Posted on 09/21/2019 4:49:33 AM PDT by mplc51
Former Vice President Joe Biden called for President Trump to release a transcript of his July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, amid reports that Ukraine is at the center of a whistleblower's complaint over Trump's contacts with a foreign leader.
"If these reports are true, then ... It means that he [Trump] used the power and resources of the United States to pressure a sovereign nationa partner that is still under direct assault from Russiapushing Ukraine to subvert the rule of law in the express hope of extracting a political favor." Biden's statement on Friday Catch up quick: Three House committees Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Oversight and Reform are investigating whether Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, "were misappropriating the American foreign policy apparatus for political gain," the New York Times reports.
These investigations are in response to reports that the Trump administration "delayed a package of military assistance to the new government in Ukraine," as reported by the NYT. The committees say they will investigate whether that lack of military aid is part of an alleged effort by Trump "to coerce the Ukrainian government into pursuing politically-motivated investigations, including of former Vice President Joe Biden and his family." What else Biden is saying:
"Such clear-cut corruption damages and diminishes our institutions of government by making them tools of a personal political vendetta. At minimum, Donald Trump should immediately release the transcript of the call in question, so that the American people can judge for themselves, and direct the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to stop stonewalling and release the whistleblower notification to the Congress."
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A lot depends on what country you are talking about, I guess.
Nice try Plugs.
Trump is way out in front with this if anything materializes.
Well know soon if the Dims proceed or drop it.
That will give us the answer.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, want to stay as far away as possible from the Joe Biden demand that the Ukrainian Government fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son, or they wont get a very large amount of U.S. money, so they fabricate a.....
8:31 AM · Sep 21, 2019
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
....story about me and a perfectly fine and routine conversation I had with the new President of the Ukraine. Nothing was said that was in any way wrong, but Bidens demand, on the other hand, was a complete and total disaster. The Fake News knows this but doesnt want to report!
8:31 AM · Sep 21, 2019
“Donald Trump, release the transcript of you and the president of Ukraine talking about my criminal activities!”
You don’t get much more idiotic than that...
DidntJoe use the power and resources of the government to pressure Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who was investigating his son?
“The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, want to stay as far away as possible from the Joe Biden demand that the Ukrainian Government fire a prosecutor who was investigating his son, or they wont get a very large amount of U.S. money, so they fabricate a.........story about me and a perfectly fine and routine conversation I had with the new President of the Ukraine. Nothing was said that was in any way wrong, but Bidens demand, on the other hand, was a complete and total disaster. The Fake News knows this but doesnt want to report!”
Trump tweet from 18 minutes ago.
Biden ? Really ? President Trump , go for his throat.
Biden may be in the Presidential race to protect himself and his son.
25th Amendment Joe is in the race but forgets why he is in the race.
Trump needs to tweet the video of Biden admitting to threatening the Ukrainians.
Laws were broken by corrupt Joe Biden who used the US government to take pressure off his son in the Ukraine. President Trump is the chief law enforcement officer of the nation and can proceed to gather facts.
Frankly this is precisely what Comey did with a phony crime and fabricated evidence overseas.
Oh wow. So Rudy was requested by state dept to talk with Ukraine. And this was before Trumps phone call.
That idiot was bragging about it.
This is going to lay that wide open
So long, Joe
The media has moved from the gay mayor turned evangelist, from the bitchy and once seductive prosecutor, from the crazed septuagenarian socialist, from the failing ex-vice president to Pocahontas. If they can undermine Trump at the cost of Biden, they will see it as a twofer.
So the media will have to cover the stories of Biden's son in Ukraine and China. But to bring down Trump on this they will have to get around the problem that the military aid was actually given to Ukraine only days after this conversation. In the end the media will have to somehow convince the American people that it is good and proper for the Obama administration to investigate Trump in Russia but not for the Trump administration to investigate Obama's vice president in Ukraine.
What theory will they use? It depends on what country you're in?
Thinking that, regardless of whether or not those districts actually existed, they were Democrat districts
Probably the same districts where all those phantom Democrat voters come from each election so I guess it all works out in the end
Is it possible that President Trump is setting them up (again)?
The story of Joe Biden’s son has been more or less covered up. This anonymous whistle blower makes it sound like President Trump did something.
So the media and the Democrat Clown patrol jump in with both feet. Timing is everything so the talking heads have all weekend to imagine (with delight) that finally, at last, they have something to impeach the President.
Like Lucy, Charley Brown and the football...at the last second it is pulled away, and poor Charley Brown finds himself laying on his back wondering what happened.
Joe Biden just began the process that will put a timely end to his pathetic campaign. The mainstream media will now no longer be able to cover for Biden by ignoring the story, even if they want to-and they don’t.
There is no story here without cooperation from the Ukrainians. This corruption will be stonewalled by the Uniparty and media like every other Obama admin bit of criminality.
Clearly, Joe is out.
I guess it will be Warren unless MOCHIE enters..or god forbid Oprah
Up on the president’s twitter feed now.
"Thanks Hunter---my bank statement just came in. And Michelle loved the Chinese diamond."
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