{"id":177411,"date":"2019-10-01T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/01\/the-cancer-on-the-presidency-metastasizes\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:04:00","slug":"the-cancer-on-the-presidency-metastasizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/01\/the-cancer-on-the-presidency-metastasizes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cancer on the Presidency* Metastasizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We already know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-leader-11568993176?mod=rsswn\">Trump tried to coerce the President of the Ukraine into digging dirt up on the Bidens<\/a>, because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/19\/us\/politics\/intelligence-whistle-blower-complaint-trump.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">now-public whistle-blower complaint filed by an intelligence operative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what led to the Democrats in the House <a href=\"https:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/i-did-not-expect-this.html\">officially opening an impeachment investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What we have now learned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pompeo-took-part-in-ukraine-call-official-says-11569865002?mod=rsswn&amp;tesla=y\">Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in on the call<\/a>, which makes the Secretary of State complicit, and that&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/attorney-general-barr-personally-asked-foreign-officials-to-aid-inquiry-into-cia-fbi-activities-in-2016\/2019\/09\/30\/d50cd5c4-e3a5-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html\">Attorney General William Barr was personally involved in an investigation to discredit the Mueller report<\/a> to the point of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/barr-went-to-rome-to-hear-a-secret-tape-from-joseph-mifsud-the-professor-who-helped-ignite-the-russia-probe?ref=scroll\">personally going to Rome to listen to tapes of a crucial witness<\/a>, which is certainly inappropriate, and almost certainly conflicted and corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>So pretty much everyone in his most senior cabinet members are implicated in the coverup, but wait, there is more!<\/p>\n<p>It now appears that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/30\/us\/politics\/trump-australia-barr-mueller.html\">Trump also strong-armed Australia in his efforts to discredit the Mueller report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The impeachment investigation should be broadened, because the level of crime here makes the Nixon and Reagan investigations look like an exercise in good governance.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">It&#8217;s a quote from Nixon White House counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/John_Dean\">John Dean<\/a>.  Seriously, know your history.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We already know that Trump tried to coerce the President of the Ukraine into digging dirt up on the Bidens, because of the now-public whistle-blower complaint filed by an intelligence operative. It&#8217;s what led to the Democrats in the House officially opening an impeachment investigation. What we have now learned that Secretary of State Mike &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[474,368,573,394,441,560,454],"class_list":["post-177411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-relations","tag-former-soviet-union","tag-impeach","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}