# The Trump Impeachment Inquiry

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771 "2019-09-24T20:23:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/2686 "2019-10-14T20:17:05Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> … Oh, and it doesn’t matter in the least if Zelenskiy was unaware that the aid was being withheld. If Trump _intended_ to use it as a cudgel to make Zelenskiy do something, then that suffices.

Of course it matters! That’s the shaky foundation for all these “Trump was acting like a mob enforcer” posts and reasoning. They all assume Zelensky knew that Trump was withholding the money (or Javelins in some tellings), and so Trump’s “I would like you to do us a favor” is supposed to have an ominous ring to Zelensky like a mobster’s “It’d be a shame if something happened”. If Zelensky doesn’t know that he’s being extorted (because he in fact is not), that perceived ominous tone evaporates.

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