Pierce: There's No Lynching Here, But There Is a Smoking Gun
There's No Lynching Here, But There Is a Smoking Gun
Bill Taylor's testimony on the Ukraine fiasco drove several nails into the Trump administration*'s rapidly closing coffin.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
OCT 22, 2019
LLynch is a perfectly fine Irish surname that has been damaged by history and by the brutal ignorance of the human race. (It comes from the Irish, Ó Loingsigh, meaning "mariner;" the Irish itself is probably a gaelicization of the French-Norman de Lench.) My grandmother was a Lynch, one of the seven Lynch sisters who were shepherds in Lixnaw, in north Kerry. Of course, thanks to the brutal ignorance of this current president*, Lynch is now Trending, and not in a good context, either.
This was a deliberate insult, whether it was intended as a distraction or not, to the thousands of people who were lynched in this country. It was calculated to summon up the rage in 2019 that drove the mobs in 1919. The president* is going to stage one of his wankfests in South Carolina this week, and in Tupelo, Mississippi, on November 1. What are the odds he's going to talk about how he is being "lynched" to an audience of angry white people in South Carolina and Mississippi? I'm already nauseous.
Plus, the idiot parade marched in step. White House spokesman Hogan Gidley tried to explain that the president* hadn't tweeted what he'd plainly tweeted. Senator Huckleberry Graham, on the other hand, apparently wants to die on every single hill. ...
According to multiple reports, Taylor drove several nails into the administration*'s rapidly closing coffin. He completely undermined the previous testimony of Gordon Sondland, the hapless ambassador to the EU who was the administration*'s errand boy. And Taylor apparently made it quite clear that all of the administration*'s tawdry denials are even more worthless than most of the public statements out of Camp Runamuck—that they are pure and unadulterated gaslighting. His opening statement shreds every one of them.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a29553969/bill-taylor-testify-trump-ukraine-smoking-gun/
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his message to the Chiefs of Police Convention in Chicago next Monday. I'm sure he'll be all law and order and dissing the City. 
