Watch the Trump Ukraine scandal come back to roost
 

Mueller was investigating Cohen on the subject of Ukrainian money going to Trump coffers in early 2017, presumably with the aim of pushing Trump policy via impeachable bribery (with a middleman). Now Cohen is headed to NYC to talk to prosecutors. Want to bet it's Ukraine-related?
We'll soon learn that related to the above is deeply conflicted Trump lawyers Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing suddenly picking up Manafort partner Dmitry Firtash as a client. And Michael/Mark Mukasey, heads up—you should've followed conflict-of-interest guidelines, too.
The trajectory of the Trump-Ukraine scandal is like a heat-seeking missile that's travelled out many miles and is now slowly curving back—in a gloriously long arc—to move with supersonic speed toward the man behind this scandal, indeed all the scandals...

...Vladimir Putin.

Putin was paying Firtash funny money—money for no evident purpose—as Firtash was working to aid Manafort-protecting Ukrainian prosecutors and attack Joe Biden. And now Firtash shares a lawyer with...

...let me see here...

...oh, yeah: Trump.

Get ready for the next flash: The 5,000 ways the Salem Witches weren't guilty but Trump sure as #^&#^&#^&#^& is.

After Trump Call, Ukraine's Zelenskiy Gambles On Russia Peace Push Without U.S. Help

Funny how that works
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Former Ukraine Amb. Yovanovitch says she was informed by a top State Dept. official that she was removed under a “concerted campaign against me … as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives.”

Here is her opening statement


https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthel...ull.pdf#page=1

When have we heard something like this before?

"You'll have to ask Rudy"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG0Quq36c5s

Can't wait until they depose Pompeo, he has a lot of explaining to do.

Rudy is in deep #^&#^&#^&#^& also.

Follow the money.

hey, did you hear that the anonymous whistleblower is getting death threats? :huh::hihi:

Oops! Looks like someone isn't going to lie to save the cheeto emperor

President Trump's ambassador to the European Union (EU), Gordon Sondland, plans to tell Congress this week that a text he sent denying understanding of quid pro quo between Trump and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in a July phone call in July was dictated by Trump himself.
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The Soviet-born Lev Parnas, who says (WP) he met Trump "several" times before the 2016 election and came to "admire" him, began working with the Trump Org around 1987—the year Trump first went to the Soviet Union in a trip reports say the KGB set up.
Lev Parnas was born in 1965/1966, and says he returned to the Soviet Union after selling Trump Organization condos while Fred Trump was running the Trump Organization. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991; that places Parnas's work for the Trumps somewhere between 1987 and 1990.
So the KGB develops an interest in Trump right as a Soviet-born man who brags about his connections to "Russian money" begins working with the Trump Organization selling condos... despite no apparent interest in real estate? And Parnas meets Trump "several times" pre-election?
Man, can you imagine how crazy it'd be if Parnas had ties to organized crime? ... for instance, by being "financed" by Soviet-born Dmytro Firtash, who has conceded his entire business empire is based on largesse from Putin friend and international gangster Semion Mogilevich?
Has Trump been a Russian asset since 1987? No. Has he been someone Russian intelligence and organized crime—linked entities—have believed since 1987 they could work with profitably to advance both Trump's interests and their own? Yes. Has it happened? Via intermediaries, yes.
We already have Trump lying about how well he knows Parnas. We have Giuliani lying about Parnas. We have Parnas wrapped up in various ties with Manafort, Firtash, Sater, Fred Trump...we've seen this pattern before. Lies surrounding myriad contacts with Soviet-born persons.
Yes, there was a damning phone call with Zelensky that was the culmination of many months of work by Parnas and Giuliani. But Parnas has been part of this story for over three decades.
Robert Perreira may have thought Parnas was meeting Trump for the first time when Parnas was at an exclusive fundraiser for Trump weeks before the 2016 election. We now know that's not true—indeed, that it's not even *close* to true—though Perreira couldn't have known it then.
It has been established that Putin was paying Firtash insane amounts of funny money; we now know Firtash was spending some of his money bankrolling Parnas. It's pretty clear now that Parnas isn't who we thought he was—and his mission wasn't small-time commercial scams.
The final "deliverable" to be taken from Parnas's work with Trump and Trump's legal team was that Russia would be absolved of attacking America in 2016, Trump would be free to end all sanctions on Russia, and Russia would be primed to attack America again.
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this is great..

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) revealed in a new interview that House Democrats have discussed jailing allies of the president who do not comply with congressional subpoenas, an escalation of the House's efforts to force White House compliance with an impeachment inquiry.

Tlaib told Deadline Detroit that such an action, known as inherent contempt, would be "uncharted territory" for Congress but added that "serious discussions" about taking the step have occurred within the Democratic caucus.

That is not uncharted territory. A Clinton era person was jailed for over a year for not cooperating in the whitewater investigation.
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she refused to answer questions for a grand jury so it's very different than refusing to testify for the democrat nuts in congress and their kangaroo sham court but you should be smart enough to know that

Boy you have the Trump narrative down pat, Congress has the right to call these witnesses in for testimony, if this is a nothing burger as you claim, why refuse to cooperate? Love the right scramble to reach agreement on the narrative, but Scott you clearly are waiting for the right talking points.
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yes...I knew the talking points to use before he even wrote that...I'm:claps: amazing

he was completely wrong with his lightning quick talking points but don't let that figure in to your reasoning :doh:

trump should make this as difficult as possible for the corrupt, deranged democrats....and it will be more fun that way too

There you go repeating the second great taking point, so funny to hear the MOST corrupt president and administration call the Democrats corrupt for congress doing its job.
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Do you think there are no corrupt deranged republicans ?
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maybe but they aren't bothering anyone

well, it was second on my list of talking points

Maybe??? Come on now. Think harder. Stop sniffing the restoration glue.
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Have you noticed both Scott, SD are getting really short and tense these days?

Probably that small motel6 room they are sharing, bringing new Trumplicans into the world is hard work.
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Actually, the troll job they are doing on you guys is epic, you guys are like a blitzing school of blues snapping at everything they are tossing at you. It's really quite amusing.
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Just get a slick and they start biting for us. Wait til there is bait tossed in. Silly liberal fools!
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Just like her emails and benghazzziiiiii
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Find 1 post I made regarding that crap and I buy one of your bowls or bees. Promise
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Ok. You name one and then I’ll name one. It will be like words with friends
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Yes. Three beer tense
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Perhaps that gives you some insight into my anxiety.
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I was going to include Jim but decided I didn't want to rattle him.

For this site I’m in pledging $100 that Trump loses in 2020, if he makes it that far.
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I'll do a hundred.

I thought it was Bengiza??
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Ok boys come on man up, Jim, Scott and RR, cover the wager.
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I got it and GS Libby. Short enough for u?
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I put it out there big spender. I will cover your life savings.
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Have many charities yet to cover in my retirement, others will bump this up to a decent wager and help the site, but gee wiz an insult what a shocker. My god you are so pathetically predictable, change it up you are getting so boring.
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"you say bengiza...I say bengaza....bengiza, bengaza ....bengiza, bengaza....let's blow the whole thing up" :hihi:

DJIA up 319 at last check :scream:

Fiona Hill testified that John Bolton had big problems with Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine campaign and told her to raise it with White House lawyers. Bolton specifically said “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up”.

I've seen some funny comments on this:

This plot twist, where John Bolton turns out to be the good guy, really strains the credibility of this entire season.

The part where the writers have Bolton accuse someone else of being a hand grenade is ironic genius.

If Bolton winds up being the whistleblower, I'll take back everything I've said about this season's lazy writing.

didn't she testify in private hearings behind closed doors?

Gym Jordan apparently isn't upset, he tweeted: "Rep Adam Schiff is conducting his secretive impeachment proceedings in the basement of the Capitol, and now he’s kicked Rep Matt Gaetz out of today’s deposition. This testimony should be available to every member of Congress and every single American. What is Schiff hiding?"

Welcome to Washington and modern palace intrigue, we get to watch a dam break. Can't wait for obviously Deep State John Bolton

In a closed-door session that lasted roughly 10 hours, Fiona Hill told lawmakers that she confronted Gordon Sondland about Giuliani’s activities which, she testified, were not coordinated with the officials responsible for carrying out U.S. foreign policy.

Fiona Hill told House impeachment investigators that she had at least two meetings with NSC lawyer John Eisenberg about Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine efforts, according to a person with direct knowledge of her testimony. Both meetings were at the urging of Bolton.

Fiona Hill describes this scene:

In a White House meeting, Sondland tells Ukrainians they will get a Trump meeting if they open the investigations Trump wants. Then, Sondland follows the Ukrainians out of the meeting to privately make clear he's talking about Hunter Biden.

Trump's former top Russia adviser Fiona Hill alleged that acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, former ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, and Rudy Giuliani were running a "rogue operation" in Ukraine that sought to bypass official channels to benefit Trump politically.

And on Tuesday, a senior State Department official, George Kent, appeared on Capitol Hill to testify about his knowledge of the episode despite an attempt by Trump administration lawyers to block him, according to a source working on the impeachment inquiry. The House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena for his testimony Tuesday morning, and Kent, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, complied.

On Wednesday, Michael McKinley, who abruptly resigned last week as a top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, intends to testify before lawmakers.

On Thursday, lawmakers are expected to hear from Gordon Sondland, the EU ambassador whose text messages revealed by lawmakers indicated he was aware of efforts to pressure Ukrainian officials to investigate Biden. Sondland is reportedly ready to deflect any blame onto Trump about whether there was any quid pro quo involving military aid to Ukraine or a meeting between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart in Washington.

Congressional investigators on Friday will hear from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper, who oversees Russia- and Ukraine-related matters at the Pentagon.