Updated title: It's time for Impeachment. Trump used taxpayer money to try and extort the Ukrainian Government to fabricate a scandal

The revelations that Trump explicitly committed High Crimes by tasking a Foreign Government to interfere with the United States in exchange for taxpayer money flies in the face of what the Fourth Estate wants and needs to be true. Trump's Treason and ties to the Ukrainian Mob ruins the media narrative. The are only 4 stories the media wants to run on Donald Trump:

1. Both Sides Do It...
2. Democrats in Disarray!
3. What do Trump voters think?
4. Today, Trump, truly became President

But, in reality Trump is a mobbed-up grifter who's never accomplished anything without the help of criminal actions. Trump's ties to the Mafia underworld stretch back to his days in the 1970's Manhattan real estate business, continued to his links to Russian crime lords in the 1990's (when no reputable financial institution would give him any money) and now reaches into other countries.

President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials.

Of course, Trump tried to strong-arm the Ukrainian Government and offered them an explicit Quid Pro Quo; it's Criminal Traitor Trump's modus operandi. But, having a flagrant criminal and shameless grifter in the White House can not be the truth so enter the media. This doesn't mean Faux News, because they aren't a media source, but a propaganda channel furiously disseminating lies and #agitprop for the Magat Horde to consume and regurgitate. No this is the so-called Vaunted Fourth Estate, who have spent the last 4 years feverishly working to legitimize Trump and running the BothSidesDoIt playbook (All props to Driftglass), whenever confronted with the gross naked horror of what Trump truly is. 

Russian pimps and gangsters, who after years of studying conservatives, knew exactly what to say to tickle the rightwing lizard brain in 2016. Trump knows how he won in 2016 he's going to use the same technique to win in 2020, namely getting a foreign government to fabricate, disseminate, and replicate lies and propaganda to the American people.

Rudy Giuliani spent the last week attempting the Dick Cheney gambit by leaking lies to the media and then breathlessly proclaiming 'Even the liberal media is reporting...'

Because, Trump (or more likely) his cadre of criminal co-conspirators know once these lies and smears are pushed into the American bloodstream, the disingenuous media will shrug and proclaim, 'Some people say...' and 'This story is out there...' and 'People are talking about it, so that means we must as well...'

Of course, the Magat Horde is unreachable, they have their automatic "Fake News!" retort memorized like a incantation to magic away anything which interferes with their love of The Chosen One. As the refrain goes don't take Trump literally take him symbolically.

Trump symbolizes all the raw naked hatred which constitutes the core being of conservatives. Thus, they will never abandon him. Indeed, they can not abandon Trump because it will mean abandoning their true selves. And faced with such a paradigm, it won't take much for conservatives who live for #OwntheLibs to be nudged by Trump's desperation into #KilltheLibs, in order to avoid reckoning with what they've become.

Donald Trump is owned by Russian pimps and gangsters. Republicans have Declared War on the American People.

Donald Trump is a Traitor.  Donald Trump owes allegiance to Vladimir Putin.  Donald Trump is en hock up to his orange hair-plugs to the Russian Mafia.

The Russians have been grooming Donald Trump for decades.  Trump being an arrogant, ignorant blowhard blew his massive inheritance and went bankrupt multiple times.  In the 1990's Russia having carefully tilled Trump's soil planted their flag up his ass and bought him cheaply.

Worse, still every Republican knows it and they don't care.  In fact, multiple members of the Republican Party have sworn undying allegiance to Russia.  Conservatives willingly serve a KGB Colonel.  The Republican Party and right-wingers are openly aligned with a foreign power to destroy the United States of America.

It's treason to the Nation, treason to the Founding Fathers, treason against the United States Constitution, and treason to the people Republicans supposedly represent.

And Trump has admitted it.  Trump starts his mornings focused on Russia, yelling at staff about Russia, venting about the media's reporting on Russia, his actions are those of a guilty man caught red-handed.  Trump tweeted yesterday he knows President Obama was aware of Putin and Russian interference in the 2016 election.  Trump, most likely, believed his tweet, "Was not stupid" but, it undermined the claims right-wing media have been making that there is no evidence of Russian Interference.  Of course, the Trumpenpropletariat will never abandon Trump and will not be bothered by this inconsistency because they have been conditioned to axiomatically adhere to Cleek's Law, which postulates Conservatism is against whatever Liberals want, updated daily.

Now, it might seem odd the Republican Party, which made absolute resistance to Russia the core of their Party for 40 years, would align with Russia.  But, it makes sense when you realize the Republican Party's enemies have always been the American People and the American Dream.

The Republican Party has been at war with American ever since the end of World War 2.  Republicans hid their hatred and anger at the Social Safety Net during the War but, as soon as the need for unity ended, Republicans went back to what they've been doing since the founding of the Nation.  Seeking to kill and enslave as many Americans as possible.

The Republicans Don't Care Bill is designed to harm and bring about the death of millions of Americans.  Recall the Republican Party has 8 years to craft some sort of Healthcare Reform.  For 8 years they screeched, Obamacare Sucks! And America would have perfect healthcare if it weren't for that dastardly Barack Obama blocking us!  And these are the bills we've been promised?!?

This all makes sense when people realize Republicans real enemy and only enemy are the American people.  The Republican Party exists for one purpose, the destruction of the Democratic Republic and the creation of a Neo-Feudal Wage Slave State in which the American People are shackled in unending bondage to undying Corporate Persons.

Digby sums it up,
The simple truth is that the Republicans welcomed a foreign government interfering in the election on their behalf. They knew and they were happy about it and they are now doing everything in their power to cover it up. There is no other way to look at it.

Republican leaders were so hungry to kill people on Medicaid, bankrupt the middle class and give tax cuts to their millionaire friends that they knowingly allowed a foreign government to help that corrupt, incompetent imbecile into the White House. Think about that.