Greg OlearVerified account

1/ Donald John Trump’s eldest son, also named Donald John Trump, met at Trump Tower on 9 June 2016 with a Russian spy. This spy had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. That’s why Donald John Trump—the “failson,” in Molly Jong Fast’s spot-on phrase—agreed to meet with the spy.

2/ Also at that meeting were Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his mobbed-up campaign chair, the traitor Paul Manafort, who is currently in the hoosegow. That was, like, highly illegal.

3/ Right after that meeting—I mean MINUTES after—Donald John Trump, Senior tweeted about the “missing emails” for the first time. The timing here is not a coincidence. “Missing emails” was a narrative that continued until Election Day.

4/ Despite the fact that Donald John Trump’s namesake son has accomplished almost nothing in his life without his father’s approval, endorsement, or aid, we are expected to believe that Donald John Trump, Senior was unaware of the meeting arranged by Donald John Trump, Junior.

5/ When “missing emails” compelled the FBI to look through emails on a neglected laptop, FBI Director James Comey wrote a memo to Congress explaining his decision, and that fateful memo—and the “missing emails” talking point—helped give Trump the White House.

6/ When the NYT found out about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russian spy, an enraged Donald John Trump I tried to quash it. He met with his aides, among them Hope Hicks, & crafted a story to attempt to clear the younger Donald John Trump. This obstruction of justice failed.

7/ Hope Hicks would make a dandy witness at a public hearing…like, say, an impeachment trial in the Senate. Or an impeachment inquiry, after the redacted Mueller Report materials were turned over to HPSCI.

8/ Donald John Trump the Younger was not indicted by Mueller because he was too stupid to understand that he had violated the law. Stupidity is not a valid reason to let someone off on a little light treason, but if anyone was that stupid, it was Donald John Trump the Younger.

9/ Donald John Trump the Elder has made a concerted effort to poo-poo the Mueller Report—especially its unequivocal conclusion, echoed by the collective intelligence community of the United States, that Russia sabotaged the 2016 election.

10/ Donald John Trump would like us to believe that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind the plot. He wants us all to think this so he can justify lifting sanctions on Putin’s oligarch comrades, which is his prime directive.

11/ The Russians were trying to prevent Hillary Clinton, who rightly views Putin as a minor KGB thug and thief, from becoming president. To do so, Moscow bent over backwards to help Donald John Trump, their compromised asset.

12/ Moscow also gave aid to Bernie Sanders, who admitted he knew about the amplification of his social media presence by Russian bots but didn’t do anything about it for reasons we still don’t understand. Something about breaking up the banks, maybe?

13/ Many Republicans in Congress are compromised in some fundamental way by Trump and/or the Russians, most notably Rand Paul, whom John McCain accused of working for Putin; Lindsey Graham, who is effectively Trump’s hostage; and the yowling MAGA baboons in the House (Gaetz etc).

14/ Donald John Trump really does launder money for the Russian mob. He really has been doing it for years. Evidence of his shady dealings are in his tax documents—another mechanism by which he, like his mobster confederates, steals from the government—that is, from you and me.

15/ Donald John Trump really did extort an ally in the fight against Putin, threatening to withhold our money, if that ally didn’t help him harm a political rival. Extortion, quid pro quo, bribery—whatever word you want to us, he did it, and it’s illegal.

16/ Extorting Ukraine to help Trump—and thereby help Russia—is tantamount to treason. In 250 years, few Americans have attempted something so brazenly seditious. Those who have were hung. Perhaps this is why Pompeo, Mulvaney, Bolton, and Perry are not so keen on testifying?