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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
So why were there protests and riots before his inauguration? Your ilk went off the rails from the day he announced his candidacy...
And it's not even about his actions. It's about what someone claims they heard someone else saying, about what they heard, about his actions.
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Sounds just like every trial of a conspiracy that produce convictions with exactly that evidence. You are not required to leave your common sense at the door. Think about the retreat in claims by the Trumplicans and the actions of the WH.
When the whistleblower filed the complaint, the Office of the Inspector General quickly concluded that it was both credible and “a matter of urgent concern.”
When the OIG filed what should have been a pro-forma notification of the complaint with the Director of National Intelligence, something happened. Instead of facilitating the passing of the complaint to the congressional intelligence committees as the law requires, the administration began a frantic effort to bottle it up, permanently.
Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the president’s efforts to get Ukraine to do him a “favor” and investigate Joe Biden was not “a matter of urgent concern” under the whistleblower act.
Seventy Inspectors General, including the Inspector General of the Justice Department itself, signed a joint letter insisting that the OLC withdraw or modify that opinion.
The OLC opinion only concluded that the statute did not “require” DNI Maguire to send the complaint to Congress. It did not conclude that the complaint could not or should not be sent to Congress.
Maguire refused to help the whistleblower contact Congress directly even though the law gives a whistleblower the right to do so and directs the Director of National Intelligence to facilitate the whistleblower’s communications with Congress.
Was Maguire was acting entirely on his own, which seems unlikely. Or did someone in the chain of command order Maguire to bury the complaint. Why did Maguire not answer when he was asked by Congress “Did you or your office ever speak to the president of the United States about this complaint?” It's a yes or no question.
Who organized the coverup that obstructed the investigation by attempting to bury the whistleblower complaint, was it someone in his administration or Floridaman himself?
So tell me again how how there is no evidence and that bribery, betraying our national security for personal gain, interfering with the justice system of a foreign government to investigate an American and interfering with the justice system of our country isn't impeachable.