Jimmy Valentine said:

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He has receipts...

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backintexas2013 said:

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Guess it still hasn't come out. So the question will he come back as chase or Gary

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Ulysses90 said:

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backintexas2013 said:

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Guess it still hasn't come out. So the question will he come back as chase or Gary

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DNC/Fusion usually pushes talking points before midnight so that they are available for Joe and Mika for show-prep by 3AM eastern time. He should be along directly with a flurry of posts around midnight.

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Ulysses90 said:

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backintexas2013 said:

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Guess it still hasn't come out. So the question will he come back as chase or Gary

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DNC/Fusion usually pushes talking points before midnight so that they are available for Joe and Mika for show-prep by 3AM eastern time. He should be along directly with a flurry of posts around midnight.

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FriscoKid said:

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...oh, and he has receipts to prove it!

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Chance Chase McMasters said:

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Lev has receipts.

And a joint legal defense agreement with Trump that Trump's attorney entered in to public record when they were blocking impeachment subpoenas left and right.

I always do that with people I don't know.

Sleep tight, more coming tomorrow.

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FriscoKid said:

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https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lev-parnas-handed-over-tapes-of-trump-and-giuliani-to-the-house-intelligence-committee-917769/

Why in the world would a thread on tapes being turned over to the House be deleted???

I think it's probably a nothing burger, but it is probably news worthy?



EDIT: This story is from last November? What ever came of it?

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"Faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law." That is the reasoning of the Government Accounting Office, which has just concluded that President Trump's budget office violated federal law in freezing U.S. aid to Ukraine.

It certainly would have been nice to hear this from the GAO when President Obama was imposing his own immigration policy priorities by executive edict and as a substitute for contrary priorities Congress had enacted into law.

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So what is the upshot? Are Democrats preparing the ground for another article of impeachment? Obviously, the law that President Trump is said to have violated is not a criminal statute. And it is simply not true that the president never has the authority to countermand a congressional statute prescribing foreign aid; Article II of the Constitution gives the president nigh plenary power over the conduct of foreign relations; and other congressional statutes (such as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) confer sweeping power on the president to regulate foreign commerce if the nation is under threat or in a state of emergency.

No one could credibly argue that Ukraine presented an emergency situation, and I am inclined to believe that Congress's statutory grant of defense aid to Ukraine had the force of law and should have been honored. But is an inconsequential flouting of a non-criminal law under circumstances where the aid was conferred with just a brief delay, with no harm done, a high crime and misdemeanor warranting impeachment?

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A trial cannot be fairly conducted if a defendant is still under active investigation for the same alleged corrupt transactions, particularly when prosecutors are publicizing new evidence and new findings. That patently prejudices the trial court's consideration of the formal charges that have been transmitted to the court.

In just the last 48 hours, congressional Democrats have raised the specter that the president and his underlings (said to be acting with his knowledge and approval) conducted surveillance of a U.S. ambassador they believed to be an obstacle to their campaign to pressure Ukraine into investigating the Bidens; and did not merely undermine U.S. policy but actually violated U.S. law by delaying congressional aid.

Simultaneously, House Democrats are coordinating with Senate Democrats to orchestrate calls to expand the Senate's imminent impeachment trial to explore any new allegations and witnesses that arise out of continuing investigations of the president, even though these allegations are not covered by the two articles of impeachment voted last month.

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The transparent objective is to convert the Senate impeachment trial into a continuing grand jury investigation of Trump. This is an abuse of the impeachment power which would corrupt the solemn purpose of a Senate impeachment trial namely, to give fair consideration and render judgment on the actual articles of impeachment, which the House finally delivered on Wednesday with much pomp and circumstance.

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It is very common for indictments to be filed in a trial court while investigations are still active. Many times in federal investigations, dangerous criminals have to be arrested before the charges against them are fully ripe otherwise, they will flee or commit more crimes.

Speedy trial rules require that an indictment be filed within a short time after a defendant has been arrested, especially if bail is denied. But everyone knows the initial indictment filed is just a placeholder.

The indictment will eventually be superseded by a final indictment that sets forth all of the allegations.

This is not controversial. Ethical prosecutors know they are not permitted to use the grand jury and their investigative powers to prejudice the trial. The trial court will give prosecutors a reasonable amount of time to complete the investigation and file the final set of charges. Only then does the trial take place. That respects the defendant's constitutional right to notice of the allegations before the trial commences so that a defense can be prepared. It also respects the right of the defendant, the public, and the court to a trial proceeding that is not tainted by prosecutorial generation of negative publicity about the defendant particularly, uncharged evidence of alleged misconduct.

Clearly, Democrats are trying to turn the Senate trial into something other than a trial. Ostensibly, it would be a continuing grand jury, convened to complete the work the House failed to complete at the impeachment inquiry stage.

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After over 230 years, we have entered the era of partisan impeachment that the Framers feared. This is what it looks like.

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Chance Chase McMasters said:

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Lev has receipts.

And a joint legal defense agreement with Trump that Trump's attorney entered in to public record when they were blocking impeachment subpoenas left and right.

I always do that with people I don't know.

Sleep tight, more coming tomorrow.

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Be advised that Messrs. Parnas and Fruman assisted Mr. Giuliani in connection with his representation of President Trump. Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman have also been represented by Mr. Giuliani in connection with their personal and business affairs. They also assisted Joseph DiGenova and Victoria Toensing in their law practice. Thus, certain information you seek in your September 30, 2019, letter is protected by the attorney-client, attorney work product and other privileges.

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