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Today's testimony from Yovanovitch was a key moment in the Ukraine scandal.

First, it showed the WH's defenses starting to crack.

Second, Yovanovitch delivered a pointed lecture explaining principled public service to a profoundly corrupt president:

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In light of Yovanovitch's revelation that Trump pushed for her ouster, note this from the timeline.

Only days after she was removed, Giuliani announced plan to go to Ukraine as part of his campaign to get Ukraine to help corrupt our election for Trump:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
One other thing.

Ambassador Yovanovitch's closing warning is very powerful. She notes that disinformation "weakens" our political system, and emboldens adversaries.

Can there be any doubt what she's referring to?

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Greg Sargent
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The two big scandals of the moment are overlapping.

It might be easier for Trump to demand the benefit of the doubt on Syria if we weren't now learning how willing he is to sell out our foreign policy on Ukraine for thoroughly corrupt ends.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Why would anyone assume Trump is operating in the national interest on Syria, when he’s completely betraying it on Ukraine before all the world to see?

And if Bill Taylor testifies, we're likely to learn that this betrayal was worse than we thought:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
The circumstances surrounding Trump's decision to pull out of Syria are just deeply strange.

There's just no way to look at the timeline and conclude that Trump is operating out of any discernible conception of what's good for the country:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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Greg Sargent
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The NYT has now established a crucial link.

Mulvaney has privately admitted freezing of military aid was meant to press Ukraine to investigate corruption.

I looked at the timeline. Mulvaney surely knew this really meant, "target Biden.' Quid, meet quo:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Giuliani and Trump repeatedly said as early as May that their goal was to get Ukraine to smear Biden.

Giuliani talked extensively about thi to NYT, and tweeted about it. Trump aired it on Fox News.

Mick Mulvaney knew all this when he froze military aid:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
When Mick Mulvaney carried out Trump's directive to freeze the military aid to Ukraine, he had already been in meetings for *months* with all of the ringleaders of Trump's scheme, in which they had extensively discussed what Trump actually wanted:

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Greg Sargent
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The news about John Bolton leaves no doubt: Trump's defense in the Ukraine scandal is collapsing.

Trump keeps saying his pressure on the Ukrainian president was totally fine.

But we now know that just about *everyone* around him was horrified by it:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
A crucial point is getting lost.

Trump isn't merely claiming that pressuring Zelensky to investigate unspecified "corruption" is totally fine.

Rather, Trump's explicitly stated position is that pressuring Zelensky to *investigate Biden* is totally fine:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Why are some GOP Senators refusing to say whether it's okay to press a foreign leader to investigate a political rival?

Because Trump continues to insist this was the *correct* thing to do.

That has left them with no way to distance themselves from it:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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