re: #26 Blind Frog Belly White

this is important, but (in my non lawyerly opinion, not necessary)
the first ‘crime’ is asking the foreign power for help (campaign violation)
the qpq is on top of that (extortion)

and let’s remember, impeachment does not have to be for a criminal act (proved or not)

what he did was not treason.
it maybe treason-ish.
it’s for damn sure unpatriotic and downright unamerican.

there’s no way there’s going to be an explicit quid pro quo on this transcript, everything we learned from the cohen testimony is that he basically never directly asks for something inappropriate

— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) September 24, 2019