and that it had to do with american military aid to ukraine, which had been at war with russia. but the pressure was on trump to release the transcript of the call. that call was perfect. as we all learned, when the decision was taken to release the transcript, it was anything but perfect. in fact, what trump was doing was asking president volodymyr zelensky to do him a personal political favor. [peter] the whistleblower complained that, according to the washington post , president trump pressured the ukrainian president to investigate hunter biden. hunter biden was indeed on the board of a ukrainian company for no apparent reason other than he was the son of a politician. instead of defending an ally, ukraine, which is in the fight of its life, the president was holding back that aid until the ukrainians would investigate the biden family. [robin] president trump basically wanted to politically blackmail president zelensky. it was one of the crassest diplomatic overtures by any presid
the washington post first reporting an intelligence official was so bothered by a promise president trump made to a foreign leader that he filed a formal complaint. it became clear that this call involved trump and the recently installed president of ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyy. and that it had to do with american military aid to ukraine, which had been at war with russia. but the pressure was on trump to release the transcript of the call. that call was perfect. as we all learned, when the decision was taken to release the trump script, it was anything but perfect. in fact, what trump was doing was asking president volodymyr zelenskyy to do him a personal political favor. a whistle-blower complaint that according to the washington post, president trump pressured the ukrainian president to investigate hunter biden. hunter biden was indeed on the board of a ukrainian company, for no apparent reason other than he was the son of a politician. instead of defending an all
the first impeachment ended up being a preview of the second impeachment. what we should have learned from the first one is that the president is willing to do anything to maintain power. that is his guiding ideology. they thought this was a great idea, and at least for the short-term, it has been a colossal political mistake. it s the republican party going along with trump that really makes trump such an important phenomenon. even if you didn t like a lot what was trump said and you were a little worried about some of it, the fact that the republicans were getting a lot of what you wanted you got your tax cuts and the justices in the supreme court. that is really one of the underestimated parts of 2017 to 2020. it was trump s republican party. thank you, more than anything else, for putting up with the never-ending bullshit you have to go through. people kept looking for the moment when republicans would break from trump.
this was an effort to make the case that this misconduct was so serious, we have to do what we can. but no one went into that thinking president trump would be removed from office. the house decided that this kind of behavior was a threat for our constitutional order, they therefore had constitutional responsibility to do exactly what they did today. it will be up to the senate. he s not going to be removed. possible violence, not that i m condoning violence. there will be a lot of mad americans. mr. young? not guilty. the president of the united states will remain in office. the republicans didn t support this, other than mitt romney, who is the single republican who said, this is worthy of impeachment. and he was allowed to continue with his presidency. it sadly feels like a predictable next step in this escalation of a partisan war to the point at times it feels we re in a cold civil war.