I think you have the transcript. Do you have words which absolutely reveals clear intent that Trump said unless you give information to me to beat my opponent in the 2020 election you will not receive any aid. Without such a declaration you have mere speculation and it'll go down in history that they impeached the President on something that wasn't substantial.
First of all, we have the edited transcript that Donald allowed to be released. Let's hear testimony to determine if that transcrit is not only the truth, but the
whole truth, mmmkay?
Second, when a Mob boss is caught talking to one of his button men on the phone, how do you think the conversation sounds?
"Listen, George -- I want you to go to 377 Hamilton Street, home of Vincent Lupo, aka "Vinnie the Pin," and shoot him twice in the back of the head. You head me correctly, George...
I am hereby ordering you to murder Vincent Lupo."
Anything less would be speculation, and we certainly shouldn't waste our time investigating the unfortunate death of Mr. Lupo, now should we?
I get it you don't like Trump. But this issue is bigger than he. You're setting the criteria for all future Presidents to be ousted out of power based on opinions rather than actual words in a text.
I get it you love Donald and will say anything, do anything, think anything to protect him. But you're right -- the issue is bigger than he. We have witnesses ready to testify that a crime has been committed, and a president desperate to make sure those witnesses never testify. This bears investigation...
...don't you think?
Who said it's blown out of the water?
Reality -- or haven't you noticed that even Donald's most loyal defenders in Congress are one by one abandoning the "No quid pro quo" mantra?
Get in step, my friend -- the playbook is as such:
1. There was no quid pro quo
2. There
was a quid pro quo, but it wasn't illegal.
3. There
was a quid pro quo and it
was illegal, but Giuliani did it all by himself.
The Senate Republicans are already moving from mantra #1 to mantra #2 -- don't be left behind; it'll be awkward when they move on to mantra #3 without you...
And as for your next link and line Republicans try a different approach. Who said they're changing their argument? You've never heard about arguing one's case from different perspectives? You make a demand that a Quid Pro Quo is actually wrong when in fact legally speaking it's not.
Except it
is wrong -- and many of the Senate Republicans, having read the testimony, can no longer argue that it didn't happen. So now they're arguing that it's not impeachable.
When that defense fails, they'll hang Giuliani out to dry... and so will you.
So even if it were allowed you there was so what? But what's the intent of the QPQ would determine it's right or wrong. And also you had the leader of Ukraine openly saying he had no conscious thought when it came to QPQ that there even was one!
If he wants his foreign aid, he had better say that! That's kind of the whole point of the QPQ...
...don't you think?
So this is what they impeach the President on? That's the best they've got?
Any time Donald wants to sign a confession, that's be nice of course... but criminals have been convicted without one.
Give investigators
a little credit -- some of them are quite good at what they do.
Well TLK you're doing what Schiff did. You're making up words of things that aren't actually in the transcript.
There's a lot that's not actually in the transcript -- we'd rather know what was in the
conversation.
You need to protect future Presidents of the United States by not signing on to such a low bar of defining just what are facts instead of theory. Future generations will thank you for reconsidering your position.
Future generations will behave themselves should they be elected president... they will know that they are being held to the highest standards of ethics, they will know that even the
appearance of impropriety is unacceptable, and they will not use the office for personal gain.
They will remember the words that Lindsey Graham said -- before he sold out his principles:
The absolute highest office in the land
must be held to the absolute highest standards...
don't you think?