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 longer need to investigate how wide and deep the corruption and obstruction is in this administration, because of a text.
Meanwhile, in reality:
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.
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.
Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7514983/FBI-release-files-Donald-Trumps-former-lawyer-mentor-Roy-Cohn.html
The release of the FBI’s Cohn files comes on the heels of a new documentary that uses Trump’s quote “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” as its title
A small part of the files released Friday include a letter that Cohn sent Hoover in 1969, when Cohn was being prosecuted on other federal criminal charges, for which he ultimately was acquitted.
Cohn’s clients after his acquittal included Trump, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and Carmine Galante and “Fat Tony” Salerno, suspected Mafia chieftains. He also numbered among his celebrity friends President Ronald Reagan’s wife, Nancy.
The Washington Post in 2016 described an early meeting between Trump and Cohn in 1971, at a hot spot called Le Club.
“Trump introduced himself to Cohn, who was sitting at a nearby table, and sought advice: How should he and his father respond to Justice Department allegations that their company had systematically discriminated against black people seeking housing?”″ The Post reported.
“My view is tell them to go to hell,” Cohn said, according to the Post. “And fight the thing in court.”
Cohn eventually filed a $100 million countersuit against the Justice Department for its allegations against Trump’s company. After that suit failed, Trump settled the Justice Department’s claims out of court.
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