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The Latest on the Impeachment of President Donald Trump: Let the Bad Takes Begin

September 27, 2019

I am hoping that today, the impeachment news cycle will not turn over 17 times, as it has the last couple of days, because I got some fall television I need to cover. It seems, perhaps, that now the dust is settling a little, that Friday will be bad take day. To wit:

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The Times is on a roll with bad takes:

Meanwhile, how has a man this incredibly dumb managed to remain President for 3 years.

The stupidity is staggering, and it is infectious. See, e.g., Rudy Giuliani:

For those who may be having some difficulty parsing the stupidity of Rudy Giuliani, what he's doing -- and what he's been trying to do the last couple of days -- is shift blame for his illegal activities to Mike Pompeo and the State Department, but he's too dumb to understand that he -- a personal attorney for the President -- should never have been taking orders from the State Department in the first place. So, instead of shifting blame, he's mostly just dragging the State Department down with him. It's not surprising in this Administration. Pompeo has been shit-talking Giuliani behind the scenes, and Giuliani has turned his criminal activities into a pissing match within the Administration.

The best thing to ever happen to Chris Christie was not getting hired by the Trump Administration.

Meanwhile, after Trump released the transcript of his call with Ukranian President Zelensky -- and it's become evident now that there was likely a lot in the call left out of the "transcript" (for instance, we know the phone call was 30 minutes long, but that transcript doesn't read like a phone call that took 30 minutes) -- other countries, specifically Putin's Russia, are really hoping that Trump doesn't release transcripts of their phone calls, which is a weird way to call attention to those phone calls. What's in those calls? Pelosi thinks that the Russians are probably involved in this, too. I don't doubt it.

Here's Pelosi, too:

Exactly.

Elsewhere, I doubt this is true, but ...


... it does track with Vanity Fair's reporting:


Anyway, the news cycle is probably gonna get real weird in the coming days, as think piece and op-ed writers (like David Brooks) take what we already know and beat it so thoroughly that no one is gonna want to hear about it anymore. That's to Trump's advantage. So, ignore the deflection, obfuscation, and other distractions.

This is a very easy explained scandal:

Donald Trump along with his personal attorney, the Attorney General, and probably the State Department, lobbied the President of a foreign country to investigate a political opponent for personal political gain, and then they tried to cover it up. At the end of the day, that's all you need to remember. And not even Republicans in the Senate are denying this version of events; their only arguments are that it doesn't rise to the level of impeachment worthy offense (it does), or that the whistleblower was politically motivated (which doesn't matter).

We will continue to update this post throughout the day, as necessary.

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