Dear MoveOn member,

Over the last week, there's been an avalanche of damning evidence against
Donald Trump.

On the Rachel Maddow Show, Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas publicly
confirmed that Trump directly approved efforts to pressure Ukraine to
investigate the Bidens.^1

Maddow also exposed text messages suggesting that Trump's team had Marie
Yovanovitch, the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, under surveillance as
part of an effort to smear her and "get her out of the way."^2

And the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office concluded that the
Trump administration’s withholding of the aid to Ukraine violated the
law.^3

We need only four Republican senators to insist on a fair trial to break
through Mitch McConnell's stonewalling, and several are publicly wavering
in the face of all this new evidence. But we are running out of time to
stop McConnell from ramming through this rigged kangaroo court phony
trial.



Will you chip in $3 a week so we can keep the heat on Republicans to
demand that McConnell hold a REAL impeachment trial with witnesses and
evidence, make sure senators feel the intense pressure to uphold their
duty to the constitution, and fight until the very last vote is cast?
(MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your credit card once a month
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McConnell's handling of the Trump impeachment trial has been so appalling
that the ethics chief for former Republican President George H.W. Bush
declared Mitch McConnell a "perjurer" as a result of McConnell's public
admission that he would violate his oath to be an impartial juror in
Trump's impeachment trial.^4

To keep the pressure on, we're driving mobile billboards all over the
states of the Republican senators most likely to flip on McConnell,
holding high-visibility events outside their offices, generating thousands
of phone calls to their offices, and so much more.

But we have very little time now to actually get the trial we need. If
McConnell has his way, the entire impeachment trial could be over in the
blink of an eye without a single witness called. Not only would Trump get
away with his unbelievable abuses of power, it would set a precedent that
effectively ends impeachment as a meaningful check on the presidency.



Will you chip in $3 a week to help demand a fair impeachment trial in the
Senate and fight until the last vote is cast? (MoveOn will bill your
weekly donation to your credit card once a month starting today and will
contact you shortly after Trump is no longer president to see if you want
to modify or cancel your weekly donation.)

[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in weekly to help convict Trump and remove him from
office.

[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.



Let's remember what this is all about: The president of the United States
was caught trading U.S. national security interests to smear a political
opponent.

If not for the White House whistleblower and other government officials
stepping in, Trump was prepared to let Vladimir Putin continue his
invasion of Ukraine and destabilize the entire region—just to help smear
Joe Biden and win re-election.

Just imagine if Harry Truman had teamed up with the Soviet Union at the
height of the Cold War to help win re-election. Or if FDR had secretly
teamed up with the emperor of Japan to help Democrats win more seats in
Congress during World War II. That's what we're talking about here, and if
the Senate, after everything we've learned, turns a blind eye to these
crimes, our democracy will be forever damaged.

We're prepared to go all out for as long as it takes to get the fair trial
the American people deserve. Our democracy is at stake. Will you chip in
weekly to help save it? (MoveOn will bill your weekly donation to your
credit card once a month starting today and will contact you shortly after
Trump is no longer president to see if you want to modify or cancel your
weekly donation.)



[ [link removed] ]Yes, I'll chip in $3 a week to keep intense pressure on senators to
demand that McConnell hold a REAL impeachment trial with witnesses and
evidence and fight until the final vote is cast to convict Trump and
remove him from office.

[ [link removed] ]No, I'm sorry, I can't chip in weekly.



Thanks for all you do.

–David, Anne, Elsie, Chris, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Lev Parnas on Maddow: 'Everybody was in the loop,'" MSNBC, January 16,
2020
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2. Ibid.

3. "White House hold on Ukraine aid violated federal law, congressional
watchdog says," The Washington Post, January 16, 2020
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4. "Ex-White House Ethics Chief Calls McConnell A 'Perjurer' After Senator
Takes Impeachment Oath: He Said 'The Exact Opposite'," MSN, January 17,
2020
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