Impeachment Investigation Is Underway, Judiciary Committee Says
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UPDATED: Monday, February 3, 2020 01:19
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Wow talk about key bounce!
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Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich got heated over allegations that President Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine to help him win an election, noting the GOP would freak out if Barack Obama did the same.
“If in fact the president of the United States pressured a leader of another country to investigate his political opponent, if in fact military aid was withheld, now we’ll have to decide where we go from there, but we have to gather all these facts and information,” Kasich told CNN anchor Kate Bolduan on At This Hour. “I don’t want to get ahead of myself but I am very, very, very concerned about what is happening here. If we don’t deal with this, we become like a banana republic. ”
“Where are the Republicans? Are they hiding? If I were you at CNN, I’d be in the hallway asking all of them what are you going to say?” he continued.
Bolduan noted Republicans have been invited on CNN to talk about it and many have declined.
“I guess the Republicans are dismissing it in the House but you got to think about this from a precedent standpoint. Let me ask this question, not ask you but ask our viewers,” Kasich said. “If Barack Obama had made calls like this, people would be going crazy. Now, if the Democrats had done things in the past that were wrong, OK fine, but that doesn’t have anything to do with this. This has to do with where we are today and things are slipping and sliding and I am worried about our country.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-kasich-is-livid-about-ukr
aine-if-obama-had-made-calls-like-this-people-would-be-going-crazy/ar-AAHJd2U?ocid=spartandhp
Unfortunately all the Trump supports here are trolls and could care less. After the 2020 elections and Trump is gone, if the democratic president so much as sneezes, they'll be yelling from the rooftops. The rest of us will be laughing at their hypocrisy of course. Even then best we don't acknowledge them but instead do as I do now. Continue to post around them instead of with them.
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Meanwhile
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Joe Biden Brags about getting Ukranian Prosecutor Fired
If the prosecutor's not fired you're not getting the money"
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Giuliani can't say 100 percent Trump didn't threaten Ukraine aid
Rudy Giuliani on Monday said that he can't say for certain that Trump didn't threaten Ukraine aid when he spoke to that country's president about an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden's son.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-cant-say-100-percent-
trump-didnt-threaten-ukraine-aid/ar-AAHIRPw?ocid=spartanntp
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Mr. Biden, as vice president, did call for the ouster of the former Ukrainian prosecutor general as part of a broader effort by anticorruption investigators, European diplomats, U.S. allies and the U.S. State Department to overhaul a prosecutor’s office widely viewed as corrupt. A Ukrainian official said this year that he had no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe or Hunter Biden.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-says-he-discussed-biden-in-call-wit
h-ukraines-president-11569177685
In other words folks we and the rest of the world were insisting corrupt officials that Putin put in place had to go and Biden said so. Everybody wanted the prosecutor out.
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Quote:To make Signym's short story long and to remind us that Signym is full of shit:
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Joe Biden Brags about getting Ukranian Prosecutor Fired
If the prosecutor's not fired you're not getting the money"
It has become an article of faith among Trump supporters that Biden got the chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, dismissed to derail a corruption investigation of a Ukrainian firm his son was paid to advise.
But journalists at leading American news organizations — including CNN, the New York Times, Politico, ABC News, and MSNBC — have helped weaponize this disinformation by repeating the baseless smear over and over, without promptly and accurately conveying that Trump and Giuliani are lying about what the former vice president did in Ukraine. So lies and misinformation have been broadcast nationwide, reaching millions of people who will never read subsequent fact checks debunking them.
This began in May, when Giuliani’s embrace of the conspiracy theory was reported on the front page of the Times, in an article that forced readers to wait until the 19th paragraph to find out that “No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.” Even so, the Times politics reporter who interviewed Giuliani, Ken Vogel, claimed on Twitter that this meant “The BIDENS are entangled in a Ukrainian corruption scandal.”
As I reported at the time, the truth is not that hard to determine. There is little doubt that Biden’s son Hunter did benefit from his father’s position by securing a spot on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company in 2014, a legal but ethically dubious move. But when Joe Biden subsequently conveyed a threat from the Obama administration to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine unless the chief prosecutor was dismissed, his intervention made it more rather than less likely that the oligarch who paid his son would be subject to prosecution for corruption.
That’s because one of the most prominent cases of official corruption that Shokin had failed to pursue was against a former environment and natural resources minister, Mykola Zlochevsky, who had oversight of all Ukrainian energy firms, including the largest independent gas company, Burisma, which he secretly controlled through shell companies in Cyprus. After Zlochevsky was forced from office in 2014 — in the popular uprising that toppled a pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and forced his political adviser, Paul Manafort, to look elsewhere for work — Burisma appointed Hunter Biden to its board.
Shokin’s reluctance to pursue Zlochevsky was loudly condemned by the Obama administration shortly before Biden traveled to Ukraine at the end of 2015. In a speech to the Odessa Financial Forum that September, U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt complained that the chief prosecutor’s office had “undermined prosecutors working on legitimate corruption cases,” like, for example, “the case of former Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky.”
“Shokin was fired,” the executive director of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, Daria Kaleniuk, told me in May, “because he failed to do investigations of corruption and economic crimes of President Yanukovych and his close associates, including Zlochevsky, and basically it was the big demand within society in Ukraine, including our organization and many other organizations, to get rid of this guy.”
Despite the debunking of this conspiracy theory by The Intercept and other news outlets when Giuliani first raised it in May, the president’s lawyer was invited on CNN this week and allowed, over the course of 20 minutes on national television, to make a series of false claims about Biden and Ukraine, uncorrected by the host, Chris Cuomo, who admitted that he had almost no knowledge of the facts of the case.
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/22/reporters-stop-helping-donald-trum
p-spread-lies-joe-biden-ukraine/
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So Biden bragging that he got the prosecutor fired was just ... a Trumpian tall tale?
Empty words?
Lies?
Hmmm... either way, that's a problem, especially for people who believe that politicians who lie should be impeached.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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How's that impeachment investigation going folks?
I see you're just trying to throw everything against the wall and see if something finally sticks.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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