Is This What That Mysterious Whistleblower Complaint Involving Trump And A Foreign Leader Is About?

Hotair ^ | 09/20/2019 | AllahPundit

[dhs12345]

I’d like to see the conversations and then promises made to the Mullahs in Iran by Kerry and Obama.

Maybe the “pallet o’ cash” was just an installment with Hillary promising to follow up with more of pallets and cash.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I wonder if Trump is behind these rumors going nowhere...

[Regulator]

What’s it about?

More desperate attempts by the Rats to smear Trump any way they can.

That’s all.

[Raycpa]

This could be serous.

[Missouri gal]

I don’t think urging a foreign leader to enforce their nation’s own laws could be stretched into “extortion,” much less any sort of misdemeanor. But Jerry Nadler would think otherwise.

[hardspunned]

This steaming pile of horse crap article makes it pretty clear where the rats are going with this. The potential seriousness of these possibilities, if true, requires a new special counsel.

[conservative98]

Worst article ever.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: This could be serous.

Only if there’s a tape. If not, it’s the Whistleblower’s word vs. Trump and in America, a man is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

[Not A Snowbird]

Was the president using his lawyer to muscle a foreign power in order to generate dirt on his most likely 2020 opponent?

He doesn't have to. Biden is on tape threatening/bribing a foreign power to help his son.

[Pearls Before Swine]

It’s all just speculation. But if it turns out that Trump tried to extort a foreign leader into damaging his 2020 opponent and used taxpayer money to do it, yeah, he’s going to be impeached

Because, that's so much worse than Biden telling the Ukrainians that if they didn't fire the prosecutor who was looking into his son's deal with Burisma by the time he got on the plane hoe, he'd hold up a billion dollars. And bragging about it, too.

[txrefugee]

The Dems are scared to death that Slow Joe’s corrupt family will be outed for their sleazy deals in Ukraine and China. If His candidacy sinks, they are stuck with Bernie or Pocahontas,both Socialists, as their nominee for 2020. They will lose to Pres.Trump big league!

[DoodleDawg]

But there’s a deeper, and frightening, question of whether Congress is entitled to the complaint under the Constitution even if the courts decide that the IG is right about what the statute says. Read this short but interesting Twitter thread from lawyer Jack Goldsmith who argues … no, Congress shouldn’t be entitled to know what the president is saying to foreign leaders even if he’s abusing his foreign-policy power. “Putting it brutally,” he writes, “Article II gives the president the authority to do, and say, and pledge, awful things in the secret conduct of U.S. foreign policy. That is a very dangerous discretion, to be sure, but has long been thought worth it on balance.”

But the President also pledges to up hold the law and the law says that whistleblower information must be given to Congress. Regardless, this is headed for the courts and we'll see what they come up with.

[Alberta's Child]

Congress has ultimate oversight over “foreign policy” in this respect, to the extent that it controls the purse strings.

How does President Trump have the authority to give Ukraine $250 million unless Congress first gave it to him?

[Wayne07]

“Only if there’s a tape. “

Didn’t Giuliani go on TV last night and admit it? If there wasn’t tape (and there is probably tape), Giuliani made new tape. Rudy is way past prime and needs to go away before he does more damage.

[slumber1]

This is it. Trump’s Waterloo. They’ve got him this time. He’s finally going down!

[DouglasKC]

It’s just more fake news.

[RayChuang88]

I wonder if Trump is behind these rumors going nowhere...

More tactics out of Sun Tzu, von Clausewitz and Alinsky (he's well-read on all three!) to drive the Left bat guano crazy, as I used to say. :-)

[Fishtalk]

Thank you!

I heard Biden bragging in my own ears to a reporter how he had Ukraine remove that investigating prosecutor and ole Joe laughed and laughed.

Trump has a winner on this one.

[jospehm20]

Sounds to me like the POTUS was engaged in good governance.