Giuliani's spin is fantastic. He argues that if the informant added nothing to the investigation that it's somehow exculpatory when it wouldn't be that at all.
Expect selective leaks from Nunes et al. Expect Trump's legal team to get all of it, too.
I no longer care. This is like asking (going for the Godwin) Nazis to police themselves.
Someone elsewhere asked me what Democrats should do differently about this and I'll post the TL;DR below-
"Show they exist in the matter. Chuck Schumer says "Naughty, we won't stand for this", then does. Adam Schiff is the only Dem on point on a regular basis and has become their talking head. Maxine calls for impeachment and everyone looks away, including the Dems.
Doing something of substance would be different and Trump has crossed the Rubicon as I said. Not ignorance, not stirring up disgusting elements, but in reality by forcing an existential threat to the Republic with his Nixonian abuse of power. He has demanded, that's the word, that he be allowed to interfere in an investigation in which he has an interest based on nothing but a statement for which there is no basis. That is an astound act, the enormity of which we have not seen in this investigation, the actual, material, a fundamental violation of the rule of law, and a serious and historical basis for an article of impeachment.
More than a day later from CNN
Trump's norm-breaking is leading to a constitutional fight
This is the response from Chuck Schumer on this non-hyperbolic Constitutional crisis per the article cited:
"That he would issue such an absurd and abusive demand based on no evidence shows just how little regard the President has for the rule of law," said Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer, of New York. "President Trump seems to have the terribly misguided view that the Department of Justice is there to protect his political interests and prosecute his enemies."
Well hells bells, that's been Chuck from day one and that is to be seen saying something, which is the summary of the Democrats actions with rare exception, the shaking of heads and prayers for our nation.
The Dems were responsible for hiding whatever wrongdoings happened during the Iraq War by not bothering to even fight for a comprehensive investigation, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without closure, moral cowardice.
"Well the Republicans could have called for it" or "we just want to heal wounds"- by not allowing that with those most impacted is reprehensible. "But Republicans"? We know what they were and are now and to go full Godwin expecting them to step up for wrongs perpetrated is like expecting the Nazis to have policed their ranks. It's utter nonsense.
What to do? The constituents shouldn't be playing apologists, they should be calling their leaders on their lack of inaction, treating this as at least as an important issue as school shootings and acting as forcefully about this heinous act of this Administration. Hell, Ollie North gets more play.
Get your top leaders in the public face. Call for an investigation of their own, write up articles of impeachment for non-trivial matters and present them to the public first and link them to Nixonian actions. Get every single friggin member of Congress together and speak in public with one voice. Filibuster, horse trade with the Republicans who aren't fans of all this and there are some work with them, but be seen and heard taking action as with looking into the Republicans such as Nunes to see if there's an impeachable offense and frigging go for their throat by every legal and proper means.
There's not even a united sense of outrage where there should be.
Democrats are utterly uninspiring and that may cost them the wins they once had in their pockets. "Look at us, we're not that bad" will do more than cost them, it will cost the nation and more I'm not sure they won't pull another Iraq War and proceed with reconciliation assuming they win.
What to do? Everything within the law! Stake your reputations, your political hay for the nation and not yourselves. That's what."
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