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It's crazy enough that Bill Barr treats George Papadopoulos' hoaxes seriously. It's crazier still that those hoaxes derive not from Papadopoulos' first hand knowledge, but from what he read, often in propaganda sites. Craziest of all, even George Papadopoulos tells us not to believe the main source for one of those hoaxes.

Republicans surely will continue to excuse Trump's efforts to demand election assistance from foreign countries. But given the way Trump both defied Congress' stated will and kept them in the dark about doing so, Republicans are utterly emasculating the prerogatives of Congress to do so. 

This is what impeachment is about: Trump is considering hurting farmers and manufacturers and helping make an adversary (admittedly the one who helped him get elected the last time), all in an effort to coerce help from foreign leaders. 

Sidney Powell managed to reinflated a long debunked conspiracy theory because of DOJ's asymmetry about how they publicize the results of their investigations.

The weekend before he appointed Robert Mueller, two people in DOJ sent Rod Rosenstein Bill Barr's op-ed promising that Jim Comey's firing would not have any effect on the Russian investigation.

On July 10, 2019, Jason Klitenic, General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ruled that the President alone has authority over the granting of security clearances. Then, on September 13, he agreed with OLC that the President is not a member of the Intelligence Community.

A key part of the whistleblower allegation is that Trump abused the classification system to try to hide his crime. It turns out that DOJ did the same thing.

They key point of the NYT story revealing Courtney Simmons Elwood's role in the cover-up of the Ukraine whistleblower complaint is not that the whistleblower worked at CIA, but that she -- CIA's General Counsel -- took steps that allowed for the possibility of a cover-up.

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.