ICYMI: Trump had a bad day yesterday. Bill Taylor testified yesterday that there was not only a quid pro quo with Ukraine, it was the driving, overriding and paramount demand of the Trump administration. Trump demanded that Zelenskyy get up in front of cameras and announce an investigation into Biden AND the DNC server, and that military aid was being withheld for this and Ukraine knew that.
This blows up pretty much every talking point, including one post-testimony taking point. Trump tried to argue today that there could be no shakedown if the other side didn’t know that the aid was being withheld. Ignoring the fact that this is yet another open confession to this crime, (a) does it really matter if Ukraine didn’t know? You were still trying to crime them, and (2) they absolutely did know and there are multiple accounts to corroborate this.
The WH Press Secretary, whoever the fuck that is these days because they’re never seen/heard, tried to paint Taylor as some kind of aggrieved, activist, deep state diplomat. That’s about as credible as Trump’s tan. Taylor is a West Poibt graduate and Vietnam vet who was appointed Ambassador to Ukraine by Poppy Bush, had a distinguished career, retired and was later recalled to act as Ambassador to Ukraine again by...checks notes...Donald J. Trump.
Taylor added more detail around Giuliani’s “irregular” diplomatic channel that involved Rudy, Perry, Volker and Ron Johnson. Fuck the lot of them.
Speaking of Rudy, his goons are proving to be a rich vein of evidence of illegal money flowing from Putin-connected oligarchs to Rudy himself, Trump’s “America First” PAC (because the irony is strong with them) and various other drooling Trump proctologists such as Kevin McCarthy and Ron deSantis.
The shitnado of corruption swirling around Giuliani just itself is impressive in is scope, audacity, sloppiness and stupidity.