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The House minority report isn't so much a piece of advocacy as it is a denial of reality.

My article on the most damaging lies from the Republican's report:
justsecurity.org/67658/seven-ou…
The minority's most outrageous lie is also its most important defense of Trump: that what happened with the WH meeting and the security assistance was maybe a little messy, maybe a little rougher around the edges than usual, but still just government as usual.

It wasn't.
Witness testimony gives us a deeply-sourced and crystal-clear account of a mad king's unfathomable order, and a resilient bureaucracy's response.

But though federal agencies initially responded to the President's order as if it was irrational, it wasn't. Just corrupt.
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