Week 151 - Soliciting Foreign Help...Again

With impeachment looming, Trump started this  week by attacking the credibility of House Intelligence Committee Chair  Adam Schiff and the whistleblower, both of whom he also endangered with  his rhetoric. Midweek, Trump shifted strategy, openly soliciting foreign  help from China and Ukraine in the 2020 election on national  television, speaking to reporters on the South Lawn of White House.  Republicans remained silent on Trump’s unprecedented request, which the  head of the Federal Election Commission reminded the country, in a  tweet, is illegal. This week others in the regime became ensnared  in the inquiry, as reporting revealed the involvement of not only  Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, but also Attorney General  William Barr, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and possibly Vice  President Mike Pence, among others. Three House committee chairs sent  subpoenas to Pompeo, Pence, and at the end of the week, the White House,  and witnesses started to appear before House investigators in private  hearings. Polling showed a dramatic shift in attitudes towards  impeachment, with the majority of Americans now in favor. As noted last week, I had always thought as we  approached the end of Trump’s time in power, the lists would balloon:  following last week’s 225 not normal items — 20 items longer than any  previous list — this week we hit 240 items. In addition to the news on  impeachment, this week’s list has many important stories on the  continued degradation of American values and the regime’s cruelty, which  got lost in the chaos of the news cycle. Read the full list here: https://theweeklylist.org/weekly-list/week-151/