Constitutional Expert Testifies 'I Voted Against Trump,' Then Demolishes Impeachment

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Published: Dec 4, 2019
Author: Randy DeSoto
Post Date: 2019-12-07 11:35:46 by BTP Holdings
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Constitutional Expert Testifies 'I Voted Against Trump,' Then Demolishes Impeachment

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Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley of George Washington University testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Dec. 4, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

By Randy DeSoto

Published December 4, 2019 at 3:35pm

George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley warned members of the House Judiciary Committee that impeaching President Donald Trump would set a “dangerous precedent” and be an “abuse of power.”

In his opening statement, Turley made clear he was not testifying on behalf of the president but in support of the rule of law and the future of the country.

“I’m not a supporter of President Trump. I voted against him,” he said. “My personal views of President Trump are as irrelevant to my impeachment testimony, as they should be to your impeachment vote.”

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#1: Cynicom    To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Constitutional Expert Testifies 'I Voted Against Trump,' Then Demolishes Impeachment

Difficult to understand how anyone could have voted for Shillary.

I have friends that are "democrats" working overtime every week, taking home good pay, that despise Trump and will vote for any democrat. Saliva test needed.

Cynicom posted on 2019-12-07 12:00:56   Reply   Private Reply


#2: BTP Holdings    To: Cynicom (#1)

Difficult to understand how anyone could have voted for Shillary.

I have friends that are "democrats" working overtime every week, taking home good pay, that despise Trump and will vote for any democrat. Saliva test needed.

My crazy Mormon neighbor and her two daughters voted for Hildabeast too.

Don't forget that she won the popular vote, but Trump took the Electoral College.

It seems that both Trump and Bush, Jr. won the Electoral College but not the popular vote. time.com/5579161/presidents-elected-electoral-college/ ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2019-12-07 12:11:48   Reply   Private Reply


#3: Pinguinite    To: Cynicom (#1)

Difficult to understand how anyone could have voted for Shillary.

There were other options besides Trump and Shillary. Not voting at all being one.

Pinguinite posted on 2019-12-07 12:51:01   Reply   Private Reply


#4: Pinguinite    To: BTP Holdings (#2)

Don't forget that she won the popular vote, but Trump took the Electoral College.

A bit of an aside, but people complaining about Trump not being a legit prez for not winning the popular vote are much like people complaining about their favorite football team not winning only because field goals are worth 3 points and not 4.

They ignore the fact that if you change the game rules before the game, the teams would change their game plan. In the case of Trump, he would have campaigned in California where he had the most to gain and likely would have pulled in millions of more votes from the state (Hillary took about 67% of CA voters). As it was, Trump didn't spend a dime or a second in the state during the 2016 season.

Also of note.... Total campaign expenditures in 2016: Clinton: $1.2 billion. Trump: $600 million.

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#5: Cynicom    To: Pinguinite (#3)

Not voting at all being one.

Did that. Could not stomach Bush nor Gore.

Notice how quiet, out of sight the Bush family is???

Last straw was Nixon/Eisenhower family voted for and supported Obummer.

One big happy political family, except Trump.

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#6: BTP Holdings    To: Pinguinite (#4)

In the case of Trump, he would have campaigned in California where he had the most to gain and likely would have pulled in millions of more votes from the state (Hillary took about 67% of CA voters). As it was, Trump didn't spend a dime or a second in the state during the 2016 season.

Also of note.... Total campaign expenditures in 2016: Clinton: $1.2 billion. Trump: $600 million.

Not to mention Hillary stole the primary from Bernie Sanders.

Seth Rich gave his life in an attempt to expose the voter fraud. Even his parents said he was the leaker. ;)

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#7: BTP Holdings    To: Cynicom (#5)

One big happy political family, except Trump.

Trump is an outsider and has upset the apple cart on them all. He is exposing the fraud and scams that have been ongoing. ;)

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#8: Pinguinite    To: BTP Holdings (#6)

Seth Rich gave his life in an attempt to expose the voter fraud. Even his parents said he was the leaker. ;)

Did they? Last I heard they were angry that anyone would dare suggest Seth betrayed the Democrat party. They viewed it as him being accused of being a Benedict Arnold traitor. They just never understood that he died a hero exposing corruption.

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#9: BTP Holdings    To: Pinguinite (#8)

Did they? Last I heard they were angry that anyone would dare suggest Seth betrayed the Democrat party. They viewed it as him being accused of being a Benedict Arnold traitor. They just never understood that he died a hero exposing corruption.

Maybe you are right. I can see their point. But that is the whole thing about what has been going on in the political spectrum.

Seth Rich was another victim of the Clinton Crime Cult. It sure was no robbery since he still had his cell phone. ;)

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#10: GreyLmist    To: BTP Holdings (#2)

won the Electoral College but not the popular vote

The Electoral College vote is the popular vote of each State:

United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

A state's number of electors equals the number of representatives plus two electors for both senators the state has in the United States Congress. ... Currently, there are 538 electors; based on 435 representatives, 100 senators from the fifty states and three electors from Washington, D.C. ... The number of representatives is based on the respective populations, determined every ten years by the United States Census. ... Based on the 2010 census, each representative represented on average 711,000 persons.

The six states with the most electors are California (55), Texas (38), New York (29), Florida (29), Illinois (20), and Pennsylvania (20). The District of Columbia and the seven least populous states — Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming — have three electors each.

Chart: Current electoral vote distribution - Triangular markers (Increase - green or Decrease - Red) indicate gains or losses following the 2010 Census.

"faithless electors" are those who either cast electoral votes for someone other than the candidate of the party that they pledged to vote for or who abstain. ... Twenty-nine states plus the District of Columbia have passed laws to punish faithless electors, which were first enforced after the 2016 election, where seven electors voted contrary to their pledge. ... Faithless electors also may face censure from their political party, as they are usually chosen based on their perceived party loyalty.

How the Electoral College Works - YouTube, 4.75 minutes

The next video on that topic by the narrator is, as one commenter stated: "a lesson in absurdity". It's a worthless misrepresentation to mask the distortion of Congressional Representation numbers for our States, which determines their Electoral College numbers as well, when States like California artificially inflate those numbers for themselves by counting illegal aliens in their population totals instead of just American citizens only and legal residents (which was our Founders' intent - for the calculation of taxation rates, too). California's number of Congressional Representatives and its number of Electoral College votes are being increased by decreasing the voting powers of other States. My opinion is that there's no practical reason for any State to have more than one Electoral College vote each (or any more than Wyoming does, for example, which has the standard minimum of three) because all of our States are to be considered equals and the Electoral College vote is just supposed to be representative of which candidate won that particular State's popular vote.

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