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Tuesday, September 24, 2019

M 🍑 Trump!

Impeachment inquiry is coming.
The week is interesting.

Our dear leader is in New York at the United Nations. He will meet with world leaders and bolster his ego. Meanwhile in Washington, DC, the Democrats have finally decided to put their cards on the table.

The time has come.

The Democrats have finally reached a boiling point with Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence and Republicans. They are going to launch an impeachment inquiry into the actions of the nation's most polarizing president.

Trump is under fire. He allegedly strong armed the Ukrainian president into getting dirt on Joe Biden. The former vice president is a weak leading contender in the Democratic nomination but is the most likely to beat Trump in a general election. Biden's son Hunter was working for a gas and oil company in Ukraine and the Trump team was trying to muddy up the waters.

A whistleblower came out last week with damaging information. The whistleblower immediately saw something wasn't right with Trump when he made a phone call to a foreign leader. He made a "promise" to a foreign leader.

Trump and former New York City mayor (turned personal attorney) Rudy Giuliani pressed the Ukrainian government into investigating Hunter Biden. Trump tried to place a hold on military aid on the country before he later released.

The whistleblower complaint from someone within the intelligence community is believed to be related to the situation, but the complaint has not been forwarded to Congress as the law requires, because it was blocked by The Justice Department and The White House.

Now it's boiled to this. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is planning to issue an impeachment inquiry into Trump and William Barr, the Attorney General who ended the Mueller investigation five months into office.

Trump had tweeted in regards to the inquiry.









Today, Pelosi, current House Speaker stated that the House is launching a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, setting up a dramatic constitutional clash just over a year before the presidential election.

"Today I'm announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry," Pelosi said in a scathing statement at the Capitol late Tuesday afternoon.

The speaker has long resisted calls from many progressive lawmakers to initiate impeachment proceedings against the president, but Democrats appear to have reached a breaking point over the administration's refusal to hand over a whistleblower complaint related to Trump's interaction with a foreign leader.

"This week, the president has admitted to asking the president of Ukraine to take actions which would benefit him politically," Pelosi said. "The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable facts of the president's betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of national security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections."

In 2014, Hunter Biden joined the board of directors of Burisma Holdings. He was paid $50,000 a month for his work. The company is the largest non-governmental natural gas producer in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government had investigated the company and its owner Mykola Zlochevsky over allegations of money laundering, tax evasion and corruption.

In 2015, Viktro Shokin became a prosecutor general and he inherited the investigation. The Obama administration and other government and non-governmental organization soon became concerned that Skokin was not adequately pursing corruption. He was duly trying to protect the elite and was regarded as "an obstacle to anti-corruption efforts."
Trump made a controversial call to the Ukraine president. A whistleblower warned Congress.
Biden issued an ultimatum to the Ukrainian government stating that $1 billion in loan guarantees would be withheld unless Shokin was removed. Trump and Giuliani have push the conspiracy that Biden strong armed Ukraine to protect his son.

Congress demanded the complaint. The whistleblower filed it and went to Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. The complaint was "credible" and "urgent" as defined by the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA). The acting Director of Intelligence Joe Maguire was supposed to hand it over to Congress. He refused to do so and it set off a showdown between The White House and House Democrats who demanded they get the complaint.

The current furor stems from a call Mr. Trump made to the president of Ukraine in July, in which he admitted discussing Joe Biden in the context of fighting "corruption" in the country. Mr. Trump and his allies, in particular personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, have accused Biden of pushing for the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor while he was vice president in order to benefit his son. The prosecutor was widely seen as corrupt, and no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden has emerged.

One after another on Monday and Tuesday, Democrats from vulnerable House districts who had been resisting previous calls for impeachment came out in favor of initiating impeachment proceedings, citing concerns over Mr. Trump's potential pressuring of a foreign leader to investigate a domestic political opponent.
Biden says its time to impeach Trump.
The president directed his acting chief of staff to hold off on releasing nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine shortly before the call in July, according to a senior administration official with direct knowledge of the administration's actions.

Trump, who is in New York for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, reacted angrily to Pelosi's statement, calling it a "total Witch Hunt!" Earlier in the day he said he would release the transcript of the call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that is part of the whistleblower complaint.

"You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo!" the president tweeted Tuesday afternoon.

That concession, however, appeared unlikely to temper Democrats' demands for the complaint itself. Congressman Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said the whistleblower wants to testify before the committee. Schiff tweeted that the whistleblower's testimony could come "as soon as this week."



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