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    Default Trump has been openly trying to leverage Ukraine to his political benefit for months

    Trump, then a newly minted front-runner in the Republican nominating contest, wasn’t worried about the geopolitics of Ukraine.

    Once he won the presidency, though, that changed. Ukraine has become a repeated and obvious political playing card for Trump over the past several years, in part because of its oppositional role to Russia. When questions about Russia have arisen, Trump and his allies have often tried to redirect America’s gaze to Ukraine.

    The earliest iteration was an effort to wave away questions about Russia’s role in the 2016 election by suggesting that Ukraine was engaged in something equivalent. It was a line of argument that leveraged a January 2017 article from Politico, describing how a consultant working for the Democratic National Committee had sought information from Ukrainian officials largely centered on Paul Manafort, previously a political consultant in that country but at the time Trump’s campaign chairman.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...enefit-months/
    This is what you get when you allow a mafia racketeer slime into The Oval Office. "Extortion" is one of Trump's middle names.

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    Manafort and Trump, among others, have been using this Russian puppet state Ukraine as a savings and loan for something like 20 years

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    This is what you get when you allow a mafia racketeer slime into The Oval Office. "Extortion" is one of Trump's middle names.
    Bullshit, fake news, and you fell for it again. Libs are the most gullible motherfuckers on the planet, lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Bullshit, fake news, and you fell for it again. Libs are the most gullible motherfuckers on the planet, lol.
    got it Sean

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Bullshit, fake news, and you fell for it again. Libs are the most gullible motherfuckers on the planet, lol.
    Give it a rest, man! GULLIBLE? My fucking dog knows this ASSHOLE colluded! Now he has colluded and EXTORTED!!

    EIGHT TIMES IN ONE PHONE CALL! How many times do YOU ever have the need to make the 'SAME' REQUEST or DEMAND in a phone call?

    From the WALL STREET JOURNAL--you know MURDOCH's other property besides FOX. You've heard of them, right?

    Trump Repeatedly Pressed Ukraine President to Investigate ...

    https://www.wsj.com › articles › trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-le...
    2 days ago - President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the ... Biden's son, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with ... The interactions between the president, Mr. Giuliani and Ukraine have come under scrutiny in ... whether he had asked the Ukrainian leader to investigate Mr. Biden.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    Give it a rest, man! GULLIBLE? My fucking dog knows this ASSHOLE colluded! Now he has colluded and EXTORTED!!

    EIGHT TIMES IN ONE PHONE CALL! How many times do YOU ever have the need to make the 'SAME' REQUEST or DEMAND in a phone call?

    From the WALL STREET JOURNAL--you know MURDOCH's other property besides FOX!

    Trump Repeatedly Pressed Ukraine President to Investigate ...

    https://www.wsj.com › articles › trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-le...

    2 days ago - President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the ... Biden's son, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with ... The interactions between the president, Mr. Giuliani and Ukraine have come under scrutiny in ... whether he had asked the Ukrainian leader to investigate Mr. Biden.

    Lol, let's see the transcript of the alleged "extortion". I'll wait.
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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    got it Sean
    What's hilarious is, Hannity has been right all along. You idiots have been throwing literal shit against the wall, and haven't been able to get any of it to stick.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    What's hilarious is, Hannity has been right all along. You idiots have been throwing literal shit against the wall, and haven't been able to get any of it to stick.

    you parrot Fox Fake News every day, all day

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Bullshit, fake news, and you fell for it again. Libs are the most gullible motherfuckers on the planet, lol.
    What's your opinion of Giuliani's interview with Chris Cuomo and on Fox News about this subject.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    What's your opinion of Giuliani's interview with Chris Cuomo and on Fox News about this subject.
    Rudy is a bit of a whack job, I'm not sure why Trump keeps him around. I haven't seen the interview. What has that got to do with anything?
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    Where Rudy admits he did what Trump is accusing Biden of having done, at Trumps direction?
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    LOCK HIM UP!

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Rudy is a bit of a whack job, I'm not sure why Trump keeps him around. I haven't seen the interview. What has that got to do with anything?
    Rudy is Trump's henchman, he was the one that Trump sent to the Ukraine to collect dirt on Biden, and Rudy ended up spilling the beans about the whole scheme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centerleftfl View Post
    Give it a rest, man! GULLIBLE? My fucking dog knows this ASSHOLE colluded! Now he has colluded and EXTORTED!!

    EIGHT TIMES IN ONE PHONE CALL! How many times do YOU ever have the need to make the 'SAME' REQUEST or DEMAND in a phone call?

    From the WALL STREET JOURNAL--you know MURDOCH's other property besides FOX. You've heard of them, right?

    Trump Repeatedly Pressed Ukraine President to Investigate ...

    https://www.wsj.com › articles › trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-le...
    2 days ago - President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the ... Biden's son, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about eight times to work with ... The interactions between the president, Mr. Giuliani and Ukraine have come under scrutiny in ... whether he had asked the Ukrainian leader to investigate Mr. Biden.

    We're still waiting for that transcript.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    Rudy is Trump's henchman, he was the one that Trump sent to the Ukraine to collect dirt on Biden, and Rudy ended up spilling the beans about the whole scheme.
    What beans? Give me specifics. By the way, Rudy didn't go to Ukraine, so you've got that wrong right off the bat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    What beans? Give me specifics. By the way, Rudy didn't go to Ukraine, so you've got that wrong right off the bat.
    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newsp...ent/vi-AAHGb8C

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/polit...ntv/index.html

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