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Rick wrote: As soon as I heard her testimony I knew she would get liberals all giddy and fawning over her. Too bad she won't matter a bit in the big picture because they never proved an impeachable offense. You should fear the Senate trial if it gets that far.
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Please elaborate on your premise of "Putin's power play". Seems to me like Trump has been much harder on Putin than Obama and Hillary with their idiotic reset button and blankets for Ukraine. I think you watch too much CNN and MSNBC.homeagain wrote:
Rick wrote: As soon as I heard her testimony I knew she would get liberals all giddy and fawning over her. Too bad she won't matter a bit in the big picture because they never proved an impeachable offense. You should fear the Senate trial if it gets that far.
FEAR is not how I would characterize it......IF the R'S (and the collective) do not find the threat
of Putin's power play beyond mass critical, then I will quote the well worn phrase.....YOU GET THE GOVERNMENT YOU DESERVE when you aren't paying attention.......it appears to me, that EVERYONE of the "I got better things to do,and politics is NOT one of them"......WILL regret
their inattentiveness. BUT, as always, jmo.
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The full reportThe impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, uncovered a months-long effort by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election. As described in this executive summary and the report that follows, President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign. The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations into a political rival that he apparently feared the most, former Vice President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election. To compel the Ukrainian President to do his political bidding, President Trump conditioned two official acts on the public announcement of the investigations: a coveted White House visit and critical U.S. military assistance Ukraine needed to fight its Russian adversary.
During a July 25, 2019, call between President Trump and President Zelensky, President Zelensky expressed gratitude for U.S. military assistance. President Trump immediately responded by asking President Zelensky to “do us a favor though” and openly pressed for Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Biden and the 2016 conspiracy theory. In turn, President Zelensky assured President Trump that he would pursue the investigation and reiterated his interest in the White House meeting. Although President Trump’s scheme intentionally bypassed many career personnel, it was undertaken with the knowledge and approval of senior Administration officials, including the President’s Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Secretary of Energy Rick Perry. In fact, at a press conference weeks after public revelations about the scheme, Mr. Mulvaney publicly acknowledged that the President directly tied the hold on military aid to his desire to get Ukraine to conduct a political investigation, telling Americans to “get over it.”
President Trump and his senior officials may see nothing wrong with using the power of the Office of the President to pressure a foreign country to help the President’s reelection campaign. Indeed, President Trump continues to encourage Ukraine and other foreign countries to engage in the same kind of election interference today. However, the Founding Fathers prescribed a remedy for a chief executive who places his personal interests above those of the country: impeachment. Accordingly, as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in coordination with the Committees on Oversight and Reform and Foreign Affairs, were compelled to undertake a serious, sober, and expeditious investigation into whether the President’s misconduct warrants that remedy.
In response, President Trump engaged in an unprecedented campaign of obstruction of this impeachment inquiry. Nevertheless, due in large measure to patriotic and courageous public servants who provided the Committees with direct evidence of the President’s actions, the Committees uncovered significant misconduct on the part of the President of the United States. As required under House Resolution 660, the Intelligence Committee, in consultation with the Committees on Oversight and Reform and Foreign Affairs, has prepared this report to detail the evidence uncovered to date, which will now be transmitted to the Judiciary Committee for its consideration.
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Please elaborate on your premise of "Putin's power play". Seems to me like Trump has been much harder on Putin than Obama and Hillary with their idiotic reset button and blankets for Ukraine. I think you watch too much CNN and MSNBC.homeagain wrote:
Rick wrote: As soon as I heard her testimony I knew she would get liberals all giddy and fawning over her. Too bad she won't matter a bit in the big picture because they never proved an impeachable offense. You should fear the Senate trial if it gets that far.
FEAR is not how I would characterize it......IF the R'S (and the collective) do not find the threat
of Putin's power play beyond mass critical, then I will quote the well worn phrase.....YOU GET THE GOVERNMENT YOU DESERVE when you aren't paying attention.......it appears to me, that EVERYONE of the "I got better things to do,and politics is NOT one of them"......WILL regret
their inattentiveness. BUT, as always, jmo.
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Blazer Bob wrote: [quote="homeagain" post=362891
I think he is ex KGB and THAT has nothing to do with my choice of media channel.....TRADECRAFT is the key to this scenario.....do some research on tradecraft.
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ScienceChic wrote: Once a KGB officer, always a KGB officer. Putin has been at war with the United States. The Russian government, the FSB, the Kremlin are all synonymous and they are actively attacking us and our Western allies. Look up how many journalists have mysteriously died in Russia recently, and the protests around their recent election. Do a search on Magnitsky, and Skripal. Every one of our intelligence agencies concluded that Russia actively interfered in our 2016 elections and are still attempting to do so today - all of that is done at the request of Putin.
Read the article I posted here American Intelligence and Election Hacking by Molly McKew.
Or this one: Putin’s Attack on the U.S. Is Our Pearl Harbor by Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling and Molly McKew
Do you know why NATO was formed? Is it any wonder that Russia would work to weaken and destroy it by sowing discord between its members?
Judiciary Committee Hearing going on now:
www.c-span.org/video/?466833-1/judiciary...ork-impeachment&live
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