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Ted Cruz admitted to colleagues that all 'one hundred senators' knew Trump committed an impeachable defense: report

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Ted Cruz admitted to colleagues that all 'one hundred senators' knew Trump committed an impeachable defense: report

According to the book, Cruz told his colleagues, "Out of one hundred senators, you have zero who believe you that there was no quid pro quo. None. There’s not a single one,”

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Ted Cruz admitted to colleagues that all 'one hundred senators' knew Trump committed an impeachable defense: report

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By Tom Boggioni

According to a new book that documents how the Republican Party leadership worked behind the scenes with Donald Trump's legal team during both of his impeachments, Politico's Rachel Bade and the Washington Post's Karoun Demirjian report that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) warned his GOP colleagues that there was no doubt by anyone in the Senate that the former president had engaged in at least one impeachable offense .

In the book, "Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress’s Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump,” Bade and Demirjian documents GOP squabbles behind the scenes over defense strategy with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-Sc) once storming out and exclaiming “ We are F*CKED. We are F*CKED! ”

In his report on the behind-the-scenes book, the HuffPost's Igor Bobic writes that during Trump's first trial over a "quid pro quo" phone call to Ukraine President Volodymy Zelenskyy seeking dirt on Joe Biden before the 2020 presidential election, Republican senators battled over strategy and fought over a proposal from attorney Alan Dershowitz.

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After Sen Roy Blunt (R-MO) insisted Trump's legal team fire Dershowitz immediately, Ted Cruz suggested it was time to change tactics while advising his colleagues that there was a universal belief in the Senate that Trump was guilty.

According to the book, Cruz told his colleagues, "Out of one hundred senators, you have zero who believe you that there was no quid pro quo. None. There’s not a single one,” a confession, which Bobic, adds was contrary to what Republicans were saying in interviews at the time during the impeachment trial.

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Professor Principal

1 seeder JohnRussell 4 years ago

Maybe Trump will thank Cruz for this by calling Ted's wife a dog again.

Professor Principal

2 seeder JohnRussell 4 years ago

In a sane world, this would be an astonishing development - 50 Republican senators knew Trump was guilty but they all voted acquittal anyway. Talk about "treason" !

However, in the world we have where Trump is a hero to many people, astonishing news like this is just another day in Trumpland.

God help America.

Professor Guide

3 Jeremy Retired in NC 4 years ago

In his report on the behind-the-scenes book, the HuffPost's Igor Bobic writes that during Trump's first trial over a "quid pro quo" phone call to Ukraine President Volodymy Zelenskyy seeking dirt on Joe Biden before the 2020 presidential election, Republican senators battled over strategy and fought over a proposal from attorney Alan Dershowitz.

Odd that the impeachment was for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. I guess you didn't read the article or do any research before running with another conspiracy theory.

Professor Principal

3.1 seeder JohnRussell replied to Jeremy Retired in NC @3 4 years ago

Lord only knows what you look at when you are reading something, but the wikipedia article does not at all dispute that it was done over the "quid pro quo".

Nevertheless, maybe reading part of the actual charge will help you.

The Constitution provides that the House of Representatives “shall have the sole
Power of Impeachment” and that the President “shall be removed from Office on
Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and
Misdemeanors”. In his conduct of the office of President of the United States—and in
violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United
States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the
United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be
faithfully executed—Donald J. Trump has abused the powers of the Presidency, in that:
Using the powers of his high office,

President Trump solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, in the 2020 United States Presidential election. He did so through a scheme or course of conduct that included soliciting the Government of Ukraine to publicly announce investigations that would benefit his reelection, harm the election prospects of a political opponent, and influence the 2020 United States Presidential election
to his advantage. President Trump also sought to pressure the Government of Ukraine to take these steps by conditioning official United States Government acts of significant value to Ukraine on its public announcement of the investigations.

President Trump engaged in
this scheme or course of conduct for corrupt purposes in pursuit of personal political benefit.
In so doing, President Trump used the powers of the Presidency in a manner that
compromised the national security of the United States and undermined the integrity of the
United States democratic process. He thus ignored and injured the interests of the Nation.
President Trump engaged in this scheme or course of conduct through the following
means:
(1) President Trump—acting both directly and through his agents within
and outside the United States Government—corruptly solicited the Government of
Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into—
(A) a political opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden,
Jr.; and
(B) a discredited theory promoted by Russia alleging that
Ukraine—rather than Russia—interfered in the 2016 United States
Presidential election.
H. Res. 755 - 2
(2) With the same corrupt motives, President Trump—acting both directly
and through his agents within and outside the United States
Government—conditioned two official acts on the public announcements that he
had requested—
(A) the release of $391 million of United States taxpayer funds that
Congress had appropriated on a bipartisan basis for the purpose of
providing vital military and security assistance to Ukraine to oppose
Russian aggression and which President Trump had ordered suspended;
and
(B) a head of state meeting at the White House, which the
President of Ukraine sought to demonstrate continued United States
support for the Government of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression.
(3) Faced with the public revelation of his actions, President Trump
ultimately released the military and security assistance to the Government of
Ukraine, but has persisted in openly and corruptly urging and soliciting Ukraine to
undertake investigations for his personal political benefit.
These actionswere consistentwithPresident Trump’s previous invitations of foreign
interference in United States elections.
BILLS-116hres755enr.pdf (congress.gov)

The bolded section is actual black and white proof that you are wrong, but what else is new? Carry on.

Professor Quiet

4 Ozzwald 4 years ago

Ted Cruz Admitted To Colleagues That All 'One Hundred Senators' Knew Trump Committed An Impeachable Defense: Report

Seriously? Even the most adamant Trump apologists on this forum know Trump committed an impeachable offense. Just they, like the republican Senators, refuse to acknowledge that.

Professor Quiet

4.1 Ronin2 replied to Ozzwald @4 4 years ago

Seriously? You are as delusional as hell.

If Trump committed impeachable then so did Brandon. Or did you forget this from the human fuck up machine?

Interviews with a half-dozen senior Ukrainian oicials conirm Biden’s
account, though they claim the pressure was applied over several months
in late 2015 and early 2016, not just six hours of one dramatic day. Whatever the case, Poroshenko and Ukraine’s parliament obliged
by as prosecutor. Shokin was facing steep
criticism in Ukraine, and among some U.S. oicials, for not bringing
enough corruption prosecutions when he was ired. But Ukrainian oicials tell me there was one crucial piece of information
that Biden must have known but didn’t mention to his audience: The
prosecutor he got ired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into
the natural gas irm that employed Biden’s younger son,
Hunter, as a board member.
U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based irm, Rosemont
Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts —
usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014
through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main
U.S. oicial dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia.
The general prosecutor’s oicial ile for the Burisma probe — shared with
me by senior Ukrainian oicials — shows prosecutors identiied Hunter
Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their irm, Rosemont Seneca,
as potential recipients of money.
Shokin told me in written answers to questions that, before he was ired as
general prosecutor, he had made “speciic plans” for the investigation that
“included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all
members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden.”
He added: “I would like to emphasize the fact that presumption of
innocence is a principle in Ukraine” and that he couldn’t describe the
evidence further.

Take care of your own corrupt human piece of shit first.

Professor Principal

4.1.1 seeder JohnRussell replied to Ronin2 @4.1 4 years ago

You are completely misrepresenting what happened and following the far right nut job conspiracy theory.

The entire western coalition of nations wanted that prosecutor fired, not just Joe Biden.

Professor Expert

4.1.2 Just Jim NC TttH replied to JohnRussell @4.1.1 4 years ago

Were they all threatening to withhold aid? Those bastards /s

Professor Quiet

4.1.3 Ozzwald replied to Just Jim NC TttH @4.1.2 4 years ago

Were they all threatening to withhold aid?

Does a vice President have the authority, on his own, to withhold aid?

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