I'll Take A Pass On Perjury - Go With The Stonewalling
Trump's finally been Impeached - no small feat when you consider Nancy Pelosi was hell bent on not Impeaching him. The House Democrats voted down motions to Impeach Trump on three previous occasions before their historic vote to Impeach him on 12/18/19.
During the Impeachment process many reputable, government witnesses with first hand information came forward and testified that Trump personally withheld vital, military aid to the Ukraine - aid that had been approved by our Congress. He withheld the aid in an attempt to force the Ukrainian President to investigate Joe Biden, Trump's main political opponent in 2020.
The witnesses testified despite Trump telling them not to. They put the welfare of the United States above anything else, including the wrath of Trump and their own careers. This was a matter of national security. The aid was to help the Ukrainians in their attempts to repel a Russian invasion of their country. Russia is occupying an area known as the Donbass and Russia annexed Crimea.
This is important to our national security because Ukraine is the distribution point for Russian oil and gas that is piped to our allies in Europe. If Russia controls Ukraine, it can jeopardize our European allies and hold them hostage. Russian can also use Ukraine to further destabilize both the European Union and NATO.
Russia controlling the Ukraine is so dangerous to our national interests that we placed severe sanctions on Russia that will not be lifted until the situation in Ukraine is resolved to the satisfaction of Ukraine. Trump wants to remove the sanctions on Russia. Our Congress is not allowing him to do so. Trump was also pressuring President Zelensky to agree to a Russian designed settlement of their differences. That would allow Russia to remain in the Ukraine and the sanctions to be lifted.
Trump is arguably the stupidest man alive. He sent Rudy Giuliani, who is arguably the second stupidest man alive, to force Zelensky into investigating Biden and making nice with Russia.
Rudy was aided in his efforts by 2 thugs. Yeah, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were hired by Dmitry Firtash, a Russian oligarch/criminal who is currently in custody in Vienna awaiting extradition to the United States. And yes, Dmitry is best buds with Vladimir.
Rudy is Trump's attorney, put he's not getting paid by Trump. Nope, he got paid some $500,000 by Lev and Lev is on Firtash's payroll. Please, please - enough already! Anybody with half a brain knows what's really going on.
I could go on endlessly with details, but that's not what's needed here. The two Articles of Impeachment for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress are available for anyone to read along with the full Impeachment report from the House Judiciary Committee.
What is important here is to understand why Trump blocked witnesses and documents during the investigation. Remember, he claims he's innocent, but he wouldn't let the witnesses who could provide evidence of his innocence testify. And now the big political hot potato is whether or not witnesses and evidence will be allowed during the Senate trial.
Nancy ain't sending the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate until Mitch establishes the trail rules and this is making Trump and Mitch nuts.
Mitch is working with Trump (defendant) to set the trial rules. Yeah, the court is deciding how to proceed based upon the wishes and instructions of the defendant. What, you find that odd?
Not really. If the Democrats are allowed to call witnesses during the trial and cross examine them, the witnesses will either have to say things that are damning to Trump or commit perjury. Trump's boys are happy to stonewall any attempts to get them to testify by saying they have to obey Trump. They are not willing to commit perjury for him.
Holy Moly!
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