Politico is reporting that the impeachment hearings could circle back to Russia and the Mueller investigation. Did Drumpft lie in his written answers? I had no idea that what dad was watching yesterday at breakfast was a phone in tirade where IQ45 was admitting that firing Comey was to protect himself. LOL Thank goodness for closed captioning and mute! Anyway, besides yesterday's 'confession' of sorts, there is still much to be unearthed. Nunes being involved shows this plan to get dirt on political rivals is over a year old, so there's much more out there.
I'm more convinced that the House will write up Articles of Impeachment, and I'm not so sure that it will make it to the Senate. Republicans have shown they want to hold on to whatever power they have. If they'll lose the majority, they'll try to hold on for themselves at any cost. It will become a free-for-all. The Senate portion of impeachment is not like the house at all. We have congresspeople making all sorts of wild arguments during their 5 minutes in the hearings. That won't happen in the Senate. Chief Justice Roberts will be the 'judge' per se, and the senators will be the jury. They won't be able to say a word. The attorneys for the dems and republicans will be the ones asking questions of the witnesses. Goldman had Castor for breakfast. There will be no wild conspiracy theories bandied about, just pure trial procedures. While in the house they can play to the public that this is a partisan issue-trying to oust a president, the senate trial will be a different animal. It will not bode well for the republicans from the top down. It is true that the senate will have to vote as a jury, and there is a republican majority. However most don't want it to go to trial. They are already afraid of a blue wave, and losing the majority. If they have a trial and on it's merits, it doesn't look good for the president-they'll risk losing their own positions and increasing the blue wave by not convicting. Now throw in the fact that I think it will be very difficult for the SCOTUS to grant an appeals trial in Vance, so during all this his tax records may come out. Will it show ties to Russia prior to the election? Will it show he's a liar about his worth? In the middle of a trial?
I know that yesterday the polling showed a slight increase in the support for 45. That was not reflective of people's opinions after hearing Sondland, Hill and Holmes this week. Lets see what polls show next week. Especially given that folks like Nunes and Pompeo are being exposed and going under the bus. The senators to save their own necks will need to cut ties, and in doing so will most likely ask him to step down so they can offer him a non prosecution deal.
I'm still holding on to hope, and I really hope that Baba was right when it was noted that Pence will go first.
And I trust our intuitions/psychic impressions more than any poll!
@Cindy, I hope I was right too, but when I tried to concentrate on what is going on with that situation, all I got was a feeling that there will be an earthquake in California. It seems that spirit does not always give you what you ask for! I did specify when asking to only show me whatever is in the interest of the greater good to know.
What I do think about the situation however, is that all of the parties are currently and quietly gaming out their next moves and contingency plans. As more information comes to light and as @Lawrence mentioned in his astrological info. when we (hopefully) all start feeling more positive next week, I think the direction that things will take will become increasingly clear.
I saw that clip of T’s call in to Fox and the looks on the faces of the hosts were priceless. They must have realized that they couldn’t stop him from talking and they knew it sounded strange and damning. T is definitely a person who is capable of sinking his own ship, so to speak.
@cindy, I agree re influencing the GOP. Politicians seem to live and die by the polls. If they weren't so attached to keeping they jobs, I sometimes wonder what good might eventually be accomplished? Polls are important, but not as much as they'd like us to believe.
And until this past election, I never really focused on how much media can drive the polls, e.g. I think about how much media time was spent focusing on Clinton's email server. So the media can drive the polls, and then the polls can influence the voters -- insofar as I believe most people, by nature, want to be part of the larger group.
I understand it's more complicated now, when you consider the amount of fake news being disseminated. So my prayer is that people will wake up to investigate what's really true, and then think for themselves.
I was moving around predictions on the Prediction Page recently to make way for the latest, when I noticed a very old prediction for this month, I see the White House turning sideways. (Jeanne Mayell) Then I also noticed this one: It looks like the U.S. is tipping sideways. Am unsure if this is political or environmental stress. A lot of distress in the southwest and Texas. (Jeanne Mayell) Predicted 1/26/19
Then I saw this photo today in WAPO taken this week: It looks like the West Wing is twisting, warped, and being dragged into the ground.
My feelings on what's going to happen next have not changed. I think YES there will be articles of impeachment drawn up. YES they will be sent to the Senate. YES there will be a trial, it will be short and inadequate. MAYBE Mango Menace will be convicted. NO he won't be removed. MAYBE he will resign, but only if he knows Pence will pardon him (think Ford & Nixon). Pence will pardon him if he resigns, and Pence may or may not be impeached himself, but it won't be right away and again, he won't be removed.
I agree this is all wrapped up by Spring, and then it's the long slog to the election.
If Cheetolini does not resign and is not removed, he will win the election in 2020, by hook and by crook BUT I feel like he still might drop dead before the 2021 Inauguration, and there's a chance maybe Pence is off the ticket, and I bet he picks Nikki Haley to replace and THAT is why I keep seeing her on the Inauguration stage taking the oath of office.
My stars and garters, how I hope I am WRONG about all of this!!
@laura-f, I keep seeing/feeling Haley at the Presidential podium. Her new book further confirmed it for me. My husband has been sensing the same thing. He claims he's not psychic, but some of his intuitions have come true.
I don't believe I ever posted this here, but well over a year ago I saw in my mind's eye Haley meeting with GOP operatives, including some members of Congress. They were strategizing about how to position her to replace Mango. This meeting almost felt like the secret dinner meeting held the night of Obama's 2009 inauguration, where certain GOP Congressional members discussed their plans to obstruct every legislative action Obama wanted to implement. (That meeting was separate from Moscow M. publicly stating that he intended to make Obama a one-term President.)
I don't believe what I'm seeing with Haley is inevitable, but I do see it as a strong possibility. It's like the wheels have been attached to the vehicle and are ready to go; we just need to dismantle the wheels. How we do that is the challenge!
I'm certainly not psychic - just intuitive and I just have a nagging feeling about her that hasn't gone away for the past few weeks. IDK if Pence goes first, and that is how she slides in there - but I just "feel" that she is going to be there somehow, some way. I do hope the energy shifts - perhaps that will just take time.
So T favorite attorney Guiliani is joking that if T rolls on him he has insurance for it.
Guiliani has said back on the 14th that he has insurance against T if he rolls on him and make him the scapegoat. He said it was a joke but is it??
Rudy Giuliani says he believes President Donald Trump will remain loyal to him but jokes that he has "very, very good insurance" should the president decide, as a reporter says, to "throw him under a bus."
This was on the 14th and now the 22nd he is showing to be one of the main characters in the Ukraine scandal.
I have a feeling Russia(or someone) is already messing with the 2020 election. Im in Wisconsin(go figure it happens in one of the most important states). I just got a letter today that my info doesnt match my voter registration. I registered here 4 years ago, info was never changed with them nor itself, but all of a sudden, my registration is in question and not matching after 4 years of matching? Hmmmm
Regarding Haley, there's a rumor/theory floating around about her essential role in the plot being hatched by GOP shakers/movers to save their losing hand with trump in a way that enables them to stay in power and to keep trump's loyal maga crowd happy. The gist of it is that trump triumphantly leaves on a sick pass (without being impeached and still claiming the greatest economy, biggest most badass wall, etc). Then Pence takes over with Haley as his VP. Rumor is based on the folowing chess moves aleady played:
- Haley published her book outing Tillerson and Kelly, two insiders who allegedly plotted against trump. Then she makes an unexpected public ass-kissing statement about how much she trusts trump and how easy he was to work with.
- trump makes a run to the hospital last weekend, allegedly for diagnostic tests, even though he religiously golfs on Saturdays, and even though there's a fully equipped hospital/emergency room on a lower level of the WH.
- Pence takes an unannounced trip to Iraq this week, where he makes presidential sounding statements about American forces staying in Syria and Iraq, protecting the kurds and the US not taking the oil.
- McConnell makes statements about his willingness to have a so-called "fair" impeachment trial because he knows it will never happen.
Of course, with Pence already in place, he can continue to cover up/withhold evidence of trump's crimes and, if necessary, Pence can immediately pardon trump for whatever convinctions crop up.
I have no idea how reliable this rumor is, I heard parts of it from two different sources, and both had convinction about Haley being a key player. Also, for whatever its worth, a few YouTube psychics see trump leaving because of sickness.
@kb,
Hmm ... that's really interesting. I just kept seeing in my mind's eye this secret meeting. I hadn't heard the rumors you mentioned. The only thing I'd heard a while back was that "the Mooch" had gotten together with Haley. I think it was shortly after he began publicly criticizing T****.
Plan to use Trump's health as a way to ease him out of office.
While I have no doubt that Republicans are meeting behind closed doors plotting a way to ease Trump our of the Oval Office I see several issues standing in the way.
- Trump doesn't think strategically, he is purely reactive. There is no grand strategy that Trump is a part of.
- Trump cannot be pardoned if he were to leave, that would be electoral suicide. I can't think of anything would would galvanize Democrats more.
- Because of this, any deal that is made that takes the heat off of Trump would require the Democrat's buy in. They would not agree to any scheme whose purpose was to elect a Republican in 2020.
- Trump still thinks he will sail to victory in 2020 and has no rational reason in his mind to step aside.
- Trump is unpredictable. No one knows what he will do (with the exception of Putin) or how he will react. While I believe there are people working on some sort of scenario that moves him out of the way, there is no way of knowing how he will react or who he takes down with him. He has indicated that if he goes, Pence goes too. I'm sure he has more than enough dirt on his VP to force his resignation.
- His taxes will be released soon (SCOTUS has no choice) and as the old saying goes, "the defecation is about to hit the ventilation" . Events will move fast and Republicans will have zero control of the narrative. The faster events move, the less opportunity there is for careful planning.
News reports are stating "Donald Trump has taken to “working” from his private quarters in the White House rather than the Oval Office because he distrusts the staff around him".
Nice way of saying they are hiding his mental and psychical decline from the public. T's work from the residence excuse is exactly what was expected in his dementia dissolve. He's hiding his mobility & balance issues.
Again, he will not be the GOP candidate in the next election.
I had a dream of him where I saw behind a mahogany desk and he was “at the Oval Office ” in my dream I realized it was a replica of the Oval Office and he was playing president all by himself with no one around him.
Hopefully every day he looses it a little. It’s about time he gets what he has given to us since the day he “won” the election.
A Clodwork Orange can in fact be pardoned of any federal crimes, regardless of whether or not the impeachment goes all the way through. That's what happened with Nixon - he resigned before completion of the Impeachment, and then his picked VP, Ford, pardoned him.
BUT
That doesn't mean NY State can't go after him...
I'm not saying that he can't be pardoned, I'm saying that it would be a disaster for Republicans in the 2020 election as it would galvanize Democrats. It would be so bad that they won't do it. This is important because it brings Dems into any discussion about his departure.