Re: Mark Sumner’s post “Journalists behaving badly—the rush to frame the whistleblower story to help Trump.”
“Donald Trump withheld military aid from a United States ally in order to force that ally into providing him with ammunition he could use against a potential opponent in the 2020 election. That’s the story. Full stop. There are no circumstances in which what Trump has done are in any sense acceptable. The only option is for Congress to immediately begin impeachment. Not an inquiry into whether there should be an inquiry. Impeachment.”
And Re: annieli’s post 'the Ukrainian episode is all about Giuliani and Trump.’
“The coming weeks will get less simple as there remain the existing criminal acts and perhaps new ones for Individual-1. It remains for lawfare to resolve many delaying actions and stalling tactics as investigations and the beat for impeachment continue.”
We have gone through so many final straws that I've lost track. The pres*dent's contact with a foreign head-of-state to ask for favors which would result in enourmous political gain is a direct violation of Admin protocol, as well as the Law of the Land. But the attempt backfired into perhaps the final-final straw.
Coming directly after the resignation and/or firing of NSABolton, and a pending ‘Inside the Oval Office’ exposé, it couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Motley Crew.
It is also illegal for our government to ask (or, more correctly, extort) Ukraine to act unethically. This would give a sitting pres*dent unscrupulous political gain. Asking this, while dangling benefits that have already allocated by Congress over their head, goes well beyond illegal.
The pres*dent made matters worse by sending his envoy, ex-Mayor of NYC, Rudy Guilliani, JD, to do his dirty. Knowing this to be against the law, Guilliani has set himself up to be disbarred by the NYSBA.
All of the revelations of this week involving the 'whistleblower,' the pres*dent's attorney, Ukraine, etc., prove to me that Mark and annieli's commentaries indicate our Congress must ‘Proceed To Go' (in this big game of Monopoly) on impeachment.
The pres*dent is watching his term go down as the worst Administration in the history of our beloved Country. As usual, his only reponses are enraged tantrums directed at the very people trying to preserve our Democracy.
It's time to cut the political BS and get down to brass tacks. Impeaching TheDon(ald), and indicting AGBarr, TSMunchin, DNIMaguire, along the entire collection of ass-kissers in the Cabinet is the only way for the USA to regain some respect in the world community.
The Don’s predecessor left him an excellant worldwide opinion of the United States of America — it’s time for all of us to push hard to retrieve our dignity as a world leader.
Impeach Trump, then indict him, then haul him away in handcuffs. Indict all of The Don’s Goon Squad now! Presidential Pardons will be more than those of Watergate fame, but only if we allow him. But he has a way of condemning those who did not offer themselves as a shield. God only knows what he will do now.