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The official "let's impeach Trump" thread

Sorry, my mistake!! I crossed posters in my head.

I meant to ask that of @idestroyedthetoilet , who yesterday in this post https://jazzfanz.com/threads/the-official-lets-impeach-trump-thread.113221/page-121#post-1822892 called my asking for @sirkickyass's legal opinion about whether things without precisely defined financial equivalents could/would still legally be considered to be of "value" (in this post https://jazzfanz.com/threads/the-official-lets-impeach-trump-thread.113221/page-118#post-1822647, also see kicky's reply https://jazzfanz.com/threads/the-official-lets-impeach-trump-thread.113221/page-118#post-1822667) an appeal to authority fallacy.

For the record, I originally intended to put an emoji after that but they no longer work. @Jason emojis don't work on my android
 
I don't believe there are any public statements by Shokin regarding Burisma the entire time he's in office (per the Kyiv post, who went looking for these in Ukrainian and Russian). If he was "aggressively pursuing" it, then he was doing so secretly.

I'm willing to revise my opinion on the subject if anyone can point to anything he actually did during the time he was in office.



I don't see Biden's name in that document, nor do I really understand who's writing it or what the context is. I'd probably have to see more than this one page to make heads or tails of it.

Maybe it's Yuriy Sevrik? He was only Prosecutor General for a couple of months. I dont' really know anything about him.
This might help:
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaig...-memos-cast-doubt-on-joe-bidens-ukraine-story
 
Fantastic. This is how democracy dies.



It’s like the stuff Tim Snyder, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have been writing about for the past few years. Complete breakdown of common values and democratic norms. @Red
 
Anyone wanna bet $50 that Trump won't be impeached?

He just won 2020, and all you weird ****s are doing is making it easier for him.
 
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine must investigate the activities of Joe Biden's son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country's laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine's former prime minister, said in an interview.


Why don't any of you care about this? Not a word from you hypocrites.
 
Because Gorsuch is somehow immune to being accused of crimes without proof?

Because Gorsuch, despite being the actual Trump appointee who took the seat that would have gone to Garland, never faced the types of accusations that Kavanaugh faces. So, before you expect me to believe that Kavanaugh is being unfairly treated, you'll have to incorporate why Gorsuch wasn't.
 
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine must investigate the activities of Joe Biden's son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country's laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine's former prime minister, said in an interview.


Why don't any of you care about this? Not a word from you hypocrites.

Or... Daddy Biden won't be the candidate. So who gives a **** whether little beeder's investigated or not?
 
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine must investigate the activities of Joe Biden's son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country's laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine's former prime minister, said in an interview.


Why don't any of you care about this? Not a word from you hypocrites.
We have to openly express our concern?

I'm not super concerned about it, but if there was impropriety I think it should be investigated and those who acted illegally should be punished. I feel the same way about all the things Hillary has been accused of. Provide the ****ing evidence and press charges if you have enough to do so. It's simple as ****.
 
Uh, pretty obviously that the President wanted Zelensky to investigate the Bidens, and he was using the military aid as leverage.

@Catchall, look I understand that you have this weird tendency to ignore context and think only an explicit request by Trump to "do this for me and I'll do that" would constitute leveraging his presidential powers to get a favor from a foreign leader, but that's really not the standard.

An explicit request to "do this for me and I'll do that" (quid pro quo) would give the Dem's impeachment effort concrete evidence to support the claim that Trump was threatening to withhold aid if Ukraine doesn't investigate the Bidens. Maybe that's really what happened. Maybe there really is evidence out there somewhere that shows this. However, the phone conversation doesn't say that. Not even close. That's why Adam Schiff made up his own dialog during yesterday's hearing and couldn't point to the call transcript that everyone had in front of them.

Unfortunately, legal investigations do care about concrete evidence and not just innuendo or trying to subjectively read tea leaves. This isn't a "weird tendency," it's the rule of law. The prosecution has a burden of proof and has to show at least a minimal standard of knowledge/purpose/intent. The evidence in the call transcript is circumstantial at best, and it wouldn't hold up in a real investigation.

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Zellenskyy was the one who brought up the topic of corruption, even using the phrase "drain the swamp," early in the call. It was a major part of the campaign he ran on. He's the one who volunteered that a new prosecutor who supports his administration will be hired. When Trump entered into the conversation on corruption, it started in relation to the DOJ investigation that involves Ukraine, which the Dems seem to know little about, or seem to be discounting. That's state business and not Trump's personal campaign. That's why Bill Barr was relevant to the conversation.

The Dems don't seem to grasp this. They seem to think the only reason Trump would talk about corruption with Ukraine is to try to "dig up dirt" on Joe Biden. They think Trump is trying to use Barr as a personal lawyer. However, when that DOJ report eventually comes out, it will become abundantly clear why Trump and Zellenskyy were talking about corruption and why Barr was brought into the conversation.

Then Trump raises the question about the Bidens, first asking Zellenskyy to look into the circumstances around which the state prosecutor got fired and whether what Joe Biden did was fair. There's nothing wrong with hearing Zellenskyy's version of the details of what happened. That was Biden acting in an official capacity. It's going to be handled by Bill Barr, if anyone.

Trump then goes further and asks about Hunter Biden. This is where it gets murky for me. Why does Trump care about Hunter Biden unless he wants to use that information make a personal attack on Joe? Yes, there's a pretty clear conflict of interest there, but it was years ago. It would be on the periphery of current corruption investigations. Trump is stretching the topic, but he's shrewd enough to be coy about it.

As it stands, Trump released the financial aid to Ukraine, Zellenskyy said this week that he hasn't investigated corruption, and Zellenskyy also said he didn't feel "pushed" by Trump to do so.

Even if you can read in bad intent on Trump's part, where's the actual infraction? It's like saying Trump wanted Robert Mueller to be fired, but actions weren't taken.

It's a weak case.
 
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Or... Daddy Biden won't be the candidate. So who gives a **** whether little beeder's investigated or not?
Exactly. None of you really give a **** about crimes, this is nothing more than your petty #resist movement.

Still waiting for any of you to put your money where your mouth is. $50 says Trump won't be impeached by this time next year. I believe what I say so I can back it up. We all know most of you don't so I don't expect you to back up your fairy tale words.
 
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine must investigate the activities of Joe Biden's son to establish whether his role in a Ukrainian gas company complied with the country's laws, Mykola Azarov, Ukraine's former prime minister, said in an interview.

Why don't any of you care about this? Not a word from you hypocrites.

Please name the specific crime you think should be investigated. The actual illegal act, and generally what law was broken.
 
Exactly. None of you really give a **** about crimes, this is nothing more than your petty #resist movement.

Did we say we don't care? Did any of us say let's not investigate if there's cause?

Perhaps you're the one that's full of ****. Perhaps you're the one asking not to investigate something?
 
Did we say we don't care? Did any of us say let's not investigate if there's cause?

Perhaps you're the one that's full of ****. Perhaps you're the one asking not to investigate something?
Perhaps

My stance this entire time is unless we're going to go all in a go after all of our corrupt officials than I'm not going to lose sleep or in the lefts case go obsessive compulsive over this stuff. If we're going to drain the swamp let's drain the entire thing. The right are not the only ones that are willing to look past corruption as long as it fits their partisanship. The left is just as guilty. Hillary is a prime example. Her employees destroyed phones and emails. She was the lefts candidate.

This picking and choosing is nothing short of not really giving a ****. Me, I think it's pointless if we aren't going to hold ourselves accountable. That's why I brush it off. This isn't about crime. This is strictly partisanship.
 
Perhaps

My stance this entire time is unless we're going to go all in a go after all of our corrupt officials than I'm not going to lose sleep or in the lefts case go obsessive compulsive over this stuff. If we're going to drain the swamp let's drain the entire thing. The right are not the only ones that are willing to look past corruption as long as it fits their partisanship. The left is just as guilty. Hillary is a prime example. Her employees destroyed phones and emails. She was the lefts candidate.

This picking and choosing is nothing short of not really giving a ****. Me, I think it's pointless if we aren't going to hold ourselves accountable. That's why I brush it off. This isn't about crime. This is strictly partisanship.

Someone call @Archie Moses back, we've another balancing act.

We can have it both ways. Just because you only see a bit, doesn't mean everyone and everything else is partisan ********. Get off your ****ing cross. We need the wood.
 
Because Gorsuch, despite being the actual Trump appointee who took the seat that would have gone to Garland, never faced the types of accusations that Kavanaugh faces. So, before you expect me to believe that Kavanaugh is being unfairly treated, you'll have to incorporate why Gorsuch wasn't.
Believe whatever you want. I believe that Gorsuch, Garland, Kavanaugh and everyone else all deserve the right to presumption of innocence. I believe that the media is repeatedly defaming Kavanaugh even though all they have produced are accusations... some of them wildly outlandish.
 
Someone call @Archie Moses back, we've another balancing act.

We can have it both ways. Just because you only see a bit, doesn't mean everyone and everything else is partisan ********. Get off your ****ing cross. We need the wood.
I see it all. It's you who picks and chooses. Lol why would I be mad at Trump and not mad at Hillary? If I really cared I'd hold all of them accountable. You on the other hand openly admitted you didn't care if Hunter broke the law. You said it plain as day. Between that post and this post you completely contradict yourself.
 
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