{"id":63124,"date":"2024-09-27T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63124"},"modified":"2024-09-27T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:34:07","slug":"trump-lies-that-zelenskyy-told-him-he-did-nothing-wrong-exhuming-the-lie-that-got-him-impeached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63124","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lies that Zelenskyy Told Him He Did Nothing Wrong, Exhuming the Lie that Got Him Impeached"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago Donald Trump was impeached for threatening Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an attempt to bully him into digging up – or making up – dirt on President Biden. Trump’s extortion attempt was unsuccessful as Zelenskyy steadfastly refused to buckle under to Trump’s illegal and unethical demands.<\/p>\n

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Under ordinary circumstances, most former presidents, and current candidates, might want to avoid reminding voters of that humiliating chapter in their amoral career. But Trump is hardly ordinary. He’s a malignant narcissist who is consumed with his own image and welfare to the detriment of everything and everyone else, including himself.<\/p>\n

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On Friday Trump met with Zelenskyy as part of his campaign to pretend that he’s still the president, or at least in some measure relevant. The meeting was just another embarrassing episode for Trump. Zelenskyy appeared to be as uncomfortable as a victim in a hostage video. But he endured the indignity of standing next to Trump on behalf of his country in order to ensure the favor of congressional Republicans who still support Ukraine.<\/p>\n

For his part, Trump was Trump. And in his barely comprehensible comments he managed to diverge from the matter at hand, to his still seething outrage at having been impeached for trying to strongarm Zelenskyy into helping him to smear Biden in the midst of a campaign. Ignoring the actual reasons for Zelenskyy’s visit, Trump turned the discussion to his own dated anxieties, saying that…<\/p>\n

“When they did the impeachment hoax, a Democrat hoax, which we won, but one of the reasons we won it so easily is when the president was asked – it was over a phone call with the president, and he said – he could have grandstanded and played cute, but he didn\u2019t. He said President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. He said it loud and clear. And the impeachment hoax died there.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Trump: *looks to Zelenskyy* I don\u2019t even know if you know this but when they did the impeachment hoax.. one of the reasons we won it so easily.. he could\u2019ve played cute but he didn\u2019t. He said President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong pic.twitter.com\/ladOtitzAN<\/a><\/p>\n

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