President Donald Trump Under Fire For 2020 Collusion | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

The Wall Street Journal details new reports about the “urgent” whistleblower complaint, that President Trump asked the Ukrainian President ‘eight times’ to go after Biden, and assigned Rudy Giuliani to execute the plot. Rep. Greg Meeks argues, Trump is making ‘a joke of our institutions,’ adding Republicans need to ‘stop making excuses for Trump.’ Aired on 09/20/19.
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President Donald Trump Under Fire For 2020 Collusion | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

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    1. Hillary rigged her primary with Sanders and thankfully failed with her trying to rig it with Trump in the deep state

  1. Republicans wouldn’t hold him accountable. He even said he’s take the help again. Then he went and actually tried to recruit a foreign governments help, again.
    This was entirely predictable.

    1. “I think you might want to listen, there isn’t anything wrong with listening,” Trump continued. “If somebody called from a country, Norway, [and said] ‘we have information on your opponent’ — oh, I think I’d want to hear it.”

  2. *The GOP must be disbanded* – For electing and protecting Donald they have proven to be nothing more than a co-conspiring criminal organization. They are the greatest threat to America, our allies and democracy itself.

    1. nadine dilani You call us ungrateful!? Do you think we have no good reason to find this administration dangerous and want it gone? I find your points selfish, shortsighted, and misled. So obviously, it’s not merely that our priorities, personal beliefs, and preferences are different, but our very world-views are clearly completely unalike. To me:

      A few more dollars for a few years – not worth the tax cuts to billionaires and corporations who are the real long-term beneficiaries. They just use that money to buy more power. Domestic terrorism has skyrocketed while we are left arguing over what to do about it, so no, I don’t feel safer from terrorists. The unsustainably expensive, paid-for-by-**Americans**, border wall is a manipulative, sadistic political stunt, not a reasonable approach to border security. Not to mention the inhumane conditions the US allows at detention facilities among families seeking asylum, and no one detained has been convicted of a crime deserving of such treatment. Meanwhile, Trumpsters obsess about a multi-billion dollar wall that is way more than necessary, while our infrastructure is crumbling into accidents waiting to happen.

      I will not be grateful to a man who has inflicted so much long-term damage to my country. Literally, he’s attacking the environment. He doesn’t have a clue about wind turbines, or he’s intentionally making a fool of himself. Speaking of lying, I’m stunned by his lies, narcissism, self-enrichment from the office and from our tax money: being bribed by other countries and selling us out, serving himself above all else, destroying our relationships with our allies while debasing himself to dangerous dictators, lying at a rate of multiple times a day, etc., and so on.

      He says America First but America is clearly not even in his Top Ten Priorities. His administration **is** the “Swamp” in concentrated form, his “best people” have the highest turnover rate in modern history, and he turns on each one and throws them under the bus. He abuses his position and that high turnover more by assigning only Acting roles in numerous leadership positions – not confirmed the Senate.

      He is a stubborn intransigent bully who has ZERO natural curiosity or even basic understanding of elementary school concepts who can’t even admit a mistake. Speaking of which, our education system is abysmal, even worse under the not-at-all qualified but somehow confirmed Betsy DeVos – and millions of Americans are already poorly educated as it is, but he loves that, wonder why. He put a vocally biased, self-proclaimed revenge-seeking Democrat-hating utterly unfit conspiracy theorist on the SC. And now recently he wants to take us to war.

      I will not be grateful for peanuts from a man who cares nothing for me, who outright thinks me and half the country an enemy. I care about Americans’ future, not just what serves some people in the present. To be called ungrateful for not liking this POTUS is like calling a hostage ungrateful for not showering love on their captor for giving them a scoop of kibble every now and then. **It’s not enough to outweigh the damage.**

    1. I have information for you – Trump keeps his private Boeing 727 on 24/7 standby – that includes 2 pilots on permanent standby, fueled, daily engine startups, system checks, everything. This is old news – people were asking WHY in 2017 for god’s sake. Why does a NOTORIOUSLY TIGHT cheapskate keep incurring all these costs when he has access to Airforce 1…?

      Well, maybe we are about to find out?

    2. Bono Budju wow! Smh. I wanna see if Donny boy locks himself in the white house if he loses the 2020 and tries to fire people after he loses. I’m betting that we gonna see secret service drag him out by his shoulders…lmao. I seriously want to see this. 😂😂😂 home boy Cray Cray. That would make such a great movie and make America great again!!! Lol I want to see the madness that comes out of his mouth if he loses.

    1. Ichijo Festival wow! Is mine too. Smh. I wanna see if Donny boy locks himself in the white house if he loses the 2020 and tries to fire people after he loses. I’m betting that we gonna see secret service drag him out by his shoulders…lmao. I seriously want to see this. 😂😂😂 home boy Cray Cray. That would make such a great movie and make America great again!!! Lol I want to see the madness that comes out of his mouth if he loses.

    1. Impeached!!?? Treason is a crime worthy of capital punishment in America. He should be publicly hung as should Jared Kushner for the same crime. What I wouldn’t give to see Trump in the electric chair and his delusional brain fried.

    2. wow! Smh. I wanna see if Donny boy locks himself in the white house if he loses the 2020 and tries to fire people after he loses. I’m betting that we gonna see secret service drag him out by his shoulders…lmao. I seriously want to see this. 😂😂😂 home boy Cray Cray. That would make such a great movie and make America great again!!! Lol I want to see the madness that comes out of his mouth if he loses.

  3. The Trump Familia will be taken down and many more will go jail. The Trump Empire will be dismantled and New York state will take the lead…

    1. @E.J. Wyllie i want him to make a fantastic issue of having to give up the job or as the Nation will say in 2020 one voice YOU ARE FIRED!!!!!! ✌️🤣🤣

    2. Yes we will. They are starting already. cohen has been working with them for weeks. I wonder why Rudy is defending him. Could it be that He let Trumpee get away with something when he was prosecutor here.Most ppl didn;t know about biden’s son and his gas deal. That deal was inv and found to be OK. How many times is he going to have them investigate. Let’s retry OJ while we are at it.

    1. @Chloe Key The scary part is that they have no morals or ethics.
      I actually believe at least some of them had them.
      We are living in “The Twilight Zone”

    2. @Js Travelers That is exactly the fear. If he’s kept from giving evidence to Congress, then his only choice is to go public. Otherwise, I wouldn’t give a fig for his chances.

    3. The fatal weakness appears to be the appointment of the AG. That needs to be changed so nomination is by the House, the Senate confirms and the only thing the President can do is use a veto on an unacceptable candidate.

    4. The system itself is fine – it’s the people (republicans) within the system that are failing to provide the checks and balances.

    1. ALL of those criminals needs to get dragged out in a row of waist and ankle chains and thrown into a line of waiting paddy wagons!

    1. @Joe Nevarez Over 650 former prosecutors say Trump would be charged with obstruction of justice … – https://www.axios.com/trump-obstruction-of-justice-former-prosecutors-b5599d27-68

      More than 650 former federal prosecutors have signed onto a statement asserting that even if the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) did not prohibit a sitting president from being indicted, President Trump would be charged with obstruction of justice.

      Why it matters: Special counsel Robert Mueller laid out extensive evidence of possible obstruction by Trump in volume 2 of his report. though he ultimately opted not to make a “traditional prosecutorial judgment” in part because of the OLC opinion.

      The statement is signed by more than 20 former U.S. attorneys and more than 100 career Justice Department officials who worked in EVERY administration dating back to President Eisenhower. It cites a number of episodes Mueller detailed in his report as “acts that satisfy all of the elements for an obstruction charge” — meaning obstructive conduct and “corrupt intent.”
      Specifically, the prosecutors point to:

      1. “The President’s efforts to fire Mueller and to falsify evidence about that effort;
      2 The President’s efforts to limit the scope of Mueller’s investigation to exclude his conduct; and
      3. The President’s efforts to prevent witnesses from cooperating with investigators probing him and his campaign.

    2. @Casa Furniture Over 650 former prosecutors say Trump would be charged with obstruction of justice … – https://www.axios.com/trump-obstruction-of-justice-former-prosecutors-b5599d27-68

      More than 650 former federal prosecutors have signed onto a statement asserting that even if the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) did not prohibit a sitting president from being indicted, President Trump would be charged with obstruction of justice.

      Why it matters: Special counsel Robert Mueller laid out extensive evidence of possible obstruction by Trump in volume 2 of his report. though he ultimately opted not to make a “traditional prosecutorial judgment” in part because of the OLC opinion.

      The statement is signed by more than 20 former U.S. attorneys and more than 100 career Justice Department officials who worked in EVERY administration dating back to President Eisenhower. It cites a number of episodes Mueller detailed in his report as “acts that satisfy all of the elements for an obstruction charge” — meaning obstructive conduct and “corrupt intent.”
      Specifically, the prosecutors point to:

      1. “The President’s efforts to fire Mueller and to falsify evidence about that effort;
      2 The President’s efforts to limit the scope of Mueller’s investigation to exclude his conduct; and
      3. The President’s efforts to prevent witnesses from cooperating with investigators probing him and his campaign.

  4. If they’re breaking the law? Arrest him the way y’all wanted Obama to get the death penalty for wearing a tan suit.

    1. @L. Langhorn While his days in office do seem to be numbered, it’s hard not to note the extreme damage he has done to our country in just about every way. Practically all of the GOP in power either did absolutely nothing or actually helped enable Trump’s corruption and incompetence. For the vast majority of these spineless crooks, there will be no consequences. If anything, Trump showed them just how far they could push their agenda and get away with it, so even after he’s gone, does anyone really believe we’ll just slide back to “normal” measures of right and wrong? American flag wavers love to think our country is an indestructible perfect jewel… but the great, “perfect” civilization of Rome fell victim to its own arrogance and went down in flames. History may come to show that Trump was the match that lit the fuse to our country’s fiery destruction.

    2. @Poor Finian I agree, but Ide also point out that it’s not just the US he’s caused damage too, his actions and inactions have affected the planet as a whole. Bills he has enacted, some he has thrown out etc. The hate mongering and divide he has allowed to become the norm. I’m Canadian and we feel it up here too. Gawd I wish I could vote him out, because gis bs has touched things I care about too and it makes me furious.

      I do hope that they impeach him. There’s still time. It’s not going to pass, but it needs to be done for precedents sake. I also think though after this giant orange bafoon is gone, they will clean house. I think those who have acted in favor of trump as opposed to their country and acted as such will be addressed accordingly, and I think that those who are equally deserving of charges will get what’s coming to them. Again, precedent. Congress knows what hot water this has put the branches of the government in and the dangers of that going forward, and to preserve the sanctity of the US going forward I’m sure they’ll take steps to ensure things like this can’t happen again, and God forbid they do, that they have more means to address it….alllll that being said, I think it’ll get worse before it gets better because Chump is a wounded animal backed in a corner right now and he knows it. Patience is a virtue and I have full faith that the government will restore itself and all too soon the trump name will just be a colossal joke… Oh wait it already is. Haha Hahaha.

    1. Jordan Keith wow! Smh. I wanna see if Donny boy locks himself in the white house if he loses the 2020 and tries to fire people after he loses. I’m betting that we gonna see secret service drag him out by his shoulders…lmao. I seriously want to see this. 😂😂😂 home boy Cray Cray. That would make such a great movie and make America great again!!! Lol I want to see the madness that comes out of his mouth if he loses.

    2. So far the only ones winning are the top 5 %
      Who benefited from trumps tax cut.
      Everybody else he has
      Stabbed in the back
      one by one BY one

    1. @Raven Stark True. Always be vigilant.

      A good indicator that he is nuts though, none of Trumps trolls or bots are stampeding here to defend him.

    1. @Missy Citty I didn’t vote for this pos. We can’t let him get us so down we are sitting ducks. All 45 is doing is by the fascist handbook.

    2. @L.A. Bside lol no they didn’t. He didn’t “release it” until AFTER the story leaked!! He knew he had no choice . But, by then it was too late. Busted! Bribery, extortion, at its finest from 45!!

    3. @Doug Rollings They think he is great for breaking the law as set by the U. S. Constitution. His base does not understand even the basics of checks and balances.All they can see is one incident and not put it in part of a bigger problem.

    1. @gracelyn909…Actually I think Trump committed three crimes here. They would be conspiracy against the United States, (asking a foreign govt. to subvert a federal election), conspiracy to defraud the United States, (attempting to alter election results in an illegal manner), and conspiracy to obstruct justice, (trying to cover it up and stop an investigation)

    2. Trump attempted to extort the Ukraine PM by threatening to withhold US arms needed to keep Putin out of Ukraine. It is definitely an impeachable offense.

    1. @NewLifeRW No one give s ash*t what you trump supporters think or believe anymore because it’s always 100% FALSE. WE DON’T CARE WHAT YOU’RE SICK OF!

    1. @NewLifeRW remember my friend, these idiots here do not care for facts. They will not supply you with any facts, only with emotions.

    2. @Deon Van der Westhuizen that’s funny. NewLifeRW isn’t providing ANY facts. Just asking a silly and incredulous question that I very clearly answered with a direct quote from the Federal Election Commission Chair. I’m still waiting for a response to it so we can see the ludicrous denials. Yet here you are trying to cosign with or cheerlead for that schmuck who hasn’t supplied any facts, and neither have you. But you’re quick to claim being the boss of your own company, something that is totally irrelevent to this thread and cannot be proven.

    1. Courtney Lynn wow! Smh. I wanna see if Donny boy locks himself in the white house if he loses the 2020 and tries to fire people after he loses. I’m betting that we gonna see secret service drag him out by his shoulders…lmao. I seriously want to see this. 😂😂😂 home boy Cray Cray. That would make such a great movie and make America great again!!! Lol I want to see the madness that comes out of his mouth if he loses.

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