From Bad to Worse

Yesterday afternoon, the Wall Street Journal broke the story (link here) that Donald Trump's quid pro quo campaign with Ukraine began under that country's previous president, much earlier than previously revealed, at least as early as February, five months before an Oval Office call that linked military assistance in return for damaging information that would hurt Joe Biden's candidacy.

The effort on Trump's behalf was orchestrated by Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who in turn was assisted by Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the latter two who were recently indicted by a federal prosecutor. Parnas is currently believed to be cooperating with investigators for the House Intelligence Committee as it conducts an impeachment investigation against Trump.

Hopefully House investigators were already aware of this earlier effort before the story broke and that it's already part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Given that public testimony is due to begin next week, we may soon learn the answer to that question.