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Caliman73

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10. It is all for their stupid base.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sun Dec 8, 2019, 05:57 PM

Dec 2019

Anyone with two working neurons knows that Trump was conditioning the aid on Ukraine pushing a false narrative about the 2016 election and inventing dirt on the Bidens. It will be easy to show that those things were not in the interest of the US, but were certainly in Trump's interest.

When you hire crooked lawyers you get a crooked defense

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"Team Trump legal advisor" bases Trump defense on "US" in "Do us a favor, though" [View all] Miles Archer Dec 2019 OP

Pffffftttt. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2019 #1

Depends on what the meaning of us us. lame54 Dec 2019 #2

ROFL Beartracks Dec 2019 #5

Murdoch Media as well as Wellstone ruled Dec 2019 #3

WTF LOL - Is it because "us" is spelled "U-S"? Beartracks Dec 2019 #4

Is spitting coffee (or whatever) on your keyboard a "qwerty squirty"? nt Atticus Dec 2019 #8

Uh... yes? Beartracks Dec 2019 #9

he said US, not USA Skittles Dec 2019 #6

Trump was simply using something called the "majestic plural" (pluralis majestatis). Atticus Dec 2019 #7

Royal we. Mc Mike Dec 2019 #12

It is all for their stupid base. Caliman73 Dec 2019 #10

So he's hiding his wishes as US wishes...so what? Still his wishes. The US had approved Karadeniz Dec 2019 #11

He didn't say we want you to do us a favor, though. Mc Mike Dec 2019 #13

our corruption???? did she have a Freudian Slip? demtenjeep Dec 2019 #14