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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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@RepRaskin The walls are cracking.

Republicans are increasingly admitting that Trump's metastatizing corruption is putting them in a precarious, untenable position.

“You have to try to defend him," one says. "I don’t know if I can do that!"

See this Post report:

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@RepRaskin Trump is now serially telling the GOP base that standing behind him means standing behind his absolute right to abuse his office in any corrupt manner he chooses. Trump is forcing Rs to defend that position. Dems should make them do that every day. FIN

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Here's another layer to the House GOP strategy:

It's supposed to send the message that Rs are being super effective in debunking witness testimony in private, and Ds are concealing that.

This is meant to sate the rage of the Audience of One.

New piece:

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The game:

1) Released testimony is devastating

2) Rs say they demolished that testimony in private hearing

3) Rs scream Ds are hiding this

4) When transcripts are released and don't exonerate Trump, they'll claim opposite and Fox will amplify that lie

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Rs can call for transcripts' release, knowing that when they *don't* exonerate Trump, they can just lie about it, and use the release as the hook to argue that the Dem coverup has been exposed.

They can count on the Fox/propaganda network to play along:

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We need more discussion of the fact that Sondland discussed the possibility of William Barr coordinating a statement with the Ukrainians that would legitimize an effort to absolve Russia of its role in attacking our political system in 2016.

New piece:

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Bill Barr keeps magically popping up in the middle of this corrupt scheme.

Trump, Mulvaney, and now allegedly Sondland have all tied Barr to it. This is compromising the legitimacy of his "review" into 2016, which is already suspect.

Here's the pattern:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
I think it's plausible that William Barr might release his "review" of the origins of the Russia investigation as impeachment hits its climax, for maximum confusion/fog machine effect:

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This is a straight-up lie.

Taylor testified that Morrison described a conversation in which Sondland told a top Zelensky aide that "the security assistance money would not come until Zelensky committed to pursue the Burisma investigation."
Here's the relevant quote from Taylor's opening statement. It shows Trump is lying again.
Here's more to counter Trump's latest nonsense.

Taylor testified that Sondland told him that Sondland told Zelensky that if he did not "clear things up" by publicly announcing an investigation of Biden, there would be "stalemate," i.e., the military aid would not be forthcoming.
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