Anti-Trump ‘Republican’ Group to Run Pro-Impeachment Ads in Target States

[mystery-ak]

Anti-Trump ‘Republican’ Group to Run Pro-Impeachment Ads in Target States
Eric Lendrum
- December 25th, 2019


An ostensibly Republican group is running a variety of ads in targeted states demanding that several White House officials testify in the Senate impeachment trial, according to The Hill.

Republicans for the Rule of Law, led by notorious anti-Trump activist Bill Kristol, is running ads ranging from billboards to television commercials, in four different states. The ads are targeting constituents of four Republican senators who are known for their anti-Trump stances: Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.).

The ads call for former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former National Security Advisor John Bolton to be forced to testify before the Senate in the ongoing impeachment against President Trump.

Bill Kristol has arguably been the leading anti-Trumper from a supposedly conservative standpoint, having vigorously opposed President Trump’s campaign in 2016 and bankrolling the independent candidate Evan MacMullin. His anti-Trump stance eventually led to the shutdown of his longtime magazine, The Weekly Standard, and Kristol has struggled to maintain relevance ever since.

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https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/25/anti-trump-republican-group-to-run-pro-impeachment-ads-in-target-states/

[Chosen Daughter]

I fully agree.  I want them all to testify and why wouldn't they unless they have something to hide?

[sneakypete]

Bill Kristol has arguably been the leading anti-Trumper from a supposedly conservative standpoint

 Bill Kristol,his father,and maybe even his grandfather are freaking Communists.

That is NOT the same thing as being "conservative" unless you live in China,Cuba,Venzuela,or one of the other remaining "Workers Paradises."

[sneakypete]

I fully agree.  I want them all to testify and why wouldn't they unless they have something to hide?

@Chosen Daughter

Gee,THERE is a shock,Comrade!

[Applewood]

This source sounds like a crank.  Why is"Republican" in quotes? I think Mr. Kristol, at least, is a registered Republican.  Or is this guy confusing Republican with conservative? 

And why is Mr. Kristol described as "notorious?"  Because he opposes Trump?  Next this guy will be accusing anyone opposed to Trump as an "enemy of the state" or some other perjorative. 

Melodramatic much?

[libertybele]

I want Uncle Joe and Hunter to testify.  Why shouldn't they?  If they don't, then they must be hiding something.

[Chosen Daughter]

 Bill Kristol,his father,and maybe even his grandfather are freaking Communists.

That is NOT the same thing as being "conservative" unless you live in China,Cuba,Venzuela,or one of the other remaining "Workers Paradises."

That would be interesting information if you have links.

[Chosen Daughter]

I want Uncle Joe and Hunter to testify.  Why shouldn't they?  If they don't, then they must be hiding something.

Me too!  I want them to testify also. 

[Chosen Daughter]

This source sounds like a crank.  Why is"Republican" in quotes? I think Mr. Kristol, at least, is a registered Republican.  Or is this guy confusing Republican with conservative? 

And why is Mr. Kristol described as "notorious?"  Because he opposes Trump?  Next this guy will be accusing anyone opposed to Trump as an "enemy of the state" or some other perjorative. 

Melodramatic much?

He used to be a great guy.  A regular on FOX news until he was a Trump obstacle.

[Chosen Daughter]

@Chosen Daughter

Gee,THERE is a shock,Comrade!

Trumps new Democrat he is pushing is the Comrade.   Not I.

[sneakypete]

This source sounds like a crank.  Why is"Republican" in quotes? I think Mr. Kristol, at least, is a registered Republican.  Or is this guy confusing Republican with conservative? 

And why is Mr. Kristol described as "notorious?"  Because he opposes Trump?  Next this guy will be accusing anyone opposed to Trump as an "enemy of the state" or some other perjorative. 

Melodramatic much?

@Applewood

Hearing footsteps coming up behind you,are ya?

[sneakypete]

That would be interesting information if you have links.

 @Chosen Daughter

With all possible due respect,eat my shorts.

[Chosen Daughter]

@Chosen Daughter

With all possible due respect,eat my shorts.

No, that sounds gross!  I am just asking you to provide links that say Kristal is a communist.  If you say something you should be able to back it up.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I fully agree.  I want them all to testify and why wouldn't they unless they have something to hide?

@Chosen Daughter

The Congress and Executive branches are coequal branches of government.  The House of Representatives cannot demand anything it wants from the White House.  Executive Privilege is not about innocence or guilt, it is about precedent. The Supreme Court has consistently held firm that a President has both a right to and a need for confidentiality with his advisors and staff to secure unvarnished opinions from them.  If Pelosi wanted to know if it could be waived in this case, she should have taken her claim to court.

As for transparency and cooperation, the President not only released the transcript of the call with Zelensky (an unprecedented act), since his inauguration the Trump White House "has provided more than 20,000 pages of materials, and the campaign has provided more than 1.4 million pages, more than 20 White House personnel have given interviews, including eight from the White House counsel's office. Seventeen campaign employees plus 11 additional individuals.". [https://www.npr.org/2018/01/25/580637953/white-house-touts-unprecedented-cooperation-amid-mueller-interview-talks] 

At what point do you think impeachment in search of a crime should end?

Yet the eight witnesses the Republicans asked for were all denied by Rep. Schiff: including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, the anonymous whistleblower and anyone the whistleblower relied on to prepare the complaint alleging Trump solicited election interference from Ukraine. 

What the do you think the democrats are hiding?

[Chosen Daughter]

@Chosen Daughter

The Congress and Executive branches are coequal branches of government.  The House of Representatives cannot demand anything it wants from the White House.  Executive Privilege is not about innocence or guilt, it is about precedent. The Supreme Court has consistently held firm that a President has both a right to and a need for confidentiality with his advisors and staff to secure unvarnished opinions from them.  If Pelosi wanted to know if it could be waived in this case, she should have taken her claim to court.

As for transparency and cooperation, the President not only released the transcript of the call with Zelensky (an unprecedented act), since his inauguration the Trump White House "has provided more than 20,000 pages of materials, and the campaign has provided more than 1.4 million pages, more than 20 White House personnel have given interviews, including eight from the White House counsel's office. Seventeen campaign employees plus 11 additional individuals.". [https://www.npr.org/2018/01/25/580637953/white-house-touts-unprecedented-cooperation-amid-mueller-interview-talks] 

At what point do you think impeachment in search of a crime should end?

Yet the eight witnesses the Republicans asked for were all denied by Rep. Schiff: including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden, the anonymous whistleblower and anyone the whistleblower relied on to prepare the complaint alleging Trump solicited election interference from Ukraine. 

What the do you think the democrats are hiding?

I would like to know.  What they are all hiding.

[Hoodat]

I want to know what crime is Trump being accused of.

[Hoodat]

An ostensibly Republican group .  .  .

"Ostensibly Republican" means 'not really Republican, but we are trying to make it out as if it is'.

[Applewood]

@Applewood

Hearing footsteps coming up behind you,are ya?

@sneakypete

No.  Then paranoia trait belongs to Trump and his fans like you. 

[Applewood]

No, that sounds gross!  I am just asking you to provide links that say Kristal is a communist.  If you say something you should be able to back it up.

@sneakypete is a typical Trump fan -- hurling accusations, making phony claims and espousing often already debunked conspiracy theories without proof.

[Hoodat]

@sneakypete is a typical Trump fan -- hurling accusations, making phony claims and espousing often already debunked conspiracy theories without proof.

From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol

I was graduated from City College in the spring of 194O, and the honor I most prized was the fact that I was a member in good standing of the Young People's Socialist League (Fourth International). This organization was commonly; and correctly, designated as Trotskyist  .  .  .

http://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol_2.html

[sneakypete]

@sneakypete is a typical Trump fan -- hurling accusations, making phony claims and espousing often already debunked conspiracy theories without proof.

@Applewood

I am responsible neither for your ignorance,nor your education.

[Applewood]

@Hoodat
@sneakypete

[Irving]Kristol was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of non-observant Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Bessie (Mailman) and Joseph Kristol.[5][6] He received his B.A. from the City College of New York in 1940, where he majored in history and was part of a small but vocal Trotskyist anti-Soviet group who eventually became The New York Intellectuals. It was at these meetings that Kristol met historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, whom he later married in 1942. They had two children, Elizabeth Nelson and Bill Kristol.[7] During World War II, he served in Europe in the 12th Armored Division as a combat infantryman.[8]

Kristol was affiliated with the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol (emphasis added)

The Congress for Cultural Freedom:

The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an anti-communist advocacy group founded in 1950.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_for_Cultural_Freedom  (emphasis added)

[Chosen Daughter]

From Memoirs of a Trotskyist by Irving Kristol

I was graduated from City College in the spring of 194O, and the honor I most prized was the fact that I was a member in good standing of the Young People's Socialist League (Fourth International). This organization was commonly; and correctly, designated as Trotskyist  .  .  .

http://www.pbs.org/arguing/nyintellectuals_krystol_2.html

Nowhere is anything saying Bill Kristol is a communist.  I believe his father made a turn after the war.


The elder Kristol made no secret of his youthful flirtations with socialism. Like many neoconservatives, he was a college Trotskyite who lurched radically rightward after World War II. By 1982, he was universally acknowledged as a chief engine of right-wing thought in American politics and one of the minds behind the Reagan Revolution. Which is why it's so curious that, according to FBI documents obtained by Gawker under the Freedom of Information Act, he was the subject of a five-month FBI counterintelligence investigation in 1988.


The FBI heavily redacted the documents—citing national security in many instances—so it's difficult to make out exactly what happened. But it seems fairly clear that, sometime around May of 1988, the FBI's counterintelligence division came to possess a notebook or address book belonging to a suspected Soviet agent. And Irving Kristol's name was in it. That launched a five-month investigation into Kristol's background, including criminal record checks, interviews with "assets" at the school where he taught, and eventually an interview with Kristol himself, conducted under a "pretext" so as to avoid letting him know the true nature of the investigation. This despite the fact that Kristol had already been subjected to an FBI background check in 1972, when he was considered for a job in the Nixon White House, and came up clean.

https://gawker.com/5703723/the-fbi-suspected-bill-kristols-dad-of-consorting-with-soviet-spies

And since we want to talk about Communists how about Melania's Communist card carrying parents.  Who also are regulars at White House events and often travel with the Donald and Melania.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/g9968592/melania-trump-parents-amalija-knavs-viktor-knavs/

[FeelNoPain]

I fully agree.  I want them all to testify and why wouldn't they unless they have something to hide?

Speaking of Bolton, has there been any response from our favorite "counter punching" president regarding Bolton slamming his North Korea policy?

No way Trump missed Fox News' screaming headline: "US on high alert for North Korea 'Christmas surprise' as Bolton slams Trump"

Maybe he doesn't want to provoke "Big John" right now?
Big Bad John.

[FeelNoPain]

The Congress and Executive branches are coequal branches of government.  The House of Representatives cannot demand anything it wants from the White House.  Executive Privilege is not about innocence or guilt, it is about precedent...

Understood. It is just I'm guessing (admittedly, quessing) that most Americans believe that if Bolton, Giuliani, Mick, Rick, and the Mikey P's could exonerate Trump, POTUS would have had those boys doing a conga line to testify. Trump's name is worth beaucoup bucks. He is brilliant with branding. It makes zero sense that he would allow himself to go down in history as an impeached president for the sake of preserving executive privilege if he could have presented evidence to prevent such from occurring (and, as a bonus, humiliate the Democrats).

At what point do you think impeachment in search of a crime should end?

Hopefully, not for a while. Need more hilarious riffs from insult comic Shecky Trump.
Need more "pencil neck" Schiff.
Need more "teeth falling" Pelosi.
POTUS has the best words.