{"id":37475,"date":"2019-06-13T02:59:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T02:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37475"},"modified":"2019-06-13T02:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T02:59:06","slug":"is-this-the-impeachable-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37475","title":{"rendered":"Is this the ‘impeachable’ moment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Can it be that Donald Trump has just scripted his own impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives?<\/p>\n

I am wondering if his declaration today to ABC News that he would be willing to break the law if a foreign power produced negative information about a political opponent while he is running for re-election as president of the United States. Trump said he would “look at” the information and wouldn’t feel the need to report it to the FBI.<\/p>\n

FBI director Christopher Wray just a month ago told Congress that anyone who got such info must<\/em> report it to his agency.<\/p>\n

Trump told George Stephanopoulos that “the FBI director is wrong.”<\/p>\n

Who do you trust? The lying, amoral, unethical head of state or the career professional prosecutor and law enforcement official?<\/p>\n

I’m going to stand with Christopher Wray.<\/p>\n

As for the House of Representatives and, yes, the Republican-controlled Senate, they should, too.<\/p>\n

The question of the moment is this: Will they?<\/p>\n\n

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