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MDG,

They did it because the constitution assigns them the role of oversight of the executive branch.
They didn’t shirk their roles just because the republicans are in Trumps cult and afraid of crossing him. Trump’s actions – abuse of power and obstruction – clearly demanded oversight and being impeached.

Bernie is not a communist.
For republicans and fox news anyone who want to help Americans is called a communist.
When wall street , car companies, and farmers come begging for hand outs that is not called communism. Hypocrisy.

Catch yourself.,
Nobody made Bill Clinton lie under oath and nobody forced Trump to bribe another county to go after his political rival.
Everybody knows that whatever political/legal/constitutional grounds were put forth to not remove him were only the excuse for not removing him. The Republicans in the House and the Senate had made up from day 1 that they would not listen to any evidence or constitutional grounds to remove him.
The excuses kept getting more bizarre. It started from he did not do it , to yes he definitely did it and it is really an impeachable offense , but he learnt his lesson.

I have said before on YWN that Trump succeeded in making Biden unelectable by the Democrats. He reminds them of Hillary and her investigations too much . Though all of the investigations went nowhere, it still was a dark spot on her. Trump has put a dark spot on Biden. He and Guliani can say from today until they get blue in their faces that they have proof of illegal activity but it is all a lie.
It has already been investigated and it is false. It is nothing but Russian propaganda.

Russia meddled in our elections in 2016 and had absolutely no repercussions. Why shouldn’t they continue ?. Trump loves them and has asked publicly for their help.

OP sees the results of Trump stealing this election and can still ask why was he impeached. The better question is why was he not removed.

Trump is a RINO.
Romney is a life long real Republican. Romney was the parties candidate a few years ago. That the Trump supporters have turned their back on him show that they are the RINO’s. They all belong to the Trump CULT party.
That they can turn against a Jewish American Purple heart recipient (Vindman) and a celebrated Vietnam war hero (McCain) in favor of a draft dodging lying impeached president makes me wonder if they are patriotic Americans.

This a transcript of what Mitt Romney said.
“The House managers presented evidence supporting their case, and the White House counsel disputed that case. In addition, the president’s team presented three defenses, first that there could be no impeachment without a statutory crime, second that the Bidens’ conduct justified the president’s actions, and third, that the judgment of the president’s actions should be left to the voters. Let me first address those three defenses.
The historic meaning of the words “high crimes and misdemeanors,” the writings of the founders and my own reasoned judgment convince me that a president can indeed commit acts against the public trust that are so egregious that while they’re not statutory crimes, they would demand removal from office. To maintain that the lack of a codified and comprehensive list of all the outrageous acts that a president might conceivably commit renders Congress powerless to remove such a president defies reason.

The president’s counsel also notes that Vice President Biden appeared to have a conflict of interest when he undertook an effort to remove the Ukrainian prosecutor general. If he knew of the exorbitant compensation his son was receiving from a company actually under investigation, the vice president should have recused himself. While ignoring a conflict of interest is not a crime, it is surely very wrong. With regards to Hunter Biden, taking excessive advantage of his father’s name is unsavory, but also not a crime. Given that in neither the case of the father nor the son was any evidence presented by the president’s counsel that a crime had been committed, the president’s insistence that they be investigated by the Ukrainians is hard to explain other than as a political pursuit. There’s no question in my mind that were their names not Biden, the president would never have done what he did.

The defense argues that the Senate should leave the impeachment decision to the voters. While that logic is appealing to our democratic instincts, it is inconsistent with the Constitution’s requirement that the Senate, not the voters, try the president.
Hamilton explained that the founders’ decision to invest senators with this obligation rather than leave it to the voters was intended to minimize, to the extent possible, the partisan sentiments of the public at large. So the verdict is ours to render under our Constitution. The people will judge us for how well and faithfully we fulfill our duty. The grave question the Constitution tasked senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a high crime and misdemeanor. Yes, he did.

The president asked a foreign government to investigate his political rival. The president withheld vital military funds from that government to press it to do so. The president delayed funds for an American ally at war with Russian invaders. The president’s purpose was personal and political. Accordingly, the president is guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.”

He is not up for an election until 2025.
He has plenty of time to not worry about Trump.

Ky,

You have a point. The House of Representatives rejected it.
That is the reason for a FULL trial in the senate.
Let us all hear from all the witnesses on both sides and let them determine which reasoning is more compelling.
Was it Trump really caring about corruption or as many have testified that it was a tactic to knock off Biden.

Syag ,
I made an appointment with my psychiatrist Lucy Van Pelt (only 5 cents when she is in), but she is booked until next November by the Angry White Men Republicans that are using the hearings to scream and shout about everything except for Trump attempting to steal the 2020 elections.

E.Irrelevant. You expect him to say what he really feels ?
F. That is fox news propaganda and far from the truth
G. The unprecedented, categorical and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas is not routine. The impeachment document lists four federal agencies and nine administration officials, including acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, for following Trump’s lead.
H. More fox news propaganda. Fox news loves disparaging professionals, dedicated public servants, and decorated purple heart recipients all in the service of defending Trump.

Milhouse,

My point is that the republican party’s callous attitude towards people dying shows that their attitude towards abortion has nothing to do with their aversion to Murder.
All your answers reflect the republican attitude.

Me: How many people have died in ICE custody the past 3 years?
You: No more than would be expected. No more than die anywhere else.
Me: Can we try to ensure that there are ZERO deaths ?
You: Most importantly NOBODY HAS EVEN SUGGESTED that ICE was in any way responsible for any death that occurred in its custody.
Me :That is untrue. They are responsible for every death that occurs in their custody unless they did their utmost to prevent it.
If they died because of the callous attitude that they are illegals anyway – then they are 100% responsible.

Me: How many mass murders have there been in America the past 3 years?
You: No more than is normal, given the US’s demographics. What has this got to do with politics?
ME : Everything. Again – Can we try to prevent these mass murders ? The NRA, which owns the republican party,prevents anything from being done.The same party that is anti-abortion is pro-gun. Go figure.

Me: How many refugees have we sent back to die in their own countries?
You: Genuine refugees? Almost none. But tell me why we have any obligation to take in every person who wants to come here.
Me. “Almost none” – That is completely untrue. Thousands of genuine refugees fearing for their lives have not been let in or have been sent back. The republican attitude that we have no obligation to refugees or even immigrants is disappointing , anti-Torah and was the LAW OF S’DOM. r”l.

Me: How many people would have suffered if they had lost their insurance due to removing obamacare?
You: None.
Me: LOL. ROFL.

I am not a socialist and I try to be the best Jew that I can. My allegiance is to the Torah and not to an american political party.
Neither the republicans nor the democrats follow the Torah. A Torah jew does not identify with either of them.
Hashem and his Torah care for every human being on this earth.
If you can’t vote for a democrat because of abortion, you cannot vote for a republican either.
(Also, the death penalty has proven to have killed innocent people. The american justice system is very fallible.)

SCOTUS has determined that, based on the constitution, abortion (i.e, Murder) is 100% legal in America. The constitution also allows in America the Cardinal sin of avoda zara.
We should think about those 2 things during Thanksgiving. It might lead us to act like Rav Miller Zatsal and completely repudiate Thanksgiving.

Please do not engage in Ad Hominem attacks.

Today is October 3rd 2019. Trump has done so much just today to be impeached.

The question is fakert. When will the Republican’s realize that he will be impeached and after he leaves the presidency he will be fighting jail time ?
No wall. No NK deal. No Iran deal. No China deal. Nothing.

Ubiquintin.

Regarding how would the second amendment protect us from a tyrannical government ?
It would never protect citizens from a tyrannical government unless the whole country rose up against the government.
America already fought a Civil War and the southern states were not able to overthrow the government or even install their own government.

The likelihood of this happening is 0 since the whole country rising up against the government with arms would be the last straw.

Ben Levi,

Please explain why only in the USA do we have a problem with people who are mass killing with these assault type weapons and not other countries who also have murderers but have banned these weapons?

coffee addict,

When you stop mentioning Obama to defend Trump , reality will hit you.

akuperma ,

That is not the tradition of all Presidents.

Trump and his administration is saying that it is all fake news. No recession. No crisis.

Read W’s memoir for his admission to mistakes in Katrina, Mission Accomplished and others.

Obama took responsibility for healthcare.gov failure and the BP spill failure and got them resolved and fixed.
He took responsibility for Democrats losing the house and the Benghazi attack.

He took the Financial meltdown that he was handed by Bush and turned it completely around.

Trump is going to leave the Democrats to fix his financial failures while he is partying in Mar O Largo on his yacht.

Trump does a favorable act and the recipient is Jewish , ergo he is a oheiv yisroel par excellance.
He insults, attacks and denigrates multiple black people multiple times , ergo he is a racist par excellance.

What is the point of this discussion?
Rav Moshe Feinstein zts”l allowed electric shavers. His psak has been followed by Litvishe Yeshiva bochurim for generations.
The sefer hadras ponim zokon is missing the one and only haskomo that he really needed – Rav Moshe Feinstein’s zts”l.

Joseph,

Great trolling, but at least you told us where we can see the source. This is typical fox ‘news’ fake news playing to the customers who watch and listen to them.
The headline is highly editorialized and does not describe the situation correctly.
If you read the article, this “proposal” is one of many proposals and is no where near being passed or even voted on.

Lucy,

Most everyone reading this website was alive for the 8 years of Obama and remember that the Republican party was guilty of the exact thing that you are ascribing to the democrats.
(And why take a swipe at Michelle Obama ? Hmm..)
How many of the Republicans worked on and voted for Obamacare?
Why did McConnell steal a Supreme Court nominee from Obama ?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell summed up his plan to National Journal: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”

lowerourtuition11210
Correct. That does not mean that the house should not due it’s duty if it determines that the POTUS deserves to be impeached.
KlugerYid,
No. That is not my opinion. Maybe direct your question to OP who said that ” have never spent an entire presidents term trying to get rid of them.”
Of course he has to do something to deserve to be impeached. With all the information we have NOW that is in the Mueller Report , he more than deserves it. Whether the Democrats will actually go for it , is a political question.

2scents,

As he said:
“The appointment order directed the office to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This included investigating any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the Trump campaign.”
“Every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.”
“When a subject of an investigation obstructs that investigation or lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s effort to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable.”
“The report has two parts addressing the two main issues we were asked to investigate. The first volume of the report details numerous efforts emanating from Russia to influence the election. This volume includes a discussion of the Trump campaign’s response to this activity, as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.

And in the second volume, the report describes the results and analysis of our obstruction of justice investigation involving the President.

The order appointing me Special Counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation. We conducted that investigation and we kept the office of the Acting Attorney General apprised of the progress of our work.

As set forth in our report, after that investigation, if we had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that. We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the President did commit a crime.”

Mueller was never going to say that Trump committed a crime since he could not be indicted as a sitting president anyway.
The only thing he could say was that he did not commit one. On that Mueller says that he could not say a crime was not committed.

How long will it take until the Jewish Trump supporters realize that Anti-Semitic acts and the killing of Jews in the US has increased dramatically during the Trump Presidency ?
When will they correlate the election of 2 Proud Muslims to Congress to the Trump Presidency ?
When will they do teshuva for electing a leader who called for a complete and total Muslin ban?
When will they run away from a “leader” who sows racism and division in the country? (and then laughs about it).

DaasYachid,

Since you are convinced that even with the change of words it is still avoda zara, can you please explain how these words are avoda zara ?
adama means earth, shomayim means sky, chom haesh means heat of fire, tzlil hamayim – sound of water.
None of these are shemos of Avoda Zara.

Rabbi Shay Tahan on Torahanytime.com based on Igros Moshe Yoreh Deah Chelek Sheni – Teshuva 111 says that according to Rav Moshe the song adama vshomayim would not be assur but would be mechuar hadavar.

Avram in MD,

Not everyone gets married in holy matrimony. Besides death beneficiary, the Married status also affects many other purely secular legal and financial issues. Once example is insurance coverage. Another is taxes.

Regarding Abortion – I doubt that you think that the SCOTUS never read any books. They allowed it with full knowledge of what it says in the science books.

Regarding your hypothetical question about life staring at 4 months – whenever I debate this issue with strong minded , women’s lib oriented people they are astonished that anyone could even think of such a situation. They are amazed that someone can compare a fetus in a woman’s body to a baby outside it.

Non pro lifers are further amazed at the callousness that pro lifers show to adult humans who are living but they are refugees, immigrants or of a lower financial status.