1/ Day One Takeaways:

NOT PERRY MASON: “Everyone wants the ‘Perry Mason’ moment, where the defendant breaks down and admits everything. Not gonna happen. Trump will never admit guilt. Nixon never did. We just have to trust the process.”- @tracygreen

2/ NUNES SPEECH: “Nunes gave a ‘deep state’, conspiracy speech instead of asking questions since he knew Amb Taylor would tell the truth.”- @tracygreen

3/ AMERICAN INTERESTS: “Americans can ask themselves if Trump—who appoints his personal lawyer Giuliani and his clients Parnas and Fruman to push foreign policy & seek removal of an Amb., is the person we want conducting foreign policy that is in the best interest of the U.S.”-TG

4/ RHINESTONE COWBOY: “Trump as a real estate cowboy-deal maker and reality show veteran thinks that opening the WH doors to any and all dictators or leaders does not understand how that undermines U.S. policies. Big difference in meeting outside White House versus inside.”-TG

5/ GET OUT THE VOTE: “Forget about the Trump base, who some liken to a personality cult, changing their mind. Bias often trumps facts. Focus frustration on volunteering for 2020 candidates and helping them gather data about voters.”- @tracygreen

6/ THE “ATTACK THE SNITCH” DEFENSE: I noted the GOP M.O. appears to be “deny-attack”.

Tracy says: “It’s like a criminal trial where the defense puts police on trial or the cooperator. They don’t focus on kilos of cocaine seized from the car — just on the ‘snitch’ and the DEA.”

7/ TRUMP STATE: “Trump the businessman-president* conducts foreign policy to not make enemies of leaders of countries where he does business or has buyers (Putin, MBS, Erdogen). Treating the U.S. like a business who avoids offending a potential customer is not foreign policy.”-TG

8/ CRONY BALONEY: “Trump undermines his own departments, WH, cabinet and military leaders by conducting foreign policy via Giuliani and his clients who want to do business in Ukrainian gas.”- @tracygreen

9/ TRUST THE PROCESS: This thread was born out of a 30-minute call with Tracy calming my noives. She ended with this Voltaire fable:

“When 83-year-old Voltaire was on his deathbed, a priest asked him to renounce Satan. Voltaire replied: “This is no time to make enemies.”

Lol.