{"id":42841,"date":"2019-09-24T14:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42841"},"modified":"2019-09-24T14:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:39:57","slug":"trumps-ukraine-phone-call-transcript-doesnt-need-a-quid-pro-quo-to-impeach-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42841","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Ukraine Phone Call Transcript Doesn’t Need a Quid Pro Quo to Impeach Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been a disastrous week for Donald Trump. With the emergence of a White House whistleblower disclosing that Trump illegally extorted the President Of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, the prospects for his impeachment have escalated exponentially. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just announced that Congress is now “moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.”<\/em> And Trump’s deteriorating demeanor is showing the intensity of his fear and panic.<\/p>\n

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Trump is so desperate that he has caved into demands that he release the transcript of his July phone call with Zelensky, that he previously refused to do, saying that it would set a bad precedent. While that’s a good start, it is not nearly sufficient to clear up this controversy. For one thing, Trump is still refusing to release the whistleblower’s report that his own National Intelligence Inspector General said contained “serious”<\/em> and “urgent”<\/em> allegations that impact national security. Without that report we don’t know what the whistleblower was referring to, or even if it involved this phone call.<\/p>\n

As for the question of a “quid pro quo,”<\/em> there isn’t any requirement that an explicit demand be attached to Trump’s threat in order to constitute a breach of law and\/or ethics. The Mafia had a way of insuring that their victims knew what was expected of them without saying so directly. “Nice little country you have here,”<\/em> Trump might say, “Sure would hate to see something happen to it.”<\/em> And Trump has plenty of experience with that mobster mentality as a Manhattan real estate developer. In his announcement that he would be releasing the Ukraine phone call transcript he tweeted:<\/p>\n

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….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! This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n