There is another explanation . . .
Posted on 11/22/2019 12:03:05 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Analysis: Yet, as Democrats move toward a pre-Christmas vote, they still find a wall of Republican loyalists at President Donald Trump’s side.
President Donald Trump presented little in the way of defense in the opening phase of his impeachment proceedings.
He refused to give Congress documents. He ordered subordinates to defy subpoenas. And he issued blanket proclamations of his innocence, over Twitter and in exchanges with reporters, without testifying under oath on Capitol Hill.
Meanwhile, as Democrats moved one step closer to a House floor vote on impeachment that they expect to hold before Christmas, a string of current and former administration officials collectively described for the House Intelligence Committee over the last two weeks how the president directed a concerted effort to aid his own re-election efforts at the expense of U.S. national security interests.
Specifically, they said he deployed several Cabinet officials, White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on a mission to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to announce probes of former Vice President Joe Biden and a discredited theory that his own country framed Russia for interfering in the 2016 election, withholding $391 million in taxpayer dollars and a White House meeting to aid that effort.
"The question for impeachment is abuse of power," said Kim Wehle, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law who worked on independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation of President Bill Clinton.
"There is no Trump narrative laying out a legitimate public policy rationale for how the president, through Giuliani, treated Ukraine — by refusing a meeting and withholding aid needed to fight Russia — other than entrenching his own power."
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You lost Clown show. Better deal with it before the beat down gets worse
Yeah. A big ol’ pile of SCH.....aving Cream/Be nice and clean/Shave every day/And you’ll always look keen.
Oh, you still don’t know what it was like actually. Pravda contained far less propaganda than today’s American mainstream media. Even a man as prescient as Orwell missed the level of corruption and falsehood that exemplifies the entirety of the American mainstream media.
President Donald Trump presented little in the way of defense in the opening phase of his impeachment proceedings.Oh that's rich.
What a disgusting bunch of low lifes.
I hope they rot in hell for what they're doing.
Please show me in Article 2 Section 4 of the Constitution where the words “abuse of power” appear. There is no impeachable crime in any of the charges that the House is putting in the articles.
There is no Great Pumpkin, Linus.
NBC lying again.
See another person they lied about here:
Judge Rules Nicholas Sandmann’s $275 Million Lawsuit Against NBC for Smearing Him Can Move Forward
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Yup, that's what they said after a decade of sexual harassment sensitivity training that preached the disparity in position at work makes consent impossible. How can a lowly White House intern refuse the President of the United States? Guess we were wrong because Democrat is an excuse for everything
It's seemed like James Carville was a guest on every other channel defending Bill, attacking "crazy" Ken Starr, attacking Republicans. He was claiming they were trying to overturn the results of two elections when the worst case Dems would still have the White House it just meant Al Gore would've been POTUS!
As I remember, he used pal Vernon Jordan to get her a nice gig after the internship. He wore the tie she gifted him on the day she testified but somehow that was coincidence and not witness tampering.
He was on video lying under oath and, consequently lost his law license and was rebuked by his alma mater but somehow that was "OK" for a POTUS because it was about a "personal matter" that no one should've been looking into. Except #metoo! Their inconsistency and willingness to change the rules based on the "who" and partisan interest is why I can't align myself with Democrats.
Lindsay Graham has made the point that Senate Republicans knew Trump didn't want to give aid to Ukraine or anybody. It's not like that was a campaign issue or anything! /s
Given how Trump's been resistant to foreign aid consistently, it makes no sense to Graham that Trump would put conditions on aid because if Ukraine delivered he's be stuck with the commitment to give aid!
Yes, after that particular vote, they might as well punch out on their political time clocks.
Fixed.
Another thing about the Clinton impeachment. They always distracted the sheeple by saying it was just a consensual relationship with Monica Blewinsky. The truth of the matter is that it was all started due to Paula Jones who most certainly didn’t consent. They never mention that Hillary had to write her a check for eight hundred thousand dollars.
Constant propaganda has made most of America very ignorant.
The cast of characters is much the same.
Senator Lindsey Graham explained to Hannity that it was the Pentagon that resisted the aid because of concerns that it would be pocketed by criminals associated with the Ukraine government. There needed to be assurances that the new government under Volodymyr Zelensky would put the aid where it was meant to go--to fight Russia. Thus, the phone call by Trump. Any other way would have meant deceptions by those in on the corruption.
And he was sitting in the chairman’s seat.
On a more serious note, I’ve noticed several of those who favor impeachment using the argument “But Trump said nothing in his defense”(to paraphrase) as proof of his guilt. That is not how it works.
Innocence is a given. We have seen this shifting of burden of proof before. Many forgot that Mueller was not required to exonerate the President in order for innocence to be established.
There is another explanation . . .
Then why is NBC not pushing the democrats for an impeachment vote?
The President's allies were prevented from presenting a strong defense thanks to the Soviet-style rules put in place.
Does the writer know this? Or is all part of the Democriminal narrative?
all part of the Democriminal narrative
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