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Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Buchanan: Where Are The "High Crimes"?

“Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

These are the offenses designated in the Constitution for which presidents may be impeached and removed from office.

Which of these did Trump commit?

According to his accusers in this city, his crime is as follows:
The president imperiled our “national security” by delaying, for his own reasons, a transfer of lethal aid and Javelin missiles to Ukraine — the very weapons President Barack Obama refused to send to Ukraine, lest they widen and lengthen the war in the Donbass.
Now, if Trump imperiled national security by delaying the transfer of the weapons, was not Obama guilty of a greater crime against our national security by denying the weapons to Ukraine altogether?

The essence of Trump’s crime, it is said, was that he demanded a quid pro quo. He passed word to incoming President Volodymyr Zelensky that if he did not hold a press conference to announce an investigation of Joe Biden and son Hunter, he, Zelensky, would not get the arms we had promised, nor the Oval Office meeting that Zelensky requested.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you are okay with this President, a future President or anyone asking a foreign government to assist in you political campaign then what Trump did is okay. I just happen to think that is wrong

Girdletree said...

Save your CNN / Pelosi B.S. for Thanksgiving dinner. That's not what happened. Assist in a campaign is different than asking why Biden's son is making 60k a month, in the Ukraine, with no business, WHATSOEVER, of being there. You think that is okay? That is a prime example of corruption. Funny how that didn't come up in your comments. Pointing out Democrats is so freaking easy! They think they are so smart and everyone else is stupid when it is vice versa!