...The president's tweet was immediately met with backlash, and Harvard Law professor John Coates argued that the social media post itself is an "independent basis" for lawmakers to remove him from the White House.
"This tweet is itself an independent basis for impeachment - a sitting president threatening civil war if Congress exercises its constitutionally authorized power," Coates wrote on Twitter on Monday....
It is a known fact that Trump Tweets have ignited violence in the country including pipe bombs. I don't know what planet everyone else lives on, but, causing a person's injury and/or death is illegal even if the person is not directly involved with the actual or attempted act of violence.
There are ample examples in how teens committed suicide because of bullying. The words "I will kill you," between bitterly estranged lovers is a basis for a legal complaint that could lead to real consequences.
Perhaps it is the apathy of the US Senate that such acts of spoken violence is tolerated, but, it is wrong and Trump should have been sued for his abrasive language that places citizens in the path of danger by his followers.
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Congratulations to the US House for putting forward the opportunity for people of conscience to contribute to the body of evidence for impeachment.
By Jeff Mapes
U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland shakes hands with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a photo posted to the ambassador’s official Twitter account on July 26, 2019.
Portland businessman Gordon Sondland, (click here) now a top U.S. diplomat in Europe, indicated Monday that he will cooperate with the House impeachment inquiry.
A Sondland representative said that he will answer questions from investigators, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sondland is the owner of a Portland-based boutique hotel company, Provenance Hotels, and the U.S. ambassador to the European Union. Congressional investigators are interested in Sondland because he and another diplomat, Kurt Volker, talked to Ukrainian leaders about how to respond to pressure from Trump to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden.
The role played by the two was revealed last week in a whistleblower’s complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry into whether Trump used his official position to browbeat a foreign country into helping his re-election campaign.
The exact role played by Sondland in the Ukranian controversy has been a subject of intense speculation among political and diplomatic figures as well as those who know him from his high-profile business and political life back in the Northwest....
