Trump BLASTED After Calling Impeachment 'A Lynching'!

There are still lines left for Donald Trump to cross? Damn, who knew?

The president took to Twitter Tuesday morning to once again rant and rave (like stable geniuses do) about the fact he’s being investigated.

We won’t make you read it all, but the gist was more of the whole “impeachment isn’t a real thing, this is a coup” kind of nonsense he’s been spewing.

He ended his lies and aspersions by writing:

“So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. But we will WIN!”

Yep. He called it a lynching.

The man who said there were very fine people on the neo-Nazi side in Charlottesville, who claimed to have evidence Barack Obama wasn’t born in this country, who called Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists, the POS POTUS whose entire political career has been about whipping up the worst xenophobic instincts in Americans.

That man said he is the victim of a lynching.

Obviously those who still have the energy to be outraged by this man spoke out. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris wrote:

“Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation’s history, as is this President. We’ll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.”

Fellow candidate Cory Booker said:

“Lynching is an act of terror used to uphold white supremacy. Try again.”

Also believe-it-or-not still presidential candidate Julian Castro responded:

“It’s beyond shameful to use the word ‘lynching’ to describe being held accountable for your actions.”

Senator Chris Coons wrote:

“Delaware just raised up a monument to a lynching that happened in our state in 1903 – a horrific, despicable, tragic act of domestic terrorism.

Mr. President, the House investigation is nothing at all like that – it’s appropriate and necessary. Words matter.”

Actor/activist George Takei wrote:

“Trump compared the impeachment process to a ‘lynching’–to which I have two responses.

One, don’t even try and imply that rich, white men were ever lynched by angry mobs in this country. Vile.

Two, it’s not a lynching if Nancy Pelosi just gives you enough rope to hang yourself.”

Hysterically, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley denied Trump was even making the comparison, saying:

“The president’s not comparing what’s happened to him to one of the country’s darkest moments.”

But… he said it. How is he not comparing it..?

Even some Republicans who have been protecting Trump throughout his many investigations — purportedly for fear of him turning on them and getting them voted out in primaries — had to admit this crossed a line.

California Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy said it was “not the language I would use.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made a statement to reporters, saying:

“Given the history in our country, I would not compare this to a lynching. That was an unfortunate choice of words.”

But he did agree with Trump, continuing:

“It is an unfair process, and a better way to characterize it would be to call it an unfair process.”

Um… is it though??

That “unfair process” they’re talking about is the one laid out in the constitution. Trump and his most ardent toadies keep hammering on that tack lately, about impeachment being some kind of illegal political process. They talk about lack of a trial and due process.

But the existence of the process of impeachment is the only reason Trump isn’t facing a criminal trial. He’s an unindicted co-conspirator in the campaign finance violation for which his lawyer Michael Cohen eventually pleaded guilty and is now in prison. The Mueller Report laid out ten counts of obstruction of justice Trump has committed; no charges were filed because he’s the president. If he were anyone else he would be in prison right now, as many of his team members are. Instead Mueller specifically referred all of these matters to congress. FOR IMPEACHMENT. Because that is the due process. As laid out in the constitution Trump referred to as “phony” earlier this week.

Look, Trump’s language is gross. It always has been. Honestly, this isn’t anything new, and we frankly don’t have time for these types of scandals anymore. No matter what awful terminology Trump wants to throw at it, the impeachment inquiry is supported by a majority of the country and is well underway. And on Tuesday there was a huge step forward.

For those interested in what the serious people are talking about re: impeachment…

A Brief Bill Taylor Testimony Recap

Ambassador Bill Taylor, the top US diplomat in the Ukraine, testified today confirming what we all read in that phone call transcript, what acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney unapologetically admitted to last week — Trump held up aid to Ukraine (aid which was allocated by Congress and not his decision to make) in order to get an investigation going that would make his political opponents look bad.

In his opening remarks, obtained by the Washington Post, he said:

“During that phone call, Amb. Sondland told me that President Trump had told him that he wants President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy to state publicly that Ukraine will investigate Burisma and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election.”

To “state publicly.” Because the purpose wasn’t to find anything, investigations have already found the truth — the Bidens didn’t commit any crimes and RUSSIA IS THE ONE WHO INTERFERED IN THE 2016 ELECTION. IN SUPPORT OF TRUMP.

He also stated unequivocally:

“Ambassador Sondland also told me that he now recognized that he had made a mistake by earlier telling the Ukrainian officials to whom he spoke that a White House meeting with President Zelenskyy was dependent on a public announcement of investigations.”

Wait for it…

“In fact, Ambassador Sondland said, ‘everything’ was dependent on such an announcement, including security assistance. He said that President Trump wanted President Zelenskyy ‘in a public box’ by making a public statement about ordering such investigations.”

BOOM.

No quid pro quo?? It’s ALL quid pro quo! “‘Everything’ was dependent” on the announcement. That’s the definition of a quid pro quo.

Again, not that a quid pro quo is necessary for this to be inappropriate. Just asking the Ukraine to start an investigation which benefits him personally is an abuse of power.

If your boss asks you to come over for a nightcap, it’s already inappropriate because of your positions. He doesn’t have to say, if you don’t come over tonight you’re fired. But that *does* make it so, so, so, so, so much worse.

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And that is exactly what career diplomat, Vietnam veteran, lifelong Republican, Bush-appointee Taylor is testifying was going on.

Taylor also explains his realization of Trump’s so-called “shadow foreign policy” team — “then Special Envoy Kurt Volker, Abassador Sondland, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, and as subsequently learned, Mr. Giuliani” — who were working toward his personal goals, and not those of the US.

One more thing… Taylor says multiple times Trump told Sondland not to use the term quid pro quo — but that the aid money was dependent on the public announcement of investigations.

“According to Mr. Morrison, President Trump told Ambassador Sondland that he was not asking for a ‘quid pro quo.’ But President Trump did insist that President Zelenskyy go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and 2016 election interference.”

Hilarious. In case you don’t see what’s going on, Trump apparently thinks if no one ACTUALLY USES THE WORDS “QUID PRO QUO” in these negotiations, there isn’t one. Yowza, what a stable genius he is.

BTW, it’s also consciousness of guilt, knowing they can’t be seen to be making this kind of quid pro quo, not when the quo is military funding the US has already promised to the Ukraine to defend them against Russia and the quid is INVESTIGATING TRUMP’S POLITICAL RIVALS.

Not to mention all of this was being actively hidden from official channels. Taylor reveals:

“I sensed something odd when Ambassador Sondland told me on June 28 that he did not wish to include most of the regular interagency participants in a call planned with President Zelenskyy later that day. Ambassador Sondland, Ambassador Volker, Secretary Perry, and I were on this call, dialing in from different locations. However, Ambassador Sondland said that he wanted to make sure no one was transcribing or monitoring as they added President Zelenskyy to the call.”

Taylor says Volker told the Americans he “planned to be explicit with President Zelenskyy” on how to get a meeting with President Trump later.

“It was not clear to me on that call what this meant, but Ambassador Volker noted that he would relay that President Trump wanted to see rule of law, transparency, but also, specifically, cooperation on investigations to ‘get to the bottom of things.'”

Obviously he later found out what those investigations were.

If this isn’t the coffin nail in Trump’s impeachment defense, then who even knows anymore… maybe he was right about Fifth Avenue. *sigh*

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