Breitbart is reporting that the Democrats used a deceptively edited video of President Donald Trump during last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment, using “experts” in constitutional law to claim, falsely, that he believes he has absolute power.
As Breitbart News White House Correspondent Charlie Spiering pointed out, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) misquoted Trump when she made the case for articles of impeachment after the first hearing before the Judiciary Committee. Pelosi said, “The president’s actions have seriously violated the Constitution, especially when he says and acts upon the belief ‘Article II says I can do whatever I want.’ No. His wrongdoing strikes at the very heart of our Constitution.”
She repeated that statement during a subsequent CNN Town Hall, saying Trump thought himself a “king.”
It is not clear exactly which of Trump’s statements Pelosi was quoting. As Spiering pointed out, when Trump told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos in June that “Article II allows me to do whatever I want,” he was referring specifically to his constitutional authority to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which he never actually did.
In the House Judiciary Committee, the Democrats’ counsel, former Obama White House ethics “czar” Norm Eisen, used a similar misquote to set up Harvard Law School professor Noah Feldman to condemn the president. That quote was specifically drawn from a speech President Trump gave to the Turning Point USA conservative youth “teen action summit” on July 23, 2019, in Washington, DC.
Much like the Pelosi “cherry-picked” misquote, if you look at the president’s full quote to the teen group in context, you would obviously see that Trump was speaking about the extensive Mueller investigation, which had just concluded — and not about his Article II presidential power in general.
But here is how the Democrats used the quote out of context, in a deceptively edited video, shown by the committee:
Feldman: Now, putting yourself above the law as president is the core of an impeachable offense. Because if the president could not be impeached for that, he would in fact not be responsible to anybody.
Eisen: And sir, informing your opinion, did you review these statements from President Trump? (he then showed the following edited clips)
Trump (first video clip): Well, we’re fighting all the subpoenas.
Trump (second video clip): Then I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.
Feldman: I did. And as someone who cares about the Constitution, the second of those, in particular, struck a kind of horror in me.
But, in context, Trump never meant that Article II gave him absolute power. That quote related only to his power to fire Mueller, if he wished to do so.
Nevertheless, Democrats referred repeatedly to that misquote, and replayed the deceptively edited clip of Trump’s speech throughout the hearing, to suggest that Trump thought he was not subject to any constitutional constraints.
TREASON, EXECUTE PELOSI.
These treasonous hypocrite libs(lying sack of Schiff) don’t know the meaning of the truth! They are at it again and just as mentally deranged as the rest of the Globalists NAZI Muslim Commie Liberal Demoncrats! Deep State, Pelosi, Waters, Schumer, Hollywood, Academia, Fake News, Swamp News and you know the rest!! Expose, Boycott, Sue, prosecute and bring to justice all these lying Fake News deep state treasonous Godless NAZI commie liberal demoncrats and RINOs post-haste,Patriots! Drain the rat infested swamp President Trump!
They have been doing this for two decades now. Many innocent and righteous people are in prison because of fabricated video (AI altered)“evidence”. And other technologically advanced falsified tampered with, wizardry slight of hand, evidence as well. The President is so not alone.
The Dems know they have to lie,distort the truth to fool the voters so they have a chance in 2020.Thats what they did in 2016 with the Russia investigation.It worked then, many voters believed them and the fake media.America OPEN your eyes and PRAY it won’t work this time.
This is typical of the Dems to lie because they can’t get or find any evidence about President Trump showing he committed any crimes. I feel sorry for the people who believe anything the democrats tell them. Just ask the African American people. The only time they know them is at election time when they need their vote. They are doing the same thing with the Hispanics. It is very sad that a party has to lie to win. It is even sadder that Pelosi is stooping this low and Schitt and Nadler. Wake up people.
It is so clear all the dems want is him out. They will do and say anything. The only abuse of power is from the left. They dont believe they are above the law, they believe they are the law.
The Democrats are the ones who abused their power and deliberately obstructed Justice.
I find this whole WITCH HUNT of the Sitting President very sad to say the least , & a Coup D’etat @ the very worst. The dem’s continue to SINK to a ALL-TIME LOW of SLIME. Get back to WORK & put as much effort in HELPING AMERICA as you clowns do in WASTING OUR TAX PAYERS MONEY on ABSOLUTE NON-SENSE. P.S. to Nasty Piglousy.. The answer is , ” YOU MAY NOT HATE the PRESIDENT , but you ABSOLUTELY , & UNEQUIVOCALLY ABHOR & DETEST HIM . STOP PREYING on HIM, & START PRAYING like that Little CATHOLIC GIRL is suppose to do…
It seems to me the democratic members of congress have set themselves up as above the law.
I am truely ashamed of this country. I am ashamed of the ruthlessness, hating, cruel people that have no morals and feel they have a right to say and do the things they are doing.
I’m going to vent. I am 66yrs old, and have lived through Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Reagon, Clinton, 2 Bushes and Obama. NEVER! in my life time have I seen a president be scrutinized over every word he speaks, humiliated by the media to the point of wanting to hurt someone, slandered, ridiculed, insulted lied about and to, threatened to murder him, threatened to rape his wife, our new beautiful first lady, and attacked via humiliation and insults his children.
I don’t know how to fix it, I wish I did.
Every other President after getting into office were pretty much left alone, they were not on the news 24/7 being dissected by every word out of their mouths, being pressured to do this or that.
mr trump is the best man for the job in my life time
When will we see the liberal Congress be held accountable to
For damaging the reputation of the President ?
Why were the Republicans not able to question the Democrats
during the hearings.
THESE, DERANGED and DEPLORABLE’S ALL need to be IMPEACHED , SUBPOENAED and TRIED FOR TREASON AND FRAUD. POLLOCK PELOSI , UPPEN CHUCK SCHUMER, PENCIL NECK SCHIFF and HIPPOCAMPUS NADLER need to be HUNG or SHOT for TREASON and FRAUD !!
are you tired of devilcrats traitors thieves stealing your money and slapping you in face
Ronnie, I’M with U ! This whole Travesty is a ORDINARY Observed in the way these DERANGED and DEPLORABLE’S ran this THREE RING CIRCUS PROCESSING. They are the ONE’S that OBSTRUCTIONED JUSTICE AND OVER STEPPED THEIR ABUSE OF POWER !!
Ron P.: Absolutely no one is going to be hanged or shot for treason so get your mind out of the slime.
It is very sad that the Democrats don’t realize all these people they bringing “the illegal immigrants and let them not follows the laws will be the ones violating the American laws. Nothing for nothing if this country didn’t have laws in place and Americans follow them, no one would love to Come stay in country. So if you not born here you have to follow the laws in place. I Like President Trump is strong and most Americans were not ready for a strong president especially the Democrats . It’s true they are taking advantage of the blacks and Central America illegal immigrants promising them the world not to follow the laws.
cant wait till we the people go to washington and citizens arrest every devilcrat congress congress man and woman put them in gitmo or take them to border traitors liars unamericans when we americans say enough is enough more than 3/4 0f marines rest wanna bes i see ? we are standing tall .
They have done nothing but cherry pick what they want to accuse him of. They are saying he wanted to have them investigate Biden to somehow meddle in the election. But in fact only he knows what he intended by that statement. I myself think he just wanted to investigate them for corruption. So everyone has an opinion… it’s not impeachable unless they can prove what they “thought he wanted to do with the outcome”. It is just speculation.
I think we the people need to flood congress with no more witch hunts and for the ones that pushed the impeachment your out of office for your lies and fake court trails to try and take down the man we the people from(Wal Mart ) put in office have had enough of you cheating ways!!!
How do we get rid of this corrupt congress?
If he was the king, he would have had her head in the basket next to the guillotine by now.
It’s amazing how much Nadler, Pelosi & the rest look like the Munsters or Adam’s Family, or some horror show characters.
Mass migration is an act of war.
Stop the invasion!
Remember 9/11.
Here’s the patrirchy:
USA has been a marxist Matriarchal fagotty feminist Jabberwocky Nanny state since at least the women’s vote, the FRB, WW1. The nazi-commie socialist elite crony-capitalist-monopoly establishment here has created the disastrous welfare state, ruined our money supply, crippled our economy, destroyed our medicine, our military & our education system. This terrorism game is just the latest in the ongoing leftist insanity, promoted by Obama & Hillary Clinton.
YouTube vids: The Red Elephants Vincent James.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE: How the Trump Hating Left Lost its Collective Mind, by Ann Coulter.
THE RED THREAD: SEARCH FOR IDEOLOGICAL DRIVERS BEHIND THE ANTI-TRUMP CONSPIRACY, by Diana West.
INVASION! by Mixhelle Malkin.
Stop the poisoning: http://www.www.westonaprice.org
James Howard: It’s obvious you know absolutely nothing. You give imbeciles a bad name.
That’s the way this whole sham has been handled. I’m just waiting on the next civil war to start and it’ll be the fault of the democrat whackos.
It’s amazing how much Nadler, Pelosi & the rest look like the Munsters or Adam’s Family, or some horror show characters.
Mass migration is an act of war.
Stop the invasion!
Remember 9/11.
Here’s the patrirchy:
USA has been a marxist Matriarchal fagotty feminist Jabberwocky Nanny state since at least the women’s vote, the FRB, WW1. The nazi-commie socialist elite crony-capitalist-monopoly establishment here has created the disastrous welfare state, ruined our money supply, crippled our economy, destroyed our medicine, our military & our education system. This terrorism game is just the latest in the ongoing leftist insanity, promoted by Obama & Hillary Clinton.
YouTube vids: The Red Elephants Vincent James.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE: How the Trump Hating Left Lost its Collective Mind, by Ann Coulter.
THE RED THREAD: SEARCH FOR IDEOLOGICAL DRIVERS BEHIND THE ANTI-TRUMP CONSPIRACY, by Diana West.
INVASION! by Mixhelle Malkin.
Stop the starvation & poisoning: http://www.www.westonaprice.org
Their hatred of President Donald Trump is the most important detail of this absurd impeachment charge and they think that is enough without any evidence that warrants it. They hate that he is bringing the economy to the greatest point in recent history, trying to stop illegals ( their voters) from just coming into our country committing crimes including murders and the liberal Democrats turn them loose to kill again. Trump has changed the way our country has been taken advantage of with trade deals, so that we the people are getting the best deals and not letting all these countries push us to accept the absurd deals. Maybe it’s because of the favors and corruption on the part of the Swamp they have gotten in the past ! This is all leading to the point of that we need TERM LIMITS so that these liberal democrats pushing impeachment don’t think they have superior power to do what they want and screw our people and country for their benefit. Stay strong Mr. President ( my president) and continue to bring our country back to the greatness we have had in the past ! And thank YOU and your family, especially the First Lady, for enduring the absurd treatment that all of you have endured and don’t deserve !!
WELL THE WAY THE DEMOCRAT OUR GOING HE THE ONLY ONE IN POWER WITH THE OTHER REPUBLICANS !
This impeachment is a waste of time. Get back to work. Democratic Party are going to loose a lot of support if they keep doing what they are doing.
THESE DEMS WILL USE ANY MEANS TO TRY AND DEFEAT TRUMP FOR 2020——– THIS HAS BEEN THEIR GOAL. SINCE BEFORE THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION. THERE IS AN ARTICLE THAT I JUST READ THIS MORNING ABOUT THAT NOTE ON MUELLER. THIS HAS ALL BEEN PLANNED OUT ——-THEY ARE DIRTY AS ALL GET OUT. AND THEY DON’T CARE WHAT WE THINK AT ALL. THAT ATTITUDE IS COMMUNIST THINKING.!!!
This article needed to have included the videos in question. As presented by the democrats and the actual footage.
What will they do next?, they are trying to destroy our Country this needs to stop now.
This whole process is a sham, as I see it. President Trump has done so much for our Country in the 3 years he has led us. And, my only hope is that people in this Country see his past accomplishments and vote him into office again in November 2020.
My grandmother had a saying to warn s of our actions “be very careful of what you wish for as it might actually bite you in the butt & not be anyrhing like you thought you where getting ” Well the Dems might want to heed this warning about the constant hatred for our president. We truly are on the verge of a civil war as the true American patriotic has,had enough. Look at the gun sales on Black Friday. The Democratic party might just be demolished.
I am so sick of the Democrats their legacy just over the last 4 years will be zero focus on our country and all about their political agenda. The president had had to sign many executive orders because they are “ The Do Nothing Democrats!!!!!” Nancy Polosi got pissed when she was asked if she hated The President…. if you are a student of human behavior and psychology you will notice her body language facial expressions say tone of her voice says it all. Their whole focus since 2016 has been to get Trump out if office. How about focusing on the issues they were elected to do and that is work on plans to help fix some big issues in this country. This is proof the swamp is truly untrainable!!!! The swamp monsters are there to stay….I wish they would move on. This is Clinton impeachment all over. They are making the same mistake the republicans made during Clinton’s impeachment. Can you just do something besides just hate Trump.
Pelosi and all of the corrupt Democrats should be immediately removed from our government. The citizens of this country do not need nor do they deserve the evil, corrupt, lying trash that have manipulated their way into our system and became wealthy at the tax payers expense. They need to be arrested and brought to justice !!!
I really wish everyone would do some research . The President is a king of America we just call it president because we are uncomfortable with the title king and what that might imply. Kingdoms are business I am sure England calls theirs the Firm …
We need to grow up and stop fighting over words. right Now is a great time to speak with the queen about the title as her son is in knee deep And not forgotten
She surely will want to save face .
The World is watching
all these corrupt politicians should be held in contempt of the office they were elected. Why isn’t that happening?
Another fake Russian propaganda conspiracy. You people are playing right into the Russians hands how stupid are you people
The democrats couldn’t care less about the constitution. Their plan is to do away with it. They are mad because Trump is following the law and trying to get it enforced.
Democrats lying again? OMG SAY IT ISN’T SO!!! Then, of course, the lying “Real News” sewage-stream Media pick it up and play it OVER and OVER and OVER again, as often and publicly as possible, even though they know better themselves. Our once-respected elections have been seriously endangered since Trump took his rightful position; I can only hope that there are equally serious repercussions to the socialist lying Traitors who participate in this whole hateful Kangaroo-court sham process.
What a phony setup by some of the most dishonest humans I’ve observed. I retired from the LAPD with 32 years of service. I worked Patrol, Accident Investigation, Street Gangs (CRASH), Homicide, and Narcotics as both a Detective and Detective Supervisor. No one could possibly come across more desperate liars or lowlife humans than I did.
There was always common characteristics among them all. They all truly believed that the USA owed them everything from clothes, cars, homes, food, free medical, etc. and a monthly check, but without “strings” attached. To me, it is the modern Socialist Democrat Party of today.
People in today’s Socialist Democrat Party deserve nothing but the back of my hand.
democrat loonz have destroyed their party…..!
Hopefully, after the 2020 election, people will be asking ” WHAT WAS A DEMOCRAT? ” The democrats have proven themselves to be PATHOLOGICAL LIARS! May they rot in hell for what they have done to this country.
OMFG i am getting so tired of listening to all of these Scumbag Nazi Democratic Lying ass licks it’s not funny, y’all lost the Presidency Election get the hell over it. What sore losers that they have to try and impeach the greatest President our country has ever had and will have with their never ending lies. When will they grow the hell up and stop wasting our tax money on stupid shit, where is SHIFTY SCHIFF ???? Maybe he is to busy sucking NAZI NANCYS OLD UGLY ASS SAGGY TITTIES while they try to come up with more lies. If you ask me I truly believe that SHIFTY SCHIFF & NAZI NANCY & SLEEPY JOE are all a bunch of NAZI SCUMBAG TRAITORS, yes i said it ( NAZI TRAITORS ) if you go against our President then you are going against our country so that in my eye’s makes them ( NAZI TRAITORS ) they should be hung till their blue ☠️☠️☠️ For treason. POS SCUMBAG NAZI TRAITORS.
slowly but surely the misdeeds and criminal intent of the dems are and will continue to come out. What do you think they will do to the average American man or woman. If I were you I would think long and hard on this subject
The Demonrats are scared they are going to find out all of the crimes they themselves have committed. And they think the American people are stupid and will believe their nonsense in order to divide the votes. But guess what? Americans who are smart won’t believe their nonsense. The Dems want to take away our religious freedom, our hard earned money thru taxes, our freedom of speech and our right to have guns all in the constitution. They don’t teach world history or correct US History if any. An intelligent professor once saidnif people don’t learn these histories, history will repeat itself.
Someone who refuses to turn over any documents and tells everyone not to testify and Stone wall every chance he gets is the one who is destroying the constitution and democracy this is America and we want to pick our own elected politicians we don’t want communists doing it. If you want to be ruled by a dictator move to Russia and take Putin’s buddy with you
Tuesday, November 3, 2020 : Go to the polls and MURDER THEIR DREAMS !
Make Democrats Cry Again.
I can’t understand how everything Trump says is always misinterpreted by the Democrats. Are they just stupid, or do they want to put out the talking points to get Americans thinking badly about Trump’s actions as being criminal when they are far from these lies. They all need to be replaced in the House.
Nadler is as useless as Schiff for brains.
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