“Executive time”, this morning:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
There has been no President in the history of our Country who has been treated so badly as I have. The Democrats are frozen with hatred and fear. They get nothing done. This should never be allowed to happen to another President. Witch Hunt!
6:24 AM · Sep 25, 2019

Uh, if they’re “frozen” and they get nothing done, what’s the worry? Just asking.

A small sample of the responses:

we’ve never had a president who was this much of a sleazy criminal but cool story bro

That’s because there has been no president in history who has so blatantly and shamelessly shattered norms, defiled institutions, broken laws, committed treason and threatened America’s national security for personal gain like you… #Trump #WhistleblowerComplaint #impeachment

You seem like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.

Heh.

You need to start studying Nixon. And why he resigned. And then do the same. Cut the same deal. It’s over. You’re postponing the inevitable. Pack your bags and get the hell out of Washington before you’re humiliatingly thrown out…#Trump #WhistleblowerComplaint #impeachment

Pragmatic advice.

Mike Pence is spending the day whiting out the word “vice” on his business cards.

Moral of the story:

Don’t be horrible for 72 years.

I love the smell of impeachment in the morning.

Tax Return.

There is that, too.

Dems have something like 100 bills they have passed in the House but are waiting for the Senate to take up because you won’t let #moscowmitch do what the Senate is supposed to do — debate, negotiate, legislate. So don’t tell me who isn’t getting anything done.

There are those pesky facts.

Americans have never been treated so badly in the history of this country by our president.

Let’s keep a running tally of how many times he yells “witch hunt!” Does anyone know how many times Nixon yelled “witch hunt” during his impeachment?

If future Presidents avoid committing treason every chance they get then I am sure this will not happen to future Presidents.

You committed these crimes!

You admitted you did.

Your personal attorney admited it on public TV.

Time to man-up, stop whining, and accept your fate!

Omg. If you behaved better, you’d be treated better. Dems are just doing their duty. And it’s Moscow Mitch that has been preventing Dems from getting anything done. Him and the constant need to babysit you every minute of every day to protect our democracy. So suck it up.

The king of the Birthers says no President has been treated as badly as Him.

If you were smart you’d resign.

Such an elegant test.

Impeachment in the mirror is closer than it appears.

The times have found us.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

#NationalSecurity

#ImpeachTheMF

Previously:

Impeachment: Consciousness of Guilt (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) (September 24, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighting (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) – “Tell your people to obey the law.” (September 25, 2019)

Last night:

Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi
The times have found us.
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7:12 PM · Sep 24, 2019

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D) remarks:

Pelosi Remarks Announcing Impeachment Inquiry
September 24, 2019 Press Release

Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. Below are the Speaker’s remarks as delivered:

Speaker Pelosi. Good afternoon. Last Tuesday, we observed the anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution on September 17.

Sadly, on that day, the Intelligence Community Inspector General formally notified the Congress that the Administration was forbidding him from turning over a whistleblower complaint. On Constitution Day. This is a violation of law.

Shortly thereafter, press reports began to break of a phone call by the President of the United States calling upon a foreign power to intervene in his election. This is a breach of his constitutional responsibilities.

The facts are these: the Intelligence Community Inspector General, who was appointed by President Trump, determined that the complaint is both of ‘urgent concern and credible,’ and its disclosure, he went on to say, that it ‘relates to one of the most significant and important of the Director of National Intelligence’s responsibilities to the American people.’

On Thursday, the Inspector General testified before the House Intelligence Committee, stating that the Acting Director of National Intelligence blocked him from disclosing the whistleblower complaint. This is a violation of the law.

The law is unequivocal. The DNI, it says, the Director of National Intelligence ‘shall’ provide Congress the full whistleblower complaint.

For more than 25 years, I have served on the Intelligence Committee – as a Member, as the Ranking Member, as part of the Gang of 4 even before I was in the Leadership.

I was there when we created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. That did not exist before 2004.

I was there ever earlier in 90’s when we wrote the whistleblower laws and continue to write them, to improve them to ensure the security of our intelligence and the safety of our whistleblowers.

I know what their purpose was, and we proceeded with balance and caution as we wrote the laws. I can say with authority, that the Trump Administration’s actions undermine both: our national security and our intelligence and our protections of whistleblowers – more than both.

This Thursday, the Acting DNI will appear before the House Intelligence Committee.

At that time, he must turn over the whistleblower’s full complaint to the Committee. He will have to choose whether to break the law or honor his responsibility to the Constitution.

On the final day of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when our Constitution was adopted, Americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall to await the news of the government our Founders had crafted.

They asked Benjamin Franklin, ‘What do we have: a republic or a monarchy?’ Franklin replied: ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’

Our responsibility is to keep it.

Our republic endures because of the wisdom of our Constitution, enshrined in three co-equal branches of government, serving as checks and balances on each other.

The actions taken to date by the President have seriously violated the Constitution – especially when the President says, ‘Article II says, I can do whatever I want.’

For the past several months, we have been investigating in our Committees and litigating in the courts, so the House can gather ‘all the relevant facts and consider whether to exercise its full Article I powers, including a constitutional power of the utmost gravity — approval of articles of impeachment.’

And this week, the President has admitted to asking the President of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically. The action of – the actions of the Trump Presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the President’s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections.

Therefore, today, I am announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. I am directing our six Committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry.

The President must be held accountable. No one is above the law.

Getting back to our Founders – in the darkest days of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine wrote: ‘The times have found us.’ The times found them to fight for and establish our democracy. The times have found us today, not to place ourselves in the same category of greatness as our Founders, but to place us in the urgency of protecting and defending our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. In the words of Ben Franklin, to keep our Republic.

I thank our Chairmen – Chairman Nadler, Chairman Schiff. Chairman Nadler of Judiciary. Chairman Schiff of Intelligence. Chairman Engel of Foreign Affairs. Chairman Cummings of Oversight and Chairman Cummings I have been in touch with constantly. He is a master of so much but including, Inspectors General and whistleblowers. Congressman Richie Neal of the Ways and Means Committee. Congresswomen Maxine Waters of the Financial Services Committee.

And I commend all of our Members, our colleagues for their thoughtful, thoughtful approach to all of this – for their careful statements.

God bless them and God Bless America. Thank you all.

Also last night:

Heidi Przybyla @HeidiNBC
The exact words I was given were that Trump said he’d like to “figure this out.”
Pelosi said: “Tell your people to obey the law.”
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5:58 PM · Sep 24, 2019

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

The times have found us.

#NationalSecurity

#ImpeachTheMF

Previously:

Impeachment: Consciousness of Guilt (September 24, 2019)

Impeachment: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) (September 24, 2019)

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (r): gaslighting (September 24, 2019)