Cabinet Cabal. With the GAO finding that OMB violated the Impoundment Control Act, several agencies like OMB, GAO, State, DoJ need to weigh in on what could be more evidence of more high crimes by IMPOTUS. Speaker Pelosi today referred to “All the President’s Henchmen”, about which we could know more this evening in part two of the Lev Parnas interview.
The state of play: The decision from the GAO, an independent government agency, comes just hours before the Senate will kick off President Trump's impeachment trial over his administration's actions on Ukraine.
The big picture: The GAO found that the OMB violated the 1974 Impoundment Control Act, which requires that the White House and its agencies disburse funds appropriated by Congress as directed by the legislative branch.
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Plenty of confirmation bias comes with the need for corroboration with the recent interview of Lev Parnas, Even Ukraine is trying to offset that stillborn demand for their investigation of the Bidens by investigation into the Russian hack of Burisma and the document dump by Parnas.
Parnas obviously can’t be trusted anywhere near 100%—we don’t know all of his motives, but bailing himself out of trouble by incriminating others is likely one of them. Journalist Marcy Wheeler cautioned that “until we understand why Parnas is doing what he’s doing—why he inserted himself into the right wing echo chamber in the first place, and why he’s so insistent on telling us what we want to hear now—we would do well to exercise caution about the stories he’s telling.” But he definitely ramped up the pressure on wobbly Republican senators to vote for a real impeachment trial with witnesses and document subpoenas.
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