Impeachable Don (and HK)

Cue up another article of impeachment!

A key House Democrat said he’s consulting lawyers about whether to make public a complaint by a federal employee about possible misconduct in the Internal Revenue Service’s auditing of President Donald Trump.

The complaint raises allegations about “inappropriate efforts to influence” the audit process, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal said in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in August. Neal told reporters on Friday that a decision on releasing the complaint depends on advice he receives from lawyers for the House of Representatives.

This is early, but if Mnuchin pressured the IRS to take it easy on Trump, that's a clear abuse of power. Then comes the question whether Mnuchin did it on his own or if he was told to by Trump.

Either way, ordering the IRS to go easy on the president is corrupt as fuck.

Meanwhile, China has significantly reinforced its garrison in Hong Kong:

Last month, Beijing moved thousands of troops across the border into this restive city. They came in on trucks and armored cars, by bus and by ship.

The state news agency Xinhua described the operation as a routine “rotation” of the low-key force China has kept in Hong Kong since the city’s handover from Britain in 1997. No mention was made of the anti-government protests that have been shaking the metropolis since June.
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A month on, Asian and Western envoys in Hong Kong say they are certain the late-August deployment was not a rotation at all, but a reinforcement. Seven envoys who spoke to Reuters said they didn’t detect any significant number of existing forces in Hong Kong returning to the mainland in the days before or after the announcement.

A significant element of the reinforcements are not army troops, but internal security forces, the People's Armed Police. As the article explains, the PAP was greatly expanded when the Chinese government learned that using tanks and automatic weapons to suppress a demonstration didn't play well overseas.