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Fox News Has Found the Impeachment Fall Guy

Kurt Volker, the former Ukraine envoy appears to be the designated Fall Guy for the 2019 impeachment saga.

So that’s it.

The News Cycle of the Century is over.

There is nothing further to see here, folks.

You can return to the lives you were leading, prior to discovering that the most corrupt President in modern memory, was discovered in the act of being corrupt on a phone call.

You can now ignore that the holder of the most powerful office in the world, abused that power, to extort a country into digging up dirt on a political opponent.

Here is the damning, incontrovertible evidence, that ends what portended to be a long national nightmare.

A text

A July 19 text message from Volker to Giuliani that was provided to Fox News on Thursday showed that Volker had in fact encouraged Giuliani to reach out to Ukraine
Boom. Whoa. Wow. Gamechanger. Generic Deep Befuddlement.

I think we call see that with this text provided by Fox—that is totally not self-serving to Rudy Giuliani or a White House in crisis—that we no longer need to launch an impeachment inquiry of the 45th President.

We no longer need to investigate the cover-up of the phone calls to Saudi Arabia and Russia contained on the White House’s secret servers.

We no long need to investigate how wide and deep the corruption and obstruction is in this administration, because of a text.

Meanwhile, in reality:

Preet Bharara
It is all going to come out. All of it. The dam has broken.

NEW: POTUS told Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the election because the US did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed officials to limit access to the remarks. https://t.co/sccDtesL1H

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 28, 2019

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Yashar Ali
NEW: POTUS told Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscow’s interference in the election because the US did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed officials to limit access to the remarks.

Next week the Fall Guy speaks before the House:

Volker plans to appear before House Foreign Affairs Committee next week
Source: CNN

(CNN) - Former US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker plans to appear at his deposition next Thursday in front of the House Foreign Affairs committee, according to a source familiar with his plans.

The source would not say if the White House is seeking to use executive privilege to constrict Volker in terms of what he can say or provide.
Volker's appearance before the committee was announced just hours before the news broke Friday evening that he had resigned.
www.cnn.com/...
And we are reminded that it is never a good idea to tick off the intelligence community when your presidency is in peril.

Friday the FBI was rummaging through their files decided to release material about an old friend of the White House occupant.

FBI release files on Trump's former lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn which detail allegations

The FBI has released hundreds of pages of documents on Donald Trump's controversial former lawyer Roy Cohn detailing allegations he engaged in bribery.[...]

One of Cohn's relatives previously claimed: 'He didn't just educate Trump, he didn’t just teach Trump, he put Trump in with people who would make Trump.

'Roy gave him the tools. All the tools. He loved him. He was ruthless.'

Speaking about Trump in a 1980 interview with Vanity Fair, Cohn said: 'Donald calls me 15 to 20 times a day. He's always asking, "What is the status of this…and that?."[...]

Trump would famously say 'Where's my Roy Cohn?,' whenever he was faced with a financial or political challenge.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/28/1888661/-Fox-News-Has-Found-the-Impeachment-Fall-Guy?utm_campaign=trending