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Robin Abcarian: Your lawless president, Mafia Don

You know what they say - it's not the crime, it's the cover-up.

And now, finally, we have the cover-up.

It was bad enough that President Trump decided to hold up American aid to beleaguered Ukraine, then told that country's president he wanted help digging up dirt on his political opponent Joe Biden.

Turns out, the request was so outrageous, so alarming that White House officials apparently decided they had to find a way to hide it.

According to the now celebrated but still anonymous whistleblower, a transcript

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