Trump's responses to the impeachment inquiry are becoming increasingly incoherent

[babylonsister]

Trump’s responses to the impeachment inquiry are becoming increasingly incoherent
The president can’t decide if there was no quid pro quo or if there was one and it’s fine.
By Aaron Rupar@atrupar Nov 4, 2019, 4:40pm EST


Sunday illustrated how President Donald Trump’s efforts to develop a coherent defense in response to the House’s impeachment inquiry are becoming increasingly incoherent.

First, early Sunday afternoon, Trump held a media availability in which it took him less than a minute to contradict himself about his dealings with Ukraine. He falsely claimed “nobody” with direct knowledge of the phone call in which he tried to leverage the Ukrainian president into politically beneficial investigations came forward to complain about it, but then in the next breath acknowledged that witnesses “only came forward when you [i.e., the media] asked, and some of them are Never Trumpers.”

That claim, too, was false. To cite one notable example, the media played no role in Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman’s decision to testify to House impeachment investigators about his concerns about the call, which he was on, and there’s no evidence that Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, is a “never Trumper.”

Link to tweet

Trump’s comments to reporters revealed how he’s flailing for a response to the House impeachment investigation. But on Sunday evening, he topped himself with a tweet that was even more starkly incoherent.

Alluding to a Washington Post report about how a number of Senate Republicans “are ready to acknowledge that President Trump used US military aid as leverage to force Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden and his family as the president repeatedly denies a quid pro quo,” Trump agreed Republicans might be trying out that defense, but asserted it’s unnecessary, arguing, “there is no quid pro quo!”

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https://www.vox.com/2019/11/4/20948138/trump-impeachment-quid-pro-quo-incoherent-comments

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Looney-tunes.

A little bit for everyone.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. I think that's the tweet Kimmel had fun with ...

Here it is:

Link to tweet

Some deciphering may be necessary.

[WhiteTara]

3. He did extort not tried to extort

He got more than just Biden dirt. He got an entire impeachment inquiry.