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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsImpeachment tentacles spread throughout Trump's team
Impeachment tentacles spread throughout Trumps team
A president who loves to be in control is finding it difficult to control an investigation thats extending far beyond his direct orbit.
By NANCY COOK
10/07/2019 05:01 AM EDT
The tentacles of the Democratic impeachment investigation are extending far beyond the arms of President Donald Trump.
The vice presidents office, acting chief of staff's office, State Department, Energy Department, Office of Management and Budget and Justice Department are among the government entities quickly finding themselves ensnared in the Democrats impeachment inquiry, joining a huge squad of White House lawyers, Cabinet officials, and national security staffers many of them detailed from the Pentagon, CIA and elsewhere in the intel community potentially tainted by the widening investigation.
The impeachment fight under Trump is quickly surpassing the reach of the presidential impeachment battles under Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, swallowing even larger swaths of the federal government. The whistleblower complaint and the resulting investigative sprawl are making the probe harder for Trump and his White House to stamp out, with Democrats gaining new avenues to uncover damaging details that contradict Trump.
And a president who loves to be in control is increasingly finding himself out of it, left to lob angry tweets from the White House residence or the Oval Office as he and a handful of emissaries such as personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani function as their own uncoordinated rapid-response operation.
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Impeachment tentacles spread throughout Trump's team (Original Post)
babylonsister
Oct 2019
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Roy Rolling
(6,915 posts)1. Pence Needs to Go
Pence is as corrupt as Trump, packaged in a holier-than-though container. Hes even worse than Trump in some sense, Pence claims to be a holy Christian fighting for Jesus and virginity of women everywhere.
Worse than Trump, America needs to make sure the impeachment broom sweeps clean.
volstork
(5,400 posts)2. Never forget: Manafort picked pence
...which means putin picked pence.
dchill
(38,474 posts)7. "Here's a guy we can work with."
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)6. A "holy Xtian" with the blood of innocents on his hands
calimary
(81,220 posts)3. Good. Hope those tentacles grow tentacles of their own.
That sounds like a strategy from sparring class. Keep em busy. Stuff your opponent and keep him off his game. Keep jabbing. Jab jab jab!
Right into a corner.
bucolic_frolic
(43,144 posts)5. Grab 'em by the Octopussy!
Roll 'em up. This has been a long time coming.