Can you show me where I said as such? I don't believe I did. I certainly don't believe motive trumps truth, but it does matter. In fact, I believe THAT is what I said.
Your point was about the whistleblower’s motives mattering despite a number of people whose credibility is being attacked rather unfairly (apparently speaking a foreign language and being moved by your family when you’re three make you suspect as opposed to a life of service...) supporting what the whistleblower stated and more.
My question is why does a motivation matter if the truth, as supported by a number of people who aren’t seeing a lot of upside and risking basically everything, is being told?
Again, never said quantity is a qualifier. I accept folks can multitask. I also accept that folks can lie if it serves their interest.
In what sense could risking your entire career in highly charged political environment led by a vindictive, petty man with a lot of rabid social media followers be of self-interest?
Odd. You say that, and yet it doesn't seem to have amounted to much.
Well, it’s not my fault the average American isn’t “a reader”. And if the court continues to compel the release of testimony from the Mueller investigation to the impeachment inquiry, I’m sure a digestible soundbite can be crafted for the general public.
This is why representative democracy has some merit, although it’s a highly mixed bag.
lmao...not for children or those faint of heart. I'm not sure if he is exempt by executive privilege, or by whatever legal sense parallel 'pleading the fifth' in an impeachment. I'm not sure his ego would allow him to stfu, even if that's what every one of his counsel tells him to do.
Well he said he wanted to testify for Mueller. The truth is with his extensive legal history, even he likely knows he’s toast under oath. Hopefully not.
Another lol...as if Dems gave a crap about ANYTHING Trump wants.
What is fair and what Trump wants aren’t likely to overlap, but I do think Dems have a difficult row to hoe in terms of balancing appearances and winning.
Tell me, where was the fairness in
Asking Ukraine to find/make dirt on Trump
Getting a fake dossier made by Fusion GPS and Steele
If you’re using hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to leverage your position to create dirt on your potential political opponent in an upcoming election because you’re president, it’s beyond fairness and into impeachable territory imo.
You might not feel that way, but the people who desperately tried to cover it up, as well as the people who are now trying to bring it to light (I’m referring to witnesses, not partisan politicians in this last group) disagree. The politicians who can’t seem to find a way to defend what Trump did despite his largesse vs punitive approach to supporters and detractors respectively would indicate a strong discomfort defending what he did and the other things his modus operandi (described in detail in the Mueller report) must give them pause. It’s interesting to watch Republicans try to navigate the snake-filled moat. Teehee.
And their familiarity with what is and
Hillary using an unsecured server, having classified info stolen or simply forwarded, and not so much as a slap on the wrist
...shall I continue?
If HRC was in office and should be impeached for it, I would care. But she isn’t, so I’m ñot concerned. Too much to investigate, too little time.
will also challenge the real threat of silencing anyone, other than how the Dems set the ground rules to limit the Repubs in this inquiry. Talk about silencing dissent. Oh, and on that note - how many Dems have had anyone (even Trump) propose, threaten, or call for their Twitter accounts to be silenced? Hmm? Fairness. Both ways.
Trump didn’t suggest turning off the whistleblower’s Twitter account. He instead pined for the days where he could be killed in a brutal way. If you don’t find that troubling or understand why someone why someone might not want to risk their job, their career, most of their social support and financial security to be threatened by a mob of Trump’s followers and Trump himself, I’m not sure where to go with that- these individuals who are testifying have chosen private lives of public service and now they’re putting everything on the line to say they saw a serious problem.
If it was one person, I could see the concern, but it’s not one person, and the outcome is not guaranteed by any means. And Trump is an incredibly vindictive person with the most powerful bully pulpit in the world.
I’m curious to see what Bolton says if subpoenaed. I wonder if Trump regrets canning so many people unceremoniously.
Pence HAS to go down with him he's the Wizard behind the curtain.
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