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Schumer: Newly revealed emails a 'devastating blow' to McConnell's impeachment trial plans
The Hill ^ | 1/2/2020 | JORDAIN CARNEY

Posted on 01/02/2020 10:18:04 PM PST by bitt

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) seized on newly released emails surrounding President Trump's decision to delay aid to Ukraine, arguing they underscored the need for witnesses and documents as part of an impeachment trial.

“The newly-revealed unredacted emails are a devastating blow to Senator McConnell’s push to have a trial without the documents and witnesses we’ve requested," Schumer said in a statement.

"These emails further expose the serious concerns raised by Trump administration officials about the propriety and legality of the president’s decision to cut off aid to Ukraine to benefit himself," he added.

Schumer's comments come after Just Security obtained unredacted emails between the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Pentagon about the decision to delay aid to Ukraine.

In one email, Michael Duffey, the associate director of national security at the Office of Management and Budget, told the acting Pentagon comptroller that there was "clear direction from POTUS to hold,” according to Just Security.

The unredacted emails are the latest round of new details on Trump's decision to delay Ukraine aid last year. The New York Times recently reported that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Robert Blair, assistant to the president and senior adviser to Mulvaney, were aware that the delay would prompt backlash from Congress.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: bitt

How many devastating reports have we read now?

Dick, may I call you Dick? Dick, give it a rest before more people realize you’re a pu—y.


21 posted on 01/02/2020 10:53:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
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To: bitt

22 posted on 01/02/2020 10:59:03 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: bitt

Shut up Chucky. You’ve cried wolf too many times.


23 posted on 01/02/2020 11:08:52 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong ...and Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: bitt

Congress ruled that the aid to Ukraine must be delivered by 9/30. The aid was delivered on 9/11, 19 DAYS EARLY.


24 posted on 01/02/2020 11:10:25 PM PST by datura
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To: bitt

The fact Chuckie finds himself unable to keep his glasses on
his nose is far more serious than any recent “discoveries” he has made.

Would Chuck find anything more devastating?


25 posted on 01/02/2020 11:13:34 PM PST by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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To: bitt

OH BROTHER


26 posted on 01/02/2020 11:16:18 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: bitt

Whatever.

5.56mm


27 posted on 01/02/2020 11:18:48 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: 867V309
6-DE2-CCB2-A5-F8-40-BD-BF7-D-64-B0-FF97-D820

It’s so dramatic, they are passing out.



28 posted on 01/02/2020 11:20:53 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: G Larry
What LAW limits delays to 45 days?

They are obfuscating a law that says that Congress has 45 days to act "yea" or "nay" on a request the president sends them to rescind a spending authorization after they receive it.

". . . upon which the Congress completes action before the end of the first period of 45 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the date on which the President’s message is received by the Congress;" — 2 U.S. Code § 682.(3)

It’s a 45 day time limit on them, not on POTUS! it starts only AFTER POTUS decides he wants to cancel the spending and needs Congress’ permission. It’s not about any temporary hold. That’s the Dem’s current lie. They are confabulating that temporarily holding the funding is the same as permanently cancelling the funding. It’s not. . . but it must be good enough for government work.

Incidentally, an impoundment of funds, which is what a hold is, can only generate a “Resolution of Disapproval” from the House of Representatives, an act with no teeth, a "Tsk, Tsk.". The President is supposed to notify them about such impoundments, but I think when it involves Foreign Affairs, he’s Constitutionally well within his powers to ignore that.

29 posted on 01/02/2020 11:21:33 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: bitt

Schumer cannot help himself, he lies. He is a demon rat at heart, a dead soul who will take a fact and attach his spin so that his spin appears to be credible. He lies.


30 posted on 01/02/2020 11:26:02 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: AnthonySoprano


It’s so dramatic, they are passing out.

that's just niddler wondering where his **** has gone...


31 posted on 01/02/2020 11:27:54 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: MHGinTN
See the demonic twist in Schumer's statement: "These emails further expose the serious concerns raised by Trump administration officials about the propriety and legality of the president’s decision to cut off aid to Ukraine to benefit himself," he added.

I am 100% convinced there is NOTHING in the emails that is purposed to benefit 'himself'(my President). Schumer is one of the Seditionists, fabricating a false perspective in his demon rat gaggle's attempt to shred the Constitution and destroy the three divisions of our Constitutional Republic.

32 posted on 01/02/2020 11:29:37 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: bitt

[[newly-revealed]]

Keep beating the dead horse- you’ll still have ZERO Evidence that PRESIDENT Trump did anything wrong


33 posted on 01/02/2020 11:34:06 PM PST by Bob434
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To: bitt

Much ado about nothin’.


34 posted on 01/02/2020 11:35:43 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: bitt

Breaking News

Biden is on video telling us how he threatened to withhold aid to the Ukraine unless they fire a prosecute who was looking into shady dealings involving Biden’s son.

How come you have nothing to say about it Chuckie.


35 posted on 01/02/2020 11:53:36 PM PST by Revel
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To: bitt

Yawn


36 posted on 01/03/2020 12:03:35 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Revel

I’ll tell you what’s devastating about these emails. It how it’s affecting the masses of Trump voters. They are out there in fly over land and this news don’t mean sh*t to them. Missing a Trump rally, that’s devastating. Chuckles wet dreams not so much.


37 posted on 01/03/2020 12:11:35 AM PST by Equine1952 ((You can die on your feet or live down on your knees. You can not do both. Freedom Is not Free))
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To: JoSixChip

That is exactly why the Democrats want to drag this out, because they have nothing and have backed themselves into a corner. If Trump gets a real chance to defend himself, the Democrats can not stop him from showing they are lying about everything and exposing their own corruption.


38 posted on 01/03/2020 12:14:57 AM PST by Widget Jr
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To: Widget Jr

how long has the world known Clinton/DNC/Perkins Coie/FusionGPS/Steele etc faked a dossier against Trump to try to stop him becoming president. and the rest of it - FISA/spying/coup-plotting etc?

so how come we’re still hearing nothing but attacks on the President?


39 posted on 01/03/2020 12:18:24 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: bitt

Stop it already!


40 posted on 01/03/2020 1:57:42 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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