[Hindsite]

President Trump personally ordered his staff to freeze more than $391 million in aid to Ukraine in the days before he pressed the new Ukrainian president to investigate the Democrats’ leading presidential candidate.
Mr. Trump issued his directive to Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, who conveyed it through the budget office to the Pentagon and the State Department.

Mr. Trump issued his directive to Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, who conveyed it through the budget office to the Pentagon and the State Department. “No, I didn’t — I didn’t do it,” Mr. Trump told reporters. But just moments before, he suggested that there would be nothing wrong with linking American funding for Ukraine, a former Soviet republic that is fighting Russian-backed separatists, to a corruption inquiry about Mr. Biden and his family.

We have reached a tipping point. A new low. If there is any shred of checks and balances left, Congress needs to at least tame or better take this wannabe tyrant down. America's freedom and future deserves no less. Even if the GOP-infested Senate votes to acquit, this rogue regime needs to be exposed in all its corruption and utter incompetence.

The best, it seems, that pofo Obese Donald apologists seem to be able to offer in defense of the Fat Guy is something along the lines of "Hillary is worse" or "(insert name here) also was a lying piece of jet trash."

The readout of the call to Ukraine’s president will be written in Sharpie. no doubt

This looks like more left-wing fake news.

[jimjam]

Senate Republicans stuck up for themselves, and their institution, on Tuesday by joining unanimously with their Democratic colleagues to call on the president to stop stonewalling. They asked him to release to the relevant congressional committees the complaint from a whistle-blower that an inspector general had said raised an “urgent concern” about the president’s behavior. The rare display of institutional solidarity in defense of American democracy may prove ephemeral. On the other hand, it can be hard to recognize turning points in the moment, and this week Mr. Trump’s outrages seemed to be stirring lawmakers from their state of political rigidity and passivity.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, publicly asserted that he had pushed for the funding for Ukraine and received no explanation for why it had been held up by the administration.

Are the rats abandoning the ship ?

[Hindsite]

Senate Republicans stuck up for themselves, and their institution, on Tuesday by joining unanimously with their Democratic colleagues to call on the president to stop stonewalling. They asked him to release to the relevant congressional committees the complaint from a whistle-blower that an inspector general had said raised an “urgent concern” about the president’s behavior. The rare display of institutional solidarity in defense of American democracy may prove ephemeral. On the other hand, it can be hard to recognize turning points in the moment, and this week Mr. Trump’s outrages seemed to be stirring lawmakers from their state of political rigidity and passivity.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, publicly asserted that he had pushed for the funding for Ukraine and received no explanation for why it had been held up by the administration.

Are the rats abandoning the ship ?

They just want to see evidence to what actually happened and why. Apparently, President Trump has contacted the President of Ukraine to see if he objected to the release of the transcript of their conversation and has announced the release of the full unredacted transcript on Wednesday. So we will soon know the answers. The complaint by the so-called whistleblower, who had no first-hand knowledge, will also be released. So it looks like it is going to be much ado about nothing again.

[Beren]

Trump's such a master in whining.

Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry into Trump over Ukraine scandal

So there will be a proper impeachment process?

I wonder if they mean to help Biden's candidacy rather than screwing Trump with this.

[Rugoz]

Trump: "You have to help me find dirt on the Dems"
Putin: "It's too risky this time, your security services are alert"
Trump: "Then I have to do it myself"
Putin: "At your own peril"
Trump: "Watch me"

[Beren]

It would not be the best time to ask Putin to ask the Ukrainians for a favour anyway. The most amazing aspect of this story is though that Trump's still a bull in the china shop of international diplomacy.

[Zionist Nationalist]

The most amazing aspect of this story is though that Trump's still a bull in the china shop of international diplomacy.

I prefer him over the usual boring hypocrite politicians like Macron,Obama,Merkel
they are just clones. almost never show their true faces.

[Beren]

I prefer him over professional* politicians like Macron,Obama,Merkel
they are just clones. almost never show their true faces.

* Fixed for you

I guess Trump just showed his true face indeed when he blatantly threatened a foreign leader with withholding $400 million US government foreign aid to his country for dirt on one of his domestic political opponents via phone.

[Zionist Nationalist]

* Fixed for you

I guess Trump just showed his true face indeed when he blatantly threatened a foreign leader with withholding $400 million US government foreign aid to his country for dirt on one of his domestic political opponents via phone.

They are professional liars. Trump is not.
Trump doesn't like Ukraine and would withdraw all support for them if it was up to him because he knows that its a hopeless shithole

[Beren]

They are professional liars. Trump is not.

Even though he's an experienced and pathological one.

But you're absolutely right that Trump has failed to show any signs of any professionalism during his presidential tenure.

[Zionist Nationalist]

Even though he's an experienced and pathological one.

he is amateur compared to them.

these guys dont represent themselves they represent the deep state they have been trained to lie

[Beren]

he is amateur compared to them.

He's an amateur indeed, I wonder though how it makes him any better.

these guys dont represent themselves they represent the deep state they have been trained to lie

So Trump represents himself and not those who elected him or god forbid the American people as a whole?

Trump's just another politician, the only difference is that he's a botched one.

[BigSteve]

So Trump represents himself and not those who elected him or god forbid the American people as a whole?

At a minimum, he certainly does represent those who elected him...

Trump's just another politician, the only difference is that he's a botched one.

Kinda' makes you wonder: What does that say about the people who lost to him, or who will lose to him in 2020?

[Beren]

Kinda' makes you wonder: What does that say about the people who lost to him, or who will lose to him in 2020?

It rather makes me wonder whether what it says about the people that voted and/or will vote for him.

[Zionist Nationalist]

It rather makes me wonder whether what it says about the people that voted and/or will vote for him.

The people who voted for him did this for various reasons.

people got tired of mainstream politicians

[Rancid]

The hilarity here is that Trump supporters/defenders do not realize that Trump is using tactics (Ukrainegate as a big example) that the corrupt politicians in developing and 3rd world "shitholes" use.

@BigSteve is apparently ok with the US turning in Mexico. Because one of the things that makes advanced nations what they are is strong institutions. This behavior erodes that and opens the door to more corruption.

You reap what you sow.

[Beren]

The hilarity here is that Trump supporters/defenders do not realize that Trump is using tactics (Ukrainegate as a big example) that the corrupt politicians in developing and 3rd world "shitholes" use.

@BigSteve is apparently ok with the US turning in Mexico. Because one of the things that makes advanced nations what they are is strong institutions. This behavior erodes that and opens the door to more corruption.

You reap what you sow.

They oppose Latino immigrants the most, because they're mostly poor and there are too many of them, but they don't mind that the Trump saga could be a Latin American soap opera (or reality show).

[Rancid]

They oppose Latino immigrants the most, because they're mostly poor and there are too many of them, but they don't mind that the Trump saga could be a Latin American soap opera (or reality show).

Exactly, this is the kind of tom foolery that is rampant in Latin America. It's one of the reasons pretty much all Latin American countries are stuck in the middle income trap. A large part of it is corruption. Their leaders do stupid shit just like Trump is doing now.

Of course, Trump supporters are too uneducated to see this.

[Hong Wu]

Moving to the next country over from Russia, Democrats are going to have a vote over whether to impeach Trump for allegedly doing something that they admit they did. Their evidence is an anonymous source; Republicans are releasing transcripts and documents. The plot thickens, it's anyone's guess how this turns out.

[Beren]

Ukrainegate will be as big compared to Russiagate as big Ukraine is compared to Russia. It was just a phone call to a foreign leader basically, however, interestingly enough, that's what's worth an impeachment according to Nancy Pelosi.