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| JD Vance says Ukraine funding includes hidden impeachment clause against President Trump |
| 2024-02-12 |
| [Post Millenial] "They have drafted a new law that again requires Trump to spend money on Ukraine. If he negotiates an end to the war, as he has promised to do, they will undoubtedly argue that he has broken the law." In an op-ed published in the early hours on Monday, Senator JD Vance criticized the $95 million foreign aid package being considered by the Senate, the passage of which he said could see a second Trump term being "collateral damage." "For months, I have been confident that Donald Trump would be reelected as president," Vance wrote in the American Conservative. "But this is how you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Republican establishment is going to war for more Ukraine money. They don’t care if a second Trump term is collateral damage." Vance noted that the bill includes a provision, a "kill switch for the next Trump presidency," in which funding for Ukraine would be required "well into the next presidential term." Vance explained earlier in the piece that the border security part of the bill, which was killed last week, would have constrained "Trump’s border enforcement if he was ever elected president." "It gets worse," Vance continued. "Back in 2019, Democrats articulated a novel theory of impeachment, based on Trump’s refusal to spend money from the USAI - Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative." Vance explained that five years later "they have drafted a new law that again requires Trump to spend money on Ukraine. If he negotiates an end to the war, as he has promised to do, they will undoubtedly argue that he has broken the law." With less than a year before the 2024 election, "Ukraine-obsessive Republicans have already given the Democrats a predicate to impeach him. Slava Ukraini, America be damned." |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #2 So they are trying to pass laws against Trump, specifically. Damn, will they ever learn. He will do it anyway and let the courts sort it out. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2024-02-12 15:44 |
| #1 It should be called the Vindman Clause. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-02-12 15:20 |