For the Record: The I-Word

Image via Focus Washington, 28 August 2017.

The inquiry can (and will) begin without using the word "impeachment". We can (and will) use the word all we want. It's not convenient for Nadler to use it at the moment.

— Yasterisk (@Yastreblyansky) December 9, 2018

But that certainly doesn't mean it won't be.

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This thing where NPR is accused of falsely accusing Donald Trump Jr. of lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee—

This NPR story appears to be wrong. It notes that Trump Jr. told a Senate committee that a deal in Moscow died of "deal fatigue" by 2014.

But that was a deal with the Agalarovs. He was also asked if a deal was in the works in 2015/2016 and said yes.https://t.co/B8SuolTfyK pic.twitter.com/w34SamzXJF

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 30, 2018

—is getting things wrong in its own right, in the sense that when we're asked to distinguish between two distinct Trump Tower Moscow deals, one involving the high-class Junior and the Agalarov family, which died in 2014 of "deal fatigue", and the other involving the roughnecks Michael Cohen and Felix Sater, which was ongoing in 2016 when Trump was lying about it in every conceivable venue, that's a really false picture.