Trump has so thoroughly annexed the GOP that it’s going to be hard for its leaders to cut their losses—even as he flails. The initial whistle-blower complaint about Trump’s pressure on Zelensky confirmed previous reports, and added that White House officials were ordered to “lock down”—translation: “hide”—all records of the conversations. It describes how administration officials traveled to Kyiv to help locals “navigate” Trump’s directives to the new president. Dems who read the whistle-blower report Wed. evening emerged from the room visibly disturbed as they walked past cable TV cameras. Rep. Jackie Speier described it as “nothing short of explosive...I was stunned.” In his press conference, Trump threw Mike Pence, under the bus, saying, “I think you should ask for VP Pence’s conversation because he had a couple of conversations, also.”
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