Column: Your lawless president, Mafia Don (via latimesopinion)
And now, finally, we have the coverup.
Furthermore, the whistleblower alleged in a complaint made public Thursday that White House officials told him this was not the first time a Trump transcript had been placed in the electronic vault “solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive — rather than national security sensitive — information.”
By 1998, I was certainly old enough to be outraged that then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich put the country through another impeachment trauma because President Clinton lied under oath about having an extramarital affair. Clinton was impeached by the House and acquitted after a trial in the Senate. On Thursday morning, the House Intelligence Committee invited Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire to testify about the whistleblower who filed the complaint about Trump’s July 25 phone conversation with newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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