Various sources report that a mob of GOP representatives disrupted this morning’s testimony:
Roughly two-dozen House Republicans stormed a closed-door deposition in secure House Intelligence Committee spaces to rail against the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry.
This is how the American experiment ends, my friends.
These thugs need to be fined, jailed, or both.
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I just contacted my Congresswoman to urge her to advocate disciplinary action against this crowd. Some of them also brought phones into this supposedly secure room, which is a major security breach. Plus I’m hearing Trump had prior knowledge of this plan and approved it.
I suspect that Mr. Trump orchestrated it.
Surely Ms. Pelosi has sticks she can apply to thugs like this. I wonder how hard it will be for her to get a 2/3 majority vote to condemn the participants.
Are there any Republicans left in Congress who support the rule of law?
Nicole Wallace, former Republican, said on her show today that the Idiot probably cooked up this stunt as a diversion from the devastating testimony yesterday of Ambassador William Taylor who corroborated the Orange Goon’s quid pro quo with Ukraine to get manufactured falsified ‘dirt’ on the Bidens.
It is being reported that the House Chair of Homeland Security has asked the sergeant-at-arms to “take action” against the pukes who breached security today inside the SCIF.
2/3 requires more Republicans than I am so far confident will jump ship.
Nancy Pelosi has a long memory.
It’s a stunt.
Offensive to be sure, and by design, because if they can provoke a shouting match they win.
I think an appropriate response might be a slow, sober, in-depth investigation of the security breach this represents.
Did any of the reps carry into the chamber electronics such as unsecured cell phones that could be compromised by foreign governments?
Were any of the actors influenced, directly or indirectly by foreign governments hostile ot he U.S.?
Let them all be deposed about that. Then they can swear to tell the truth and testify under the penalites of perjury.
I think it’s only fitting that those sworn depositions be open to the public.
Since this touches on intelligence I can see valid reasons to keep it under wraps. Also it’s been pointed out that since there was no independent counsel or special prosecutor to convene a grand jury on Ukraine-gate the House has to do that step itself and that is usually secret.
I totally understand and agree with the decision to keep the impeachment depositions private.
I perhaps wasn’t clear enough with my irony. I meant that I think that the Republican thugs being investigated should be denied the same right of privacy that they would deny the impeachment witnesses.
In all seriousness, a major motivation for keeping such investigations private is to make it more difficult for persons of interest to tailor their testimony based on what has already been heard.
If I had a vote, I’d use the power of the House Sergeant At Arms to put these thugs in jail until these hearings. I think we should have a zero-tolerance policy for “stunts” like this.