Trump’s Stonewalling Adds To Impeachment Evidence | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

Donald Trumpโ€™s strategy of defying Congress in the impeachment probe has stopped some witnesses from testifying, but not all. Ari Melber looks at the court precedents for fights between the president and Congress and why Trumpโ€™s stonewalling could actually be helping Democrats build their case. Aired on 11/11/19.
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Trump's Stonewalling Adds To Impeachment Evidence | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

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    1. @Ken Bugbee you appear to be a typical victim of Don the Con and his State TV apologists, who for some reason I cannot fathom thinks it’s a good use of your time to “troll the libs”. Here is the evidence:

      1) makes unfactual claims, i.e. lies
      2) ad hominem attacks that are unworthy of the school yard in their stupidity
      3) doubles down on both lies and insults when challenged.

      Your posts are not worth any more of my time. I sincerely hope you realize you have been the victim of a con and can rebuild your life based on truth and common sense, not lies and hate.

    2. @Web Grep
      We don’t give a crap about anything before he entered the race in 2015 , only since then .
      AND IT’S BEEN GREAT !!!!

    1. You know what they say about insanity.

      Meanwhile back at roger stones saferoom.

      ๐ŸŽตGive him 10 feet.
      Now give him 10 more.
      ๐ŸŽต Open up the door and give him some more.

      Now that’s enough rope to choke a horse. But give Donald 10 more feet of that rope. We will need it of course.๐ŸŽต

    2. Robert Robertson Set your mind free. No deity is intervening for anyone. You read like an over exciting Hitler Youth cadet.

  1. Every legal and policy precedent set by Republicans out of cruelty and spite will come back to work against them. Republican ressentiment has no foresight.

    1. @Ruthie Morris *How does GeTTing Arrested & Going to Prison*
      *SaLvage Ones Life, you Ignorant So & So????*
      Pardon my Language

    1. He finds out from his mother that it stands for ‘Jay’. Not comparing to Homer Simpson, he’d at least be thoughtful and humble, in most cases.

    1. the only reason there’s no special prosecutor investigating this issue is because AG Barr refused to assign one upon congressional recommendation and request. that’s why its the house conducting the investigation instead of the DOJ that led both Clinton’s and Nixon’s impeachment inquiries. and yes, Schiff should subpoena Bolton, pompeo, barr, perry and giulliani. whether they think they’ll show up or not. EVERY no show is another obstruction of justice charge NOT ONLY against trump but also against those who defy the subpoenas.

    1. the only reason there’s no special prosecutor investigating this issue is because AG Barr refused to assign one upon congressional recommendation and request. that’s why its the house conducting the investigation instead of the DOJ that led both Clinton’s and Nixon’s impeachment inquiries. and yes, Schiff should subpoena Bolton, pompeo, barr, perry and giulliani. whether they think they’ll show up or not. EVERY no show is another obstruction of justice charge NOT ONLY against trump but also against those who defy the subpoenas.

    2. @Jeremy Truitt Cohen pleaded guilty to eight criminal charges: five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution at the request of a candidate. Imbecile.

    3. @snoop alert bHBHABHABHBAHBHBHABAHBAH….HAhahahahaha….Individual One… hbahbhabba yeah sure… also….Mueller – “He can be charged after he leaves office”… but YAwn SHammity won’t tell you what that report said… Now.. FAt FAce Nixon is adding to the already Numerous Obstruction charges…=/…enjoy the trials.. we will..=]

    1. ๐ŸŽตGive him 10 feet.
      Now give him 10 more.
      ๐ŸŽต Open up the door and give him some more.

      Now that’s enough rope to choke a horse. But give Donald 10 more feet of that rope. We will need it of course.๐ŸŽต

  2. Beyond belief that these assclowns can simply ignore subpoenas as if they are meaningless. How about $25,000 for first no show, $50,000 for second no show etc? Incredible. ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

    1. nunya business why does nothing happen??? They just ignore the subpoena & go to lunch or back to the golf course???

    2. Put the fines in JOEY BIDEN’S pocket. He has lived off the tax payers for more than 40 years, he deserves a bonus for all the years of “service” and “sacrifice ” .
      What a great idea, what say all you RUSSIAN BOTS?

    3. Charge them the same ($250,000) fine Trump sought to impose on poor legal asylum seekers after he mislabeled them illegal aliens and kidnapped their children for Ivanka’s Chinese escort business. .

  3. Trump and his supporters keep saying this is all a โ€œCOOโ€๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ that is how they spell coup.

  4. Trump should be glad he’s being impeached! Why? Because, before there was such a thing as impeachment, corrupt rulers were executed as their method of removal from office!

    1. @Juju Rellama Marie-Antoinette, queen consort of King Louis XVI of France ~ Marie – Antoinette had asked Austria for help with putting down French Revolutionaries and to help Her and King Louis XVI stay in power. They were guillotined in 1793. (similarities are startling aren’t they ) @Juju Rellama ~ Better think twice before you use Faux News / Am Conservative talk radio tactics!

    1. @DOE John Then let’s put more white powder on our faces and join the KKK and the Nazi Party perhaps we will be forgiven.๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

    2. you know what’s really stupid? asking a court for permission to obey a subpoena. “let’s see, should I obey the criminal’s command that don’t testify or should I follow the law and obey a legally issued subpoena? uummm, I think i’ll stonewall and ask a court to decide this issue 6 or 7 months from now.” I’ve never heard of such thing. this stonewalling tactic, itself, is illegal and sets a VERY dangerous precedent. (wow, I just has an extreme occurrence of deja vu as I wrote this!)

  5. If the republicans lie and cover for crimes against America they can be arrested for crimes after the fact people

    1. Last time I looked, We The People owned and had a right to elect representative to run the government. Our laws also allow crooks to be removed by the Congress in Impeachment Trials.

  6. They shouldโ€™ve used the sergeant of arms when the GOP stormed the Congregational investigation office

    1. Having the authority to send the sergeant-at-arms to arrest someone, and the sergeant-at-arms acting on his own initiative to just go about arresting members of congress are not the same thing.

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