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Trump’s Ukraine call reveals a president convinced of his own invincibility
The Washington Post ^ | 21 September 2019 | Philip Rucker , Robert Costa and Rachael Bade

Posted on 09/21/2019 8:57:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

When the July 24 congressional testimony of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III deflated the impeachment hopes of Democrats, President Trump crowed “no collusion” and claimed vindication from accusations that he had conspired with Russia in the 2016 election.

Then, the very next day, Trump allegedly sought to collude with another foreign country in the coming election — pressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up what he believed would be damaging information about one of his leading Democratic challengers, former vice president Joe Biden, according to people familiar with the conversation.

The push by Trump and his personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, to influence the newly elected Ukrainian leader reveals a president convinced of his own invincibility — apparently willing and even eager to wield the vast powers of the United States to taint a political foe and confident that no one could hold him back.

“We haven’t seen anything like this in my lifetime,” said William A. Galston, a senior fellow in governance at the Brookings Institution who graduated from college just before Watergate. “He appears to be daring the rest of the political system to stop him — and if it doesn’t, he’ll go further.”

The effort — which came as the Trump administration was withholding financial and military support from Ukraine to help the small democracy protect itself against Russian aggression — illustrates Trump’s expansive view of executive power and what appears to be a cavalier attitude about legal limits on his conduct.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2020election; districtofcolumbia; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; jeffbezos; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; philiprucker; presstitutes; rachaelbade; robertcosta; smearmachine; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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Three bylines means three times the lies.
1 posted on 09/21/2019 8:57:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Disinformation


2 posted on 09/21/2019 9:01:03 PM PDT by youngidiot (God save the President!)
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Phil Rucker is the manky bastard who got Trumps personal assistant to blab about the family and then fired. She should have kept her mouth shut, but he he tossed journalistic integrity into the toilet when he published her off the record remarks.


3 posted on 09/21/2019 9:02:50 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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And nevermind bidens own words
https://youtu.be/UXA—dj2-CY


4 posted on 09/21/2019 9:05:05 PM PDT by inchworm
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Another example of partisan opinions presented as “news”


5 posted on 09/21/2019 9:09:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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3 retards who are convinced there are more than a handful of people who will buy into their BS, but in the end, they have a different goal.

All of these hysterics lead me to believe that the left is throwing out anything they can come up with to help deflect some very bad news headed their way.


6 posted on 09/21/2019 9:11:13 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“President Trump crowed “no collusion” “

These authors impeach themselves with their use of this verb.


7 posted on 09/21/2019 9:17:00 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LMAO. This Headline is Complete and Total Proof that the Dinosaur / Progressive Media is completely beside itself, apoplectic and convulsive, in their TOTAL FAILURE to take down President Trump.

They have expended every bullet in their arsenal. Used every dirty trick they know and they have utterly failed in their every attempt to sabotage President Trump.

And, they are finally starting to realize this. And, it doesn’t sit well with them.

They are just beginning to realize that 2020 will be a President Trump Blow-out and, a complete rejection of their Socialist/Communist Wet Dreams.


8 posted on 09/21/2019 9:17:45 PM PDT by ocrp1982 (Lurking since the late 90's. Recently retired. No tagline yet.)
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And didn’t we see earlier today that the ‘whistleblower’ admit there was no DIRECT knowledge of the event? You know, my barber’s third cousin’s bookeeper said he heard from the hot dog vendor.............................


9 posted on 09/21/2019 9:20:42 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Maybe the President is correct, WaPo.

He is invincible.


10 posted on 09/21/2019 9:22:21 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
FAKE NEWS
11 posted on 09/21/2019 9:23:54 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.")
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lol these commies believe their own bull sh*t it’s hilarious how pathetic these people are


12 posted on 09/21/2019 9:24:59 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Quick, ComPost!! Get Bernstein and Woodward on the phone so they can relive their Watergate days!!


13 posted on 09/21/2019 9:25:42 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Pseudo-journalists have been returned to their deserved status in society (which is much, much less than the stature they desire and inconsistent with the inflated level at which they see themselves), and they hate it.


14 posted on 09/21/2019 9:27:30 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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So where’s the transcript of the phone call to prove their allegations? Pissant dweebs.


15 posted on 09/21/2019 9:33:39 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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Biden committed a crime as a sitting VP. He ADMITTED it on video: blackmail of a foreign government to obstruct justice for a family member.

Yet the media is only interested in...TRUMP

Well, as the left always says about Trump, you can be prosecuted AFTER you leave office. Well Biden is out of office. So this seems a good time for the DOJ to arrest and indict Mr. Biden.

16 posted on 09/21/2019 9:34:33 PM PDT by montag813
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The washington compost making up more lies.


17 posted on 09/21/2019 9:39:32 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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18 posted on 09/21/2019 9:56:23 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Phil, Bob and Rachie are gonna look good choking their life out on a Trumpmas tree.


19 posted on 09/21/2019 10:06:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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Phil Rucker is the manky bastard who got Trumps personal assistant to blab about the family and then fired.

"Butt" Rucker should have the teeth beaten out of his lying face, and then have a deep scalp massage with Lucille...

20 posted on 09/21/2019 10:09:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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