Trump's impeachment tantrum can't hide that he screwed the pooch
by digby
Uhm, Trumpie. They don't need the transcript! You confessed:
The conversation I had [with President Zelenskiy] was largely congratulatory, with largely corruption—all of the corruption taking place—and largely the fact that we don’t want our people like Vice President Biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine.”
That's an impeachable offense.
Here's his henchman:
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Impeachment doesn't require an explicit quid pro quo. It doesn't even require an implicit quid pro quo. It's an egregious abuse of power for a president to and his emissary to demand that a foreign government smear his political opponent in advance of the next election. Period.
But if they want the quid pro quo well, Trump hasn't exactly helped himself with that either:
There are dozens of reasons to impeach Trump. He is a criminal. But this one goes directly to the manipulation of the election in 2020 and if they don't do something about it there will be no going back.
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