May 22, 2018

Presidential historian: Impeachment will be the 'season finale' of Trump BY AVERY ANAPOL - 05/21/18 10:00 AM EDT

Presidential historian Jon Meacham said Monday that he thinks impeachment will be the “season finale” to President Trump’s time in office.

Meacham told “Morning Joe” that Trump’s vow to ask the Justice Department to investigate whether the FBI spied on his campaign is similar to former President Nixon’s behavior ahead of firing special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and that his presidency is likely to end the same way as Nixon’s.

Meacham said that the midterm elections present a likely opportunity for Democrats to impeach Trump.

“I would bet a good bit of money this is going to end up in the House with some kind of impeachment proceeding, and the makeup of that body and ultimately the reaction of the United States Senate, which is supposed to be the great deliberative check and the great final hammer on these things,” he said. “I think … that’s going to be the season finale of this.”

A majority vote in the House is required under the Constitution to impeach a president, which would be much more likely if Democrats retake the majority in this fall's midterm elections. Democratic leaders have been cautious in talking about impeachment, fearing it could become an election issue for Republicans to turn out their base of voters.

In the Senate, a two-thirds majority vote is needed to win a conviction on impeachment — a high bar even if Democrats have a slim majority in the Senate.

Nixon was not impeached, but resigned after being told an impeachment vote in the House was unavoidable and that he would likely be convicted in the Senate.

Former President Clinton was impeached by the House in 1998, but was acquitted by the Senate in early 1999.

Meacham said that Trump’s “obsession” with former President Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton evokes Nixon.

“Both Nixon and Trump have an ongoing obsession with their former opponents in a way that I think shapes what they do in deleterious ways, to say the least,” Meacham said. “He was always obsessed with what President Kennedy had gotten away with, in his view, and remember, of course, that’s clearly true with President Trump.”

Trump said Sunday that he would ask the Justice Department to investigate whether the FBI under Obama surveilled his campaign, after claiming several times without evidence that there was an FBI informant embedded in his campaign.

The Justice Department asked its inspector general to look into Trump's claims.

“If anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a presidential campaign for inappropriate purposes, we need to know about it and take appropriate action," Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in a statement.

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Presidential historian: Impeachment will be the 'season finale' of Trump

BY AVERY ANAPOL - 05/21/18 10:00 AM EDT

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from cl and the ronnie re.......

Recently in Ramallah after touring the area with Bike Palestine. People kept asking my opinion of the donald and voicing their frustrations with his lack of respect for the Arab Counties and moving the embassy to Jerusalem.

In Bethlehem I had the opportunity to visit Dianna George Babish and her animal shelter and right nextdoor the Palestine Wildlife Society and Imad Qumsieh.

Just wanted to tell everyone about these two Palestinian heroes working to help the animals of this area.

If anyone has any suggestions for promotion or how to help these very hard working individuals please jump in with your ideas.......

here is a link to my story:

http://theronnierepublic.blogspot.com/2018/05/palestinian-heroes-dogs-helping-dogs-in.html

All of these dogs need homes and they are very lovely dogs, too.

Please spread the word and thank you for reading.

Thank you,

Dianna and her friend Sabrina from Work-Away

Imad Qumsieh

The workers are very dedicated and some have worked without pay.

Can you help my friends in Palestine......they need a home, too.

May 21, 2018

Shining a light on the dogs and cats of Palestine: Thousands of Moroccans protest against US Jerusalem embassy move

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Reuters 23 hours ago

More than 10,000 Moroccans took to the streets to protest against the U.S., Jerusalem embassy move

CASABLANCA, Morocco (Reuters) - More than 10,000 Moroccans chanting "Death to Israel" took to the streets of Casablanca on Sunday to protest against the U.S. decision to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

The marchers carried Palestinian flags and placards that read "Al Quds (Jerusalem) Palestine's eternal capital". Most appeared to be Islamists, with women wearing headscarves and marching separately from men.

The United States opened its embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, moving it from Tel Aviv, a move that reversed decades of U.S. policy and delighted Israel and infuriated Palestinians.

The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest obstacles to forging a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, who with broad international backing want East Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war, as their capital.

Israel regards all of the city, including the eastern sector it annexed after the 1967 conflict, as its capital. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has said the city's final borders should be decided by the parties.

On the day the United States opened its new embassy, Israeli troops killed 60 Palestinian demonstrators near the border in Gaza. Israel says the violence was incited by Hamas, the Islamist group that runs Gaza. Hamas denies blame.

The Casablanca protest had been called by a coalition of four parties including the Islamist opposition group al-Adl Wal Ihsan which is seen as Morocco's most powerful opposition group in terms of rallying supporters on the street.

(Reporting by Ahmed ElJechtimi and Youssef Boudlal, Editing by Ulf Laessing, William Maclean)

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