Senate votes 100-0 to release Trump whistleblower complaint

Authored by theweek.com and submitted by TheWeekMag
image for Senate votes 100-0 to release Trump whistleblower complaint

It was "a major news day in the history of the United States," Jimmy Kimmel said on Tuesday's Kimmel Live, because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched an official impeachment inquiry into President Trump's actions. "Oh, it's not going to get rid of him," he laughed after the audience applauded the news. Pelosi has "been very reluctant to do this, but once again, Donald Trump is doing what he does best: Forcing a woman to do something she didn't want to do."

The impeachment inquiry stems from Trump's July call to Ukraine's president, during which he asked Ukraine several times to investigate Joe Biden and his son; just a few days earlier, Trump had ordered his staff to withhold military aid to Ukraine. "And they needed the aid to protect themselves from his buddy in Russia," Kimmel explained. "Still, despite all this, the president said he did nothing wrong, he said the call was perfect, it was a perfect call. Even the Ukraine he turns in to Me-kraine. He's now claiming he was withholding the money to stop corruption," Kimmel added, laughing. "But I guess he feels like nothing can stop him now. He got away with Russia in the election, it makes perfect sense he would ask Ukraine to help him with the next one."

PiBaker on September 24th, 2019 at 22:45 UTC »

The Senate unanimously passed a nonbinding resolution Tuesday calling for the whistleblower complaint related to President Trump's communications with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to be released to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

Not releasing the complaint to the intelligence committees is a crime.

So the Senate voted in a non-binding resolution to not help commit a crime/

Lilnitwitt on September 24th, 2019 at 21:39 UTC »

Its all for show since the whistleblower is planning on meeting with the intelligence committee in the house this week

IowaForWarren on September 24th, 2019 at 21:38 UTC »

Non binding, but holy shit how often is there a 100-0 vote on anything?

Edit: like I feel like the "votes to rename a post office" don't even get this many votes. Rand Paul probably votes no because renaming post offices is too much power for the government (then turns around and rubber stamps trumps budget increase).

Edit2: so this was a unanimous vote, it wasn't actually 100-0 it was just that nobody wanted to vote against. Thanks everyone who corrected me