Flashback Dec 18,2019
Impeachment Count 2
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... President Trump—acting both directlyand through his agents within and outside the United StatesGovernment—conditioned two official acts on the public announcements that hehad requested— (A)
the release of $391 million of United States taxpayer funds thatCongress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose ofproviding vital military and security assistance to Ukraine to opposeRussian aggression and which President Trump had ordered suspended;
BILLS-116hres755enr.pdf (congress.gov)
Hmmmm..... "for political proposes"; he(temporarily) withheld weapons that had been appropriated and approved by Congress , for a country that had been attacked by a hostile nation.
Even though a transcript of the phone conversation was released ;the House of Reps used the conversation between Trump and Zelensky (after deleting over 500 words of the transcript) as a pretext to impeach. The partisan House voted to impeach and send it to the Senate for a trial ;which they gladly did even though they knew they would not get a conviction.
That was not the point . The point was to brand Trump as the 1st impeached President running for reelection.
Forget the fact that Quid Pro Joe (10% for the big guy) is on tape bragging that as VP he threatened to withhold weapons to Ukraine until a prosecutor; who was investigating a company his son was taking bribes from ;was fired .
User Clip: Biden Tells Story of Getting the Ukraine Prosecutor Fired | C-SPAN.org
All that leads to is further proof of the Dem double standard .
Michigan is a swing state ;and Joe needs the Muslim constituency there ;and those rabid antisemitic students in his base if he has any chance of winning.
Stabbing Israel in the back will be a small price to pay. He can always make amends after an election victory.
Even the lead Dems running the impeachment of Trump ;Adam Schiffhead and Jamie Raskin ,who both happen to be Jewish, are fine with his betrayal.