{"id":43549,"date":"2019-12-21T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T23:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43549"},"modified":"2019-12-21T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T23:52:41","slug":"smoking-gun-trump-ordered-pentagon-to-delay-ukraine-aid-shortly-after-zelensky-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43549","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Gun? Trump Ordered Pentagon to Delay Ukraine Aid Shortly After Zelensky Phone Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that Donald Trump has now been impeached (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43533\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">despite what the loons on Fox News say<\/a><\/strong>), hasn&#8217;t slowed the discovery of new evidence of his guilt. This is one of the reasons that it&#8217;s so important to ensure a comprehensive consideration of the Articles of Impeachment when they get transmitted to the Senate. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knows this, and so do the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/expect-fair-trial-trump-10-aides-testify-poll\/story?id=67761813\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">vast majority of Americans<\/a><\/strong> who favor a full and fair hearing, including witnesses and document production.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-head-hands.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34610\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3188360184512088\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The impeachment controversy has sparked as epic battle between Pelosi and the Senate&#8217;s GOP majority leader, Mitch McConnell, who has already announced that he has no intention of conducting a fair hearing and will be <em>&#8220;taking his cues&#8221;<\/em> from White House lawyers. In the meantime, new evidence has already emerged that appears to be profoundly damaging to Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This email from Michael Duffey\u2014approximately 90 minutes after President Trump\u2019s call with the president of Ukraine\u2014is all the more reason why we need Duffey and others to testify in a Senate trial.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csensitive nature\u201d? What is that about? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P6kNKEfIOV\">pic.twitter.com\/P6kNKEfIOV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSchumer\/status\/1208483207013978114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Less than two hours after Trump got off the phone with President Zelensky of Ukraine, he ordered the Defense Department to withhold military aid to a country that was being invaded at the time by Russia. The order included a directive to keep it quiet due to it&#8217;s <em>&#8220;sensitive nature.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump is fond of telling everyone to <em>&#8220;read the transcript&#8221;<\/em> of his phone call with Zelensky. He&#8217;s tweeted that demand 29 times in the past few weeks. Most recently, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1208247467818594305\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a><\/strong>. He is referring to reading the notes made in a memo that describes his conversation with Zelensky. And he is apparently too oblivious to recognize that the memo actually confirms that he conditioned military aid on Zelensky&#8217;s promise to help him smear Joe Biden. What Trump said, in response to Zelensky&#8217;s inquiry about the aid, was&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a textbook quid pro quo. Trump then talks about getting some information related to a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43022\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">debunked conspiracy theory<\/a><\/strong> about a computer server that belonged to the Democratic National Committee. But he quickly segues from that to explicit requests for dirt on Joe Biden:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of talk about Biden&#8217;s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with [Rudy Giuliani and] the Attorney General [William Barr] would be great &#8230; so if you can look into it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This new memo was acquired through a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/publicintegrity.org\/national-security\/digging-ukrainedocs-omb-foia\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom of Information Act request<\/a><\/strong> by the Center for Public Integrity. It is among the documents that the White House had previously refused to surrender to congressional investigators. There are many more that Trump continues to withhold. And he is still refusing to allow his staff to give testimony.<\/p>\n<p>But if there&#8217;s one thing this memo proves, it&#8217;s that there is a real need to continue probing this criminal president and the accomplices in his administration. And when the Senate takes up the impeachment, they must permit the introduction of new evidence and testimony from relevant witnesses. The truth will likely come out eventually, anyway. But if Republicans in Congress allow Trump to deny access to it at this stage, they will be held accountable by both the courts and the voters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that Donald Trump has now been impeached (despite what the loons on Fox News say), hasn&#8217;t slowed the discovery of new evidence of his guilt. This is one of the reasons that it&#8217;s so important to ensure a comprehensive consideration of the Articles of Impeachment when they get transmitted to the Senate. House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,13],"tags":[1230,554,39,923,130,1387],"class_list":["post-43549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-scandalous","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeach","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-head-hands.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bkp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60027,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60027","url_meta":{"origin":43549,"position":0},"title":"FINALLY: Trump Admits that January 6th Was an Insurrection, But Blames it on Nancy Pelosi","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/8\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The many trials and tribulations of Donald Trump are continuing to unfold with a near constant narrative by Trump himself. 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