Goodness, “Prof Pamela S Karlan” is not helping the dems case. She is angry, self-important, emotionally fragile and arrogant, unable to believe in anything but her own righteousness and talks down to and attacks those that dare have a contrary opinion. I’d hate to think of how many students she has brow-beat and insulted. She is hardly an example of a thoughtful academic.
These dem lawyers are ignorant.
Look, for Security Assistance (Foreign Military Sales), the president has an obligation to continually verify the recipient country is not corrupted, and Trump was hearing from all (never-Trumper’s, dems and “everyone” else) that Ukraine was corrupt, therefore, he had a legal obligation to suspend the program to compel the country to improve, but before that, he called the new president of Ukraine to explain what was at risk.
Acting on credible information, the president could halt Security Assistance programs to Ukraine. If he did that, he could only re-start the program when he verified that Ukraine is making good faith efforts to improve.
Again, until that happened, the president could suspend funding/deliveries. Consequently, our president’s call to the new president of Ukraine was fair warning about how close Ukraine is to losing Security Assistance programs and to receive assurances from the new Ukrainian president that he was actually working to clean up the Ukraine, that cleaning up corruption was not just a campaign slogan.
Indeed, when funds are allocated for a Security Assistance program, the president must submit to congress a statement assuring the funds will not be misapplied and the country is not fundamentally corrupt. Our president couldn’t make that assurance until he actually called the new Ukrainian president and let him know what was at risk.
I worked Security Assistance and corruption is a real thing in most of those countries. Security Assistance was my world for years. The ignorance of the dems when it comes to Security Assistance is astounding, they have NO CLUE about Security Assistance.
****Oh, and it is amusing to see Rep Hank Johnson on this committee, when he is demonstrably the most ignorant of the ignorant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q This was not a slip of the tongue, it was his “thoughtful” question. Watch and be amazed and amused.
a disciple and contributor to warren she should have recused.
One of the many comments on the Guam capsizing video:
“I lived on Guam for half my life. We had typhoons with 200+ mph winds and 40 foot waves and the island only capsized once. But we all hung on to the east side and flipped it back around quickly so we were all okay. Thank you Congressman for caring.”
The Republicans could use your help to explain Security Assistance programs.