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1) The new defense of Trump from his loyalists is laughably disingenuous.

Their claim now is that, yes, there may have been a quid pro quo, but you can't show *Trump himself* was behind it.

But the *already known* facts show this is steaming nonsense.

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2) Let's walk through this.

Trump himself personally ordered the military aid frozen.

And officials were ordered not to share details about it with lawmakers.

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3) Giuliani publicly confirmed the whole plot as early as May, and continued to do so for months.

Here's an important quote from Giuliani we should revisit now:

“I don’t do anything that involves my client without speaking with my client.”

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4) Pence himself directly delivered the message to Zelensky about the withheld military aid.

He said Zelensky needed to do more about "corruption."

But those texts show that Ukraine had *already been told* the statement had to target Crowdstrike/Biden.

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5) Incredibly, after all this, Trump's spinners are actually trying to argue that Sondland freelanced the extortion piece of the plot on his own.

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6) Here's the full argument, in this new piece:

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