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1. "Giuliani has said he doesn’t charge Trump for legal services." So Giuliani uses Trump's name to make millions, then gives Trump millions in free services: a kickback.
2. The "stolen money" contract sounds like a pretext to pay Ukraine for dirt, right? washingtonpost.com/politics/giuli…
1/ So the Giuliani-diGenova-Toensing contract with the Ukrainian government said they'd return "lost money" to Ukraine (note: there is no lost money) at a time the same three crooks (all Trump lawyers) were seeking Ukrainian election meddling. Everyone sees how this works, right?
2/ Either:

1) The contract was for Giuliani/diGenova/Toensing (Trump agents) to lobby Trump to give the prosecutor general "lost" monies, but only if Lutsenko gave Trump dirt on Biden; or
2) Giuliani, diGenova and Toensing would pay Lutsenko for dirt and bill Trump "legal fees."
3/ So Donald Trump used agents to pay a foreign government for election meddling.

If you're seeing anything else in today's news, I don't know what. This is so far and away the worst scandal in U.S. history, it's almost beyond my or anyone's ability to express it. It's that bad.
4/ Not even the biggest Trump haters in America accused him of *paying* for Russian election meddling. And yet it seems he was prepared to pay for *Ukrainian* election meddling. That pretty clearly indicates that the Ukraine segment of the Russia scandal is *worse* than the rest.
5/ Scene:

LUTSENKO (to Trump agents GIULIANI, DIGENOVA, and TOENSING): I've given the dirt on Yovanovitch and Biden you asked for to your pal John SOLOMON.

GIULIANI: Thanks! And here's your lost money.

LUTSENKO: What? I didn't lose any...oh, *right*. Yes. "Lost money." Thanks!
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There are *so many things wrong* with Sen. Burr's responses in this interview, I don't know where to start. But I guess here's a good spot: media did *not* say that Russian officials just having a *preference* for Trump was "election meddling." And Burr saying so is *outrageous*.
1/ Moreover, comparing

1) Russian officials favoring Trump BECAUSE HE SUPPORTED THEM FACING NO PUNISHMENT FOR THE WAR CRIME OF INVADING EUROPE AND STEALING EUROPEAN LAND

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Remember, as we head toward an impeachment trial, that the GOP has spent 50 years *rewarding* its scoundrels. Bork. Liddy. North. Harris. Blackwell. The list goes on and on. So GOP senators and Trump co-conspirators have every reason to believe their cowardice will be *honored*.
That is, when a high-profile Republican takes actions to destroy the federal government, undermine U.S. foreign policy, degrade the integrity of our elections, or spit in the eye of U.S. rule of law, the party establishment *celebrates* it—offers the scoundrel money, power, fame.
There are men—per usual, old, white, rich men—atop the Republican Party who can exhibit honor and patriotism now: Graham. McConnell. Johnson. Giuliani. Bolton. Mulvaney. But they won't. They won't because lying for the GOP brings with it a future gig on FNC and a major book deal.
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Actually? It's pretty tight already, from this attorney's perspective—especially when you consider the major-media investigative reporting that wasn't the subject of federal testimony. In other words, take everything reliable in the public sphere and the evidence is overwhelming.
PS/ I'm willing to retweet THE HILL if it's from the news division, not editorial, *and* comports with all other major-media reporting. This one is close to the line. There are no "missing" witnesses, and the Kremlin's conspiracy theories aren't "unproven" but *without evidence*.
PS2/ For instance, Mueller opined early on in his report that Trump advisers, allies, agents, and associates had—variously—refused to be interviewed, withheld evidence, destroyed evidence, and lied about their actions and knowledge. Was that "missing" evidence—or obstruction?
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