And Just Because Truth is STILL Getting Its Boots On

WaPo and many others have fact-checked this one about 50 times. Still false. And Crowdstrike isn’t even Ukrainian. As Dr. Hill said, this is a conspiracy theory promoted by Russian security services to sow division in the US and obscure Russian election interference. https://t.co/Jnko9jlIro

— Anne Rumsey Gearan (@agearan) November 22, 2019

While a lie is half-way around the world:

Crowdstrike is not a Ukrainian company. It's based in California. The DNC did not "give" "the server" to anyone, they had 140 servers, most of which were in the cloud. Crowdstrike imaged those servers and gave the data to the FBI.

None of what the president just said is true. https://t.co/iVXMDrC1NC

— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) November 22, 2019

The FBI says it got the forensic info it needed from CrowdStrike. Cybersecurity firms do not require the physical servers to conduct hack investigations. In summary, Trump is near-comprehensively inaccurate about all of this. But especially about CrowdStrike being Ukrainian.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 22, 2019

And it all sounds oddly like this:

"The Air Force is spraying the upper atmosphere with Diet Slice -- you know you can't even get that in stores anymore -- and they're doing it to turn the geese gay in order to reverse the whole climate change thing.

Yep. That's what the word is, anyway."

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) November 22, 2019

But worse, Trump is freely making admissions of guilt:

It’s literally an admission of guilt. https://t.co/dA0Zy4R0Q4

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) November 22, 2019

In this call, Trump links foreign aid to Ukraine directly to an investigation of the Crowdstrike conspiracy theory. He's basically openly admitting to doing what he's been accused of!

The Fox and Friends hosts seem to know, too. Watch their faces. https://t.co/foLHlrLZRc

— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) November 22, 2019

And it doesn't matter; which makes the answer to this question:  No.  Not, at least, when the President is a Republican.

The question is not whether Trump has committed impeachable crimes. He has.

The question is whether Republicans in Congress will affirm that an American president is not above the law.

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 22, 2019

Not even when the President is a crack-pot conspiracy monger; as long as he's Republican.