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1. The fact that no Republican currently supports impeachment does not reflect a failure of the Democrats to uncover clearly impeachable acts

What the Democrats have uncovered is STUNNING

It reflects the Republicans total imperviousness to facts

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2. It is particularly impressive that the Democrats were able to uncover so much despite an unprecedented effort by Trump to obstruct the impeachment investigation

The administration ignored 71 records requests and 12 witnesses refused to testify

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3. In one sense the entire exercise was unnecessary. You can just read the July 25 call summary and see that Trump abused his power by asking a foreign leader to investigate his political rival.

That's enough

But the breath of the scheme is remarkable

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1. Something important happened on the way to impeachment that was basically ignored

On 10/22, GOP Leader McCarthy said we should LISTEN TO THE DIPLOMATS about QUID PRO QUO

In other words, if diplomats said there was a quid pro quo this would be serious

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2. The same day, the top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor was deposed

He said explicitly there was a quid pro quo for both the White House meeting AND the military aid

Taylor is not a Democrat. The Trump admin recruited him out of retirement in June

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3. In November, Gordon Sondland, who was serving as U.S. ambassador to the EU, testified that there was a quid pro quo for the White House meeting and the military aid.

Sondland is a Republican fundraiser who donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural.

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1. Because of Trump's tax cuts, there are now 91 highly profitable companies that are paying ZERO or LESS THAN ZERO in federal income taxes, including:

Amazon
Chevron
Netflix
Starbucks
FedEx
Halliburton
JetBlue

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2. All the companies listed above pay LESS THAN ZERO in federal income taxes. That means Amazon, which made $10 billion in profits in 2019, was sent a check by the federal government.

It's insane.

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3. It's hard to overstate how unpopular corporate tax cuts are.

69% of Americans believe corporations don't pay enough taxes.

6% of Americans believe corporations pay too much.

Seem like this should be a bigger deal.

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Judd Legum
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1. Wisconsin could play a decisive role in 2020.

Trump beat Clinton by 23K votes (out of 3M cast) in 2016.

Now, a right-wing advocacy group has convinced a judge to immediately purge 200K voters from the rolls.

It sounds bad.

The details are worse.

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2. In October, Wisconsin's election board sent out 234K to people who may have moved.

They did this in 2017 with a 30 day time period to respond.

But the process kicked TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS OFF THE ROLLS

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3. So this time, the Wisconsin election board (3Ds, 3Rs) unanimously decided to send the letters but NOT immediately kick off people who didn't respond.

They would wait until 2021

That's when WILL, a group backed by Wisconsin's biggest GOP donors, sued

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Impeachment 101

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