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Trump's attempt to extort performance from Ukraine this past July is part of a years-long story arc in which some characters show up repeatedly. In this dedicated thread let's tease out a character's role.

Reports say Nancy Pelosi is considering narrowly crafting impeachment to cover just the latest Ukrainian corruption. Leaving off Trump's abuse of the pardon power -- and continuing to let Presidents believe they can abuse the power with impunity -- would be a catastrophic failure.

We've known about this particular Oval Office conversation Trump had with Lavrov and Kislyak - but we didn't know there was a LOT more to this conversation.

Last year, Roger Stone threatened to sue emptywheel because I laid out Don McGahn's efforts to protect Roger Stone's rat-fucking. It turns out the government believes Stone lied about that topic to HPSCI, and his lawyers are trying to prevent that lie from being submitted at trial.

The memorialization Andrew McCabe made of opening the investigation into Donald Trump makes it clear he cared first and foremost about protecting America, not crimes. That has been lost in the ensuing 2.5 years.

Both Roger Stone and Donald Trump have spent the summer trying to sow disinformation about Crowdstrike.

Trump has committed a lot of impeachable offenses. He's profited from the presidency, put children in concentration camps (where some died), obstructed justice, various other things documented at length in the Mueller report, and a litany of…

It's time. There are only so many ways to say this. Refreshed whip list to come soon.

The press should use Trump's claim he was pushing Ukraine to invent dirt on Joe Biden to insist that he talk about his own corruption.

True ideas are useful tools.