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On this impeachment thing

Morrison is refuting that key details of the call were removed from the transcript (what Vindman claimed). Vindman claims that he tried to get the key items inserted into the transcript of the call, but those advances were rebuffed. If Vindman can produce an email saying that he was asking for those items to be inserted, that would help his position a lot.
 
1) Joe has said his son will not be on any foreign boards if he is elected president. Again, there is nothing illegal about it if he did. Interestingly, it IS illegal in many other countries, but not here in the US. Is it a potential conflict of interest? Absolutely. Not illegal though. To avoid any possibility, Joe has said that Hunter will be prohibited from doing it and will therefore not have to bother with the scrutiny.
2) It was 50K per month, not 80. Not a particularly huge discrepancy, but these arguments always end up ballooning with the amount of money being made / profited.
3) Again, while you can claim that he is underqualified for the role, the doesn't mean that he didn't work in the company's best interests. If I understand correctly, he was serving as a liaison to European investors and he had served on previous boards in a similar capacity (acquiring investors). So is he an ideal candidate for this position? Meh. Is he better than hiring a clerk at the local 7/11? Absolutely. Again, it doesn't matter whether he is qualified or not. I've worked at family owned companies that employed some significant Nepotism. While some of those familial recipients were better at their job than others, I have yet to meet one that didn't at least try to do the job within the best of their ability. The same could be said for Ivanka. She is a freaking fashion designer, but is now working on multi-million dollar deals and trademarks with China. While I don't think she is qualified for that role, she is doing what is best for her company and is apparently succeeding. Kushner is a real estate guy. Not exactly the best person to send to the middle east to develop cease-fire strategies, but he is doing the best that he can.
4) I'd have to find the link, but I believe I saw that Hunter made no profit from the 1.5 billion investment. Yes it helped the company immensely, but it didn't help him personally (except for the obvious credit in being able to land the deal)
5) Trump's kids don't have to "join" any boards because they are already on the boards of a large multi-national business. There are several ways that their business has benefitted during their time in the white house. If you are actually open to learning about it, feel free to click on the link below. There is plenty there that could be considered corrupt, but a lot of it is mostly above board, just like the Hunter Biden situation. So I don't have a particular issue with what the Trump children are doing, just that is a bit hypocritical for them to be calling out Hunter Biden for similar practices.

https://www.gq.com/story/trump-kids-profit-presidency
Wouldn't it help to restore our confidence in the future of the human race if we knew that SqueakyClean's
five stone-cold rebuttals, here, would at least have a scant effect on the perceptions of the right-wing people on this board ??
If only.....
 
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Wouldn't it help to restore our confidence in the future of the human race if we knew that SqueakyClean's
five stone-cold rebuttals, here, would at least have a scant effect on the perceptions of the right-wing people on this board ??
If only.....
We are all here (hopefully) for the debate and not for the "I'm right, you're wrong" conclusion.
Therefore, they similarly are hoping that your eyes are being opened about the possible consequences of this country moving towards a more socialist regime.
As long as well all learn something new at the end of the day, that's probably a good thing.
 
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The only discordant area between Morrison and Vindman testimonies of which I am aware was that Morrison voiced his opinion that he was unaware that anything was illegal. He corroborated Vindman's assertion of the relationship between financial aid and political investigation, i.e. the so called quid pro quo and the leverage.
That hardly supports your specific assertion or your general position.

Is ignorance of the law a defense?
 
We are all here (hopefully) for the debate and not for the "I'm right, you're wrong" conclusion.
Therefore, they similarly are hoping that your eyes are being opened about the possible consequences of this country moving towards a more socialist regime.
As long as well all learn something new at the end of the day, that's probably a good thing.
A generous approach to board civility, indeed !
Eyes being opened to the possible ramifications of a FUTURE governing philosophy such as Socialism can be welcomed.
Attempting to open eyes , endlessly and repeatedly, to the existence of PAST demonstrable facts can be argued as being noticeably different, I believe.
 
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yea - and if there was any meat on those bones they would be the rationale for impeachment instead of what someone heard from someone else about a phone call to the Ukraine.
 
yea - and if there was any meat on those bones they would be the rationale for impeachment instead of what someone heard from someone else about a phone call to the Ukraine.

No they wouldn't be. Those are just some instances listed.

But the reality is that the ole saying "Your network is your net worth" applies here.

That concept doesn't change because your network is made up of powerful people.

It may not be fair, and can sometime be questionable -- but it doesn't always make it corrupt.

Trumps kids are profiting from their dad's power and position. Just like many of those before them.

Now if they were getting that profit by undermining US national security or in some other illegal manner that's one thing. But there is no evidence of that -- and quite frankly there isn't any evidence of it for Hunter either.
 
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1) Joe has said his son will not be on any foreign boards if he is elected president. Again, there is nothing illegal about it if he did. Interestingly, it IS illegal in many other countries, but not here in the US. Is it a potential conflict of interest? Absolutely. Not illegal though. To avoid any possibility, Joe has said that Hunter will be prohibited from doing it and will therefore not have to bother with the scrutiny.
2) It was 50K per month, not 80. Not a particularly huge discrepancy, but these arguments always end up ballooning with the amount of money being made / profited.
3) Again, while you can claim that he is underqualified for the role, the doesn't mean that he didn't work in the company's best interests. If I understand correctly, he was serving as a liaison to European investors and he had served on previous boards in a similar capacity (acquiring investors). So is he an ideal candidate for this position? Meh. Is he better than hiring a clerk at the local 7/11? Absolutely. Again, it doesn't matter whether he is qualified or not. I've worked at family owned companies that employed some significant Nepotism. While some of those familial recipients were better at their job than others, I have yet to meet one that didn't at least try to do the job within the best of their ability. The same could be said for Ivanka. She is a freaking fashion designer, but is now working on multi-million dollar deals and trademarks with China. While I don't think she is qualified for that role, she is doing what is best for her company and is apparently succeeding. Kushner is a real estate guy. Not exactly the best person to send to the middle east to develop cease-fire strategies, but he is doing the best that he can.
4) I'd have to find the link, but I believe I saw that Hunter made no profit from the 1.5 billion investment. Yes it helped the company immensely, but it didn't help him personally (except for the obvious credit in being able to land the deal)
5) Trump's kids don't have to "join" any boards because they are already on the boards of a large multi-national business. There are several ways that their business has benefitted during their time in the white house. If you are actually open to learning about it, feel free to click on the link below. There is plenty there that could be considered corrupt, but a lot of it is mostly above board, just like the Hunter Biden situation. So I don't have a particular issue with what the Trump children are doing, just that is a bit hypocritical for them to be calling out Hunter Biden for similar practices.

https://www.gq.com/story/trump-kids-profit-presidency

I do agree that we seem to be swimming in a sea of hypocrisy on both sides of these issues.
 
And there was no fake witchhunt because Obama didnt go around doing illegal things!!!
All those close to him called him no-drama Obama for a reason. Even people who disagreed with his politcs (except extreme right wing nutjobs) agree he is a decent well-intentioned thoughtful guy. There's a reason that the only scandals Fox news was drumming up were things like "selfie stick", "wearing tan suit", and the ridiculous "dividing the country racially by saying if he had a kid, he would look like Trayvon martin"
We have no clue as to what Obama did. Having CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the rest of the media allowed him protection. He may be a great guy, but he really wasn't much better than Carter or Grant. If any.
 
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We have no clue as to what Obama did. Having CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the rest of the media allowed him protection. He may be a great guy, but he really wasn't much better than Carter or Grant. If any.

................. Wow

Well maybe if the great Fox News wasn't so busy spewing Trump's Kenyan birth certificate hoax for years they would have had the time and resources to do real journalism and find what Obama "really" did.....

Or just maybe there was no there there and people were just left to make up stuff and regurgitate it to people who were willing to believe anything....

“I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re finding."

Donald Trump, re: his Hawaii investigators about Obama's birth certificate.

He spent years spewing non sense just like that and there was never any there there.

He then did it with Emails and HRC.

Then he just tried to do it with Biden and got caught... And yet here we are still the same people lapping up the lies they've been fed year after year.
 
We have no clue as to what Obama did. Having CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the rest of the media allowed him protection. He may be a great guy, but he really wasn't much better than Carter or Grant. If any.
or maybe they reported nothing, because there was no scandal to report. I think that is much easier to believe than some grand conspiracy amongst like 8 media giants including Fox news who busy reporting rubbish about tan suits, birth certificate etc.

Trump is a crappy guy by any measure, even without getting into his scandals as a President. That's why he makes news.
 
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or maybe they reported nothing, because there was no scandal to report. I think that is much easier to believe than some grand conspiracy amongst like 8 media giants including Fox news who busy reporting rubbish about tan suits, birth certificate etc.

Trump is a crappy guy by any measure, even without getting into his scandals as a President. That's why he makes news.
Trump is certainly not your career politican, but I like that in him. I'm tired of those who make a living in Washington and if I could would send everyone of them home.
 
Yes, please educate me on the jobs Trumps kids have gotten with outside companies or the billions they have collected for a PE firm since the election.
I don't have a clue what you are saying here, nor what that has to do with you understanding the word "facts" in juxtaposition with the word "opinions."
Your condescension is intriguing given your postings.
 
We have no clue as to what Obama did. Having CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, and the rest of the media allowed him protection. He may be a great guy, but he really wasn't much better than Carter or Grant. If any.
Your goofball, uneducated opinion on Obama's standing among all past presidents is thoroughly destroyed by
rankings listed ALL OVER the publishing world, in the past few years. If you know what a SEARCH ENGINE is, you'll have no trouble accessing at least a couple dozen respected historians, political scientists and others, who place him solidly in the top 1/4 to 1/3.
But YOUR opinion is not totally at odds with others !!…... being RIGHT THERE with the overwhelming majority of those identifying as White Supremacists.
 
Your goofball, uneducated opinion on Obama's standing among all past presidents is thoroughly destroyed by
rankings listed ALL OVER the publishing world, in the past few years. If you know what a SEARCH ENGINE is, you'll have no trouble accessing at least a couple dozen respected historians, political scientists and others, who place him solidly in the top 1/4 to 1/3.
But YOUR opinion is not totally at odds with others !!…... being RIGHT THERE with the overwhelming majority of those identifying as White Supremacists.
 
Someone needs to help YOU get out from underneath the uneducated, misinformed , empty-headed cloud under which you've been wandering aimlessly around.
Michael Jordan might as well be giving you directions to a library or to the nearest Adult Remedial Education Center.
Lol, your posts are full of cliche's. I hope you are not a school teacher
 
Lol, your posts are full of cliche's. I hope you are not a school teacher
Your posts are full of the most incomprehensible misstatements of facts outside of the Trump Twitter account.

(List the clichés ! Here's your chance !!)
 
Your posts are full of the most incomprehensible misstatements of facts outside of the Trump Twitter account.

(List the clichés ! Here's your chance !!)
Your fall back position by posting anyone who supports Trump is uneducated, misinformed and are White Supremacists is neither informed nor has any original thought
 
Your fall back position by posting anyone who supports Trump is uneducated, misinformed and are White Supremacists is neither informed nor has any original thought
Most people who are uneducated and misinformed aren't exactly the first ones to recognize originality in the first place. Don't take this stuff so seriously...…...BS is pretty much the stock and trade of everybody on here, from time to time.
Boiler up....I see we're pounding S. Ind...…..
 
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Most people who are uneducated and misinformed aren't exactly the first ones to recognize originality in the first place. Don't take this stuff so seriously...…...BS is pretty much the stock and trade of everybody on here, from time to time.
Boiler up....I see we're pounding S. Ind...…..
That I can agree on. And for the record, I don't support Trump on everything.
His Tweets are over the top, mistake abandoning the Kurds and the constant bashing of the Fed isn't helpful. We don't want to follow other countries and have negative interest rates.
Boiler Up!
 
That I can agree on. And for the record, I don't support Trump on everything.
His Tweets are over the top, mistake abandoning the Kurds and the constant bashing of the Fed isn't helpful. We don't want to follow other countries and have negative interest rates.
Boiler Up!
BSIT........very impressed by what appears to be a genuine re-set offer...
Takin' ya' up on it.....
44-17, last I saw...late in 1st half...….Nebr. @ noon, tomorrow ? not that easy....
 
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You give Barack "credit" for " staying with " Michelle ???!!!
Why ??
His post is a microcosm of how they view race and he legitimately sees no racism in that post, to him it's just a fact, black men don't stay with their families, Obama did and that's laudable but nothing else Obama did, as he sees it, is worth credit, other than maybe bin Laden.
 
. being RIGHT THERE with the overwhelming majority of those identifying as White Supremacists.[/QUOTE]
F you for that statement. I can run a search engine and find many differing opinions. Just like you find that supports yours.
 
His post is a microcosm of how they view race and he legitimately sees no racism in that post, to him it's just a fact, black men don't stay with their families, Obama did and that's laudable but nothing else Obama did, as he sees it, is worth credit, other than maybe bin Laden.
Nope, I stated and always have that I thought he did a good job raising his kids. As for running a country, I consider his efforts minimal at best. And the racism word is overused and ineffective anymore because of that. As for black men staying with their families, some do and some don't. But I will state that having a father figure in the home, no matter the pigment of the skin, USUALLY means a much bettrer environment for the kids.

Oh....THEY who?
 
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Twin: There are legitimate, universally respected presidential historians who have updated their presidential rankings for decades, as chief executives leave office. As well as other scholars and authors with requisite credibility.
YOU could always list ONE of the above-described people who has put Obama in the bottom HALF , couldn't you ??
Since YOU'VE put him 42nd out of 44 (Carter, Grant)….that should be ridiculously easy.
Waiting.
 
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F you for that statement. I can run a search engine and find many differing opinions. Just like you find that supports yours.


There are legitimate, universally respected presidential historians who have updated their presidential rankings for decades, as chief executives leave office. As well as other scholars and authors with requisite credibility.
YOU could always list ONE of the above-described people who has put Obama in the bottom HALF , couldn't you ??
Since YOU'VE put him 42nd out of 44 (Carter, Grant)….that should be ridiculously easy.
Waiting.[/QUOTE]
Once a prick always a prick, conversations as you call them starting out with F You? Yes and I will continue to post about anything I choose to in a civil manner vs being so angry about everything . Here is a solution for you, don't continually post like an ass or for that matter post at all and your problem is solved. Have a nice day!
 
F you for that statement. I can run a search engine and find many differing opinions. Just like you find that supports yours.


There are legitimate, universally respected presidential historians who have updated their presidential rankings for decades, as chief executives leave office. As well as other scholars and authors with requisite credibility.
YOU could always list ONE of the above-described people who has put Obama in the bottom HALF , couldn't you ??
Since YOU'VE put him 42nd out of 44 (Carter, Grant)….that should be ridiculously easy.
Waiting.[/QUOTE]
I actually think Obama raised the stature of Carter and Grant. The most inept of all time.
 
There are legitimate, universally respected presidential historians who have updated their presidential rankings for decades, as chief executives leave office. As well as other scholars and authors with requisite credibility.
YOU could always list ONE of the above-described people who has put Obama in the bottom HALF , couldn't you ??
Since YOU'VE put him 42nd out of 44 (Carter, Grant)….that should be ridiculously easy.
Waiting.
I actually think Obama raised the stature of Carter and Grant. The most inept of all time.[/QUOTE]
Actually, I would vote Warren G. Harding as by far the most inept.
Carter wasn't inept but certainly fell into a series of situations for which there were no viable rapid solutions that anyone was going be capable of achieving at that particular time, but he appropriately bore and suffered the responsibility and consequences.
EDIT: Upon further consideration I think that I would move Andrew Johnson to the head of the inept pack, then Harding...
 
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I agree with you about Warren G Harding and would include Andrew Johnson as a top contender. I personally dislike Andrew Jackson for his refusal to obey Supreme Court ruling and thus, the “Trail of Tears”. But historians don’t rank him as badly as I would
 
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Since YOU'VE put him 42nd out of 44 (Carter, Grant)….that should be ridiculously easy.
Waiting.[/QUOTE]
I actually think Obama raised the stature of Carter and Grant. The most inept of all time.[/QUOTE]


Tell us the name of ONE highly respected presidential historian that ranked Obama in the lower HALF of all presidents. This is my 2nd request. Still waiting.
 
Since YOU'VE put him 42nd out of 44 (Carter, Grant)….that should be ridiculously easy.
Waiting.
I actually think Obama raised the stature of Carter and Grant. The most inept of all time.[/QUOTE]


Tell us the name of ONE highly respected presidential historian that ranked Obama in the lower HALF of all presidents. This is my 2nd request. Still waiting.[/QUOTE]
Obama was a worthless POS , I don't need anyone to tell me that .
 
I actually think Obama raised the stature of Carter and Grant. The most inept of all time.


Tell us the name of ONE highly respected presidential historian that ranked Obama in the lower HALF of all presidents. This is my 2nd request. Still waiting.[/QUOTE]
Obama was a worthless POS , I don't need anyone to tell me that .[/QUOTE]
Delusional. Real world facts tell a completely different story. You’re embarrassing.
 
I agree with you about Warren G Harding and would include Andrew Johnson as a top contender. I personally dislike Andrew Jackson for his refusal to obey Supreme Court ruling and thus, the “Trail of Tears”. But historians don’t rank him as badly as I would
My daughters are enrolled Cherokee nationals, so I get it, really well.
 
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