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Faced with the prospect of Bolton testifying to a direct quid pro quo, the new defense is: It’s totally fine as long as he didn’t demand investigations of *all* of his political opponents!
Actually, presidents are *required* to extort foreign countries for political dirt!
Actually, the way to find the truth isn’t to have witnesses come and testify under oath, it’s to have Trump’s Fox News bootlickers yell at them for an hour! (Ok, this one they may actually believe.)
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Trump's lawyers asserted yesterday that the president could conduct *any* quid pro quo with a foreign country to get himself reelected.
"The only reason you make that argument is because you know your client is guilty and dead to rights. That is an argument made of desperation."
It takes a lot for a president's assertion of absolute power to be worse than Nixon's, but that is where we are, with defenses on the Senate floor that amount to "the normalization of lawlessness"—as long as the president is the one doing it.
"They compounded the dangerous argument they made that no quid pro quo is too much, and they compounded it by saying if what you want is targeting your rival, it's even more legitimate. And that way, madness lies."
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Trump's legal team is now arguing that it's totally ok for the president to criminally conspire with a foreign government for assistance in a presidential campaign.
"We have witnessed over the course of the last few days and the long day today, a remarkable lowering of the bar, to the point now where everything is okay, as long as the president believes it's in his reelection interest."
"They can dress it up and find legalese, but corruption is still corruption."
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Dershowitz, who argued today the president can't be impeached for a quid pro quo he believes is in the national interest—even if only because it'll help his reelection—now says the House is making *itself* above the law by trying to hold Trump accountable.
cnn.com/2020/01/29/opi…
Dershowitz just argued that Biden running for president *justifies* Trump extorting Ukraine to produce dirt on him.
In other words: We've reached the phase where Trump's defenders are now arguing that him soliciting foreign dirt is actually *a good thing.*
.@RepAdamSchiff: "An investigation of Joe Biden doesn't somehow become legitimate because he's running for president unless you view your interests as synonymous with the nation's interests."
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1. This will be a thread of Republican members of Congress who defended Trump by saying there was not a quid pro quo but now say Bolton's claim that Trump told him there was a quid pro quo is irrelevant
2. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX):

12/23: "No quid pro quo... The Democratic grounds for ousting President Trump are weak"

1/27: Bolton's claim is "nothing different than what we’ve already heard"
3. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX):

1/15: Quid pro quo allegations were "hearsay... people who had no direct evidence, witnesses who'd never even met President Trump"

1/27: On Bolton: "It doesn’t change the underlying facts"
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I have to put my live-thread on hold. Bolton just confirmed the damn quid pro quo—and says it came directly from a conversation with Trump. This (if America were a real country, if this were a real investigation, if we were in the middle of a real trial) would be THE smoking gun.
NEW YORK TIMES: "Secretary of State Pompeo acknowledged privately that there was no basis to claims by the president’s lawyer Rudolph Giuliani that the ambassador to Ukraine was corrupt and believed Mr. Giuliani may have been acting on behalf of other clients, Mr. Bolton wrote."
NEW YORK TIMES: "Trump told Bolton in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the former adviser."
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And we're off.

Note Schiff calls this the 7th hearing which leaves open possibility of more hearings.
It'd be awesome if Hill dropped the deets on Trump's contacts with Putin.

But she's too professional for that, sadly.
Bolton viewed Rudy as a "hand grenade," Schiff reminds.
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