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Michael Moore Says Dems Finally Have 'President Donald Trump On The Run' With Impeachment
 
I'd call it calibration.

"Completely inaccurate" vs zero "pants on fire" and simple majority "true" don't really line up.
And to calibrate the distribution I've posted a random public figure :mrgreen:
You can call it whatever you want it won’t change that what you are doing is the same whataboutism you call others out for.
That’s like saying that Oklahoma city bombing was OK because more people died in 9/11. They were both terrible.

Moore has been known to straight make shit up in his movies. To use Bowling for Columbine as an example, the stats he used were basically made up to make his point. I would say that makes the entire thing completely inaccurate, even if his other claims are true the basis of his argument isn’t.

It’s all largely irrelevant though as he is not a political analyst, so his opinion means about as much as yours or mine on this subject.
 

I would say he is feeling the pressure.
 
Anyone getting investigated by Congress would be feeling the pressure, regardless of their guilt innocence really.
 
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/03/...oed-biden-on-ukraine-reforms-kfile/index.html

Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office

(CNN) A newly unearthed letter from 2016 shows that Republican senators pushed for reforms to Ukraine's prosecutor general's office and judiciary, echoing calls then-Vice President Joe Biden made at the time.


CNN's KFile found a February 2016 bipartisan letter signed by several Republican senators that urged then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to "press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's office and judiciary."


The letter shows that addressing corruption in Ukraine's Prosecutor General's office had bipartisan support in the US and further undercuts a baseless attack made by President Donald Trump and his allies that Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire then Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin to stop investigations into a Ukrainian natural gas company that his son, Hunter Biden, sat on the board of. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden, nor is it clear whether Hunter was under investigation at all.

More at the link.
 

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/11/06...al-approval-from-china-for-16-trademarks.html

Ivanka Trump gets initial approval from China for 16 new trademarks—including for 'voting machines'

CREW, in its report, pointed out two coincidences when China approved past Ivanka Trump trademarks.


"In May 2018, Ivanka Trump's business received approval for several new Chinese trademarks a week before President Trump announced that he wanted to lift the ban on the Chinese company ZTE, for violating US sanctions," CREW said.


"In 2017, the business received three new Chinese trademarks on the same day she dined with Chinese President Xi Jinping," CREW said.


The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from CNBC.


Who does Trump want to investigate Ivanka?
 
The floodgates are open. A third whistleblower has come forward alleging interference with Trump's audit.

https://www.businessinsider.com/whi...lthru&utm_medium=email&&utm_source=reddit.com

Another whistleblower complaint alleges "possible misconduct" in an audit of President Donald Trump's taxes.
Rep. Richard Neal, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over taxes, tariffs, and other social-assistance programs, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on August 8 saying that a federal employee submitted "an unsolicited communication" on July 29 outlining allegations of "inappropriate efforts to influence" the mandatory IRS audit of Trump's and Vice President Mike Pence's tax returns.
In his letter, first widely reported this week, Neal described the whistleblower's allegations of "evidence of possible misconduct" as credible.
"This is a grave charge that appreciably heightens the Committee's concerns about the absence of appropriate safeguards as part of the mandatory audit program and whether statutory codification of such program or other remedial, legislative measures are warranted," he wrote.
Neal also wrote that his committee had "raised these concerns repeatedly" but that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig had said they were "unfounded." Neal said the whistleblower's allegations "underscore the pressing need for complete and meaningful oversight" of the audit program.
Though the president is not required by law to release their tax returns, every president except Trump has voluntarily released their tax returns or a tax summary since 1974⁠.
He's repeatedly claimed that he cannot release them because they are under audit. The president's taxes are automatically audited by the IRS, and there is no rule or stipulation that says a person's tax returns cannot be released if they're under audit.

In July, Neal sued Mnuchin and Rettig to get ahold of six years' worth of Trump's tax returns. The court filing argued that under Section 6103 of the US tax code, the Treasury "shall furnish" any document requested by the House Ways and Means Committee chair.
The Treasury did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It's unclear why Trump has not released his tax returns.
A New York Times investigation published a year ago suggested that he might have engaged in tax schemes, including fraud, during the 1990s.
The president is also at the center of another explosive whistleblower complaint filed by a US intelligence official in August. It was the catalyst for the House's impeachment inquiry into Trump.
At the heart of that complaint is a July 25 phone call Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which the US president repeatedly pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son ahead of the 2020 election.
Trump had ordered his administration to withhold a nearly $400 million military-aid package to Ukraine days before the phone call with Zelensky.
While the White House's notes on the call showed that Trump did not directly mention offering aid in exchange for Zelensky's assistance in investigating Biden, they confirmed that Trump brought up how the US does "a lot for Ukraine" right before asking Zelensky to do him a "favor" by investigating Biden and discrediting the former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
The complaint alleged that Trump used the power of his office to "solicit interference from a foreign country" in the 2020 US election. His personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is described as a "central figure in this effort," and it said Attorney General William Barr "appears to be involved as well."
Trump's handpicked acting spy chief, Joseph Maguire, also told the House Intelligence Committee last week that the White House's memo lined up with the complaint.
"Would you say that the whistleblower complaint is remarkably consistent with the transcript that was released?" Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas asked Maguire.
"The whistleblower's complaint is in alignment with what was released yesterday by the president," Maguire replied.
He also emphasized that the complaint is credible — a conclusion shared by the intelligence community's inspector general — and that the whistleblower took all the right steps to report Trump's conduct.
 
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump’s call with Ukraine president manifests criminal and impeachable behavior
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitano-trump-attacks-presidency

'Crazy to withhold security assistance' to Ukraine for political purposes: Top US diplomat
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top...curity-sasistance-political/story?id=66039011


Mike Pence, At Center Of Trump Ukraine Scheme, Scrambles For Cover

Trump involved Pence in his efforts to pressure Ukraine’s leader
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ine-e2-80-99s-leader-officials-say/ar-AAIcO5U
 
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Giuliani Admits He Provided Docs The State IG Flagged To House Committees

Trump "Are you talking to me?"


Jeff Mason repeatedly asks Trump to clarify what he wanted Zelensky to do
 
President Donald Trump Calls On Ukraine, China To Interfere In 2020 Election
Chuck Todd: "Let's be frank: a national nightmare is upon us. The basic rules of our democracy are under attack, from the President... This moment should arguably be a national emergency."

 
Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he personally gave Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a file of documents with unproven allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and was told that the State Department would take up an investigation of those claims.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/tr...ed-investigate-after-he-gave-ukraine-n1061931

This is nuts!!!!!

'Are you talking to me?' Trump attacks journalist after Ukraine question
 
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