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Commentary: Trump's Ukraine whistleblower flap will make life difficult for future presidents

Even with the benefit of investigative journalism, we still don't know for sure what "urgent concern" motivated someone in the intelligence community to complain about an action or actions by President Donald Trump.

But the fact that the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) issued a subpoena in search of information that may involve what the president said to a foreign leader is a reminder of how this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad president has eroded civic and constitutional

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