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With much still unknown about Trump's Ukraine call, Democrats and the media rush toward impeachment washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/with-m…
Is it too much to ask that we wait first to find out exactly what was said in a private phone call in July between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before we start throwing about words such as “treason” and “impeachment” and even discussing an execution?
The answer is: yes. Yes, it is too much to ask.
Democrats and journalists have found a new favorite story that they say could spell the end for the Trump administration.
Democrats and journalists have found a new favorite story that they say could spell the end for the Trump administration.
The allegation is this: Trump tried to pressure Zelensky, with the promise of U.S. aid, into investigating Democratic front-runner Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, with the explicit intention of interfering in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
There is no hard evidence this happened. Just ignore the part where we have gone down this exact road before with over-hyped allegations, badly misled by partisan lawmakers and sloppy journalists all too eager to see the Trump-era brought to an early conclusion.
"It is a betrayal of the office at the scale of which I haven’t seen in my lifetime,” declared 2020 Democratic primary candidate New Jersey Sen. @CoryBooker. “I’d have to go back to, God, I don’t think Watergate even compares to what this is.”
He added, “[Trump] needs to answer for this should the facts bear out. ... This is a deep potential violation of our Constitution, of our values. And it is an impeachable offense."
.@GovBillWeld called for death:
“It’s treason, pure and simple," 2020 GOP primary candidate Bill Weld said elsewhere this week, "and the penalty for treason under the U.S. code is death. That’s the only penalty,”
“It’s treason, pure and simple," 2020 GOP primary candidate Bill Weld said elsewhere this week, "and the penalty for treason under the U.S. code is death. That’s the only penalty,”
For the record, no one outside the WH or the Ukrainian govt knows what was said. All we have right now is a “whistleblower” who claims to have heard from another source that Trump pressed Ukraine’s leader to investigate Biden, and Trump admitting he discussed the Bidens.
