Pierre Delecto has decided to vote to convict Donald Trump,
“The president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust. What he did was not perfect. No, it was a flagrant assault under electoral rights, our national security and our fundamental values,” he declared.
after much handwringing and a consultation with God
“I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential,” said the senator.
I don’t believe that for a second.
Lots of theories have coursed through the internet as to why Romney would take this action.
I believe Mitt Romney is motivated by bitterness and jealously that @realDonaldTrump accomplished what he has failed to do multiple times. His desire to pander to the chattering class has gotten the best of him…again.
— Rick Gorka (@Rick_Gorka) February 5, 2020
That’s very reasonable. But here’s a biggie. Mitt’s former campaign national security adviser is on the Board of Directors or Burisma, of Hunter Biden fame.
Joseph Cofer Black, a national security adviser for the 2012 Mitt Romney campaign, sits on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian oil and gas giant that paid at times more than $83,000 per month to Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s youngest son.
The American Thinker, which first brought the story to light, noted it is “an odd coincidence that Mitt has as CNN puts it ‘been a lone Republican voice expressing concern about President Donald Trump’s July phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Ukraine’s President to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his family.’”
In October 2011, Romney announced that Black, who had served in the CIA since 1974, had been selected as a special adviser.
“I am deeply honored to have the counsel of this extraordinary group of diplomats, experts, and statesmen,” Romney said at the time. “Their remarkable experience, wisdom, and depth of knowledge will be critical to ensuring that the 21st century is another American Century.”
Seems that Burisma wanted to buy influence with more than just Joe Biden.
Romney did get Schiff’s endorsement. Then again, Trump is more popular in Utah than is Romney.
Now let’s crank up the Wayback Machine to 2016 and see what Romney had to say about Trump:
Here's what I know. Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University. (1/2)
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 3, 2016
Romney is no Amazing Kreskin
Trump relishes any poll that reflects what he thinks of himself. But polls are also saying that he will lose to Hillary Clinton
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 3, 2016
But when he ran for the Senate in 2014 Romney sought and got Trump’s support
.@MittRomney has announced he is running for the Senate from the wonderful State of Utah. He will make a great Senator and worthy successor to @OrrinHatch, and has my full support and endorsement!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018
And how does Romney repay that support?
Stab Trump in the back. It is vintage Romney.
I expect that next Romney will switch parties and complete his journey to the dark side. The one thing that Romney does best of all is lose. Then again something that Steve Guest posted on Twitter has a point.
Despite abandoning his constituents and voting with Democrats, the left will hate Mitt Romney by next week.
And now by turning his back on @realDonaldTrump and Republicans, Mitt Romney continues his long career of disappointing Republicans.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 5, 2020
He’s probably right. Romney now will live in the political twilight between light and dark, hated by both parties. Expect Romney to vote against the next Trump SCOTUS nominee as well.
A**hole
And Manchin is likely politically dead
UPDATE
‘Brave’ and ‘principled’ Romney once threw a loyal gay aide under the bus to get ahead
Romney’s Bain Capital Profited Billions by Bankrupting American Workers
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@Greg: But… Trump was a candidate. And Ukraine needed aid. And extortion is illegal. And using a foreign country to help damage a campaign is illegal. Did you forget all that?
Since an impeachment didn’t work, maybe an exorcism should be attempted.
@Greg: No doubt the High Priestess Nancy (when she’s not TOO high) could try it. Maybe she could also work a spell on you to get you to address your blatant hypocrisy and position conflicts, which expose your partisan bigotry and disregard for the law and Constitution. That would take a lot of bat’s wings and chicken bones for Slurring Pelosi.
@Greg: its not up to President Trump to decide who testifies or what material is used at trail. Its up to the courts.
@Greg: #50, Cant be, that is Bidens “solid guy!” Now he is also called corrupt because he told Soloman what the Ambassador was up to telling him which cases to back off on.
How did 3 million that was to go to the prosecutors office in Ukraine get redirected to an NGO in Italy?
I guess when you need international support for US shenanigans USAID can arrange that.
Romney is Romney things wouldnt be any better if he was elected instead of BHO.
@Greg:
you are a true communist
@kitt: We should be grateful for Obama. Without his miserable 8 years of failure, socialism, racism and anti-American policies we would never have gotten Trump.
@Deplorable Me: Don’t forget about all of the greggies in the country. They helped! Credit where credit is due.
@MOS #8541, #56:
Trump is a metastasizing tumor. The diagnosis was made many months ago. Just thought you should know.
From The Des Moines Register – Politics is America’s cancer, and it’s ‘truth-resistant’
@Greg: You really need to begin reading the news and form your own opinions stop relying on others for your opinions. You link to an editorial opinion, seriously take a breath.
Which of Trump’s lies have you recognized? Which of his opinions do you disagree with? Is there anyone you that you continue to approve of and agree with after they’ve been put on Trump’s Enemies List?
@Greg: Here’s an idea; why don’t you SHUT THE F**K UP until you have an answer for HOW you can accept Durbin, Leahy and Menendez threatening Ukraine with a loss of aid unless they provided Mueller with dirt on Trump? Is that wrong or not? Is it OK when they and Biden do it but impeachable when they falsely accuse Trump of doing it? That’s tough to square up, isn’t it? All it means is that you and all your Democrats are liars and anti-Constitutional America-haters and will do ANYTHING to destroy this great country and grasp power.
@Deplorable Me: Another win for Trump today. Dems have been hiding the fact that the Black Ledger that started the investigation of Manafort was false. Mueller knew and never revealed that fat. Yet, greggie and Rich supported Mueller.
@Randy: They support lies. The ends justifies the means and lying is one of the means they heartily endorse.
Betrayals, lies, and failures of courage are the norm in this administration. You will not be protected from retaliation if you refuse to be Trump’s personal tool.
The Pentagon’s letter, regarding Col. Vindman’s testimony.
Gordon Sondland, who also came forward and told what he knew under oath, was also just fired.
@Greg: Vindman ignored Trumps philosophy and recommended his own. That is a Court Marshall offence,
@Randy, #66:
Vindman told the truth about Trump’s bullshit. He was subpoenaed by Congress and testified under oath. Covering a corrupt superior’s backside when he has betrayed his oath of office and the nation is not any soldier’s duty.
@Greg:
The NSC was designed to serve the President, and the President only. If Vindman disagreed with the President, who has the sole authority over foreign affairs, he should have resigned. Instead, he became a leaker liar.
Vindman wasn’t fired. He was transferred early. So what? He’s still drawing a paycheck funded by the U.S. taxpayers. He doesn’t have a right to work at the NSC He goes where he’s sent. Perhaps he would enjoy a stint at some weather station in the Artic until his retirement date.
@Greg: Um, Trump is not doing anything Obama didn’t do. Only difference is, these guys LIED. Vindman lied about the transcript not being accurate. He also misrepresented what was in the transcript. Most likely, HE illegally leaked his version of the call to Ciaramella. He’s lucky he gets to keep his hat.
Cleaning house of anti-American ideologues is long overdue. In fact, I am disappointed Trump waited this long, but I suppose he wanted to give people the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully, he keeps going; this is much trash to take out.
@Greg: Vindman was not fired he was walked from the WhiteHouse just 6 months before his term was up, so not technically fired.
He just cant work there anymore, he cant be loose with classified materials. Trump is downsizing the entire staff that doubled under the last admin.
@Deplorable Me, #62:
I read the entire letter from Senators Menendez, Durbin, and Leahy to Lutsenko. It contains no threat to withhold aid, either explicit or implied.
This is what Breitbart’s writer cites supporting his assertion:
There’s no threat there at all—not even a vaguely implied threat. No sort of retribution of any kind whatsoever for failure to comply is mentioned, or even alluded to. There’s nothing more than If you don’t do as you should, people are going to question your government’s commitment to cleaning up their act—as well they should, considering Lutsenko’s track record.
@Greg: But you could find it in the Trump letter, amazing
@kitt:
Find it? It’s impossible not to find it. There was nothing remotely subtle about Trump’s Ukraine scheme. Even the Senators who voted to acquit know perfectly well what he was up to. They know it wasn’t proper in any way, shape, or form.
@Greg: Only you in your mind reading mode and those filing false charges can see that in the Trump conversation.
@Greg: Well, you might want to read the very first paragraph, Scooter. The entire paragraph is a threat to rethink aid to Ukraine. I guess you overlooked it, since it is the FIRST paragraph and, in no uncertain terms, is just one extended threat to Ukraine NOT to dare to displease them and not stir up some dirt, no matter how phony, on Trump.
So, again, how can Lord Mitt excuse and condone Democrats doing exactly what they falsely accost Trump of doing and vote for conviction? How can YOU blatantly ignore theirs and Biden’s open, overt, explicit extortion to either try to destroy Trump’s presidency and campaign or enrich themselves with laundered US aid money? Oh… you’re a liberal. That, of course, explains it all. The ends justifies the means, any level of lawlessness is OK as long as Democrats are happily getting rich off of theft and graft so long as they can have the power to rape and pillage the American people and nation.
@kitt: Not only can you not find it in Trump’s call, but Ukraine couldn’t find and, significantly, IT NEVER HAPPENED.
@Deplorable Me:
“This reported refusal to cooperate with the Mueller probe also sends a worrying signal — to the Ukrainian people as well as the international community
Since the U.S. was footing the bulk of the aid money to Ukraine, you can bet the “international community” meant the Democrats of the U.S. Congress.
Here is how that letter is really translated:
Tony to Vinnie:
“You know Vinnie, I consider you are good friend and I really, really like your family. I would be heartbroken if something happened to them. By the way, here is a list of the things I need you to do for me.”
Comrade Greggie’s interpretation of the Congressional Mafia’s letter shows that he is so brainwashed he can’t see the threats when they are in plain sight.
@retire05: Greg supports a bug-eyed weasel like Schiff doing a “parody” of Trump’s actual words in order to misconstrue it as demanding dirt on Biden yet makes weak, stupid excuses for Durbin, Leahy and Menendez putting ON PAPER a threat to cut off aid (even though they couldn’t) to Ukraine unless they fed the floundering Mueller witch hunt dirt on Trump. In the end, all they got was the phony ledger, but that was satisfactory for them.
Greg supported the vile attacks on the Covington children.
Greg believed the Clinton’s getting $1.4 million from Russia as she simultaneously approved the sale of US uranium to a Russian-controlled company is nothing suspicious.
Greg believes Hillary only destroyed 33,000 emails subpoenaed by the State Department just because they were about yoga, weddings and funerals.
Greg believes and supports what he is told to believe and support. He provides evidence to us all that what WE support is RIGHT. Anyone that lies that much to denounce our beliefs and try and support his own KNOWS he is on the wrong side.
@Deplorable Me: Any bets on other GTFO we might see this coming week, we have the traitor twins, The I presumed Ambassador, it will be interesting to see where the former Ambassador of Ukraine will find employment, some Soros NGO no doubt one of the Dem candidates could name her Vice or SOS.
@Randy, #74:
Any attentive person who isn’t locked into the narrow confines of concrete thinking understands perfectly well what was happening in Trump’s “perfect” telephone call. No mind reading is required.
Trump might have been plotting against the wrong person. A blind spot always comes with his sort of calculations.
Democrats have a number of very good alternatives to offer the American people. Republicans have no alternative. They’ve imposed that restriction upon themselves. They’ve kicked their own most honorable people to the curb. They’ve created a party culture that marginalizes their best, while elevating the worst they have to offer.
Too bad about Romney. Who else is there that Trump hasn’t ruined?
@Greg:
Good “alternatives” to what, Comrade Greggie?
So far, the most popular Democrat candidates seem to only offer Socialism/Communism as an alternative, each pushing their own brand of what is really Marxism.
So please, elaborate on these wonderous “alternatives” of which you speak.
@retire05, #81:
Did you somehow miss the news that the Communist/Socialist Menace crapped out of the game sometime during the second half of the past century? It only looms large in the minds of the checkout-line generation whose brains fossilized sometime around the end of the Reagan administration. Here in present day reality, we’re far more likely to lose our freedom and prosperity to authoritarian rule that has entered into an incestuous relationship with crony capitalism. Witness that this is what the Trump administration is really all about, and that Trump supporters given themselves over to it entirely.
@Greg:
Wow!!! Now you’re telling us that the Communist (Russia) and Socialist (Cuba) threat ended around the end of the Reagan administration? Did you forget to tell the Democrat Party members that? Seems to me they have been shouting “Russia, Russia, Russia!!!” for the last four years. You really need to keep them better informed..
Now, let’s look at how you are evading answering my question (which is your only real talent), shall we?
Here is the question again; “Good “alternatives” to what, Comrade Greggie?”
Seems you don’t want to respond to your own declarative statement, which, after years of reading your b/s, is not surprising. So while your foot is shoved in your mouth up to the knee cap, are your fingers broken as well so that you cannot respond?
You have no self respect, Comrade Greggie, as you keep humiliating yourself. You seem incapable of learning, so that makes you an idiot.
@Greg: Theres this country called Venezuela which was once very wealthy, then along came socialism. Now they cant afford to feed their zoo animals. But worry not Muduro’s children are living it up in Europe. Free healthcare not a band-aid to be found.
United Socialist Party of Venezuela (Spanish: Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela, PSUV) is the name of a Democratic socialist political party in Venezuela which resulted from the fusion of some of the political and social forces that support the Bolivarian Revolution led by former President Hugo Chávez. 1999 Chavez took power.
You can only lie to yourself brother
@retire05, #83:
Maybe that needs to be translated for folks who aren’t yet up to speed in the 21st Century. The warning is actually “PUTIN! PUTIN! PUTIN!” And it’s a very serious one.
Good alternatives to the divisive incompetent blowhard in the White House whose path to personal empowerment leaves a trail of scandal, casualties, and smoking wreckage behind him, and I suggested one such person. I believe this woman is speaking what a majority of American voters are thinking. She’s a moderate pragmatist who is focused on the concerns of the average American. She has actual principles, and acts and speaks in accordance with them.
The GOP needs to be given a time-out to reflect on its behavior.
@Greg:
Please provide some examples of this wreckage or is that just another empty sound bite from the boobtube?
We can easily point out mountains blood soaked wreckage left behind from the last admin.
If Putin was so horrible why did BHO provide them with the Skolkovo technology to destroy us?
From the WSJ The state-of-the-art technological research coming out of Skolkovo raised alarms among U.S. military experts and federal law-enforcement officials. Research conducted in 2012 on Skolkovo by the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Program at Fort Leavenworth declared that the purpose of Skolkovo was to serve as a “vehicle for world-wide technology transfer to Russia in the areas of information technology, biomedicine, energy, satellite and space technology, and nuclear technology.”Moreover, the report said: “the Skolkovo Foundation has, in fact, been involved in defense-related activities since December 2011, when it approved the first weapons-related project—the development of a hypersonic cruise missile engine. . . . Not all of the center’s efforts are civilian in nature…”
There won’t be much left of the GOP. It’s all about him now. He’s made himself the center pole holding up the entire tent. The wreckage won’t be apparent until he’s suddenly gone. They’ll have to rebuild from the ground up.
@Greg: You are so full of horse manure greggie! Of course you can not provide examples. You have none. Yes, it will be difficult for someone to follow Trump and maintain the tremendous successes he has started because anyone who follows will likely be a politician and not have the skills or vision.
@Greg: So no examples at all, an empty sound bite. We all must believe cause some pseudo expert on your boob tube says so.
All your experts have been wrong for a very very long time but you hang in there someday they might get a clue.
@Greg: Explain how Trump ruined Romney? Romney ruined himself by thinking he can gain more by ingratiating to the liberal media and Democrats by satisfying his urge to “get even” with Trump and vote against truth and evidence. Like I said (and you refuse to acknowledge) Romney has NO problem (nor do any Democrats) with Leahy, Durbin and Menendez threatening Ukraine with losing aid unless they helped the effort to destroy Trump’s 2020 campaign. THAT is all their threat, the Mueller “investigation” and this impeachment farce has been about; campaign politics. Utter scumbaggery, and you and Romney approve 100%. Real honest to goodness chickenshit.
@retire05: @kitt: @Randy: Greg has been backed into a corner by the Democrat’s extraordinary level of lying and hypocrisy. Now all he can do is make comments about how “evil” Trump is, they ignore the fact he’s made the comment when demanded to provide some sort of evidence to back it up. Like Pelosi retreading that old lie about Trump finding good people among the white supremacists; all they can is lie. He’s turned into AJ.
@Randy: We are so surprised!
@Greg:
Putin, Putin, Putin! is ONE man. He can do nothing without the might of his nation behind him. And if you think he can, you only confirm what an idiot you are.
One person? Just one? At least your ONE person had the good sense to hold her hand up when asked if there was concern about the damn Socialists running that have taken over the Democrat Party. But of course, being the idiot you are, you give me not an actual answer to my question but a freaking youtube video.
So basically Randy is right. You have nothing. Just like the rest of your Party. All you have is “FREE STUFF, FREE STUFF” and billionaires will pay for it. Even that’s funny because Bernie used to say “millionaires and billionaires” but now that he’s a millionaire he dropped the “millionaire” part of his b/s and just targets billionaires, you know, like Bloomberg.
You remain an idiot.
@retire05, #92:
Putin is one man—like Hitler was one man, or Kim Jong-un is one man. He’s the authoritarian leader that Trump dreams of becoming. Apparently you don’t understand how much damage one self-absorbed, blindly-followed leader can do, despite a history book full of examples. All that’s ever kept that from happening here are the constitutional checks and balances the Founding Fathers put in place to prevent it.
@Greg:
You really are going off the rails, Comrade Greggie. Next thing is you will be telling us that President Trump has a secret drawer where he keeps his plans for the gulags, extermination camps and slave camps.
I think you really need to get mental health help. You are so off the charts that you are rapidly becoming a danger to yourself. But, I still must note, you are still avoiding my question:
“Good “alternatives” to what, Comrade Greggie?”
@Greg: Yes blind loyalty: Even if it could be proven that these tens of millions of dollars in Clinton Foundation donations by Skolkovo’s key partners played no role in the Clinton State Department’s missing or ignoring obvious red flags about the Russian enterprise, the perception would still be problematic. (Neither the Clinton campaign nor the Clinton Foundation responded to requests for comment.) What is known is that the State Department recruited and facilitated the commitment of billions of American dollars in the creation of a Russian “Silicon Valley” whose technological innovations include Russian hypersonic cruise-missile engines, radar surveillance equipment, and vehicles capable of delivering airborne Russian troops.
A Russian reset, indeed.
The DNC just cant seem to drive a stake through the old blood suckers heart, her campaign manager now sets their rules.
Amy is no match for her, unless the old bag decides she should be the first woman President, that wont be happening in Stinkys lifetime.
I’m not the one who climbed aboard the Trump Trolley bound for Looney Tune Town.
@Greg:
Is that your answer to my question: “Good “alternatives” to what, Comrade Greggie?”
@retire05: You know that greggie and the other far lefties can not refute the achievements Trump made at the STOU. Trump has accomplished more in three years than the past 3 presidents have accomplished in 24 years. greggie and his far out companions are suffering from acute trump syndrome. They all require mental health.
@retire05: All of Trump’s successes have overwhelmed Greg and his fellow crybabies. Therefore, all he has to fall back on is “Trump is evil”, “Trump is a liar”, “Trump is a con man”, “Trump is a buffoon”, all of which are rendered impotent by Trump’s very actions.
@Randy:
I know. And I also know what James Carville said was the most honest thing I have heard a Democrat say in a long time:
“What we need is power! Do you understand? That’s what this is about.”
The Democrats are not concerned about our nation. They are not concerned about its citizens. It is nothing more than they want power all the time railing on Trump, claiming he only wants power.
G-d help us if the Democrats ever get the power they crave. Can you say Venezuela Deux?