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Don’t you love it when crooks are so smug, that they admit to everything — because they think, they themselves are the only “masterminds” who will ever be able to “connect the dots” …
Get an earful of this Trump Confession to the Ukrainian extortion plot, with the ‘charming’ roar of the helicopter, setting the presidential stage ...
Trump suggests he tied Ukraine funding to corruption, cites Biden allegations
by Shannon Pettypiece and Allan Smith, NBC News — Sept 23, 2019
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"We want to make sure that country is honest. It's very important to talk about corruption. If you don't talk about corruption, why would you give money to a country that you think is corrupt?" Trump told reporters Monday morning in New York, when asked what he had spoken about with Ukraine's new president in a July phone call.
“It’s very important that, on occasion, you speak to somebody about corruption,” he said, moments after telling journalists: "Let me just tell you — let me just tell you. What Biden did was wrong."
But later in the day, during a meeting with the Polish president, Trump denied that he told Zelensky that Ukraine could only have the military aid they were seeking if they investigated the Biden family.
"I put no pressure on them whatsoever. I could have. I think it would probably, possibly have been ok if I did. But I didn't. I didn't put any pressure on them whatsoever," Trump said.
And then later, after being actually caught in his Ukrainian extortion scheme, Trump tried to cover his tracks then too. As he declared to his Ukrainian secret-envoy gopher:
“No Quid pro Quo.”
“No Quid pro Quo.”
“I want nothing.”
“I want nothing.”
As Adam Schiff astutely noticed:
“That unsolicited reply to Sondland was Trump’s ‘I am not a Crook’ moment.”
So too, was that Chopper-Talk moment on the White House lawn, on Sept 23rd.
Trump copped to the whole extortion scheme — even the part about Biden.
— That was of course, until one of his lawyers told he what he had just admitted to, and Trump’s retroactive erasure attempt, of what his fool of a ‘Press Secretary’ had just confessed.
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Mulvaney must have been so proud, how fearless Liar conducts business. Mick probably took some notes, deciding that “confession could be good for the soul” … resolving then in his next Presser, to be more like Trump:
Insulting, Indignant, and ultimately Incompetent.
Because afterall you can always deny everything. And then blame it on reporters. Just like Trump.
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Schiff likened Trump's insistence that there was "no quid pro quo" to Nixon's infamous proclamation of "I'm not a crook."
[W]hat we’ve seen here is far more serious than a third-rate burglary of the Democratic headquarters," Schiff said, invoking Watergate. "What we're talking about here is the withholding of recognition in that White House meeting. The withholding of military aid to an ally at war. That is beyond anything Nixon did."
thehill.com — Nov 21, 2019
Must be why Trump repeated his red-handed denial. To be doubly sure that he would now be “in the clear” … Abracadabra:
Crimes-be-Gone!
Daffy Donald ordered the 100-pack. It worked for Nixon, didn’t it?
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