- 20 Nov 2019 23:38
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The buck ends with Rudy Giuliani. That's convenient because he can refuse to testify on the basis of attorney/client privilege. Giuliani is the firewall between Trump and the impeachment investigation.
The last three witnesses were very careful not to directly incriminate Trump because they know that Trump would destroy them and that there is nothing that can protect them as long as Trump is in power.
They were walking a thin line between trying to avoid putting the blame directly on Trump, on the one hand, and trying to save their own skin, on the other hand. They solved this dilemma by claiming that they believed it was only about investigating Burisma and that it had nothing to do with the Bidens. That is of course absurd because nobody in the US has any interest in Burisma other than the fact that Hunter Biden worked for the company. The relation between the Bidens and Burisma was in the media in May at the latest. Anybody having anything to do with Ukraine would have read about it.
They did however indirectly implicate Trump by stating that getting Ukraine to investigate the Bidens as a quid pro quo would have been wrong. Trump in his June 25th phone call with Zelensky made clear that it was about the Bidens, when they talked about Burisma. Thus, all indirectly condemned Trump.
Stormsmith wrote:I wonder if Rudy Giuliani has bull dozer tracks on his back yet .
The buck ends with Rudy Giuliani. That's convenient because he can refuse to testify on the basis of attorney/client privilege. Giuliani is the firewall between Trump and the impeachment investigation.
The last three witnesses were very careful not to directly incriminate Trump because they know that Trump would destroy them and that there is nothing that can protect them as long as Trump is in power.
They were walking a thin line between trying to avoid putting the blame directly on Trump, on the one hand, and trying to save their own skin, on the other hand. They solved this dilemma by claiming that they believed it was only about investigating Burisma and that it had nothing to do with the Bidens. That is of course absurd because nobody in the US has any interest in Burisma other than the fact that Hunter Biden worked for the company. The relation between the Bidens and Burisma was in the media in May at the latest. Anybody having anything to do with Ukraine would have read about it.
They did however indirectly implicate Trump by stating that getting Ukraine to investigate the Bidens as a quid pro quo would have been wrong. Trump in his June 25th phone call with Zelensky made clear that it was about the Bidens, when they talked about Burisma. Thus, all indirectly condemned Trump.