If you haven’t heard, our president and his Republican defenders are taking criminal defense notes from a cartoon. The Washington Post just published an article by a former writer for The Simpsons laying out how Republicans in the House are using the Sideshow Bob defense -- “Convicted of a crime I didn’t even commit. Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?” -- to defend this president’s inexcusable actions.
“How can Trump be guilty if he only attempted to extort a foreign country to investigate a political rival?” the Republican Party continues to ask.
It seems they haven’t picked up on the idea that attempted extortion is still illegal -- and their protestations that the aid was released on September 11th doesn’t carry a lot of water when House Dems announced the investigation into Trump and Giuliani’s actions regarding Ukraine on September 9th and asked for a copy of the whistleblower complaint on September 10th.
At ASPIRE, we are fighting to break through the disinformation spread by the Republicans and Trump, and we have one important question for you:
Are Republicans lying to America?
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