Posted on 12/30/2019 3:08:59 PM PST by Maceman
. . . That possibility is underscored by the Times report, a chronology of Trump’s decision to withhold aid to a vulnerable ally under assault while he and his henchmen extorted Ukraine into carrying out his corrupt designs.
The report demonstrates in striking detail that inside the administration, the consternation over the legality and propriety of the aid freeze — and confusion over Trump’s true motives — ran much deeper than previously known, implicating top Cabinet officials more deeply than we thought.
Among the story’s key points:
As early as June, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney worked to execute the freeze for Trump, and a top aide to Mulvaney — Robert Blair — worried it would fuel the narrative that Trump was tacitly aiding Russia. Internal opposition was more forceful than previously known. The Pentagon pushed for the money for months.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and then-national security adviser John Bolton privately urged Trump to understand that freezing the aid was not in our national interest.
Trump was unmoved, citing Ukraine’s “corruption.” We now know Trump actually wanted Ukraine to announce sham investigations absolving Russia of 2016 electoral sabotage and smearing potential 2020 opponent Joe Biden.
The Times report reveals that top Trump officials did not think that ostensibly combating Ukrainian “corruption” (which wasn’t even Trump’s real aim) was in our interests.
Lawyers at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) worked to develop a far-fetched legal argument that Trump could exercise commander-in-chief authority to override Congress’ appropriation of the aid, to get around the law precluding Trump from freezing it.
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11 months. 11 months and then the American People give the lefties in Congress their walking papers.
Does the Washington Poo have any updates on Hunter Biden or Paul Pelosi?
We continue to be presented with the same details, over and over and over. The Dems are making it easier and more likely for the general public to just tune the entire mess out. It seems to be wasteful contemplation.
The author can read minds. That could come in handy when playing cards or negotiating. We should hire him to negotiate with China assuming he can read Chinese minds.
I had to convince the world, they needed to know the motives of this man. He would not stop at just America. The world was waking up. Darkness was being rolled back. So I thought and reached out to my kindred sources. I made an article to be read by the world which would show just how destructive it would be if he continued for another 4 years. So I made up a bunch of crap.
I guess they never read "Chicken Little" and "The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf.'"
I don’t watch the television, but my wife does...my exposure to it is seeing it as I walk from one room to the other.
The other day I walked through as they were breathlessly saying “Explosive new revelations about Donald Trump...”
And it was simply more BS that is already known to be BS. Yeah, you folks in the media think that people view the Media as being lower than whale s**t because we just aren’t smart enough to accept what they say, hook, line, and sinker.
The Unwashed Compost writers clearly didn’t read the phone call transcript.
Greg Sargent is a butt-boy for the DNC.
Ruh Roh! BOMBSHELL! BREAKING! No offense Maceman since you didn’t write the piece.
This latest sham article is precisely a desperate attempt to distract from the Bidet / Pelousy Offspring Scandal-Swarm.
Does anyone read the Washington Post anymore?
Like an AMC/Rambler Javelin?
Denial…check
Anger…check
We are now at Bargaining.
Hopefully we can get through Depression in the next year so that there will be blissful Acceptance of four more years of a Trump.
Innuendos based on innuendos based on innuendos compounded by made up mischaracterizations of intentions.
Yawn and the investigation against the traitors proceeds!
Trump provided the aid PRIOR to the congress-mandated deadline.
Meaning more people were on the take than initially thought.
Donald Trump will (almost certainly) never be elected president. Here’s why.
By
Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
March 21, 2016 at 9:25 a.m. EDT
I read this nonsense, what is the so called bombshell..I read nothing new..same BS that we heard months ago..the freakin transcript tells everyone there was NOTHING done wrong here
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