Poignant words from Charles Pierce in Esquire

This is an excellent piece posted by a political ally and fellow FB blogger quoting Charles Pierce who wrote "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free."

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing "Amazing Grace" in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.

And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.

The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.

Watch him make fun of the woman again. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. 

Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."

Mr. Rogers Enduring Wisdom by Tom Junod

This is an excellent article by Tom Junod in the Atlantic. It is a bit lengthy but superb!

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/what-would-mister-rogers-do/600772/

To Adam Schiff re: Bolton

It will restore my faith in our nation if John Bolton the uber hawk and by his description uber patriot if he would testify before the committee whether by subpoena or by his own choice. I believe Adam Schiff should think carefully about bypassing this man by just appending him to the obstruction of justice count. He belongs front and center because of who he is and always has been an ardent adversary of Russia and its totalitarian leadership!

A blue wave or a nation of none

Finally, some good news has washed over me.  The bellwether national election results last evening for Democrats were an endorphin high.  The endorphins are so pleasurable that I yearn for more and more and more because it feels so darn good.  Now, finally, a shift has occurred in the land of Republican red to a land of Democrat blue.  Kentucky with the upset win for governor of the Democrat Andy Beshear tells the tale.  Trump went to Kentucky trying his best to work the Trumpian charm he thinks he has so the incumbent Bevin would win.  He said it would be a rejection of him if Beshear beat Bevin, a Trump loyalist who was rather detested in his state.  It was particularly satisfying that the narcissist Trump was foiled.  He was right it was a big election.  As much as it was about support for the Democrat Andy Beshear it was, importantly, a rejection of Trump too.  You must not lose, Trump commanded, at his pre-election feel good rally in Kentucky.  How could you do that to me, he asked, because everything is always doncha know about Donald Trump to Donald Trump.  Kentucky by electing Beshear, defeating Bevin and by proxy Trump it defeated Trumpian injustice.  When justice prevails it is a satisfying feeling.

Even more poignantly exciting was that Democrats in Virginia turned their state entirely blue.  Democrats hold it all -- the governor's seat, the senate, the house and more.   For the first time in 25 years Democrats in the state of Virginia are in total control.  It was a wonderful night for Democrats and progressives to behold.

Democrats, though, cannot rest.  We must be vigilant all over the nation going forward trying to turn entrenched red to blue in states like Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and more. And most importantly we must defeat Donald Trump in the general election next November.  Democrats and progressives must stand for hope and not fear, for foreign engagement and not isolation, for democracy and not dictatorship.  We must stand for the balance of power our Founders bestowed upon our nation and not for a unitary executive they loathed.  We must stand for science and not science denial, for love and not hate, for humanitarian policies and not the policies of racist destruction.  We must stand for election honesty and we must stand for all inclusiveness and not racist white separatism that allows a man to throw battery acid in the face of a person of color simply because his skin is dark or yell "go back from where you came."  I ask back to where?  The United States of America is their home.    We must turn a blue wave into a blue tsunami. We must examine our national character and be a nation for all or we will be a nation for none.  

Scientists Declare A Climate Emergency, Warn Of ‘Untold Human Suffering’--The life you save may be your own!

As the mendacious madman takes the US out of the Climate Change Agreement signed during the Obama Administration scientists are telling us untold human suffering will be the result of Trumpian folly. Elections have consequences and in this case deadly consequences for the children, grandchildren and for great grandchildren yet unborn! This action by Trump spells murder. Our president will be held to account for not only the murder of human beings but the murder of the earth.

Science does not care. Science will do what science does irrespective of the consequences of rancid decision making. When 99% of scientists agree we are in a climate emergency of global climate change brought on by man's overuse of fossil fuels believe them. Believe what they say or don't. It will be at the peril of all of us if we do not.

You get the policies for which you vote. VOTE BLUE ALWAYS UP AND DOWN THE TICKET and save our planet's life before it is too late.  The life you save may also be your own!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scientists-declare-climate-emergency_n_5dc0a206e4b0bedb2d513df8

Man, 61, arrested for allegedly throwing acid on Latino man's face in possible hate crime

Mahud Villalaz, 42, who is an American citizen, suffered second-degree burns to his face after a man he described as being white and in his 50s or 60s berated him and threw acid at him.
In security video first obtained by WISN-TV, the two men are seen talking in front of a restaurant when the suspect points at Villalaz and then tosses the acid at his face. 

Villalaz can be seen stumbling away from the man, who then slowly walks toward Villalaz.

A GoFundMe page has been established to help pay for Villalaz's medical bills and lost wages while he recovers and gets additional medical treatment. Villalaz is a welder and continues to suffer from blurred vision in his left eye stemming from the attack.

By 5:30 p.m. Sunday, $700 had been raised toward a $15,000 goal. [give if you can]
On the GoFundMe page, his sister Priscilla Villalaz thanked police for making the arrest and thanked well-wishers who reached out to them."

usatoday.com

Man, 61, arrested for allegedly throwing acid on Latino man's face in possible hate crime

Russia Picked Donald Trump and Ran Him for President, Former Israeli Intelligence Officer Says--BIG SURPRISE -- NOT!

"Russia chose Donald Trump as the U.S. presidential candidate who would be most advantageous to Moscow, and used online tactics to win him the presidency, according to a former agent of the Israeli intelligence agency the Mossad.

"Officials in Moscow looked at the 2016 U.S. presidential race and asked, 'Which candidate would we like to have sitting in the White House? Who will help us achieve our goals?' And they chose him. From that moment, they deployed a system [of bots] for the length of the elections, and ran him for president," former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo told the audience at the Marker's digital conference in Israel on Monday, where experts gathered to discuss online disinformation campaigns and bots.

"What we've seen so far with respect to bots and the distortion of information is just the tip of the iceberg. It is the greatest threat of recent years, and it threatens the basic values that we share—democracy and the world order created since World War Two," Pardo noted, according to Haaretz."

My comment: Russia may as well have attacked the US with bombs.  The damage that has been done by Donald J. Trump to our nation is as all encompassing as if they had.  Our entire system both domestic and foreign policy has been overturned.   If, finally, the curse of Trump is electorally eradicated it will take years to undo.  Send this to whomever you choose and make sure to tell them to vote blue up and down the ticket!

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-picked-donald-trump-and-ran-him-president-former-israeli-intelligence-1273009?fbclid=IwAR0qamhjcsiry6wBrOHM--qNcmYI54XmCmb5p1CygWnHZZy4eoJly9UpuFo

Elizabeth Warren -- Middle class will NOT pay one penny for Medicare for all--Please read her statement

Here is what Elizabeth says re: Medicare for all.

We need a health care system that reflects our values.

No American should ever die or go bankrupt because of health care costs. And no for-profit insurance company should be able to stop any American from getting the care they need.

Health care is a human right, and that’s why I’m fighting for Medicare for All. It’s the only plan that gives everyone in America full coverage, with the freedom to see any provider, with no premiums, copays, and deductibles — no restrictions, no surprises, and no one going broke because they get sick.

Today, I’m releasing my plan to pay for Medicare for All. My plan won’t raise middle-class taxes by one penny. In fact, my plan puts $11 trillion back in the pockets of American families by virtually eliminating their current premiums, deductibles, and copays — that’s bigger than any tax cut in American history.

To cover the cost, we start by taking the money that employers are currently paying in the form of premiums to private insurance companies and have them pay it to Medicare instead.

We make up the difference with targeted spending cuts, new taxes on giant corporations, Wall Street, and the richest 1%, and cracking down on tax evasion and fraud.

Try our new calculator to see what our plan for Medicare for All would mean for you.

Health care is personal for you, personal for me, and personal for every family in America.

My daddy’s heart attack nearly sent our family skidding over a financial cliff.

Today, I think about all the kids this year who will face the double blow of nearly losing a parent and then watching their lives turn upside down as their families struggle to pay a growing stack of medical bills.

I spent my career studying why so many hard-working middle-class families were going broke. For years, my research partners and I traveled across the country, from bankruptcy courtroom to bankruptcy courtroom, talking directly with people who’d seen their lives turned upside down.

One of the biggest reasons we found? Medical problems. In 2007, my research found that the number one reason families were going broke was health care — and three quarters of those who declared bankruptcy after an illness were people who already had health insurance.

Between 2013 and 2016, the number one reason families went broke was still because of health care — even though 91.2% of Americans had health insurance in 2016.

It’s clear: Families are getting crushed by health costs. But you know who’s doing great? Private health insurance companies — they’re sucking billions of dollars in profits out of the system.

Under Medicare for All, we’ll rein in the corruption, waste, inefficiency, and corporate profiteering in our health care system.

And we can pay for it without any new taxes for middle-class families. Existing federal and state spending on health care stays about the same. Business spending on health care stays about the same — payments just go to Medicare instead of private insurers. And yeah, big corporations, Wall Street, and the top 1% pay their fair share.

Everyone’s covered, it’s fully paid for, and independent economists have verified that it’s doable. This is how we end the stranglehold of health care costs on American families and provide one of the greatest federal expansions of middle-class wealth in history.

In just a few steps, use our calculator to find out how Medicare for All would affect you. And share what you see with your friends, your family — with everyone you know.

Person to person, story by story, we’ll fight the misinformation from giant health insurance and drug companies who are desperate to stop anything from getting in the way of their profits. We’ll make it clear why we need to fight for Medicare for All — because it will make a real difference in people’s lives.

Trump’s Syria Troop Withdrawal Complicated Plans for al-Baghdadi Raid

NYT:   "For months, intelligence officials had kept Mr. Trump apprised of what he had set as a top priority, the hunt for Mr. al-Baghdadi, the world’s most wanted terrorist.

But Mr. Trump’s abrupt withdrawal order three weeks ago disrupted the meticulous planning underway and forced Pentagon officials to speed up the plan for the risky night raid before their ability to control troops, spies and reconnaissance aircraft disappeared with the pullout, the officials said.

Mr. al-Baghdadi’s death in the raid on Saturday, they said, occurred largely in spite of, and not because of, Mr. Trump’s actions.";

My Comment:  It's a miracle the raid was completed successfully no thanks to the stable genius who nearly screwed things up by his Syria withdrawal!  The withdrawal did not last long. Troops as I write this are being diverted to the Syrian oil fields.  Trump said of Iraq when we began that war based on lies that we should have kept the oil.  Who would notice?  Seems like a war crime to me to go in and steal a nation's assets.  True to the fascist MO.  Invade, bomb a nation into oblivion and then steal everything that is not nailed down.  Sick.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/us/politics/baghdadi-isis-leader-trump.html?emc=edit_na_20191027&ref=cta&nl=breaking-news?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=18289&user_id=85a8ac1c6f518c011d82f4864472cc9b&regi_id=75028030ing-news

Question and Critique everything

I am inclined to give kudos when kudos are due. They are due now. The death of ISIS leader Al-Bagdadi seems to have been well organized and perfected.  Kudos to the military who faced danger completing it.   Still, I have questions.  How did the special ops unit get Baghdadi's DNA if he blew himself up and then the whole big strong building collapsed around him as Trump said? How is that possible? When Bin-Laden was killed it was a clean killing so DNA could be collected. Did the US have an original sample of his DNA to compare with that of the deceased?   Why too was Al-Baghdadi hiding  in an inhospitable place for ISIS?   Kudos to the men who risked their lives to get Baghdadi but I do wonder how true all of Trump 's description of the take down is given Trump's penchant for lying.

Moreover, and most importantly, because Baghdadi was killed that surely does not mean ISIS is dead. ISIS will regroup and live to fight another day with new leadership.  ISIS will never die because it is an ideology with thousands who support it.  This reinforces those of us who decried Trump's abandonment of the Kurds thousands of whom died fighting ISIS with us.  Worse still, the ISIS prisoners did escape numbering hundreds if not thousands to go where? Europe about which Trump does not care or even to the homeland of which Trump claims he cares about so much.  Thanks to Trump this nation will not enjoy the help of the very effective Kurds in eliminating ISIS again. 

Trump's hostile rhetoric calling Baghdadi a dog and a coward running crying and screaming down the tunnel was unnecessary.  It will do nothing but inflame followers of ISIS.  It surely will not scare its members into submission.

Trump did not inform Congressional leadership of the Bagdadi raid which traditionally presidents do for top secret military missions.  He claims he did not because of leaks but truth is I suspect it was revenge against Democrats for their very effective impeachment process.

Trump even in military victory sows the seeds of division in a land he claims to love.  One should question and critique everything or accept the negative foreign policy consequences which could be many from a man who is unfit for the office he holds. 

Elija Cummings 1951-1-2019

My heart is heavy because of the loss of this greatest of men. My tears well up as each speaker sings his praises. He was a yardstick for good and a moral compass for all that is right. He fought for it and then died too soon for the mind of those who loved him to comprehend. Rest easy this warrior for the greatest good. Rest easy for this champion of the poor. Rest easy for this leader who had a passion for humanity and showed us the path to perfection to which this nation should strive.

Elijah Cummings was a charismatic giant who stood on the shoulders of those giants who made this nation into a beacon of liberty's light for the suffering, for the poor, for the immigrant, for the sick and for the dispossessed. I love you, Elijah Cummings. We who consider ourselves humanitarian will miss you more than you will ever know.

Let's get real about Tulsi Gabbard!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/18/1893465/-Let-s-get-real-about-Tulsi-Gabbard?detail=emaildkre

If you are anti Trump as I am do NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT vote for a third party candidate like Tulsi Gabbard or Jill Stein. I don't care how convincing their arguments are that Clinton lost on her own. Bull pucky. Third Party candidates like a Ralph Nader or a Jill Stein lose it for the Democratic progressive candidates period end of story. DO NOT DO IT IF YOU LOATHE, DETEST AND HATE DONALD TRUMP. IF YOU DO VOTE DO SO FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOMINEE!!!

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  There is talk that Russian bots are posting for Tulsi Gabbard solely to give Donald Trump the win. Say NO to a third party candidate that is solely there to hand a victory to Donald Trump. Think historically how much better things would have been with an Al Gore presidency which Nader negated -- All those lives lost in Iraq would be living now and climate change would have been addressed. Jill Stein is a Russian bot too. How much better would we have been had Hillary taken the electoral college instead of the three million popular votes by which she won. THINK PRACTICALLY DO NOT NOT NOT VOTE FOR TULSI GABBARD.

Rep. Elijah Cummings Dies At 68

This was the first news I read this a.m. I am so sad. This man was a beacon for those of us who call ourselves progressives. His loss leaves an empty space which I hope will be filled by someone fitting to occupy the space which this great man filled. We will miss you Rep. Cummings. Now you rest with the other greats who tried to make this a fairer more perfect nation.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rep-elijah-cummings-dead_n_5da82baae4b0b5c9be49604f

US nuclear weapons are now being held as ‘essentially Erdogan’s hostages’ in Turkey: report

https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/u-s-nuclear-weapons-are-now-being-held-as-essentially-erdogans-hostages-in-turkey-report/

"And over the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, about 250 miles from the Syrian border, according to two American officials.
Those weapons, one senior official said, were now essentially Erdogan’s hostages. To fly them out of Incirlik would be to mark the de facto end of the Turkish-American alliance. To keep them there, though, is to perpetuate a nuclear vulnerability that should have been eliminated years ago. 

“I think this is a first — a country with U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in it literally firing artillery at US forces,” Jeffrey Lewis of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies wrote last week."

My Comment: Drumpf is going to get us all killed or held hostage to 50 gd American nuclear weapons held in Turkey. Drumpf the blowhard talks smack about how he is going to rain down stiff sanctions on Turkey for their blasting away our former ally and helper in defeating ISIS. I will believe those sanctions when I see them. In the meantime a nation with American nukes is shooting at US forces.  What could possibly go wrong?  All this to appease Drumpf's buddy Putin and to appease his other authoritarian friend Erdogan so Turkey can finally annihilate their perpetual perceived enemy US ally the Kurds and gain a foothold in Syria.  War crimes are being committed as I write this and Trump is the useful idiot helping Tyrants!  If Drumpf were not the so called president he would be in jail! 

If this does not convince you of this crackpot president's threat I do not know what will--The ISIS of this nation

"A graphic video -- story linked below omitting the horrific video featuring a fake President Donald Trump stabbing members of the news media and lighting the head of a political rival on fire was played at a conference for his supporters this weekend, according to a report Sunday by The New York Times." This is utterly disgusting. He has been called upon to denounce it but has not so far and others in his entourage have not either. What is this jerk president made of? What toxic DNA flows through his body? The video is unconscionable and should be denounced in the most adamant and vociferous way.  This will encourage the right wing toward violence as if they needed any more encouragement.  If this does not convince you of this crackpot president's threat to us I do not know what will.  https://www.huffpost.com/.../fake-trump-meme-video...

U.S. Takes Custody of British ISIS Detainees Who Abused Hostages The military took the two men out of a wartime prison in Syria run by a Kurdish-led militia as Turkey invaded the region--MY COMMENT

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/us/politics/beatles-isis-us-custody.html?emc=edit_na_20191009&ref=headline&nl=breaking-news?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=17729&user_id=85a8ac1c6f518c011d82f4864472cc9b&regi_id=75028030ing-news

MY COMMENT:  So the Beast Drumpf was asked by an American journalist what will happen to the ISIS prisoners about 12,000 in number held in prison by the Kurds when the Americans leave Syria. He answers nonchalantly "they'll probably go to Europe" like it was no big deal. Really you idiot they will just probably go to Europe? What and kill more people in Britain, France and elsewhere not to mention the US if they get here? 

For that alone he should be impeached. That's working against our allies for damn sake. Maybe he should make sure they get to Russia to his good buddy the tyrant Putin maybe that will get his gd attention.

Either IMPEACH and convict this gd moron or vote blue and save the world.  This jackass has NO idea what he is doing!

White House Refuses To Cooperate With Impeachment Inquiry; Constitutional Crisis Looms--TRUMP VEERS INTO TYRANNY

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-accuses-democrats-impeachment-overturn-election_n_5d9cfd31e4b02c9da0406582?fbclid=IwAR1yPl5comWg5IjB3A_zky05g-EUxdLlwSshN9QhPLdTVDLiU3kONkGPMRw

Moreover because of this Beast's rancid foreign policy adventure leaving our allies the Kurds to encounter a possible genocide as Turkish and Russian troops are lined up to cross the border. This is the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of this nation.  Worse thousands of ISIS troops are emerging out of prisons.  This could get him impeached as the Republicans are loathe to this betrayal of the Kurds who lost thousands helping the US.

Turkish invasion of Syria would be 'godsend' for ISIS, experts warn

"We have more work to do to keep ISIS from coming back," the spokesperson for the Kurdish-led forces said. "If America leaves, all will be erased."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkish-invasion-syria-would-be-godsend-isis-experts-warn-n1063621

Chaos in Syria, Washington after Trump call with Erdogan unleashed Turkish military

  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/chaos-syria-washington-after-trump-call-erdogan-unleashed-turkish-military-n1063516

 

What a MESS! As long as the Beast has one, ooops he said two towers, in Turkey he goes along with a Turkish Erdogan (a strongman of course) policy to order a pull out of American troops -- allies of the Kurds who defeated with the US ISIS. Now ISIS thinks it died and went to heaven as it will have a second chance to regroup and annihilate the Kurds and even strike the US as ground troops are strewn all over the Middle East.  An impending genocide of the Kurds is at hand.  Even Syria and Russia were surprised by the impulsive action, a hallmark of a Drumpf presidency.  It seems Erodogan had his little feelings hurt not having a one on one with Drumpf in New York.  Trump was trying to get Erodogan off the phone thus promising a Syria pull out and abandoning a Kurd ally.  Sure understandable one wants to get a pain in the neck off the phone so you give them a reward -- a potential genocide!  Is he 15 years old or 74?  Even the Republicans are cracking.  We'll see for how long.

The US is now perceived as an unreliable ally. Another ugly Drumpf feature.  He cares only about himself! Drumpf does not care about a friend which is why he can walk away from the Kurds, who spent blood (10,000 dead) with the US to defeat ISIS.  He is concerned as much as if he were endangering fleas. He cares NOTHING for a friend or anyone else except he does care about his gd money, his Trump tower Istanbul.  UGLY, UGLY UGLY man.

He needs to be impeached, convicted, then prosecuted as a civilian and jailed!

VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE TICKET AND SAVE A NATION!

Suggested Reading

Larry O'Donnell's interview of James Stewart was excellent. Suggested reading: James Stewart's "Deep State" on my list after Rachel Maddow's "Blowout." I wish I had two pairs of eyes to read such great material on the unstable genius Trump. His presidency if you want to call it that, is the shame of our nation!

Theater of the Absurd

It is the height of absurdity for Trump and his minions to want an investigation into what they say is the larger so called "deep state" scandal of Ukraine interference in the US 2016 election rather than Russia. Now I ask you Ukraine is a small nation compared to Russia and, moreover, is defending itself in a hot war against Russian invasion after Russia took Crimea by force. It is in Russia's prime interest to shake the accusation off of it for its interference in the 2016 US election for their electoral preference of Donald Trump and place it on a sham wholly disputed accusation that Ukraine did it. This is reductio ad absurdum.

Ukrainian interference in the US 2016 election has been roundly debunked and dismissed by Mueller himself coming to the absolute truth conclusion that Russia used its massive tentacles and technological expertise to do so. It is theater of the absurd to point an accusatory finger at Ukraine. The head of Ukraine, Zelensky, must tread carefully with Trump because Ukraine depends upon the US to protect its national security with US weapons to the tune of 250 million dollars of support that Trump had held up in order to put force on Ukraine to do his bidding and investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. THAT is the height of a Constitutional violation which Trump took an oath to support. That is the rope Trump has used to hang himself and others loyal to him by asking in a short memo for a foreign nation to do his bidding against his main electoral opponent, Joe Biden. 

How would tiny by comparison Ukraine have the ability to perform the massive 2016 election interference the Mueller evidence of which showed Russia clearly performed? Russia not only had the motive but the ability to use their complex KGB-like intelligence and technology to commit the 2016 election interference that Mueller unequivocally said they did. Trump, as in Beckett's theater of the absurd will have to be waiting for Godot to arrive to prove his lie only to find out Godot never will appear.