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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019White House acknowledges strings attached in Trump withholding Ukraine aid
By Jeff Mason and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
34 Comments
Chip Star
It's clear the WH is trying to get our ahead of evidence that will be brought to light. Hilarious they have done a screeching 180. Even more hilarious will be Trumpophiles following suit after having told us since this story broke that there was no quid pro quo.
Omachi
In other words, Yea, we do impeachable offenses – all of the time. Get over it.
David Varnes
The White House is now so brazen that they willingly admit to violating the law, to conspiring with a foreign country to subvert the American electoral system... and are now daring Congress to do something about it.
I'm sure that the House of Representatives will uphold their Constitutional duty to impeach this criminal president. The question is if the Republicans in the Senate, led by Moscow Mitch and Lap Dog Lindsay, will actually honor their oaths to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and remove Donald J. Trump from office.
u_s__reamer
What a load of blarney from Mulvaney who would have us believe that the golfing Potus's daily diet of F&F and KFC was disturbed by his serious concerns about computer servers in the Ukraine, a country Tump's never even been able to find on a map.
PTownsend
Trump doesn't want those outside his family and syndicate to learn more about what he does during 'executive' time, nor about his shady and/or ridiculous backroom deals, nor about who all around the globe he's working with and for.
A tactic learnt from dictators, monarchs and mafia Dons.
Another example of the Don fuhrer establishing his Trump uber alles reign. Aping Erdogan, Putin, MbS, Xi, Kim, and other despots.
Blacklabel
Every foreign aid has “strings attached”.
see Central America, as liberals are unable to see clearly once they start thinking about muh Russia Rokuhei impeachment.
why do we send them money? To encourage certain behaviors and discourage others. this is what Mulvaney if talking about for all foreign aid.
Blacklabel
Not a biased article, at all. This has in no way been “debunked”. Just the media claiming nothing happened over and over and hoping everyone just accepts that.
CrazyJoe
"Treason made me uncomfortable but I did it anyway. I'm way too stupid to have understood that treason was wrong! Please don't boycott my hotels or thwart my greed and vanity. I have to stay in the 1% no matter what."
In other words, "I have no idea how to do this very important job I bought with campaign donations."
lincolnman
Well, this is certainly true to pattern....
Up until today: Was there any quid-pro-quo involved in withholding the military aid to Ukraine?
Trump: No, Never, Absolutely not, Crazy, Are you stupid?
Today: A reporter told Mulvaney that what he just described was a quid pro quo. "We do that all the time with foreign policy," Mulvaney responded.
Just like; Has anyone from the Trump campaign met with Russians? No, never, absolutely not....well, except for Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Papadapolous, Sessions, Don Jr, Jared......
Trump confessed to the QPQ in the transcript, which is brilliant lawyer told him to release, and he still denied it. Then a series of Trump officials march to capital Hill and all say, oh yea, it was a QPQ....
I wonder if the Trumpers here will all be offering their apologies and mea-culpas....
I think we know the answer to that...
WilliB
Good grief, the propaganda media really try their darnedest to divert attention from the Biden scandal and turn it into a Trump scandal. To anybody outside the fake media propaganda echo chamber, this looks simply pathetic.
By the way, this part:
is an outright lie. This so-called "inquiry" i.e. cangaroo court is happening in secrecy in an committe chaired by the chief Trump hater, who also advised the CIA leakers (the so-called "whistle blowers"). The house of representatives only gets selected soundbytes from the swamp activist. Fundamentally, this is a slow-moving coup dètat by the swamp.
Black Sabbath
So, I guess there was quid pro quo after all.
Black Sabbath
And, BTW, notice how for Trumpy and his defenders, the goal post keeps moving:
from it didn't happen, to it did but no qpq (which still didn't make it a crime, 'cause solicitation), to ok qpq but that ain't no thing, to ok, ok, it is a thing, but not a Big Thing, to - and you can bet the farm on it -
ok ok, its a Big Thing, but not an impeachable thing.
To impeachment, to conviction or resignation.
To then, they all do it, he only got caught. BENGAZHI EMAILS!!!! HUNTER BIIIIIIIIDENNNNNN!
The cult is strong.
Blacklabel
Well Schiff says we can see the actual transcripts of all these interviews. Someday.
Just like he said he had seen proof of Russian collusion and we would see it. Later.
Just like the impeachment vote. Not yet.
I’m sensing a pattern.
Pukey2
Did Trump mention Hillary again?
I'm sick and tired of hearing Miss Lindsey Graham and Little Marco whine about what Trump has done in Syria, and then going on to protect him from his lies and lick his backside.
Simon Foston
WilliBToday 08:22 am JST
They're getting a lot of help from the administration and sorry - no one's buying the "Biden scandal" except the Trump faithful.
bass4funk
Funny, Mulvaney clarified his remarks and reiterated there was no quid pro quo and when you watch the entire video he states that, BUT leave it to the liberal media surrogate vipers to snip and cut the portions they only want to be heard. Typical, lol.
PTownsend
But what about posters and the global alt right media that do the same thing. ROFL
bass4funk
They unlike liberals learned impeachment can destroy your party. But hey, let them implode, might weed out some of the vipers in their nest.
lincolnman
It is funny - Mulvaney forgot his talking points and went off script and TOLD THE TRUTH.....
That sure set off the meltdown at the White House who then tried to "clarify" his remarks.
Its even more funny that these idiots incriminate themselves, then try to walk it back - Trump's confession in the transcript, Sondlon fessing up during his testimony, now Mulvaney's slip up....
Add that to all the others that have testified voluntarily that Rudy was on a rogue smear hunt campaign under the direction of Trump, and the military aid was tied to a QPQ on Biden.
Rick Perry saw the writing on the wall and bailed - he isn't going down with the ship...
bass4funk
But when shifty Schiff misspeak it’s a mistake? Lol in other words, don’t pay attention to what I say, go with your own beliefs, even if they’re misguided.
The meltdown are the Democrats searching for something when there’s nothing as usual.
More like, the viper media surrogates are extrapolating anything they can fine or nugget, bone in order to push a non issue...issue.
That will go as far as the Russia witch hoax.
Never knew you knew his thinking. But then again, liberals are the supreme clairvoyance
Jimizo
Trump is a notoriously poor judge of character including his own character.
Chip Star
It never takes long for Trumpophiles to start parroting the talking points. Yes, there are always strings attached to foreign aid, but not to help the president personally/with his reelection.
Keep spinning and it may become true.
Chip Star
Mulvaney can clarify his remarks all he wants, but that does nothing to change the evidence. Most people engaged in a criminal conspiracy try to clarify their remarks after admitting guilt.
lincolnman
Said that about Tillertson, McMaster, Kelly, Cohn, Mattis, Zink, Cohen, and Amorossa too....
Wonder what happened to those folks?
Sneezy
Trump himself released the transcript which revealed he wanted Ukraine to interfere in the US elections. Just because he's too stupid to understand this doesn't mean you have to be.
lincolnman
You know things are real bad when Sean Hannity says Mulvaney is "dumb"....
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/i-just-think-hes-dumb-hannity-and-limbaugh-disagree-on-mulvaney-press-conference-performance
...anything they can fine or nugget, bone in order to push a non issue.. Need a translation for that one...
Thanks for admitting its all true..
Watch out for Crazy Rudy, the "Walking Hand Grenade!"
Toasted Heretic
So there was a quid-pro-quo, despite Trump repeatedly saying there wasn't.
And Mulvaney's story seems to be changing every 5 minutes.
And Perry is out.
Just another day in the nightmarish, corrupt Trump administration.
Toasted Heretic
How do you know what all liberals think?
It doesn't take ESP to work out that your reich is floundering. Lie after lie, scandal after scandal and all presided over by a mentally unwell PotUS with delusions of grandeur.
And still the Trumpist cult cheers him on. Bizarre.
theeastisred
Hilarious. One of Pres Swamp's idiots told the truth by mistake!
Strangerland
heh, I love it that the pubs cried wolf so many times, that people have stopped even bothering with their conspiracy theories when they provide ridiculous evidence to support them.
sunfunbun
Mulvaney is asked a question. Mulvaney answers it honestly. Mulvaney detracts and lies, saying he didn’t say what he most definitely said. Supporters want to blame the media because they don’t face up to the fact they believe in lies so much, they’re lost in the narrative of the ridiculously false soup they swim in.
If lying is a sin, Trumpets better make plans for a blistering hot after life.