Something is going on. Trump is having his physical 3 months early. Yea bullshit. Hope he choked on a chicken nugget.
Republicans
Narrator: Elise Stefanik won her re-election easily.
Deputy Assistant to the President Tim Morrison and VP Pence’s special adviser on Europe and Russia, Jennifer Williams
Juicy
Saw this in a Slate article from a few days ago by Dahlia Lithwick explaining how absurd the Devin Nunes conspiracy theory is, and I think it’s pretty close to A+:
Let’s imagine Hercule Poirot, or even Harriet the Spy, were tasked with explaining the impeachment plot. The Devin Nunes theory of the case would be extravagantly complex: This whodunit seems to involve House Democrats colluding with a deep state whistleblower and his attorney, who had been plotting a “coup” against the president since the weeks following his election, and who was willing to conspire with Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee to sideline the inspector general and hide the whistleblower from public view. Simultaneously, Democrats have been working assiduously with Russia toward the “funding and spreading” of the Steele dossier while “cooperating in Ukrainian election meddling” all while Hunter Biden used his preelection influence to have an impact on foreign policy under Predsident Barack Obama, and as the “politicized bureaucracy” now conspires to deliberately undermine “the president who they are supposed to be serving,” in the form of corrupt ambassadors. It’s elementary, my dear Watson: This, per Nunes, is a sprawling “hoax” engineered by disparate “elements of the FBI, the Department of Justice, and now the State Department” along with the “corrupt media” to work hand and glove to something, something “nude pictures.” The theory of the case is that all of these entities conspired for years, together, to craft a hoax and sham “Star Chamber” in order to subvert the will of the American electorate. All that’s missing, truly, is Colonel Mustard with a lead pipe in the conservatory.
The direct links if you hate clicking through to Twitter
Morrison: https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/morrison_final_version.pdf
Williams: https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/williams_final_version_with_letter.pdf
Highlights (imo) from first 42 pages of Williams’ transcript
On how she connects to the other now-familiar names:
Discussing Yovanovitch with others:
Her position on Rudy leading shadow policy and pressing for Yovanovitch’s removal:
On Pence going and then not going to Zelensky’s inauguration:
Trump made an unannounced visit to Walter Reed and his press staff is saying it’s a head start on his annual physical. Sounds like bullshit to me. Part of me hopes he had a heart attack, but I know him dying in office would be a terrible outcome for the country. I’m torn.
Maybe they’re laying the groundwork for him leaving office “for medical reasons?”
One can hope anyway.
It’s almost certainly bullshit. I don’t buy for a second that he was sitting around today bored with nothing to do and decided to go get a physical.
Trump sat on fusilli Roger Stone
Gym Jordan took it a bit far huh!!
Ya him dying in any way before he is fully shamed would be a disaster for the country.
“On the advice of doctors (Republican doctors, the greatest doctors in the world), and with great relucterance, I am forced at this time to step down as President. Vice President Pence is now President and I will do everything I can to help him try to follow in my footsteps, the largerest footsteps ever.”
would fully support Hilldawg run in response tho. would be the ultimate troll-the-deplorables move and be very cathartic to encourage the Clinton ended Cheeto and Epstein narratives just for the lols
Ideal outcome would be Trump being incapacitated and in some sort of crippling constant pain, enough to have him removed from office but not enough to avoid prison, and for his entire estate to be bled dry by the medical costs / civil forfeiture from his crimes so his idiot kids all end up destitute.
CNN cites White House sources that the trip to Walter Reed was not on the President’s internal schedule as of this morning.