It’s even worse for Donald Trump than we thought

| 9:09 am EDT October 4, 2019
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Donald Trump committed treason, or some legal variant of it, when he stood on the White House lawn yesterday and publicly threatened China if it didn’t help him promote a phony scandal about Joe Biden. If this whole thing is so ugly that Trump is willing to reveal this part of it in public, just how much worse is it behind the scenes?

Now that a few details have leaked out from Kurt Volker’s nine and a half hour closed-door testimony on Thursday, here’s your answer to just how ugly this is: take the ugliest scenario you thought possible, and it’s apparently even worse than that. Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly was in the room with Volker, and when he was done, he appeared on MSNBC to discuss it.

Connolly said that the attempted extortion on the fateful phone call between Donald Trump and the President of Ukraine was nothing compared to what else was going on. It turns out Trump tried to force the President of Ukraine to sign a document promising to help promote the phony Biden scandal. Connolly described this as “extortion” – and he’s right.

Congressman Connolly also confirmed earlier reports that even before the whistleblower complaint was filed, State Department official Bill Taylor had already concluded that Donald Trump was indeed trying to extort Ukraine into helping him alter the outcome of the 2020 election. Taylor expressed his objections to this in a text message, and now the House impeachment inquiry has that text message. The bottom line: this is all even uglier than we thought, and it’s even worse for Trump than we thought.