December 2, 2019: Trump Says President Zelensky Cleared His Name - Trump is a Bonehead

 

12/2/19: President Zelensky talks to reporters from several European news outlets, as well as Time magazine. Once again, he does his best to thread the impeachment needle. “Look, I never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo. That’s not my thing,” he says. 

If he admitted he had, it would be a tremendous sign of weakness to his own people.

 

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“If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us.” 

President Zelensky

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At the White House, wild partying results, as the president throws official papers in the air and dances round the Oval Office with lovely Kellyanne Conway in his embrace. Trump finally settles and tweets the good news. He has been totally exonerated, just like he was by the Mueller Report! The President of Ukraine, he taps on his iPhone, “just again announced that President Trump has done nothing wrong with respect to Ukraine and our interactions or calls.” 

Shortly after, he waddles out to the White House lawn to inform reporters it’s “case over” for impeachment! 

Zelensky, he insists, has just told the world that Donald J. Trump “did absolutely nothing wrong.”

 

Of course, that’s not what the Ukrainian leader said. What he did say was this: “I don’t want us to look like beggars. But you have to understand. We’re at war. If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us. I think that’s just about fairness. It’s not about a quid pro quo. It just goes without saying.” 

It “goes without saying.” You can’t block military aid until you get the investigation you want. 

Yet, that’s why the aid was blocked. 

“I would never want Ukraine to be a piece on the map, on the chess board of big global players, so that someone could toss us around, use us as cover, as part of some bargain,” Zelensky continued. He remains thankful for the aid Kyiv has received from the United States. “I would really want – and we feel this, it’s true – for them to help us, to understand us, to see that we are a player in our own right, that they cannot make deals about us with anyone behind our backs.”

President Zelensky gives President Trump the side eye.