Posted on 01/02/2020 10:18:04 PM PST by bitt
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) seized on newly released emails surrounding President Trump's decision to delay aid to Ukraine, arguing they underscored the need for witnesses and documents as part of an impeachment trial.
The newly-revealed unredacted emails are a devastating blow to Senator McConnells push to have a trial without the documents and witnesses weve requested," Schumer said in a statement.
"These emails further expose the serious concerns raised by Trump administration officials about the propriety and legality of the presidents decision to cut off aid to Ukraine to benefit himself," he added.
Schumer's comments come after Just Security obtained unredacted emails between the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Pentagon about the decision to delay aid to Ukraine.
In one email, Michael Duffey, the associate director of national security at the Office of Management and Budget, told the acting Pentagon comptroller that there was "clear direction from POTUS to hold, according to Just Security.
The unredacted emails are the latest round of new details on Trump's decision to delay Ukraine aid last year. The New York Times recently reported that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Robert Blair, assistant to the president and senior adviser to Mulvaney, were aware that the delay would prompt backlash from Congress.
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What is the Bongino Rule? I Googled it but didn’t find it spelled out.
A more correct statement - the meaning behind their words.
The elephant in the room is that the prior Ukraine regimes were set up specifically to facilitate corruption as a base of operations and reward system for the radical Left worldwide. Those roads lead to Soros.
Chuckie is a fake New Yorker and fake American.
Hillary’s e-mails are with obama’s birth certificate
Pelosi needs to drag her feet. The Dems. are going to find evidence in the Schiff basement, that will pop his eyeballs out of his head.
Schumer always looks like he is suffering from a hangover.
Good rule!
Schumer is great at pis*ing in the wind.
Impeachment is now irrelevant
Schumer delivering talking points is totally irrelevant
I would love to see Trump tweet:
Of course I delayed payment to Ukraine. I had to make sure first that the monies wouldnt be laundered back to the corrupt Democrats like other funds were in the past. #Nancy #Joe #etc ???
The lefts heads would explode.
“Theyve got him now.” Last nail in the coffin, The walls are closing in, He’s on the ropes, It’s only a matter of time, Nowhere to run, His days are numbered, Blah, Blah, Blah.....
Wow. I’m disappointed. 50 posts into this thread and not a single poster noted that the act was extended by Congress 2 days after it expired. So the ‘new’ law broke the ‘old’ law by act of Congress.
Until Pelosi delivers the articles to the Senate, there is no impeachment.
For now, let’s call it what it is, a democrat-sponsored poll of House members.
Of course there’s nothing stopping the House from “investigating” these emails in the House chamber.
When that happened, I was sooooo hoping the miserable POS would just start coding... and make the world a better place.
Is Schumer nuts or what? There has never been an argument that the completion of the process of sending the aid was temporarily held up - temporarily. The “impeachment” hoax claims there was a “quid pro quo” in that delay, but other than American deep state critters complaining about the delay, there was factually no quid pro quo made, given or taken. Thus, any additional “proof” about the temporary delay means zilch, zip, nada about any supposed quid pro quo.
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