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(TRUMP and POMPEO, presumably: "This oughta keep Zelensky on-board and quiet")
PS/ For those confused by the timing (i.e., Ukraine requesting missiles weeks before the Trump-Zelensky call), remember that the first time Trump shook down Ukraine over Javelin missiles (in that case, because he corruptly wanted them to end 4 ongoing Manafort probes) was *2017*.
PS2/ So any implication Pompeo approving these new Javelin sales to Ukraine has nothing to do with a Trump-Ukraine shakedown that began in *2017* is ridiculous. This is an *ongoing course of criminal conduct* that absolutely did *not* begin on July 25, 2019. Don't get it twisted.
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Seth Abramson
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I personally have seen the media put Trump on TV approximately 100 times calling his own illegal and impeachable phone call with Ukraine "perfect." Meanwhile, I've heard Democrats describe what was wrong with the call 100 different ways.

There's a serious messaging problem here.
1/ It's simple:

1. Trump demanded a more "reciprocal" US-Ukraine relationship.
2. Ukraine asked for Javelin missiles.
3. Trump replied, "I'd like you to do us a favor, though."
4. Trump asked for a probe of Biden.
5. Ukraine agreed.
6. Trump gave the military aid.

QUID PRO QUO.
2/ And I'll say something else: the explicit nature of the quid pro quo between Trump and Ukraine, which I'd note is exactly the agreement Putin wanted Trump to make with Ukraine, is *exactly* what was called Conspiracy to Commit Fraud on the United States in the Mueller Report.
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Seth Abramson
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Don't sleep on the Giuliani-Manafort news. Trump has told friends that Manafort is the only man who could take him down, and that remains true even post-conviction because Manafort never told the full truth to the feds. And now we learn Trump and Manafort's attorneys are talking?
1/ In speaking to Manafort's lawyer, Giuliani gives Manafort a chance to offer value to Trump and make his case for a pardon (and Trump's continued assistance in quashing Manafort's corruption probes in Ukraine). *Trump* gets Manafort's continued silence. It's a *quid pro quo*.
2/ The Mueller Report is clear on the fact that Trump repeatedly tampered with Manafort as a witness, and did so through his lawyers and Manafort's lawyers. This is a *continuation* of that tampering, and would be significant even separate from the growing Trump-Ukraine scandal.
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Seth Abramson
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*SEQUENCE OF EVENTS*

1. Whistleblower goes to CIA's top lawyer.
2. CIA's top lawyer inappropriately goes to White House.
3. CIA's top lawyer inappropriately goes to DOJ.
4. Seeing the CIA has asked the two subjects of the complaint what to do, the whistleblower goes to Congress.
*GOP PLAYBOOK IN THIS SITUATION*

The GOP will try to do to the whistleblower what it tried to do to Steele—it will seek to convince America that a whistleblower who responds to a *mishandled* complaint by seeking another appropriate party to confer with is a political operative.
*NOTE*

1. Experts say HPSCI is explicitly an entity a whistleblower can go to—so even once you understand the order of events, be aware this is considered acceptable procedure.

2. This holds even if a whistleblower only knows the CIA is delaying—not who it conferred with first.
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Watch this chilling BBC clip & you'll recognize Trump's Russian propaganda playbook: Putin made politics a bewildering constantly changing piece of theater to undermine the perception of reality. People can't tell what's true, don't believe their own eyes or journalists' facts./2
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