@Baldimo,
Do you really believe that Flynn did not lie to FBI. That is an undisputable fact. What seeing is total and complete corruption of law enforcement by Trump. It will be impossible to enforce any law when political appointees can over rule judges. Flynn had plead guilty he had been sentenced by a judge the case was over. No matter what sort of crooked political fix takes place he is guilty. If all the jails were emptied every time there was an election everyone would lose respect for law and enforcement would be impossible. The case has not been dropped the judge must decide that and he hasn't.
@coldjoint,
Your listening to more lies. They wait daily for calls from the local health departments. Your are just like Trump who said the unemployment numbers were lies when he was running for President but as soon as he was elected he claimed the same unemployment were the god's truth and they proved what a great job he was doing. It is the old Putin trick everything is a lie, the truth does not exist.
@Zardoz,
Zardoz wrote:If Trump had been tried for extortion in front of a jury he would have been easily convicted.
Not in a just courtroom. Withholding aid in order to pressure countries into doing what we want them to do is standard for all administrations. Joe Biden did it when he was VP.
Zardoz wrote:Everyone of the Republican senators except Romney should have been removed from office because everyone of them broke their oath they swore too that they would be neutral jurors. Most declared that Trump was innocent before they heard a word of evidence. Any jury trial would have been declared a mistrial if the jury openly declared the accused innocent before trial.
Better remove all the Democrats first. They decided that Mr. Trump was guilty in the absence of any evidence.
All the Republicans did was refuse to go along with a lynching.
Zardoz wrote:Imagine if there was a murder trial and the defense was able to keep any of 30 eyewitnesses from testifying that is what happened during the Trump's impeachment trial.
That is incorrect. The House was able to present their evidence.
What they were prevented from doing was dragging proceedings out with a fishing expedition once their evidence failed to persuade anyone.
@Zardoz,
Zardoz wrote:What seeing is total and complete corruption of law enforcement by Trump. It will be impossible to enforce any law when political appointees can over rule judges.
Not at all. Federal prosecutors are still able to press charges against anyone who Mr. Trump tells them to press charges against.
Zardoz wrote:Flynn had plead guilty he had been sentenced by a judge the case was over. No matter what sort of crooked political fix takes place he is guilty. If all the jails were emptied every time there was an election everyone would lose respect for law and enforcement would be impossible. The case has not been dropped the judge must decide that and he hasn't.
Judges do not decide whether or not to prosecute people. If the judge oversteps his bounds, higher courts will rein him in.
We now have 1,342,476 cases of coronavirus, yesterday we had 1,317,175 cases of corona virus. That means we now have another 25,301 Americans infected with coronavirus today.
The death toll now stands at 79,645 dead Americans, yesterday the death toll was 78,198. That leaves us with another 1,447 graves to dig today.
We now have 15 times as many cases of coronavirus as China. It looks like Trump could have held it down to only 5 times as many. Doing things like burying the CDC decision tree used to reopen churches is why we ended up with 15 times as many coronavirus cases as China. Churches are one of the primary ways coronavirus was spread across America. One study showed that coronavirus was spread by the air condition system. Most of the cases of coronavirus in Kentucky will be ultimately traced back to church services and a Republican judge ruled that Churches can spread the coronavirus across the country. Those judges won’t be happy until the country is in a grave. The Mexicans can then take over because the Americans all died of stupidity and fairy tales. Mexico only has 33,460 cases of coronavirus. We have 40 times as many coronavirus cases than Mexico and we have the fairytale mongers to thank for it.
@coldjoint,
The unemployment was coming, if it wasn't coronavirus it would have been something else. If you remember the last Republican administration left the country in a great depression. There were several other things that the Wall Street professionals had pointed out that would caused another great depression. It could not end any other way it would be just like the Trump casinos and Trump airlines huge amounts of money borrowed and squandered.
@Baldimo,
Flynn has already pled guilty twice and been convicted. People that plead guilty at sentencing are told that they are giving up their right of appeal. The Federal prosecutors agree this has never happened in the history of the United States. Once Flynn rendered a guilty plea the Justice Department was out of the picture. I watched in one of our court cases when the judge thought he would nullify our jury verdict. Our attorney pointed out he would be overruled on appeal. That ended that, you can only pull that trick on the poor who can't afford and appeal.
@coldjoint,
The Russian are just getting started and Trump has promised Putin that all the Russian criminals who helped him get elected last time will have the charges against them dropped. US intelligence agencies have already found the Russians actively working this election for Trump.
@oralloy,
Extortion is an extremely simple crime. You go into a business and tell them if they don't pay you for protection their store might burn to ground. You don't have to burn it down or take any money, your demand makes you guilty of extortion. Trump made the demand and just because the Ukraine ultimately got the money after Trump crime was outed will never change the facts. That is much like taking a shot at someone and saying as long as you missed there was no crime. Pulling the trigger was the crime and Trump clearly pulled the trigger.
@oralloy,
The democrats had been investigating Trump for years and were well acquainted with the facts. The Republicans tried in everyway to block any legitimate trial. When witnesses are blocked you have no trial. If you think that is good for the country you might as well grant every criminal the right to block any witnesses at their trials.
The Republicans did everything in their power to block the truth from coming out. That violates the basic reason for having a trial in the first place.
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A trial is about witnesses not blocking witnesses. Witnesses testimony is the reason we have trials we want the jury to hear from the eyewitnesses and to assess the witnesses themselves.
@oralloy,
That would make Trump a dictator and destroy the America way of life. Trump wants to be dictator and the people he admires most are dictators. Trump's family is Germany and he studied Hitler and molded himself to be another Hitler.
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The prosecution was over when Flynn plead guilty after that the Judge has only one task to sentence him.
@coldjoint,
Early this year when the interest on short term bonds exceeded the interest on long bonds the experts saw this coming. It is a key indicator of a coming recession.
There are now 1,362,715 cases of coronavirus in America, yesterday we had 1,342,476 cases of coronavirus. That means another 20,239 Americans came down with coronavirus today. This pandemic is not slowing down we are infecting enough Americans to populate a small America city every day.
The death toll now stands at 80,562, yesterday we had 79,645 dead. That means another 1,207 have died today. Now over 80,000 Americans have died. We lost a 25-year old woman today from coronavirus.
It is hard to believe but the first death in United States from coronavirus took place on Feb. 29. That means 80,000 people died from coronavirus in just two months and ten days. That means we have averaged 1,135 deaths a day in America from coronavirus.
Coronavirus is now working its way through the White House and we will be able to watch as coronavirus cleans the real swamp out.
@coldjoint,
Trump has always made tremendous financial messes. He was given millions by his father and lost every cent of it. Trump casinos, Trump air lines and Trump's yacht all gone plus the life saving of thousands of others. The Russians bought Trump and own him lock, stock and barrel. The stock market always goes up and down and when does it go down? When the stock market is at his highest is when it collapses. The stock market has been going up since 2008, it was way past time for the collapse.
@coldjoint,
Wrong 26 of states that have opened up showed increased infection rates. Illinois had increase of 4,050 in the first week after it reopened. Illinois is now reporting 3,000 new cases a day. They had not reported 2,000 new cases a day until two weeks ago. Viruses are similar to pyramid scheme they will start small and explode like the 1918 pandemic but explode into the second wave. We know what happened in 1918 the virus first appeared harmless and disappeared for a while but it came back with a vengeance killing 50 million. Coronavirus is even spreading through the White House as we speak.
Today we have 1,381,150 cases of coronavirus in America, yesterday we had 1,362,715. That means another 18,435 Americans came down with coronavirus today. Kentucky had a 10-year old placed on a ventilator today. Once a coronavirus patient is placed on a ventilator, they have an 88% chance of dying.
The death toll now stands at 81,378 Americans, yesterday it was 80,562. That means 816 more Americans died today. China has now started their 2nd lockdown as they are finding new cases of coronavirus and they are trying to keep it from getting out of hand.
