The Morning Briefing: #FullOfSchiff Friday Edition

PJM:

Text Me!

Last night, the Democrats released transcripts of administration officials’ text messages about the Ukraine situation. Here is a synopsis from The Hill that also includes all of the transcripts. I read through several pages of them until I felt as if I’d been placed in a medically induced coma and no longer cared.

If there is a smoking gun in there, I didn’t smell it or see it. They’re making a weak attempt to lump Pence into the whole thing, obviously dreaming of passing “Go” and getting straight to President Pelosi (h/t to my editor Paula Bolyard for that heads-up).

Full disclosure: I was watching baseball when I was sent that and read it, so I may have missed something. Because I’m a good American.

Hashtag Fun

It took far too long, but the GOP seems to finally have gotten around to embracing President Trump’s use of Twitter as a bully pulpit.

After Adam Schiff was caught just making stuff up and it was learned that he was playing footsie with the whistleblower long before anything became official, Trump and other Republicans began using the hashtag #FullOfSchiff on Twitter.

Now, I’ve been at the Twitter thing for a very long time and usually cringe when politicians try to get clever with the hashtags. This one isn’t bad though.