Thanks man, that quack leveled the forest. I've only known a post-Berlin Wall world, so I need this. I was also simply disinterested in history until well after undergrad. You make me wonder whether or not you went to public schools.

Sometimes I check in on this blog, run by a U. Mich. PhD chick, Marcy Wheeler:

The next day, Parnas and Fruman met with Rudy Giuliani at Trump hotel for lunch. That afternoon, Bill Barr visited SDNY. Hours later, Parnas and Fruman tried to board a plane to go to Vienna to tape an interview between Sean Hannity and Dmitro Firtash. They were arrested on charges that had been processing away in SDNY for months, ostensibly because SDNY feared they would flee, even though they had left the country numerous times while that investigation proceeded. Then, probably after Parnas and Fruman were arrested, Barr visited Rupert Murdoch personally. Hannity never went to Vienna. Nor did Rudy, who was supposed to meet Parnas and Fruman the next day.

I'm like "noway!", Googled "Firtash Hannity", and lo and behold. So much information to assimilate. I'm behind, and I'm probably better up to speed on all this than a pretty large number of journalists.

Of course, that's the strategy, though. Cloak everything in several layers of plausible deniability and quash this thing quickly, before investigators can connect all the dots, repackage it in a palatable narrative, and have it even begin to seep into the public consciousness. Which is what's going to happen anyway, so if the Senate acquits, they'll pay dearly in November. If the elections are fair. Big if.