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What 🦅 Pelosi ✨ is up to with Thursday’s
impeachment vote
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 30, 2019, 4:26 pm
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Washington Post
Oct. 29, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. EDT
[center]What 🦅 Pelosi ✨ is up to with Thursday’s
impeachment vote[/center]
SNIPPET:
Pelosi continued, “This week, we will bring a resolution to the
Floor that affirms the ongoing, existing investigation that is
currently being conducted by our committees as part of this
impeachment inquiry, including all requests for documents,
subpoenas for records and testimony, and any other investigative
steps previously taken or to be taken as part of this
investigation.” She adds that this will set out the procedure
“for hearings that are open to the American people, authorizes
the disclosure of deposition transcripts, outlines procedures to
transfer evidence to the Judiciary Committee as it considers
potential articles of impeachment, and sets forth due process
rights for the President and his Counsel.”
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/>She says, “We are taking this step to eliminate any doubt as
to
whether the Trump Administration may withhold documents, prevent
witness testimony, disregard duly authorized subpoenas, or
continue obstructing the House of Representatives.”
So why bring this up now, especially after a court held in
Democrats’ favor? One possibility is that in preparing an
article of impeachment on obstruction of Congress, Pelosi does
not want to leave a crack open whereby 🦀 Trump’s
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/>lawyers would say, well, he had a good-faith belief the
impeachment process was not officially underway.
Constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe 👍 approves of
Pelosi’s move. “This resolution makes perfect sense now that the
House leadership has wisely decided to forgo further judicial
jockeying and to move expeditiously to public hearings,” he
argues. “Calling the Trump
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/>administration’s bluff this way will make it clear that the
continued stonewalling of the administration — and of those
current and former officials who use the administration’s gag
order as an excuse for seeking what amount to advisory judicial
opinions on whether to comply with congressional subpoenas — is
just a stalling tactic, not a good-faith effort to resolve
conflicting obligations when confronted with a subpoena from
Congress and a directive from the White House to defy that
subpoena.”
Tribe also underscores that the resolution does not “authorize”
impeachment but instead “affirms” it is underway. He says, “By
taking that course, the speaker smartly avoids conceding that
there was any infirmity in the inquiry prior to this
authorization vote.”
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The 👹 conservative movement's utter and complete lack of
shame.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 30, 2019, 7:13 pm
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[move]After the call, Vindman attempted to add key details of
the call to the official transcript, but was rebuffed by the
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/>White House, which tried to hide the very existence of the
call
on a top-secret computer server (despite the fact that,
according to Trump on Twitter, the call was “perfect”).[/move]
[center]Not Even 🦀 Trump's
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WILLIAM RIVERS PITT, TRUTHOUT
Conservatives have proven themselves perfectly willing to slag
military veterans when it has suited their purposes. Alexander
Vindman's testimony on Tuesday was extraordinarily damaging to
Trump, yet when Trump and his network news defenders revved up
the smear machine, elected Republicans refused to toe the line.
Doing so did not suit their purposes. The power of unrestrained
shamelessness may have finally found its limits.
Read the Article →
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Parnas Associations Range From 🦍 Russian Mob To
🦀 Trump Legal Team
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 30, 2019, 10:12 pm
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[center]Parnas Associations Range From 🦍 Russian Mob To
🦀Trump
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Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
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Rachel Maddow looks at the criminal and questionable
associations of Lev Parnas even before he was arrested this
month, and wonders at the peculiar relationship Parnas has with
Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Dmytro Firtash, an oligarch
linked to Russian organized crime. Aired on 10/29/19.
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Impeachment Witness Says Transcript Of Trump-Zelenskiy Call Was
Not Complete
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 30, 2019, 10:32 pm
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[center]Impeachment Witness Says Transcript Of 🦀
Trump-Zelenskiy Call Was Not Complete[/center]
The Last Word | MSNBC
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Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman told the impeachment
investigating committees that the White House transcript of a
July call between President Trump and Ukraine's president
omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to
restore them failed. Lawrence O’Donnell discusses with Rep. Sean
Patrick Maloney, Ned Price, and Evan McMullin. Aired on
10/29/19.
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Rachel Maddow just hit on something crucial
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 30, 2019, 11:49 pm
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[center]Rachel Maddow just hit on something crucial[/center]
Bill Palmer | 10:49 pm EDT October 29, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
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The relationship between Rudy Giuliani and his Ukraine
co-conspirators Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman is so strange and
surreal in so many ways, everyone involved is still trying to
get to the bottom of it. Last week Palmer Report pointed out
that everyone involved – us included – was wrong when it came to
one of the initial presumptions. Tonight, Rachel Maddow just hit
on the same thing.
When Parnas and Fruman were arrested, we all just assumed that
they were Rudy Giuliani’s underlings. After all, he’s a major
political figure and the personal attorney to the President of
the United States, and they were just two unknowns who appeared
to be the ones doing the dirty work. They were the henchmen and
Rudy was the boss, right? Except the money trail says the
opposite.
Rudy Giuliani has admitted that he was paid half a million
dollars by Lev Parnas’ company Fraud Guarantee. Bosses are not
generally on the payrolls of their underlings. This strongly
suggested that Rudy was actually working for Parnas. When you
throw in the fact that Parnas is in turn working for Kremlin
oligarch Dmitry Firtash, it seems to point to Vladimir Putin and
his people funding the entire Trump-Ukraine plot, and Rudy just
being a cog in the machine.
Rachel Maddow pointed out all of this on the air tonight, and
made a point of asking who was working for whom when it came to
Rudy Giuliani and his henchmen. It’s important that this
question be given the proper attention, not just because the
answer can properly frame Rudy’s role in this international
criminal plot, but also because the money trail could expose
that the [b]Kremlin has been behind this entire Trump-Ukraine
plot all along[/b].
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"The only reason given was that the order came at the
direction of the 🦀 President."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 31, 2019, 11:49 am
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[move]Another impeachment witness just dropped a ton of bricks
on Donald
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Daniel Cotter | 1:45 pm EDT October 30, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
Donald Trump has continued to talk about the “transcript” that
has been released of his Ukraine phone call, and the Cult 45 and
GOP feckless leadership continues to march to that tune.
However, with each additional witness that comes forward and
provides an opening statement and testimony, the reality is
confirmed – Trump engaged in an illegal quid pro quo, and the
“transcript” he released is not anywhere near the full story of
what transpired.
The latest person to come forward in the Ukraine investigation
that likely will soon find Trump in the Senate, being tried on
numerous articles of impeachment, is 🦅 Catherine Croft.
She worked for the National Security Council on Ukraine issues
for the State Department and is set to testify before the House
committee today. Her opening statement includes the following:
In July 2017, as the Trump Administration was considering
overturning the ban on providing Ukraine defensive weapons, I
was asked to join the National Security Council Staff at the
White House. As the Director covering Ukraine, I staffed the
President’s December 2017 decision to provide Ukraine with
Javelin anti-tank missile systems. I also staffed his September
2017 meeting with then- President Poroshenko on the margins of
the UN General Assembly. Throughout both, I heard—directly and
indirectly—President Trump describe Ukraine as a corrupt
country.
During my time at the NSC, I received multiple calls from
lobbyist 😈 Robert Livingston, who told me that
Ambassador Yovanovitch should be fired. He characterized
Ambassador Yovanovitch as an ‘Obama holdover’ and associated
with George Soros. It was not clear to me at the time—or now—at
whose direction or at whose expense Mr. Livingston was seeking
the removal of Ambassador Yovanovitch.
On July 18, I participated in a sub-Policy Coordination
Committee video conference where an OMB representative reported
that the White House Chief of Staff, 😈 Mick Mulvaney,
had placed an informal hold on security assistance to Ukraine.
The only reason given was that the order came at the direction
of the
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/>President. I had heard about the hold before that date, but do
not remember the specific date.
She was not on the call, but we have further information that
Trump placed a hold on aid to Ukraine and that a lobbyist was
contacting her to fire Yovanovitch. It’s another connection in
the efforts Trump made to deal with Ukraine in a manner that
looks more and more likely to have been a trade.
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🕵️ JOHN BOLTON, YOU’RE UP
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 31, 2019, 12:26 pm
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[center]🕵️ JOHN BOLTON, YOU’RE UP[/center]
Bill Palmer | 4:43 pm EDT October 30, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
When John Bolton’s longtime sidekick Charles Kupperman asked the
courts to rule on whether he should comply with a House subpoena
to testify in the impeachment inquiry, or comply with a Trump
White House order not to appear, Palmer Report explained that it
appeared Bolton was pulling the strings. The Kupperman ruling
will effectively “force” Bolton to testify as well, meaning
Bolton can maintain credibility with the far-right by saying
that he had no choice but to testify against Trump and take him
down.
In any case, we’re about to find out if that’s what John Bolton
is really up to, because House Democrats just asked him to come
in and testify next week. Conveniently enough, this allows just
enough time for the Kupperman court ruling to play out before
Bolton is supposed to show up. Oh, and did we mention that
Bolton is using the same attorney who’s handling Kupperman’s
court case?
So where does this get us? If John Bolton’s master plan really
is to get the courts to order him to testify in the House
impeachment inquiry, and he does show up and fully cooperate, he
should end up being – by far – the most useful witness to date.
Not only can he corroborate what his former underlings like
Fiona Hill and Colonel Vindman have said, Bolton has also spent
plenty of time in close quarters with Trump, and can provide far
deeper insight into whatever Trump has said about his Ukraine
scandal motives.
In addition, everyone knows that John Bolton is a far-right
warmonger who hates the Democrats as much as the Democrats hate
him. There’s no way Donald Trump and his allies can paint Bolton
as being part of some kind of partisan liberal conspiracy
against Trump. You can expect Bolton to try to use his testimony
to set up huge sales for his upcoming tell-all book, but that’s
neither here nor there. All that matters is if Bolton is willing
to give the kind of testimony that’ll take 🦀 Trump down.
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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 31, 2019, 12:53 pm
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sells
him out to Congress[/center]
Bill Palmer | 8:10 pm EDT October 30, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
Earlier today Palmer Report brought you the story of how
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the
equation had apparently backfired on him
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U.S. Ambassador, in an attempt at getting him out of the country
and preventing him from testifying about the Ukraine scandal.
Trump appeared to forget that such a nomination would actually
force John Sullivan to testify to the Senate during the
confirmation process, which would mean he would definitely face
questions from Senate Democrats about the Ukraine scandal. Sure
enough, Sullivan sold Trump out today by acknowledging under
oath that it’s wrong for the president to ask a foreign nation
to investigate his political rivals. Sullivan also sold out
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/>Rudy Giuliani, and let’s just say that Rudy isn’t taking it
well. He tweeted this bizarre meltdown attacking Sullivan:
The Amb. nominee doesn’t know what he’s talking about and
shouldn’t be incorrectly speculating. This is an orchestrated
attempt to harass and hinder me in my role as Donald Trump’s
attorney. All of the information I obtained came from interviews
conducted as private defense counsel to POTUS, to defend him
against false allegations. I began obtaining this information
while Mueller was still investigating his witch hunt and a full
5 months before Biden even announced his run for Pres. It won’t
work!
This is all gibberish, of course. But it means that Donald Trump
and Rudy Giuliani are now so backed into a corner, Rudy is being
forced to publicly accuse Trump’s own nominee of being part of
an orchestrated conspiracy against him. Also, Rudy just
confessed that he’s been criminally conspiring with Trump in the
Ukraine scandal for nearly a year now – far longer than
previously known.
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Who’s going to be the one to tell Donald Trump?
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 31, 2019, 1:03 pm
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[center]Who’s going to be the one to tell 🦀 Donald
Trump?[/center]
Robert Harrington | 10:20 pm EDT October 30, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
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It was 5pm on Wednesday, August seventh 1974, in the Oval
Office. The smallest number that could possibly be termed a
“delegation,” three, composed of House Republican Leader John
Jacob Rhodes, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, and, front
and center, Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, sat before
Richard Nixon and told him they didn’t have enough votes. Two
days before, a devastating revelation, the last straw perhaps,
had come in the form of a tape of Nixon talking to his chief of
staff, mere days after the break-in. In it Nixon suggests that
the CIA should falsely claim that national security was involved
in the Watergate matter. Nixon’s hope at the time would be that
the CIA would therefore tell the FBI they had to terminate their
investigation.
The implication was clear: it was unequivocal obstruction of
justice. The 🐘 Republican delegation was there to tell
Nixon they couldn’t save him. The vote in the House would go
forward to impeach, and they had, at most, 18 votes in the
Senate still loyal to Nixon, but not enough to prevent
conviction and expulsion from office. Sitting behind Woodrow
Wilson’s desk, Nixon leaned back, sighed, and told them, “I’ve
got a very difficult decision to make.”
At what precise point between then and the next day Nixon
decided to resign is lost to history. But it’s clear that the
decision came on the heels of, and at the suggestion by, his
allies in Congress. The result, of course, is now history. Nixon
was on Marine One and gone by Friday.
It is unlikely such a delegation could be mounted today,
particularly a delegation of those Republican members of
Congress who remain loyal to Donald Trump. And they are legion.
One must suppose, with good reason, that the Trump we see in
public is not far from the one his minions must tolerate in
private – disingenuous, overbearing, incapable of listening to
advice, particularly when the advice is cautionary and less than
flattering. The image of a Donald Trump sitting quietly and
enduring unflattering advice is difficult to conjure.
What sets Donald Trump apart from his predecessors is his
inability to learn, to grow into the job. We know that the
Mueller investigation was a nightmare for him. No sooner had it
ended with a shameful presentation of flaccid understatement and
dry, intellectualized equivocation on the part of Mueller,
Trump, instead of accepting a kind of victory for an answer,
returned the very next day to colluding with a foreign power to
win the next election. The 674 day Mueller ordeal had taught him
absolutely nothing. Instead it confirmed in him what he
suspected all along: that Donald Trump is above the law. He even
managed to find a lawyer who will say as much.
It should come as no surprise to us that a man who never reads
likewise never listens. The delegation that told Nixon the home
truth of his coming impeachment and conviction was smaller than
it could have been. Nixon’s then chief of staff, Alexander Haig,
kept it deliberately small because he wanted to avoid the
appearance of a breach of the balance of power between the
legislative and executive branch of government. The notion that
anyone at all in the Republican Congress would dare confront
Trump in a similar way is both a testimony to the hold Trump has
on them and a demonstration of the sad absence of courage in the
Republican Party today.
So, when the time comes, who bells the cat? I see no likely
candidates. The succession of obfuscating Republican talking
points – the whistleblower is disloyal, he or she has “hearsay
evidence,” he or she was counseled by Adam Schiff, the process
is being conducted in secret in a basement, the witnesses are
unpatriotic traitors – shifts almost daily and is parroted
endlessly across the GOP. Is there no one who will rid us of
this turbulent presidency?
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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 31, 2019, 1:23 pm
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[center]🦀 Trump White House official goes out with a
bang ;D[/center]
Bill Palmer | 12:14 am EDT October 31, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
With each passing day, the downfall of Donald Trump begins to
more closely resemble a movie script. We’ve had a respected
military official testify to Congress that he witnessed the
President committing crimes, in a scene straight out of a Jack
Ryan movie. We’ve seen a key witness who has a twin brother who
is also a key witness. How many more movie moments are coming?
If you’ve been waiting for someone to resign from Donald Trump’s
White House on their way into testifying against Donald Trump,
well, actually that’s already happened twice, with Kurt Volker
and Michael McKinley. But now it’s happening again, this time in
more high profile fashion.
National Security Council official Tim Morrison is set to
testify against Donald Trump to the House impeachment inquiry on
Thursday. That could make things awkward for Morrison when he
shows up for work at the White House on Friday after his
testimony, except he won’t be showing up for work ever again.
According to NPR, Morrison straight up resigned on his way out
of work on Wednesday.
NPR says that Tim Morrison was planning to eventually leave the
job anyway. But it raises the question of just how many people
are going to end up resigning from the Trump White House during
the course of this scandal. Come to think of it, by the time
this is over, there may not be a [img
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> I have a sign that says "I am already disturbed, Please come
in". ;D
>
> Maybe I should gift it to
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