Reminder to the Trump administration: do not talk about your plans to do crime over text messages

The unfolding President Donald Trump impeachment scandal is very simple to understand: it is illegal to solicit help from a foreign government in an election, and Trump and his aides repeatedly tried to push the new government of Ukraine into digging up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden by withholding an aid package.

How do we know this? Because various Trump’s officials sent text messages about it. Here’s one from Bill Taylor, an official at the US Embassy in Ukraine, to Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the EU, on September 1st, 2019:

Are we now saying that security assistance and WH meeting are conditioned on investigations?

Sondland simply replies “call me,” which is a solid response if 1) you suspect a Slack DM is about to...

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