Former
National Security Advisor to Donald J. tRUMP is about to publish a
book in which he details the machinations of Caesar Disgustus as he
attempted to extort the Ukrainian government using federal funds. In
an article written by Jon Ward and Michael Isikoff and published by
Yahoo News, (1) leaked
details from the about-to-be published manuscript give lie the
president's*(I)(2) defense team's claim that there is no first hand
account of any such iniquity.
“One
Republican operative who advises the White House said he was
“flabbergasted at how stupidly they have handled this.”
Trump
attorney Mike Purpura argued Saturday that “not a single witness
testified that the president himself said that there was any
connection between any investigations and security assistance, a
presidential meeting or anything else.”
Purpura
repeated that claim on Monday afternoon, saying that “anyone who
spoke to the president” said there was no pressure campaign on
Ukraine.
That
assertion echoes what the president’s legal team argued in its
legal brief filed a week ago:
“House Democrats’ claims are built entirely on speculation from
witnesses who had no direct knowledge about anything and who never
even spoke to the President about this matter.”
The
disclosure in the New York Times Sunday night directly contradicts
the arguments of the president’s lawyers, who said in their brief
that this is “the central fact in this case.” Bolton,
Trump’s former security adviser, has written in his forthcoming
memoir about having just such a conversation with the president last
August.
“This
just completely washes away Purpura’s whole argument,” the White
House adviser said. “WTF. He misled the Senate.” (2)
The
manuscript was submitted to the White House for security clearance
nearly a month ago, just prior to the New Year. The White House
defense team should have been aware of its contents, details that
would surely emerge if not before the Senate would render a verdict,
then certainly shortly thereafter, a revelation that would then
display to the world just how badly Moscow Mitch and his cohorts
would have been conned.
This
revelation comes on the heels of appearances by Lev Parnas, the Boris
Badenov of this Rocky and Bullwinkle saga who told Rachel Madow on
MSNBC and CNN that as Rudy Giuliani's bagman he was charged with the
task of delivering the demands of the White House to the Ukrainian
government. He told Maddow and others that not only was the 391
million dollars in military aid at risk but all
of the U.S. Assistance as well as our alliance with the Ukraine.
Caesar Disgustus was
about to hang Kiev out to dry.
Parnas
too, is not only a first-person witness, but the prime operative on
the ground. He told Maddow that Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo were
both, as Ambassador Sonland had testified, in the loop and, with
Secretary Perry, delivering similar messages to Kiev. Indeed,
Parnas' bona fides were
established with the Ukrainians when Mike Pense cancelled his trip to
Kiev to attend the inauguration of the new government. Ukraine
understood well before the infamous phone call that relations with
Washington were capricious and arbitrary.
As
we begin the week the Senate is staring down the barrel of whether or
not to call witnesses. Both Bolton and Parnas have offered to
testify. Both have first-person experience that will confirm prior
testimonies. Both stand ready to implicate others and the testimony
of both will create overwhelming demand to hear from Pompeo, Perry,
Pence, Giuliani and others.
Will
the Senate Republicans act or will they simply inhale the stench and
sheepishly look about as if they don't know the source, or will they
throw the miscreant from the temple and flog his ass? That's the
question facing the republic.
An'
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh
Convict
and imprison.
_________
2.
The *, as noted previously denotes the illegitimate ascendancy and,
hence, the nature of this administration. “I” in parentheses,
denotes the scarlet letter of impeachment.
3.
Op. Cit.
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