The Jig Should Really be Up
The NY Times published an explosive report yesterday tying the facts in the Ukrainian scandal together through thousands of pages of testimony and documents and from interviews with dozens of former and current administration officials. In short, the story tells us that knowledge and assistance of Trump’s effort to extort Ukraine to announce a sham investigation of the Biden’s was much broader and deeper than anyone to this point has been willing to admit. Also, it shows that alarm of career staffers to Trump’s and Rudy’s plan was high and ongoing. This report really should be Trump’s Oh Shit moment.
As evidence piles up confirming everything and more that the whistleblower reported it’s becoming more and more important that the media keep Trump’s and his enablers’ feet to the fire, especially Mitch McConnell. As Greg Sargent said in the Washington Post this morning, it is critical that the media stop equivocating and saying that this is just another political standoff and call what the Republicans are doing what it really is…obstruction and a cover up of corruption and criminal activity by Trump.
And that’s not the only thing they should be reporting; they should be reporting and amplifying EVERY crime Trump commits and every time he violates his oath of office. And I don’t mean adding to the list of thousand of lies he’s told, but reporting them on the front page in a continuous stream. Like the speech Bolton gave last month at a Morgan Stanley client conference where he admitted that Trump made national security decisions simply to benefit himself, especially in Turkey where he walked away from the Kurds to protect his hotels in Istanbul from Erdogan’s retaliation. That’s goddam blackmail, and Trump is vulnerable to that from every country where he has properties and where he’s beholding, like Russia.
Sargent goes on to say that Trump is blocking the very people who were active in, and had direct knowledge of, the very wrongdoing for which he is being impeached and the risk for blowback when hard evidence comes out later (and it will). So, if McConnell succeeds in holding a sham trial, calling no witnesses, and acquitting Trump, the stink will be on him and every other enabler who aided in the coverup. The courts and federal agencies will eventually force the evidence out; that is a certainty, and could lead to a second impeachment if Trump wins the 2020 election when hopefully the House and Senate would be in Democratic hands.
I’ll be popping popcorn for that.
Dead skunks in the middle of the road. (I pluralized it.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5hzc2Mei4
1Reports out that since Rudy was soo very successful in the Ukraine that doddering Donnie has decided to unleash him on Venezuela
2At some point the effectiveness of the media “both sides” and “false equivalencies” will collapse under the growing mountain of evidence. But to keep the messaging simple: where are Donnie’s tax returns and what is he hiding?
3It seems to me that a well-worn theme in the 2016 GOP campaign about the Clinton e-mails was, “What’s she got to hide?”
Will the chickens come home to roost if the Dems start using it about him?
4megasoid@1: OT, but I loved that song. It was the music that went with driving I35 from Fort Worth to Denton at night, where every spring the skunk flowers bloomed on the road. If you had a relative you did not like, just borrow their pick-up truck for the drive. It’d take weeks before their tires lost the ability to make your nose shrivel up.
El Jefe, I agree with you completely. But I have given up on even the allegedly objective media from doing anything other than both siderism and “gee, what can you do, it’s just politics as usual”. So while I’d like for them to wake up and do the job that Thomas Jefferson et al saw them as fulfilling, it seems like pining for the good old days.
On the other hand, it makes me even more grateful for sites like the WMDBS, and the gang that gathers here.
5Trump has the talent of changing the subject when something bad is reported about him. He will come up with something to distract from this and all the reporters will run to cover it. My only hope is November 3rd and that enough people will get off their duff and vote!
6And now for the “centrist’s” “moderates” to celebrate since their hero joe has stated that for him picking a thuglican as a running mate on the D ticket is not only possible but, through some strange mental defect, it would be a good thing.
7Why doesn’t he just endorse demented donnie now and save us the trouble.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/30/politics/joe-biden-running-mate-republican/index.html
None of which is going to happen, for one simple reason.
As far as the Republicans are concerned, Trump is not the problem — he is the logical outcome of the past 40 years of Republicanism:
The Republican god, Reagan’s crimes; another venerated Republican, John McCain would have saddled us with addle-brained Sarah; Rick “I don’t want to give my money to blah people” Santorum; Rick “Oops!” Perry; gerrymandering; requiring voter ID’s while shuttering DMV’s in heavily Democratic districts; the oversight of the gubernatorial race by Georgia’s secretary of state Brian Kemp while he was running for governor and the simultaneous hacking of the names and addresses of voters. And Kemp refused the offered help from the Feds to get to the bottom of that.
I could go on, but you get the drift.
8This is where the party has been going for decades. OF COURSE they’re refusing to investigate the evidence or to hold a real trial. Everything is going just fine, thankyouverymuch.