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His past tax returns as are anyone's open for scrutiny and audit at any time by the IRS so whether there is still an issue or not we do not yet.know. https://www.nationalreview.com/news/manhattan-district-attorney-issues-subpoena-for-trump-tax-returns/

You don't know that and none of us know.

Speaking of wealth. He plays the script he does not take a penny while he is in office which is true with his $400,000 per annum...but his groupies are blind to the amount of revenue his children and his hotel network iare making off of his connections while he is in office and what expenses he will generate because of his Presidency once out of office. He actually does that because John F. Kennedy did and he said he would do what JFK did, so fair is fair he has done that at least.

Some of us criticize Canada's approach to its military yes and the fact our politicians have let our armed forces go to the toilet relying on the US Armed Forces is not the issue nor does it excuse what Trump has done. Your mantra is that the US is a victim of Canada. Its not. We have never victimized the US. Your country benefits just fine from controlling our economy. Next the reason the US has needed the size of its armed forces is because it CHOSE to. Your country CHOSE to become a military industrial complex using its armed forces overseas as satellite operations to implement its financial interests, Stop whining your country is a victim. It is not. It has chosen its military path and it does not and can never excuse what Trump has done. What he does has nothing to do with injustices put on the US and everything to do with his own self interests. You choose to buy into his bullshit that his self interests and the interests of the US and the decisions it makes are one and the same.

Trump is guy walking around with a huge brown stain on his pants. Why Y and W and others pretend they can't see the stain is interesting.

No its to challenge his abuse of powers. You think anyone who challenges him smears him because of your partisan beliefs that anything he does is beyond question.

Speaking of backlashes, his act is certainly is not helping Republican Senators who will feel the backlash next election for them.

Wes I tried to give it some thought to debate you and Y two of my face debaters. I appreciate not just you but others when discussing whether a President has abused the power of their office in the US, those now supporting Trump and his actions with Ukraine point to Article 2 of the Constitution and feel because its silent on abuse of power there is no violation of the Constitution when a President abuses their power. I would argue it is not that simple because what we do now know is that in the case of Richard Nixon there was a second article of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee that charged him with abuse of power, specifically, that he used federal agencies to help his friends , hurt his perceived enemies and gain political advantage for himself. So given that clear precedent, most certainly using the Presidential powers as leverage to place pressure on a foreign country to investigate Joe Biden was a conflict of interest and an exercise of Trump trying to hurt his perceived political opponent to gain political advantage and we know this, because Trump said so out loud and not only admitted it but asked China to investigate Biden as well showing he not only knew he was using his political powers as President to go after a political opponent for his own political advantage but he saw no wrong using his Presidential powers in such a manner. To now suggest this is not impeachable for the same behavior got Nixon tossed to me is naïve. Flaunting you are deliberately using your powers of the President to advance personal political partisan needs and to punish your perceived foes as Trump did repeatedly in public, I would most certainly argue flies in the face of ethics, morality, good faith, and the basic and most fundamental of democratic principles and specifically that a public office should never be used for reasons of personal gain. I would also point out, the US Constitution did not have to specifically write out what abuse of power is by the President but instead created a system of checks and balances between the House of Representatives, Senate and President (Executive office) including the impeachment process to respond to abuse of powers by the President. Ask yourselves Trump supporters , if you blur personal and public issues is that admirable? Does that aid a democratic process? Do his private interests outweigh the need of the Presidency not to be used to go after people for personal and partisan reasons? Is that what you want-partisan, revenge, hateful, paranoid driven leaders who spend each day on a twitter no less making disjointed and abusive comments? Has Trump gone one day without attacking someone? You think that is a good thing? You think that is the role model to lead the US? Why rationalize and justify abusive behavior? That is what the House of Representatives will now ask when deciding whether to request the impeachment process be activated, whether Mr. Trump: 1-abused for personal use, domestic law enforcement; 2-as above but with national security agencies; 3-as above but with the powers of his Attorney General’s office and Justice Department; 4-as above but with the powers of his State Department; 5-as above but with the powers of the Defence Department. The transcript Trump provided shows he requested his Attorney General to use the Justice Department to investigate Joe Biden and his son. He also has openly admitted using his powers of commander in chief of the US military and his ability to control foreign and military aid to deliver a message to the Ukrainian leader to investigate Biden. He cannot do that as President. In so doing Trump put his need to punish a political opponent he perceives as running against him for his office to supercede Congressionally authorized defence related aid to Ukraine. He has no power to do that. He can not place his personal interests above those of the US whose interests were clearly enunciated as supporting Ukraine’s independence from Russia. I would say trying to dismiss this as business as usual is denial of what he has done and its serious implications to the very fundamental principles of his country's founding democratic principles and no American should stand for it, just as I say to Canadians, to look the other way and vote for Trudeau after his blatant abuse of his executive powers to compromise the legal system's integrity for personal partisan interests is not acceptable.

Sorry on the run I will respond later w and y

I do not defend anything Obama did. Two wrongs do not make a right and there are many different things that O and T did.

What we are dealing with are the limitations of Presidential actions defined by the US Constitution.

Trump has not been proven in court to be guilty of anything at this time yes. Lying is unehcal but clearly you have no problems with his repeat lies or the criminals who hot him elected or the criminal behaviour of Rudy,s law firm.

Curve? You mean break the law. Politicians should be expected to follow the law and be held to the same ethical and legal standards as you and I. I am n Saint and neither are you for following the law.

It's not news. Trump supporters justifying it when Trump does it by arguing others are dishonest is illogical. That was the point.

You missed the point. If Biden did anything illegal the US President cannot get personally involved and use his office to investigate or leverage foreign aid id to force other nations to investigate Biden ecause of clear constitutional law limitations prohibiting such behaviour as well as a direct conflict of interest. Breaking the law to enforce it is nonsensical and this s your position in defence of Trump. Also please save your attempt to portray Trump as a saint fighting corruption on behalf of the US. It's absurd.

Your since others are dishonest Trump can be argument is illogical.

So now every demonstrator yells rape your mother. Funny I head escape from your mother. I can see why.

Trump's attack on Biden sullying his diplomatic corps and compromising an ally and trying to coerce them is clearly something you won't acknowledge. For someone trying to smeer Biden's business dealings how about you look into Trump's. Someone who call's another a c..sucker through lips covered in herpes sores as Trump shows is absurd. Careful who you kiss.

Oh BC do comment on Trump's offspring now that attacking offspring is fair game. While you are at it tell me how Rudy's arrested work colleagues trying to flee the US who were asked to investigate Biden are innocent. Trump's abandonment of the Kurds triggering a massacre and his trying to coerce Ukraine is great foreign policy.

Repeating an out and out falsehood won't make it true...but I appreciate you imitate a classic Trump behaviour. Burden? If you want to isolate the US from the world go ahead but actually do it then pull all your businesses out. Yah get back to me on that.

Hello your master is called the Communist Chinese party. From where this shackled slave sits it seems to me you have shackles and are preoccupied with mine...thanks but I think my shackles are preferable....but please carry on...

The above response was illogical. The Kings or Queen of England never ordered the murder of 40 million Canadian citizens like Mao did. Also corrupt Chinese emperors were no different in China.

Maze all I can say is the US treatment of natives clearly is flawed as it is in Canada and whether we can address unresolved conflicts is not a high priority item. In Canada Trudeau proved he is all talk and his tears like his blackface was just a rich boy playing drama.

The last thing we need is a Liberal Ndp high spend coalition fueling deficits on the cusp of a recession. The press seems to be looking at Singh to come to Lord Justin's defense.

That is the point. The fact they have not which has led to slaughter is precisely why what Trump did is morally contemptable. Yah I know you don't get it. Because other people fail, Trump has the right to be a failure.