{"id":23228,"date":"2020-08-03T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23228"},"modified":"2020-08-03T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T18:34:06","slug":"flasbback-vice-president-biden-used-his-office-and-1-billion-dollars-of-u-s-aid-money-to-coerce-ukraine-into-firing-the-prosecutor-who-was-digging-into-the-company-paying-his-son-millions-of-doll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=23228","title":{"rendered":"FLASBBACK: <b><i>&#8220;Vice President Biden used his office and $1 billion dollars of U.S. aid money to coerce Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who was digging into the company paying his son millions of dollars.&#8221;<\/i><\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"page-header page-header--small-title\">\n<div class=\"page-header__wrap\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Letter from President Donald J. Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta meta--mobile-wrap\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"meta__issue\">\n<p class=\"issue-flag\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/issues\/law-justice\/\">LAW &amp; JUSTICE<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0<span class=\"meta__label\">Issued on:<\/span>\u00a0<time>December 17, 2019<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<div class=\"page-content__wrap\">\n<div class=\"page-content__content editor\">\n<aside class=\"editor__module editor__module--left editor__module--named editor__module-all\">\n<div class=\"sidebar-button\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The Honorable Nancy Pelosi<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Speaker of the House of Representatives<br \/>\nWashington, D.C. 20515<\/p>\n<p>Dear Madam Speaker:<\/p>\n<p>I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives. \u00a0This impeachment represents an unprecedented and unconstitutional abuse of power by Democrat Lawmakers, unequaled in nearly two and a half centuries of American legislative history.<\/p>\n<p>The Articles of Impeachment introduced by the House Judiciary Committee are not recognizable under any standard of Constitutional theory, interpretation, or jurisprudence. \u00a0They include no crimes, no misdemeanors, and no offenses whatsoever.\u00a0 You have cheapened the importance of the very ugly word, impeachment!<\/p>\n<p>By proceeding with your invalid impeachment, you are violating your oaths of office, you are breaking your allegiance to the Constitution, and you are declaring open war on American Democracy.\u00a0 You dare to invoke the Founding Fathers in pursuit of this election-nullification scheme\u2014yet your spiteful actions display unfettered contempt for America\u2019s founding and your egregious conduct threatens to destroy that which our Founders pledged their very lives to build.\u00a0 Even worse than offending the Founding Fathers, you are offending Americans of faith by continually saying \u201cI pray for the President,\u201d when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense.\u00a0 It is a terrible thing you are doing, but you will have to live with it, not I!<\/p>\n<p>Your first claim, \u201cAbuse of Power,\u201d is a completely disingenuous, meritless, and baseless invention of your imagination. \u00a0You know that I had a totally innocent conversation with the President of Ukraine. \u00a0I then had a second conversation that has been misquoted, mischaracterized, and fraudulently misrepresented.\u00a0 Fortunately, there was a transcript of the conversation taken, and you know from the transcript (which was immediately made available) that the paragraph in question was perfect.\u00a0 I said to President Zelensky:\u00a0 \u201cI would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it.\u201d\u00a0 I said do\u00a0<u>us<\/u>\u00a0a favor, not\u00a0<u>me<\/u>, and\u00a0<u>our country<\/u>, not a campaign.\u00a0 I then mentioned the Attorney General of the United States.\u00a0 Every time I talk with a foreign leader, I put America\u2019s interests first, just as I did with President Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>You are turning a policy disagreement between two branches of government into an impeachable offense\u2014it is no more legitimate than the Executive Branch charging members of Congress with crimes for the lawful exercise of legislative power.<\/p>\n<p>You know full well that Vice President Biden used his office and $1 billion dollars of U.S. aid money to coerce Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who was digging into the company paying his son millions of dollars. \u00a0You know this because Biden bragged about it on video. \u00a0Biden openly stated: \u00a0\u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m telling you, you\u2019re not getting the billion dollars\u2019\u2026I looked at them and said: \u2018I\u2019m leaving in six hours. \u00a0If the prosecutor is not fired, you\u2019re not getting the money.\u2019 \u00a0Well, son of a bitch. \u00a0He got fired.\u201d \u00a0Even Joe Biden admitted just days ago in an interview with NPR that it \u201clooked bad.\u201d \u00a0Now you are trying to impeach me by falsely accusing me of doing what Joe Biden has admitted he actually did.<\/p>\n<p>President Zelensky has repeatedly declared that I did nothing wrong, and that there was No Pressure.\u00a0 He further emphasized that it was a \u201cgood phone call,\u201d that \u201cI don\u2019t feel pressure,\u201d and explicitly stressed that \u201cnobody pushed me.\u201d\u00a0 The Ukrainian Foreign Minister stated very clearly: \u00a0\u201cI have never seen a direct link between investigations and security assistance.\u201d \u00a0He also said there was \u201cNo Pressure.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a supporter of Ukraine who met privately with President Zelensky, has said: \u201cAt no time during this meeting\u2026was there any mention by Zelensky or any Ukrainian that they were feeling pressure to do anything in return for the military aid.\u201d \u00a0Many meetings have been held between representatives of Ukraine and our country.\u00a0 Never once did Ukraine complain about pressure being applied\u2014not once! \u00a0Ambassador Sondland testified that I told him: \u201cNo quid pro quo.\u00a0 I want nothing. \u00a0I want nothing. \u00a0I want President Zelensky to do the right thing, do what he ran on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second claim, so-called \u201cObstruction of Congress,\u201d is preposterous and dangerous. \u00a0House Democrats are trying to impeach the duly elected President of the United States for asserting Constitutionally based privileges that have been asserted on a bipartisan basis by administrations of both political parties throughout our Nation\u2019s history. \u00a0Under that standard, every American president would have been impeached many times over. \u00a0As liberal law professor Jonathan Turley warned when addressing Congressional Democrats: \u201cI can\u2019t emphasize this enough\u2026if you impeach a president, if you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. \u00a0It\u2019s your abuse of power. \u00a0You\u2019re doing precisely what you\u2019re criticizing the President for doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone, you included, knows what is really happening. \u00a0Your chosen candidate lost the election in 2016, in an Electoral College landslide (306-227), and you and your party have never recovered from this defeat. \u00a0You have developed a full-fledged case of what many in the media call Trump Derangement Syndrome and sadly, you will never get over it!\u00a0 You are unwilling and unable to accept the verdict issued at the ballot box during the great Election of 2016. \u00a0So you have spent three straight years attempting to overturn the will of the American people and nullify their votes.\u00a0 You view democracy as your enemy!<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Pelosi, you admitted just last week at a public forum that your party\u2019s impeachment effort has been going on for \u201ctwo and a half years,\u201d long before you ever heard about a phone call with Ukraine. \u00a0Nineteen minutes after I took the oath of office, the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0published a story headlined, \u201cThe Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun.\u201d \u00a0Less than three months after my inauguration, Representative Maxine Waters stated, \u201cI\u2019m going to fight every day until he\u2019s impeached.\u201d \u00a0House Democrats introduced the first impeachment resolution against me within months of my inauguration, for what will be regarded as one of our country\u2019s best decisions, the firing of James Comey (see Inspector General Reports)\u2014who the world now knows is one of the dirtiest cops our Nation has ever seen. \u00a0A ranting and raving Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, declared just hours after she was sworn into office, \u201cWe\u2019re gonna go in there and we\u2019re gonna impeach the motherf****r.\u201d \u00a0Representative Al Green said in May, \u201cI\u2019m concerned that if we don\u2019t impeach this president, he will get re-elected.\u201d \u00a0Again, you and your allies said, and did, all of these things long before you ever heard of President Zelensky or anything related to Ukraine. \u00a0As you know very well, this impeachment drive has nothing to do with Ukraine, or the totally appropriate conversation I had with its new president.\u00a0 It only has to do with your attempt to undo the election of 2016 and steal the election of 2020!<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to the present day, even going so far as to fraudulently make up, out of thin air, my conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine and read this fantasy language to Congress as though it were said by me.\u00a0 His shameless lies and deceptions, dating all the way back to the Russia Hoax, is one of the main reasons we are here today.<\/p>\n<p>You and your party are desperate to distract from America\u2019s extraordinary economy, incredible jobs boom, record stock market, soaring confidence, and flourishing citizens. \u00a0Your party simply cannot compete with our record: 7 million new jobs; the lowest-ever unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans; a rebuilt military; a completely reformed VA with Choice and Accountability for our great veterans; more than 170 new federal judges and two Supreme Court Justices; historic tax and regulation cuts; the elimination of the individual mandate; the first decline in prescription drug prices in half a century; the first new branch of the United States Military since 1947, the Space Force; strong protection of the Second Amendment; criminal justice reform; a defeated ISIS caliphate and the killing of the world\u2019s number one terrorist leader, al-Baghdadi; the replacement of the disastrous NAFTA trade deal with the wonderful USMCA (Mexico and Canada); a breakthrough Phase One trade deal with China; massive new trade deals with Japan and South Korea; withdrawal from the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal; cancellation of the unfair and costly Paris Climate Accord; becoming the world\u2019s top energy producer; recognition of Israel\u2019s capital, opening the American Embassy in Jerusalem, and recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights; a colossal reduction in illegal border crossings, the ending of Catch-and-Release, and the building of the Southern Border Wall\u2014and that is just the beginning, there is so much more.\u00a0 You cannot defend your extreme policies\u2014open borders, mass migration, high crime, crippling taxes, socialized healthcare, destruction of American energy, late-term taxpayer-funded abortion, elimination of the Second Amendment, radical far-left theories of law and justice, and constant partisan obstruction of both common sense and common good.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing I would rather do than stop referring to your party as the Do-Nothing Democrats.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I don\u2019t know that you will ever give me a chance to do so.<\/p>\n<p>After three years of unfair and unwarranted investigations, 45 million dollars spent, 18 angry Democrat prosecutors, the entire force of the FBI, headed by leadership now proven to be totally incompetent and corrupt, you have found NOTHING! \u00a0Few people in high position could have endured or passed this test. \u00a0You do not know, nor do you care, the great damage and hurt you have inflicted upon wonderful and loving members of my family.\u00a0 You conducted a fake investigation upon the democratically elected President of the United States, and you are doing it yet again.<\/p>\n<p>There are not many people who could have taken the punishment inflicted during this period of time, and yet done so much for the success of America and its citizens. \u00a0But instead of putting our country first, you have decided to disgrace our country still further.\u00a0 You completely failed with the Mueller report because there was nothing to find, so you decided to take the next hoax that came along, the phone call with Ukraine\u2014even though it was a perfect call.\u00a0 And by the way, when I speak to foreign countries, there are many people, with permission, listening to the call on both sides of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>You are the ones interfering in America\u2019s elections. \u00a0You are the ones subverting America\u2019s Democracy.\u00a0 You are the ones Obstructing Justice.\u00a0 You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our Republic for your own selfish personal, political, and partisan gain.<\/p>\n<p>Before the Impeachment Hoax, it was the Russian Witch Hunt.\u00a0 Against all evidence, and regardless of the truth, you and your deputies claimed that my campaign colluded with the Russians\u2014a grave, malicious, and slanderous lie, a falsehood like no other.\u00a0 You forced our Nation through turmoil and torment over a wholly fabricated story, illegally purchased from a foreign spy by Hillary Clinton and the DNC in order to assault our democracy. \u00a0Yet, when the monstrous lie was debunked and this Democrat conspiracy dissolved into dust, you did not apologize.\u00a0 You did not recant. \u00a0You did not ask to be forgiven.\u00a0 You showed no remorse, no capacity for self-reflection.\u00a0 Instead, you pursued your next libelous and vicious crusade\u2014you engineered an attempt to frame and defame an innocent person.\u00a0 All of this was motivated by personal political calculation. \u00a0Your Speakership and your party are held hostage by your most deranged and radical representatives of the far left.\u00a0 Each one of your members lives in fear of a socialist primary challenger\u2014this is what is driving impeachment. \u00a0Look at Congressman Nadler\u2019s challenger.\u00a0 Look at yourself and others.\u00a0 Do not take our country down with your party.<\/p>\n<p>If you truly cared about freedom and liberty for our Nation, then you would be devoting your vast investigative resources to exposing the full truth concerning the FBI\u2019s horrifying abuses of power before, during, and after the 2016 election\u2014including the use of spies against my campaign, the submission of false evidence to a FISA court, and the concealment of exculpatory evidence in order to frame the innocent.\u00a0 The FBI has great and honorable people, but the leadership was inept and corrupt.\u00a0 I would think that you would personally be appalled by these revelations, because in your press conference the day you announced impeachment, you tied the impeachment effort directly to the completely discredited Russia Hoax, declaring twice that \u201call roads lead to Putin,\u201d when you know that is an abject lie. \u00a0I have been far tougher on Russia than President Obama ever even thought to be.<\/p>\n<p>Any member of Congress who votes in support of impeachment\u2014against every shred of truth, fact, evidence, and legal principle\u2014is showing how deeply they revile the voters and how truly they detest America\u2019s Constitutional order.\u00a0 Our Founders feared the tribalization of partisan politics, and you are bringing their worst fears to life.<\/p>\n<p>Worse still, I have been deprived of basic Constitutional Due Process from the beginning of this impeachment scam right up until the present.\u00a0 I have been denied the most fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution, including the right to present evidence, to have my own counsel present, to confront accusers, and to call and cross-examine witnesses, like the so-called whistleblower who started this entire hoax with a false report of the phone call that bears no relationship to the actual phone call that was made.\u00a0 Once I presented the transcribed call, which surprised and shocked the fraudsters (they never thought that such evidence would be presented), the so-called whistleblower, and the second whistleblower, disappeared because they got caught, their report was a fraud, and they were no longer going to be made available to us.\u00a0 In other words, once the phone call was made public, your whole plot blew up, but that didn\u2019t stop you from continuing.<\/p>\n<p>More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.<\/p>\n<p>You and others on your committees have long said impeachment must be bipartisan\u2014it is not.\u00a0 You said it was very divisive\u2014it certainly is, even far more than you ever thought possible\u2014and it will only get worse!<\/p>\n<p>This is nothing more than an illegal, partisan\u00a0attempted coup that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. \u00a0You are not just after me, as President, you are after the entire Republican Party.\u00a0 But because of this colossal injustice, our party is more united than it has ever been before.\u00a0 History will judge you harshly as you proceed with this impeachment charade.\u00a0 Your legacy will be that of turning the House of Representatives from a revered legislative body into a Star Chamber of partisan persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most insulting of all is your false display of solemnity. \u00a0You apparently have so little respect for the American People that you expect them to believe that you are approaching this impeachment somberly, reservedly, and reluctantly.\u00a0 No intelligent person believes what you are saying. \u00a0Since the moment I won the election, the Democrat Party has been possessed by Impeachment Fever.\u00a0 There is no reticence.\u00a0 This is not a somber affair. \u00a0You are making a mockery of impeachment and you are scarcely concealing your hatred of me, of the Republican Party, and tens of millions of patriotic Americans.\u00a0 The voters are wise, and they are seeing straight through this empty, hollow, and dangerous game you are playing.<\/p>\n<p>I have no doubt the American people will hold you and the Democrats fully responsible in the upcoming 2020 election.\u00a0 They will not soon forgive your perversion of justice and abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p>There is far too much that needs to be done to improve the lives of our citizens. \u00a0It is time for you and the highly partisan Democrats in Congress to immediately cease this impeachment fantasy and get back to work for the American People. \u00a0While I have no expectation that you will do so, I write this letter to you for the purpose of history and to put my thoughts on a permanent and indelible record.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred years from now, when people look back at this affair, I want them to understand it, and learn from it, so that it can never happen to another President again.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n<p>DONALD J. 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