearsome and ruthless military unit, the Quds Force, means there will be no escape from the region for the rest of his presidency, whether that is one year or five. Mr. Trump has committed the United States to a conflict whose dimensions are unknowable, as Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seeks vengeance." --New York Times  

TRUMP ORDERS DEATH OF SULEIMANI

NOTICE:  Believe none of the propaganda the Trump administration puts out about the assassination of Suleimani.

Michael Moore·  "Hello fellow Americans. Do you know this man? Did you know he was your enemy? What? Never heard of him? By the end of today you will be trained to hate him. You will be glad Trump had him assassinated. You will do as you are told. Sit! Fetch! Jump! Get ready to die on your plane ride back home from the holidays. Get ready to send your sons and daughters to die in a new war. War makes the rich richer. War is good. War is a necessary distraction. War is peace. Trump is our Commander! Happy New Decade. It won’t be long now. Shhhh...sleep...there was no collusion...it was a perfect call...I just shot a man on 5th Avenue just because I can...I’m sorry, but due to this national emergency we’ve had to postpone the election..."








Trump unifies Iran against the U.S. with his killing of Major General Qassim Suleimani, Commander of Iranian forces.

Iran vows "revenge" on America.

More Americans will be killed.

Trump administration ordered all Americans to leave Iraq immediately.

What is the Trump administration's policy?

Trump said he wants out of the Middle East. 

How will this happen now?

Trump has just kicked a dangerous hornets nest.

Just a reminder...

as we begin a new year:

Every day, Trumpers come to Progressive Eruptions to bash President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, V.P. Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Every day.

None of those Democrats have been indicted for anything. 

The men in the above photo are all close associates of  Trump. All of them worked for him, one of them was his close personal lawyer. His present close personal lawyer is under CRIMINAL investigation..

Trump himself was under FBI investigation and the Muller Report stated this:


“If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.” –Mueller Report

Read that again. That states very, very strongly that Donald J. Trump DID commit obstruction of justice, and the Mueller Report documents over 10 times how Trump engaged in this high crime and misdemeanor.

After the Mueller Report, we were shocked to discover, thanks to the patriotism of a whistleblower, that the POTUS tried to extort a foreign country to give him dirt on his political opponent, another crime.

On December 18, 2019, Donald J. Trump became the 3rd POTUS to be impeached, and THE FIRST POTUS to be impeached in his first term.

That's where we are on January 2, 2020, an election year.

Stay tuned.



Meanwhile, THIS:

TO MY P.E. FAMILY AND FRIENDS:

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SATURDAY NIGHT FUNNIES

You can thank your Trumpublican relatives and friends for this...

A Gangster in the White House 

The president tweeted the name of the presumed whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal—demonstrating that he is unrepentant and determined to break the law again


"Amid a two-day binge of post-Christmas rage-tweeting, President Donald Trump retweeted the name of the CIA employee widely presumed to be the whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal. On Thursday night, December 26, Trump retweeted his campaign account, which had tweeted a link to a Washington Examiner article that printed the name in the headline. Then, in the early hours of Friday morning, December 27, Trump retweeted a supporter who named the presumed whistle-blower in the text of the tweet."

The Republican Outlaw President is having a complete mental breakdown in front of the world:

George Conway was pretty blunt:

George Conway@gtconway3d

GOP senators: You all know he’s nuts, right?

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7,968 people are talking about this

One account links to neo-Nazis and Qanon. How Presidential*:

Charles Johnson

✔@Green_Footballs

This account the president* is obsessively retweeting over and over has frequently tweeted links to neo-Nazis and Qanon.

I know, more of the same, but goddammit this shit is NOT RIGHT.

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He is retweeting a bot that keeps getting suspended. Not suspicious at all:

Brandon Friedman

✔@BFriedmanDC

Replying to @BFriedmanDC

3. As it happens, @DebPort48849817 was suspended by Twitter less than a week ago. The new account, @DebPort03755076, was then created. The new account has tweeted more than 600 times in less than a week.

And that's whose message @realDonaldTrump is amplifying.

THE TRUMPUBLICAN PRESIDENT: A CONVICTED FRAUD

What can anyone say when the Trumpublican cultists continue to support a guy who ripped off his fellow Americans with his fake Trump University and then had a judgement AGAINST hin in court that ordered him to pay $25 million in penalties for cheating Americans who signed up for his fake Trump U.?

For me, it will always be a mystery why so many people who consider themselves good Christian Americans continue to support this crook. The only explanation that makes sense to me and millions of other Americans is that Trumpublican cultists really admire a guy who cheats people out of money, who cheats on his spouses (and his porn star and playmate mistresses), who lies the way normal people breathe, and who's clearly losing what's left of his inferior mind.

And who now has the distinction of being only the third US president to be impeached and THE FIRST US president to be impeached in his first term.

So many firsts with this crooked POTUS!

Judge finalizes $25 million settlement in Trump’s fraud case

DONALD TRUMP TRYING TO CHEAT PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR MONEY FOR HIS FAKE TRUMP U.

"The circumstances are nothing short of bizarre: a sitting president of the United States has written a check for $25 million to a group of Americans who credibly claimed that he ripped them off by perpetrating a fraud. You know things are bad for a president when a story like this goes almost entirely unnoticed by the public, eclipsed by a dozen or so more pressing scandals."

PEACE

TRUMP IS CLEARLY SUFFERING FROM MENTAL DETERIORATION

And this confused and delirIous liar has his finger on the nuclear button.

This is an extremely unwell man. Trump spewed utterly bizarre, deluded nonsense Saturday night, rambling and ridiculous at a level that is scary even for him. Dementia is a rapidly progressing affliction and stress can cause it to worsen. This is approaching a crisis.

BTW, they're not called "windmills," they're wind turbines, but no one has the courage to tell the Stable Genius who knows "windmills very much."

CRIKEY! He needs an intervention STAT!

SUNDAY NIGHT FUNNIES

Eddie Murphy returns to SNL!

CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE, THE NATIONAL REVIEW, SAYS TRUMP'S IMPEACHMENT IS JUSTIFIED AND HE SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE

This is for Conservative/Libertarian commenters who come to P.E.

You've been true to your moral principles, NOT to a demagogue -- a liar, cheat, and fraud --Donald J. Trump

Congratulations on sticking to what you believe in.

Four Tests for Impeachment

"The National Review, founded by William F Buckley, has been since the 1960s a conservative Republican bastion. 

This clearly reasoned article comes to the inescapable conclusion that DJT’s impeachment was justified and his removal is necessary. It will shake some lifelong Republicans."

"Virtually all traditional conservatives with moral principles (not Trumpists) agree."


Yes. Trumpist will not agree, but they're not Republican/Conservatives, they're a breed apart that fell for the lies, false promises, and deceptions Trump fed them. The only guiding principle the Trumpists cling to is "Trump drives the libs crazy." That's it. 

There's nothing moral, decent, or patriotic in Trump's character for them to advocate, so all they have is "He sticks it to the libs."

When this dark and shameful period in American history is over, that will be the Trumpists' legacy -- a schoolyard taunt and nothing else.