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Everyone's forgotten by now, but the transcript of the secret 2016 conversation where @GOPLeader says Putin pays Trump, then @PRyan swears everyone to secrecy? It begins with a lengthy, sympathetic explanation of the plight Ukrainian reformers face.
And here's what @GOPLeader says today, contradicting Trump's own NSC experts and the entirety of the U.S. government. A sniveling, evil liar.
Possibly unrelated observations. The Post broke the news about the McCarthy/Ryan conversation one year after it happened, after Trump had won, long past the point when it might've had an effect on the election. The dateline on the story is KIEV, Ukraine. washingtonpost.com/world/national…
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If these battleground members think they’re doomed unless they pass bills Trump will sign, why stop at USMCA? Why not give him so many wins that he becomes popular? Dems will clearly win in a landslide then...
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Bill Taylor seems like a sympathetic figure. But he also didn't sound the alarm or take any steps to alert the public to the president's efforts to corrupt foreign policy until the whistleblower forced everything out into the open. There's a lesson here.
Taylor could've exposed a bunch of misconduct months ago. But he was new on the job, cares about Ukraine, and suddenly finds himself standing athwart this terrible extortion plot, so he tries to stop it from within.
The national security adviser is on his side, it comes down to the wire, but he wins. Aid flows. No shakedown. Easy to imagine him thinking, ’OK, things got really dicey, but I got things back on the rails, and I better stick around to keep them there.”
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Trump should resign the presidency. But unless he does or is removed, it’s impossible to read Taylor's testimony and not demand a full audit of Trump’s diplomacy.
What Taylor describes isn’t some slapdash, Improvised extortion. They got rid of and circumvented multiple inconvenient people, spent months getting ducks in a row.
And it almost worked! We almost woke up one day to a CNN EXCLUSIVE that Zelensky had opened investigations of Biden and 2016.
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.@GOPLeader, remember this?

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Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
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