You can read all about it right here.
I doubt Trump will leave office anytime soon, but we can all dream, can't we?
Jonathan Chait says the Ukrainian scandal goes way beyond one phone call. To me it is reminiscent of Watergate and the October Surprise in that the electoral process was being manipulated to help GOP presidents or candidates. Of course, Watergate was way, way worse once people understand what it was really about--Nixon prolonging the Vietnam War to ensure his re-election and knocking out stronger competition in his re-election bid thus tens of thousands of people died for no reason whatsoever. It was infinitely worse than these Trump scandals. However, this is bad enough having a president who was helped along by foreign governments and seeks to manipulate the 2020 elections.
Chait:
That is true, as far as it goes. The quid pro quo in the call, though perfectly apparent, is mostly implicit. But the real trick in Trump’s defense is framing the call as the entire scandal. The scandal is much more than that. The call is a snapshot, a moment in time in a months-long campaign that put American policy toward Ukraine at the disposal of Trump’s personal interests and reelection campaign.
Last spring, Rudy Giuliani was openly pressuring Kiev to investigate Joe Biden. Giuliani told the New York Times, “We’re meddling in an investigation … because that information will be very, very helpful to my client.” The key word there was “we’re.” The first-person plural indicated Giuliani was not carrying out this mission alone. A series of reports have revealed how many other government officials were involved in the scheme.
When Trump ordered military aid to Ukraine to be frozen, he went through his chief of staff and budget director Mick Mulvaney. Congress had passed the aid, and Ukraine was under military attack from Russia, a fact that made the halting of the assistance worrisome to numerous officials in two branches of government. As the Times reported, lawmakers and State Department staffers were asking why the money hadn’t gone through.
Stay tuned.
And no, I am not related to this crackpot:
Devin Nunes claims Democrats were trying to get naked pictures of Trump. pic.twitter.com/UuqkdRK0El— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 26, 2019
And then there is this gem of Trump:
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