ROM Watches Entire Maguire Hearing So You Don't Have To

Not only that, but this Retired Old Man also found the time to watch the Lewandowski testimony last week, read the telephone transcript between the so-called "president" and the Ukraine, and even read the entire whistle-blower report released this morning.  I'm pretty up to speed on this thing.  Ask me anything.

What's shocking to me, on top of the shocking revelations regarding the so-called "president's" behavior, is how fast this thing is taking off.  There's a lot of pent-up frustration and anger on the Democratic side of the aisle, and the lid just came off the pot.

Putting together what I've learned, these seem to be the facts:

• The Ukraine has been at war along its eastern border with Russia for years now.
• The U.S. Senate voted to send some $350M in aid to the Ukraine.
• Our so-called "president" unilaterally froze that aid, and wouldn't even talk to the new president of the Ukraine until it was decided whether he would "play ball."
• When they finally did speak and the issue of military aid came up, our so-called "president" told the new president of the Ukraine that the U.S. had been very generous to the Ukraine, that the generosity hadn't been "reciprocal," and that he needed a "favor."
• That "favor" was to dig up some dirt on our so-called "president's" opponent, Joe Biden, and as long as he was at it, anything about Hilary Clinton's emails, because why not?.
• By requesting that, our so-called "president" solicited electoral assistance from a foreign power by means of coercion.
• Our so-called "president" also offered the assistance of the Attorney General and his personal attorney to the Ukraine for this matter.
• White House aides, recognizing the perilous position in which the conversation put our so-called "president," took the transcript of the conversation off of the usual server used to store such documents and moved it to a "secret server," usually used for top-secret info like codes, etc.
• This was not the first time that transcripts were moved to the "secret server," and other, as yet unknown records, are stored there.
• After Maguire's testimony, the so-called "president" was livid, and made terroristic threats against whatever American citizen gave information to the whistle-blower.

This would sound like bad dystopian fiction if it weren't true.  Even Richard Nixon, in all his corruption, never sank this low.

We live in interesting times.