teedubbya wrote:Ya know... even knowing he won’t get removed, and believing breaking the law to withhold funds in order to ask another country to announce an investigation in to your political opponent is sort of bad, having him removed from the ballot is a bridge too far and nothing I could ever support.
If anyone approves of using government funds to encourage investigations in to their political rivals recognizing if we bless this the other party will do this as well then they should get a chance to vote for that.
If anyone believes this is not what really happened on the surface I question if they should vote but it is America so it’s their right.
Either way removing him from the ballot is stupid. I think trying to remove him is stupid too. Let the next election decide and if we are stupid enough to re-elect we deserve him and deserve this sort of activity from both sides. We are saying it’s ok.
I certainly hope you are not so naïve to think that he's the only POTUS to ever manipulate government finances to his advantage. His crime was picking disloyal subordinates. You know that, I know that and the whole world knows that. Never in my 54 years have I seen the number of leaks by high level staff under any other administration. Had that been the case in previous administrations, this wouldn't even be a blip on the radar.
There is no smoking gun. No one has stated first hand that he withheld those funds until an investigation into the Bidens was launched.
For emphasis, let me state it again and again and again and again:
There has been ABSOLUTLY ZERO direct evidence presented to prove this wicked deed.
There has been ABSOLUTLY ZERO direct evidence presented to prove this wicked deed.
There has been ABSOLUTLY ZERO direct evidence presented to prove this wicked deed.
There has been ABSOLUTLY ZERO direct evidence presented to prove this wicked deed.
Notice I didn't say he was innocent. Just saying this isn't the first time the Office of President has been abused.
So once again I ask if this is were we want to be at this time? House Democrats created an Article of Impeachment out of something that should be decided by the Judicial branch. House Democrats ignored due process with it's impeachment inquiry. This in of itself should be considered a Constitutional crisis.
This has been a sham since day one. The DEM's know they can't prove a damn thing without some direct evidence. So they created a huge smokescreen consisting of what they wanted, but not what could be proven. They did this to harm Trump. Nothing more, nothing less. As Pelosi said when announcing the Articles about how they had been doing it for two and a half years. Yet, the alleged event didn't occur until we were well into those two and a half years.
Again I'm not saying I condone the alleged action. I'm just not blind to the fact that this has been going on since the days of George Washington. I'm also saying that we don't live in such a granular society and that we don't get the kernel without beating off the chaff.