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George Conway
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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 ....”
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“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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George Conway
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“The ... phrase ... ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ ... was a historical term of art, derived from impeachments in the British Parliament. ... [T]he framers ... knew what it meant. It meant, as Alexander Hamilton later phrased it, ‘the abuse or violation of some public trust.’”
“[T]he framers viewed the president as a fiduciary, the government of the United States as a sacred trust and the people of the United States as the beneficiaries of that trust.”

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”They believed that a president would break his oath if he engaged in self-dealing — if he used his powers to put his own interests above the nation’s. That would be the paradigmatic case for impeachment.”

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George Conway
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And in fact, the third paragraph of our op-ed contains a link to the recent @HarvLRev article by @jedshug, @andrewkent33, and Prof. Ethan Leib on “Faithful Execution and Article II,” which cogently and thoroughly makes clear that the Framers viewed the president as a fiduciary.
That law review article is here:

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actually there’s a second link in that graph to the @jedshug @HarvLRev article
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George Conway
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oh this is so great because he reads everything and knows so much about the world like that ireland isn’t part of the united king—oh, wait—um, he knows the difference between the balkans and the balti—oh ... well, he’s a stable genius everyone knows many people are saying so
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Mieke Eoyang
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This turn in the #WhistleblowerComplaint story that the underlying issue is about Ukraine is serious and has criminal implications. I will explain.

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As we already knew, Rudy Giuliani was dispatched to Ukraine to try to start inquiries into a member of Biden's family and his business dealings in Ukraine. @kenvogel reported: nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/…

He wanted the Ukrainian government to start a criminal investigation.
Giuliani first denied, then confirmed same on TV *last night* to @ChrisCuomo on @CNN.


Such an investigation is being requested, specifically to give the President electoral advantage over his most likely 2020 rival.
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Karol Cummins
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Trump Lawyers claim that any criminal inv’n of Trump is unconstitutional.🙄

Chief of the Major Economic Crimes Bureau is involved in the Mazars Subpoena, not Vance

WB Complaint Is Said to Involve Multiple Acts by Trump —Not just a phone call or single convo.
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Karol Cummins
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NEW DETAIL: Whistleblower complaint about President Trump involves Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
DEMS are examining whether Trump and his attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani sought to manipulate the Ukrainian government into helping Trump’s reelection campaign.

Lawmakers have demanded a full transcript and a list of participants on the call.
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Atkinson made clear that he disagreed with a lawyer for the ODNI, who had contradicted the IG & found that the whistleblower complaint did not meet the statutory definition of an urgent concern because it involved a matter not under the DNI’s jurisdiction.
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Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈
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Whistleblower complaint about President Trump involves Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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Paula Chertok🗽
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😨Ex CIA Bob Baer suggests the “urgent credible threat” in the whistleblower complaint (that DNI won’t give Congress) ”usually” has something to do w/ someone in White House setting up an illegal backchannel to a foreign govt, or some sort of corruption, discovered by CIA or NSA.
🚨>> Whistleblower complaint involves TRUMP’S communications with a foreign leader that included a “promise” regarded so troubling it prompted an official in the US intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
In the weeks before the “urgent & credible” whistleblower complaint about Trump’s “promise” to a foreign leader, he had interactions with:
1) Russia’s Putin that WH initiated
2) 2 “beautiful” letters from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un
3) Pakistan’s PM
4) Netherlands’ PM
5) Qatar emir
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Paula Chertok🗽
@PaulaChertok
🚨‼️ ICYMI Trump is "heavily considering" BLOCKING $250 million in military aid to #UKRAINE in its David & Goliath war with #RUSSIA. 13000 Ukrainians have died since 2014. It's the latest & perhaps the most dangerous of Trump's moves to please #Putin. cnn.com/2019/08/29/pol…
I know people are exhausted. But THIS is outrageous & can't slip into normalcy. Aid to #Ukraine contains #Russia. That's in OUR national security interests. Even considering blocking it should make every American shudder. It's not just another gift to Putin. It's the last straw.
⚠️🧨It's beyond betrayal if US dumps #Ukraine while #Russia wages its barely covert war—13,000 dead & counting. It's total surrender. And on the 80th anniv of WWII's Nazi-Soviet spheres of influence!🤯#Pence might as well tell #Putin, go ahead, make USSR aggression great again.☠️
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