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This is so serious that any prudent newspaper or media would want to take the time to get responses and to do some additional investigation. If this is what it seems, this is beyond anything Nixon did and unforgivable. If the problem with an ambassador was foreign policy, the President would simply recall her/him. This was NOT even for his perception of American interests - it was for his personal political reasons.
In Watergate, Nixon did not order the breakin, but he did create the paranoid mindset where people reporting to him took that action .. and he covered it up. Here, he clearly gave Guiliani the charge to get dirt on the Bidens. We KNOW that the ambassador was pulled out on an emergency basis because she was told she was in danger. Though I will predict that Guiliani and/or his guys will be the scapegoats, the fact is THEY COVERED THIS UP. When the State Department pulled her out, if they knew even the details already out yesterday, they should have had an investigation of those Americans.
So why the caution? This is the silver bullet if it is proven. It is better if it comes out with every i dotted and every t crossed. An inadvertent even insignificant error would be what Trump et al would try to latch onto to claim that ALL of it is wrong.
What is clear is that this should be investigated by the House.