For nearly a week, Washington has been consumed by reports that Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up dirt on Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden.
The furor began on Wednesday, Sept. 18, when the Washington Post disclosed that Trump had said something to an unknown foreign leader that "Was so alarming that a US intelligence official who had worked at the White House went to the inspector general of the intelligence community." Two days later, the Wall Street Journal reported that the foreign leader was Zelensky and that Trump had asked him "About eight times" in the course of a single phone conversation to look into allegations that then-Vice President Biden had pushed for the removal of a public prosecutor investigating a Ukrainian company that employed his son, Hunter.
A day after that, Biden complained that Trump was trying to "Smear me," while on Sunday, Adam Schiff, Democratic chairman of the House intelligence committee, declared that Trump might be guilty of "The most profound violation of the presidential oath of office during just about any presidency."
Since the moment Trump was elected, Democrats have been searching for "The Big One," as New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd put it, the scandal "That's going to finally bring Donald Trump down" - and now at last they found it.
The Washington Post suggested in its initial report that the purpose of the July 25 phone call was to "Manipulate the Ukrainian government into helping Trump's reelection campaign." The means, supposedly, was $250 million in military aid that he was threatening to withhold if the Ukraine failed to cooperate.
The Wall Street Journal's source specifically denied that Trump had threatened a cut-off while the New York Times reported that a decision to end military aid - subsequently revoked - had actually occurred weeks earlier.
If anyone's activities are suspicious, it's Biden's, and Trump can hardly be blamed for wanting to get to the bottom of them.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/september/25/another-day-another-scandal-what-the-trump-ukraine-collusion-is-really-about/
The furor began on Wednesday, Sept. 18, when the Washington Post disclosed that Trump had said something to an unknown foreign leader that "Was so alarming that a US intelligence official who had worked at the White House went to the inspector general of the intelligence community." Two days later, the Wall Street Journal reported that the foreign leader was Zelensky and that Trump had asked him "About eight times" in the course of a single phone conversation to look into allegations that then-Vice President Biden had pushed for the removal of a public prosecutor investigating a Ukrainian company that employed his son, Hunter.
A day after that, Biden complained that Trump was trying to "Smear me," while on Sunday, Adam Schiff, Democratic chairman of the House intelligence committee, declared that Trump might be guilty of "The most profound violation of the presidential oath of office during just about any presidency."
Since the moment Trump was elected, Democrats have been searching for "The Big One," as New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd put it, the scandal "That's going to finally bring Donald Trump down" - and now at last they found it.
The Washington Post suggested in its initial report that the purpose of the July 25 phone call was to "Manipulate the Ukrainian government into helping Trump's reelection campaign." The means, supposedly, was $250 million in military aid that he was threatening to withhold if the Ukraine failed to cooperate.
The Wall Street Journal's source specifically denied that Trump had threatened a cut-off while the New York Times reported that a decision to end military aid - subsequently revoked - had actually occurred weeks earlier.
If anyone's activities are suspicious, it's Biden's, and Trump can hardly be blamed for wanting to get to the bottom of them.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2019/september/25/another-day-another-scandal-what-the-trump-ukraine-collusion-is-really-about/
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