# 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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**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry/840771/690 "2019-09-26T18:52:19Z")

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> [@HurricaneDitka](#):
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> earlier on in this thread, President Trump’s request to Ukraine was characterized as a request “[to manufacture dirt](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21879580#post21879580)” on Biden. There were various other posts that suggested Trump had asked Ukraine to make stuff up / lie about Biden’s Ukranian activities. I don’t see any evidence to support those claims, but if it became clear that he had asked them “to manufacture dirt” rather than just investigate and find the truth of the matter, I would support impeachment.

[Manufacturing dirt is straight out of the Trump Campaign playbook](https://www.axios.com/inside-the-trump-campaigns-plan-of-attack-03364e8d-99ea-418b-b6e7-510c117dc0bf.html):

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> The RNC is “going to make whoever the nominee is radioactive well before they get the nomination,” a former campaign official told Axios. “That’s Trump’s strategy. Stay at 45-46% [in the polls] and just make the other guy radioactive.”

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