Lindsey Graham is a Russian prostitute!
To be clear, the story that Trump and Rudy Giuliani have spun, including on the call with Zelensky, is that Joe Biden pushed to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired because he was looking into corruption at Burisma, where Hunter Biden sat on the board for five years. It’s also entirely baseless. According to the Washington Post, the younger Biden was never accused of any wrongdoing, and, crucially, the probe had been shelved well before any action by the vice president. Then there’s the fact that “Biden’s efforts involved removing a prosecutor widely criticized by the West as failing to tackle corruption,” i.e. he wanted a tougher prosecutor in place. But Graham is unconcerned about the facts of the case, plus the minor matter of it being a colossal abuse of power for Trump to ask another country to investigate his political rival even if there were evidence of wrongdoing by Biden—which, again, there isn’t
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Sure. Starting with you...~WTP
President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to suggest that the person who passed on information about his phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to a whistleblower should be executed, a striking escalation in rhetoric as the scandal over the July conversation between the two leaders continued to unfold.
"Very normal, healthy democracy we live in," tweeted The Young Turks host John Iadarola.
Trump's comments came during a private event at the Intercontinental Hotel in New York to mark the end of the United Nations General Assembly.
"I want to know who's the person who gave the whistleblower the information, because that's close to a spy," Trump said. "You know what we used to do in the old days, when we were smart, with spies and treason, right? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now."
Treason is a capital federal crime punishable by death. Spying is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
According to The New York Times, which broke the story, Trump's comments "stunned" some people in the audience. The president had choice words for the media as well:
Some in the crowd laughed, the person briefed on what took place said. The event was closed to reporters, and during his remarks, the president called the news media "scum" in addition to labeling them as crooked.
Later, on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, the president said that Democrats investigating his conduct should be barred from doing so.
"What these guys, the Democrats, are doing to this country is a disgrace," said Trump. "And it shouldn't be allowed."
"There should be a law of stopping it," the president added. "Maybe legally, through the courts."
Trump is currently under an impeachment inquiry due to the phone call and the coverup. During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday, Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire said that the whistleblower acted in good faith.
"I believe the whistleblower did the right thing," said Maguire.
At the hearing, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) declared the scandal shows Trump is "unfit for office."
"The whistleblower complaint has exposed a criminal effort to extort political dirty work from a foreign government," said Castro, "and a massive cover-up orchestrated by the White House."
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As the wheels start to fly off the clown car and the shadowy specter of accountability hovers on the horizon, let's not forget the guy who got us here - soulless, slimy, dissembling, colluding Mitch 'Douchebag McTurtle' McConnell, who, oh irony, a few years back piously intoned, "Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road (and) chose the path of lies and lawlessness (because) the name of the game was winning at any cost." Please, may they go down together.
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