Thread by @EarlOfEnough

🗞️BLOCKBUSTER REPORTING FROM OUR #FreePress🗞️

"A senior budget official, told Pentagon officials that Trump had become personally interested in the Ukraine aid and had ordered the hold."

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#RemoveTrump #MondayMotivation

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…

🗞️SOURCE:

A treasure trove of heavily redacted emails, obtained by the "Center for Public Integrity" in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

publicintegrity.org/national-secur…

#HowJournalismIsDone

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🗞️"An official from the White House budget office directed the Defense Department to “hold off” on sending military aid to Ukraine less than two hours after President Trump’s controversial phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky."

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🗞️"This directly undermines the justification Trump’s defenders have so often offered for holding up aid: that it was not to coerce Ukraine into helping Trump’s reelection campaign but merely a product of Trump’s passionate commitment to fighting corruption (stop laughing)."

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🗞️"If that were true, the White House would have wanted to make sure that every relevant official in the government was informed about the suspension of aid and why it was being undertaken. The White House might even have wanted to talk about it publicly."

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🗞️"INSTEAD, THE WHITE HOUSE TREATED THE SUSPENSION OF AID AS A SECRET SO DANGEROUS THAT IF IT WERE DISCOVERED IT WOULD BE A DISASTER."

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🗞️"So officials in the Pentagon couldn’t figure out what was going on, and many of them feared that since the aid had been appropriated by Congress, withholding it was against the law. Why were they kept in the dark?"

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🗞️"Because of the way those close to Trump treated what he was doing on Ukraine. They acted as though the president was up to something so problematic that it had to be kept secret even from other officials in the government, let alone Congress or the public."

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🗞️"These new emails will make it even more difficult for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to justify staging the kind of Senate trial he and the White House would obviously prefer: one as brief as possible, with no witnesses."

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🗞️Look, public opinion is with @SpeakerPelosi and anybody else interested in the truth in America:

☑️Americans support Trump's removal, 51%-42%
☑️Support calling additional witnesses, 54%-27%

morningconsult.com/wp-content/upl…

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🗞️So here's what you need to do right now and EVERY DAY (yeah, yeah, I know it's the holidays):

CALL YOUR SENATORS: [phone]

Tell them you demand a fair trial. If they refuse? Ask them what they are hiding.

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🗞️Here's what else you can do:

SUPPORT OUR #FreePress

There's a reason Trump refers to them as "the enemy of the people."

The truth terrifies this serial-lying no-good huckster. And the truth has NEVER been more important.

#ConvictAndRemoveTrump #TrumpLiesMatter

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