Richdude wrote on Jan 22
nd, 2020 at 12:55am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Jan 20
th, 2020 at 2:56pm:
Richdude wrote on Jan 20
th, 2020 at 2:49pm:
All the players involved have stated no quid pro quo.
“I know that members of this committee frequently frame these complicated issues in the form of a simple question:
"Was there a ‘quid pro quo’?” Sondland said.
“. . . With regard to the requested White House call and the White House meeting, the answer is yes.” So if there was a bribe,
why hasn't there been an investigation by the Ukraine into the matter? Use some common sense!
To continue with the fantasy. If there was a bribe, Trump was well within his rights to withhold money to a country as corrupt as the Ukraine.
Just a beet up! Find anything for an impeachment and if you can't - invent one!
The legal advice from the office of Budget and Management was that the money (congressional funding) was being held up illegally. If it wasn't paid before the end of the fiscal year, someone in the administration could face prosecution.
Hence the urgency within the department.
Not to mention the Ukraine, fighting a war with Russia. The Ukraine have kept well out of this because the US is paying for their guns. One ill-timed word from Zalensky and he's gone. The US does have that power, and Mr Trump is the most likely person to use it.
The hardest thing in this is the position it puts the Ukrsine in, pretending to look for fake internet servers and dig up dirt on some American politician's kid.
The call transcript doesn't record the look on Zalensky's face when Mr Trump mentioned "this Crowdstrike thing", a fully-debunked internet conspiracy.
I'd say tortured would be the best description. You?