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President Trump tweets a video of a Radio Free Europe interview with then-National Security Adviser John Bolton describing President Trump's call with Ukraine President Zelensky as cordial.

"I will be meeting President Zelensky. He and President Trump have already spoken twice. The president called to congratulate President Zelensky on his election and on his success in the parliamentary election," Bolton said in August 2019.

"They were very warm and cordial calls," Bolton said. "We’re hoping they’ll be able to meet in Warsaw for a few minutes together, because the success of Ukraine, maintaining its free, its system of representative government, a free-market economy, a free of corruption, and dealing with the problems of the Danbass in the Crimea are high priorities here, obviously, but high priorities for the United States, as well."

That statement of yours has grown so old no one responds to it anymore.

Those who believe in gun safety are trying to instill some common sense in our gun laws.

We are not taking anyone's civil liberties away for fun or any other reason.

We are trying to make sensible gun laws in order to try and prevent more tragic deaths by guns.

I know your arguments, I am not going to respond.

I am just tired of that false often-repeated statement of yours.

Right now Republicans in Congress are putting their careers, reputation, and partisanship ahead of the facts and acting in accordance with those basic facts.

Democrats have shown enough evidence right now, even discounting Bolton probable testimony, to impeach and remove any other president at another time. Those are the facts.

Trump should be removed, but he won't be.

But it is a matter of doing right.

Trump abused his office for his own personal political gain by pressuring a foreign country to interfere in our elections.

Moreover, he obstructed the House's constitutional duties by refusing to provide documents and complying with subpoenas.

Whether the Senate removes Trump or not, the House was right in impeaching him.

WASHINGTON — A nonprofit organization run by one of President Trump’s most prominent African-American allies recently held an event in a black community where it promoted Trump administration policies like criminal justice reform while doling out cash prizes to participants.

The event, a “Christmas Extravaganza” in Cleveland last month, was hosted by a charity group run by Darrell Scott, a longtime Trump surrogate who has also been advising his campaign. Organizers with the group, the Urban Revitalization Coalition, handed out thousands of dollars of cash stuffed in envelopes for an event it advertised as a “$25,000 Cash Giveaway.”
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It won't be possible for some suspected criminals to be brought back to the UK if they flee to Germany.

Germany's constitution does not allow its citizens to be extradited, unless it's to another EU country.

"This exception cannot apply anymore after the UK has left EU," a spokesman from the German Federal Ministry of Justice told BBC News.

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Of course he's not going to say that there was anything suspicious, unusual, or improper while he's serving in the president's cabinet. This only shows that Bolton acted properly when representing the Trump administration, behaving like a diplomat and keeping his personal opinions to himself.

Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.

“[Schiff] is a corrupt pol who only dreams of the Impeachment Hoax,” Trump said. “In my opinion he is mentally deranged!”

Trump defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz pushed back Thursday against criticism of his remarks about the president’s actions, arguing that the media had “willfully distorted” his remarks.

“Taking advantage of the fact most of their viewers didn’t actually hear the senate Q and A, CNN, MSNBC and some other media willfully distorted my answers,” he said in a tweet.

He added that members of the media had “characterized my argument as if I had said that if a president believes that his re-election was in the national interest, he can do anything. I said nothing like that, as anyone who actually heard what I said can attest.”

During Wednesday’s question-and-answer session, Dershowitz, a Harvard Law emeritus professor, had declared, “If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.”