Dear John,
"President Trump knew exactly what was going on."
"Mr. Barr had to have known everything."
"[Devin Nunes was] involved in getting all this stuff on Biden."
"Everybody was in the loop."
Those are the words of Lev Parnas, a Rudy Giuliani associate who sat down for an explosive interview with Rachel Maddow last night.
His revelations made Watergate look like child’s play.
He directly implicated Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Attorney General William Barr, John Bolton, and ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes in the scheme to coerce Ukrainian President Zelensky to announce investigations into Joe Biden in exchange for the release of $400 million in military aid — which the Government Accountability Office today ruled was illegal.
How are Republican senators reacting to the news?
- Martha McSally of Arizona called a reporter a "liberal hack" and refused to answer questions
- John Coryn of Texas maintained that the GAO’s legal ruling "doesn’t change anything"
- Joni Ernst of Iowa blamed Democrats: "They were in such a hurry that they didn’t get all this information? What the heck, OK?"
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell still hasn’t committed to holding a fair trial with witnesses and this relevant new evidence. What the heck, indeed.
Republican Senators, faced with damning new revelations against their Dear Leader and a multitude of high-ranking government officials, are sticking their heads in the sand. They’re determined to shirk their constitutional duties and cover up one of the biggest scandals in modern political history.
Today these senators took their oath to be impartial jurors in a trial they have already rigged.
We need to make sure they don’t get off easy.
Buckle up,
Robert Reich
Inequality Media
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