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The impeachment fight boils down to four simple questions:

1. Did the president of the United States ask another country to interfere in the upcoming 2020 election?

(The answer sure appears to be a yes from the partial transcript of the July 25 call.)
2. Did Trump and his administration withhold military aid and a White House visit to compel Ukraine to start this investigation into Joe Biden and his son?

(Again, the answer sure seems to be a yes. Here's the testimony from EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland...)
3. Were those actions -- first the ask of interference, then the temporary withholding of military aid -- an abuse of the president's powers?

Here's the oath of office a president takes...
4. Do those actions amount to impeachable offenses?

The Constitution says the following offenses are impeachable: "treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors"
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Mark Murray
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AG Barr tells @PeteWilliamsNBC that the entire storyline of the Trump campaign and its links to Russia in 2016 is a "bogus narrative."

So let's revisit what happened in the final months of the 2016 campaign.
@PeteWilliamsNBC June 9, 2016: Donald Trump Jr. - along with Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort -- meets with Kremlin-connected lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

"If it's what you say, I love it," Trump Jr. wrote back about the promise of Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton nytimes.com/interactive/20…
@PeteWilliamsNBC July 27: Trump himself asks Russia for assistance in the 2016 election: "If you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."
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Mark Murray
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If you're overwhelmed by all the public hearings, transcripts and political back-and-forth in the impeachment inquiry, what's helpful is to revisit the evidence from the very start.

It tells a simple a story.

This morning's @MTPFirstRead: nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…
@MTPFirstRead Start with this NYT piece from May 9, 2019 nytimes.com/2019/05/09/us/…
@MTPFirstRead Next is this Giuliani tweet from June, which appears to put pressure on Ukraine's new president
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Mark Murray
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This Dem voter-vs-Dem operative/donor divide is fascinating.

But I also wouldn’t completely dismiss elite Dem opinion — many of their jobs are tied directly to winning races and uniting the party.

They’re not always right, but they have a clear stake in the outcome
And right now, they’re seeing a Top 4 field consisting of:

— a vulnerable Biden
— a stalling Warren and worries about M4A
— a Pete who might not have upside with diverse voters
— and a Bernie who just had a heart attack
Moreover, among this Top 4:

— all are white
— 3 are 70+, the other is 37
— 3 are from the East Coast/New England
— none has won a statewide general outside the East Coast/NE

The party also is more divided than ever by ideology and age.
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Tom von Alten
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Alrighty, then, my live #impeachment thread for you.

Let's start with the GOP's Rules guy.
"Hearsay"
Adam Schiff
Unfair
Don't actually rise to an impeachable offense
Shut down by the rules

Blah blah blah WE DO NOT HAVE, OR KNOW OF ANY EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE so
we're going to spend all day pettifogging.

NOT ENOUGH TIME!
If you can't stick around for the whole day, your shorter #impeachment:

1) The president abused his power for personal gain.
2) The president obstructed Congress' investigation of his abuse.
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Peter Daou
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TO: @senatemajldr
RE: #Impeachment

Do you recall this quote:

"Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness." - #MitchMcConnell
@senatemajldr “[Clinton] doesn’t have to say, ‘Go lie for me,’ to be a crime. You don’t have to say, ‘Let’s obstruct justice’ for it to be a crime. You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases.” - #LindseyGraham
@senatemajldr "The true tragedy in this case is the collapse of the President's moral authority ... there is the issue of the abuse of power and authority. This White House has perfected the art of stonewalling around the truth." - #ChuckGrassley
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Patrick Simpson
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IMPEACHMENT - A Brilliant and long article medium.com/@j363j/indictm…
1. Obstruction of Justice

Ordered McGahn to deny Trump’s attempt to fire Mueller
Asked Comey to “see your way to letting this go” for Flynn
Comey firing
Attempted Mueller firing
Attempted to influence Manafort jury

Thanks to @j363j for being awesome

#Impeachment
Trump lawyers' obstruction
Attempted to disable Special Counsel investigation
Tried to have investigation focus on future elections
Tried to have Sessions take over investigation
Failure to produce Russian sanctions report

#Impeachment
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Josh Wingrove
@josh_wingrove
President Trump spoke to reporters at the White House before leaving for Dayton and El Paso.

"I think my rhetoric it brings people together," he says, per @justinsink
"My critics are political people. They're trying to make points. In many cases they're running for president and very low in the polls," Trump said.
"They're trying to make political points, I don't think it works, I would like to stay out of the political fray," he says.
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Lindsey Boylan
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THE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT STANDARD

The GOP set its own #impeachment standard in 1998. Let's make things simple and apply it to Trump.

#MitchMcConnell:

"Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness."
#LindseyGraham:

“[The President] doesn’t have to say, ‘Go lie for me,’ to be a crime. You don’t have to say, ‘Let’s obstruct justice’ for it to be a crime. You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases.”
#MikePence:

"The President can incinerate the planet. Seriously, the very idea that we ought to have at or less than the same moral demands placed on the Chief Executive that we place on our next door neighbor is ludicrous and dangerous."
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Peter Daou
@peterdaou
DEM LEADERS

Here's how you do #impeachment:

Compile every statement by GOP lawmakers during Clinton's impeachment.

Call only Republicans to testify and confront them with their statements.

Make this a referendum on GOP values.

BE THE PARTY THAT DEFENDS THE RULE OF LAW
I'll start. This is @senatemajldr in 1999:

"Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he had the opportunity to choose the noble and honorable path. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness..."
Here's @LindseyGrahamSC:

“[Clinton] doesn’t have to say, ‘Go lie for me,’ to be a crime,” Graham said at the time. “You don’t have to say, ‘Let’s obstruct justice’ for it to be a crime. You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases.”

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