Now that impeachment proceedings have officially begun thanks to the whistleblower reporting Trump’s conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky (you can read the report here; it’s only nine pages and definitely something you want to see with your own eyes), that panicked skittering you hear is the noise of rats abandoning the sinking ship that is the GOP. Sinking … because of all the leaks. See what I did there?
Anyway, a lot of shit has happened in the past week, most of it since the report was released to the public Thursday, September 26, 2019. That’s three days ago. THREE DAYS. That’s insane even by 2019 standards. Anyway, here’s an overview of what I remember/know about from just the past few days, with links.
The FBI released all their files on Roy Cohn, Trump’s original fixer and the guy who taught him how to do that mafia shit. I don’t know if that was intended to be a message to Trump, but it’s interesting timing.
Earlier this week someone caught former AG Jefferson Beauregard Sessions and future former felon and Trump in-law Jared Kushner skulking around the Senate.
Trump met with NRA Jackass Wayne LaPierre but it was definitely probably not (wink, wink) to ask if the NRA would fund his impeachment defense. LaPierre definitely probably did not (wink, wink) say they would if Trump would “stop the games” with gun control.
Speaking of the NRA, Senate investigations showed that in December 2015 when NRA leadership went to Moscow, that was an official trip to start a relationship with them. In other words, the NRA is a Russian asset.
It came out that that fucking traitor Julian Assange did have secret meetings with Manafort at the Ecuadorian embassy. (Gah, I can’t find the link now, but I don’t think I imagined it as I do everything possible to never, EVER think about Assange unless absolutely required. <shudder>)
The FEC clarified that yes, foreign interference is bad. But the DOJ (read: that squidgy rotten potato Attorney General William Barr) secretly cleared Trump of any wrongdoing in the matter anyway; what’s a little quid pro quo election interference between friendly countries? Oh, and by the way, a GOP member of the FEC tried to prevent that decision from being made public.
Oh it also came out that Trump told the Russians after the election when they had that closed door meeting in the Oval Office that it was okay that the Russians interfered in our election because the US does that to other countries.
Also it came out that he’s talked to China to try to get dirt on Hunter Biden. I guess because don’t put all your treason eggs in one treason basket.
Barr snuck out of the country to go to Italy on “official business.” Scuttlebutt is that Secretary of State Pompeo is there as well. Also Steve “Baron Harkonnen” Bannon. And Jarvanka. And some Russian oligarchs.
The White House has been hiding the records of communications with Putin and Saudi Arabia in a server meant for classified information only, just like they did with the Ukraine conversation.
The House has subpoenaed Pompeo and called for five depositions from the State Department.
The Army official in charge of communications at Mar-a-Lago got caught uploading child porn to a Russian server, opening himself up to blackmail. He got 3 years probation and is still in the Army. No jail. No discharge.
Oh. And. Ambassador Kurt Volker resigned after it was discovered that he may have facilitated the Ukraine fuckery. This after Grandpa Skeletor Rudy Giuliani got spooked into reading his giant iPad texts on TV by, apparently, the suggestion by Kamala Harris that he be disbarred. Essentially he was trying to cover his own ass. He should probably just have followed her advice instead: “Rudy Giuliani really ought to stop talking and get a lawyer because, I mean, he is incriminating himself.”
I think that’s it but I’m probably forgetting something. I don’t know whether to hope that next week is calm or that the monkeys fling more poo. Jeebus.
