A few hours after confirming a quid pro quo between a conspiracy theory pursued by President Donald Trump and military aid allocated for Ukraine, White House chief of staff reversed himself.
Witness the rebirth of the “Modified Limited Hang Out” - this being the ‘modified’ part.
Look - they KNOW they’re caught dead to rights. They HAVE to get out ahead of the evidence, and piss all over the floor. Muddy the waters. Poison the well. Sorry, I’m running low on metaphors.
I’m ashamed to call myself a content creator, sitting here as I am without a pricey self-administered online tutorial to make available on why you shouldn’t blurt out confessions to the media, complete with practice examples and self-testing tools. Another damn MISSED OPPORTUNITY for which I can only blame myself.
Shouldn’t be mourning, should be anger. And I hope a thorough autopsy, quite convenient that one of the Chairmen investigating him dies suddenly during the middle of it, especially soon after that attempted break-in at his house this summer.
Regardless, the best way to celebrate his legacy will be to impeach and remove trump from office.
“To be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo, it is, funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happens as well?” Karl asked.
“We do that all the time with foreign policy,” Mulvaney said.
“concerns over corruption” – Every reporter needs to press every official on this: What corruption? It’s become another version of “I’m under audit”, a meaningless verbal tic that explains nothing. They are referring only to Trump’s fever dreams about 2016 election hacking. That’s fantasy, not corruption. Biden and the rest of the world went after Ukraine over actual corruption. This is not that, and the media needs to press Trump on it to make the truth obvious.