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McKinley, a former US ambassador, will appear before the House
Intelligence, Oversight and Fo
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 16, 2019, 6:58 pm
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[center]A senior adviser to 😈 Mike Pompeo just resigned.
Now he's set to testify in the impeachment probe
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Source: CNN
(CNN) Michael McKinley is set to testify as part of the House
Democrats' impeachment probe -- less than a week after resigning
as a senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. McKinley,
a former US ambassador, will appear before the House
Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees on
Wednesday, two congressional sources told CNN Monday. The former
State Department adviser is appearing for a transcribed
interview, according to one of the sources, which indicates he
is not coming under subpoena. McKinley declined to comment ahead
of his testimony.
CNN reported on Thursday that the longtime diplomat was leaving
his post as a top adviser to the secretary of state -- a role he
had held since May 2018. His resignation and congressional
testimony come as the State Department faces increased pressure
from House investigators and as numerous current and former
State Department officials have expressed fear and outrage over
the department's handling of the Ukraine scandal.
McKinley was deeply concerned with the silence in the top ranks
at State in not defending former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie
"Masha" Yovanovitch, and it was one reason he resigned, one
source told CNN. The source said that McKinley had been mulling
over the decision for a few weeks. A former senior State
Department official told CNN that McKinley was "known to be a
man of integrity, a man of principle." "If he had encountered
something either that was happening in the State Department or
he felt he could no longer carry out his duties without
compromising his integrity and his principles, he is somebody
who would feel he had no choice but to resign," they said.
McKinley had been in the foreign service for more than three
decades and served as ambassador to Peru, Colombia, Afghanistan
and Brazil. In a farewell email to his State Department
colleagues obtained by CNN on Friday, McKinley wrote that he was
"leaving the department to pursue other opportunities, wherever
they might lead." The decision is personal: it's time after 37
years with the Department," he wrote. Asked about McKinley's
departure in an interview in Nashville on Friday, Pompeo
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The Three Amigos...
DIR By: AGelbert
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[center]🐘 GOP Colleagues Acting "Increasingly
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George Kent’s impeachment testimony yesterday was apparently
devastating to Donald Trump
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 16, 2019, 9:42 pm
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[center]George Kent’s impeachment testimony yesterday was
apparently devastating to Donald 🦀 Trump ;D[/center]
Bill Palmer | 12:45 pm EDT October 16, 2019
Palmer Report » Analysis
State Department official George Kent testified behind closed
doors yesterday to the House impeachment inquiry, the third
current or former member of the Trump administration to testify
over the past few days. We haven’t seen as many details leak out
about Kent’s testimony thus far – but the few details that have
surfaced appear to be devastating to Donald Trump.
George Kent is the State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary
and thus the highest ranking member of the Trump administration
to testify in the impeachment inquiry to date. He testified
yesterday that after he raised concerns about the Ukraine
extortion plot, a “supervisor” told him to “lie low,” according
to Democratic Congressman Gerry Connolly, who was in the
hearing. Why is this important?
For one thing, given his high ranking position, Kent doesn’t
have a lot of “supervisors” at the State Department. So this
means one of the highest ranking officials in the State
Department ordered him to stay quiet about what he’d seen and
heard. Not only does this establish a coverup and thus establish
consciousness of guilt, it’s clear that the coverup went to some
of the highest levels in the Trump regime. There’s no possible
way that Donald Trump didn’t know about this coverup attempt.
George Kent also testified that Rudy Giuliani’s antics
undermined “twenty-eight years” of U.S. foreign policy efforts
in Ukraine, dating back to the fall of the Soviet Union. So not
only did Kent establish that the Trump regime made a forceful
attempt at a coverup, he established that Donald Trump’s
henchman Giuliani did a historic level of damage by carrying out
Trump’s corrupt extortion scheme.
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Re: 🌟 IMPEACHMENT SCORE 🌠
DIR By: Surly1
Date: October 17, 2019, 6:59 am
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Today in Trump--
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I apologize for the length of today's post, but there is a lot
because today it felt like the day the nation shifted. There has
been so much unbelievable news that as early as 3:00 I was
texting my political friends with just the fire emoji and
exclamation marks, but the twists and turns seem to add up to
the fact that Trump's firewall is breaking.
Since he declared his candidacy, supporters and undecideds have
been able to explain away behaviors by saying they were jokes,
or misunderstood, or, if something was really bad, by accepting
Trump's own insistence that what had happened was not at all
what the media was reporting. But that is no longer possible.
Since September 13, we have learned of a plot from the White
House to weaken our ally Ukraine in order to force its leader to
intervene in our 2020 election. That was bad enough that it led
to an impeachment inquiry, and began to crack Trump's support
even in the Republican Party. And now, over the course of the
past ten days, the profound debacle of our withdrawal from
northern Syria, leading to the ethnic cleansing of our former
allies, the release of valuable ISIS fighters, and a huge
victory for Putin's Russia has ripped away whatever shreds of
excuse for Trump's behavior his supporters could still clutch.
These two disasters, both entirely of Trump's own making, are
reinforcing each other to collapse the Trump presidency with
really shocking speed. As that happens, Trump himself is melting
down, increasing the momentum of the crisis.
This morning, Trump tried to change the narrative on what had
happened in Syria-- a story we all saw as it unfolded after his
abrupt October 6 announcement that the US would pull back the
troops that were stationed in the Kurdish region of Syria, where
the Kurds were fighting ISIS on our behalf. In that
announcement, he said that Turkey would be moving into Syria,
and that the US would get out of its way. There was an
instantaneous bipartisan outcry that we would be risking the
release of thousands of ISIS prisoners, and abandoning our
allies, who would likely be slaughtered. As this happened just
as predicted, Trump tried to change the story. He has said that
he didn't green light the incursion (I will attach the press
release and you can see what you think), that the Kurds were
deliberately releasing ISIS prisoners, and this morning told
reporters that what was happening in the Middle East had nothing
to do with the US, and that the Kurds, who lost 11,000 soldiers
fighting for us against ISIS, were "no angels." He also voiced
something previously kept secret: we currently have 50 nuclear
weapons in Turkey, which is obviously something of enormous
concern as we are now at odds.
Then, midday, news broke that Trump had cancelled a briefing for
congressional leaders on the Syrian situation, saying that
things there were "nicely under control." This was too much for
Congress to stomach, and this afternoon, the House
overwhelmingly, by a vote of 354 to 60, passed a bipartisan
resolution (129 Republicans voted for it) condemning Trump's
actions in Syria and asking what his "clear and specific plan"
was for combatting ISIS. Trump supporters Senators Lindsay
Graham, Mitch McConnell, and Marco Rubio also expressed dismay
over the president's actions in Syria.
After the vote, the White House invited congressional leaders to
meet with Trump. There, they asked what his plan for Syria was,
and the conversation went poorly. Apparently, Trump attacked his
former Secretary of Defense James Mattis as weak and claimed
that he alone-- Trump-- had won victory over ISIS. He said that
Turkey and Syria would fight ISIS, but his advisors admitted
there was no sign they were actually going to do it. And Trump
refused to engage with the reality that Russia has now swept
into Syria, taking positions there that had been ours hours
before (and making propaganda videos about it). When Pelosi said
he had given Putin the foothold in the Middle East he had always
wanted, and then followed it up with "All roads with you lead to
Putin," Trump blew up. He said such insulting things to the
Speaker of the House-- who is, after all, the primary
representative of the American people-- the Democratic leaders
walked out. They went straight to waiting cameras, where the men
expressed shock at Trump's attack on the House speaker, but
Pelosi herself emphasized that the president was taken aback by
such a dramatic rebuke by Republicans in Congress (129 of them
voted for the resolution). She also noted that Trump is not
well.
Love her or hate her, Pelosi is a masterful politician, and she
called this exactly right. The Syrian crisis has provided a
clear issue around which people turning against Trump can
coalesce. It is now clear that there has been growing concern
among career diplomats for months that Trump and his people have
been using the State Department to spur foreign attacks on
Democrats at home. The whistleblower complaint about Trump's
July 25 phone call with Ukraine president Zelensky that came to
light on September 13 was the first inkling of this, but since
then, there has been such a flood of alarming information the
whistleblower complaint has been eclipsed. Career state
department officials-- Marie Yovanovitch, Fiona Hill, George
Kent, and today, Michael McKinley-- have bucked the White House
embargo on testimony to add details to the story of a shadow
foreign policy run by Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuilani and
Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, along with
special envoy Kurt Volker, and facilitated by acting Chief of
Staff Mick Mulvaney, to pressure Ukraine leaders to smear Joe
Biden's son Hunter. In May, Mulvaney allegedly put together the
"three amigos:" Sondland, Volker, and Energy Secretary Rick
Perry to take over Ukraine policy from career diplomats.
With the arrest last week of Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas (fyi, I
can't keep all these names straight either) we learned that the
story was even deeper: these men were funneling money from
Russian oligarchs to GOP politicians, while trying to cement
control over Ukraine's gas industry. Another person named in the
indictment, David Correia, was arrested today at JFK airport. We
have also learned that Rudy Giuliani is, and has been, under
federal counterintelligence investigation, suggesting that the
FBI thinks he might be actively working for a foreign country.
The story of Syria, and that the domestic story is getting so
bad that people are defying Trump, has cracked open the wall
that has protected the president. People are heading for the
exits. Last night, news broke that a federal appeals court has
reopened a case charging Trump with violating the Constitution's
emoluments clause and profiting illegally from his hotels while
in office. Today, we learned that there are major discrepancies
between Trump's taxes and bank records for loans, suggesting he
might well have committed tax or bank fraud. Then Time Magazine
published a piece by David Schulkin, Trump's first Secretary of
Veteran's Affairs, presenting his interview for the job as
virtually a Saturday Night Live skit, to which he compared it in
the piece.
Pelosi is right: Trump is spooked by his collapsing power. In a
desperate attempt for good press, Trump today tried to
manufacture a win on social media by trying to resolve an
emotional international incident before cameras. On August 27,
the wife of a US diplomat in the UK, driving on the wrong side
of the road, struck and killed a young man coming her way on a
motorcycle. Citing diplomatic immunity-- the law that protects
diplomats from being prosecuted for crimes in foreign
countries-- the woman took refuge from the UK's justice system
by returning to America. The man's parents, along with the
British government, have appealed for the US government to waive
her diplomatic immunity and return her for a trial. The man's
parents are in the US to press for her return, and Trump invited
them to the White House. Unbeknownst to them, he had the woman
who had killed their son waiting in an adjoining room to meet
with them in front of cameras. They declined, later saying they
had been "ambushed." Rather than looking like a peacemaker,
Trump looked like someone trying to use parents suffering from
the death of their son for a photo-op.
After a day of disastrous news and the meeting with
congressional leaders, Trump tried tonight to look calm, and to
spin the walkout as Pelosi's meltdown rather than his. He
tweeted out a picture showing Pelosi standing up to him while he
was seated at a table surrounded by advisors. But the body
language of the men around Trump was startling: they are
slumped, staring at their folded hands. It was an astonishing
self-own, followed up by worse. To demonstrate that he had, in
fact, been hard on Turkish President Erdogan rather than green
lighting his attack on the Kurds, Trump released to Fox News
personality Trish Regan a letter he allegedly wrote on October
9, the day Turkish troops crossed into Syria and began to
slaughter the Kurds. "Let's work out a good deal!" he wrote to
Erdogan, and then went on to conclude: "Don't be a tough guy.
Don't be a fool!.... I will call you later." The letter was so
wildly inappropriate reporters had to check to make sure it was
not a parody. But the White House verified it.
For their part, White House spokespeople insist that Trump is
calm and in control. Tonight, he resurrected complaints about
Hillary Clinton,'s emails and echoed Pelosi's observations about
him, tweeting that "Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! There is
either something wrong with her “upstairs,” or she just plain
doesn’t like our great Country. She had a total meltdown in the
White House today. It was very sad to watch. Pray for her, she
is a very sick person!"
I have spent more than 30 years studying political history, and
I have nothing to which to compare the craziness of today. I
have no idea what will happen in the hours after I hit the send
button. But it does feel like the political tide is turning.
Heather Cox Richardson
8 hrs ·
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Elijah Cummings knew, from the start, how TOTALLY Fascist Trump
and his Wrecking Crew ARE.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 17, 2019, 3:14 pm
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> I have spent more than 30 years studying political history,
and I have nothing to which to compare the craziness of today. I
have no idea what will happen in the hours after I hit the send
button. But it does feel like the political tide is turning.
>
> Heather Cox Richardson
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Let us hope she is right. Congressman Elijah Cummings knew, from
the start, how TOTALLY Fascist the Trump demagogue, and his
Wrecking Crew, ARE.
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> Cummings’ remarks this summer were prescient:
>
> I’m begging the American people to pay attention to what is
going on. Because if you want to have a democracy intact for
your children, and your children’s children, and generations yet
unborn we’ve got to guard this moment…this is our watch.
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>
> — Elijah E. Cummings (@RepCummings) July 24, 2019
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Elijah Cummings ✨ 🦅 'signed subpoenas from his
hospital bed' for Trump impeachment before his death
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 17, 2019, 4:49 pm
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> mucifer (14,935 posts) October 17, 2019
>
>
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/>Elijah Cummings 🦅✨ 'signed subpoenas from his
hospital bed' for Trump impeachment before his death
> Source: Independent UK
>
> Elijah Cummings was kept busy to the very end of his life
leading an investigation into
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/>Donald Trump before passing away at the age of 68 on
Wednesday,
his aides have said.
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> The chairman of the House Oversight Committee was signing
subpoenas from his hospital bed, one aide told the New York
Times.
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> He also helped lead a Democratic caucus conference call.
>
> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described Mr Cummings as a “north
star” 🌟 who spoke with “unsurpassed clarity and moral
integrity” on the House floor.
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> Ms Pelosi, who grew up in the city Mr Cummings represented,
said he was her “brother in Baltimore” during a press conference
on Thursday, adding: “We’ve all lost a friend … I’m devastated
by the loss.”
>
> Read more:
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👀 Mulvaney, of all people, just UNDERCUT Traitor Trump's
denials of a quid pro quo.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 17, 2019, 5:18 pm
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Agelbert Observation: The Mulvaney rat 🐀 just abandoned
the Trump Rapidly Sinking Fascist "Ship". When a lifetime
Republican fascist ideologue like Mulvaney bails, you can be
certain that Trump is now, forgive the mixed metaphors,
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> Adam Schiff @RepAdamSchiff
> Follow Follow @RepAdamSchiff
> MoreAdam Schiff Retweeted The New York Times
>
> Mulvaney just said that U.S. military aid for Ukraine was held
up pending Ukraine’s investigation of Democrats.
>
> Things just went from very, very bad to much, much worse.Adam
Schiff added,
> The New York Times
> Verified account
>
> @nytimes
> Breaking News: Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of
staff, said the U.S. froze aid partly to pressure Ukraine to
investigate Democrats. He undercut President Trump's denials of
a quid pro quo.
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> 12:04 PM - 17 Oct 2019
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Another Republican Hydrocarbon 😈 Hellspawn rat, Rick
Perry 🐀, just resigned. The floodgates are now open.
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Since Trump is now fully cornered, a position guaranteed to
bring out the worse
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/>Satanic Brainfuck based despotic behavior from him, I suspect
the Pentagon is now, methodically and carefully, gaming how to
thwart Trump's plans to go full Dictatorship in the USA. The
Trump cornered BEAST will try to go "Roy Cohn" and "double
down".
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As I have said before, that works with a corrupted judiciary. It
guarantees failure, and possibly prison or even death, in
geopolitics.
But then, 🦀 Trump never learned any other way than the
Roy Cohn Scorched Earth, Unremitingly Cruel, Vengeful,
Murderous, "Bellicosity is Best" approach to "problem solving".
So, Trump will fail spectacularly. Good. That will not solve
most of the environmental, social and political problems we have
in the USA, but it is a good start. 🕯️
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White House 😈 Insider Is Profiting Off 🦀 Trump's
Chaos Economy w/Richard Wolff
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 17, 2019, 6:37 pm
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Thom Hartmann Program
185K subscribers
The grifter in the White House is making somebody rich with
inside information. Is it one of Donald Trump's Billionaire
Buddies?
Somebody trading on Donald Trump's behalf?
Or is a member of the Trump crime family making billions from
the Presidency?
Unsurprisingly Bill Barr forbid the FBI from looking into it?
Richard Wolff joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss insider
trading in the White House!
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🐷 Trump's delusional belief in his 🐘 Republican
wall...
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 17, 2019, 9:43 pm
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[center]🐷 Trump's Delusional Belief in his 🐘
Republican wall...[/center]
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Donald 🦀 Trump Is Getting Off Easy
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 18, 2019, 12:17 pm
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OCT 17, 2019 TD ORIGINALS
SNIPPET:
Roots Action should have included Trump’s worst offense: the
criminal acceleration of ecocide, the biggest issue of our or
any time. Trump has brazenly violated his oath to serve the
general welfare by doing everything he can to turn the world
into a giant greenhouse gas chamber as soon as possible.
Full article:
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