The stage was set.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had received an ultimatum from the Trump administration. He was negotiating to sit for an interview with CNN host Fareed Zakaria. And Zelensky was prepared to do it: The President of Ukraine would go on international television and announce investigations into President Donald Trump’s domestic political opponent.
Damn … that whistle blower really fucked things up.
We may never really be able to appreciate the service the whistleblower did for democracy.
Saved by the proverbial hair. Makes my stomach roll over thinking how close it all was.
Nicely set out timeline of events. Good job @mattshuham.
Meddling kids!
And with that relations between Ukraine’s president and the USA are destroyed as they now know the USA is more corrupt then their previous government. Thanks GOP
Dodged an orange bullet there, Zelensky…
Barely…
I appreciate TPM’s efforts to put together coherent timelines that pull the actors and actions together to show the nefarious deeds led by our criminal president. They’re about the best I’ve read.
O/T but more winning
At this point, do we still even need the whistleblower? Everything the WB alleged has now been verified by numerous credible witnesses who were far closer to the phone call.
Seems kinda superfluous now…
Eat shit, Bevin.
Maybe we can get Hank Azaria to play him in the inevitable biopic.
Now we need Devin to follow suit. And his cow, too.
You may have missed Lindsey’s latest rant, where he said that:
So there’s that.
This is wild. Ufb.
But if it becomes public knowledge we can probably find half a dozen people to intimate illicit behavior that can be used to discredit them.
Yes, and others played their part early on, as well.
Including ICIG Michael Atkinson and Rep. Adam Schiff, who should both be remembered for it.
And then, of course, other witnesses came forward.
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
Winston Churchill
The real patriots
Country before Party
" they didn’t need to do the interview.”
At least until the next application of pressure from the seedy US president.
That release was to try to keep the WB report from being released, by reclassifying it as not urgent, thus not requiring notification to Congress.
Trump screwed himself by releasing the perfect transcript. We wouldn’t be in an impeachment inquiry, we’d be fighting in court to even get the stuff.