“High crimes” is a term of art, coming from the common law. It means an abuse of office, specifically a “crime” that could by definition only be committed by a person in a position of power or authority.
I’m still gobsmacked Donald released this memo thinking it was a good idea. And no one in his administration (that’s still loyal to him) thought to express concerns?
Exactly right. We didn’t know before that the AG was mentioned in the call. But the AG makes the decision to withhold the WB complaint. Sounds like recusal time to me.
The Biden thing is the same damn paragraph. It’s his second favor request. Just read the five page memo if you have any interest in discussing this honestly.
I think this proves just how far removed they are from reality. They’ve drank their own Kool-Aid and believe to be above the law. Maybe they’ve all bought in to the Unitary Executive theory full bore. Or maybe they believe nothing Trump does can ever cause him to be held accountable. But it is staggering they voluntarily released this information.
Trump: “I would like you to do us a favor, though.”
<rambles for several sentences about insane Crowdstrike conspiracy theories and bashes a US ambassador>
“The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son[…]”
Which begs the question of how much worse the full truth really is. This call was clocked in at 30mins. There is no way the read out comes close to approaching that. What was left out that is even more damning?
Hard to fathom huh, coming from same group people that cried about IRS weaponizing. But sadly that whole thing was just idiot right wing not being able to think beyond what right wing media tells them. IRS investigated both left and right wing groups that had names that where clearly partisan, and only found one group in falut a left wing group. But right wing need to play the victim all time.
If that’s true it’s the height of arrogance. What feels more plausible to me is that people within the administration are in CYA mode at this point and simply refuse to engage in damage control any longer.
Or maybe it’s just a perfect cocktail of arrogance, stupidity, and CYA.