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am_Unition  ·  1651 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 2 Giuliani Associates Arrested on Campaign Finance Charges - The New York Times

No but wait! It just keeps getting better.

Most of the articles on this have been updated to report that Rudy had lunch with these guys yesterday, hours before they were arrested.

And it just came out that Rudy had intended to fly to Vienna tonight. But... not to meet them.? He claims. Omg do you think Rudy's been lying about something??

Make no mistake, they're bringing these guys in for campaign finance law violation, but that's almost 100% a premise for getting them to squeal on Rudy/Trump's bullshit. And after Marie Yovanovitch is done with her House Committee(s) hearing tomorrow, oh boy, they're going to have a lot of squealing to do. I'm not gonna elaborate (for once), because we're all adults, and you can go Google if you want.

This thread of the impeachment inquiry, with these Ukrainian-American "businessmen", is going to be more nails in the Trump coffin than the GOP will know what to do with. They've all been so busy chasing conspiracy theories that this (a thing called "reality") is taking them by surprise, and they can't coordinate messaging whatsoever.

I love this. I love this all so much. Thank you, reality.





kleinbl00  ·  1651 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Apparently they donated $2700 to Kevin McCarthy's reelection campaign.

cgod  ·  1651 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They donated to several other Republican lawmakers.

am_Unition  ·  1651 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And he made a statement an hour or two ago saying that he’d be returning the money.

That interview of ol’ Kev I linked to a couple weeks ago captured the moment he found out that the word “favor” was in the Zelensky transcript. Classic.