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Jennifer Rubin, WaPo: How likely is it Trump will be on the ballot in 2020?
How likely is it Trump will be on the ballot in 2020?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/11/how-likely-is-it-trump-will-be-ballot/
By
Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
Oct. 11, 2019 at 10:15 a.m. EDT
For a moment, let us put aside scandals such as President Trump’s receipt of foreign emoluments; his improper retention of the lease on the Trump International Hotel in Washington; his self-dealing; his relatives’ self-dealing; his and his 2016 campaign’s outreach to Russia; his own association as essentially an unindicted co-conspirator in Michael Cohen’s payoff to a woman with whom he cheated on his wife; and the 10 or so grounds for obstruction of justice laid out in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. Just for a moment.
Over the last few weeks, we have learned: Trump ordered aid to Ukraine halted and, to any reasonable observer, was linking that aid and a meeting to Ukraine’s assistance in manufacturing dirt on Democratic presidential contender and former vice president Joe Biden, and in pursuing his asinine conspiracy theory that Ukraine — and not Russia — interfered in the 2016 election; Trump refused to allow witnesses and documents to be produced in response to subpoenas necessary for the House impeachment inquiry; Trump publicly threatened a whistleblower; and, according to a Bloomberg report (in an echo of his attempt to get former FBI director James Comey to go easy on fired NSA Michael Flynn):
And it’s only been a few weeks since the whistleblower’s complaint surfaced.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/11/how-likely-is-it-trump-will-be-ballot/
By
Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
Oct. 11, 2019 at 10:15 a.m. EDT
For a moment, let us put aside scandals such as President Trump’s receipt of foreign emoluments; his improper retention of the lease on the Trump International Hotel in Washington; his self-dealing; his relatives’ self-dealing; his and his 2016 campaign’s outreach to Russia; his own association as essentially an unindicted co-conspirator in Michael Cohen’s payoff to a woman with whom he cheated on his wife; and the 10 or so grounds for obstruction of justice laid out in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. Just for a moment.
Over the last few weeks, we have learned: Trump ordered aid to Ukraine halted and, to any reasonable observer, was linking that aid and a meeting to Ukraine’s assistance in manufacturing dirt on Democratic presidential contender and former vice president Joe Biden, and in pursuing his asinine conspiracy theory that Ukraine — and not Russia — interfered in the 2016 election; Trump refused to allow witnesses and documents to be produced in response to subpoenas necessary for the House impeachment inquiry; Trump publicly threatened a whistleblower; and, according to a Bloomberg report (in an echo of his attempt to get former FBI director James Comey to go easy on fired NSA Michael Flynn):
President Donald Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani, according to three people familiar with the 2017 meeting in the Oval Office.
Tillerson refused, arguing it would constitute interference in an ongoing investigation of the trader, Reza Zarrab, according to the people. They said other participants in the Oval Office were shocked by the request.
And it’s only been a few weeks since the whistleblower’s complaint surfaced.
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