After two weeks of denying that anything said in the impeachment hearings was true. Donald
Trump went on Fox news and he admitted to the entire thing for the first time publicly
linking the supposedly corruption investigations that he wanted Ukraine to do to the military
aid.
This is the first time it's happened publicly. You can't write a more ridiculous. If this
were a screenplay, it would be rejected immediately because it's too over the top. It's not believable
and yet it's the reality that we live in. So let me explain to you what took place Donald
Trump on Friday, uh, promoted and appearance on Fox and friends after smearing impeachment
witnesses. After denying that anything inappropriate happened, saying quote, I will be interviewed
on Fox and friends this morning at 8:00 AM. I know that there's not much to talk about,
but we will try to keep the conversation going, enjoy. And indeed, it was an interesting conversation
because in this interview, Donald Trump admitted to the entire thing, not on purpose. I don't
think he even realizes that he admitted to the entire thing. I don't know that the average
Fox news viewer realizes that Trump admitted to the entire thing that he spent the two
weeks of impeachment hearings denying in this clip. He admits that he asked on the phone
call for Ukraine to investigate Biden and he says, I did ask them, and why should we
give them hundreds of millions of dollars linking the investigation requests to the
hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for the first time publicly,
and I still want to see that server. You know, the FBI has never gotten that server. That's
a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company?
Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to you? Crane?
No, that's what the word is and that's what I asked actually in my phone call, if you
know, I mean, I asked that very point blank because we're looking for corruption, this
tremendous corruption. We're looking for, why should we be giving hundreds of millions
of dollars to countries when there's this kind of corruption? And if you look at my
call, I said, you know, corruption. I think he said it to me. He's looking, he got elected
on the basis of corruption.
Trump, without realizing it, admits that that is exactly what he did. We're looking for
corruption. We asked them to do it, and why should we give them the money implying of
course, if they don't want to help, look for corruption, meaning chase down some absurd
conspiracy theory and then use it to smear Joe Biden. Why would we give them money? This
went completely over the heads of so many people that were watching this, but this is
Trump blurting out that the thing that he's been denying for weeks is absolutely true.
Here's another rambling moment from the interview where Trump said, I always want corruption.
It was a weird moment.
Go at your ambassador to the United, uh, to the EU. Uh, mr Sunderland in his opening statement
said that there was quid pro quo. There was quid pro quo. He said, because, uh, you wanted
an investigation into corruption in exchange for a visit to the white house or something
like that.
Yeah. Well, that's total nonsense. I do want always corruption. I say that to anybody.
Why should we give money to a country that's known corrupt? It's a very corrupt country.
I mean, I love the people in Ukraine. I know Ukrainian people. They're great people, but
it's known as being the third most corrupt country in the world.
Okay. So I mean, I guess it seems pretty clear that Trump is not saying what he meant to
say there. Is it a Freudian slip? Who knows? But once again, bringing up, why should we
give them money unless they do what we say, unless they do what we ask them to do, which
is investigate Joe Biden. He is admitting to the whole thing. Yet again, without even
realizing it, he's not admitting to it in the way that we might imagine would happen.
But this is Trump publicly linking these vague corruption concerns, which are of course code
for investigate Joe and Hunter Biden linking that to the hundreds of millions of dollars
in military aid. The other thing that's not being mentioned enough is if Trump is insisting
that Ukraine is rife with corruption. I want to say this again. If Trump believes Ukraine
is just corruption Laden, why would you insist on Ukraine investigating corruption?
Why would you trust someone so corrupt to investigate corruption for you? It doesn't
make any sense. Then there's one other really funny moment from this interview. When Trump
did that CrowdStrike server conspiracy theory thing, even Fox news host Steve Doocy had
to say, are you sure about that? And if you are watching, you will notice that the look
on Ainslie Earhart's face, it never moves. During this entire interview, Brian Kilmeade
starts doing his sort of confused face and Steve Doocy feels compelled to because he
knows that what Trump is saying is bogus. He feels compelled to say, are you sure about
that? Take a look.
Have the server right from the DNC. Democratic national committee has the FBI went in and
they told him, get outta here. You're not kidding. We're not giving it to you. They
gave the server to CrowdStrike or whatever it's called, which is a country which is a
company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian and I still want to see that server. You know,
the FBI has never gotten that server. That's a big part of this whole thing. Why did they
give it to a Ukrainian company?
Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to you? Crane?
Well, that's what the word is and that's what I asked actually in my phone call of, you
know, I mean I asked it very point blank because we're looking for corruption. Brian Kilmeade
I think is smarter than the other two and he realizes with that that you can tell this
is not a good thing for Donald Trump to be saying. This entire fiasco went on for 50
minutes in a bizarre, rambling interview filled with self-incrimination, filled with lies.
But understand Trump believes it's smart for him to testify on his own behalf. That's why
last week when Donald Trump said, I might be interesting interested in testifying in
this impeachment hearing, I told you his lawyers will do everything possible so that he doesn't
because just like in this interview he will self incriminate and he doesn't even realize
it. He believes that he can talk his way out of anything and come away convincing everybody
in the room to go over to his point of view and case in point, Trump did this interview
on Fox news and did not even realize that he admitted for the first time publicly that
indeed the investigations he wanted Ukraine to do were indeed linked to the hundreds of
millions of dollars in aid.
People are getting death threats against themselves and their families for coming forward to testify
about this and Trump just blurts it out on live television and of course otherwise completely
incoherent throughout the interview. If I mean this is an aside, it's an aside scandal.
If Barack Obama had ever done one incoherently rambling word salad interview like this, Republicans
would have immediately called for Barack Obama's removal under the 25th amendment to the constitution.
Trump does it almost every time he speaks publicly, and not only do they stand behind
him, they are almost smitten with his public persona and his public presence. It is something
else and I don't know when and how we are going to come out of it. I've suggested some
of the ways and I've talked about the uphill battle that it will be, but this is going
to be a a big, big recovery process for the United States if we are ever to undertake
it and complete it. And I hope that we do. I hope that we do. Make sure you're following
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