Stjohns3269
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They've treated presumption, innuendo, and policy disagreement like lawbreaking and impeachment material.
They then say that if one tries to not be railroaded with bogus charges based on those presumptions, innuendo, and policy disagreements that one is obstructing "justice" or at least Congress so that, too, would be impeachment material.
Does that help?
If someone calls the police and says I believe that a crime is taking place the police go and investigate.
The police dont say well this is presumption , innuendo and a difference of opinion about what a crime is.
Below are four admissions of Quid Pro Quo.
One from the european Ambassador, One from Mulvaney, Trump and the final one from Vindman who was on the call in question. None of that requires presumption ( which even if it did would still be enough to investigate). These are first hand accounts
“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.”
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Q: "But to be clear, what you just described is a quid pro quo. It is: Funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happens as well."
Mulvaney: "We do that all the time with foreign policy.
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They have the server, right, from the DNC, Democratic National Committee," Trump said. "The FBI went in and they told them, get out of here, we're not giving it to you. They gave the server to CrowdStrike or whatever it's called, which is a country — which is a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI's never gotten that server. That's a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?"
The cohost Steve Doocy, appearing to anticipate the path Trump was going down, asked incredulously: "Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to Ukraine?"
"Well, that's what the word is. That's what I asked, actually, in my phone call," he said, referring to his July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that's the focus of the whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry.
Then, critically, the president added: "I mean, I asked it very point-blank, because we're looking for corruption. There's tremendous corruption. Why should we be giving hundreds of millions of dollars to countries when there's this kind of corruption?"
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“It was a demand for [Zelensky] to fulfill his — fulfill this particular prerequisite in order to get the meeting,” Vindman said, describing what Trump said on the call. “The demand was, in order to get the White House meeting, they had to deliver an investigation.
'No doubt' Trump was demanding Ukraine launch investigations, national security official testified
Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, also outlined a quid pro quo effort linked to the acting White House chief of staff.
www.nbcnews.com