{"id":13240,"date":"2019-12-18T17:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2019-12-18T18:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T02:06:59","slug":"trump-impeached-bradcast-12182019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13240","title":{"rendered":"TRUMP IMPEACHED: ‘BradCast’ 12\/18\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President of the United States has now been impeached for only the third time in our nation’s history. After 11 hours of debate on the U.S. House floor on Wednesday, a furious<\/a> Donald John Trump was impeached on Articles of ‘Abuse of Power’ and ‘Obstruction of Congress’. He also makes history as the first President to be impeached in his first term.<\/p>\n

On today’s special BradCast<\/i><\/a> coverage, we share remarks from the House floor debate, both in favor and against the Articles of Impeachment<\/a>, from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representatives James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Justin Amash (I-MI), G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), Kathy Castor (D-FL), and Clay Higgins (R-LA).<\/p>\n

We are joined, once again, for analysis on this historic day by our good friend and award-winning journalist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Digby’s Hullabaloo<\/a>. We discuss the arguments (or lack thereof) offered on the House floor on Wednesday from Democrats and Republicans. We debunk a number of the false arguments offered by Republicans in lieu of any actual defense of what the President has been accused of. And we look toward what happens next when (and if!<\/a>) the Articles are conveyed to the U.S. Senate for a trial on the removal from office of Donald J. Trump…<\/p>\n

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The President of the United States has now been impeached for only the third time in our nation’s history. After 11 hours of debate on the U.S. House floor on Wednesday, a furious Donald John Trump was impeached on Articles of ‘Abuse of Power’ and ‘Obstruction of Congress’. He also makes history as the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,89,675,1439,299,479,969,1437,178,472,320,641,1438,477,340,300,127,198,233,698],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-clay-higgins","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-election-2020","category-gk-butterfield","category-impeachment","category-james-sensenbrenner","category-joe-biden","category-justin-amash","category-kathy-castor","category-kpfk","category-nancy-pelosi","category-republicans","category-the-constitution","category-us-house","category-us-senate","category-ukraine","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}