U.S. President Donald Trump allegedly sounds like a mafia mobster in a July 25th phone call to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky when he said, “do us a favor.” The president is from New York City, a former center of the Mafia.
What favor was President Trump askingUkraine’s new President Zelensky to do? It was to get political dirt on Joe Biden or his son regarding Hunter Biden’s former business activities in Ukraine. Yet the U.S. government supposedly had already investigated that allegation under the Obama administration and found nothing to it.
Tuesday, President Trump released a modified transcript of that telephone call. It is possibly criminally damaging to Mr. Trump because it reveals that he was threatening the Ukraine president by withholding $391 million in foreign aid to Ukraine in its struggle with Russia taking over its country. Russia already had taken over Ukraine’s peninsula of Crimea. This has been a serious situation for not only the democratic U.S. but also all of the democratic Europe. Both entities have been financially and militarily aiding Ukraine in its effort to defend itself against further intrusion by Putin’s Russia.
Weeks ago, a so far unknown whistleblower within the U.S. intelligence community came forward with incredible allegations against President Trump that involved this July 25th phone call and a lot more. He alleges that was not the only time President Trump pressured President Zelensky to get political dirt on Joe Biden since. He says it happened in a phone call earlier. It appears that Mr. Biden, the former Vice President under previous President Barak Obama, is the main Democratic challenger to President Trump winning a second term as president in next year’s November election.
Today, the Trump appointed Director of National Intelligence, Joseph McQuire, who has been on the job only for about six weeks, testified before the House Intelligence Committee for 3.5 hours, mostly about his handling or mishandling of the whistleblower’s complaint letter. The letter accuses the president, Attorney General William Barr, and the president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani of wrongdoing since the president involved them in getting this political dirt. Furthermore, White House operatives and lawyers realized right after this July 25th phone call that the president may have criminally endangered himself. So, they tried to hide access to both the phone call and the transcript of it by moving them into another safekeeping venue. This hiding of material evidence is being called “locked down.” So, there could be several people criminally liable regarding just this one phone call.
Now that an impeachment proceeding against President Trump has officially begun this week in the House, there is an increasingly intensifying struggle going on between the House oversight of the presidency, for which it is empowered by the U.S. Constitution, and the executive branch of our government, which includes the president’s control of the Justice Department and therefore both the FBI and the intelligence community.
These impeachment proceedings likely will reveal whether or not President Trump has exercised criminal behavior in asking a foreign government head, and perhaps others, “do us a favor.”
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