Yesterday’s big news was the closed-door Congressional testimony of Bill Taylor, the ambassador to Ukraine who tangled with Gordon Sondland over Trump’s extortion of that country. Democrats said his testimony was the most damaging yet to the Trump criminal enterprise. Here’s a rundown of what was in Taylor’s 15-page opening statement from Digby.
Remember when Mayor Pete was in favor of Medicare for All? That was before the health-care industry started donating to his campaign, which now rakes in more from that industry than any Democrat in the race except for (naturally) Joe Biden. That leads to the inevitable conclusion that Buttigieg is just a smooth-talking corporate tool.
This one’s a couple of weeks old, but it’s valuable for tracing AG William Barr’s obeisance to a criminal conspiracy that’s been running much longer than the Trump Organization, namely the Catholic Church and its stormtrooper service, Opus Dei. Should the Constitution be in the business of protecting criminal enterprises masquerading as religions? Apparently it is.
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