Parnas' Lawyer just sent a 3page letter to McConnell the testimony. Damn!

[nolabear]

Link to tweet

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Hear that whoosing sound?

That was McConnell's plausible deniability flying out the window. He knows what Parnas knows, and now we know that McTurtle knows.

[crickets]

5. +1

[olegramps]

9. None of that matters since the Republicans control the Senate.

They have de facto declared the president to have the absolute authority and not subject to accountability. He has the power of a dictator and not subject to the rule of law. Its the end of what the Founding Fathers fought and died for. The scumbag filthy
Republicans have won their fifty year battle with a totally warped bizarre interpretation of the Second Article of the Constitution. If Trump succeeds in being reelected or even if they Republicans must wait until another election, if they are elected they have been given the power to totally decimate the checks and balances system and create their utopian government of plutocrats.

[lunatica]

13. Individually though, Republicans have something to fear from

Americans. The House can start an investigation on each of them.

[lagomorph777]

21. Only for one more year.

Then they're well and truly fucked.

[mucifer]

38. Only if the elections are secure

[lunatica]

12. I thought that sounds was a lot of sphincsters slamming shut.

[lagomorph777]

22. I think I heard a couple of them blowing open and spewing.

Cipollone, for one, looked very sick after Schiff ripped him a new one.

[magicarpet]

31. Notice how Suckulow came to the podium (but no Cipollone) to defend the idea of no more....

..... witnesses or documents. Then that senate should quickly go right to a vote to deny the need for additional documents or witnesses - even though new facts not yet known keep coming to be revealed daily and hourly.

But the head legal councilor Cipollone never came to the podium and basically hid under the large wooden table. Cipollone knows his ass is on fire because he did not reveal to the court that he was a witness of fact and was an active participant in the extortion/cover up scheme against Ukraine/USA.

Just to be a bastard Schumer should have Roberts declare the case a mistrial because Cipollone should never have been at the White House defense table during the senate impeachment trial or been involved during the entire House impeachment hearings process. Start from scratch with a new senate impeachment trial. While Cipollone is in jail awaiting a hearing why he deceived the effort to find a fair and just resolution to this matter.

They should be shot by firing squad. Fuck with justice, fuck with elections, fuck with Democracy, fuck with court proceedings.... here is a hollow point bullet for your brain.

Boy these Fascist clowns would think twice before pulling this Nazi crap.

[lagomorph777]

42. Mistrial and Cipollone in jail.

Ah, we could have these things if we didn't live in a shithole country.

We have to vote out every last Russiapublican and send hordes of them to jail.

[sandensea]

41. Must've been quite the inconvenience for Lindsey

[Pachamama]

2. OMFG....

Get thee to the greatest page....

[walker59]

3. I have this image in my head

... of a giant boot entering the atmosphere from orbit and heading right for Mitch's ass.

[SergeStorms]

10. That "giant boot's" name is.....

Amy McGrath. I'll push myself to the verge of personal bankruptcy in order to get her elected. Oh, I live in New York state.

[jmbar2]

11. She's the only monthly donation I make

And I live in Oregon

[c_junk]

19. I live in Oregon too...

I've given to a couple of Presidential candidates, and to the re-election campaign of my Congressman, Defazio. They're all people who I'd like to be a constituent of. When McGrath announced I sent her a donation, simply because she was running against McConnell. She's one of two out-of-state candidates I've given money to, it's time to get rid of the turtle and get an eagle...

[SergeStorms]

26. Good for you!

I donate monthly for one other, in New York state. I fully expect I'll meet the donation limit with Ms. McGrath well before November. I guess I could get others to donate for me, but I dislike anyone who games the system. RepubliCAN'TS never play fair though....

[BadgerMom]

29. I live in New Mexico and in California.

Mark Kelly is gonna be my monthly. But McGrath May make the cut as well.

[SergeStorms]

33. Do whatever your conscience tells you....

and your bank account can absorb. That's my philosophy this year, and I know I'm going to over-extend myself somewhat, but the situation demands it. I'm at an age where my mortality is catching up with me. I can't take it with me, and when I look at my grandchildren I realize there might not be a future for them in this country without some sacrifice on my, and many other's, parts.

Do what you can. That may not be monetarily, but there are hundreds of ways to help elect Democrats. Don't leave anything on the table and wish you'd done more. Just my two cents.

[BadgerMom]

34. Totally agree.

I set up monthly for both of them today. The amounts are small, but I hope to increase them as the year goes on. Right now I’m giving to a few of our presidential candidates, Ben Ray Lujan for Senate and Valerie Plame. I’ll give more once we have a presidential candidate selected.

And work? Absolutely. We have a lot to do. I think my decisions will be easier once the primaries begin.

Happy campaigns to us all!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

4. KR NT

[ecstatic]

6. They're ALL in on it, that's why the GOP cannot allow witnesses

It's not just trump's neck on the line. They're all corrupt traitors.

[lagomorph777]

23. The GOP are all witnesses. We know specifically about Portman, Gym Jerkin, Cipollone,

and others. I am sure many, many others are directly in on the plot.

[lastlib]

7. McTurdle: -- "Yawwwwwnnnnnnn..."--...

(wads up letter, looks at wastebasket--he shoots! --SCOOOOORRRES!) What letter? What testimony?

This is what I imagine went on in McTurdles office when that letter arrived... --- ---

Remember, he doesn't want the truth--Putin doesn't pay him for truth.

[Dem2theMax]

15. I think you just found the perfect quote.

'Putin doesn't pay THEM for the truth.'

Should be plastered everywhere in the United States of America.

[BSdetect]

8. Barr is involved in treason

[DallasNE]

17. Barr Just Named A Business Associate

As DA for DC. Now he can go after whomever he wants.

[RGTIndy]

14. I have known Joe Bondy for a long time

We started practicing law at about the same time. He used to work for Robert Fogelnest, who, while maybe not a household name, is one of the preeminent criminal defense lawyers of the last 50 years. I'll be honest, when I first heard that he was presenting Lev my first thought was "Oh no, I can't believe a guy I have that much respect for got sucked into the Giuliani, John Dowd, Joe DiGenova cesspool" But I happened to see him in December, just as this all started, and after talking to him I was confident that he was going to at least try to take these fuckers on. And he certainly has.

[Midnight Writer]

16. Damnit! I was praying Sean Hannity would make the list.

[Roy Rolling]

18. Don't Give Up Hope

He's so smarmy he doesn't even get top billing. I'm sure Hannity in there where Bondy mentioned "and others".

[Moostache]

20. All of this is OBVIOUS stuff...

Lindsey Graham getting the vapors all of a sudden and becoming Trump's personal chode polisher?
Nunes running around constantly doing the most profoundly stupid and self-incriminating nonsense?
No testimony from Perry, or Pompeo, or Giuliani, or Barr?
Barr's interference and killing Mueller?
Trump's obvious and stupid lies? ("Honestly, I don't even know...<insert lackey here>...you have to talk to them.&quot
McCarthy's "jokes" about who was being paid off in closed door, assumed "safe" setting?

Russia?
Putin?
Erdogan?
Kim?
Bibi?

It is all inter-woven and all obviously corrupt and against our national interest.
And they do not care.
At all.
About any of it.

Is Trump guilty of abuse of power? Do bears shit in the woods?
Is Trump guilty of obstruction of Congress? Yes, but only 1/2 of the Congress because the GOP bitches are getting PAID...

It is the biggest corruption scheme in the history of the Republic...cooked up by a career con-man and his idiotic enablers in the red fucking hats and angry middle finger wagging.

Turn out the lights, the republic's over.
Get ready to fight, because lack of resistance is capitulation and being a "Good German" is no excuse, its about as effective as "I was just following orders..."

Trump WILL launch nuclear weapons in October this year, that is a given on the current glide path...there is also no path to being free of him short of his eventual death. Who is going to stop him? How? He already is on record asking why not?...the answer is clearly now, "well, you choose Trumpy Bear...why not?"

Beat him at the ballot box?
Not a "legitimate" election...

Bring him up on additional impeachment charges for obstruction of justice (not congress)?
DOA under Moscow Mitch and the Night Riders...

Accountability?
Dead.

Truth?
Gone.

Republic?
History.

[RGTIndy]

24. Don't forget the NRA

They have been laundering massive amounts of Russian money into Republican campaigns for a decade.

[Amaryllis]

25. Dontcha love seeing Nunes and Graham in that list?

[Rhiannon12866]

27. Twitter reply :

Link to tweet

[SpankMe]

28. Is this real?

This is devastating for the Orange Goblin - or, it should be. Parnas was a Trumper and now he's saying these things? Damn!

[Skittles]

32. Parnas fears for his life

he figures the more he talks, the less likely those fascist fucks will be to try to harm him

[UCmeNdc]

30. They were all involved!

[we can do it]

35. Good morning kick.

[Scarsdale]

36. Send copies to John Roberts, too.

McConnell will ignore this, he got his way. The gop is so far gone, there is no returning to a normal government while they remain in office. Traitors for what?

[nolabear]

37. Parnas did an interview on MSNBC last night. No mention of it.

Ari Melber talked to him about this by phone at length with Bondy sitting there. I didn’t see a single mention anywhere. Have we just given up?

[Duppers]

39. Hope Parnas has enough body guards.

And stays in secure places and has multiple duplicates of his records.

I fear for him.

(We know Epstein did not commit suicide.)

[Under The Radar]

40. Wasted ink sending the letter to Moscow Mitch

Why would a letter make any difference if the constitution and rule of law is as worthless to him as paper towels.