Explosive new revelations just weakened Trump's impeachment defenses

[Zorro]

If Mitch McConnell is going to pull off his scheme to turn President Trump’s impeachment trial into a quick and painless sham with no witnesses, the Senate majority leader needs the story to be covered as a conventional Washington standoff — one that portrays both sides as maneuvering for advantage in an equivalently political manner.

But extraordinary new revelations in the New York Times about Trump’s corrupt freezing of military aid to Ukraine will — or should — make this much harder to get away with.

McConnell badly needs the media’s both-sidesing instincts to hold firm against the brute facts of the situation. If Republicans bear the brunt of media pressure to explain why they don’t want to hear from witnesses, that risks highlighting their true rationale: They adamantly fear new revelations precisely because they know Trump is guilty — and that this corrupt scheme is almost certainly much worse than we can currently surmise.

That possibility is underscored by the Times report, a chronology of Trump’s decision to withhold aid to a vulnerable ally under assault while he and his henchmen extorted Ukraine into carrying out his corrupt designs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/30/explosive-new-revelations-just-weakened-trumps-impeachment-defenses/

[SWBTATTReg]

1. and rump was going to clean out the swamp...instead, he bought it full fledged and installed the...

swamp into the WH (and with his cronies' help). RICO them all! Charge them w/ obstruction of Congress, do something! This is disgusting.

[11 Bravo]

7. Trump came to town to BATHE in the swamp, not drain it.

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Yeah, really. It certainly seems this way, doesn't it? rump is such a hypocrite...take care, nt

[certainot]

17. he's the kind of guy who'd get in and take a mouthful of that and spit it out to watch the stream

[Traildogbob]

10. No swamp.

A swamp is a naturally occurring ecosystem, (God made) in full balance where all the components work in unison to provide and benefit each other, and the world around it. What the GOP is, is a man made sewage drainage line full of turds and runny feces, all independent, smelly, biohazardous and now, with "roots" (GOP, Russia, cash) clogging the line, spewing onto the surface with full exposure, and destroying all that it spills onto. Washington stinks and needs a massive sucking up and should be identified as the hazardous waste site that it is. One massive orange blob of shit is sticking it all together. Why 15 flushes are necessary, the shit is full.

[KPN]

11. Right. It is a cesspool, not a swamp.

[ck4829]

25. True

[PatrickforO]

12. RICO Law!

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[ck4829]

20. It really is quite disgusting

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. He branded it the Donald J. Trump Swamp.

[DENVERPOPS]

9. No water

Just pure pond scum, reeking of swamp gas....24_7_365 x 3 years and counting
I am surprised that the hydrogen sulfide and sulphuric dioxide hasn’t killed us all...

[ck4829]

24. Yes

[madinmaryland]

26. Filled with racists, rogues, and billionaires.

[Sogo]

3. The article is behind

a pay wall.

[eggplant]

16. Incognito mode in your browser should solve that problem.

[certainot]

18. hows that?

[eggplant]

19. washingtonpost.com uses cookies to manage its paywall

You are allowed a certain number of "free" articles per month. Your browser keeps track of this using "cookies". Private/Incognito/Anonymous browsing is something you can access from your web browser (different browsers call it different names, but it is essentially the same thing). It creates a new browser tab or window that does NOT save any new cookies, nor allows access to previously saved cookies.

So, to washingtonpost.com, your new browser window/tab appears like a brand new person accessing their site for the first time, which means you get a new batch of "free" articles each time.

It is not a perfect system, and other sites manage their paywalls differently. Some detect Private mode and refuse to display any content, for example. This article can help explain it further.

https://www.howtogeek.com/117776/htg-explains-how-private-browsing-works-and-why-it-doesnt-offer-complete-privacy/

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Pelosi is hammering a big wedge in where Moscow Mitch said he'd coordinate with the WH. . . . nt

[gab13by13]

5. Chuck Schumer needs to be hammering it too,

as do all of the Democratic Senators. Maybe we will hear from Kirsten Gillebrand? Dang I miss Al Franken right now.

[ck4829]

23. Very true

[ancianita]

6. And more need to keep coming to let the people see the real case that the Senate tries to ignore. nt

[calimary]

13. This one's a keeper for sure!

[czarjak]

14. Cheating is as natural as breathing for The Stupid Party.

[live love laugh]

15. They can count on the both-sideism from the Republican owned media. nt

[ck4829]

22. Yep

[ck4829]

21. K&R