A High Crime

Congress directed that nearly $400 million in military aid be given to Ukraine (so that they could defend themselves against Russia’s invasion). Trump admitted today that he violated the Constitutions’s separation of powers and broke the law by ordering his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney and his vice president, Mike Pence, and his secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to execute his lawless orders by not giving Ukraine the aid until he, Trump, had the opportunity to extort the president of Ukraine in a phone call to make up false allegations against former vice president Joe Biden. What Mulvaney, Pence and/or Pompeo did we do not know but the aid that Congress ordered was held up. Trump previously admitted to the extortionate phone call and has also acknowledged that he committed these crimes because he knows that Biden will beat him in a free election.