Posted on 02/02/2020 10:50:49 AM PST by lowbridge
Not because Trump is a Republican. Not because of his conservative policies. Not as a way to nullify the outcome of the 2016 election. But because he engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors of exactly the sort the founders had in mind when they created the impeachment process in the U.S. Constitution.
The details of those crimes have been laid out a thousand times, but here they are again: Congress voted to give $391 million to Ukraine, an ally that was at war, defending itself against Russia. But Trump withheld that money in a clear violation — an illegal violation — of Congress’ express wishes. He did so not because he had foreign policy disagreements with Congress, but because he hoped to extort from Ukraine’s president what he called “a favor” in return for the money — the announcement of an investigation into groundless accusations against former Vice President Joe Biden that he believed could be useful to him in winning reelection.
In other words, he hijacked national security and foreign policy to induce Ukraine to take actions to smear a prospective political opponent. He abused the power of his office to benefit himself personally. Then, as the second article of impeachment makes clear, he sought to stonewall the investigation by refusing to release documents and ordering his subordinates not to testify in the House inquiry.
It may not come as a surprise to many readers that we support the ultimate punishment for this egregious abuse of power.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
But because he engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors of exactly the sort the founders had in mind when they created the impeachment process in the U.S. Constitution.
So any make-believe “Ukraine deal” even if true, would be a HC & M?
Laughable. How about sending troops off to undeclared wars? How about secret deals with our enemies (Iran) and billions of $$$?
How about JFK and Bay of Pigs? Stealing elections, him and LBJ? How about “reverse discrimination” programs, esp by Clinton and Obama? Cabinets that discriminatorily “look like America”?
How about appointing SC candidates based on their ethnicity, religion, etc rather than merit?
Strange how the democrats forgot to include high crimes and misdemeanors (actual crimes)in their articles of impeachment.
I guess they just forgot ...
Bump To The Top!
Honeybadger don’t care.
B.Clinton and 0bozo first.
I took a quick look at the comments section and amazingly enough most of them disagreed with their stupid opinon.
Most of the countries we've helped would kick us if we were down. It's time to STOP giving ANY of them money - then you'll see the 'wealth' in DC's deep state dry up.
The deep state gets their wealth from selling influence. Anyone think even ONE country in the world would pay Hillary $10,000 a minute for a forty minute speech IF they thought she wouldn't trade the blood of our young OR the cash of our citizens to them?
Shame I can’t cancel that POS fish wrap again.
“Meet the new owner (Patrick Soon-Shiong) same as the old owner (Tribune Publishing) Don’t get fooled by that Commie rag again!”
And two scoops of ice cream.
TDS at its height. Who pays any attention to the Times?
It’s a stupid accusation. The president is SUPPOSED to control the release of aid. It’s happened time and again through US history.
He released it ahead of schedule.
But, he held back temporarily due to dead beat Europeans and because of a very real appearance of corruption.
There is no crime here.
I love this ally stuff....like if we get invaded, the Ukraine or Germany or France or etc
At the Newport Beach flea market they were pushing this rag. I told them to go piss off. They couldn’t understand my dislike. This editorial is a good example.
Since when is Ukraine an ally? They don't belong to NATO. Do we have any formal treaty or agreement with them to make it legitimate to call them an ally? Otherwise it's just a Democrat talking point.
“Not as a way to nullify the outcome of the 2016 election”
I say we burn the LA Times buildings to the ground and put all of their employees in FEMA camps.
He probably dictated it.
lol
US foreign policy is whatever the President says it is
To suggest that the President can act contrary to US policy makes ZERO sense
“...into groundless accusations against former Vice President Joe Biden...”
The LA Times thinks everyone else is dumb. That’s the only way to describe folks who say it’s “groundless”.
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