I don't think that dog is gonna hunt.NEWS - Robert Hyde reacts— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) January 15, 2020
He tells me tonight via text message:
“How low can liddle Adam Bull Schiff go. To take some texts my buddy’s and I wrote while we had a few drinks to some dweeb I met a few times.... Bull Schiff is a desperate turd.”
People, having read the totality of the texts between Parnas and Hyde at the instruction of Giuliani, it sounds at the bare minimum they were hiring people to harm Yovanovitch, if not kill her, for a price, in 3/2019.— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (@ECMcLaughlin) January 14, 2020
And there is a reference to the FSB.https://t.co/jMmrHvvj6R
As a former mafia prosecutor, this sure sounds like a mob hit was being planned on a public servant in a foreign country by associates of the POTUS. A POTUS who said she was “going to go through some things.” This takes Trump’s lawlessness & misogny to new level. https://t.co/Cx5S0u4vQP— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) January 15, 2020
the best defenses always start with "don't worry officer, I've been drinking" https://t.co/BkapTdg8XY— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 15, 2020
Having a few drinks while you are allegedly plotting injury or assassination of a US ambassador is not really the affirmative defense you were looking for. Maybe stop texting reporters and call a lawyer. https://t.co/cJAj9DT9uZ— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) January 15, 2020
And yet this remains true:Hyde and Parnas, and for that matter Rudy and Sondland, are in a way comical (if also thuggish) figures. But it’s worth remembering that from start to finish they’re executing a genuinely sinister plot. And it was Trump’s plot. It was, at the end of the day, Trump’s drug deal.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 15, 2020
Making them give a Damn is up to voters in November.Shorter: Hume says Republicans know he’s a criminal and don’t give a damn. https://t.co/7PUQUV7Rbu— Michael Freeman (@michaelpfreeman) January 15, 2020
If the alleged journalists don't give a damn, as I believe so many of them don't, that should mandate a product warning announcement, if not that certainly loss of a broadcasting license. I know Hume is on cable but I long ago realized the cabloids were a lot more dangerous to democracy than the broadcast outlets which were dangerous enough.
ReplyDeleteI think Hume is right. It's deeply cynical, but then McConnell wants to ban cameras and recording equipment from the Senate trial. The real danger to democracy is there. The real danger to democracy is the desire for power that blanks everything.
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