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Trump Is Extorting These American States To Win In 2020

Trump Is Recycling His Ukraine Scam to harm Joe Biden and suppress the vote in 2020.

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Ben Cohen
May 21, 2020
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by Bob Cesca

WASHINGTON, DC -- Paraphrasing another Republican president: There he goes again. You’d think Donald Trump might’ve learned his lesson about extortion when he was impeached for it. But no. He keeps doing it, in public and in clear view of law enforcement.

Specifically, it was only a few months ago when all that went down, with the president being impeached because he tried to cheat in the 2020 election by attempting to force President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to announce an investigation into Hunter Biden and, by proxy, Joe Biden. See, part of Ukraine was annexed by Russia, while pro-Putin forces continue to make incursions into the former Soviet satellite, requiring military aid from the West. Despite all that, Trump threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine unless Zelenksy did what he was told by our clown dictator.

Beginning last August, there were copious press reports, followed by congressional hearings, scandalous testimony showing the president did exactly what he …

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