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Why is this important?
Mr Trump's most ardent critics accuse him of using the powers of the presidency to bully Ukraine into digging up damaging information on a political rival, Democrat Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump and his supporters the former vice-president abused his power to pressure Ukraine to back away from a criminal investigation that could implicate his son, Hunter.
Mr Biden is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination to take on Mr Trump next year.
In other words, it is nothing less than the White House at stake.
[...] What happened to the whistleblower's complaint?
After receiving the [whistleblower] complaint, the inspector general informed Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, and said the matter was "urgent". The intelligence community whistleblower law says the director has seven days to pass the complaint along to congressional intelligence committees.
That didn't happen.
Instead, Mr Maguire spoke to a lawyer who told him the issue was not "urgent", at least according to legal standards, according to [T]he New York Times.
As a result, Mr Maguire decided that the members of the congressional oversight committees did not need to see it.
On 9 September, the inspector general informed Congress about the complaint's existence, but not the details. Democrats in Congress have since clamoured for more information - including a transcript of Mr Trump's call - but the administration has refused to co-operate.
And that's where things currently stand.
[...] Did Mr Trump commit an impeachable offence?
The constitutional process for handling a president who committed illegal and-or unethical acts is impeachment by a majority of the House of Representatives and conviction and removal by a two-thirds majority of the US Senate.
The US constitution outlines the grounds for impeachment as "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors". When it comes down to it, an "impeachable offense" is whatever a majority of the House says it is.
Inspector General of the Intelligence Community Letters to Congressional Intelligence Committees
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 24 2019, @05:36PM (5 children)
Because they give a shit and are not corporate whores that we know of. Their voting records mean more than the empty words of other politicians. Khallow if you want to fix your country then support them, they are some of the very few that back up their platitudes with action. Which makes them not platitudes at all.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 24 2019, @07:28PM (4 children)
Sanders was incredibly quick to toss everything aside and endorse Hillary, even after the shenanigans in the primaries. I suspect if he were to get into office, he'd quickly become just another establishment tool.
Warren is the wildcard but the NYTimes, which tends to be extremely pro-establishment, has started pulling for her after it's become clear that their initial pick of Kamala Harris isn't going anywhere. That leaves me somewhat uncomfortable with her.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 24 2019, @10:10PM (3 children)
Lol what nonsense. He backed Clinton because he is a decent human being and realized continuing to run would basically gurantee a win for Trump. Spread your mud somewhere else, nice to see this is the level of desperate character assassination your left with.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 24 2019, @10:17PM (2 children)
Yeah, his sacrifice was real successful. Hillary was the second best choice. Not.
He should have taken the offered nomination of the Green party, he had a good chance to win vs Hillary and Trump.
(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Wednesday September 25 2019, @01:53PM
you clearly have no grasp of how first past the post works. Nor the die-hard (D) and (R) voting blocks that are part of the equation.
Since the Republicans formed, it has been impossible for a third party to win the Presidency. It has always been impossible. A party has to die off before a third party can take its place- and that becomes the second party for a while. The last time this happened was Lincoln and his brand new liberal Republican party. Nixon nearly killed the Republican party. Some quick thinking in recruiting evangelicals and hard core racists helped the Republicans put a B movie actor in office and recover a lot of lost seats around the nation. Now Trump is taking a swing at killing the party, and it is looking like he will succeed. But it will not be the Greens that take over. Most likely the Democrats will take the right wing slot- being a bit right of center in general, and some new group will take the left wing slot. Maybe Democratic Socialists. The concept is pretty popular these days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 25 2019, @07:28PM
What Nobuddy said. I would have loved that green party option, but you think Trump was a better choice than Clinton so you're beyond help. She's a shitty corporate politician but Trump is a full blown criminal AND traitor. You are forgiven for voting for him, but not for still supporting him when all our suspicions have been proven right.