Official Says Trump’s Ukraine Conduct Was ‘Injurious To The Rule Of Law’- The Day That Was | MSNBC

State Dept. official George Kent, a witness in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, told investigators that the president's conduct in regards to Ukraine was "injurious to the rule of law." Aired on 11/08/19.
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Official Says Trump’s Ukraine Conduct Was ‘Injurious To The Rule Of Law’- The Day That Was | MSNBC

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  1. Just heard Trump talk on the lawn. Still thinks it’s ok to do this. Needs to hear the words extortion and that people died while withholding bi-partisan aid.

    1. @Llynnyia your right about the need for fuels. But the EU has ponied up $16 billion in aid since 2014. But Trump should be more on top of this since the invention of luiquified gas transportation. We should be pushing this. It just shows you. If Trump gets nothing out of it. It’s no interest to him. So is he really looking out for his base?

    2. He would not care about the people that died because of him upholding aid.
      If he understands the word extorsion and how bad that could for him if he is accused of that, he maybe cares. There is a higher chance that he will start accusing the democrats of extorsion.

    3. @berenjervin The people we elect and apparently well educated and privileged should know better than to act like hoodlums.

    1. @Purple Flame Tarot VP like Pence! Now imagine Bloomberg worth $52,000,000,000.00 & money is no objective object. Do you think Bloomberg or someone rich like him could buy themselves an American Presidency for the price of a couple billion banana’s say? In tRumps world yes!

    1. He will because the GOP has no backbone to do the right thing for the American people and to act on there constitutional duties!

    2. @Thomas Armsworthy Jr Please show us how crooked the dems are please show us……..We do see where the GOP deceives us…….Where is the dem lies….I can count 14k of em JUST BY DUMPTY

    3. I expect he will:
      1. see a bullet
      2. fake a heart attack merely to elicit sympathy
      3. face criminal charges (but the courts are too slow)
      4. announce that he will not be running in 2020 and blame the world and fictitious boogeymen, forever and ever.
      5. …choke on a hamburger in bed, and his bloated corpse won’t be found till the morning.

  2. Donald Trump is all about his personal interest he doesn’t give a rat booty about the entire country including his supporters.

    1. @Edward MacLennan – You’ve got some really good points. In the government, though, there are people and systems around that would keep Trump in check if he were to attempt to start WW3, for example. An actual civil war over this is highly, highly unlikely, though we might see individuals or small groups acting out.

    2. @Johnny McMerica Yes, as I said, he could/would TRY to start a Civil War. Which means, in isolated pockets, a LOT of people are going to be in VERY REAL danger for their lives, particularly those who have an easily determined “other” characteristic, like POC, or people attending other than Christian services of worship, or LGBTQ individuals.

       It is also true that the great majority of those who oppose trump, in ANY WAY, have been removed from the cabinet, and his friend’s list. He only wants Yes Men slavering over his every word, and he has eliminated over 60 people from his original “best people,” not to say the least about how many THOUSANDS he has disenfranchised in the Government, by forcing them to become complicit in his crimes, or quit, or by “starving them out,” by cutting their budgets to ZERO.

  3. So Trump’s only defense seems to be “read the transcript”, which I am assuming means, “Sure I said, do me a favor, but I never mentioned the military aid.” My question is, if you completely ignore everything else, can you read the transcript and think, I don’t see anything wrong? Are people just unable to read between the lines of Trump mentioning the favor right after being asked about the javelin missiles?

    Because to me, everything since then has been like collaborating evidence on a man who already confessed to crime.

    1. @Rod Allen No the idiots (tRump,Mulvaney, Giuliani ) have ALL admitted to the crime happening. Pull your head out of where ever you have it and get some fresh air.

    2. @Reg U Thank you, I really don’t think these trmp things will ever pul their heads out of??? They love his criminality, riddled with all his fear, anger & hate!

    3. @Rod Allen I mean, I kind of get what you are saying. Ignore everything else, just make a judgement based only on the transcript. Maybe there isn’t clear cut proof there… but only if you have never watched TV or movies. Trump thinks he is speaking in some code to avoid saying criminal things outright, but it just sounds like mobster speak from pop culture. You never threaten anything or say anything criminal outright, instead its all about “making an offer he can’t refuse”. If all it took to avoid committing a crime was to speak in euthanisms then no one would ever go to jail for extortion. “It would be a real shame something were to happen to you, is what i said, your honor, never threatened to break his bones” theory of legal defense.

      In the end Trump is refusing to talk about military aid until he communicates what HE wants for himself. Its extortion for personal benefit, even if he thought he was being clever by “being subtle”. Ukraine’s president had no problem reading between those lines.

  4. “IF” you tRUMPISTS cannot yet see what a criminal “IT” is??? Well…….what more evidence do you need??

    1. THERE IS ZERO EVIDENCE SO FAR… QUID PRO QUO IS NOT ILLEGAL ANYWAY.. OBAMA DID IT..CLINTON DID IT..BUSH DID IT…THIS IS MERELY ANOTHER FALSE NARRATIVE…

  5. For the first time in a few years I am feeling hopeful. It’s been just 2 months between when the initial whistleblower came forwards to when Trump hears boos and “lock him up!” in public, when Trump’s guilty former associates are trying to find seats before the music stops, and when Trump’s “help” in an election instead causes Republicans to lose their races. This is warp speed by political standards. Keep it coming! 🙂

    1. I know its like a breath of fresh air after the last three years. The office of the president has ethics and they deserve to have that seat well cleaned before Sander or Warren sit in it.

    1. @berenjervin What you trumpers verbally punch people like me in the nose and expect us to what ? Let you? while you call me and people like me soy boy? for turning the other cheek ? no those days are gone. Backwater pondscum that follow trump gets called out on their disgusting ” i got mine, lalala lalala reality denying” beliefs.

  6. George Kent a True American Patriot as well as the rest of the Public Servants that were courageous enough to stand up to this corrupt regime . History will not bid well for ANY Republican the party of traitors

  7. Looks like Donnie finally got pinched! Now let’s see him wiggle his way out of this one with all kinds of lies, cover ups, and misinformation!

  8. After Public testimony , Trump will see the light & resign ✍ or end up being isolated & impeached , being dragged kicking & screaming from his Presidential 💺.

  9. I’m SO SICK OF THIS LIAR SAYING NO ONE COULD DO IT BUT ME; LITERALLY THE DUMBEST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, ACCORDING TO ANONYMOUS, HE IS A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER

  10. And yet, his supporters doesn’t even realize that by asking for foreign help, Trump has diminished them on a daily basis as trash and still doing so yet they stay with him anyway.

    This is a textbook example of a abusive relationship.

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