US Politics

Announcement in 15 mins apparently.

So this gives more excuses to issue subpoenas.. which the Whitehouse will ignore as usual?

USA really going for 'hold my beer' with the UK.

Senate also just "unanimously" voted for the whistleblower complaint to be released.

Mitch ditch bitch?

Trump is in Trump Tower

I'm tweaking my tinfoil hat but this makes me somewhat suspicious....can't believe that Repubs would roll over so quickly even if they did know he was heavily compromised.

Live link to Pelosi statement in 2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLSQG7haEZs

Boom

What a day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpFZQtBJkMI

He's going off

So the trigger event was the refusal to share the whistleblower's detailed accusation with congress, Pelosi says that is clearly illegal. They seem confident that they can get him on that one.
I suspect Trump's calmer advisers are telling him to fess up and allow the details to be aired, then start the bluster and fight back. However Trump's personality will not find that an easy game to play. (see tweets ^^^^^)

Ahem

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1176610391058722816

I lose my shit when he goes uppercase. This is glorious.

Oh whow. Finally.
Hopefully this ends this sad story of a criminal as president of the USA.

The presidency has seen criminal wrongdoing before.

But orange man could end being the biggest.

Of course.
But there is a difference between a president that does (or is part of) crime and a criminal as president.

66% of congress need to vote for the impeachment itself, commentators saying republicans won't vote for it...... unless they really want trump out

he'll be impeached but remain president ?

like boris you have to be a man of honour to resign when the highest powers in the land find you guilty of illegal activity

sadly little honour exists in politics these days

corbyn and ken clarke have been about the only cool calm collected politicians of the lastg few weeks, all they've done is speak sense and call out the lies

impressed with corbyn both yesterday and this morning with what he said

Maybe they vote for his impeachment and then use the fact he was kicked out as a rallying cry for the next election...

does an impeachment this term rule him out of a 2nd term ?

Problem is, like with BoJo, it may only harden his base.

But if you don't do anything, you sorta endorse foul play.

I suppose we need all the moderate people everywhere to get off their backsides and vote as the "fans" may be making a lot of noise but I still doubt such unreasonable people are the majority they think they are.

FFS

Oh.my.god.he's.finally.about.to.start.flinging.shit.at.the.walls.

Holy shit, this is way creepy.

is that the blackpool tower in the background?