Trump’s impeachment tantrum can’t hide that he screwed the pooch
by digby
PELOSI calls Trump strongarming Ukraine into investigating Biden “a breach of his constitutional responsibilities,” says moves to block release of whistleblower report are “a violation of law.”“I’m announcing the House is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.” pic.twitter.com/ItAMrl4Yhn
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2019
They never even saw the transcript of the call. A total Witch Hunt!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019
Uhm, Trumpie. They don’t need the transcript! You confessed:
The conversation I had [with President Zelenskiy] was largely congratulatory, with largely corruption—all of the corruption taking place—and largely the fact that we don’t want our people like Vice President Biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine.”
Trump, looking very red, basically admits he asked Ukrainian President Zelensky to look into Biden during call that’s part of whistleblower complaint: “It was largely [about] fact that we don’t want our people like VP Biden & his son creating to the corruption largely in Ukraine” pic.twitter.com/2hvkTbHSJl— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 22, 2019
That’s an impeachable offense.
Here’s his henchman:
This is Rudy Giuliani absolutely melting down in 60 seconds. pic.twitter.com/68QPIDgDIj— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 20, 2019
A President telling a Pres-elect of a well known corrupt country he better investigate corruption that affects US is doing his job. Maybe if Obama did that the Biden Family wouldn’t have bilked millions from Ukraine and billions from China; being covered up by a Corrupt Media.— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) September 20, 2019
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Impeachment doesn’t require an explicit quid pro quo. It doesn’t even require an implicit quid pro quo. It’s an egregious abuse of power for a president to and his emissary to demand that a foreign government smear his political opponent in advance of the next election. Period.
But if they want the quid pro quo well, Trump hasn’t exactly helped himself with that either:
Wow — CNN put together this clip highlighting how Trump changed his public rationale for withholding aid to Ukraine from yesterday to today pic.twitter.com/25QJ8VPsnU— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2019
There are dozens of reasons to impeach Trump. He is a criminal. But this one goes directly to the manipulation of the election in 2020 and if they don’t do something about it there will be no going back.
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