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Sorry, I’m not done reading yet

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Too slowly, for sure…I want to see how it ends, don’t you?!…but the good news is a number of other people were able to prioritize and offered their thoughts after reading the Mueller Report.  Here are some of the ones I like:

https://twitter.com/patryan12/status/1118965198365261825

https://twitter.com/BrennanCenter/status/1119075395477884929

What do conservatives think?  I mean real conservatives, not opportunists currently busy taking advantage of the fact that a man pretending to be conservative was elected president.  People like David French

https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1119067899048747009

..and Jennifer Rubin

https://twitter.com/patryan12/status/1120381560048558082

…and Rick Wilson

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1119568367868944384

From a bit broader perspective, what does the Mueller Report tell us (that we had only imagined to this point):

https://twitter.com/patryan12/status/1120398586221617156

Christie Whitman thread: Russia attacked, Trump demonstrated he cares only about himself, and it would have been worse but for the folks who ignored the most egregious “orders”

https://twitter.com/GovCTW/status/1120397158962868225

https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1119565745837543425

Politico took a dive into the footnotes and came out with some choice Easter eggs

https://twitter.com/patryan12/status/1120695151091953664

Even some Republicans are unhappy enough about this report to actually say so.  Out loud!  John Thune castigates Trump’s lying for undermining trust in America’s political system

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1120111933875793920

And Lindsey Graham makes an excellent case against Trump:

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1120463192218656768

(Oh, he wasn’t talking about Trump, was he?  Oh well, if the shoe fits…)

https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1119217412551921664

https://twitter.com/patryan12/status/1117844425428934658

https://twitter.com/kbeninato/status/1119041493803708416

We can talk about impeachment later…gotta keep reading.

Today in Trump‘s America: Cohen testimony edition

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You didn’t have to see every minute of Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony today to acknowledge it was some of the best political theater in many years.  You might also think it was damnably condemnatory of his former boss, Donald Trump, who he called a racist, and a con man, and a cheat…which are things many Americans already believed about their president, but still: Cohen’s lied to Congress before and that needs to be kept in mind:

https://twitter.com/patryan12/status/1100809811074138113

However, Trump has defended Cohen in the past:

https://twitter.com/tedfrank/status/1100787162797260800

https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/1100775726251474944

Fact is, wasn’t so long ago that many Republicans stood by Cohen’s word…although he was saying other words at the time:

https://twitter.com/Lindenberger/status/1100828053926825985

Today the Republican Party blasted him, despite their former close ties:

https://twitter.com/speechboy71/status/1100800251361968129

…but it was suggested the GOP had a reason for being out of sorts today:

https://twitter.com/RachelBLevinson/status/1100816509507653634

Also, one must wonder why, if you can’t believe what you’re told by liars, how can you believe the president?

https://twitter.com/tonyschwartz/status/1100805493587673090

Now, Cohen got some support from outside the room, from other people who’ve worked for Trump who think he is a liar:

https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/1100859359716880384

There was one difference today: Cohen was a liar…who brought some evidence:

https://twitter.com/GovCTW/status/1100782323497422848

And he teased that there’s even more he knows that he’s not allowed to talk about:

https://twitter.com/KenDilanianNBC/status/1100814524184256513

There was the goods on how the fragile-ego Trump planted a fake bidder at an auction so a portrait of himself would make news for the high bid of the event:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1100762593805959168

Not to mention having goods on a payment from Trump that might be the best evidence of all of his having committed a crime:

https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/1100784158916468736

I was wondering how it was ethical for a lawyer to provide this kind of testimony against a client, but I didn’t know this:

https://twitter.com/EricKleefeld/status/1100804220079521792

So for my quick review: the Republicans didn’t cover themselves in glory today:

https://twitter.com/emilynussbaum/status/1100803396011991040

…and the whole event should be used as an object lesson on the value of your vote:

https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/1100760437312946177

…even if Trump supporters want to ignore the documentary evidence (like the GOP members did):

https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1100803775953059842