Pelosi officially announces impeachment inquiry

[Methais]

Damn, I forgot the first rule of Fight Club.. Never point out the actions of a Republican president.

[Seran]

Classic quid pro quo;

"I would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes."

"I would like you to do us a favor through because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it."

Defense aid is put on hold, less than two weeks later Ukrainian President calls and references the aid, Trump immediately asks for a favor and proceeds to outline what it is he wants and says Barr or Guilliani will contact about the details. August. Rudy Guilliani meets with the Ukrainian attache and boom, $250 million in aid released weeks later.

Definition: Quid pro quo - a favor or advantage granted or expected in return for something.

[ClydeR]

Here's the transcript that the white house wants you to see, roflmao. He asked EIGHT TIMES if Ukraine could investigate his political rival before 2020 in a 30 minute phone call.

The tiny writing at the bottom of the first page says it's not a transcript.

In the phone call, Trump really trashed Obama's last ambassador to Ukraine. He didn't know her name, or course, just calling her "the woman."

[Methais]

a waffle-maker like Back

Damn Back wtf?

[Methais]

Not sure how you convinced yourself of that. Impeach the idiot. Its sad he even got elected in the first place. His greatest accomplishments are trying to undo everything Obama did, taking our country 8 years backward, because Trump is plain and simple a butthurt snowflake who is all ego and no intelligence.

The best thing he could do right now is resign and let everyone get back to work running the country.

Undoing everything Obama did is exactly what we needed.

Stop being a butthurt retard, which we know in your case is impossible.

[Methais]

Look at how many triggered conservatives are here posting now that their racist, fascist god-king is getting impeached.

Who's triggered? We're anxiously awaiting the results that will yet again make democrats look like complete fucking idiots.

And then your butthurt will be even worse than it is right now.

[Alfster]

Roughly half of these comments won't age well. Lol

[Alfster]

"Required by law to report suspected crimes by the president."

Where do you get your dumb shit from?

And again this person is NOT a whistleblower. Trump is not part of the intelligence community, and even if he were, a whistleblower has to have direct knowledge of what the fuck they are talking about.

You can't pass along second hand rumors in an effort to further your political agenda and then demand whistleblower protection.

Can I ask why you're so sure this isn't a whistleblower? I mean, the IG confirmed it's a whistleblower.

A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public. ... Because of this, a number of laws exist to protect whistleblowers.

[Ashlander]

Can I ask why you're so sure this isn't a whistleblower? I mean, the IG confirmed it's a whistleblower.

A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public. ... Because of this, a number of laws exist to protect whistleblowers.

I don't know anything about the whistleblower laws so can you be considered a whistleblower if all your info is second hand? The person didn't hear any of the conversation they were just told about it by someone else.

[Gelston]

I don't know anything about the whistleblower laws so can you be considered a whistleblower if all your info is second hand? The person didn't hear any of the conversation they were just told about it by someone else.

Yes