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Seeing various suggestions that an offer to normalize relations with Russia in a call with Putin might have prompted this complaint. No way. People can file complaints about anything. But it’s not at all credible nor would it be proper for the IG to see that as ...
2/ a legitimate complaint let alone an urgent one. That is a political and policy decision that is entirely within the President’s decision-making authority. Again, I suspect that to the degree there’s any legitimate issue here - in terms of keeping this from Congress - that ...
3/ it is a promise that is arguably within the President’s power to make but substantively very bad.
4/ To expand on this point, it is certainly possible that something illicit could have been promised in the context of a conversation about normalization. But that’s different. And of course, entirely hypothetical.
