'The president has a track record of corruption now. This isn't speculation,' said Evan McMullin, a former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer and head of Stand Up Republic.
If President Donald Trump ever had any cool about the impeachment proceedings House Democrats are propelling him towards, he clearly lost it on Wednesday, launching into a 16-minute tirade against his perceived enemies during a joint press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.
Noting how Trump has railed against the impeachment inquiry, as well as the anonymous whistleblower who flagged the controversial phone call," accusing them of treason, McMullin said that only a"guilty president" would want to threaten a whistleblower. "He's maligned the whistleblower on other grounds, but we haven't heard him say that he didn't ask Zelensky for a favor right after Zelensky raised the topic of U.S. military assistance," McMullin pointed out."Either way, we know that's what he did."
"He learned that he would not be held accountable for inviting foreign attacks on our democracy and so he pursued them again," the former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer said."It's a way for him to overcome his unpopularity and get through the next election despite foreign entities being prohibited from participating in our elections and despite the harm that a foreign adversary like Russia seeks to do to the nation in the process.
"So, now, we have a choice: either hold him accountable or allow him to further corrupt our elections so that we're no longer able to hold him accountable through that process."
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