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The illegitimate President. As Donald Trump finds himself at the center of an impeachment inquiry, his backers in right-wing media have been working overtime to play defense for the embattled president. To start with Hillary Clinton having dismissed President Trump as an “illegitimate president” and suggested that “he knows” that he stole the 2016 presidential election . May have set off a trigger . I remember that the first mention of illegitimacy came under Barack Obama’s term . So the idea of a "coup" may not be so far fetched . I think that the 2016 election was a "inside job" as FAR AS MANIPULATING the votes for Trump[ yea, I know we have been told it was the Russians ] . That SAVED us from a HILLARY PRESIDENCY . The coup is far from over , now the same tactic is after Trump . Now the idea of a illegitimate President came as (1.1)>>I remember how the Republicans attacked Obama , this marked a period of rapid-fire demands from right-wing media for the president’s [ Obama] removal from office. It’s instructive to see how much the bar for “high crimes and misdemeanors” has shifted since then, helping gauge how seriously we should take the words of conservative pundits when the president is a member of their own party. I liken that Hillary's remarks , as part of (1.2)>>Nancy's plan of impeachment are both going after Trump with a vengeance , yea political vengeance →FIRST. What Donald J Trump did about launching a corruption investigation , by ASKING the Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelensky in July (1.3)>>2019 to investigate Joe Biden , so & I am in agreement that it's vary skittish , it's trending on what serious criminal wrong doing on the part of the President . What is interesting about this , is the fact that what Donald Trump was seeking out info on Biden was already freely available on the Internet . He would have just googled Joe Biden , Hunter Biden together and a whole bunch of news posts regarding how Joe Biden bribed the Ukrainian leaders into positioning Hunter to get a job , ON the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a (2)>>Ukrainian energy company, on April 18, 2014. Either case yes , what Trump did in trying to get his opposition research is by asking a foreign government to investigate a political rival is wrong . So I am ALSO saying this as well that Joe Biden is crooked . What Joe Biden did is somewhat wrong as well . So Trump's foolhardy inquiry on Biden may have indeed opened up a can of worms . The biggest worm in (2.1)>>this whole debacle is our American "meddling" in Ukraine . In CASE you get to hear how our media spins the story around as" Trump was asking a foreign government to collude with our 2020 election " I Want to make many Americans aware that our government has been meddling in Ukraine for a long time . In 2014, the Obama administration was trying to support the new post-2014 Ukrainian revolution Yatsenyuk government in Ukraine diplomatically, and then-vice president Joe Biden was "at the forefront" of those efforts. BUT Ukraine was caught in the middle of a cold war with Russia , that has involved a civil war that has drawn America , along with billions of dollars of American tax payer money to support a secret war , which the United States is supporting the Ukrainian government with weapons , money to push back Russia out of Ukraine from joining NATO . This effort is at the root cause of many of the issues with our relations with Russia . (3)>>As far as TRUMP IS CONCERNED he is caught right in the middle , first he wanted "better relations with Russia" , now Trump has turned around pretty much has tried to involve himself with Russia's enemies the Ukrainian government . BUT America's direct "meddling" is not just a Republican problem , it was the Democrats that started it it , the Republican party soon jumped the bandwagon in aligning Ukraine with American military interests . (4)>>The Names of American political leaders involved in Ukraine politics and money. → Nancy Pelosi , Hillary Clinton , John Kerry, Mitchell McConnell Jr, Lindsey Olin Graham, the Late John McCain , Joe Biden . to name a few , if you want to impeach Trump , think the list of the impeach ables should grow, considering the (4.1)>>quagmire of US involvement there. The reality is that, after two decades of eastward Nato expansion, this crisis was triggered by the west's attempt to pull Ukraine decisively into its orbit and defence structure, via an explicitly anti-Moscow EU association agreement. Its rejection led to the Maidan protests and the installation of an anti-Russian administration – rejected by half the country – that went on to sign the EU and International Monetary Fund agreements regardless. While The president has defended his open calls for foreign governments to investigate a political rival by repeating that there was “no quid pro quo”. Text messages between US diplomats and an assistant to Zelenskiy released this week reveal that this was not the understanding of US diplomats dealing with Ukraine. The messages, made public as part of a Congressional impeachment inquiry, illustrate the lengths to which top U.S. diplomats went in pursuing their goal: extracting a public pledge from Zelenskiy to investigate whether Ukraine had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election with the aim of helping Hillary Clinton, and whether former Vice President Joe Biden had improperly hindered a Ukrainian money-laundering probe of a company where his son, Hunter, held a lucrative board seat. In a tweet on Thursday, Trump said the presidency gave him “an absolute right, perhaps even a duty, to investigate or have investigated, CORRUPTION, and that would include asking, or suggesting, other Countries to help us out!” Few congressional Republicans or commentators have spoken against Trump after the president urged two foreign governments, Ukraine and China, to investigate a political rival this week.
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(1.1)>>I remember how the Republicans attacked Obama. Less than two months after Obama took office, right-wing radio host Michael Savagedeclared, “I think it is time to start talking about impeachment.” He was angry about Obama’s use of executive actions, and he called the American people “a bunch of schmucks” for sitting idly as they were “watching a dictatorship emerge in front of their eyes.” Despite occasional criticism, Savage has been largely supportive of Trump and recently accused Nancy Pelosi of being an “illegitimate speaker” of the House intent on destroying the Constitution by opening a Trump impeachment inquiry. (1.2)>>Nancy's plan of impeachment are both going after Trump with a vengeance , yea political vengeance . Trump may have been jinxed by the same political theories of The illegitimate President that haunted Obama . It's not the birther problem , but that Trump was elected by Russian help . I wonder sometime if it is the same people doing this ? It's fishy thatDemocratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives, with vocal support from 2020 presidential candidates and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, along with others, are organizing their efforts toward an official impeachment inquiry. As the issue came to a head in Pelosi’s speech, we’re taking a look at all of the past offenses that almost resulted in Trump’s impeachment. If YOU ALL RECALL → “By November 10, 2016 — just two days after the election! — television talking heads were already conjuring up theoretical scenarios in which Donald Trump could be removed from office,” MRC’s NewsBusters reports. “Since then, TV journalists have amassed quite a repertoire of possible causes for a premature end to the Trump White House, including (but not limited to): his tax returns; his family’s business dealings, both home and abroad; his firing of various cabinet officials; and of course, his tweets.” (1.3)>>2019 to investigate Joe Biden. Remember the DNC nomination is rigged as I believe . Joe Biden is already picked . I think Trump may have found out about the DNC choice , his move to investigate Biden over the other Democrat hopefuls is a obvious sign .The obvious leader in the polls is former Vice President Joe Biden, who has remained largely popular not just from his base but within the Rust Belt. He has a very real shot at unseating Trump, but that requires him to prove that intersectionality and ideological extremism don't dominate Democratic politics. Meanwhile, the US and its European allies impose sanctions and dictate terms to Russia and its proteges in Kiev, encouraging the military crackdown on protesters after visits from Joe Biden and the CIA director, John Brennan. But by what right is the US involved at all, incorporating under its strategic umbrella a state that has never been a member of Nato, and whose last elected government came to power on a platform of explicit neutrality? It has none, of course – which is why the Ukraine crisis is seen in such a different light across most of the world. There may be few global takers for Putin's oligarchic conservatism and nationalism, but Russia's counterweight to US imperial expansion . (2)>>Ukrainian energy company. Department of Energy's Office of International Affairs has had a leading role in supporting efforts by the Government of Ukraine to strengthen its energy planning capabilities, introduce critical reforms and enhance the country’s energy security.Since 2014, the Department of Energy has provided technical expertise to Ukraine through the development of a series of “winter action plans,” comprehensive road maps which designed to prepare the country for possible disruptions during each winter season in the electricity, natural gas, and district heating sectors. Energy Secretary Rick Perry urged Ukraine's president to root out corruption and pushed the new government for changes at its state-run oil and gas company, people familiar with his work said Friday — indications that he was more deeply involved than previously known in President Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure officials in Kiev.The people said they have no indication that Perry explicitly called on Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, the issue that has spawned a House impeachment inquiry into Trump. But at the very least, they said, Perry played an active role in the Trump administration's efforts to shape decisions by the newly elected government of President Volodymyr Zelensky.(2.1)>>this whole debacle is our American "meddling" in Ukraine . In any case, the U.S. diplomats are big losers in the whole fiasco. They failed in their effort to please their impetuous president, and they’ve been caught trying to get a foreign leader to do something improper, showing no concern for the local political consequences.It’s not the first time that meddling in Ukraine has backfired on U.S. officials. In early 2014, Victoria Nuland, a senior official in the Obama-era State Department, was caught on tape plotting personnel changes in the Ukrainian government, still under beleaguered President Viktor Yanukovych. The plan didn’t work out, but the recording — in which Nuland was heard making a deeply embarrassing profane comment about the European Union — ended up on YouTube, almost certainly with the help of Russian interests. Nuland was forced to apologize to the Europeans.Biden, too, did his share of incompetent meddling when he was vice president under Obama and in charge of the Ukraine portfolio. The Shokin firing is just one example. Biden’s stated goal was to remove a prosecutor equally hated by Ukrainian anti-corruption activists and Ukraine’s European allies, but Poroshenko replaced Shokin with his close ally Yury Lutsenko, who made political meddling in investigations even easier for the president and his allies.All this sordid history should tell American diplomats something: It’s none of their business who gets appointed to what job in Kyiv and it’s not for them to decide what a Ukrainian president should say (even if it would look great in a campaign ad). The country can be a valuable ally for the U.S. in a complex region, one that has proven its ability to stand up to Russian pressure in tough situations. But the relationship can benefit both only if Americans practice what they preach — the rule of law, for example, and the primacy of the public good over political gain.(3)>>As far as TRUMP IS CONCERNED he is caught right in the middle , first he wanted "better relations with Russia". When it came to Donald Trump, here you had a guy who kept saying, “We should have better relations with Russia in a broad sense.” Of course, why wouldn’t the Russians welcome that? Interestingly, I found that RT had sent a reporter to a Trump press conference, got called on somehow—to this day, I'm not sure whether that was random or not—and asked Trump a question about U.S.-Russia relations. And at this press conference, which was at the Trump Hotel, which was just opening at the time, Trump gave his spiel about, “We can get along great with Russia; I can get along great with Putin; we should work together.” RT[ Russian News ] quickly turned around a segment that they aired that night: “Trump says better relations with Russia,” and gave it big, warm, glowing treatment. I thought that was very significant. That sort of happened at the end of my reporting. As I say, I was starting to see more of that theme come through. Now its 2019 , Trump took a drastic turn that has brought relations with Russia to cold war lows . He pulled out of a Reagan - Gorbachev era treaty for the reduction of Nuclear Weapons [ INF TREATY] . The downward spiral , Trump's sudden jump to get cozy with Ukraine , supplying Ukraine with anti- tank shoulder missiles is vary much at odds with the man who once thought of getting along with Russia.(4)>>The Names of American political leaders involved in Ukraine . Such umbrage might be more credible if the United States refrained from engaging in similar conduct. But the historical record shows that Washington has meddled in the political affairs of dozens of countries—including many democracies. An egregious example occurred in Ukraine during the Euromaidan Revolution of 2014. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, went to Kiev to show solidarity with the Euromaidan activists. McCain dined with opposition leaders, including members of the ultra right-wing Svoboda Party. The extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine’s politics was breathtaking. Russian intelligence intercepted and leaked to the international media a Nuland telephone call in which she and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffey Pyatt discussed in detail their preferences for specific personnel in a post-Yanukovych government. The U.S-favored candidates. Washington’s conduct not only constituted meddling, it bordered on micromanagement. Washington’s conduct not only constituted meddling, it bordered on micromanagement. (4.1)>>quagmire of US involvement there. We all might take a momet to READ former President Obama's statement on Ukriane . ALL the Key players are mentioned , from 2014 : https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/02/28/statement-president-ukraine The U.S. has committed more than $1.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since 2014, when Russian-backed separatists began driving tanks through eastern Ukraine. Since then the US has spent over 5 billion in Ukraine of American Tax payer money that has since not been accounted for .[ Saying its been lost ] The latest equipment was largely more of the same aid the U.S. previously supplied, aimed at helping Ukraine monitor and secure its borders, deploy its forces more safely and effectively, and make progress toward NATO interoperability. If what Biden did is okay, how did Trump overstep? And conversely, if everything Trump did was on the up-and-up, how can the president claim that “if a Republican ever did what Joe Biden did ... they’d be getting the electric chair by right now”? (5)>>should Trump leave office. Trump’s problems are self-inflicted. WE all know that . Hence, though impeachment is a constitutional provision, it is also a political campaign. That campaign began in earnest this week when Nancy Pelosi directed her Democratic colleagues in the House to begin impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump. This will not necessarily lead to impeachment. In the past, though, impeachment hearings have generated a momentum of their own. The process is fraught with risks on both sides. One thing seems certain: the process will further divide a country that is already set against itself.
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