You are IMAGINING that MAYBE Lord Trump was threatening to withhold aid for nefarious reasons.Per wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:38 pmNeither imagination nor maybes.Strangelove wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 1:53 pmC'mon Per, sane folk don't launch an impeachment inquiry based on imagination and maybes!
Congress had approved of aid for the Ukraine.
Trump froze it, then called the Ukrainian president and asked fot a favour.
No ifs and buts. These are objective facts. This is what happened.
You are IMAGING that the "favor" asked for was MAYBE something bad.
(it wasn't, go read the transcript again)
Like the rest of the left you have lost your mind.
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Nothing but imagination and maybes
You are IMAGINING that MAYBE Donny has always "done this kind of stuff".
Well normally the IC wouldn't determine a 2nd hand complaint to be credible but anywayPer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 2:38 pmStrangelove wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 1:53 pmThis is what is normally done with meaningless secondhand accounts.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/w ... ained.htmlUnder the law, the inspector general must decide within 14 days whether the information is credible. The inspector general must also determine whether the allegations amount to an “urgent concern,” meaning they relate to a “serious or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of the law or executive order, or deficiency relating to the funding, administration, or operation of an intelligence activity within the responsibility and authority of the director of national intelligence involving classified information.”
If the complaint meets that standard, the inspector general is supposed to forward it to the director of national intelligence. The law says that within seven days of receiving the complaint, the director in turn shall forward the material to the House and Senate intelligence oversight committees.
Is that what happened here?
No. While the inspector general for the intelligence community, Michael K. Atkinson, told Congress that he had determined that the complaint was credible and qualified as an “urgent concern,” Mr. Maguire has refused to transmit it to Congress
... Maguire didn't "refuse to transmit it to Congress", he asked for one more week.
And at the end of that week he did indeed forward it on.
There are legitimate reasons to need more time and it's not unusual to ask.
Read here if you want to know more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-sec ... -complaint
(note folks ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE say Maguire behaved "honorably" in this matter)
But what has any of this to do with Lord Trump?
Unless of course you're IMAGINING that MAYBE he instructed Maguire to ask for another week?
But even if that were the case, it wouldn't be an impeachable offense.
In fact it's not wrong in any way whatsoever!
Were you IMAGINING that MAYBE it was?
Could the Dems possibly grasp any more desperately at straws?