90 Miles From Tyranny : Vance: Ukraine Funding Bill Has a ‘Kill Switch for the Next Trump Presidency’

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Vance: Ukraine Funding Bill Has a ‘Kill Switch for the Next Trump Presidency’















Sen. J.D. Vance is ringing the alarm bell about what he said is a “kill switch for the next Trump presidency” contained in the pending Ukraine funding bill.

In a memo sent to his fellow Republican U.S. Senate colleagues, Vance writes that the current funding bill would make the very same Ukraine funding “accounts” at the center of the Democrats’ impeachment of Trump in 2019, the center of grounds for impeachment in a future Trump presidency.


I just sent the below memo to every one of my Republican colleagues in Congress.

Buried in the bill’s text is an impeachment time bomb for the next Trump presidency if he tries to stop funding the war in Ukraine.

We must vote against this disastrous bill. pic.twitter.com/uKqet9s0xd

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) February 12, 2024

This, Vance wrote, provides the “kill switch” because “the legislation explicitly requires funding for Ukraine well into the next presidential term.”

Five years after impeaching Trump for refusing to spend money on Ukraine, 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.

“We are nearly a year away from an election that could give Trump the presidency, and Ukraine-obsessive Republicans have already given the Democrats a predicate to...


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2 comments:

SiGraybeard said...

Gotta keep those kickbacks coming! How can a congresscritter keep their slush funds going without that graft coming back?

Anonymous said...

Some people need to die.