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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:22 PM Mar 2020

Democrats Will Go After Trump Kids Crimes If He Pushes Ukraine Conspiracy

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/05/democrats-will-go-after-trump-kids-crimes-if-he-pushes-ukraine-conspiracy.html


Posted on Thu, Mar 5th, 2020 by Jason Easley
Democrats Will Go After Trump Kids Crimes If He Pushes Ukraine Conspiracy


Democrats are telling Joe Biden to get ready to punch back hard on Ukraine, and warning that the corruption of Trump’s kids will be fair game in the election.

Politico reported:

For some Democrats, the key to neutralizing the impending attacks is for Biden to turn them right back around on the president, questioning the Trump children’s many financial and business entanglements as they continue to advise their father — both formally and informally — while he’s in the White House.

“If Donald Trump wants to talk about children, let’s talk about the president’s children and the immense amount of money they’re making off of their father’s name,” said Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), who hasn’t endorsed in the Democratic primary. “I’m Irish too, so you fight back hard. When somebody throws this kind of sleaze at you, you respond.”


Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are already under investigation in the House for everything from using private email to hide government communications to security clearance violations.

The FBI has also been investigating an Ivanka Trump business deal:

If Trump keeps pushing the baseless and debunked Ukraine conspiracy theory, Democrats are going to unload on Trump with all of the crime and corruption of his adult kids.

It isn’t 2016 anymore, and this time, Democrats are ready to fight back.
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Democrats Will Go After Trump Kids Crimes If He Pushes Ukraine Conspiracy (Original Post) babylonsister Mar 2020 OP
That was my first thought. safeinOhio Mar 2020 #1
I hope so PJMcK Mar 2020 #2
Mmmm but Bloomberg looks like he'd be up for it.... fierywoman Mar 2020 #23
I agree. n/t EndlessWire Mar 2020 #39
Go hard, go strong, go aganist trump family corruption Miigwech Mar 2020 #3
Time to take off the gloves. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2020 #34
Might be good strategy, but I don't see it happening. Laelth Mar 2020 #4
Bloomberg could take care of that with his superpac. drray23 Mar 2020 #14
Now, that's a thought. n/t Laelth Mar 2020 #15
Be classy and be enslaved. EndlessWire Mar 2020 #41
This should happen pandr32 Mar 2020 #5
It is about time Nikki28 Mar 2020 #6
hammer those fucking grifters HARD Celerity Mar 2020 #7
+++ Leghorn21 Mar 2020 #26
Don't play defense. kairos12 Mar 2020 #8
This! SilasSouleII Mar 2020 #37
We need call all Senators and tell them this DonaldsRump Mar 2020 #9
"... if trump pushes the Ukraine conspiracy..." ??????? WTF... albacore Mar 2020 #10
Right? Grokenstein Mar 2020 #24
I can hear it now... albacore Mar 2020 #25
requires something more than the typical "strongly worded letter" to be noticed beachbumbob Mar 2020 #11
Hear, hear! smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #12
IT's About Time! Me. Mar 2020 #13
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner trump jr and the other one .... whats his name ARE CROOKS trueblue2007 Mar 2020 #16
Even Jared's brother is in the Swamp. BigmanPigman Mar 2020 #19
Gums... IthinkThereforeIAM Mar 2020 #21
reminds me of that line mnmoderatedem Mar 2020 #17
My thoughts are it should be done anyway. And if you can't do it now because of Ferrets are Cool Mar 2020 #18
They like it better when we don't fight back. mac56 Mar 2020 #20
My take? Bring a machine gun to the knife fight. NoMoreRepugs Mar 2020 #22
Democrats better go after Trump kids randr Mar 2020 #27
"Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out." n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2020 #28
We need fighters. LaurenOlimina Mar 2020 #29
Why wait? Go after them anyway... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #30
Why if? nt Xipe Totec Mar 2020 #31
they should have been doing it for years now AlexSFCA Mar 2020 #32
Why not attack first? Put the fucker on the defensive. Chris Hayes just reported that Kushner flibbitygiblets Mar 2020 #33
Never happening....it opens a can of worms nobody in D.C. will allow. AncientGeezer Mar 2020 #35
They should go after them anyway. HARD! Not doing so makes no sense. nt Quixote1818 Mar 2020 #36
Recommended. H2O Man Mar 2020 #38
Oh thx for posting! Really happy to hear this. Thekaspervote Mar 2020 #40

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
2. I hope so
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:26 PM
Mar 2020

Pardon me for being a little pessimistic. Our side rarely fights with the ferocity of Republicans.

Go for it, Rep. Hines! Show us what you've got.

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
34. Time to take off the gloves.
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:48 PM
Mar 2020

You know that trumpie is going to take the lowest possible road. Nothing will be too ugly for him to do. Time to take off the gloves and fight fire with fire. God bless Michelle, but this election year is going to bring all of us into the gutter.

Everything is fair game.

This is going to be the ugliest, nastiest, dirtiest election we've ever seen.

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
4. Might be good strategy, but I don't see it happening.
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:28 PM
Mar 2020

Joe is too classy for that.

I could be wrong. We shall see what we see.



-Laelth

EndlessWire

(6,537 posts)
41. Be classy and be enslaved.
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 12:05 AM
Mar 2020

Want to win? Tell the damned truth about Trump et al. Tell it often and loud. No need to lie.

Trump probably won't even debate. Can't run around behind his opponent's back and menace him. Can't dry hump a chair up on stage.
Joe just needs to do his homework, remember what office he's running for, and look stately.

Stick together, People.

Nikki28

(557 posts)
6. It is about time
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:31 PM
Mar 2020

They fight back. Get the seven house managers back on the post and add any other tough congressman as well a Senate Dems to go off and get behind all cameras and give them a taste of their own medicine.Sick of the repukes.Open up more impeachments.Two can play that game especially when crime is running over from the crime family in the white house.It is long overdue.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
9. We need call all Senators and tell them this
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:37 PM
Mar 2020

Make them think twice about going after Joe. They may not stop, but let's make us hear them.

If they go low, this year we go as low legally possible and (figuratively) kick the shite out of them there, and then we go back to the high road.

This is the ONLY way to deal with a bully.

"Russia, if you're listening: thanks for giving us the dumbest SOB alive as your puppet. He and his family leave so much dirt, this will be fun!"

Welcome, Russia and Rus-publicans to 2020...it ain't no 2016.

albacore

(2,399 posts)
10. "... if trump pushes the Ukraine conspiracy..." ??????? WTF...
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 09:37 PM
Mar 2020

I would hope that the law goes after trump's spawn no matter what happens about the Ukraine, or anything else.
If crimes were committed, they need to be prosecuted.

Once trump is gone, if the prosecutions of the trump spawn don't proceed, we can no longer talk about "rule of law" in this country.

(Full disclosure: If Hunter Biden is guilty of a crime...burn his ass. If he simply used his family name to get money... that's not a crime.)

Grokenstein

(5,725 posts)
24. Right?
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:34 PM
Mar 2020

I'm already tired of the "let bygones be bygones" nonsense after Cheney walked away unscathed, his "friends" sharing his sneering giggle as they kicked blood money back into his pockets. If Donald, Beavis, Butt-Head, the Ivankabot and Jared do not pay for their crimes we are guaranteed to go through this all over again with the next GOP scumbag who promises big tax cuts for Billy Joe Bob and Uncle Daddy.

albacore

(2,399 posts)
25. I can hear it now...
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:37 PM
Mar 2020

"We don't want to rake up all that old muck.... it's time to look forward, not backward."

PUKE!

Ferrets are Cool

(21,107 posts)
18. My thoughts are it should be done anyway. And if you can't do it now because of
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 10:09 PM
Mar 2020

the election, make sure it's ready to go the minute that MF gets kicked out of the WH.

NoMoreRepugs

(9,435 posts)
22. My take? Bring a machine gun to the knife fight.
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:28 PM
Mar 2020

Hit harder, hit bigger, they yell, yell louder - no more backing down.

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)
32. they should have been doing it for years now
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:45 PM
Mar 2020

investigations. Sometimes I feel that dems are bad at politics. Great on policy but politics is different and it’s very dirty.

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
33. Why not attack first? Put the fucker on the defensive. Chris Hayes just reported that Kushner
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:46 PM
Mar 2020

benefitted from policy he helped push through. Go after the little turdburglar while it's still in the news.

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