IT’S BEEN AN HOUR [updated]

| 10:34 pm EDT October 26, 2019
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Update, 11:15pm – it’s apparently a military stunt. –– The news just keeps getting worse for Donald Trump tonight, with State Department official Philip Reeker having reportedly given devastating impeachment testimony today, and U.S. Ambassador Gordon Sondland finally publicly confirming tonight that Trump was engaged in a quid pro quo. Now Trump is holding us hostage, and it isn’t funny.

A little more than an hour ago, Donald Trump tweeted “Something very big has just happened!” No additional information was provided. He hasn’t tweeted since. This would be fine, if he were still just a reality show clown, or a real estate fraudster. But he’s (technically) the President of the United States, and a tweet like this is nothing short of dangerous.

We have no idea if Trump is about to announce some major new move, or if he’s merely going to end up tweeting that he saved fifteen percent on his car insurance. Either way, it’s not difficult to figure out that he’s trying to distract us from the Reeker-Sondland one-two punch that’s kicked the legs out from under his presidency tonight.

But right now federal agencies, U.S. military leaders, and the heads of foreign countries are likely all sitting around and waiting for this idiot to finish his tweet, just in case it ends up being something majorly stupid that they have to immediately react to. This is beyond reckless. Tonight’s tweet-stunt should be an article of impeachment all by itself.