The Ukraine Thing: A Timeline of GOP Betrayal

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Repeat the timeline, over and over. Watch how the treason blossomed.

The Ukraine Thing: A Timeline of GOP Betrayal
How the Republicans caved to Putin. The whole party, not just Trump.
gregolear.substack.com
6:10 AM · Oct 30, 2020

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-thing-a-timeline-of-gop

AS THE MOST RECENT attempt to interfere with our elections circulates in the media—in the form of a Giuliani “hard drive” story that even Fox News refused to run—we are reminded yet again that there is a recurring cast of characters that continues to plague our national conversation, and certain themes that those characters seem determined inject into the public consciousness.

A specific recurring theme that won’t go away is the two-pronged Ukraine narrative. The Trump gang seems desperate to convince Americans to accept two stories that are unbelievable when considered alongside the facts: First, that Ukraine was somehow involved in the hacking of the DNC in 2016, and, secondly, that the Biden family was engaged in a vaguely-defined series of corrupt dealings in that country.

While those two stories were likely born from two different agendas, they do share familiar characters—specifically, Paul Manafort, Rudy Giuliani and, in Ukraine, one Andriy Derkach, a KGB-connected Ukrainian whose father may have been involved in the beheading of a journalist (yes, you read that correctly).

And, more interestingly, one of these two stories is instructive in helping us to decode why the Republican Party seems to have no bottom when it comes to defending, and participating in, an all-out assault on our democracy. Before we dive into Rudy’s work with Derkach, we do need to establish some context. And that context begins with another key character in MAGA mythology: the disgraced felon Michael Flynn.

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