USA: President Trump's Turning Point USA Speech Features Slurred Speech, Windmill Rant

You will be shocked to learn that the Center for Public Integrity obtained emails this weekend that show a Trump administration official put in place a hold on nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine just 90 minutes after the president's infamous July 25 phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky. The senior budget official in question, Michael Duffey, even asked the folks he was emailing at the Pentagon to keep the whole thing on the low. This is the quid pro quo, which they already admitted to, but here it is again in the contemporaneous emails. As a reminder, even Jonathan Turley—the witness Trump's Republican allies called before the House to naysay the impeachment proceedings—admitted a proven quid pro quo would be impeachable.

Everyone knows what happened and why. And yet we're still subjected to Republican senators saying Donald Trump was gravely concerned about generalized corruption in Ukraine. Right, just like his anti-corruption initiatives at his hotels, where he rakes in money from corporate and foreign interests—some of whom don't even stay in the rooms they pay for!—while his government makes policy that may affect those interests. The audacity of these people. Meanwhile, they refuse to allow any direct parties to the scheme—including, say, Duffey—to testify in the Senate trial. Surely, since these folks are all telling the truth about how innocent the whole thing was, they would offer the same story under oath (and penalty of perjury)?

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