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🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
By: AGelbert Date: September 25, 2019, 7:46 pm
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[font=times new roman]The Intercept[/font]
September 24 2019, 6:36 p.m.
By Ryan Grim
[quote]That grassroots anger was translating into primary
challenges, he noted, and needlessly furious constituents. Rep.
🙉 Cheri 😈 Bustos, the chair of the Democratic
::) Congressional Campaign 🐉💵🎩🦕
Committee, and a champion of doing nothing when it came to
🦀 Trump, had recently counted as many as 111 primaries,
far more than a typical cycle.[/quote]
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[center]WHY THE HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS WAS ABLE TO MOVE SO
RAPIDLY TOWARD IMPEACHMENT[/center]
Agelbert NOTE: It is important to keep score here. For those who
want to know who supports impeachment and who doesn't, these
sources are kept current:
[url=
HTML https://www.needtoimpeach.com/congress-map/?emci=eabca06f-00df-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68&emdi=7fe16113-01df-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68&ceid=1788404]Find<br
/>out where your representative stands on Impeachment
HTML https://theintercept.com/2019/09/24/impeachment-inquiry-donald-trump-nancy-pelosi/
From yesterday to today, several more Democrats have joined the
Impeachment bandwagon 👍. As it stand today, 46% of
Congress (200 of 236 Democrats, 1 of 1 Independents, 0 of 199
😈 Republicans) supports the Impeachment of [img
width=70]
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/>Trump.
IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY TRACKER
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[center]"Trump Call to Ukraine was a CLASSIC MAFIA SHAKEDOWN" -
Intel Committee Chief Schiff[/center]
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Wednesday September 25, 2019 · 1:38 PM EDT
[center]House committee chairs say White House readout confirms
worst fears: 'This was a shakedown'
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Agelbert NOTE: Pence is in this Mafia Shakedown UP TO HIS
EYEBALLS! Pence needs to be IMPEACHED along with TRUMP! [img
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[center]Could 🦕 Mike Pence Be Impeached For His Part in
Trump's Treason? [img
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854 views • Sep 25, 2019
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Thom Hartmann Program
181K subscribers
Could Vice President Mike Pence be a guilty in the same treason
Donald Trump committed by asking a foreign government to get
dirt on Joe Biden?
If he is could Pence face impeachment along with Donald Trump?
Thom Hartmann reveals why he thinks Mike Pence might be looking
at a guilty verdict too
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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
By: AGelbert Date: September 25, 2019, 8:07 pm
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September 25, 2019 9:00 P.M.
Agelbert NOTE: WOW! That was quick! They only need 218 to
impeach and the count just jumped from 201 to 🧐 210
HTML https://impeachmentinquiry.org/!<br
/>
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IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY TRACKER
HTML https://impeachmentinquiry.org/
The MAP below is not as up to date but it is geographically
informative:
Find out where your representative stands on Impeachment
HTML https://www.needtoimpeach.com/congress-map/?emci=eabca06f-00df-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68&emdi=7fe16113-01df-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68&ceid=1788404
[center]“We’ve Reached Critical Mass”: Rep. Al Green on Pelosi
Vow to Impeach Trump for “Dastardly Deeds”[/center]
11,102 views•Sep 25, 2019
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HTML https://youtu.be/JRwCJ8xnrMw[/center]
[font=times new roman]Democracy Now![/font]
584K subscribers
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched a formal
impeachment inquiry into President Trump following allegations
from an intelligence community whistleblower that Trump sought
help from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a July 25
phone call to investigate Democratic presidential front-runner
Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled Senate unanimously passed
a nonbinding resolution calling for the Trump administration to
release the whistleblower complaint to the House and Senate
Intelligence Committees.
We get response and look at next steps with Congressmember Al
Green, Democrat from Texas, who in 2017 was the first
congressmember to call for President Trump’s impeachment from
the floor of the House of Representatives.
We also speak with John Nichols, political writer for The Nation
and author of the book, “The Genius of Impeachment: The
Founders’ Cure for Royalism.”
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extraordinary tensions 👀 between Trump and Acting direct
or of national intelligence
By: AGelbert Date: September 25, 2019, 8:38 pm
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[center]Acting director of national intelligence threatened to
resign if he couldn't speak freely before Congress[/center]
Source: Washington Post
The acting Director of National Intelligence threatened to
resign over concerns that the White House might attempt to force
him to stonewall Congress when he testifies Thursday about an
explosive whistleblower complaint about the president, according
to current and former U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The revelation reflects the extraordinary tensions between the
White House and the nation’s highest-ranking intelligence
official over a matter that has triggered impeachment
proceedings against President Trump.
The officials said that Joseph Maguire, who was thrust into the
top intelligence post last month, warned the White House that he
was not willing to withhold information from Congress, where he
is scheduled to testify in open and closed hearings on Thursday.
Read more:
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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
By: AGelbert Date: September 25, 2019, 8:41 pm
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[center]Pentagon Letter Undercuts Trump [img
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]
Source: NPR
Earlier this week, President Trump cited concerns about
corruption as his rationale for blocking security assistance to
Ukraine. But in a letter sent to four congressional committees
in May of this year and obtained by NPR, Undersecretary of
Defense for Policy John Rood informs lawmakers that he has
"certified that the Government of Ukraine has taken substantial
actions to make defense institutional reforms for the purposes
of decreasing corruption [and] increasing accountability."
The certification was required by law for the release of $250
million in security assistance for Ukraine. That aid was blocked
by the White House until Sept. 11 and has since been released.
It must be spent before Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.
Read more:
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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
By: AGelbert Date: September 25, 2019, 9:04 pm
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Biden probe was condition for Trump-Zelenskiy phone call: Ukrain
ian adviser
By: AGelbert Date: September 25, 2019, 9:32 pm
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[move][font=courier]Ukrainians understood Biden probe was
condition for Trump-Zelenskiy phone call: Ukrainian
adviser[/font][/move]
Source: ABC
When Ukrainians voted to elect comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as
their next president in the spring of 2019, the fledgling
administration was eager to coordinate a phone call with Kyiv’s
most important benefactor -- the United States, according to an
adviser to Zelenskiy.
But after weeks of discussions with American officials,
Ukrainian officials came to recognize a precondition to any
executive correspondence, the adviser said.
"It was clear that [President Donald] 🦀 Trump will only
have communications if they will discuss the Biden case," said
Serhiy Leshchenko, an anti-corruption advocate and former member
of Ukraine's Parliament, who now acts as an adviser to
Zelenskiy. "This issue was raised many times. I know that
Ukrainian officials understood."
The Trump administration’s alleged insistence that the two
leaders discuss a prospective investigation into Biden, one of
the president’s political opponents, casts his July 25
conversation with Zelenskiy in a new light.
-snip-
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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
By: AGelbert Date: September 25, 2019, 10:20 pm
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MSNBC ✔
@MSNBC
"One Republican senator told me if it was a secret vote, 30
Republican senators would vote to impeach Trump."
– Mike Murphy, fmr. senior adviser to Mitt Romney and John
McCain
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Whistle-blower: "There are other witnesses to (a pattern of)
disturbing conduct"
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The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It’s a Massive Plot.
By: Surly1 Date: September 26, 2019, 5:04 am
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The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It’s a Massive Plot.
HTML http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/ukraine-scandal-trump-phone-call-giuiliani-pence-barr-mulvaney-impeachment.html
Jonathan Chait
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On July 25, President Trump held a phone call in which he
repeatedly leaned on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to
investigate Joe Biden and Paul Manafort’s prosecutors. The
episode is so blatantly inappropriate even Trump’s most fervent
apologists are, with a few exceptions, having trouble defending
it. What they are trying to do, instead, is define this phone
call as the entire scandal. Trump emphasizes that he “didn’t
specifically mention the explicit quid pro quo” of military aid
in return for the investigation.
That is true, as far as it goes. The quid pro quo in the call,
though perfectly apparent, is mostly implicit. But the real
trick in Trump’s defense is framing the call as the entire
scandal. The scandal is much more than that. The call is a
snapshot, a moment in time in a months-long campaign that put
American policy toward Ukraine at the disposal of Trump’s
personal interests and reelection campaign.
Last spring, Rudy Giuliani was openly pressuring Kiev to
investigate Joe Biden. Giuliani told the New York Times, “We’re
meddling in an investigation … because that information will be
very, very helpful to my client.” The key word there was
“we’re.” The first-person plural indicated Giuliani was not
carrying out this mission alone. A series of reports have
revealed how many other government officials were involved in
the scheme.
When Trump ordered military aid to Ukraine to be frozen, he went
through his chief of staff and budget director Mick Mulvaney.
Congress had passed the aid, and Ukraine was under military
attack from Russia, a fact that made the halting of the
assistance worrisome to numerous officials in two branches of
government. As the Times reported, lawmakers and State
Department staffers were asking why the money hadn’t gone
through.
They were given cover stories: Lawmakers “were first told the
assistance was being reviewed to determine whether it was in the
best interest of foreign policy,” the Times reported this week.
“Other administration officials said, without detail, there was
a review on corruption in Ukraine, according to current and
former officials. Then, as August drew to a close, other
officials told lawmakers they were trying to gauge the
effectiveness of the aid, a claim that struck congressional
aides as odd.”
Lots of officials were involved in disseminating these cover
stories to hide the fact that Trump held back the aid to
leverage Ukraine to investigate Biden. One of them was Mike
Pence, who told some confused officials that the aid was being
held up “based on concerns from the White House about ‘issues of
corruption.’” Pence knew perfectly well what this really meant —
asked point blank if the aid was being held up over Ukraine’s
failure to investigate Biden, he replied “as President Trump had
me make clear, we have great concerns about issues of
corruption.” In other words, yes, Ukraine needed to investigate
Biden if it wanted the money.
Giuliani, though is the central figure. He has employed very
little subterfuge. Giuliani told the Washington Post he kept
Trump informed of his work in Ukraine for months, and declared,
“My narrow interest is for the benefit of my client.” The
apparent reason for his candor was to make it known to Ukraine
that he was not a goofy cable-television blatherer but the
president’s designated representative for Ukraine policy. If
Ukraine wanted to get anything done, it had to work with Rudy.
Ukraine got the message. Its officials “expressed concern to
U.S. senators that the aid had been held up as a penalty for
resisting that pressure” to investigate Biden, reports the Wall
Street Journal.
American foreign policy operates in regimented and
bureaucratized ways. Turning over the machinery to the
president’s personal attorney, who is not a foreign-policy
expert or even a government employee, distorted the entire
process, in ways that were noticeable throughout the government.
The Washington Post has the most detailed account of the
contortions. Giuliani circumvented unhelpful diplomats, even
replacing one deemed troublesome. Several meetings on Ukraine
policy at the White House leading up to the July 25 call “led
some participants to fear that Trump and those close to him
appeared prepared to use U.S. leverage with the new leader of
Ukraine for Trump’s political gain.”
The White House–issued summary of Trump’s phone call with
Zelensky shows the American president pressing his counterpart
to undertake the twin investigations. After Trump asks Zelensky
to investigate Biden, and Zelensky makes accommodating noises in
response, Trump promises to have Giuliani and Attorney General
William Barr call him. Barr also was involved in preventing
Congress from seeing the whistle-blower complaint, and the call
summary shows that he had a personal interest in doing so. Add
Barr to the list of impeachment witnesses.
There may be many others. Last night on Fox News, Giuliani held
up a phone he said included messages with official authorization
for his activities. “You know who I did it at the request of?
The State Department,” he said. The scheme to shake down Ukraine
was a massive plot, spreading through the government and
corrupting multiple officials. Trump had a lot of accomplices.
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York columnist Jonathan Chait.
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Re:The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It’s a Massive Plo
t.
By: AGelbert Date: September 26, 2019, 2:49 pm
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date=1569492244]
[center]The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It’s a
Massive Plot.
HTML http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/ukraine-scandal-trump-phone-call-giuiliani-pence-barr-mulvaney-impeachment.html[/center]
Jonathan Chait
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[center] Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photos: Getty
Images[/center]
On July 25, President Trump held a phone call in which he
repeatedly leaned on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to
investigate Joe Biden and Paul Manafort’s prosecutors. The
episode is so blatantly inappropriate even Trump’s most fervent
apologists are, with a few exceptions, having trouble defending
it. What they are trying to do, instead, is define this phone
call as the entire scandal. Trump emphasizes that he “didn’t
specifically mention the explicit quid pro quo” of military aid
in return for the investigation.
That is true, as far as it goes. The quid pro quo in the call,
though perfectly apparent, is mostly implicit. But the real
trick in Trump’s defense is framing the call as the entire
scandal. The scandal is much more than that. The call is a
snapshot, a moment in time in a months-long campaign that put
American policy toward Ukraine at the disposal of Trump’s
personal interests and reelection campaign.
Last spring, Rudy Giuliani was openly pressuring Kiev to
investigate Joe Biden. Giuliani told the New York Times, “We’re
meddling in an investigation … because that information will be
very, very helpful to my client.” The key word there was
“we’re.” The first-person plural indicated Giuliani was not
carrying out this mission alone. A series of reports have
revealed how many other government officials were involved in
the scheme.
When Trump ordered military aid to Ukraine to be frozen, he went
through his chief of staff and budget director Mick Mulvaney.
Congress had passed the aid, and Ukraine was under military
attack from Russia, a fact that made the halting of the
assistance worrisome to numerous officials in two branches of
government. As the Times reported, lawmakers and State
Department staffers were asking why the money hadn’t gone
through.
They were given cover stories: Lawmakers “were first told the
assistance was being reviewed to determine whether it was in the
best interest of foreign policy,” the Times reported this week.
“Other administration officials said, without detail, there was
a review on corruption in Ukraine, according to current and
former officials. Then, as August drew to a close, other
officials told lawmakers they were trying to gauge the
effectiveness of the aid, a claim that struck congressional
aides as odd.”
Lots of officials were involved in disseminating these cover
stories to hide the fact that Trump held back the aid to
leverage Ukraine to investigate Biden. One of them was Mike
Pence, who told some confused officials that the aid was being
held up “based on concerns from the White House about ‘issues of
corruption.’” Pence knew perfectly well what this really meant —
asked point blank if the aid was being held up over Ukraine’s
failure to investigate Biden, he replied “as President Trump had
me make clear, we have great concerns about issues of
corruption.” In other words, yes, Ukraine needed to investigate
Biden if it wanted the money.
Giuliani, though is the central figure. He has employed very
little subterfuge. Giuliani told the Washington Post he kept
Trump informed of his work in Ukraine for months, and declared,
“My narrow interest is for the benefit of my client.” The
apparent reason for his candor was to make it known to Ukraine
that he was not a goofy cable-television blatherer but the
president’s designated representative for Ukraine policy. If
Ukraine wanted to get anything done, it had to work with Rudy.
Ukraine got the message. Its officials “expressed concern to
U.S. senators that the aid had been held up as a penalty for
resisting that pressure” to investigate Biden, reports the Wall
Street Journal.
American foreign policy operates in regimented and
bureaucratized ways. Turning over the machinery to the
president’s personal attorney, who is not a foreign-policy
expert or even a government employee, distorted the entire
process, in ways that were noticeable throughout the government.
The Washington Post has the most detailed account of the
contortions. Giuliani circumvented unhelpful diplomats, even
replacing one deemed troublesome. Several meetings on Ukraine
policy at the White House leading up to the July 25 call “led
some participants to fear that Trump and those close to him
appeared prepared to use U.S. leverage with the new leader of
Ukraine for Trump’s political gain.”
The White House–issued summary of Trump’s phone call with
Zelensky shows the American president pressing his counterpart
to undertake the twin investigations. After Trump asks Zelensky
to investigate Biden, and Zelensky makes accommodating noises in
response, Trump promises to have Giuliani and Attorney General
William Barr call him. Barr also was involved in preventing
Congress from seeing the whistle-blower complaint, and the call
summary shows that he had a personal interest in doing so. Add
Barr to the list of impeachment witnesses.
There may be many others. Last night on Fox News, Giuliani held
up a phone he said included messages with official authorization
for his activities. “You know who I did it at the request of?
The State Department,” he said. The scheme to shake down Ukraine
was a massive plot, spreading through the government and
corrupting multiple officials. Trump had a lot of accomplices.
Get the latest from Jonathan Chait in your inbox.
Analysis and commentary on the latest political news from New
York columnist Jonathan Chait.
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Wrecking Crew are a bunch of Murderous Crooks and Liars. I hope
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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
By: AGelbert Date: September 26, 2019, 4:59 pm
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VtDigger
Sep 26 2019, 2:34 PM
By Xander Landen
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complaint[/center]
[move][font=courier]Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., questioned acting
Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire during
Thursday’s hearing. U.S. House feed[/font][/move]
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Rep. Peter Welch called Director of National Intelligence Joseph
Maguire’s approach to handling the whistleblower complaint
detailing President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian
president in July “a dilemma for our democracy.”
Just days after House Democrats announced they are launching an
impeachment inquiry over the phone call, Vermont’s lone House
member others on the House Intelligence Committee questioned
Maguire, who did not forward the whistleblower complaint to
Congress when he received it in August.
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The chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff of
California, and other Democratic members of the panel have
accused Maguire of violating the law by failing to give the
complaint to lawmakers.
In the document, which was made public on Thursday, the
whistleblower voiced concern about Trump’s call with Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25, and his request that
the leader investigate former vice president and 2020
presidential candidate Joe Biden.
The whistleblower also reported that White House officials
attempted to “lock down” records of the call between Trump and
Zelensky.
Maguire told the committee on Thursday that he handled the
complaint “in full compliance with the law at all times” and
that his delay in providing lawmakers with the document stemmed
from his concerns over executive privilege.
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But Welch and other Democrats said that they disagreed with
Maguire’s handling of the complaint, and that he should have
provided it to Congress promptly.
“Under your 🙉 🙊 approach as you saw it, it means
that no one would be investigating the underlying conduct
because in this case executive privilege applies, and number two
the president who had the conversation is above the law,” Welch
said. “So that’s a dilemma for our democracy is it not?”
Schiff, the committee chair, also told Maguire it was
inappropriate for him to withhold the complaint.
“You stood silent when an intelligence professional under your
care and protection was ridiculed by the president, was accused
of potentially betraying his or her country when that
whistleblower by their fact of coming forward has shown more
dedication to country, more of an understanding of the
president’s oath office than the president has ever
demonstrated,” Schiff said.
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/>Republicans on the committee defended Maguire, who said that
this whistleblower case is different than others because it
involves the president, who does not fall under the authority of
his office.
“I think you’re nuts if you think you’re going to convince the
American people that your cause is just by attacking this man,”
Rep. Chris Stuart, R-Utah, told Democrats Thursday. “[It’s]
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Rep. 😈 Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the former chair, blasted
the Democrats’ complaint as highly politicized and called it the
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While Welch criticized Maguire, he said he didn’t think the
intelligence chief handled the complaint in bad faith.
“I disagree with some of the decisions you made, but I have no
doubt whatsoever that the same sense of duty that you applied in
your long and illustrious career guided you as you made these
decisions,” Welch told Maguire, a retired Navy Vice Admiral and
high-ranking official at the National Counterterrorism Center.
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