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The latest smoking gun of Trump guilt.
The latest smoking gun of Trump’s corrupt intent.
The latest smoking gun of an active cover-up to conceal Trump’s illegal extortion scheme against Ukraine — already in progress.
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Sometime in August, three top Cabinet members held an “intervention” of sorts. Their goal was to convince the conspiracy Stooge, that it was in everbody’s best interest if he just released the Ukraine military aid, which only Congress had the authority to grant or revoke.
But predictably, the Stooge was having none of it.
Pompeo, Esper, and Bolton Tried to Convince Trump to Release Ukraine Aid: NYT
Soon after it became public knowledge that President Trump had frozen military aid to Ukraine, his national security team intervened and tried to convince the president to reverse his decision, The New York Times reported Sunday. Former National Security Adviser John Bolton, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with Trump in August at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office to present their individual cases for releasing the aid to Ukraine. “This is in America’s interest,” Bolton said, according to a Times source. Esper reportedly added, “This defense relationship, we have gotten some really good benefits from it,” notably military equipment manufactured in the United States. Trump reportedly responded with, “Ukraine is a corrupt country,” adding, “We are pissing away our money.”
talkingpointsmemo.com goes on to add this time-frame book-end:
The President continued to hold up the funds until September 11, when he abruptly released them after Democrats announced an investigation into the unexplained aid freeze.
Wasn’t the explanation that the Whistle-blower story had just broke 2 days earlier — blowing their illegal cover-up caper wide open?
Joan McCarter adds this subsequent obstruction-effort to their failed-intervention story-line:
[...] They all knew, and they've all been desperately covering Trump's and their own tracks.
Well, except Mulvaney, who told the whole world in a press conference back in October that, yes, of course they were withholding the aid for a quid pro quo from Ukraine to get dirt on Joe Biden, and "Get over it." Mulvaney, Bolton, and Pompeo have all been protected by the White House, have all refused to talk to congressional investigators under the White House's cover—while at the same time the White House and Trump have screamed about no due process because none of Trump's "witnesses" have testified.
The significance of this breaking news was not lost on Chuck Schumer either, who Tweeted this:
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The only ones in doubt about the trial-worthiness of this new cover-up evidence, are the Impeached One, and his band of willing — and not-so-willing — cover-up accomplices.
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