{"id":37884,"date":"2019-10-09T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37884"},"modified":"2019-10-09T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T16:52:01","slug":"trump-defies-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/09\/trump-defies-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Defies Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It was clear to me long ago, but now it must be clear to virtually everyone, that Resident Donald Trump had declared war on the Congress of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp; He is defying Congress and refusing to acknowledge or accede to their First Amendment right to conduct an impeachment inquiry into his many high crimes and misdemeanors.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Trump-Bird.jpg\"><\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>The White House refused Tuesday to turn over internal documents<\/strong> regarding Ukraine being sought by House Democrats as the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/Trump-impeachment-inquiry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dug in against their impeachment inquiry<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>In a defiant letter that echoed the president&#8217;s recent impeachment messaging \u2014 accusing Democrats of violating the Constitution and civil liberties and attempting to overturn the results of the 2016 election \u2014 <strong>the White House said it would not comply with the request from House Democrats because they were conducting an invalid investigation<\/strong>&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The move was the latest demonstration of a White House strategy of almost-universal resistance taking shape in its efforts to stymie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/house-subpoenas-defense-secretary-trump-budget-chief-ukraine-documents-n1063331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Democratic investigation into whether President Donald Trump used the power of his office<\/a> to pressure Ukraine to investigate 2020 rival Joe Biden&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/trump-impeachment-inquiry\/white-house-refuses-turn-over-documents-democrats-impeachment-inquiry-n1063771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC News<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Click through for the Democratic response and a deeper explanation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Essentially Trump&#8217;s argument is he and everyone acting under his orders are above the law.&nbsp; Both Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell explained this in more depth.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XB3XVBAUxq4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Showing Desperation In Defying Impeachment Inquiry<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XB3XVBAUxq4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Presidents do need to cooperate with impeachment proceedings. However, he is not and never has been a President. He&#8217;s a Resident. Moreover, Trump is the Fuhrer of the Republican Reich.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NSV5tmT4fbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rpts: Official Told Whistleblower Trump&#8217;s Ukraine Call Was &#8220;Crazy&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/NSV5tmT4fbo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/news\/2019\/10\/09\/eleven-things-you-may-not-know-about-gordon-sondland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sondland, an Oregon billionaire and hotelier, bought his appointment and is a devoted follower of Ayn Rand<\/a>. I have no doubt that he got his instructions from his Fuhrer.&nbsp; He should be charged for his role in the crime.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">To combat this, the Democrats need to proceed in two ways.&nbsp; First, they need to charge the witnesses who refuse to appear with crimes.&nbsp; Second, they need to document and include all the instances of Trump&#8217;s criminal obstruction into a separate Article of Impeachment.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was clear to me long ago, but now it must be clear to virtually everyone, that Resident Donald Trump had declared war on the Congress of the United States.&nbsp;&nbsp; He is defying Congress and refusing to acknowledge or accede to their First Amendment right to conduct an impeachment inquiry into his many high crimes <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/09\/trump-defies-congress\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}