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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on October 18, 2019, 01:16:39 am
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With quids and quos now admitted, it’s time to impeach
by Quin Hillyer
| October 17, 2019 08:53 PM
With regard to the quid and the several examples of quo involved in President Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, they were all part of the same package. Nobody should fall for the new White House spin trying to make a distinction between tying military aid to an investigation of a Democratic computer server and tying it to an investigation of the Bidens.
Neither element is acceptable. But both are merely two sides of the same coin.
Even without a quid pro quo, the very act of a president encouraging a foreign government to investigate U.S. citizens not under U.S. investigation, especially when that U.S. target is a political rival, is impeachable conduct. All the more so, then, for an actual quid pro quo involving congressionally approved military assistance. This should turn the impeachability into a slam dunk for actual eviction from office.
With regard to Ukraine, that key but troubled ally wanted two things from Trump: a meeting between the two nations’ presidents and the military assistance that Congress already had overwhelmingly approved and Trump had signed into law. Trump, openly and repeatedly working through his “personal attorney,†Rudy Giuliani, also wanted two things. First, he wanted an investigation into the loony theory that there still is some incriminating evidence on former Democratic National Committee servers and that the servers were owned by corrupt Ukrainians. Second, he wanted Ukraine to investigate the Ukraine-related activities of the Bidens, father and son.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/with-quids-and-quos-now-admitted-its-time-to-impeach (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/with-quids-and-quos-now-admitted-its-time-to-impeach)
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Thanks Mick..you just can't walk it back once you say it
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Here is Quin Hillyer's reasoning why this is an impeachable offense:
"Never in my conscious memory, though, have I heard of an American president urging a foreign nation to investigate specific U.S. citizens who were not on the lam from American law."
So basically, since Hillyer has no memory of this ever happening before, Trump committed an impeachable offense.