The magnitude of what Mulvaney confessed today is far beyond anything we have faced as a country

[KelleyKramer]

Last edited Fri Oct 18, 2019, 12:16 AM - Edit history (1)

This is a 14 tweet thread (I don't know how to unroll them) and IMO this is very damning and a must read.

I have copied the first several messages. You can follow the link to twitter to get the rest of them (you don't have to have a twitter account to view/read it) .....

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1. The magnitude of what Mulvaney has just confessed is far beyond anything we have faced as a country since its founding. This is *not* simply a quid pro quo. This is extortion, and a violation of criminal law under Title 18 U.S. Code § 878....


2...worse, Mulvaney has made it clear that this criminal act is standard operating procedure in the White House. "We do that all the time, get over it,” he said.

Before getting to details, through those words Mulvaney has blown the doors off the barn. Every conversation...


3...with every head of state is now suspect. We already know that there are several transcripts of phone calls that were intentionally misfiled into the most highly classified computer system to keep them hidden. All of them are now needed. There has to be a formal impeachment...

4...proceeding. Moreover, given Trump's secret meeting with Putin, where he forbade anyone from being in the room and destroyed the translators notes. Then he came out and sided with Putin over our intelligence agencies. Trump clearly wanted this hidden, and made every effort...

5...to do so. With a formal impeachment proceeding the translator must be brought in to find out if the horror in Helsinki was among the times that Mulvany describes as the Trump Administration manipulating its foreign policy for political purposes.....


6...but back to the extortion. No, Mulvaney, this is not done all the time. It may be done in the Trump White House because of the magnitude of the corruption. It is a crime, and everyone in the
@WhiteHouse
who has touched on this at all can be charged with criminal conspiracy...



Edit to add the rest of the thread (hat tip to Hermit-The-Prog) ....


7...So, start again: Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine to coerce Zelensky (According to Mulvaney) to issue a statement announcing a corruption investigation involving Russian hacking and Biden (according to Sondland.) In his phone call, Trump made no mention of an...


8...announcment, but instead linked the weapons to an investigation he wanted Ukraine to perform.
Here are the crimes: You start with 18 U.S. Code § 112, which states that whoever "intimidates, coerces, threatens, or harasses a foreign official or an official guest or...


9... obstructs a foreign official in the performance of his duties." They have admitted to the use of withholding military weapons during a time that Ukraine is under attack to coerce them to open a criminal investigation of an American citizen. They are, in fact, doing far....


10...more than coerce. Given the circumstances, and Ukraines need for military weaponry to combat the Russians, they are threatening a foreign official in the performance of his duties.

Which takes us back to 18 U.S. Code § 878. I have attached the language below...

11..it is hard too imagine a greater threat or coercion than using the withholding of military weaponry needed by a president to protect his country unless that president does something. And again, given Mulaney's confession that this is something common in the....


12..Trump White House, it means our entire national security and foreign policy may have been placed at stake for Trump's personal benefit. Take the inexplicable Kurds decision - Trump has a financial interest to satisfy Turkey. Did that come up? Did he extort Erdogan? No one....


13...knows, but under the Mulvaney doctrine, "get over it." The magnitude of the corruption here is just beyond comprehension. And yet here we have the @GOP - with plans to send around a letter declaring that they will not convict on an impeachment - that is willing to...


14...tolerate the abject destruction of our rule of law simply so they can keep their jobs and give out tax cuts.

The sole possibility of saving this country from corruption is the GOP. And unfortunately, their corruption runs too deep to count on them.


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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. A big, fat K&R!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. threadreaderapp link ...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1184901442328502272.html

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. unrolled [ see OP ]

Title 18 U.S. Code § 878

[KelleyKramer]

5. Thank you! ...

I will ad it to the OP

Thanks!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. welcome and thanks for the OP

[Kitchari]

3. K&R. n/t

[dchill]

7. Thanks!

[Python boot]

8. Jury tampering

Republican senators that pledge to acquit before they see the impeachment evidence are failing to do their duty as jurists. The house democrats must make it clear this constitutes more obstruction of justice. The republicans in the senate should not be allowed to get away with jury tampering. The entire Republican Party should be banned for their repeated fraudulent behavior.

[lunatica]

9. Kick

[trueblue2007]

10. i am scared

[napi21]

11. Reading those statements is the most frightening thing I've read since DT took office.

If those who say"No impeachment, that what elections are for" is equally bad. Read between the lines. How much DON'T we know? How much more devastation could he do in the next 15-16 months? And worst of all WHAT HAPPENS IF THE PUBS GERRYMANDER, SUPRESS VOTES, ETC. AND HE WINS ANOTHER 4 YEARS?

I'm going to get a Gin & tonic and drown my fright.