for those of you on the left who want impeachment:
1. I don't like him is not grounds for impeachment
2. he beat hillary is not grounds for impeachment
3. making dems look stupid is not grounds for impeachment
4. calling out the corrupt media liars is not grounds for impeachment
5. doing the job of president is not grounds for impeachment
6. revealing the long time corruption of the DC establishment is not grounds for impeachment.
7. talking to a foreign head of state in private is not grounds for impeachment
8. asking that head of state to investigate corruption in his country is not grounds for impeachment
I didn't like Nixon either but I would say he had the makings of a Great President. I don't like Rump but he has the makings of a Mob Boss and operates that way.
He beat Hillary with some mighty shady help. I think the real tipping point was when that idiot leader of the FBI ran off on the mouth on something he should have kept behind closed doors just days before the election. This may be why the total voter count does not agree with the EC. The EC doesn't vote early but many voters do.
And when Rump keeps acting more like a Mob Boss then we need to do something even it's it's censoring him. And Censoring by ALL of congress just might do the trick. But if that happens, he's toast in 2020. Because of the non functioning Senate and Rump Ass Lickers, I don't even see a Senate Censoring. (Yah, I know, I spelled it wrong, get it out of your system, rumpsters)
When Rump interacts with social or any kind of media he tells on the average of 4.5 lies a minute. If I were a news dude, I would find it very difficult to follow him. So before you start in on the "Fake News" you may want to start out with "Liar in Chief" first.
If all Rump did was do the Job of President I wouldn't have a problem with him. He occasionally does that, you know. But then he goes off on the deep end of the pool and takes the nation down with him. Mafia Dons have no compassion.
Revealing the long term DC Corruption is a good thing. Unfortunately, he replace it with his own brand of corruption. He drained the swamp of the Alligators but he refilled it with own Crocodiles.
Presidents don't have the luxury of having private discussions with anyone. That's what Nixon thought. Nixon used tapes instead of transcripts which is legal. Rump uses transcripts. There is always support people listening in. There is always a record. In this case, the CIA IG moved too fast for them to destroy the transcripts. Since the transcripts were known already, they had no choice but to cough them up even after trying to hide them. That's called Obstruction of Justice. Something Rump has a long history of doing.
No, it's not illegal for a President to ask another head of state for an investigation when he believes that his own agencies will not do it properly. The problem is, his own agencies had already done that investigation and it proved to be false. And no coverup or Obstruction of Justice involved. But that's not why Rump wanted the investigation opened by Ukraine. He already had the outcome in mind. He put a freeze on the military funds until this became noticed by the CIA IG. The funds were allocated by Congress, not Rump. Rump immediately released those funds. His intention was to create dirt on Biden whether it was true or not by blackmailing Ukraine. And Ukraine is scared to death of not getting those funds so they probably would have done what Rump "Asked" if it was allowed to run long enough. If Biden did something wrong while in office, don't hang the dirty laundry out for the world to see like that. It's not even close to being Presidential. Okay, it's is Mob Boss style which Rump has down pat.
There it is. Answers to your statements directly from Admiral Maguires report and his IG. Barr tried to cover it up along with the White House Lawyers but got bagged before they could destroy or modify the transcripts. I swear, this is more like a bad episode of Law and Order.