Impeachment proceedings against Trump

Are there people who are getting hysterical about this? Sure. But does that mean that there isn't a serious and real issue here that is just going to go away?

What legal experts say about Donald Trump Jr. meeting with Russian lawyer
By John Kruzel on Tuesday, July 11th, 2017 at 3:40 p.m.

After months of denial by the Trump team about communication with Russia during the 2016 election, Donald Trump Jr. confirmed he met with a Russian lawyer in hopes of receiving damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

Would such a meeting be illegal? Most experts we talked to said at the very least it raises serious concerns about whether U.S. federal election law was broken. But they also cautioned that the factual record is still developing.

Federal law prohibits a foreign national from giving anything of value to a campaign engaged in a U.S. election. It’s also a crime to solicit a foreign national to do so, or even to "knowingly provide substantial assistance" in receiving something of value.

According to other sources, The Washington Post has a story they've been sitting on, at the request of Robert Mueller so as to not interfere with the investigation, with incontrovertible proof that the President is personally involved in the conspiracy despite what he's claimed to date. You do not have a Special Investigator at the Dept of Justice investigating this matter for months on end, and hiring 14 other top-rated prosecutors (not investigators, prosecutors), without something important coming down the pipeline. What that is exactly remains to be seen.

As for distractions and wasting time, there are plenty of now highly active citizens who are calling our representatives daily about issues coming up for vote (if you haven't seen it, then you aren't in the right, sorry correct, Facebook groups). Despite having a majority in the House and Senate, Republicans have said there is a chance that they won't be able to pass their healthcare bill. That's pretty major - they can't even craft a bill that their own party members can stomach to vote for. They've figured out that it's political suicide to do so because of the number of phone calls, personal visits, and letters they are receiving from their constituents. And that's how our representatives should be voting - based on the majority of their constituents will.

Those same Reps who are wavering on passing their holy grail of bills are the same ones who are likely to vote for impeachment if they deem it politically smart to do so because the tide of support for Trump has fallen quite dramatically in their party (Nixon's public approval rating was 24% when he resigned, and that was after being much higher than Trump's has ever been). Especially if the allegation that he won the election because of Russian interference that he actively assisted with is proven to be true.

Things that make you go "Hmmmm."
If Trump fires Mueller, or works it in such a way as to make it happen...game over.

Why the Russia investigation could be even bigger than you think
By Paul Waldman June 28, 2017

There’s a good chance that there were many kinds of wrongdoing going on around Trump, and if there were, Mueller and his team will probably find them. Which is why this investigation could become much bigger than most people realize.

Over his career — before he ran for president but continuing once his campaign was underway — Trump managed to assemble around himself a group of shady characters worthy of the most notorious mob boss, and that has continued into his presidency.

You may be asking, “If Trump or people around him had committed crimes, wouldn’t we have known about it by now?” After all, there have been hundreds of journalists writing about him for a couple of years now. But here’s what’s different. In many cases, those journalists would investigate a story, write it up and then move on.

But Robert Mueller isn’t going to forget, or move on to another story he has to report, or give up when things get confusing. He and his team can investigate these connections, events and relationships until they figure out what’s really there. In many cases, it might amount to nothing. But if there were crimes committed, he has the resources and authority to find out. And it’s important to remember that if Mueller does find evidence of crimes, he can and will pursue them whether or not they have any specific relationship to the 2016 campaign.

One of the Twitter accounts that's been reporting on the investigation since before it became widely known in mainstream media has said that his sources in the intelligence community had Manafort under surveillance since during the election and his cell phone had been hot-miked. They reportedly have so much on him that he has been begging to become an informant in exchange for immunity and they turned him down because they don't need him. Flynn is supposedly already flipped (became an informant).

SeanSpicer's Mic‏ @Spicerlies:
I think most Americans overlook this FACT; Mueller didn't start a NEW investigation, he took over the one started by Comey in July 2016

Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated:
Multiple sources tell me WaPo, The NY Times & a news network all are working on stories that will show addtl evidence of Trump collusion.
Update: make that WaPo, The NY Times and TWO major networks.
Every reporter I talk to says in one way or another, "it's coming..."

Claude Taylor‏ @TrueFactsStated 8h
I make no apologies for offering good news/a positive outlook. But this is less optimistic-Trump is angling towards firing Mueller. Be ready

Reuters Top News‏ @Reuters
JUST IN: Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to testify before Senate Judiciary Committee on July 26

RESCHEDULED: Oversight of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections: Lessons Learned from Current and Prior Administrations

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing entitled: “Oversight of the Justice Department’s (Non) Enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act: Lessons from the Obama Administration‎ and Current Compliance Practices" scheduled for Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building has been postponed subject to the call of the chair.

By order of the Chairman.

Witnesses
Panel I
Mr. Adam Hickey
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
National Security Division
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC

Mr. E.W. "Bill" Priestap
Assistant Director
Counterintelligence Division
Federal Bureau of Investigations
Washington, DC

The Honorable Michael Horowitz
Inspector General
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC

Panel II
Mr. William Browder
Chief Executive Officer
Hermitage Capital Management
London, United Kingdom

Mr. Glenn R. Simpson
Fusion GPS
Washington, DC

Mr. Paul J. Manafort
DMP International, LLC
Palm Beach Gardens , FL

Mr. Donald J. Trump, Jr.
Trump Organization LLC
New York , NY

twitter.com/Spicerlies

"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents." 

~Robert Kennedy

If you'll notice, I didn't quote anything above from Louise Mensch; I find it interesting that you distract with that. What I posted are formal documents from our Congress requesting evidence preservation to several people, including our President, his family, close advisors, etc. This is done when you are intending to take someone to court, and only when you are intending to take someone to court. Especially someone who's got quite the reputation for destroying evidence for past court cases.

This has moved outside the realm of "nothing burger."

Kushner is testifying before a closed session Monday, Manfort et al in an open session next Wednesday. There will be more.