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JUNE 18: PENTAGON certifies Ukraine has met all anti-corruption benchmarks and is cleared to get aid.

JUNE 19: Trump orders Mulvaney to stop aid to Ukraine, because.... it's "corrupt." Meanwhile, his lawyer is shaking down Ukraine for Trump's personal gain.

There's your case.
PS/ The full, *unabridged* story of the Ukraine scandal is almost unbearably complex—but at its *core* is so readily reducible to the tweet I just tweeted that I'll absolutely blow my top if anyone goes on TV and says the case against Trump is too complicated for folks to follow.
SOURCE 1/ Regarding June 18: washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
SOURCE 2/ Regarding June 19: nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/…
SOURCE 3/ By May 7, Ukraine knew—from Giuliani's legitimately insane public appearances on Fox News and elsewhere—what Trump actually wanted. See below.

So, three sources: THE WASHINGTON POST; THE NEW YORK TIMES; THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

There's your case. apnews.com/139dd535eac749…
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Seth Abramson
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Quite the block party going on today.

I'm not going to apologize for having been an author for 20 years. I'm not going to apologize for having written a well-researched/sourced book on Iran. I'm not going to apologize for telling folks this book is informative reading right now.
Second point: I don't know why many—but not all—Iran policy experts spent the last few years telling us Trump was a dove on Iran. That's not what my research uncovered. So I'm not going to say experts who were wrong were right just because they have full-time jobs in think tanks.
Third point: I welcome disagreement—from people who've read PROOF OF CONSPIRACY—with the 4,000+ sources therein. Good luck contradicting 4,000+ sources constituting the world's top investigative journalism. But those who say folks shouldn't read up on Iran now—no respect for you.
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Seth Abramson
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CORRECTION: Polititweet incorrectly cut off (and completely) the tweet Eric Trump was quote-tweeting—which revelation dramatically increases the odds he was inaptly referring to a security detail as "whoop-ass" and deleted his tweet for some unknown but possibly innocuous reason.
PS/ Pursuant to this correction, I've deleted two tweets, but kept up all threads discussing possible reasons for the deletion of Eric Trump's tweet and his apparent—deleted—reference to an offensive force projection 48 hours before the historic assassination of a foreign leader.
PS2/ Corrections—as appropriate—are the right thing to do. I hope folks realize this is in *contrast* to taking the *piss* out of people who properly issue corrections—as that's *precisely* the thing that has long *encouraged* journalists *not* to give corrections as they should.
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Seth Abramson
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I agree and disagree with Dale.

I haven't yet seen anyone say we *know* what Trump's tweet was about, though many note it implies an *offensive* force projection, rather than the purely protective mission Dale is refering to. How is providing security for an embassy "whoop-ass"?
Mind you, @ddale8 *could* be correct that Eric Trump was erroneously referring to a security detail as opening a can of whoop-ass. Just so, the language of the tweet and the fact it was hurriedly axed *could* suggest it referred to an *offensive* operation, like an assassination.
@ddale8 What I disagree with is Dale implying that we *know* which of these two possibilities is true, or even which is more plausible. I'd argue that the language of the tweet and its sudden deletion suggests what Dale calls a "conspiracy" is actually the more plausible of two options.
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She's the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia

Mostly she talked about the withholding of aid to Ukraine.
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So are you sick of this fake Ukraine whistleblower story yet?

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