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Congressional Investigations Into Trump White House
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Who's got two thumbs and broad subpoena power?
This guy. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Today he issued letters requesting documents and interviews from 81 people and organizations into allegations against the White House's and/or Trump campaign's:
Among other things.
Prominent individuals, grouped roughly by category (here's the full list via TPM):
Trump Organization members (knowledge about tax evasion, campaign finance violations, fraud, corruption, abuse of power, collusion:
Campaign Finance Violations
Russia Stuff
...With the NRA!
...Focused on Ukraine stuff!
...Focused on hacking!
,,,Focused on Michael Flynn and the firing thereof
Corruption
Honestly, I'm tired. There's a lot of corruption. Tom Barrack is on here, the General Services Administration. Rick Gates. The Trump Inaugural Committee.
Abuse of Power
McGann again, and all of his deputees. Among others.
Hey mods, what's on topic for this thread?
This is evolving, but current rulings are:
1) If the House Judiciary Committee is doing it, it's on topic.
2) If a House Judiciary member talks about these things resulting in impeachment (it would start in this committee), that's on topic. If you're generally speculating about impeachment on your own, that's not.
3) There will be some overlap with Mueller thread, the Trump Organization thread, and various other threads. Mods say that's fine.
Not on topic:
1) Mueller things that House Judiciary does not yet seem interested in, those go in the Mueller thread.
2) Same deal with all the other threads.
3) Idle speculation about impeachment without a specific impetus from a member of House Judiciary.
This guy. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Today he issued letters requesting documents and interviews from 81 people and organizations into allegations against the White House's and/or Trump campaign's:
- Conspiring with foreign powers to win the 2016 election (Russia and a couple Gulf States, notably)
- Campaign finance violations (paying off women, "catch and kill" partnership with the National Enquirer
- Handling of security clearances
- Obstruction of justice in covering up the above
- Abuse of power in various ways (blocking the AT&T/Time Warner merger to punish CNN, for example)
- Corruption
Among other things.
Prominent individuals, grouped roughly by category (here's the full list via TPM):
Trump Organization members (knowledge about tax evasion, campaign finance violations, fraud, corruption, abuse of power, collusion:
- Alan Garten, Trump VP and chief legal officer
- Allen Weisselberg, Trump CFO and dude who knows where all the bodies are buried
- Donald J Trump Revocable Trust
- Donald Trump Jr., idiot fail son #1
- Eric Trump, idiot fail son #2
- Jared Kushner, idiot fail son-in-law
- Kushner Companies
- Michael Cohen, Trump lawyer, fixer, and felon
- Matthew Calamari, Trump COO
- Ronald Lieberman, former Trump VP who Cohen says could confirm insurance fraud on the part of Trump
- Rhona Graff, Trump's personal assistant
- The Trump Foundation
- The Trump Organization
Campaign Finance Violations
- American Media Incorporate (National Enquirer parent)
- David Pecker, chairman of AMI
- Cohen again
- Weisselberg again
- Calamari again
- Dylan Howard, AMI VP
Russia Stuff
...With the NRA!
- The NRA!
- Paul Erickson, Maria Butina's honeypot
...Focused on Ukraine stuff!
- Paul Manafort
- Cohen, again
- Carter Page
- Kushner, again
- Erik Prince, mercenary leader and brother of Betsy DeVos
- Frontier Services Group, Prince's company
...Focused on hacking!
- Alexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica Founder
- Julian David Whitlow, CEO of Cambridge Analytica
- Brittany Kaiser, director at Cambridge Analytica in 2016
- Cambridge Analytica
- SCL Group Limited, parent company of Cambridge Analytica
- Anatoli Samochornov, translator at the 2016 meeting at Trump Tower
- Paul Manafort
- Trump Jr.
- Kushner
- Erik Trump
- Concord Management and Consulting, allegedly the financers of the hacking
- Felix Sater, fixer, international felon
- Jerome Corsi
- The estate of Peter W. Smith, the GOP donor/operative who was searching for hacked Hillary e-mails
- John Szobocsan, Smith's business associate
- Matt Tait, aka @pwnallthethings, cyber security expert who initially told us about Peter W. Smith's role in all this nonsense
- Julian Assange, head of Wikileaks
- Wikileaks
- Roger Stone, the alleged contact to Wikileaks via...
- Randy Credico
- Rob Goldstone, the guy who set up the Trump Tower meeting
- Rinat Akhmetshin, attended the Trump Tower meeting
- Irakly Kaveladze, attended the Trump Tower
- George Papadapolous, Trump adviser
- Steve Bannon, prince of darkness
- Tony Fabrizio, GOP pollster
,,,Focused on Michael Flynn and the firing thereof
- Like...everyone on the list, let's see...
- Michael Flynn
- Don McGann, former White House counsel
- Annie Donaldson, McGann's chief of staff
- Corey Lewandowski, campaign chair
- Flynn Intel Group
- Michael Flynn
- Michael Flynn Jr.
- Hope Hicks
- KT McFarland, Flynn's deputy
- Reince Priebus
- Sean Spicer
Corruption
Honestly, I'm tired. There's a lot of corruption. Tom Barrack is on here, the General Services Administration. Rick Gates. The Trump Inaugural Committee.
Abuse of Power
McGann again, and all of his deputees. Among others.
Hey mods, what's on topic for this thread?
This is evolving, but current rulings are:
1) If the House Judiciary Committee is doing it, it's on topic.
2) If a House Judiciary member talks about these things resulting in impeachment (it would start in this committee), that's on topic. If you're generally speculating about impeachment on your own, that's not.
3) There will be some overlap with Mueller thread, the Trump Organization thread, and various other threads. Mods say that's fine.
Not on topic:
1) Mueller things that House Judiciary does not yet seem interested in, those go in the Mueller thread.
2) Same deal with all the other threads.
3) Idle speculation about impeachment without a specific impetus from a member of House Judiciary.
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That’s where Trump will blow a gasket, I think
Any investigation into the Trump Organization would need her to be a part of it, especially once they’ve sent letters to Eric and Don Jr. I will be shocked if she’s not part of the next round.
"Ivanka Trump or her Business Interests" is named in a lot of the requests, so probably.
Also, these requests see to be presently scoped to documents already produced for the SCO, SDNY, other committees, or civil litigation. So this seems to just be the committee getting up to speed; they haven't even begun to dig in.
That said, mama mia this is going to take a long time.
They're all mostly investigating the same crimes. But a few will likely focus on certain criminality more than others. Also, corrupt practices in particular Departments that are under their purview.
Can this committee investigate Nunes for obstruction?
One, how is he posting from the future
Two, why does he think he needs to bat signal his minions from twitter
Trump raises a good point. Nunes is not included in those requests.
Should probably call him in to explain why he didn't think all the evidence he had access to was evidence.
Yes... that's what investigations are for.
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I omitted some and obviously ran out of steam. The sheer breadth of this administration's villainy is breathtaking.
I’m probably way off base because I never watch Fox News, but I always assumed when trump tweets one of those paragraphs surrounded by quotes, he’s just repeating something he saw on fox and he usually @‘s the person who said it.
So when I saw this I just assumed it was Nunes on Fox saying those things and Trump is basically just retweeting a snippet from Fox News.
It's more that our news media is simply not equipped for a slow-roll of blatant corruption and instead is always looking for the exciting scoop. And they especially don't know how to react when you point out "You did something wrong" and the people being accused just don't react. It's the lack of shame that really lets them keep rolling.
Like a lot of these investigations, I suspect we're not gonna learn a ton of stuff we didn't already know about so much as we're gonna get a ton of proof and details of the crimes we've already known they committed and frankly, have probably forgotten about because there's just so many.
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The general opinion of the conservative mouthpieces is that all of these investigations are illegitimate, because you should only have an investigation in direct response to a specific crime you already know was committed.
If, for example, you have something that is a possible campaign finance violation, it's not okay to investigate to see if it actually was, because that is just fishing for crimes. If it was a real crime, you would know just by looking at it. Presumably, a big siren goes off whenever a real crime is committed, I dunno.
This is an actual argument they make.
Don't bother trying to make sense of the GOP logic for opposing these investigations, because the logic is just "this affects our ability to maintain power."
Guess what was an intentional GOP strategy? They wanted to delegitimize investigation.
It's more playing to the media's already existing sensibility to cover the argument rather then the facts. Framing everything as a he-said/she-said means you never have to take a stand and never risk alienating anyone in the DC luncheon bubble.
It is difficult to get real acceptance of the full on scope of what the Republican party and Trump administration have been up to because that would require admitting that, yeah, they are the problem and massive numbers of them should be going to jail.
I mean, the villainy goes back decades. Trump is a johnny-come-lately that tried to steal all the attention and credit (as he does), but there's been a vast right wing conspiracy to take over the world since at least the 80s. Trump has only been a symptom, not a root cause of the rot. He just jumped in and took advantage of the web of corruption that already existed.
Yep! It's in the basement of this pizza parlor.
He's going to argue executive privilege and attorney client privilege and things will be tied up for quite a while I'd think.
The exasperating thing is going to be when the Trump kids claim executive privilege
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Idk about this one. Didn’t McGann cooperate with Mueller secretly for months and only announce his resignation after that came to light (and after getting one last embarrassment on the Supreme Court)? I don’t think he’s willing to put his neck out for this administration.
Are you talking about the administration or the media in the bolded?
Prosecuting criminal activity through their Constitutionally mandated oversight of the Executive.
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Pelosi would be POTUS if both Trump and Pence were impeached. Speaker of the House follows VP in succession.
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Which pretty much guarantees they won't both be impeached, since they need Republican Senate votes!
They’re doing what they should. Even if the Senate will never vote to remove Trump, they can perform their duty to provide oversight and make public all of the shit Trump has been up to.
That way, even if he can’t be removed Trump will hopefully be radioactive as a candidate in 2020 to everyone but his hardcore base.
She could temporarily step down in favor of a suitable R. Didn't something like that happen with Nixon?
A lot of it is projection.
It's literally what they do and did, so they assume that that is what is happening right now. Or that Obama got away with the crimes they think he committed if he did actually do it and that Trump should also have that same privilege.
Not, you know, Obama being innocent and Trump most likely being guilty as fuck. But that's what these things are there to determine. It just rubs them the wrong way because they know they're guilty and they don't want to be caught with their hands in the cookie jar on top of their previous projection shit. It's also probably 1 part worried about the other stuff that isn't hyper visible like all of this.
A new Veep would be appointed with the approval of the Congress. That's how Nixon got Ford after Agnew resigned. And how we got a President who never received a vote at the top of the ticket.
no
replacement vice presidents are sort of like cabinet-level and supreme court appointments
the president selects someone, who then must receive approval of both the House and the Senate