Bongino points out there was a previous attempt for a 'quid pro quo' impeachment during the Mueller investigation

Bongino pointed out something very interesting in his show yesterday: the July phone call fake impeachment might not have been the first attempt at this:

https://bongino.com/ep-1168-adam-schiff-is-hiding-something-big/

He points out to the dates of previous events, and makes the following points:

• on May 2, 2018, a piece of the New York Slime reports on how they tried to pretend the Trump administration withheld the delivery of Javelins in order to have the Ukrainian stop helping the Mueller investigation regarding Manafort

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/world/europe/ukraine-mueller-manafort-missiles.html

• 2 days later, democrat senators Menendez, Durbin and Leahy, send a letter to Lutsenko, asking if the Trump administration is pressuring them

https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/5-4-18%20Menendez%20joint%20letter%20to%20General%20Prosecutor%20of%20Ukraine%20on%20Mueller%20investigation.pdf

• Parnas and Fruman recorded the President during an intimate April 30, 2018, dinner at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., as attested by an ABC news article

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/recording-appears-capture-trump-private-dinner-ukraine-ambassador/story?id=68506437

• Bongino points out: why was Parnas recording the conversation at all? Who the hell is Parnas –supposedly helping Giuliani– actually working for? It looks as if it was also a part of the coordinated hit

• that 'quid pro quo' attempt fell flat, as Javelins were not withheld

• to make it fool proof this time, Schiff recruited 2 former members of the NSC in August, Abigail Grace and Sean Misko, just before the second attempt at a 'Trump withheld Javelins delivery' scandal happens

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiffs-staff-includes-2-aides-who-worked-with-whistleblower-at-white-house

[remember, the whistle blower was also working at the NSC, and worked for Biden]

• so this way, the NSC staffers could coordinate with the fake whistle blower.

• Bongino wonders, did they try to get Trump to mention Biden in a call where Javelins were mentioned? [me: why did Vindman ask for Burisma to be specifically named in the transcript?]

• he all but says he has an inside source that basically told him that the first attempt was a test run

What is in the 18th witness' testimony, Atkinson's? Why does Schiff keep pretending there were only 17 witnesses?

That testimony might have information that would help us untangle this:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/23/michael-atkinson-testimony-concealed-adam-schiff/

And some GOP senators are now actively asking questions about the testimony related to the impeachment trial.

Furthermore, Meadows is pointing out that the Bolton "leak" might have been part of a coordinated attempt, aiming at manipulating the thinking of Republican Senators to "encourage them to provide more witnesses":

https://bongino.com/meadows-hypothesis-bolton-book-leak-was-coordinated-to-change-impeachment-narrative/