Day 1178 The Crimes of Donald Trump
Tuesday December 17, 2019
327 Days until the 2020 election and 408 days until the Inauguration
With impeachment looming there seems to be some question in some people’s minds if Donald Trump committed any crimes and even if he did is it enough for him to be impeached and removed from office.
Let me be clear, he committed crimes. He should be removed from office.
Some point to “the polls.” Yes, 50% of the country say he should be impeached and removed from office. His approval rating is at 42%. Clinton’s was at 67% on the day he was impeached. But this isn’t about polls. This is about “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Trump has committed both. He has also committed common crimes. He has also committed ethical violations and abuses. In fact, I can’t think of one thing that one could say about this guy in terms of breaking the law, breaking his oath of office, or violating the Constitution that he hasn’t done.
It is breath taking to me that anyone would stand up to defend him, especially Linsey Graham and Ted Cruz whom Trump savaged during the 2016 election. Yet, there they are saying they won’t vote to impeach him when they haven’t even heard the evidence. It’s astonishing. Especially, when there are clips that can be played of them during the Clinton impeachment where they are acting all high and mighty. Clinton was impeached for improper personal conduct, but he never stopped doing the job of President. Trump never started doing the job.
Let’s review:
– Donald Trump has been laundering money for Russians for decades.
– Donald Trump directed his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to make hush money payments to two women to cover up his affairs with them to buy their silence in the run up to the 2016 election. THESE ARE CRIMES.
– Donald Trump has been found guilty of running a phony university for which he had to pay twenty five million in settlement. He should have paid more, but he made a contribution to the Florida attorney general’s political campaign of $20,000 and she dropped the charges. The people of Florida who bought into his scam got screwed, but she got to move up to being one of his lawyers.
– Donald Trump has been found guilty of running a sham charity in New York and is not allowed to run one in that state again and had to pay millions of dollars in restitution.
– Donald Trump has been shown to have committed ten separate acts of Obstruction of Justice via the Mueller Report. There are three components needed to meet the charge of Obstruction of Justice and ta-dah! In ten separate instances Donnie met them all. Ten times! He committed a crime. These crimes have been verified with evidence in all ten cases!
– Then there are the “high crimes.” That being the phone call with the President of Ukraine. In that phone call the president of the Untied States asked for a personal political favor. He asked the President of the Ukraine to interfere in our national election by investigating a political opponent of Trump. THIS IS A CRIME. IT IS A HIGH CRIME. IT IS SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED IN THE CONSTITUTION. Not only that but Trump then used extortion by threatening to withhold aid to that country. Aid that had been approved by Congress. THIS IS A CRIME. He then withheld the aid. THIS IS A CRIME
– He then asked China to interfere in the upcoming election. THIS IS A CRIME
We could also look at the nepotism, the emoluments, the being a useful idiot to Russia, the disastrous foreign policies, the huge debt, the lack of any meaningful legislation including no health care, the huge sums paid to protect his children while they go around the world doing crappy deals for him, the amount paid to protect him while he plays golf, the money his children have been raking in due to being related to the president. The fact that his son-in-law gave intel to MBS about Khashoggi, which led to Khashoggi’s death. That Trump gave sensitive intel to the Russians. That he has had numerous conversations with Putin and no one knows what was said.
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Yet, many Republican senators are supposedly going to not vote to impeach him and remove him from office.
Hopefully, some of them can be removed from office, but that too is in question as Republicans are working feverishly to cut down the voting roles to eliminate Democratic voters: 234,000 in Wisconsin, and 1.7 million in Georgia.
327 Days until the 2020 election and 408 days until the Inauguration
PS Now for the real news.
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