This week the articles of impeachment were  transmitted to the Senate, and the impeachment trial formally began.  Senators were sworn in, but it was unclear if they planned to follow the  oath they swore to deliver impartial justice.

This week the House released hundreds of pages  of documents provided by Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani.  Parnas made stunning disclosures in MSNBC and CNN interviews of other  Trump regime members being “in the loop” on Trump’s plan to withhold aid  from Ukraine pending the announcement of investigations, including Vice  President Mike Pence, former Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and many  others.

As the Senate trial was about to begin, the  nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found Trump had violated  the law by withholding Ukraine aid. The government of Ukraine also  announced it would open a criminal investigation into Trump regime  members’ alleged surveillance of former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Maria  Yovanovitch disclosed in the Parnas documents, while Secretary of State  Mike Pompeo skipped scheduled Congressional hearings on Iran, and  largely hid from the media for the balance of the week.

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