General Discussion

deminks

(11,014 posts) Thu Jun 20, 2019, 10:48 AM Jun 2019

Hopey told Congress that Donnie was "serious" about accepting foreign oppo

https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=393960

(snip)

"In fact, this time around, the situation is even more alarming. President Trump was a private citizen during the 2016 campaign. He now sits at the head of all of our nation’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies. He is provided with our nation’s most sensitive secrets on a daily basis. He has sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

"But even with the benefit of all that guidance, and even with all of the authority and responsibility he has been granted, the President has said he is open to receiving information from a foreign adversary. In fact, by stating publicly that he would accept help from a foreign government, he may well have encouraged more foreign influence operations against our democracy.

"His invitation to foreign actors is so alarming that even one of his most loyal former aides, Hope Hicks, knew that the President’s statement was troubling. Yesterday, during her transcribed interview, Ms. Hicks made clear that she understood the President to be serious when he said that he would accept foreign interference in our elections. She also made clear that even she knew that such foreign assistance should be rejected and reported to the FBI.

"The President’s willingness to again welcome prohibited foreign assistance, now with a full understanding that the law prohibits it, is indeed shocking. The President may be willing to discard the lessons of the Mueller Report, but we are not. With the 2020 election looming, we must act immediately to respond to the ongoing foreign threats we face, as well as the President’s apparent willingness to accept them. I look forward to today’s critical discussion, and to learning every lesson we can so that this very recent history does not repeat itself."

(end snip)

(emphasis mine)

4 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Hopey told Congress that Donnie was "serious" about accepting foreign oppo (Original Post) deminks Jun 2019 OP

Sounds like Hicks had more to offer than early reports indicated. That's a stunning response and Hoyt Jun 2019 #1

Hopey Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #2

The orange mess called her "Hopey". I guess it stuck with me. deminks Jun 2019 #3

Duh. I read that her family and friends were like not Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2019 #4

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. Sounds like Hicks had more to offer than early reports indicated. That's a stunning response and

Reply to deminks (Original post)

Thu Jun 20, 2019, 11:25 AM

Jun 2019

is probably as damning as anything even hinted at in Mueller's Report.

Even GOPer trumpsters -- like Graham -- criticized trump for saying he'd take it. Encouraging a foreign country to offer dirt on a candidate is plenty of grounds for Impeachment, IMO.