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Sunday, October 13, 2019

Trump is up to his neck in investigations. ZACH KLEIN.

Last month, Speaker Pelosi announced that Democrats in Congress were moving forward with a formal impeachment inquiry against the president. Since then, we’ve learned a lot.
  • On a July call between Mr. Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump urged Ukraine to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden
  • The White House then moved all records of the call to a highly classified, secret computer system with restricted access
  • Investigating committees in Congress have issued a number of subpoenas, prompting Trump to say he won’t participate in the impeachment inquiry
  • Last week, two men working for Rudy Giuliani were arrested on federal campaign finance charges after a massive effort to funnel foreign money into our political process was discovered
Friend, the President of the United States should never ask a foreign government for help to win an election. It’s against our democratic values, compromises national security, and it’s an affront to the Constitution.

Additionally, intentionally stonewalling and failing to participate in an impeachment proceeding is impeachable conduct itself. Just ask Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina. In 1998 during the Clinton impeachment hearings he said, “The day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is that day that he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from Congress over the impeachment process away from Congress and he became the judge and jury.”

Trump knows he’s in trouble. What innocent person takes to Twitter to say the investigation should be ended “for the good of the country” as opposed to because there was no wrongdoing?

He’s using fear tactics. He’s bullying. He’s obstructing justice and impeding the investigation. He’s abandoning his constitutional obligations. But at the end of the day, regardless of what happens in Congress, he will be held accountable if we win big in 2020.

That’s what I’m working towards every day between now and next November. Every time Trump tweets something ridiculous, lies, embarrasses us or even betrays us, let’s recommit ourselves to that fight. Let’s make sure we’re all doing everything we can to win here in Ohio and across the country in 2020.

Indeed the stakes are too high to do anything less than that.
Zach.



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