[Vision2020] Fwd: ADV: I need you on my team

Sun Sep 15 22:25:50 PDT 2019

Scary!

However, it appears that Trump will escape from accountability for the
behavior as described below.  The US House is not likely to actually
impeach, given the political calculations
of impact on the 2020 election, and that the US Senate would not convict.
Also, would Pence be better, with Trump gone?  Maybe even worse!

But so much for the integrity of our political system:  "Impunity" indeed!

I would not be surprised if Trump stays for a second term.  I know this is
unthinkable..."Don't even say that!  You are giving him support!"  someone
told me...
But we are in "unthinkable" new territory with politics in the USA.  Even
if Trump loses in 2020, the trends that put him in power will remain, with
ominous impacts.

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https://prospect.org/article/high-crimes-impunity

High Crimes With Impunity

ALEXANDER HEFFNER <https://prospect.org/authors/alexander-heffner>

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Constitutional scholar Frank Bowman III discusses his new book *High Crimes
and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump*.
"The second volume of the Mueller Report, which I think perfectly plainly
establishes that he engaged in obstruction of justice, not only in the
technical criminal legal sense but also in the broader constitutional
sense, almost exactly analogous and in many ways analogous in particulars
to the second article of impeachment passed by the Judiciary Committee
against President Nixon. There’s also an obstruction or erosion of the
justice system more broadly. He has engaged in a whole variety of behavior
deleterious to the rule of law. The Trump administration has essentially
stopped cooperating at all with congressional inquiries, not just in
matters that relate to the president personally or potential misconduct by
himself or his family but essentially the Trump administration has stopped
providing meaningful responses to Congress across almost the entire array
of legitimate inquiries as part of their legislative and oversight
authority.  "

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"If one were going to try to frame articles of impeachment against Mr.
Trump, I think it would be a mistake, for example, to limit one’s focus to
either section of the Mueller report. Because the real challenge that Mr.
Trump presents is not any one thing. It is that across an array of
behavior, the obstruction of justice, that basic undercutting of the
judicial process by the attacks on judges and so forth and so on, and the
hollowing out of the Justice Department from the inside. The defiance of
congressional subpoenas, the, his, his essentially turning, he and his
family essentially turning the presidency into what Madison called a
“scheme of peculation.” That is to say a way of self-enrichment his, his
disastrous foreign policy, vis-à-vis our traditional allies and his embrace
of autocrats and dictators across the world. And one can go on and on and
on. And if you look at the historical record of the kinds of things that
the British parliament thought were impeachable the kinds of things that I
think the framers thought should be impeachable and the kinds of things
that in our own relatively limited history of impeachments, ‘cause there’ve
only been 21 of them a little over 200 years. The kinds of things that we
have found to be impeachable, there’s an array of behavior that he’s
engaged in. But the key is that if you’re going to go out, if you’re going
to go down that road, you have to understand that we have in front of us
now in this president is that he is in essence the reason that the
impeachment clauses were enacted in 1787. He’s the disaster for which
impeachment was created. He’s a guy who threatens the entire order of our
constitution. And only if you’re going to impeach him, you have to
understand that and you have to figure out a way of framing an
understandable way for the public, for Congress, why it is he represents
such a fundamental threat to the American republic.  "

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 1:08 PM Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

JEESH !
>
> Did they send this email to the wrong person or what?
>
> How’s this for a “contribution”?      *EAT SH*T ! ! !*
>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
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> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
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> Tom Hansen
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> *From:* Donald J. Trump <donald.trump at republicanmajority.net>
> *Date:* September 14, 2019 at 12:58:46 PM PDT
> *To:* thansen at moscow.com
> *Subject:* *ADV: I need you on my team*
> *Reply-To:* noreply at republicanmajority.net
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> Help shape my campaign strategy. | The BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALISTS are
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>
> Friend,
>
> The BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALISTS are trying to take back our Nation.
>
> With the help of Hollywood Mega Donors and liberal special interest
> groups, the 2020 Democrats and Lamestream media have launched a massive
> brainwashing campaign against ME and the Republican Party.
>
> We need to fight back, which is why I've launched the *Republican
> Presidential Task Force*.
>
> This Task Force will be made up of *ONLY my BEST, most LOYAL supporters,*
> like YOU, who are dedicated to helping me build a state-of-the-art campaign
> that NO DEMOCRAT can even come close to rivaling.
>
> So, I'm asking YOU to join key grassroots conservatives in your state and
> across the country who are committed to supporting our America First agenda
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