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Trump adviser Roger Stone warns any politician who votes to impeach would 'endanger their own life'

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  1. AroundTheWorld

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    One of Donald Trump's closest advisers has warned a bloody civil war would erupt if the US President was impeached.

    Roger Stone predicted "an insurrection like you've never seen" if politicians sought to remove the US leader from the White House and claimed any politician who voted to topple him "would be endangering their own life".

    Talk of impeachment has endured throughout Mr Trump's presidency amid allegations of collusion between Russia and the billionaire Republican's election campaign.

    But Mr Stone, a long-time Trump confidant and former official in Richard Nixon's administration, suggested impeachment proceedings would lead to an armed uprising among the President's supporters.

    "The people will not stand for impeachment. A politician that votes for it would be endangering their own life."



    Asked if he believed there would be "some sort of civil war" if the President was impeached, he replied: "Yes, that's what I think will happen.

    "Both sides are heavily armed... There would be violence on both sides."

    The Republican strategist and self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" claimed he was "not advocating violence" but "predicting it".

    Mr Stone, who was an adviser to Mr Trump's presidential campaign and is thought to still speak to him regularly, said: "The people who are calling for impeachment are the people who didn't vote for him. They need to get over it, they lost."

    He added: "Sorry, he whipped Hillary Clinton's ass. It's over, you lost."

    A former US labour secretary this week became the latest high-profile Trump critic to call for his impeachment.

    Robert Reich said the President was a "clear and present danger to America" and must be removed from office.

    Democrat Representative Steve Cohen last week said he intended to introduce articles of impeachment against Mr Trump over his response to white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adviser-roger-stone-warns-091246640.html
     
  2. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"
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    Idiots. You can't unring a bell.

    These people around Two Scoops fear no consequences and they literally do not care about the majority of our country. Horrible times.
     
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  3. No Worries

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    The 37% who approve of the job that Trump is doing will rise against the 63% who do not.

    Good times.
     
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  4. pirc1

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    Good to know the Trump supporters like Democracy.
     
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  5. FranchiseBlade

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    It's hard to have sensible replies to the idiocy coming from the Trump crowd. Roger Stone is a moron.
     
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  6. A_3PO

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    Impeaching Trump makes him a martyr and will inflame the passion of his remaining supporters.

    Perhaps the threat of impeachment, the miserable failures of his presidency and his lack of suitable temperament for the job will cause him to resign.

    Another possibility is he realizes what would erupt if Republicans proceeded with impeachment and he dares them to do it, knowing they wouldn't have the courage.

    Trump is a messy animal and the end of his presidency might create even worse chaos. What a depressing thought.:(

    Right now, because each and every day with Trump is dangerous, my view is please bring on President Pence asap.
     
  7. pirc1

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    I say convict a few of his advisers and then let him ride out his term, should be fun in 2020.
     
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  8. Invisible Fan

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    Well it's the libtards fault for their bonfires, safe spaces and violent words.

    Better than Hillary!
     
  9. conquistador#11

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    they all sound the same, all sides.


    You guys know who had an opposition problem?
    General Tepes and his beautiful dark hair.
    And you know what he did to resolve his problem?
    He took 2 million of his enemies, laid them on their bellies and inserted a stake through their rectum. As the agony and screams grew, the stake penetrated deeper tearing organs and flesh until it slid upward through the mouth, a slow but beautiful death.

    Ok, Best regards.
     
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  10. val_modus

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    We have a president who needs safe spaces from the media, white house correspondence dinner, data, the intelligence apparatus of the USA, and tanning beds.
     
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    The man was elected and he is so vile to those on the left that they will do anything to get rid of him.
    First it was election rigging, then it was Russia, now impeach him based on that he didn't condemn
    some nazi nutjobs hard enough?

    You people have seriously lost it.

    The man was democratically elected to serve as President. Let him enact the policies he was voted in for
    and if the people that voted for him don't like it then they'll make another choice.

    You throw the guy out of office out of discombobulated frustration and you'll severely damage our
    country forever.
     
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    Media conspiracy.
     
  13. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Was Trump saying there was violence on many sides a high crime, or a misdemeanor?
     
  14. B-Bob

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    1. Russia investigation ongoing, driven by bipartisan effort and concern. Ain't over and ain't a liberal thing.

    2. Honest question: you think Trump isn't damaging the country right now? A lot of people in your party do, from Cruz to McCain.
     
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  15. Amiga

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    So he's predicting assassination of Congress members with impeachment of Trump. I guess he know Trump and Trump most crazy supporters, including himself, better than most.
     
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    Why would anyone just sit back and say "He was elected so he can enact WHATEVER HE WANTS"? He's the president, not a dictator.

    Sorry but you are about to get a bit of a rant from me here.... I just don't think you understand the majority of liberals if you believe our relationship and thinking around how to deal with Trump is what you perceive it is.

    First- We believe his policies are bad from from a society standpoint (with intangible areas of concern such as racial tensions) and our country's progression for the middle class. Policy Example: Trump's very first move as President was to make FHA home loans at least 500 bucks a year more expensive all so his Goldman Sachs buddies can make a little more money on Mortgage Backed Securities. Why would anyone that's not a Goldman Sachs millionaire think these policies are good for the country? It did absolutely nothing but make life a little harder for low or middle income home buyers.

    Then it was healthcare policy which was nothing more than a taxcut for the wealthiest Americans disguised as a healthcare plan.

    Then its his method to keep power in 2018 and get re-elected in 2020 through his voter suppression efforts with Kobach (whose state threw out 10X more voters off of the roles than most states). Because he knows he can only win through voter suppression. His message isn't accepted outside of his 34% base.

    The list goes on and on and on.

    Painting this picture that Liberals are just mad about the election and throwing a temper tantrum is insulting. Most of the people I know feel very strongly about his policies and feel they are bad for the country, but they don't want to impeach him because of bad policy, they want to STOP the bad policies. Now impeaching Trump is a totally different subject. If he is a proven traitor by colluding with Russia to get elected he has to pay that price either by getting removed or being damaged politically by this. Nobody, elected or not, should be able to get away with treasonous activity in the White House. What would you do if Obama would have colluded with Iran to help get re-elected in 2012, and actively made arrangements to throw white rural voters off roles in NC, Penn, and Ohio? Because that's the POTENTIAL reality with Trump. We know for a fact that he's trying to do so with the upcoming elections right in our faces, and we have pretty good circumstantial evidence (hello Don Jr. Email) that he was at least very interested in selling out our country to an enemy to help himself win in 2016.

    Yes... impeaching and removing Trump would be painful for the country, and it would drive a wedge further because so many people are cultishly head over heals for Trump and could do stupid crap if he is thrown out of office. It would be embarrassing sure. However... if its better for the country to move forward with Mike Pence for a couple years than that's a decision Congress has to make. And NOBODY is above the law. If Congress allows him to stay in office after he committed high crimes what does that say about the rule of law in America?

    So with all due respect, I don't think you understand a damn thing about what Liberals care about here. You are only pretending to know by thinking criticizing Trumps policies = the same thing as throwing him out of office and causing a crisis just because we don't like his policies. If you polled Liberals here and asked them what their best case scenario would be for the next 3 years it sure as hell wouldn't be just simply throwing him out of office now. Actually that SHOULD BE what Conservatives want because Mike Pence would be far more successful at passing conservative agenda for the next two years. I guarantee you it would be, FAIRLY winning in 2018 in order to bring balance to our government, having a democratic congress help stabilize areas of the government such as the insurance markets, and winning fairly against Trump in 2020.

    From a Liberal policy perspective, it actually would be worse for liberals to throw Trump out of office. But unlike Trump fans in 2017, we actually care about what is best for the country, and if its best for the country that Trump gets impeached and thrown out of office so be it.... even though it would mean Pence takes over and actually has more success implementing policy that liberals don't want to see enacted that Trump could not get accomplished because he's so terrible at governing.
     
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    This is likely the best outcome for the Democrats.

    Neuter Trump and prepare for 2020. Let him ruin his own party further.
     
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    To those who say don't impeach Trump because the Democrats will be helped more by not doing it, or that it will make him a martyr...

    Both of those are probably true. However, he shouldn't be impeached because of political reasons. He should be impeached if he broke the law and committed bribery, treason or other high crimes and/or misdemeanors.

    If he has done those things, he should be impeached whether or not it makes him a martyr or ends up giving less help to the Democrats. If the guy deserves to be impeached, it should be because of what he did, and not weighed against how much a political party will be helped or hurt by his removing the guy.

    And to @Rocketman1981 ... no liberals believe he should be impeached because of his awful response to the terrorist attack in Virginia. You seem to be misunderstanding some things. Those two issues are being talked about at the same time, but they aren't really related. We know that Russia did try to interfere and rig our election.

    Trump's campaign is still being investigated as to their role in the affair. We know for a fact that Trump's campaign did, in fact, collude with Russians in order to try and get Hillary's e-mails. We don't know for sure about the connection between those Russians and the Kremlin, or if Trump knew about those meetings. There are probably tons of things we don't know about the investigation into Trump. If Trump did something constituting bribery, treason, or high crimes and misdemeanors, then he should be impeached. If he did not do that, then he shouldn't be impeached.
     
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  19. Coach AI

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    Trump is a remarkably shitty human being, but it's almost more remarkable how much utter trash he collects and gathers in friends and supporters in his orbit. It is a dumpster fire with endless fuel to burn.
     
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    this is the liberals fault for electing a black man president and then nominating a old woman to be president. Had the Dems stuck with white men, Trump wouldn't have been elected. Isthatright Bobby?
     

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