Just hours after
CNN is harsher than the Post.
The Department of Justice revealed in a court filing late Friday that it has two dozen emails related to the President Donald Trump’s involvement in the withholding of millions in security assistance to Ukraine — a disclosure that came just hours after the Senate voted against subpoenaing additional documents and witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial, paving the way for his acquittal.
The filing, released near midnight Friday, marks the first official acknowledgment from the Trump administration that emails about the President’s thinking related to the aid exist, and that he was directly involved in asking about and deciding on the aid as early as June. The administration is still blocking those emails from the public and has successfully kept them from Congress.
The first official acknowledgement, and it comes after the vote to cover it all up. The 49 to 51 vote, with all but two Republicans voting to hide the criminal self-serving traitorous actions of the lying self-serving criminal Donald Trump. The Republicans have decided to be the party of selfish greedy criminals, which seems a tad cynical.
“…with all but two Republicans voting to hide the criminal self-serving traitorous actions of the lying self-serving criminal Donald Trump.”
I wouldn’t give Mitt Romney or Susan Collins any credit for their simulacrum of doing the right thing here. Collins held out until Mitch McConnell strong-armed Lamar Alexander into compliance and McConnell officially cleared her to vote the other way in hopes of saving her seat in the Senate, which hinges on Maine voters seeing her as having some sort of independence — even though she has never exhibited any when it actually counted. For his part, Romney does not have a single principled bone in his body. This is just another move in his dance to position himself as a savior for the Republican Party after the inevitable post-Trump backlash, without taking any stands which have actual consequences that might alienate the voting base too much. Mitt Romney’s presidential ambitions will only die when he does, if then. If he died tomorrow, his shambling corpse would probably still be moaning about his “deep concerns” over Trump from now until November, with exactly as much actual impact as all his other expressions of “concern” to date.
I wouldn’t dream of giving them any credit.