Thursday, January 30, 2020

A nationally urgent matter was held up in the US House because of the corrupt pubic statements by Moscow Mitch. Obviously, Moscow Mitch sees no danger to the USA through this entire time.

JANUARY 30, 2020
Senate Impeachment Trial, Day 10

Trump's lawyers are misleading the US Senate.

December 12, 2019
By Manu Raju and Phil Mattingly

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (click here) and President Donald Trump's top lawyer sketched out a plan Thursday to coordinate closely for an impeachment trial but haven't reached agreement on a final strategy to defend Trump against charges of high crimes and misdemeanors, according to two sources familiar with the conversation.

The closed-door meeting Thursday between the Kentucky Republican and White House counsel Pat Cipollone occurred as Senate Republicans and the White House have diverged on what they would like to see take place in the looming trial in the chamber. Trump has made clear he wants witnesses to testify, in person, while senators -- including McConnell in private -- have warned that going down that path could lead to a politically precarious slippery slope in the GOP effort to acquit the President.

"We are having a lot of good conversations with Senate Republicans," Eric Ueland, the White House director of legislative affairs, told reporters as he departed the meeting with Cipollone. "We will continue to do that here over the next few days and weeks as we work through all these issues and priorities the President has outlined when it comes to where we should go on these articles."...

Trump already agreed to witnesses. The US Constitution does not demand citizens not give up their rights. Americans can assert their rights under the Fifth Amendment.

The Fifth Amendment (click here) to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that an individual cannot be compelled by the government to provide incriminating information about herself – the so-called “right to remain silent.”  When an individual “takes the Fifth,” she invokes that right and refuses to answer questions or provide information that might incriminate her.

H.Res.660 (click here) - Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, and for other purposes.

House Rules of 116th Congress (click here)

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It is strange to see my journalism (click here) twisted, perverted, and turned into lies and poisonous propaganda by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and their enablers. But that’s what has happened to a news story I wrote four years ago.

In 2015, I wrote a story for the New York Times about Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Ukraine. Many observers now seem to think this suddenly hot story came out of nowhere this year, but that is not true.

The truth behind that story has been lost in a swamp of right-wing opposition research, White House lies, and bizarre follow-up stories. Now it appears that the Biden-Ukraine story will play a role in a new impeachment inquiry against Trump, amid evidence that he sought to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by withholding U.S. aid unless Zelensky agreed to investigate the Bidens....

...In December 2015 I was an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the Times. That month, I published a story reporting that Vice President Joe Biden had just traveled to Ukraine, in part to send a message to the Ukrainian government that it needed to crack down on corruption.

But I also wrote that his anti-corruption message might be undermined by the association of his son Hunter with one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings, and with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky. Zlochevsky had been Ukraine’s ecology minister under former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a pro-Russian leader who had been forced into exile in Russia.

Hunter Biden had joined the board of Burisma in April 2014, the same month that British officials froze Zlochevsky’s London bank accounts containing $23 million. Britain’s Serious Fraud Office, an independent government agency, was conducting a money-laundering investigation and refused to allow Zlochevsky or Burisma Holdings, the company’s chief legal officer, and another company owned by Zlochevsky access to the accounts....

Turley was the only one of the four witnesses to state the US House should wait for more records before filing. He never objected to the filing and even stated there would be more chance it would be successful if the US House would wait.

During the House Judiciary Committee's (click here) first impeachment hearing into President Trump, Professor Jonathan Turley of George Washington University Law School stated he feels that the evidence presented is "wafer-thin" compared to other impeachment proceedings in the past.

December 4, 2019

Jonathan Turley, (click here) a George Washington University law professor, is expected to caution House lawmakers against impeaching President Donald Trump based on the evidence they currently have at their disposal.
“Will a slipshod impeachment make us less mad or will it only give an invitation for the madness to follow in every future administration?” Turley will say, according to his prepared opening statement obtained by the PBS NewsHour.
“This is not how an American president should be impeached,” he will add....

Turley's Opening Statement (click here)

§30121. Contributions and donations by foreign nationals (click here)

(a) Prohibition

It shall be unlawful for-

(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make-

(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;

(B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or

(C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or

(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national.


Philbin is speaking in half-truths. Trump released A PORTION of the aid after the whistleblower's report became evident.

The Northern Triad is also a highly contentious issue SINCE THE MIGRATIONS STARTED AFTER TRUMP HELD AID TO THE THREE COUNTRIES. However, Guatemala was hit the heaviest and that is where the majority of the migrants have come from. 

So, Philbin is misrepresenting the ISSUES with Trump holding up monies to the Northern Triad. It could be said the refusal of aid to the Northern Triad CAUSED the border wall so called emergency and shifting monies out from the military housing fund.

December 13, 2019
By Phillip Bump

...Over the past three months, (click here) though, we’ve learned a lot more about how fraught those visits can be. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly made clear his desire for a meeting at the White House, a visit that would solidify his position as Ukraine’s new leader and demonstrate the United States’ ongoing support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. And yet it was continually out of reach, held hostage, according to witnesses who testified in the impeachment inquiry targeting President Trump, until Ukraine agreed to launch investigations that would politically benefit Trump himself.

While Zelensky and his aides wrestled with Trump’s team to try to get a visit confirmed, leader after leader walked through the White House for a grip-and-grin. Strong allies of the United States, such as Canada and Australia. More dubious leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. And, the salt in the wound, Russia’s foreign minister, even as the House finalized articles of impeachment....

Speaker Pelosi was very cautious about impeaching Donald John Trump, even after the Whistleblower's complaint. Speaker Pelosi decided to move forward with the impeachment inquiry that lead to the Articles of Impeachment because the evidence was so overwhelming.

October 15, 2019
By John Bresnahan, Heather Caygle and Sarah Ferris

...Trump, White House officials and Republicans on Capitol Hill (click here) have seized on the absence of such a vote as an unacceptable break with House precedent and have vowed to resist what they describe as an illegitimate probe.

But Democrats defended their current impeachment process, which has multiple House committees interviewing witnesses in private and gathering evidence related to allegations that Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, pressured Ukrainian officials to begin an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son — potentially at the risk of losing U.S. military aid.

"There's no requirement that we have a vote, and at this time, we will not have a vote," Pelosi told reporters Tuesday evening.

"We're not here to call bluffs. We're here to find the truth, to uphold the Constitution of the United States," Pelosi added. "This is not a game for us, this is deadly serious."

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters, “The processes that are being pursued are consistent with the Constitution and the law, and by the way, Republican rules.”

Yet Pelosi and other top Democrats couldn't come to an agreement among themselves during internal discussions on Tuesday over whether to move forward with the vote, which would mark an escalation of their impeachment battle with Trump. Vulnerable House Democrats from swing districts were also largely opposed, with some lawmakers fearing that the American public would confuse a vote authorizing an impeachment inquiry as actually impeaching Trump....

I find it interesting that the Trump lawyers arguments align with Shokin. The Trump lawyers have absolutely no sense of what threatens the USA national security. They should not be providing talking points to Putin and Shokin. Trump's lawyers observations about conversations by Ukrainian to the New York Times or otherwise is irrelevant. THE UKRINAIANS ARE COMPROMISED AND WILL NOT SAY ANYTHING TO RUFFLE TRUMP'S FEATHERS.

Standing USA policies are not the issue at hand. That is an excuse for aid to Ukraine being held SO IT WOULD EXPIRE (click here) and not be available for military funding. Every person that testified about the aid stated they were feeling pressed to have the Trump remove the hold. This is not a minor issue and a matter of a few days here or there. Witness after witness stated the release was important and they were pressing for that release.

New findings:

January 30, 2020
By Josh Dawsey and Rosalind S. Helderman

Ten days before Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman (click here) dined with President Trump at his Washington hotel, they were part of a small group of Republican Party donors who met with the president at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida estate, a new recording shows.

The two men — who later assisted Rudolph W. Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine — were part of a gathering held in an ornate room of the property and also attended by Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, according to the video and people in attendance.

While it was known that Fruman and Parnas had attended an event at Mar-a-Lago, the focus of the event, the timing and who else was in attendance had not been made public.

The April 2018 meeting came days before the two men took part in a donor dinner with the president at his Washington hotel, an encounter captured on a video released last week by Parnas’s attorney....

Voters should decide the elections, however, Former Special Counsel proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Russia interfered in the 2016 election even at the invitation by Trump. The question is about whether or not the people will be able to make a decision in 2020 at all and why risk the chance Trump will receive another manipulated election win. That doesn't even begin to address Trump's lawlessness to remove him from office. The longer the lawlessness goes on, the worst it gets.

The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA) (click here) reasserted Congress’ power of the purse. Specifically, Title X of the Act – “Impoundment Control” – established procedures to prevent the President and other government officials from unilaterally substituting their own funding decisions for those of the Congress. The Act also created the House and Senate Budget Committees and the Congressional Budget Office.

The then majority Republican House members with a Trump Executive Branch wrote to the GAO about withholding monies beyond their expiration date. 



December 10, 2018

Subject: Impoundment Control Act—Withholding of Funds through Their Date ofExpiration (click here)

...As discussed below, we conclude that the ICA does not permit the withholding of funds through their date of expiration. The statutory text and legislative history of the ICA, Supreme Court case law, and the overarching constitutional framework of the legislative and executive powers provide no basis to interpret the ICA as a mechanism by which the President may unilaterally abridge the enacted period of availability of a fixed-period appropriation. The Constitution vests in Congress the power of the purse, and Congress did not cede this important power through the ICA. Instead, the terms of the ICA are strictly limited. The ICA permits only the temporary withholding of budget authority and provides that unless Congress rescinds the amounts at issue, they must be made available for obligation. The President cannot rely on the authority in the ICA to withhold amounts from obligation, while simultaneously disregarding the ICA’s limitations....

GAO Page (click here)

The most any president can withhold funding authorized by Congress is 45 days WITH NOTICE PROVIDED TO BOTH THE US HOUSE AND SENATE FOR THE propose OF rescission of specific funds.

Where is the notification of Congress regarding the rescission of the Ukraine funding? 

REGARDLESS

The timeline states that Trump secretly held the Ukraine funding for at least 10 weeks far exceeding 45 days. Trump wanted to end funding as far back as December 10, 2018 with the assistance of two members of Congress. The president is mentioned in the answer by the GAO. The original letter by the Congressmen are not at this cite.

Timeline (click here)

A look at key dates involving the nearly $400 million in military assistance that had been approved for release in the early months of 2019:

July 3

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a national security official working at the White House, becomes aware that the military aid has been held up. He testified that he received a notice from the State Department. “That’s when I was concretely made aware of the fact there was a hold placed,” he said in testimony to lawmakers....

...September 11

The funds are suddenly released. Senate Republicans said that happened in part because Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, threatened to block $5 billion in Pentagon spending for 2020 if the aid wasn’t given to Ukraine. They said the aid was held up while Trump looked into whether Zelenskiy was serious about fighting corruption. Taylor and other diplomats involved in Ukraine were not given a reason for the aid being released.

Donald J. Trump broke the law and in an obvious and troubling way. Just because the DOJ won't indict doesn't mean it didn't happen.

The US Senate cannot deny the US House facts are correct and must be acted on to remove a criminal president. Trump is completely untrustworthy. THERE IS LEGAL ADVICE GIVEN BEFORE THE SECRET WITHHOLDING OF FUNDING FROM UKRAINE. 

THERE EXISTED A LEGAL FINDING BY THE GAO BEFORE TRUMP WITHHELD THE FUNDING SECRETLY.

TRUMP KNEW THE LEGAL IMPACT OF THE IMPOUNDMENT ACT BEFORE HE SECRETLY WITHHELD THE FUNDING FOR UKRAINE IN CONFLICT WITH RUSSIA.

I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO DISCUSS. THIS IMPEACHMENT IS ABOUT HIS ACTIONS AGAINST UKRAINE AND HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE!
Shokin is still doing Putin's bidding and is now a threat to the USA's national security in cooperating with Russia's agenda for Ukraine.

Trump is Skokin's best game ball, too.

Shokin should be facing charges himself for intimidating Sakvarelidze.

This is the "Kyiv Post." It is read by Ukrainians (in Ukrainian) and it is a propaganda piece about the Former Vice President and how Shokin lost his job. Shokin is now attempting to bring doubt on the current freely elected government in firing him at all since the Biden family is now under scrutiny in the USA. The entire circumstances regarding the security of the USA is being challenged by Putin's puppet.

WHAT US SENATORS ARE GOING TO STOP THIS DISASTER FROM CONTINUING, BOTH FOR UKRAINE AND THE USA? WHILE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BEING GASLIGHTED BY TRUMP AND HIS COHORTS, UKRAINE'S GOVERNMENT IS BEING ATTACKED BY RUSSIA THROUGH THIS PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN. THE WORLD DIDN'T STOP SPINNING BECAUSE TRUMP IS IMPEACHED!


January 29, 2020

Ukrainian ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin (click here) has demanded that the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) open criminal proceedings against former U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden for “illegal influence on him as the prosecutor general of Ukraine.”

“I ask you to register a criminal offense against me in the Unified Register of Pretrial Investigations by a U.S. citizen, Joseph Biden, which happened on the territory of Ukraine and abroad, namely, interference with the activities of a law enforcement officer, the responsibility for which is provided for in Part 2 of Article 343 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code. Immediately start a pretrial investigation and give written instructions to SBI investigators,” Shokin said in a statement to the acting SBI director delivered by Shokin’s lawyers.

Shokin said he agreed to resign as prosecutor general of Ukraine due to Biden pressure.

“During the last months of 2015 and the first of 2016, Joseph Biden, using his official position, personally paid official visits to Ukraine several times with the aim of holding negotiations with the state leaders on my removal from my post. As a result, he curtailed an objective investigation criminal proceedings on the facts of unlawful activities of persons associated with the company Burisma Holdings Limited (Cyprus), including the son of the specified high-ranking official,” Shokin said....
October 3, 2019
By James Politi and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington, Michael Peel in Brussels, and Roman Olearchyk in Kiev

...EU diplomats (click here) working on Ukraine at the time have, however, told the FT that they were looking for ways to persuade Kiev to remove Mr Shokin well before Mr Biden entered the picture. The push for Mr Shokin’s removal was part of an international effort to bolster Ukraine’s institutions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the armed conflict in the eastern part of the country. 

“All of us were really pushing [former Ukrainian president Petro] Poroshenko that he needs to do something, because the prosecutor was not following any of the corruption issues. He was really bad news,” said an EU diplomat involved in the discussions. “It was Biden who finally came in [and triggered it]. Biden was the most vocal, as the US usually is. But we were all literally complaining about the prosecutor.”

Mr Shokin had been appointed prosecutor-general of Ukraine in February 2015, but the discussions in Washington and EU capitals about pushing for his removal started as early as April after he failed to follow through on a burst of expected early anti-corruption moves, one former US Treasury official said. Mr Biden entered the fray in December 2015, placing Mr Shokin’s removal at the top of his agenda on a visit to Kiev. “I know how the idea to have Shokin fired came up, and it wasn't Biden. His direct involvement came late in the game,” the former US Treasury official said....

The new government in Keyv was being blackmailed by their general prosecutor. Basically, Shokin was doing Putin's work to make the new power structure disappear by false accusations.

When a country's government paradigm changes from Russia to Europe, the Old Guard prepares to leave. Shokin was hanging on because he was successful in discrediting the current government with false allegations. When Vice President Biden made his statement about monies for Ukraine, Shokin no longer had the power to end the new government in favor of Russian control.

...The witness, (click here) a sand producer in the Kiev region, complained of men extorting hundreds of thousands of dollars. It took a while to persuade the man to give evidence. But when he did, and the investigation began, the trail led to two of the country’s highest-placed prosecutors.

A search of the men’s apartments revealed a scene that looked like a comic heist: bags full of cash, diamonds and other precious stones. (FLUID GET AWAY ASSETS) But that was not the only incriminating evidence. Documents seized at the time indicated the men appeared to have a connection to the top prosecutor in the land, Viktor Shokin.

Police found copies of Shokin’s passports, property registration certificates and even his licence to carry firearms. (Shokin's ability to leave the country of Ukraine, probably headed for Russia) One of the two men, it transpired, was Shokin’s former driver who had subsequently climbed the ranks behind his boss.

For Sakvarelidze, there were clear suspicions the two men may have been carrying out the business of the chief. But his attempts to investigate were frustrated. Soon, he faced a corruption investigation himself. At loggerheads with Shokin, he was pushed out of his job within the year.... 

HOW MANY TIMES does anyone have to prove that DONALD JOHN TRUMP IS A HABITUAL LIAR USING THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES?

Everyone other than Trump and his sworn supporters are the Deep State.

Why is Trump coining the "Deep State" for a political win? They have been investigating "Trump Management Company" from 1972 (click here)

Files (click here) The copy of the lease stating "No Dogs Allowed" is number 08 of 08.

Trump hates the FBI and the US Justice Department because they always win their investigations and he loses.

Amanda Carpenter is a CNN contributor, former communications director for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and speechwriter for Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).

January 30, 2020
By Amanda Carter

...The memo in question (click here) is one written by the staff of Republican Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes—the same Nunes who recused himself from the Russia investigation last year among allegations that “he made unauthorized disclosures of classified information.” Now, Nunes is at it again. This time with a four-page classified memo that, if you believe what those who have read it say, shows an Obama-era FBI rife with corruption and engaging in eye-popping abuses of power. The details of what the memo says have been kept private, because they are classified. But that hasn’t stopped Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill and beyond from crowing about the allegedly shocking memo since mid-January, demanding it be released to the public and spawning a viral hashtag, now used by everyone from Donald Trump Jr. to Sean Hannity and Julian Assange. After the House voted on Monday to do so, House Speaker Paul Ryan made a statement in favor of the decision. Now, the matter is in the president’s hands....

From hotels to casinos to his university and non-profits all he has is legal problems because HE LIES AND BREAKS THE RULES. 

November 8, 2019
By Michael Collins, Dennis Wagner and Kevin McCoy

Washington -  A New York judge’s ruling that (click here) President Donald Trump must pay $2 million to charity appears to be the final chapter in the saga of Trump’s troubled charitable foundation.
State Supreme Court Justice Saliann Scarpulla of Manhattan ruled on Thursday that Trump pay $2 million in damages to various nonprofit groups to settle allegations that he and his family used the Trump Foundation to further his political and business interests.
Though Trump admitted the misconduct in court documents, he issued a defiant statement in which he accused New York’s attorney general of mischaracterizing the settlement process for political purposes. Trump claimed he had been attacked by “political hacks in New York State.”
Here’s a closer look at the ruling and the foundation’s legal troubles:...

Trump understands "quid pro quo' all too well.

November 13, 2019
By Robert W. Wood

There is plenty of talk these days (click here) about whether there was a quid pro quo concerning the President’s interactions with Ukraine. As the hearings and testimony unfold, could the IRS care about this too? The IRS’s concern isn’t about politics, of course, but surprisingly, the concept of a quid pro quo comes up regularly in the tax law. In fact, the same basic concept is there. What’s more, the practical way in which the IRS looks at this issue is pretty interesting. Consider charitable contributions. The tax law is clear that you cannot write off a charitable contribution if it wasn’t really a charitable contribution.

Charitable contributions by real estate developers are one classic context in which this quid pro quo issue can arise. When faced with a big tax write-off for a “donation,” the IRS might sniff out suspect motives for a donation. In many cases, so-called "gifts" to charity were actually more like business deals in which one item is exchanged for some other item of value....

...The quid pro quo problem can arise with a charitable contribution for something in return now, or a promised benefit in the future. Conservation easements are another area ripe for the quid pro quo issue to come up. Conveying an asset to a charitable organization as part of a deal or arrangement to get something back from the organization taints the contribution. It is, in short, merely a business deal, not a charitable contribution. Donations to charity are supposed to be out of generosity, not a business deal in which you get something back. So one way a donation might not qualify for a tax deduction is if you were paying for services, expecting something back in return....
More gaslighting? When does this stop and dignity take front and center?

Alan Dershowitz is begging for the US Senate to vote for exoneration because it is what Trump wants.

Dershowitz should be held for malpractice and a serious review of his credentials at the state lawyers' association. He doesn't care what he says, he is probably hoping Trump begins a war with Iran.

Trump is the game ball. He is the one person willing to break every rule, break every law and lie to the American people until they succumb to his goals. He doesn't care about the troops, they are just a means to an end and that is what Dershowitz is hoping. He is hoping Trump is the chosen one that will be the "Game Ball" for every illegal and immoral act that the rest of the bozos could never pull off before.

It is called corruption and Alan Dershowitz is knee deep in it.

January 30, 2020
By William Cummings

Attorney Alan Dershowitz, (click here) a member of President Donald Trump's defense team, alarmed Democrats and many legal scholars with his argument in the first day of questions and answers in the Senate impeachment trial that presidents cannot be removed from office for an action they believe could help get them re-elected. 
In response to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about whether it mattered if Trump engaged in a "quid pro quo," Dershowitz said that motive was what mattered and that if an act was in the public interest it was not impeachable. And he said it was reasonable for a public official to equate what is in their own political interest with the public good....

Gas lighting has worked for Trump all his life, including selling his false wealth to magazines like "Forbes Top 500 wealthiest men."

The faux legitimacy of Trump is everywhere and it is time Americans realize it.  Demand the US Senate to remove Trump from office. If they don't then they are simply using the same gas lighting as Trump.

October 3, 2019
By Eugene Robinson

...No apologies for the redundancy. (click here) Trump is trying to gaslight Americans by claiming, over and over again, that the smoking-gun evidence against him was actually a “perfect” phone call. He said it 12 times in brief Oval Office remarks Wednesday as Finnish President Sauli Niinisto quietly looked on, and four more times at their joint news conference that poor Niinisto had to endure as Trump went off the rails. He has said it repeatedly on Twitter, often in ALL CAPS. Since the rough transcript of the call was released last week, he has said it virtually whenever he has been within yelling distance of a microphone....

October 3, 2018
By Stephanie Sarlos

...Donald Trump’s gaslighting (click here) has led the country into a spiral of doubt, anger and despair.

Gaslighting behavior has always been present in history, to a degree. It is par for the course whenever a person or entity wants to exert as much control as possible over others. But we haven’t seen this level of gaslighting since the Axis powers of World War II. 

Consider Trump’s statement: “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not happening.” Or this from Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney: “Truth isn’t truth.”...

September 27, 2016
By Susan Dominus

When I watch Donald Trump, (click here) I sometimes feel like Ingrid Bergman — not European and glamorous, but unnerved, as though I’m being gaslit, as in the famous plot of her old classic movie “Gaslight.” The lights are flickering, but her character’s husband, who is secretly a seriously bad dude, is convincing her that no such thing is occurring. He is trying to get her to question her sense of reality, to think her mind is playing tricks on her — in short, to convince her that she is going slightly crazy, a tactic that can be scarily effective....

Has it gone this far to have to illustrate the ability of Trump to lie successfully to millions of people. Honestly? This far?

Please tell me the US Senate hasn't lost it's ability to understand FACTS.