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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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Stunning new numbers from PRRI illustrating the Fox effect:

98% of Fox-watching Republicans oppose removal

71% of them *strongly* approve of Trump. Only 39% of non-Fox Rs strongly approve

One of the biggest obstacles to removal? Fox News.

New piece:

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Here's another remarkable finding:

55% of Fox-watching Republicans say there's almost *nothing* Trump could do to lose their approval. Only 29% of non-Fox Rs say this.

"Fox is really impacting Republicans’ opinions," PRRI's @nataliemj10 tells me:

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@nataliemj10 Some have argued Trump's removal won't be possible without a huge popular mobilization, because our institutions are weaker than in Nixon's day.

See @brianbeutler, @DLeonhardt, @mattyglesias, @lara_putnam

I argue here that Fox News is also a key factor:

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Greg Sargent
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The White House may set up a fund by which private donors can curry favor w/Trump by giving donations toward G-7 that might save taxpayers money but would go to Doral/Trump, which will already reap mega-publicity from the event.

Metastatizing corruption.

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A reminder: House Democrats can and should make Trump's spectacularly corrupt G-7/Doral decision part of the impeachment inquiry and possibly part of an article of impeachment.

Here's @RepRaskin laying out a process to us by which this could be done:

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@RepRaskin There's a clear thread between the Doral corruption and the Ukraine scandal.

Over and over, Trump abuses the power of his office to advance his personal/political interests, with zero regard for the national interest. He's serially betraying the country.

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Mick Mulvaney's walkback doesn't pass the laugh test.

Here's my look at the timeline.

Trump and Giuliani demanded Ukraine investigate the 2016 conspiracy theory *for months.* It's impossible to believe military aid wasn't leveraged for that purpose:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Another key point.

Sondland *admitted* in testimony that WH meeting was used to pressure Ukraine to validate the 2016 conspiracy theory.

We're supposed to believe Trump suddenly stopped thinking about wanting that from Ukraine when he froze the aid?

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Mulvaney's walkback is itself incriminating. He admits that military aid was used as leverage.

When you look at the "corruption" Trump and Giuliani *actually cared about* -- the conspiracy theories and lies -- the conclusion is increasingly inescapable:

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