do Trump's bidding and got caught.

It gets in the way of making profit off the serfs. Like the rubes who keep voting for Trump.

Which is why he's talking, and why others will.

He and they will try to save themselves. Those with some degree of smarts, and or patriotism will recognize the way to do that is to tell what they know.

But some will not talk, and will coerce others to follow their lead. The dumbest and most corrupt ones. They will go down hard, for failure to provide testimony or documents. By the time they realize they should not have tied themselves to the sinking ship 45 it will be too late! They will be implicated by the testimony and records of others. Then many will give testimony, hoping for a lenient sentence that they hopefully won't get.

But the best deals go to those who talk first.

net so many...perhaps he knows full well..

The Watergate scandal resulted in the indictment of 69 people, with trials or pleas resulting in 48 being found guilty, many of whom were top Nixon officials.

These people are far more experienced at this sort of game than Trump. They know that whoever rolls first gets the best deals. Thy know that they are not the object of the investigations.

They know Trump has loyalty only to himself (and, maybe, Ivnka), he will throw them under the bus in a heartbeat to save himself. Protecting themselves is the smart move.

is willing to go to prison to protect tRump? He is a cheap thug, pure and simple. Not too bright. All bluff and bluster. Repulsive excuse for a human being. He IS going down, regardless of how many gop members try to protect him, at their own risk.

It would probably be those who are just as deep in crimes as he is and think they still have a chance to break the government. And then there's ideology.

"[J]ust as deep in crimes", "chance to break the government", "ideology" -- yep, Moscow Mitch matches all of them.

of the people. But presumably they believe their rewards will be great if they carry it off. And, as you say, there's ideology.

HUH !! They've had three damn years. I don't call that QUICKLY.
''I call that waiting until the ship starts to think and people start running for the too few lifeboats.

Fool congress?

That was a great analysis. Encouraging, too. They will absolutely move to protect themselves.

Thanks, babylonsister!

Any of these guys from perry on down could be planning to provide doctored evidence absolving trump. What's a perjury charge after all they have done?

But it gives the sycophants something to grab on to and yell at the tops of their lungs as a way to discredit the investigation and provide figleafs to gop house and senate votes.......

watch for it. If he can get a doctor to say he is the healthiest person in the country, he can get any one of his toadies to say anything.

covering his own ass and you can tell by the texts, he was deep in the "conspiracy".

Except for the whistleblower, we would not know about Ukraine-gate.

To my knowledge, Taylor was alarmed, but did not actually block. Unless he happens to be the whistleblower, he did not report this abuse of power to the FBI, Congress.

And that is, when someone who knows something about what's been going on and they talk to authorities (or to Congress), they name names. Who was in this or that meeting? Who did they speak with about this issue? Who can corroborate what you are telling me today? Good lord, when all done, Congress will have a certifiable rope to pull.

She's another lynchpin here and no friend to the WH. We need her up there asap