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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Lock him up .... Lock him up .... Lock him up
PRESIDENT TRUMP may be formally refusing to cooperate with a congressional impeachment inquiry, but on Thursday his acting chief of staff revealed all that House investigators need to know in order to determine whether Mr. Trump abused his oath of office.
Yes, Mick Mulvaney said, Mr. Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine, money that had been appropriated by Congress and was desperately needed to resist Russian aggression, in order to induce the government of Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate a conspiracy theory about the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 2016 election. In other words, the president was using U.S. aid as leverage to advance his personal political agenda.
“We do that all the time with foreign policy,” Mr. Mulvaney said with stunning brazenness. “I have news for everybody: Get over it. There is going to be political influence in foreign policy.”
The chief of staff’s declaration represented an about-face in the White House defense on the Ukraine affair. Until now, Mr. Trump’s main argument has been that the whistleblower who described his July 25 phone call with Mr. Zelensky and his subordination of U.S. diplomacy to his reelection campaign had gotten it all wrong: There was no quid pro quo. But testimony to Congress by half a dozen present and former State Department and White House officials, and a rough transcript of the phone call, have fully confirmed the whistleblower’s memo
The new defense outlined by Mr. Mulvaney: Okay, we did it. So what?
Comments
The last paragraph of the article
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 4:48pm
Republicans won't hold him accountable.
If the economy stays positive and if the Democrats nominate open borders, M4A, big government, big plans big taxes Elizabeth Warren, Trump will be re-elected with a bigger Electoral College margin than 2016.
by NCD on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 6:15pm
Republican Senators may hold him accountable if they think Republican voters may hold *them* accountable.
There was a bloodbath in Nov 2018, and it could get much uglier Nov 2020 - so just as the White House keeps throwing people under the bus, the whole party will possibly commit internecine hara kiri - not out of the goodness of their hearts or love of country, but pure selfish survival. So it remains for the Dems to keep turning up the heat. As Rick Wilson keeps noting, it's sinful that the Dems don't have a much much stronger social media effort flouting all of Trump's misdeeds - just more and more wasted opportunities.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 6:32pm
It would be great to see that happen. Short of an economic downturn however, or Trump being committed to a mental hospital, Dems could still blow it with lefty purity platforms.
by NCD on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 7:49pm
Mulvaney moonwalks
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mick-mulvaney-walks-back-quid-pro-quo-answer_n_5da8e40ce4b0258abfcac997
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 8:02pm
Susan Glasser:
this excerpt basically sums up her "letter"
There is good detail on Fiona Hill's testimony and of others related.
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 9:08pm
Trevor Noah's humorous take
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trevor-noah-cant-believe-mick-mulvaney-just-confessed-to-trump-ukraine-corruption?ref=home
by rmrd0000 on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 10:15pm
Nancy Pelosi, 6 hrs. ago:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 10:26pm