Trump has made many mistakes regarding his various scandals. As time passes, each additional mistake has a bigger impact on his political fortunes as time winds down on his term in office.
This was a bad error on his part. He undercut all of the purported GOP defenses of him and opened the door wide for Nancy Pelosi to pass and hold impeachment articles in the House while expanding the inquiry to Mueller matters, emoluments, financial crimes and other natsec risks.
He admitted that he ordered the hold on military aid to get ‘Biden’ (not the first time he has said so) which aligns him with Mulvaney’s admission and the testimony of others who said Mulvaney ordered the hold at Trump’s direction. He admitted targeting Yovanovitch, which again aligns him to Rudy’s role and all the testimony that points to the Yovanovich ouster as a key event in the whole conspiracy. In those 2 admissions, Trump has conceded that he led a criminal conspiracy dating back several months. The transcript was not just the idle rants of a crazy man.
On top of that, Trump now admitted that he fired Comey to protect himself. Of the 10 instances of obstruction of justice, the firing of Comey was determined by Mueller to be a fully and clearly meeting all the elements (there were 5 or so where there was no doubt).
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dteam6 (5073)
5 years ago
This is a scandal simple, cut and dry enough for a 2-year old to figure out...it's scary as fck that he has MILLIONS of people STILL defending him after all this. So damn scary.
...And sad.
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ultravioletx (10237)
5 years ago
I just wish the dems would go after Trump's ties with MBS and aiding the genocide in Yemen.
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eYeDEF (5050)
5 years ago
They'd need to actually be able to conduct oversight by enforcing subpoenas and seizing Jared's phone to do that effectively. We both know they just don't have the stomach or temerity for that kind of thing. Plus, it's questionable whether the conservative two faced SCOTUS would let it happen under a GOP President once the WH challenges the subpoena.
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