Is this the “Smoking text?”

Chris Hayes does a brilliant job of explaining the state of play including the significance of Thursday’s text dump.

The “smoking text” referred to is from the Kiev chargé d’affaires , a career diplomat named Bill Taylor. He sent this text after being told by the Trump donor and Ambassador to the EU to only speak of this matter on the phone . . .

“As I said on the phone, I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2019/10/04/daily-202-smoking-texts-spotlight-diplomat-bill-taylor-s-discomfort-with-trump-s-ukraine-pressure-campaign/5d96caee88e0fa747e6d511e/

Another significant Trump LIE

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/30/politics/donald-trump-inspector-general-whistleblower-complaint-conspiracy-fact-check/index.html

This is a good example of how Trump pollutes our political system with outright LIES. In this case, the LIE is that the “deep state” changed whistle blower rules to suddenly allow people without first hand knowledge to blow the whistle. Sorry, Mr. Trump – BUZZZ! False.

The Intelligence Community IG had to go on record to refute this LIE. Of course, Trump does not care and will continue to repeat ANY LIE at every opportunity. Dummies will believe him because they really, really want to.

It is worth noting that this particular LIE was generated on The Federalist web site – a site frequently relied on and linked to by those here who are DESPERATE to exonerate Trump’s criminal behavior.

Insanely effing stupid.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29262984/liddle-hypen-apostrophe-president-trump-tweet/

“When assessing the president’s suitability for the role he currently occupies, it’s easy to get caught up on things like, he is making American policy towards other countries while their governments put money in his pocket. Or he has hired a bunch of lobbyists to regulate industries on whose behalf they were recently lobbyingOr he instituted a regime of human-rights abuses at the southern border. Or he said very fine people march alongside Nazis. Or, most recently, he pressured a foreign power to interfere in an American presidential election for his personal political gain, a betrayal of his oath of office and the nation he purports to lead.

But there’s something else to consider in all of this. The president, you see, is insanely fucking stupid.”