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Impeachment Inquiry There is "an elephant in the room" but nobody wants to talk about it .... You know it, I know it, but nobody post blog to talk about it. THE ROUGH transcript of President Trump’s July 25 with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prompted a debate about whether, in pressing for politicized investigations of alleged Ukrainian interference in the 20 and 16 election and of Joe Biden, Mr. Trump dangled rewards for Mr. Zelensky as a quid pro quo. In our view, the transcript contained at least a hint that Mr. Trump was linking the “favor” he wanted arms sales, and clear evidence that he was tying it a White House invitation. That conclusion is now confirmed. messages among U.S. diplomats and a Ukrainian official released by House committees definitively show that not only did the Trump administration seek extract Ukrainian promises of political probes in exchange for a summit meeting, but also they spent weeks negotiating the deal both before and after the Trump-Zelensky . There was no lack of clarity on either side. “Heard from the White House,” U.S. special envoy Ukraine Kurt Volker texted a top aide to Mr. Zelensky on July 25, just ahead of the . “Assuming President Z convinces Trump he will investigate/ ‘get to the bottom of what happened’ in 20, we will nail down date for a visit to Washington.” About two weeks later, amid negotiations over what, exactly, Mr. Zelensky would say in publicly announcing the probes, the aide, Andrey Yermak, texted Mr. Volker: “I think it’s possible to make this declaration and mention all these things. . . . But it will be logic to do after we receive a confirmation of date.” In the end, the deal did not go through. Instead, the record shows that Mr. Trump and his retainers kept raising their demands, like a casino developer squeezing a plumbing contractor.  Honesty is the best policy. |
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Yes, I read the news online this morning after read your comments here. Trump announces killing of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi in Syria. That last name sounded like bad daddy. Obama had a raid and k*lled Osama bin Ladin that cheered us few years ago. Honesty is the best policy.
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Ambassador William Taylor’s testimony to House investigators on Tuesday, Oct. 29, didn’t answer every question about the Ukraine scandal, but it answered the big one: Will President Donald Trump be impeached? Impeachment is now effectively inevitable. Taylor’s testimony fleshed out the biggest open questions, including whether there was a quid pro quo with Ukraine (there was), what it involved (military aid), and what Trump wanted (investigations of the Biden family and the 20 and16 election.) Congress has now heard from career civil servants and from political appointees, all telling a similar story, and Taylor removed the last scintilla of doubt. With that, it’s all but impossible to imagine a scenario in which House Democrats don’t vote to impeach the president. The remaining questions are how much broader the scandal gets, how much worse the details become, and how many—if any—Republicans get on board with impeachment. All of these in turn bear on the ultimate question: whether the Senate might vote to remove Trump. Honesty is the best policy.
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The full text of the memo, as whistlebrower described to CBS News: 26 July 2019 The following is a record of a conversation I had this afternoon with a White House official about the telephone call yesterday morning between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The official who listened to the entirety of the phone call was visibly shaken by what had transpired and seemed keen to inform a trusted colleague within the U.S. national security apparatus about the call. After my call with this official I [redacted] returned to my office, and wrote up my best recollection of what I had heard. The official described the call as "crazy," "frightening" and "completely lacking in substance related to national security." The official asserted that the President used the call to persuade Ukrainian authorities to investigate his political rivals, chiefly former Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter. The official stated that there was already a conversation underway with White House lawyers about how to handle the discussion because, in the official's view, the President had clearly committed a criminal act by urging a foreign power to investigate a U.S. person for the purposes of advancing his own reelection bid in 2020. The phone call lasted approximately half an hour. The two leaders spoke through interpreters. My conversation with the official only lasted a few minutes, and as a result, I only received highlights: The President asserted that "it all started in Ukraine," referring to the allegations of foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent investigation into the Trump campaign's contact with Russian individuals The President asked Zelenskyy to locate the "Crowdstrike server" and turn it over to the United States, claiming that Crowdstrike is "a Ukrainian company," (Note: This appears to be a reference to the DNC server from which Russian hackers stole data and emails that were subsequently leaked in mid-2016; the DNC hired cyber security firm Crowdstrike to do the forensic analysis, which informed the FBI's investigation. It is not clear what the president was referring to when he claimed Crowdstrike is a Ukrainian company; one of its cofounders was born in Moscow.) The President told Zelenskyy that he would be sending his personal lawyer, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, to Ukraine soon and requested that Zelenskyy meet with him. Zelenskyy reluctantly agreed that, if Giuliani traveled to Ukraine, he would see him. The President raised the case of Burisma Holdings, Hunter Biden's role in the company, and former Vice President Biden's role in setting Ukraine policy. The President urged Zelenskyy to [end page 1] investigate the Bidens and stated that Giuliani would discuss this topic further with Zelenskyy during his trip to Kyiv. The President urged Zelenskyy not to fire Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, who the President claimed was doing a good job. (Note: Lutsenko has spearheaded various politicized investigations, including on Burisma Holdings and alleged "Ukrainian interference" in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Lutsenko is widely reviled in Ukraine, and Zelenskyy has pledged to fire him but has been unable to secure approval from the legislature.) The President stated that he wanted Attorney General William Barr to speak with Zelenskyy as soon as possible. (Note: It was not clear whether this conversation was to be in reference to Crowdstrike or the investigations of the Bidens.)The President reiterated his concern that Zelenskyy was surrounded by people who were enemies of the President, including "bad oligarchs." The President did not raise security assistance. According to the official, Zelenskyy demurred in response to most of the President's requests. I did not review a transcript or written notes, but the official informed me that they exist. The standard White House practice for Presidential-level phone calls with world leaders is for the White House Situation Room to produce a word-for-word electronic transcript that memorializes the call. The transcript is typically then circulated to key White House officials to be transformed into a formal memorandum that is distributed as an eyes-only document, to the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Director of the CIA. In this case, the official told me that such a transcript had indeed been produced and was being treated very sensitively, in hard copy only. Moreover, several additional senior White House officials listened to the entire phone call in an adjacent room in the Situation Room suite and they presumably took written notes on the call. The official did not know whether the President was aware that other people were listening and that the call was being transcribed. The official also was not certain whether anyone else was in the Oval Office with the President during the call. On the Ukrainian side, it is unclear who listened to the call or whether a record was produced. Honesty is the best policy.
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In Trump near 3 yrs presidency, he has either fired or people resigned within short term. Although those persons are not related to Trump's impeachment inquiry but those personnel change so fast, I am confused. List of short-tenure in Trump near 3 years administration: 1. Secretary of State: from Rex W. Tillerson to John F. Kelly to Mike Pompeo 2. White House Press Secretary: from Sean Spicer to Sarah Elizabeth Sanders to Stephanie Grisham. 3. FBI Director: from James Comey (filed) to Andrew McCabe (filed) to Christopher A,. Wray. 4. Trump personal lawyer: from Michael Cohen (in jail) to Rudy Giuliani. 5. Chair of Federal Reserve: from Janet Yellen to Jerome Powell. 6. Secretary of Defense: from James N. Mattis (resigned) to Trump appointed Patrick Michael Shanahan. 7. White House Communication Director: Anthony Scaramucci(filed in 11 days)- the shortest tenure. 8. National Security Advisor: Michael Flynn (filed in 24 days) 9. Sr. Counselor to the president: Steve Bannon (210 days) 10. U.S. Ambassador to U.N.: from John Bolton to Robert Joseph. The list may goes longer.... Honesty is the best policy.
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It is more than just Trump said "grab them by the pu**y" and "Shoot anyone and not losing a vote". Trump didn't release his income tax returns before and after his inauguration and he had "hush money" to two women for his extramarital affairs and 19 women had lawsuits. Today's update: A federal judge rejected President Donald Trump's claim to be immune from all criminal investigations Monday and dismissed his lawsuit challenging a state grand jury subpoena for 8 years of his tax returns sought by Manhattan's district attorney. Honesty is the best policy.
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Representative Mark Amodei, Republican of Nevada, has indicated openness to an impeachment inquiry. Honesty is the best policy.
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An impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, was initiated on September 24, 2019, by Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. It began after revelations that President Trump and top administration officials had pressured leaders of multiple foreign nations, most notably Ukraine, in ways intended to advance Trump's personal and political interests. Additional allegations of misconduct emerged in the days afterwards. Historians and diplomats called the severity of the allegations "unprecedented" in American history. Pelosi initiated the inquiry in the wake of a whistleblower report that alleged an ongoing widespread abuse of power and subsequent cover-up by Trump and his administration's officials during Trump's presidency, in "order to advance [Trump's] personal interests." The whistleblower's report was largely based upon information given to them by more than "half a dozen U.S. officials" and has been largely corroborated. From May to August 2019, Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani repeatedly pressed the Government of Ukraine to investigate his political opponent Joe Biden, a former U.S. vice president and candidate for the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as his son Hunter. On July 18, 2019, through his chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, Trump instructed his staff to place a hold on Congressionally mandated military aid to Ukraine. During a phone call a week later, he pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch two investigations, including one into the actions of Joe and Hunter Biden. The whistleblower also accused the White House of attempting to cover up the contents of this phone call. In response to the report, the Trump administration released a memorandum of this phone call, which confirmed that Trump had asked Zelensky to "look into" the Biden controversy. The whistleblower report also implicated Giuliani and U.S. Attorney General William Barr as part of a more widespread pressure campaign directed towards the Ukrainian government. Honesty is the best policy.
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