01-28-2020, 04:31 PM
(01-27-2020, 06:33 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I believe that the White House Counsel highlighted a very specific instance involving Obama and aid to Egypt. As I said previously, most foreign aid has some sort of conditions attached, and that is just how it goes.
Why are the Democrats trying to make a big deal out of Trump admin. pausing aid, when it's pretty much S.O.P. in American Foreign Policy decision making?
The entire Articles of Impeachment that the Democrats brought is a flimsy house of cards that only makes sense if you close your eyes, wish real hard, and swear on the Necromonicon that you hate Donald Trump..
I agree foreign aid comes with conditions. Those conditions promote our national security or foreign policy objectives. Those objectives should benefit the nation which in turn should benefit me. They should benefit you. They should benefit our families.
Trump’s condition to announce an investigation into a political rival benefits only him personally as a political candidate. It only serves to weaken our democratic elections by knowing inviting more foreign interference in a presidential election! It also compromises our national security and foreign policy objectives as approved by Congress. That’s why it’s a big deal.
That’s not even opening the can of worms regarding the lies and conspiracy to cover up his actions or the continued obstruction of justice and Congress to impede their role of oversight.
Bottom line, Trump invited a foreign country to knowingly interfere with our next presidential election for his benefit. I loathe to use the “C” word because I know it triggers some “folks, but holding secret meetings with a foreign government to arrange an agreement for election interfere is collusion. I don’t believe anyone here believes that is a good precedent to set for future elections.
