Former Republican consultant Steve Schmidt today on MSNBC:
“The American people will see when this begins to play out publicly is an act of corruption unprecedented in its magnitude and its severity. What we see is the president of the United States extorting a foreign head of state, withholding congressionally approved military assistance to a nation that has a hot war with the Russians on the eastern front, for the purposes of getting dirt on the president’s political opponent. There has never been in the entire post-World War II period of history, from Truman through Obama until Trump, there has never been an act of corruption by an American president quite like this. It is extraordinary and severe. [snip] What this was was an extortion attempt. This was a shakedown by our dime-store Mussolini in the Oval Office.”It's up to the Dems, starting in tomorrow'a televised impeachment inquiry hearing, to present a simple, compelling case that Donald "Cheeto Benito" Trump was guilty of extortion and bribery, while undermining our national security by aiding Russia's aggression against Ukraine, and attempting to corrupt the 2020 elections.
