Maybe, instead of faking a heart attack, Trump really wants to be impeached? That way he can keep his grievance score at 100%, and hope to parlay that into enough money when he’s thrown out to keep him out of jail on all of those state charges?

Remember that Seinfeld where George has sex with the cleaning woman, and when his boss confronts him, his bullshit response is “Should I not have done that? Is that sort of thing frowned upon. Because I gotta say, at my old job we did that sort of thing all the time.” Essentially the WH is adopting that strategy…

Think about this:

We’re doing it again. Because you can think a couple steps ahead, you assume that the Trump administration can too. (narrator voice: They can’t)

Any bets on who the whistle blower is?

Literally everything since Trump announced his candidacy in the summer of 2015 has been historic. Not good, but definitely of interest to future scholars. 

This feels like history is being made right now. 

Holy shit. They knew better than to erase and destroy the call and transcript, but they thought they could store it on a national security database to keep it secret. Or something. Jesus. Giuliani is fucked. Also, MULTIPLE officials were concerned. Multiple.

Heard this bizarre report of a potential strategy by Pelosi to rush into an impeachment vote against Trump on only one count: The Ukraine thing!

Pffffft. It’s just locker room talk, snowflakes!

Ah, so they’ve already jumped to word two of their standard playbook for when events cause their planned campaign reboots to jump the rails. I’m sure they’ve got someone on the “Well yeah, he said it, but you only found out about it because of people that we don’t like” word one of their prepared script.

Fox defense... word’s don’t mean what you think they mean!

Trump is a traitor, Moscow Mitch and the republicans are traitors and Fox loves treason.

I was wondering what could possibly have gotten the Republicans on board with releasing the IG’s report, but it seems clear now: they are hoping to pull a Barr Report thing.

He thinks he’s innocent because in his mind, he never said “investigate Biden’s son or you’re not getting aid.” This is pretty on brand with Trump; he’s never explicit in what he says, but the people around him know exactly what he means. Then they get to go and do the dirty work for him. So if Guiliani or Barr end up…

Three points.

Laura Ingraham compared her to Stephen King’s Children of the Corn

Yep. See also: men think recycling makes you gay.

That didn’t happen.

The thing that Pelosi’s never seemed to understand was Trump was not going to stop committing impeachable offenses. She apparently thought the Mueller investigation would either result in a clear enough case for impeachment that it would dramatically shift public opinion, or that it wouldn’t and then the issue would…