Let’s explore a hypothetical. The aid under question was passed by Congress prior to the Ukrainian presidential election. Suppose that election had gone to a candidate who was a pro-Russian? Suppose further that newly elected pro-Russian Ukrainian President threw in with Vladamir Putin and joined him in his plans to reconstruct the Russian Empire, turned and with Russia militarily attacked their neighbors. Tell me, would President Trump still be obligated to expend those foreign aid military funds, sending javelin missiles, and support the new Ukraine regime, or would he be justified in making the decision to hold that aid in light of the change in international conditions?
This is the reason the Constitution put Foreign Affairs decisions in the hands of a single President and not in the hands of a committee. The fact is that international conditions can change overnight while Congressional decision act with the with the speed of an idling glacier.
Similarly, any acts of the Executive Branch, including the asserting that Ukraine’s military had taken the steps necessary to root-out corruption in their procurement procedures to approve the transfer of this military aid, are constitutionally merely advisory to the President, because all Executive Branch Acts are in the President’s name. They are NOT independent decisions or acts. The President has final authority under the Constitution. As Harry Truman ultimately understood, “The Buck Stops Here.” Not in Congress, who merely appropriates spending; not in the Defense Department, who advises its Commander in Chief; and not in the Department of the Treasury which cuts the checks; it always resides in the President. READ THE CONSTITUTION. None of those others is even mentioned. . . They are there to help the President do his job, not to do his job for him.
Not only was it in his authority but the aid was not actually withheld it was granted within the time period required therefore he could not possibly have violated the law.
What law?
USC title, please.
What fu*king aid was withheld?
And no mention of Biden on tape bragging about withholding aud?
This is such bull sh*t!
Nonsense, because he didn’t withhold anything. He merely delayed it. He wasn’t the 1st president to do so, and he won’t be the last either.
So, when Obama didn’t execute immigration laws, which Congress passed ... and some president signed ... he didn’t violate the law?
I really don’t think the liberals understand what will happen if by some miracle they actually succeed in removing Trump from office.
If they can remove him, it will be obvious that are no longer living in a representative republic.
It can’t possibly be true because I hear the president in all administrations make decisions to withhold aid all the time and they threaten to withhold aid all the time under all kinds of circumstances. If a coup occurs and an enemy government takes over, are they trying to say the president must still send the “allocated” aid?
Also we see the court rulings whereby they acknowledge presidents have always had the authority to re purpose even defense spending from its congressional allocations. For example the recent reallocations to the wall.
The report said U.S. law “does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law.”
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Does this include enforcing Marijuana laws? Because neither Obummer nor Trump are enforce those laws which are still on the books.
That’s already been addressed and answered. Congress appropriated the funds for the fiscal year and they were obligated and disbursed by the end of the fiscal year. Again, “no there there,” but another nice try.
Too bad the GAO has 0 credibility and adds nothing to the equation.
That’s already been addressed and answered. Congress appropriated the funds for the fiscal year and they were obligated and disbursed by the end of the fiscal year. Again, “no there there,” but another nice try.
there was NO crime.
America is upside down because the DOJ and FIB
are absolutely corrupt, absolutely seditionist,
absolutely treasonous, and NEITHER will ever
be trusted again in our lifetimes.
More deep-state horse shit. It’s getting pretty deep in D.C.
Funny, I do not find the GAO ruled Biden broke laws when he threaten to with hold $1 Billion Dollars...… but, that’s just Joe.....
I often ask: what is the point of electing a POTUS when bureaucratic mofos and lefty arse politicians seeks to undermine, question, and otherwise tell a POTUS what he/she can or cannot do? Like wtf?
If the President violated the Impound Control Act, why didn’t the Democrats cite it in their articles of impeachment? Oops!
Stupid House Democrats didn’t think of getting the GAO’s opinion? Its too late. Their ship has sailed.
And its still an opinion from government bureaucrats in the GAO, not a legal finding of fact.
Means nothing.
The law applies to rescission, not holding, which is in fact permitted. The Government Accountability Office is misreading the actual law which states that the President may temporarily withhold funds from obligation-but not beyond the end of the fiscal year. It is obvious to all who can read and comprehend that the funds for Ukraine were not held beyond the end of the fiscal year. Oops. The Democrats in the GAO, an arm of the Democrat controlled House of Representatives, staffed almost, if not exclusively by Democrats, is obfuscating what the law allows.
So, an accounting office determines and pronounces guilt? Bureaucrats are above all 3 branches of government now?
FUDS
The Deep State is desperate to get this man because he’s the ONLY ONE who can expose the widespread and deep corruption within our government. If he’s driven out of office they retake power and our country is finished!