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“If Trump tried to use military aid to Ukraine as leverage, ... then he held Ukrainian and American security hostage to his political vendettas. It means nothing to say that no such deal was reached; the important point is that Trump abused his position in the Oval Office.”
“[W]e need not rely on a newspaper account, nor even on the complaint ... of a whistle-blower. Instead, we have a sweaty, panicked admission on national television by Trump’s bizarre homunculus, Rudy Giuliani ....”
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“The problem for Giuliani, the Republicans, and the president himself ... is that Biden and his actions are now irrelevant to the offenses committed by Trump. The accusations against Biden are false, as we know from multiple fact checks ....”
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”But even to argue over this fable about Biden is to miss the point, because it changes nothing about Trump’s attempts to enmesh Biden in a foreign investigation for Trump’s own purposes.”
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“If this in itself is not impeachable, then the concept has no meaning. Trump’s grubby commandeering of the presidency’s fearsome ... powers in foreign policy for his own ends is a gross abuse of power and an affront ... to our constitutional order ....”
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