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Trump didn't just pressure Ukraine's president to investigate his political opponents—he offered to have the U.S. Justice Department help them do it.
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Nothing to see here, just the president of the United States weaponizing the U.S. government to explicitly pressure a foreign leader into pushing conspiracy theories to help his re-election campaign. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
It's not just that: Trump used the phone call to push conspiracy theories about Russia's attack on the 2016 election and the origin of the emails stolen from the DNC and to—surprise—attack the Mueller investigation: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
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Trump reportedly personally called Boris Johnson for help undermining the Mueller investigation. thetimes.co.uk/article/donald…
The call reportedly took place on July 26. That's two days after Mueller testified, two days after Johnson took office, and one day after Trump's now-infamous phone call with Zelensky. And a few days later, Bill Barr made a follow-up visit.
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Trump likes to (falsely) claim that Mueller totally exonerated him. So why did he apparently spend the days after Mueller testified calling up world leader after world leader to pressure them for help attacking the investigation?
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Bill Barr reportedly traveled to Italy last week on an "under-the-radar mission" to listen to a tape of Joseph Mifsud, the Kremlin-linked professor who told George Papadopoulos that Russia had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in the form of "thousands of emails." thedailybeast.com/barr-went-to-r…
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The acting Director of National Intelligence will be testifying publicly starting at 9 a.m. Watch it live here: c-span.org/video/?464509-…
.@RepAdamSchiff on yesterday's memo: "Yesterday, we were presented with a record of a call between the president of the United States and the president of Ukraine in which the president sacrificed our national security and our Constitution for his personal and political benefit."
@RepAdamSchiff Nunes calls for a "quiet, sober inquiry, as we do for all whistleblowers."
That would have been possible, had the administration not done everything they could to conceal the complaint from Congress.
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