Whistleblower Complaint Also Raises Concerns About How WH Handled Ukraine Call

The explosive whistleblower complaint at the center of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry raises concerns about more than just an apparent “promise” President Trump made during a call with the president of Ukraine in July, The New York Times reported.


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The plot thickens…

Please proceed…

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“Concerns.”

As in… “Houston, we have a concern?”

Shouldn’t that be “Collins, we are concerned”?

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The word ‘coverup’ keeps popping into my mind for some reason …

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Wanna bet the “several White House officials who observed Trump’s behavior and could help corroborate the points made in the grievances outlined in the complaint” are, during testimony, all gonna say, who, what, me? never saw a thing…

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Also: anyone who believes that Zelensky was going to say anything other than what he did say at yesterday’s presser is nuts.

It’s like asking the woman with the black eye, wired jaw and arm in a cast if her 250lb hubby sitting right next to her was the one who did it. Riiiiiiiight. Gonna get the truth on that one, fer sure.

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Or Executive privilege.

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And of course, it gets worse…

So much for the Presidential Records Act and for the National Archives when all this is over. As suspected by many of us, tRump and Co. have most likely not followed any protocols or properly retained any important communications and documents by law.

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The document was finally delivered to Congress on Wednesday. Several Democratic lawmakers have called for the complaint to be made public.

It’s not a long document. One of them should just stand up and read it into the Congressional Record.

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He better not have been acid washing his e-mails, that’s all I can say. It’s wrong and bad and so, so expensive!

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A separate network? Perhaps a server in someone’s basement?

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It probably where tRump puts all his communications with Putin too.

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So…maybe outside proper channels this could very well be seen as akin to Nixon’s secret taping system.

but%20her%20emails

Or Alfa Bank

“Not the first time this has been done” by this Administration or any?

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