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Ukraine’s president reiterates: No quid pro quo from Trump

Democratic Party coup update: The president of the Ukraine yesterday once again stated that President Trump applied no pressure on him to begin an investigation into Joe Biden.

Once again, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied again that President Trump withheld military aid in order to pressure him to investigate the Bidens or Ukrainian election interference. In an interview with TIME magazine, Zelensky made this absolutely clear. “Look, I never talked to the President from the position of a quid pro quo. That’s not my thing,” he said. “I don’t want us to look like beggars. But you have to understand. We’re at war. If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us. I think that’s just about fairness. It’s not about a quid pro quo. It just goes without saying.”

This is not the first time he has stated this publicly. Furthermore, his foreign minister has said the same thing, as has the U.S. ambassador during testimony to Congress.

On the other side, the accusations of misbehavior from Democratic Party witnesses have either been hearsay from people not even present during Trump’s phonecalls with Zelinsky, or from low-level bureaucrats who merely have a difference of opinion with Trump about U.S. foreign policy. I don’t remember however ever voting for them for President. Do you?

This ridiculous effort by the Democrats to overturn a legal election would be hilarious if it wasn’t so offensive. However, increasingly it appears it is serving a good end, as it is revealing their power-hungry, totalitarian, and anti-democratic culture to the entire country. They don’t support democracy and elections, only their guaranteed unopposed right to rule. Such people should never be given positions of power, and if they manage to do so, they should be removed by the voters as soon as possible.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

5 comments

  • wayne

    “Helter Stelter”
    {Parody Alert}
    -Louder With Crowder-
    August 2019
    https://youtu.be/t31rUX3QDiQ
    4:01

  • wayne

    I’ll toss this in here—-

    Life, Liberty & Levin
    with Alan Dershowitz
    12/8/19
    https://youtu.be/qsd8TKMe_a0
    40:07

  • Bob Steinke

    As you look at the evidence in the impeachment case I think it’s important to ask yourself questions like, “What if Hillary Clinton had done what Trump did, and the exact same evidence was arrayed against her?” Would you still feel that there’s nothing of concern here? Nothing that warrants an investigation?

    What would Trump think in that case? Would he be saying, “They are so unfair to that woman. This is a witch hunt.”

  • Chris

    The possible impeachable event would have been if Pres Trump had NOT asked Pres Zelenski to investigate Barisma and Hunter Biden on inspection.
    On inspection we see Hunter Biden with no expertise in oil or gas or international affairs or Ukraine anything.
    On inspection we see Hunter using Air Force II to travel to Ukraine. This brings the portfolio of the United States government with it especially while traveling with his father the sitting Vice President.
    On inspection we see the father Biden, Vice President, telling the previous Ukraine administration to remove the investigation into the organization Hunter was involved with.

    President Trump as Chief Law Enforcement officer must pursue this given the data on inspection. To not this would be closer to an impeachable event.

  • Chris

    The possible impeachable event would have been if Pres Trump had NOT asked Pres Zelenski to investigate Barisma and Hunter Biden on inspection.
    On inspection we see Hunter Biden with no expertise in oil or gas or international affairs or Ukraine anything.
    On inspection we see Hunter using Air Force II to travel to Ukraine. This brings the portfolio of the United States government with it especially while traveling with his father the sitting Vice President.
    On inspection we see the father Biden, Vice President, telling the previous Ukraine administration to remove the investigation into the organization Hunter was involved with.

    President Trump as Chief Law Enforcement officer must pursue this given the data on inspection. To not this would be closer to an impeachable event.

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