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I'm going to suggest that William Barr's criminal review is actually a telling sign of Trump's mounting rage and panic over the impeachment inquiry.

It's easy to see Trump raging at Barr and demanding more protection. Presto: Criminal review!

New piece:

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It's not a coincidence that we magically learn that Barr's review is criminal at precisely the moment that Trump is in a particularly torqued up rage and panic over the fusillade of devastating revelations coming out of the impeachment inquiry every day:

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Barr is at nexus of Trump's corruption:

* Trump told Zelensky to coordinate w/Barr on corrupt Biden scheme

* Mulvaney used Barr's review to lend legitimacy to that scheme

* Barr's DOJ helped cover up whistleblower complaint and didn't investigate it

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Greg Sargent
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Yes, the omissions from the "transcript" matter.

The nixing of details about Trump's focus on Biden will make it harder to claim Trump only cared about "corruption."

And it will make Rs more worried that they don't know what's still to come.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Here's my question.

Given that Trump used the WH meeting to leverage the investigations he wanted, why would he suddenly *not* intend the frozen military aid to accomplish the same thing, at the very moment he was *maximizing* his leverage over Zelensky?

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Trump is now explicitly demanding that Rs fully defend his corrupt pressure on Ukraine, as opposed to just attacking Dems/process.

The "transcript" is central to this: Trump wants Rs to say, "read the transcript!" just as he is.

That's much harder now.

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Greg Sargent
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There's a revealing tell in the Fox News smear of Vindman.

They rip Vindman for undermining *Trump's* interests. *That's* what really has them in a rage.

Placing country before Trump is the real betrayal for which Vindman must be destroyed.

New piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Here's a key connection:

Vindman is corroborating a key piece of William Taylor's testimony. Both say Gordon Sondland privately referenced the investigations Trump wanted into *the Bidens.*

So they *both* undercut Sondland's testimony:

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Ingraham rips Vindman for working "against the president's interests."

Giuliani said his Ukraine scheme would be "good for my client."

This gives away the game: In keeping our foreign policy aligned with US interests, Vindman was undermining Trump's:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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Greg Sargent
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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:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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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Uhhh... some questions for basically every single GOP MOC delivering the same talking points:

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It's time I had my say about #Impeachment, DJT's obstructionistic tactics, and @SpeakerPelosi's not pushing for an inquiry yet.

When AG Barr released the redacted version of the report to Congress, he did *not* include any of the underlying documents on which Mueller relied.

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A note on #impeachment -

In a court of law, under non-presidential circumstances, impeachment is a tool litigation attorneys use to discredit the opposing side's witnesses at trial. When said witness takes the stand under oath attys. present evidence contrary to what the witness
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Simply put, they aren't trustworthy. In the case of Presidential impeachment that broad definition of impeachment applies, but the impeachment tool is used for a very different purpose. Under the Constitution, a sitting President cannot be tried in a court of law for anything.
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