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Hannity's spectacular meltdown at Mitt Romney over his demand to hear from Bolton shows how central disinformation is to the Cult of Trump. We're at the point where asking for facts outside the Trump disinfo bubble constitutes "Trump hatred." New piece: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Trump's whole defense -- that he only froze military aid to Ukraine out of concern over corruption -- rests on disinformation. If we don't concede to Trump the power to make lies into truths through sheer repetition, the entire superstructure collapses.

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Media accounts are not clearly conveying that a Senate vote against new witnesses is a vote to complete *Trump's* coverup.

It's a vote to *never* hear these witnesses. Trump is *explicitly* demanding that GOP Senators rig his trial to his specifications.

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BREAKING: Trump *directly* enlisted John Bolton in his efforts to pressure Ukraine, ordering him to call Zelensky and deliver Trump's corrupt demand, NYT reports.

This happened in May. This scrambles the known timeline, as @rgoodlaw notes.

nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/…
@rgoodlaw This is really important, from the new NYT scoop:

Pat Cipollone, who is leading the White House impeachment defense, is now directly implicated as a fact witness.

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@rgoodlaw Small correx: Trump ordered Bolton to call Zelensky and pressure him to work w/Giuliani on the scheme.

Key: This underscores how directly involved Trump was in running the whole plot and in coordinating Rudy's acts -- *and* in corruptly placing the government at its disposal.
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.@SenAlexander's craven surrender to Trump leaves our country exposed. He tells us our only mechanism of accountability is the election, while admitting Trump is guilty of trying to corrupt that election, and letting him skate without a full accounting.
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@SenAlexander Trump's stance isn't really that his conduct was justifiable. That's irrelevant to him. It's that he did nothing for which he should be held accountable.

With this validated, there's zero doubt he'll now wield the government against rivals in worse ways.

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@SenAlexander .@SenAlexander's position acknowledges Trump's corruption while helping to carry Trump's coverup of that corruption to completion. It's a betrayal. It leaves the country exposed and adrift, in the dark about what Trump is prepared to inflict on us.

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It's stunning that some folks are treating the idea that Senate Republicans were "blindsided" by the Bolton bombshell as a real argument. It's self-incriminating. What really "blindsided" them is that their cover-up for Trump has been upended. New piece: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
1) Trump's defense is that no one who has testified heard him link military aid to investigations

2) Trump won't allow testimony from the very people who discussed this matter directly with him

3) Thus, not hearing from them is a coverup *by definition*

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The notion that Senate Republicans were “blindsided” by Bolton’s revelations is a sick joke. They always knew what Bolton would tell us — which is *exactly why* they have opposed hearing his testimony so aggressively.

The coverup blew up in their faces.

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