Mulvaney Confirms Trump Held Up Ukraine Aid Over DNC Server Conspiracy | Talking Points Memo

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And after this debacle, no one ever will.

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Not enough Far Left.

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Yes … We’ve clearly entered the “Of we did it. Everyone does it. It’s totally normal!” phase of the crimes.

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I get it, Mulvaney is trying to limit his personal exposure in this mess. He just thought he was indulging Trump’s silly conspiracy nonsense about 2016 and not assisting Trump and Giuliani in getting dirt on the Bidens.

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Sung to a Reggae beat.

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I see very little risk in the inevitable. Impeachment is guaranteed.

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Maybe McConnell will convince him to drive by his adoring crowds in Dealey Plaza in a convertible…

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I can just copy and paste “holy shit” as a comment to every day’s breaking news.

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Since I was born in Dallas…I can’t laugh at the dark time in the city’s history.

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I harp on this just about every day. The answer is deceptively simple, but it requires political will.

Barr was identified as a co-conspirator in the UKR shakedown by Trump in the call memo. Therefore, SDNY, which is running an investigation into Giuliani that touches upon one aspect of that UKR shakedown (the firing of Amb. Yovanovich), can publicly say that Barr must recuse. He has a conflict of interest.

In addition, Barr improperly closed down campaign finance law investigations into Trump. That was improper and should be up for review.

If I were SDNY, I would have someone initiate a recusal process of Barr, get something public out there so that he can’t sweep it under the rug, and simply stop taking his calls and tell the IG that they cannot share info with him. If the IG (Horowitz) is in the tank for Barr, act like the Sovereign District of NY and ignore him. Force Barr to fire folks. Cause a scandal and force his recusal.

AGs are not all powerful. They do get indicted. They are forced to resign. They are often bypassed and ignored. All it takes is a few folks of political will to push Barr around the way the State Department has neutered Pompeo.

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‘We do this all the time…’

Genuinely interested to see how Barr covers up this felony.

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Yeah - it’s just that the majority is definitely not buying this shit and that majority has been growing so his supporters are a small minority who do not matter to anyone but the stupid stupid stupid GOP.

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I hope it drags out too. The longer it drags out the more information about corruption we will find out. Death by a thousand cuts is fine with me.

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Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall

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Impeachment is 99%.

Resignation: 30%.

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I read that Bolton had refused to invite Sondland to join a meeting, so Mulvaney connected Sondland and Trump on telephone call later. I think Mulvaney is rightly scared.

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My apologies. The darkness of current times is getting to me.

ETA It was more of a comment on how McConnell probably wants to get rid of the asshole, pronto, but in a way that he could blame it on the left.

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It’s a good thing Mulvaney is only the Acting Chief of Staff.

Just think of the shitstorm he would have caused if he was the real Chief of Staff and had first-hand incriminating information.

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You’re right, AGs don’t often get impeached…but they have been thrown in prison in recent times. I would love for Barr to be Mitchelled.

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Confederacy Lickspittles promoted to a Confederacy of Evil and Lying Unpatriotic Monsters.