Posted on 01/01/2020 8:54:17 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN)Last week, we got a small but tantalizing glimpse of the explosive cache of documents that the White House has tried to keep hidden from public view. They detailed the Trump administration's withholding of foreign aid to compel Ukraine to investigate one of the President's political rivals. It was a stark reminder that the administration is keeping vital information away from Congress and the public by stifling key witnesses who have firsthand knowledge of President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
Indeed, this is a cover-up, unfolding right before us.
The New York Times reported this week that, in late August, Trump met in the Oval Office with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, then-national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. The purpose of the meeting, according to the Times: to convince Trump that releasing the held-back foreign aid to Ukraine was "in the best national interests of the United States." Pompeo, Bolton and Esper reportedly "tried but failed" in their mission. Here are a few things about this August meeting that cannot be reasonably contested, regardless of political ideology. The meeting was important to the overall Ukraine timeline. At that meeting, Trump discussed with his key advisers whether to release the foreign aid to Ukraine. The team of advisers urged Trump to do so, but he refused.
Whatever was said at that meeting is crucial evidence of Trump's plan and intent regarding Ukraine, for better or for worse. Pompeo, Bolton and Esper all know what happened during that meeting. And all of them have, in one form or another, honored Trump's blanket instruction to executive branch officials not to testify.
It is precisely because of the crucial missing evidence that we need a real trial in the Senate...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
What kept the Democrats from waiting for a court decision to build an ironclad impeachment case? CNN doesn’t tell us.
Instead, they have a rushed, half-baked partisan hatchet job. No one forced the Democrats to do an instant impeachment.
“Crucial evidence”, my tuchis.
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“Even if this meeting took place and Trump had whatever reason to wait on sending the aid, what is the crime here?”
They have nothing, another Fake News mindreading trick.
Illusions based on the “journalists” own self-made innuendos as to the meaning of things.
Of course it begins with the Dims own diversionary hoax - that whether Biden was running for office or not there is something illicit about the current administration asking about known issues that leave questions of corruption by and within the former regime in Ukraine and some of it involving American officials & or their relatives, and some involving 2016 U.S. presidential campaign matters where some Ukraine officials intersected with American political representatives.
But, Biden running for office or not there was nothing illicit about asking those questions.
Therefor, just because Biden had chosen to run for office, the U.S. government had no national interest cause for taking those questions off the table.
What is the actual Dim’s problem?.
They don’t want all the intersections of their people and Ukraine officials and Ukraine oligarchs looked into. Just Trump and Guliani asking questions was a “bad” thing, and thus the “impeachment” was to try and block discovery of what the media is told to report as a myth.
I want to know who leaked these emails to the NYT’s
Lil’s Schitt still using someone on the inside?
Delusional
The holdup of the Ukraine aid was de minimus considering that Obama never gave Ukraine lethal aid.The Biden investigation would be malodorous - if not for the video of Biden boasting of getting a quid pro quo from Ukraine.
Nothing alleged about Trump compares with what the Deep State in general - and Obama in particular - did to Trump, but that’s another question.
It’s immaterial. There’s no there there.
What is the actual Dim’s problem?
The problem is that every time a Dim does something corrupt, they simply 'run for office' which somehow makes them immune from punishment.
Yes, if we just get a read out of the meeting the we’ll get him! Always just one document away from finding a crime for which he has already been impeached...
“We have no evidence, therefore there must be a trial.”
= = =
Tom Foley pulled this cr*p back in Iran Contra.
‘The lack of evidence proves how well the Republicans hid it.’
Paraphrased.
CNN = Crappy Neurotic Network
CNN - SeeNothingNew.
If so, why wasn't it brought up before, if for nothing else, to cinch there case.
I am still waiting with bated breath for Schiff and his 'undisputed proof' of Russian collusion etc.
Hell, I am still waiting for Tom Arnold to bring out those tapes that he was listening to and watching while he was 'promising' to air them.
I am quite sure that IF they really existed CNN or MSNBC (at the very least) would be more than happy to run them
. Michael Franti - Yell Fire!
You tell me lies, lies, lies
Sweet little lies
When I cannot bear the truth
You tell me lies, lies, lies
Sweet little lies
Help me make them all come.
Fleetwood Mac
Pelosi knows the discussion included how a percentage US aid to Ukraine gets partially laundered back to the DNC. The hiLIARy state department colluded in the racket. Bolton and Pompeo are just begging the Senate dems not to throw them in the briar patch.
What is “the Trump cover-up?” Are they finally admitting that they continuously attempt to cover-up their raging coup against President Trump?
LOL...crucial missing evidence....
Right...that the lousy House hearings NEVER ‘uncovered’....because they hadn’t manufactured this millionth fabrication up, yet.
Got it.
CNN...ever on the downhill slope.
The Watergate script is their only hope.
So far, it’s not working.
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