Friday, January 17, 2020

Dueling Conspiracies (Part 3)

Parnas and Giuliani

Stayed up last night to watch more Lev Parnas on the Rachael Maddow Show. Her interview only made this whole Ukrainian farce even murkier. Here are a few takeaways:

- Rudy Giuliani has lost a lot off of his fastball to have trusted this man who, at the drop of an indictment, switched sides. The motto of the Ukraine must be “duplicity” ... for everyone there seems infected. Rudy once knew how to handle the New York mafia. But they were pikers next to the Ukrainians.

- My guess was that Parnas was lying about every third utterance. But, like any good liar, he said enough credible things to be convincing. He clearly was playing to the prosecutors in the Southern District of New York for leniency in his money laundering and illegal political contributions charges,

- It is very doubtful that Ambassador Marie Yovanovich was ever in any physical jeopardy. Maddow neglected to mention that she was recalled the very night before Zelensky was inaugurated as the Ukraine’s new president. This obviously was significant.

- Parnas did say ... believably, and because of dirt supplied by him ... that Trump tried to fire Ambassador Yovanovich a number of times only to be thwarted by the Deep State at the State Department. How Trump has prevailed in all that he has accomplished ... against the entrenched bureaucracy, disinclined to even get him a cup of coffee ... tells me he is a remarkable manager.

- Last observation: If the Senate calls witnesses like Parnas and opens up this whole Ukraine corruption can of worms, Trump’s impeachment trial will last at least until June ... in order to sort through all this bleep.

8 comments:

Bill Miller said...

And yet you believe every word that Trump utters.

George W. Potts said...

I never believed he had a bigger inauguration crowd ...

DEN said...

Here is my takeaway:
- Trump supporters really do not care if he illegally used his powers to try to get dirt on Biden.
- If you think Parnas is a lying, get Bolton and Pompeo to testify under oath. They can settle this in a few hours. You don't want them to testify because you fear they cannot contradict the accusations.
- The Deep State is a fiction that Trumpswabs use to describe people who are loyal to the country and the Constitution, versus loyal to Trump.
- If the Senate does not call witnesses during the Impeachment, there will be disastrous consequences to the Trump loyalists in 2020 elections and beyond. The majority of Americans want the truth.

George W. Potts said...

If the Deep State doesn’t like what Trump is doing, isn’t that the very definition of the Deep State. I don’t think that those bureaucrats were elected by the American people. The Constitution gives our President all the executive powers ... not the likes of Yovanovich.

DEN said...

A) Most of the American pole did not vote for Trump, so I smile in my mouth when I hear the trope about overturning the "will of the people."
B) Deep state connotes a conspiracy of which there is no evidence.
C) No one with a brain thinks Trump is not guilty of accusations. As evidence look who he picks for his defense team: The guy that got OJ off and kept Epstein out of prison (for a while), and the disgraced President of Baylor who was fired because he covered-up rapes -yeah the same one who unsuccessfully prosecuted a blow job case.
Only a guilty person would hire these clowns.

George W. Potts said...

Last time I looked, I had a brain ...

DEN said...

With the thoughts you'd be thinking
You could be another Lincoln...
If...

George W. Potts said...

Or a Dodge Charger ...