President Trump is trying to un-confess his crime, writes jonathanchait
President Trump tries to un-confess his crime. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images The Ukraine scandal has been sitting in plain sight for months, and Donald Trump has made scarcely any effort to conceal his scheme. The president sent his personal attorney to urge Ukraine to investigate his political rival. That is a prima facie abuse of presidential authority.
That was not his complaint from the beginning. It was not even his complaint as of yesterday, when he said he held up the aid because “it’s very important to talk about corruption [i.e., investigating Biden]. If you don’t talk about corruption, why would you give money to a country that you think is corrupt?”
The Doocy defense is that it’s not extortion unless you explicitly told the shopkeeper you’d break his legs unless he paid protection money. In the absence of an explicit statement between the two principals linking the payment to the threat, demanding protection money and threatening to break his legs are simply two disconnected negotiations.
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