GAO rules Trump broke the law

[Faun]

Liberals won't admit that Trump was exonerated. Twice.

You mean like Bill Clinton was exonerated for lying under oath, right?

 

[imawhosure]

Gov’t Watchdog Office: OMB Broke Law With Trump-Ordered Ukraine Aid Freeze
Gov't Watchdog Office: OMB Broke Law With Trump-Ordered Ukraine Aid Freeze

The U.S. Government Accountability Office, a government watchdog agency that advises Congress, concluded Thursday that the hold President Trump ordered his Office of Management and Budget to place on Ukraine military assistance violated the law.

“Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,” a GAO opinion said. “OMB withheld funds for a policy reason, which is not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA). The withholding was not a programmatic delay. Therefore, we conclude that OMB violated the ICA.”

The opinion outlined the reasons holds can be legally placed on congressionally authorized funding, and said the rational given for freezing the Ukraine aid did not fit within those reasons.

“The burden to justify a withholding of budget authority rests with the executive branch. Here, OMB has failed to meet this burden. We conclude that OMB violated the ICA when it withheld USAI funds for a policy reason,” the GAO said.
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So much for the Trumper assertion Trump broke no laws.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, good luck with that! You have seen how the suits are getting dropped like flies. How is this all working out for you Leftist!

 

[lennypartiv]

You mean like Bill Clinton was exonerated for lying under oath, right?

We will always remember Bill for the cigar and the blue dress.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Do you find anything incorrect with what I posted? Point it out. Don't just attack the source. We all understand this source makes you very very uncomfortable.

{It’s been nearly six years since Trump called on Russia to “find” emails}

The above is a flat out fucking lie - typical Huffing Glue...

 

[Uncensored2008]

Trump broke the law and tried to commit extortion.

Trump never extorted anyone, that was Quid Pro Biden.

Allah loves a cheerful liar.

I'd post the video - but you've seen it a hundred times and are just fucking lying - as you Muzzie Beasts always do.

 

[Faun]

We will always remember Bill for the cigar and the blue dress.

And for being exonerated over lying under oath.

 

[Faun]

Trump never extorted anyone, that was Quid Pro Biden.

Allah loves a cheerful liar.

I'd post the video - but you've seen it a hundred times and are just fucking lying - as you Muzzie Beasts always do.

No matter how many times you post it, it will never amount to quid pro quo.

 

[Uncensored2008]

No matter how many times you post it, it will never amount to quid pro quo.

You mean you'll continue to lie regardless of how many times the facts are presented.

Hey, you're a fucking Nazi - it's your way.

 

[lennypartiv]

And for being exonerated over lying under oath.

He had enough Democrats in the Senate willing to vote his way.

 

[Faun]

You mean you'll continue to lie regardless of how many times the facts are presented.

Hey, you're a fucking Nazi - it's your way.

I'm not lying just because you're insane, Fruitcake. To be quid pro quo, Biden would have needed to have made personal gain from that, and he didn't.

You're as nutty as they come.

 

[Faun]

He had enough Democrats in the Senate willing to vote his way.

So?

Trump had enough Republicans in the Senate to vote his way. You still refer to that as exoneration. If the president's party saving them from conviction, as you portray, Clinton was also exonerated.

 

[lennypartiv]

From the Huffpo​

Putin May Be Accused Of War Crimes In Ukraine, But Trump's Still Asking For His Help​

World leaders work with each other. That's how things work.

 

[sealybobo]

World leaders work with each other. That's how things work.

Aren't you the hypocrite today.

 

[lennypartiv]

Aren't you the hypocrite today.

How is that being a hypocrite?

 

[sealybobo]

How is that being a hypocrite?

I'm just imagining what you'd be saying if it were Obama, Clinton or Biden that did it

But of course, President Trump, a greenhorn on the global stage, should have known better than to sit down unprepared and alone with a canny adversary like Putin. His solo meeting with the Kremlin strongman, which the White House is downplaying as a short and casual exchange of pleasantries over dessert, committed several cardinal sins of diplomacy: It was unplanned, unstaffed, undocumented, unending and undisclosed. But perhaps more importantly, it made an impression while everyone at the G-20 was watching.

And here’s the crux of why this impromptu summit was so dangerous: Trump may fancy himself a master deal-maker, but regardless of your feelings about him, his inexperience in international affairs is undeniable; Putin, by contrast, has decades of KGB training and diplomatic experience. Trump has, er, challenges in recalling his statements and commitments; Putin is known to have an incredible memory and amazing control of details. In such a conversation, every statement becomes U.S. policy, whether Trump realizes it or not. With no staff to steer or generate an American record of the discussion, even an experienced, disciplined president would struggle to control the resulting narrative. In Trump’s case, what Putin takes away from this fiasco is a parade of potential horribles, from a green light for more aggression in Ukraine to ......

So did Trump give Putin the green light to invade Ukraine? We'll never know.

This was written in 2017 btw.

And that’s not the only problem with the Great Dessert Summit of 2017. Either Trump’s aides didn’t know he was going to amble across the table for a confab with the leader of America’s No. 1 geopolitical adversary, or they knew, and he ignored their advice and did it anyway. A third possibility — that they somehow thought this was a good idea — is hard to imagine. Which brings us to the next problem with the meeting: What are Trump’s G-20 counterparts to make of this? They probably observed his talk with Putin as one views a colleague embarrassing themselves at the office Christmas party: Does he not know better?

A lengthy meeting without staff is a choice presidents can make in rare circumstances, but it’s a signal as much as it is a talk — I trust you, we are friends, this is so important it must be among us. Choosing to engage in so consequential a discussion — because any hourlong discussion with Putin will have consequences — without McMaster or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also weakens their standing publicly. And concealing, pooh-poohing and declining to own the narrative by offering no readout of the meeting makes the president appear foolish. The president’s peers sat together over coffee and watched him get taken advantage of, willingly, with a smile on his face. Not the first impression Trump might have hoped for.

Why Trump’s solo meeting with Putin was a big no-no

Two basic rules of foreign policy: Never get involved in a land war in Asia, and never meet alone with an adversary without proper preparation.

www.politico.eu

 

[Uncensored2008]

I'm not lying just because you're insane,

No, you're lying because you're a fucking pile of shit with zero integrity.

My sanity or lack therein has no bearing on it - psychopath.,

Fruitcake. To be quid pro quo, Biden would have needed to have made personal gain from that, and he didn't.

Really?

Stopping the investigation into his corruption wasn't gain?

You're as stupid as you are dishonest.

You're as nutty as they come.

LOL

Go clean your cab, shit wad.

 

[Faun]

Stopping the investigation into his corruption wasn't gain?

See that, Fruitcake? It's why you're insane. Batshit level. So now Joe Biden stopped an investigation into his corruption? Joe Biden was not under investigation and was not even accused of corruption.

 

[Uncensored2008]

See that, Fruitcake? It's why you're insane. Batshit level.

Poor little fuckwad Farouk.

Far too stupid to debate the actual subject.

So now Joe Biden stopped an investigation into his corruption? Joe Biden was not under investigation and was not even accused of corruption.

 

[Faun]

Poor little fuckwad Farouk.

Far too stupid to debate the actual subject.




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[lennypartiv]

Stopping the investigation into his corruption wasn't gain?

Liberals don't have common sense.