| | | Maybe, but I think you are wrong about Tulsi. Here's what she has actually said about Trump and impeachment. She doesn't think the Ukraine transcripts provide compelling evidence for impeachment. So does she have policies on the economy that you and I disagree with? Absolutely. I hate Socialism. However, her stance on Trump is pretty much that she doesn't think impeachment is the way to go. Her stance on Syria is the same as Trump's. She wants to end the endless wars, as do I. With Trump's Syria action alone, he guaranteed I'd vote for him again. I was already going to vote for him again, but getting us the hell out of Syria raised my enthusiasm for his policies one more notch higher. Anyway, I'm glad there is someone on the left that is calling out Hillbillie Clinton's bullshit and who stands against the warmongering of the military industrial complex. Finally, we have the left (Tulsi) and the right (Trump) agreeing on something very important. End the idiotic endless wars in the Middle East.
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Tulsi Gabbard: Transcript doesn't show 'compelling' case for impeachment
thehill.com
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) said Wednesday that the partial transcript of President Trump's call with Ukraine’s president released by the Trump administration doesn’t show a “compelling” case for impeachment.
“Most people reading through that transcript are not going to find that extremely compelling cause to throw out a president that won an election in 2016,” the Democratic presidential candidate told Hill.TV during an appearance on “Rising.”
The Hawaii representative maintained that impeachment will only deepen the “hyperpartisan divides,” and argued that most people will only see it as another politically-motivated move by Democrats to oust Trump.
Prior to the release of transcript, Gabbard had similarly warned Democratsagainst launching an impeachment inquiry, saying such a move would be "terribly divisive."
Gabbard’s comments come after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) late Tuesday announced a formal impeachment inquiry against Trump. Pelosi said her decision was sparked by the president’s own admission that he had spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about investigating Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden's son.
A day after Pelosi’s announcement, the Trump administration released a five-page partial transcript of Trump’s call with Zelensky, which the president said validated his assertions and showed no evidence of wrongdoing.
Democrats have nevertheless seized on the transcript, saying Trump’s conversation with Ukraine’s leader bolsters their case for impeachment.
But Gabbard argued in her interview with Hill.TV that instead of moving forward on impeachment, Democrats should wait until the 2020 elections and let the American people decide.
“Look, Donald Trump is corrupt — he is unfit to serve our country as president. He is unqualified to serve our country as commander-in-chief, I’m running for president to defeat him,” she said. “I just think it’s so important for our country to be able to move forward to bridge these divides that it be the American people that make this decision.”
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