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Damning new details uncovered by NYT about Trump's freezing of Ukraine aid render a sham trial so indefensible that even the media's both-sidesing can't obscure what's happening.

Also: What if Rs run a sham trial, and big revelations blow up later?

New:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
It's plausible we learn more about Trump's freezing of aid by March. That's when a judge may rule on @publicintegrity's effort to compel OMB to reverse its blacking out of much of the documents it has turned over.

Do Rs want this, after a sham trial?

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@publicintegrity Key context on NYT's damning account of Trump's freezing of aid:

Many of the officials now deeply implicated in this scheme are the *same ones* Trump/McConnell don't want to testify.

That should be glaring enough to break through media's both-sidesing:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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Greg Sargent
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Trump just positively drew attention to that fraud @HawleyMO's plan to introduce a motion dismissing his trial even before it starts. I'm so old I remember when Trump was pretending he wanted a trial, because it would exonerate him. My new piece: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@HawleyMO A question:

If Trump froze the aid for defensible purposes, and if Biden was really guilty of what Trump claims, why wouldn't he and McConnell *want* a trial with witnesses on *both* sides?

Wait, I know. Because Trump is guilty, and Biden is innocent:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@HawleyMO Now that Trump and @HawleyMO are apparently hoping the Senate votes on a motion to dismiss Trump's trial before it starts, it will be interesting to see what @SenatorCollins, @SenThomTillis, @CoryGardner, and @SenMcSallyAZ think of this idea:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Prediction:

If no witnesses testify, Trump will say this is fair retribution, because his demand for the Bidens to testify hasn't been met, either.

He's banking on the media failing to convey the absurdity of this. Which explains our current mess.

New:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
There's an awful irony at the core of Trump's disinformation campaign against the Bidens.

Joe Biden *actually did* combat corruption in Ukraine.

By contrast, Trump used his fake concern about Ukrainian corruption to carry out *his own* corrupt designs:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Here's one way this ends:

Not hearing from witnesses with direct knowledge of Trump’s corrupt extortion scheme will be placed on a plane of equivalence with not hearing from the Bidens.

It’s all just Washington tit for tat!

The media is hackable.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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Greg Sargent
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Great piece by @jayrosen_nyu lambasting the media for being so slow to acknowledge the right's full-throttle use of sheer *disinformation,* and media figures' inability (or unwillingness?) to fully adapt to the deep asymmetries it has produced:

pressthink.org/2019/12/the-ch…
@jayrosen_nyu As @jayrosen_nyu says, this has been clear for years, but certain media figures resolutely pretended not to understand it, because it created professional complications.

Here's my thread (including a book chapter!) from exactly a year ago on this topic:

@jayrosen_nyu One more point.

We *already know* how Trump and the right weaponize disinformation. We *already know* it involves bad-faith efforts to get the "MSM" to launder it for them.

They have *told us* how this works. There's no excuse for not adapting to it:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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