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President's lawyers are retreating - with Mike Lee giving them top cover - back to the "it's just a policy difference" argument. Lee knows better: The President had an *official* policy to help UKR and then an extortion scheme that was *directly contrary* to official policy. /1
The "career civil servants" @SenMikeLee is criticizingwere trying to execute the *stated* policy, and they were reporting and exposing the illegal scheme Trump and his goons were running under the blankets. They were doing their duty, in other words. /2
The President has the right to set policy. He does not have the right to set up an illegal extortion scheme *under* his stated policy, and then start firing people when they find out about it and do their legal and constitutional duty to report it. We used to know this stuff. /3x
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