One of my coworkers saw a kid walking in a downpour, stopped to talk to him, and ended up giving him a ride to the local Trump Jr. book signing. Said he thought something was a little off, ended up looking up the kid’s public FB profile. Turns out he had been posting for the last 3-4 hours about how Trump is the devil and he and his family must be stopped by any means necessary. Cue some rather frantic calls and an afternoon lost to explaining what happened to the Alphabet Soup agencies.
Don’t be naive, kids. Where on my car do you see the word “taxi”? Dial you up an Uber, home skillet.
Today, the House Intelligence Committee released a report titled “The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Report,” which can be found via the links below. Note that the House received, via subpoena from AT&T and Verizon, call records of Giuliani and Lev Parnas, who is under indictment. Some of these conversations were with Devin Nunes, the leading Republican on the Intelligence Committee, who of course disclosed none of this despite having ample opportunity to do so before.
Anyway, here’s the first paragraph…
“The impeachment inquiry into Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States, uncovered a months-long effort by President Trump to use the powers of his office to solicit foreign interference on his behalf in the 2020 election. As described in this executive summary and the report that follows, President Trump’s scheme subverted U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine and undermined our national security in favor of two politically motivated investigations that would help his presidential reelection campaign. The President demanded that the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, publicly announce investigations into a political rival that he apparently feared the most, former Vice President Joe Biden, and into a discredited theory that it was Ukraine, not Russia, that interfered in the 2016 presidential election. To compel the Ukrainian President to do his political bidding, President Trump conditioned two official acts on the public announcement of the investigations: a coveted White House visit and critical U.S. military assistance Ukraine needed to fight its Russian adversary.”