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Just want to make sure I have this right - Trump's solicitation for dirt on Biden (Original Post) rurallib Sep 2019 OP
Mike Pence, 2016 VP debate mcar Sep 2019 #1
Thank you rurallib Sep 2019 #3
Welcome! mcar Sep 2019 #4
Yes indeed malaise Sep 2019 #2
Thank you and ITTMF! rurallib Sep 2019 #5
Yes, techinically Trump solicited from a foreign government dirt on a potential political opponent uponit7771 Sep 2019 #6
The solicitiation is illegal on its own eleny Sep 2019 #7
I don't know how anyone can read the transcript notes and not see extortion. Flaleftist Sep 2019 #8
I agree. Although it does take being able to comprehend two sentences. Hoyt Sep 2019 #9
My senator, Joni Ernst, did rurallib Sep 2019 #10
Here it is in brass tacks TheOther95Percent Sep 2019 #11
oooh thanks rurallib Sep 2019 #12
K&R smirkymonkey Sep 2019 #13

uponit7771

(90,336 posts)
6. Yes, techinically Trump solicited from a foreign government dirt on a potential political opponent
Thu Sep 26, 2019, 05:48 PM
Sep 2019

... and that's not only illegal it's no doubt impeachable.

eleny

(46,166 posts)
7. The solicitiation is illegal on its own
Thu Sep 26, 2019, 05:49 PM
Sep 2019

Asking for something of value from a foreign power to benefit his campaign was illegal.

TheOther95Percent

(1,035 posts)
11. Here it is in brass tacks
Thu Sep 26, 2019, 06:24 PM
Sep 2019

Trump asked a foreign leader to fabricate evidence of criminal activity by Hunter Biden, the only surviving son of his likely political opponent Joe Biden. Such evidence of wrong doing would undoubtably mean criminal charges would be brought against Hunter Biden by the Department of Justice headed by Attorney General William Barr. Trump used the power of his office as well as the Executive branch (and our tax dollars) to target and frame a political opponent's family member.

Read the Lawfare Blog here:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/self-impeaching-trump-zelensky-conversation

"...Trump clearly seeks to recruit a foreign head of state to violate the civil liberties of American citizens and uncover dirt on a potential political opponent in the 2020 presidential election. For everyone who breathed a sigh of relief that the Mueller report did not establish presidential “collusion” with Russia in 2016, the White House itself has announced with this release that the president himself has already engaged in such collusion with Ukraine for the next election cycle—and what’s more, he is putting the powers of the American presidency to that purpose."

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