{"id":2154,"date":"2020-02-06T02:50:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2020-02-06T02:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T02:50:14","slug":"susan-collinss-rationale-for-acquitting-trump-aged-poorly-before-she-could-even-cast-her-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2154","title":{"rendered":"Susan Collins\u2019s rationale for acquitting Trump aged poorly before she could even cast her vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Following a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday in which she announced she\u2019ll vote to acquit<\/a>, Collins told Norah O\u2019Donnell of CBS that she believes Trump \u201chas learned from this case\u201d and \u201cwill be much more cautious in the future.\u201d
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting impeached \u201cis a pretty big lesson,\u201d Collins said \u2014 the implication being that Trump will be chastened going forward from trying to pervert diplomacy into an opposition research opportunity, as he did with the Ukrainian government.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump has spent five months insisting that a phone call<\/a> he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that\u2019s at the heart of his impeachment \u2014 one in which Trump implicitly linked military aid to Ukraine with the country helping him with investigations of his political rivals \u2014 is \u201cperfect.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“look at the circumstances surrounding the Zelensky call. It happened on July 25 \u2014 one day after special counsel Robert Mueller wound down his investigation of Trump by testifying to Congress and saying Trump could be indicted<\/a> after his term for obstructing justice because of his interference with the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But instead of responding to the end of the Russia investigation by cooling his jets, Trump was on the phone with the Ukrainian president the very next day trying to solicit political favors \u2014 the very same conduct that fueled suspicions about his Russia dealings in the first place<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Trump told reporters during an off-the-record lunch on Tuesday that, indeed, he doesn\u2019t feel he has any lessons to learn from getting impeached.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/5\/21123977\/susan-collins-trump-impeachment-acquittal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Following a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday in which she announced she\u2019ll vote to acquit, Collins told Norah O\u2019Donnell of CBS that she believes Trump \u201chas learned from this case\u201d and \u201cwill be much more cautious in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Getting impeached \u201cis a pretty big lesson,\u201d Collins said \u2014 the implication being that Trump will be chastened going forward from trying to pervert diplomacy into an opposition research opportunity, as he did with the Ukrainian government.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Trump has spent five months insisting that a phone call he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that\u2019s at the heart of his impeachment \u2014 one in which Trump implicitly linked military aid to Ukraine with the country helping him with investigations of his political rivals \u2014 is \u201cperfect.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“look at the circumstances surrounding the Zelensky call. It happened on July 25 \u2014 one day after special counsel Robert Mueller wound down his investigation of Trump by testifying to Congress and saying Trump could be indicted after his term for obstructing justice because of his interference with the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n

But instead of responding to the end of the Russia investigation by cooling his jets, Trump was on the phone with the Ukrainian president the very next day trying to solicit political favors \u2014 the very same conduct that fueled suspicions about his Russia dealings in the first place.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Trump told reporters during an off-the-record lunch on Tuesday that, indeed, he doesn\u2019t feel he has any lessons to learn from getting impeached.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,294,170],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}