President Trump has been impeached it
sounds like a big deal and it is but why
does it happen and what does it mean
this video will cut through the details
distractions and dramas and answer those
questions for you are you ready I'm
ready
it all started with that phone call in
July last year between President Trump
and Ukraine's newly elected president
zalenski it was supposed to be a mutual
pat on the back a welcome from president
Trump and some warm words but pretty
soon the president made clear there was
something on his mind after the niceties
were out of the way came this I would
like you to do us a favor it was the
turning point the moment the Democrats
say when President Trump crossed the
line between presidential niceties and
doing something illegal by asking a
foreign power for a favor and it wasn't
just any favor he wanted him to launch
an investigation into his political
rival Joe Biden because that's what this
is all about the age-old fight between
Republicans and Democrats Trump in the
red corner and Biden in the blue
remember him he was President Obama's
right-hand man and now standing to
become the Democratic candidate to go up
against President Trump himself in the
2020 election ok back to the call
there's a lot of talk about Biden's son
hold on what's Biden's son got to do
with this well hunter Biden is linked to
Ukraine because he had taken a well-paid
job with a Ukrainian energy firm that
was accused of being corrupt there's a
lot of talk about Biden's son that Biden
stopped the prosecution and a lot of
people want to find out about that so
whatever you can do with the Attorney
General
would be great Biden went around
bragging that he stopped the prosecution
so if you can look into it it sounds
horrible to me what's trump talking
about well he claims that Joe Biden
tried to get ukraine's top prosecutor a
powerful lawyer called Victor Shogun
because he was investigating the company
that his son Hunter worked for
essentially president Trump thought Joe
Biden was being corrupt because he was
using his powerful political position to
help his son not that Donald Trump had
any evidence of that by the way in fact
the evidence points in the opposite
direction lots of countries even the UK
were calling for the lawyers shokhin to
be sacked precisely because he refused
to investigate corruption so president
Trump's allegations don't seem to stack
up but the truth soda Democrats is that
President Trump was asking in
not-so-subtle terms from President
zalenski to dig for dirt on Joe Biden
dirt that would harm him if it came to
light ahead of the 2020 election but
unlucky for President Trump
asking a foreign leader to interfere in
US politics in this case to potentially
affect the outcome of an election is a
no-go can't do it the other problem for
Donald Trump is that lots of people were
listening in on that call as it's
procedure when the president talks to
other world leaders they heard his
attempts to persuade President zalenski
and were alarmed one unnamed aide who
was told about the call was so shocked
he blew the whistle alleging that not
only had president Trump abused the
power of his office for his own
political gain but that the transcript
of the call was then squirreled away on
a secret server in the White House with
strict access for just the select few
what the Democrats have since called the
cover-up but it didn't end their whole
no the next bombshell was about to drop
a month before the July call with
zalenski it emerged that President Trump
had ordered nearly 400 million dollars
worth of military aid to Ukraine to be
put on hold
says because he wasn't convinced that
Ukraine was doing enough to fight
corruption within the country in fact he
says everything he's ever done with
Ukraine this whole saga has all been
about fighting corruption I'm only
interested in corruption everything to
me is about corruption we're
investigating corruption yet how many
times did he actually use the word
corruption on that phone call with
President zalenski back in July yep you
guessed it not once not a single time
the Democrats say instead that President
Trump held back the money as a
bargaining tool to try and force Ukraine
to do what he wanted they called it the
quid pro quo which is an old Latin term
meaning this for that in other words you
investigate Joe Biden for me and I'll
give you four hundred million dollars
worth of military aid oh no no says
President Trump he insists the core was
perfect perfect perfect
the problem is after the whistleblower
came forward the Democrats decided to
launch an investigation then a ton of
current and former White House aides and
military officials came out of the
woodwork lots of witnesses came and went
and gave evidence and between them they
made clear it wasn't just one isolated
phone call the call was in fact just one
part of a months-long scheme to put
pressure on Ukraine to do president
Trump's bidding I found the July 25th
phone call unusual because in contrast
to other presidential calls I had
observed an involved discussion of what
appeared to be a domestic political
matter was there a quid pro quo the
answer is yes have you ever seen another
example of foreign aid conditioned on
the personal or political interests of
the President of the United States
no mr. Goldwyn I've not one man who
didn't testify but who almost everyone
said was at the center of this scandal
was one Rudy Giuliani the former mayor
of New York who was praised for his
strong leadership in the aftermath of
the 9/11 attack
today went on to become the president's
personal lawyer as the pieces of the
Ukraine puzzle came together it turns
out Giuliani had even gone on TV months
before this whole scandal erupted and
openly bragged about visiting Ukraine to
force them to open an investigation into
what he called the corrupt Biden's it's
a case that is crying out to be
investigated if it doesn't get
investigated we just don't have equal
justice in this country it wasn't hard
for the Democrats to gather the evidence
all the witnesses who'd appeared backed
up what the whistleblower had said and
President Trump himself helpfully
appeared on the White House lawn and
happily repeated in public what he'd
been accused of doing in private go
figure
president Solinsky it were me I would
recommend that they start an
investigation into the Biden because
nobody has any doubt that they weren't
firket that was a crooked deal 100% so
it was no surprise the Democrats were
quick to bring charges so-called
articles of impeachment against
President Trump village dat first he
abused the power of his office by
pressuring Ukraine to meddle in the 2020
election by launching an investigation
into his political rival Joe Biden and
second that he obstructed Congress in
its impeachment investigations by
refusing to hand over any documents and
blocking key witnesses from giving
evidence with the Democrats in charge of
the House of Representatives it was a no
brainer that they would vote in favor of
the impeachment charges and they did
just that on the night of December 19th
in that building there behind me Donald
Trump became just the third president in
US history to be impeached as we know
Donald Trump likes accolades and
headlines becoming third on the podium
for this one was a dubious honor for
sure so now you know why President Trump
got himself impeached but what happens
next will he stop being president
will he get slung out of the Oval Office
well anything actually happened to him
at all well most likely no and if you
think that's unfair well so too do the
Democrats but there's not much they can
do about it because the president's face
now lies in the hands of the Senate and
2/3 of senators over there will need to
vote in favor for president Trump to be
removed from office but guess what
because the Senate is majority
controlled by Republicans there is
practically no chance on earth
that they will vote to sling their
president out it's sure to get ugly with
Trump's lawyers already attacking the
trial is rigged and flimsy calling for
the charges against the president to be
dropped immediately really the only
route to removing him from office now is
that the White House could be forced to
release more juicy documents and emails
and further witnesses could be called to
testify in the trial and if that happens
that may prove very damaging for Donald
Trump a very difficult for Republican
senators to ignore it's a case for watch
this space
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