Bill Press: Ukraine is the final straw for Trump

[mystery-ak]

Bill Press: Ukraine is the final straw for Trump
By Bill Press, opinion contributor — 09/23/19 05:59 PM EDT

Donald Trump didn’t learn anything from 2016. Not only has he still not acknowledged Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. Not only has he still not admitted his campaign’s multiple contacts with Russian operatives. Not only does he disagree with fellow Republicans who say: “We can’t allow foreign interference in an American election ever again.” Trump welcomed foreign influence in 2016 and now he’s doing his best to make it happen again, in 2020. This time with a different country. Not Russia, but Ukraine.

There’s a lot we still don’t know, but we know enough to be alarmed. Here’s what we know: First, on July 25, President Trump placed a call to Volodymyr Zelensky, the new president of Ukraine. Second, a career, on-duty U.S. intelligence officer monitoring the call was so appalled by what they heard the president say that, on Aug. 12, they filed a whistleblower complaint with the inspector general of the intelligence community. Third, after ruling that the complaint was “credible” and a matter of “urgent concern,” the inspector general referred the case to acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire.

https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/462679-bill-press-ukraine-is-the-final-straw-for-trump

[PeteS in CA]

Well, since the second sentence is false I think Bill Press learned nothing from the collapse of the Trump-Russia Collusion Delusion.

And notice how he tries to sneak smoothly from Trump-Russia Collusion to Trump-Ukraine Collusion, .

[XenaLee]

Bill Press: Ukraine is the final straw for Trump
By Bill Press, opinion contributor — 09/23/19 05:59 PM EDT

Donald Trump didn’t learn anything from 2016. Not only has he still not acknowledged Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. Not only has he still not admitted his campaign’s multiple contacts with Russian operatives. Not only does he disagree with fellow Republicans who say: “We can’t allow foreign interference in an American election ever again.” Trump welcomed foreign influence in 2016 and now he’s doing his best to make it happen again, in 2020. This time with a different country. Not Russia, but Ukraine.

There’s a lot we still don’t know, but we know enough to be alarmed. Here’s what we know: First, on July 25, President Trump placed a call to Volodymyr Zelensky, the new president of Ukraine. Second, a career, on-duty U.S. intelligence officer monitoring the call was so appalled by what they heard the president say that, on Aug. 12, they filed a whistleblower complaint with the inspector general of the intelligence community. Third, after ruling that the complaint was “credible” and a matter of “urgent concern,” the inspector general referred the case to acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire.

https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/462679-bill-press-ukraine-is-the-final-straw-for-trump

And Maguire didn't turn over the complaint to Congress because it doesn't fall under the "Whistleblower" criteria.  "Did not meet the statutory definition of "urgent"."  among other problems with the complaint.  End of story (except for their whining) re: latest desperate attempt by the idiot left.