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Pelosi hopes Trump will 'immediately resign' after White House slams Democrats' 'politically motivated' impeachment - UPDATES

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 06:45 UTC
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi • President Donald Trump
Update (1800ET): Speaker Pelosi has decided she wants the last word before the evening news shows begin and has released the following statement reiterating - once again - the exact same threats/promises she delivered earlier:
Pelosi Statement following virtual meeting of the House Democratic Caucus Washington, D.C. Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement following a virtual meeting of the House the House Democratic Caucus this afternoon:
"Today, the House Democratic Caucus had an hours-long conversation that was sad, moving and patriotic. It was a conversation unlike any other, because it followed an action unlike any other.

It is the hope of Members that the President will immediately resign. But if he does not, I have instructed the Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward with Congressman Jamie Raskin's 25th Amendment legislation and a motion for impeachment.

Accordingly, the House will preserve every option including the 25th Amendment, a motion to impeach or a privileged resolution for impeachment.

With great respect, our deliberations will continue."
...and so we wait.

Comment: The Republic of Revenge has spoken. Perhaps we should ask what's the hurry, what's the worry? Declassification? Other parting truths from Trump? He still has leverage. If so, that makes this vicious feeding frenzy for impeachment a grand self-serving distraction. They do it not for you, America, it's all for them.

See also: McConnell circulates procedures for second Senate impeachment trial of President Trump

Update 10/1/2021: Dems may choose to delay Trump impeachment - conniving plan for extreme impact?
The No. 3-ranked US House Democrat said Congress may quickly impeach President Donald Trump for inciting last week's Capitol riot, then delay sending the case to the Senate for conviction until months after Joe Biden takes office.

"Let's give President-elect Biden the 100 days he needs to get his agenda off and running, and maybe we'll send the articles sometime after that," House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-South Carolina) said on Sunday in a CNN interview. He added that it will be up to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) to decide when to submit the articles of impeachment, but "you can manage this in such a way that you make an effective presentation to the Senate."

Update 11/1/2021: Hell-bent with threats, Pelosi gives 24 hours ultimatum to Pence: Declare Trump 'incapable' or impeachment will be launched!
Pelosi urged colleagues to adopt Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin's 25th Amendment resolution by unanimous consent, poised to be blocked by Trump's remaining Republican allies. MSNBC political analyst David Jolly: "The reality is he will not be removed by a two-thirds Senate vote before January 20, so preventing another run is the issue."
In the 24 hours window, a majority of Trump's cabinet must be on board...not just Pence. The reality of this happening so quickly is close to nil. Preventing another presidential run is the big issue.

Update 11/1/2021: Jail Trump for inciting riot says Scaramucci, an adamant Trump critic!
Fired WH communications director Anthony Scaramucci, speaking to British media, has called for the president to be jailed for inciting the riot at the US Capitol on January 6.

"We have to be vigilant and we have to remove him. He has to be jailed, in my opinion. He has to be taken away from the White House. There's another insurrection coming. They're signaling January 17 and possibly January 20."
Update 11/1/2021: The House of Representatives came up with one article of impeachment citing Trump for 'incitement of insurrection'
The document excoriates Trump for "reiterat[ing] false claims that 'we won this election, and we won it by a landslide,'" and accuses him of "willfully [making] statements that, in context, encouraged - and foreseeably resulted in - lawless action at the Capitol." As for which statements actually incited the violence, the charges are vague, mentioning only one line: "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."

Democratic Representatives David Ciciline (Rhode Island), Ted Lieu (California), Jamie Raskin (Maryland), and Jerry Nadler (New York) introduced the article, which reportedly has more than 200 Democrat co-sponsors.
CNN published this article hours before its unveiling. What does that tell us...

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Boris's latest lockdown rules are more baffling than ever

Charles Holland
The Spectator
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 08:11 UTC
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When Boris Johnson rolled back the legal restrictions over summer as Britain emerged from the first lockdown, he was clear that enough was enough:
'Neither the police themselves nor the public that they serve, want virtually every aspect of our behaviour to be the subject of the criminal law...After a long period of asking...the British public, to follow very strict and complex rules to bring coronavirus under control...we will be asking [people] to follow guidance on limiting their social contact, rather than forcing them to do so through legislation'.
Alas (as Boris Johnson keeps saying), trust in people doing the right thing voluntarily, rather than under legal obligation, turned out to be short-lived.

Pressure from enforcement agencies played a part. The rule of six? When it was introduced in September, the Home Office said it 'simplifies and strengthens the rules on social gatherings, making them easier to understand and easier for the police to enforce'. The 10pm hospitality sector legal curfew? 'To help police enforce this rule, I'm afraid that means, alas, closing and not just calling for last orders, because simplicity is paramount,' Boris Johnson told MPs.

Comment: Despite all the available data that shows that the lockdown has no effect on spreading the coronavirus, many governments all over the world are still locking down their countries. The lockdowns cant stop the virus, but they can spread panic, hysteria and can put people's health at a much bigger risk than the Covid-19 virus itself.

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Blue State blues: Joe Biden and the Democrats want retribution, not reconciliation

Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart
Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:06 UTC
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Joe Biden ran on a promise to unify the nation. He missed an opportunity on Thursday.

Instead of calling on Americans to come together, he went on a partisan rant against President Donald Trump and even suggested that the Capitol Police were racist.

Biden said the previous day's riot on Capitol Hill was the result of four years of Trump: "He unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of our democracy from the outset. And yesterday was but the culmination of that unrelenting attack."

Not only is that claim arguably untrue, but it ignores the left's refusal to accept the results of the 2016 election, the radical tactics of the so-called "Resistance," the pointless impeachment of 2019-20, and the Black Lives Matter riots last year.

If Biden had wanted to heal the nation, he would have offered a hand of friendship to Trump supporters — and he would have acknowledged that the left has also used political violence.
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Scanning digital health QR code becomes OBLIGATORY for passengers using ride-hailing services in Beijing


RT
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:01 UTC
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Using a ride-hailing service in Beijing, such as Uber or local Didi Chuxing, won't be possible without scanning your health QR code, the city authorities said amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in nearby Hebei province.

Starting from Monday, drivers will be able to deny services to those who refuse to show and scan their QR codes, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported.

The color-based health QR code system was introduced in Beijing and more than 100 other cities in February to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, which was first reported in China's Wuhan more than a month earlier.

The app automatically generates a code for the user. A 'green' one means they are free roam around the capital, while 'yellow' and 'red' codes call for self-isolation or supervised quarantine.

Comment: These policies are likely coming to a city near you in the West.

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The Democrat-Big Tech censorship alliance just ran a masterclass in media control for dictators around the world

Graham Dockery
RT
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:43 UTC
Zuckerberg/Dorsey/Biden
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Mark Zuckerberg • Joe Biden • Jack Dorsey
The takeover is underway.
Despite the mewling of the spineless American media, the real coup this week wasn't committed by President Trump's supporters, but by his opponents. They're writing a manual on modern regime change, and it's ready for export.

When President Donald Trump's supporters forced their way inside the US Capitol on Wednesday, they did not act as a unified force bent on seizing power. Instead they snapped selfies, looted souvenirs, and engaged in petty vandalism. While the rampage ended in tragedy for the protester shot dead by police, the police officer fatally injured, and the three others who suffered "medical emergencies" and died, it was soon snuffed out and Congress returned to work that evening to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.

Their ringleader even urged them to go home and committed himself to the "seamless" transition of power to Joe Biden. Worst. Coup. Ever.
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Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver accused of 'grooming' young men, offering jobs for sex


RT
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:29 UTC
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John Weaver speaks to CBS News' '60 Minutes,' October 12, 2020
Republican strategist John Weaver, a founding member of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project group, has been accused by conservative reporters and alleged victims of "preying" on young men by offering them work in exchange for sex.

A former strategist for George W. Bush, John McCain, and John Kasich, John Weaver was in a celebratory mood on Thursday, declaring "America is great again," after Congress formally certified Joe Biden's electoral victory. Though a Republican, Weaver is also a member of the Lincoln Project, a group of disaffected 'Never Trump' Republicans and neoconservatives formed with the sole purpose of defeating the president.

Emboldened by Trump's downfall, and buoyed by the $67 million they raised in the runup to the election, the Lincoln Project began work on a "database" of soon-to-be former Trump staff and officials, with a view to holding them "accountable" for the rest of their professional lives. However, Weaver himself was soon confronted with some alleged skeletons in his own closet.

Comment: Is anyone surprised?

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Missed opportunity: House Judiciary says Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have "monopoly power," should be split

Kate Cox
Ars Technica
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:54 UTC
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The United States Capitol Building, the seat of Congress, on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Blockbuster report calls for beefing up enforcement and aiming for breakups.

Last June, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law began an in-depth investigation into four major firms — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The subcommittee wanted to answer one key question: did Big Tech get big playing by the rules, or does it cheat to stay at the top? After 16 months of hearings, research, and analysis, the panel's findings are out... and the results look really bad for every company involved.

The tech sector does indeed suffer from abuses of "monopoly power," the subcommittee concluded in the mammoth 450-page report (PDF) published late yesterday afternoon.

Comment: The European countries are doing a much better job:

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Kremlin critic Navalny decries Twitter ban on Trump as dangerous precedent


RFE/RL
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 10:22 UTC
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Aleksei Navalny is in Germany after being flown there for emergency medical care after being poisoned in August , that he, without proof, blames on the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin.
Exiled Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has accused Twitter of "an unacceptable act of censorship" in a thread arguing against that powerhouse private social network's permanent ban on outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump after violence in Washington this week.

The 44-year-old Kremlin foe warned in the 11-point thread that "this precedent will be exploited by enemies of freedom of speech around the world."
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Korybko: Trump was swallowed by the swamp because he lacked the strength to drain it

Andrew Korybko
OneWorld.press
Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:48 UTC
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The Commander-In-Chief Capitulates

The Trump Era is over after the incumbent announced in the day after Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol that "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power", which was widely interpreted by friends and foes alike as the tacit concession that he previously promised never to provide a little more than 24 hours prior during his speech at the Save America Rally. At that event, he literally said that "We will never give up. We will never concede, it doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved", yet completely changed his tune following the day's tumultuous events and after mysteriously "going dark" for over 24 hours, during which time some speculate that he was forced by his enemies in the permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies ("deep state") to give up the fight.

Betraying His Base

This totally devastated his supporters who elected him primarily for the purpose of executing his chief promise to "drain the swamp" that all of them so deeply despise. They truly believed that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term change to the way that America is run, something which Trump himself also sincerely thought he could do as well, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive steps that were necessary in order to do so. Thus, he ended up getting swallowed by the same "swamp" that he attempted to drain, which is licking its lips after feasting on the political carcass that he's since become as a result of his capitulation. For as much hope as he inspired in his supporters and the respect that many of them still have for him, most of them are profoundly disappointed that he gave up and didn't go down fighting.
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Prominent Italian lawyer: US November 2020 elections rigged by IT defense contractor Leonardo SpA


Global Research
Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
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Comment: This dimension to the massive election fraud (and the massive cover-up that has ensued) over the past several weeks - would seem to have international repercussions if Trump intends to continue fighting.

See the following for background: Senior IT expert at global defense contractor testifies in Italian federal court he and others switched votes for Biden in US presidential race


Below is the signed Affidavit of Professor Alfio D'Urso . This news is yet to be confirmed. . Scroll down to view Video of Alfio D'Urso's statement.

signed Affidavit of Professor Alfio D’Urso .
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