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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in a letter to members Friday that Congress will move forward with impeaching President Trump for a second time if he does not leave office "imminently and willingly."

House Democrats had a caucus call at noon to discuss the topic of impeachment. Assistant House Speaker Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) told CNN that Democrats could bring articles of impeachment to the House floor as soon as "mid-next week" if Vice President Pence and Cabinet members do not invoke the 25th Amendment.
"Nearly fifty years ago, after years of enabling their rogue President, Republicans in Congress finally told President Nixon that it was time to go," Pelosi wrote. "Today, following the President’s dangerous and seditious acts, Republicans in Congress need to follow that example and call on Trump to depart his office – immediately."

Lack of time may be the only thing that saves President Trump from becoming the first U.S. president to be impeached a second time, Hill sources tell Axios. Republicans are openly abandoning him. Top officials are resigning. Talk is rising of a second impeachment, or removal from office via the 25th Amendment.
Trump's national security team has begun operating as if he weren’t the president, but rather a guy in the White House who needs to be carefully managed, Jonathan Swan reports.

So 61 days after President-elect Biden was declared the winner, Trump was spooked into the concession he never wanted to give, saying on a video last night: "A new administration will be inaugurated on Jan. 20," he said, reading from a teleprompter. "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation."
The conservative editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, run by Trump's former confidant Rupert Murdoch, calls today for Trump to resign to avoid a second impeachment: "It would give Mr. Trump agency, a la Richard Nixon, over his own fate."
Today's USA Today editorial page: "Invoke the 25th Amendment."
The bottom line: A senior administration official tells me Trump finally conceded because he has "no friends left. He could feel it all slipping away."
https://www.axios.com/trump-concession- ... f8bef.html

Pelosi and the House should proceed with impeachment post haste.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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I feel better knowing the “soft 25th” is already in play. The football is likely no longer in Trump’s hands. And it’s not likely he can order US troops anywhere anymore w/o Pence’s expressed agreement.
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

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Last I read the House will vote on the articles on Monday, better to spend time on the weekend to craft ones that could attract votes across the aisle, Democrats have a small majority. They should pull in Adam Kinzinger R-IL who is no Trump friend and voted against the challenges early Thursday morning and there are others in the House.

Or maybe Trump decides to resign over the weekend, doubtful but we can always hope.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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CDFingers wrote: Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:54 pm Lots of old people fall down marble stairs. It's a thing to fear for us old farts.

CDFingers
Wasn't there some movie where a nice Catholic Boy was standing as a Godfather for a relative and something about his family settling old disagreements or such?
To be vintage it must be older than me!
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sig230 wrote: Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:57 pm
CDFingers wrote: Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:54 pm Lots of old people fall down marble stairs. It's a thing to fear for us old farts.

CDFingers
Wasn't there some movie where a nice Catholic Boy was standing as a Godfather for a relative and something about his family settling old disagreements or such?
There's also the Russian favorite, defenestration.

CDFingers
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As more and more comes out, it's TERRIFYING that what we saw was intended to be an organized invasion, aided and abetted by insiders all over the Government. It should be obvious now why Trump fired the SecDef and other people who would definitely oppose this TREASON! Assessments from allies watching from abroad saw the broad view: They saw all the ways this was organized, and the screw-ups that led to it, thankfully failing.

They FULLY intended to murder the VP, the Speaker, the Senate Majority AND Minority Leader, and, probably, every single Democrat and every anti-Trump Republican. And they knew which laptops to grab, filled with critical classified information.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

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YankeeTarheel wrote: Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:50 pm As more and more comes out, it's TERRIFYING that what we saw was intended to be an organized invasion, aided and abetted by insiders all over the Government. It should be obvious now why Trump fired the SecDef and other people who would definitely oppose this TREASON! Assessments from allies watching from abroad saw the broad view: They saw all the ways this was organized, and the screw-ups that led to it, thankfully failing.

They FULLY intended to murder the VP, the Speaker, the Senate Majority AND Minority Leader, and, probably, every single Democrat and every anti-Trump Republican. And they knew which laptops to grab, filled with critical classified information.
The Dems will be too busy saving Americans and the economy to hold multiple Benghazi-style hearings for two years. Or, will they?

They should at least announce the investigations in the spring to scare the crap out of the guilty parties and see if anyone comes forward looking for a deal.
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