Elijah Cummings 'signed subpoenas from his hospital bed' for Trump impeachment before his death

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Source: Independent UK

Elijah Cummings was kept busy to the very end of his life leading an investigation into Donald Trump before passing away at the age of 68 on Wednesday, his aides have said.

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee was signing subpoenas from his hospital bed, one aide told the New York Times.

He also helped lead a Democratic caucus conference call.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described Mr Cummings as a “north star” who spoke with “unsurpassed clarity and moral integrity” on the House floor.

Ms Pelosi, who grew up in the city Mr Cummings represented, said he was her “brother in Baltimore” during a press conference on Thursday, adding: “We’ve all lost a friend … I’m devastated by the loss.”

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[madaboutharry]

1. He was a great American patriot.

[spooky3]

2. heartbreaking, how much he loved his fellow Americans, and that he is gone so soon. nt

[targetpractice]

3. Good Lord... Amazing...

...One thing I've been sad about today is that Representative Cummings did not live long enough to see this nightmare come to an end. I hope he was at peace knowing he is a hero to us all, and, literally, fought for us until his last breath.

[MBS]

11. + 1 million.

[lagomorph777]

40. We have to finish what he started. We can do this.

[MontanaMama]

4. You bet he did.

Because Rep Cummings loves his country. I'm so sad that he's gone...sadder that he didn't get to vote to impeach the MF shitting his pants on AF1 right now.

[Leghorn21]

5. Oh how we loved you, Elijah

Always did, always will

We’ll carry forth in your honor, and we WILL make you proud

[MBS]

12. YES!!

[FM123]

6. Brother in Baltimore.

That was so touching. I have been teary eyed all day....

[Autumn]

7. A great loss to our country.

RIP

[Kind of Blue]

8. And now I understand what his wife meant by, "He Worked Until His Last Breath."

I'm just numb by his passing

Thanks for posting.

[Marie Marie]

9. Just too sad

[Kind of Blue]

17. "I'm going to do what feeds my soul," as Rep. Cummings once said

as the best way to honor him right now, Marie Marie

[Botany]

19. Sad but wonderful too

He no doubt knew that the end was near but he kept fighting for all of us. I doubt I would
have 1/10 of his grace and courage.

We walked with a giant.

[Judi Lynn]

23. Great comment. So true. n/t

[Jopin Klobe]

10. Elijah Cummings 'signed subpoenas from his hospital bed' for Trump impeachment before his death ...

... God bless his soul ...

[sobenji]

20. This!!

[Auggie]

25. A Democrat who died with his boots on

[Vinca]

13. I sure wish he'd lived long enough to see the orange menace run out of town.

When Trump is gone, much of the credit should go to Cummings. We're sure going to miss Elijah Cummings.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

18. Yes.

Sigh. Heartbreaking. 😪
We have to win over The Scumbag.

[NCjack]

24. Yes, but he was the first to see those signed subpoenas. nt

[SunSeeker]

14. Serving America until his last dying breath.

[Collimator]

15. Damn, Man!

(As in boo-yah!)

Signing subpoenas on his deathbed?! They say that "dying declarations" are the most sincere and profound truths that we can make.

Mr. Cummings gave his last, full measure for his country.

[BigmanPigman]

16. He worked more in his hospital bed than

the fucking moron has done in his entire life. He also had more patriotism in his little finger than the entire tRump clan put together.

[bluestarone]

21. He knew and felt the importance of this!

God bless him!

[irisblue]

22. RW Twitter keyboard 'experts' have been wailing & honking over this already

The letter *E* in his signature is very very involving to them

[SCVDem]

26. I can think of NO republican

Who has that level of respect!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. He'll really be missed. But signing subpoenas for the Trump impeachment investigation

is one of the best ways to go out that I can think of.

[napi21]

28. I can't help thinking of all the suffering he's enduredf in his life. I don't think anybody else

has claim being beaten nearly to death, but somehow recovered and continued fighting for fairness for his fellow man. God bless you Elijah. I hope you'll be able to watch from Heaven and see DT ;finally booted out of the WH. Help us all celebrate because Democracy will have won, and the right thing was done, finally!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. You may be thinking of John Lewis,

who was badly beaten during the Selma march in 1965. But Cummings was also a great proponent of civil rights and as a Congressman in general. He will be missed.

[napi21]

33. You're right. Sorry. nt

[bottomofthehill]

29. Clearly a life well lived

[Dem2theMax]

31. Now that's a patriot.

A true patriot. A man who honored our Constitution and our country.

[DemoTex]

32. I'm 71, closer to 72. My new goal in my years left ..

To be more like Elijah Cummings. Period.

[fleabiscuit]

34. +1

[riversedge]

35. Very fitting. RIP Rep. Cummings

[herding cats]

36. Nevertheless he persisted.

My heart is heavy and has hurt all day. Yet this amazing man was still working for our democracy literally from his hospice bed.

#Respect

[MustLoveBeagles]

37. A patriot till the very end

[melm00se]

38. Queue the Republican spin machine

"Rep. Cummings, on his death bed, was incompetent and thus any subpoenas he signed are invalid".

[NurseJackie]

39. They'll argue that the subpoenas are no longer valid due to his death.

[lagomorph777]

41. Russiapublicans are no longer valid, due to the death of their souls.

[NurseJackie]

42. You're right about that.

[Hotler]

43. Signed a whole stack of blank subpoenas. We'll fill them out as we go. nt

[calimary]

44. "...to the last."

[Baltimike]

45. My heart aches for my city and my country. Godspeed good man, Godspeed. nt

[PatrickforO]

46. A troubling thought. I was on the phone today with a colleague.

In the course of our conversation, Mulvaney's testimony came up, as well as this new outrage of Trump scheduling the G7 summit at his own hotel in Tampa, and my colleague said something that gave me pause.

He said he thought it was suspicious that the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee died just as these new revelations came out. Of course, this implied he thought there may have been some foul play.

I replied that Cummings had been ill some time.

My colleague replied that yes, but he had federal healthcare, and he then mentioned people the Russians have poisoned. See, he thinks that the Russians have deeply infiltrated our government, more deeply than we know.

Now, I'm not saying this is so at all, and I'm not trying to bring forth some conspiracy theory.

But...

I was troubled by the conversation. Not ready to make any judgment, but we do know that Russian oligarchs seem to have a pretty long reach, and that they have certainly affected this nation in a bunch of ways, some of which we might not yet be aware of. Not saying anything about Cummings, but geez, Trump and his guys seem to be hastening their destruction of the republic just as the jaws are closing around them.

To me, it seems the only thing that is saving us from the fall is that the oligarchs did their coup too soon, and their own hubris proved too much for a still partly-free republic to bear.

This whole thing is a giant conspiracy theory coming to light, piece by destructive piece. We're living it, and we are in a huge constitutional crisis and we are THIS CLOSE to losing this republic. We really are. It isn't a game, and there are billions of dollars lined up on the side of the oligarch parasites.

[BootinUp]

47. Very grateful for his work. Nt