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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 8, 2019 9:23:51 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/politics/adam-schiffs-own-ukraine-connection-comes-under-scrutinyHouse Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has played a leading role in investigating the Trump-Ukraine scandal, is facing questions about his own connection to a Soviet-born businessman who has raised money for his campaign and whose company has received lucrative defense contracts from Ukraine’s government. That man is Igor Pasternak, the founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corp., which makes blimps for military and commercial customers. His business has also been involved in weapons manufacturing, working with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to produce a modified version of the M4 and M16 rifles, according to reports. In 2013, Pasternak hosted a fundraiser in Washington for Schiff, who later came to embrace a strong stance in support of the United States sending military aid to Ukraine during its conflict with Russia. “Before this time, Schiff rarely, if ever, mentioned Ukraine,” Fox News’ Laura Ingraham said on her show Thursday night, after detailing Schiff’s connection to Pasternak. “But after the fundraiser, he used multiple television appearances to basically demand that we send money and arms to them.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 8, 2019 9:27:00 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 8, 2019 11:01:35 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/political/joe-and-hunter-biden-could-be-forced-testify-during-trump-impeachment-trialJoe And Hunter Biden Could Be Forced To Testify During Trump Impeachment Trial Former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter could be forced to testify if the Senate moves to hold an impeachment trial of President Trump, according to the Washington Times, citing congressional aides "who questioned whether Democrats have thought through the full implications of their impeachment drive." www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/7/joe-biden-hunter-biden-could-be-forced-testify-don/If the House votes to impeach - a step which Speaker Nancy Pelosi hasn't committed to yet, then it would move to the Senate for a formal trial in which a 2/3 majority would be required to convict and formally remove President Trump. They would also get to force the whistleblowers accusing Trump of improper behavior to testify publicly, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Graham also suggested that House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) could become a witness in any impeachment trial for hiding his office's interactions with one of the whistleblowers. "I don’t think the Dems have thought this through at all," one staffer told the Times - which notes that the GOP-dominated Senate would have "full control over what an impeachment trial would look like."According to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, a Senate trial would largely be defined by what articles the House passes. "If Trump is impeached on the Ukrainian call, the Bidens would be fair game, particularly Hunter," said Turley. "While I do not agree that the evidence supports the allegation against Biden in pushing the termination of the prosecution, there is little question that the Hunter Biden deal smacks of profiteering on his father’s position."If House Democrats loop in Russiagate, Turley said things could get even crazier. According to Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), if the House does impeach Trump, the Senate will be forced to take the matter up, saying "The way that impeachment stops is a Senate majority with me as majority leader." That said, the Examiner suggests that Senate GOP might "allow a spectacle to embarrass Democrats" with how things go. "Democrats could object, but they’re in the minority and there’s not a lot they can do about that," said impeachment expert Michael Gerhardt, a constitutional law professor at the University of North Carolina and author of "Impeachment: What Everyone Needs to Know." "I expect it’ll be Sen. McConnell’s show. But the president might well say ‘I want to be there, I want to ask questions." And of course, the best part according to Gerhardt: "It will be televised."
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 8, 2019 12:41:36 GMT -6
Unless the whole House votes to begin the impeachment inquiry, these are not subpoenas but letters. AND....A letter of request to appear (NOT a Subpoena) cannot be used for an obstruction charge.
Then release the transcripts of Kurt Volker’s testimony to Congress. Funny, if it were damaging to President Trump, it would have been “leaked” by now.
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 8, 2019 18:56:08 GMT -6
WH tells them to pound sand. Good for them.
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 8, 2019 19:49:07 GMT -6
Ok. Trump is calling everyone corrupt to make the term meaningless for when he is called corrupt. Got it.
And Maddow continues to call this an actual impeachment of the president.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 5:06:06 GMT -6
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone wrote an 8-page letter to Speaker Pelosi and Dem chairs on three key committees, Schiff, Cummings and Engel, letting them know their impeachment inquiry “lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation,” and violates Trump’s due process rights.
Cipollone also called the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry a partisan effort “to overturn the results of the 2016 election” of President Donald Trump.
“Your unprecedented actions have left the president with no choice,” said the letter signed by Pat Cippolone. “In order to fulfill his duties to the American people, the Constitution, the Executive Branch, and all future occupants of the Office of the presidency, President Trump and his administration cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances.”
“Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of fairness, or even the most elementary due process protections, the executive branch cannot be expected to participate in it,” Cipollone wrote.
Earlier Tuesday, the State Department blocked the interview by EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland hours before he was set to testify on Capitol Hill, sending the Democrats into a tailspin.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 5:08:10 GMT -6
Pelosi responds:
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 5:10:40 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 5:18:42 GMT -6
And just like that, the Ukrainian hoax, died,(along with the Democrats fake non impeachment proceedings):
John Solomon: I can confirm to you tonight. The US government had open source intelligence and was aware that as early as February in 2019 that the Ukrainian government was planning on reopening the Burisma investigation. This was long before the president ever imagined to have a call with President Zelensky. In fact it’s before President Zelensky was even elected. This is a significant shift in the factual timeline. This is information that was omitted from the whistleblower’s complaint.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 5:23:05 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-rep-introduces-resolution-to-expel-nancy-pelosi-from-houseHouse Democrats spent nearly three years obsessed with election meddling only to dwarf any such efforts with their own deceitful plan to nullify the 2016 election and prevent President Trump from winning in 2020,” the statement continued. “I have introduced a resolution calling for her to be expelled from the House and for the Speaker’s Office to be vacated.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 5:33:58 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/10/09/john-durham-fbi-cia-barr/The U.S. attorney probing FBI and CIA counterintelligence activities related to the Trump campaign has expanded the scope of the inquiry, according to Fox News. John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, is using additional agents and resources as part of the inquiry, which is also looking at the activities of foreign intelligence agencies. Senior administration officials told Fox News’s Bret Baier that Durham has expanded the investigation because of information he has obtained in the probe. However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel. Attorney General William Barr appointed Durham to oversee the inquiry shortly after the end of the special counsel’s investigation, which said there was no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government. Barr has said he has questions about the timeline of events leading up to the FBI’s opening of Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. “I assumed I’d get answers when I went in, and I have not gotten answers that are well satisfactory, and in fact probably have more questions,” Barr told CBS News on May 31, adding that “some of the facts that … I’ve learned don’t hang together with the official explanations of what happened.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 5:40:06 GMT -6
Again, no bias whatsoever: www.zerohedge.com/political/cia-whistleblower-professionally-tied-2020-candidateCIA Whistleblower 'Professionally Tied' To 2020 Candidate; 2nd 'Whistleblower' Was First One's Source .......... A CIA employee who lodged a whistleblower complaint over President Trump's request that Ukraine investigate former Vice President Joe Biden has a "professional relationship with one of the 2020 candidates," according to the Washington Examiner's Byron York - citing a source familiar with last Friday's impeachment inquiry interview with Inspector General Michael Atkinson. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/whistleblower-had-professional-tie-to-2020-democratic-candidateNow we know why House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) won't release the transcript... "The IG said [the whistleblower] worked or had some type of professional relationship with one of the Democratic candidates," said York's source.
"What [Atkinson] said was that the whistleblower self-disclosed that he was a registered Democrat and that he had a prior working relationship with a current 2020 Democratic presidential candidate," said a third person with knowledge of the testimony.
All three sources said Atkinson did not identify the Democratic candidate with whom the whistleblower had a connection. It is unclear what the working or professional relationship between the two was.In the Aug. 26 letter, Atkinson said that even though there was evidence of possible bias on the whistleblower's part, "such evidence did not change my determination that the complaint relating to the urgent concern 'appears credible,' particularly given the other information the ICIG obtained during its preliminary review." Democrats are certain to take that position when Republicans allege that the whistleblower acted out of bias. Indeed, the transcript of Trump's July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a public document, for all to see. One can read it regardless of the whistleblower's purported bias. -Washington Examiner In short, a registered Democrat on the CIA payroll went to Adam Schiff's committee, who referred him to a Democratic operative attorney, who helped him file a whistleblower complaint on a form which was altered to allow second-hand information. Update: Former State Department official Peter Van Buren told Tucker Carlson on Monday that the second 'whistleblower' is simply the the source for the original 'second-hand' complaint. (h/t Gateway Pundit) The aristocrats'
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 8:14:28 GMT -6
Rudy – For years Obama had a pay for play operation in his administration and it’s disgusting and one of the reasons they’re fighting so hard – If Biden comes out, so does Clinton come out and about three others. This goes right to the top of the Obama administration and the administration that says, ‘I didn’t have scandals’ will be the most scandal ridden administration in our history. Obama didn’t care about ethics. He didn’t care otherwise it wouldn’t happen.
Joe – That’s right
Rudy – A Vice President should have been stopped from doing this by a President who had the slightest bit of integrity. But a Chicago ‘pol’ like Obama – pay for play eight times – millions of dollars to your Vice President [Biden] and hundreds of millions of dollars to your Secretary of State [Hillary Clinton]. They just bought the offices. Crooks.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 8:16:20 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 8:22:13 GMT -6
So, Robert Mueller committed perjury when he testified to Congress: dailycaller.com/2019/10/08/mueller-testified-fbi-director-job/Former special counsel Robert Mueller testified under oath that he was not pursuing the job of FBI Director when he met with President Donald Trump in 2017 — but administration officials say otherwise. Information uncovered Tuesday by Judicial Watch indicated that Mueller was not only considering taking that position, vacated only days earlier when Trump fired former Director James Comey, but he was also discussing with then Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein the possibility that he might be asked to serve as special counsel, according to Fox News. Emails obtained by Judicial Watch detailed some of the communications between Rosenstein and Mueller, Fox News reported. The conversation regarding whether or not Mueller might serve as special counsel began on May 12, 2017 — nearly a week before Mueller met with the president. “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions,” then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in an email to Mueller on May 12, 2017. Rosenstein’s boss was then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russia probe, meaning the president would not have known either. When Mueller testified on July 24, 2019, he said that he met with the president in 2017 in an advisory capacity. “My understanding was I was not applying for the job. I was asked to give my input on what it would take to do the job.” (RELATED: Hundreds Of Pages Of Mueller Probe Documents To Be Released Each Month) The president has repeatedly contradicted that, claiming that Mueller had met with him to discuss the possibility of returning to the post he had held under both former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 9, 2019 8:23:00 GMT -6
Heard someone talking about how McCabe got nailed and a few days later here came the WB bs. Especially since they were sitting on this for 2 months.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 8:26:32 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 8:30:36 GMT -6
thefederalist.com/2019/10/09/anti-trump-whistleblower-attorney-worked-directly-for-james-clapper/Anti-Trump Whistleblower Attorney Worked Directly For James Clapper OCTOBER 9, 2019 By Tristan Justice One of the attorneys representing the anonymous “whistleblowers” accusing President Donald Trump of conspiring with foreign leaders to interfere in the next U.S. presidential election used to report directly to former director of national intelligence James Clapper. Charles McCullough, an attorney now representing the whistleblowers with Andrew Bakaj, a former staffer for Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, was previously the inspector general of the intelligence community (ICIG) at the height of the Clinton email scandal. Now a partner at the Compass Rose Legal Group, McCullough’s professional biography on the law firm’s website notes that he reported directly to Clapper as ICIG and “oversaw intelligence officers responsible for audits, inspections, investigations.” Clapper, who joined CNN as a national security analyst after leaving government in 2017, was a central figure in perpetuating a the Russia hoax against Trump and lied to Congress about mass surveillance on Americans. When asked under oath in March 2013 by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., whether the federal government was collecting “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans,” Clapper responded “no sir… not wittingly.” While director of the Department of National Intelligence, Clapper was instrumental in crafting whistleblower protections mandating that no employee of the intelligence committee be made subject to reprisals for reports made in compliance with department guidelines. Last December, McCullough praised Clapper in an interview with Fox 5. “I enjoyed a very good relationship with Jim Clapper, we got along fabulously.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 14:13:46 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 9, 2019 14:22:25 GMT -6
Former Vice President Joe Biden was personally paid $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Holdings, according to Ukrainian MP Andriy Derkach. en.interfax.com.ua/news/press-conference/617936.htmlDerkach publicized the documents at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency Wednesday as he said the records, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.” “This was the transfer of Burisma Group’s funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company. Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services,” Derkach said. He also publicized sums that were transferred to Burisma Group representatives, in particular Hunter Biden, a son of the former U.S. vice president. “According to the documents, Burisma paid no less than $16.5 million to [former Polish President, who became an independent director at Burisma Holdings in 2014] Aleksander Kwasniewski, [chairman of the Burisma board of independent directors] Alan Apter, [Burisma independent director] Devon Archer and Hunter Biden [who joined the Burisma board of directors in 2014],” Derkach said. “Using political and economic levelers of influencing Ukrainian authorities and manipulating the issue of providing financial aid to Ukraine, Joe Biden actively assisted closing criminal cases into the activity of former Ukrainian Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky, who is the founder and owner of Burisma Group,” he said. “Biden’s fifth visit to Kyiv on December 7-8, 2015 was devoted to making a decision on the resignation of [then Ukrainian Prosecutor General] Viktor Shokin over the case of Zlochevsky and Burisma. Loan guarantees worth $1 billion that the United States was to give to Ukraine was the point of pressure. Biden himself admitted exerting pressure in his speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in January 2018, calling Shokin ‘son of a bitch who was fired’,” Derkach said.
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Post by redrex on Oct 9, 2019 14:30:14 GMT -6
Say it ain't so Joe
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 10, 2019 4:56:37 GMT -6
Dear Inspector General Atkinson, Your disappointing testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 26 was evasive to the point of being insolent and obstructive. Despite repeated questions, you refused to explain what you meant in your written report by “indicia of an arguable political bias on the part of the Complainant in favor of a rival political candidate.” This information is, of course, unclassified and we were meeting in a closed setting. Yet you moralized about how you were duty bound not to share even a hint of this political bias with us.
But now I see media reports that you revealed to the House Intelligence Committee not only that the complainant is a registered Democrat, but also that he has a professional relationship with a Democratic presidential campaign. I’m dissatisfied, to put it mildly, with your refusal to answer my questions, while more fully briefing the three-ring circus that the House Intelligence Committee has become.
So, I will ask again and give you one more chance to answer: what are these “indicia of arguable political bias”? More specifically: Does the complainant have (or did he once have) a professional relationship with a Democratic presidential candidate or campaign?
If so, which candidate or campaign and what is the nature of that relationship?
What other “indicia of arguable political bias” of the complainant did you find?
Did you or anyone subject to your control or influence share with CNN that the “arguable political bias” was merely that the complainant is a registered Democrat?
Why did you refuse to answer my questions at the September 26 hearing?
This information is urgently relevant for the American people and their elected representatives to evaluate the complainant’s credibility and to determine whether the House’s so-called impeachment inquiry has been, in reality, a well-coordinated partisan attack from the beginning.
This information is also simple, unclassified, and personally known to you. Therefore, please reply in writing no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 11. I look forward to your answers, even two weeks late.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 10, 2019 4:58:50 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 10, 2019 5:02:28 GMT -6
Ambassador Yovanovich is a noted Trump-hater who blocked Ukrainian officials from traveling to the United States to hand over evidence of Obama misconduct during the 2016 election to President Trump.
Yovanovich was US ambassador to Ukraine during the 2016 election when the Ukrainian government was colluding with the DNC and Hillary Campaign to undermine the US presidential election.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenkoko told journalists in March that Yovanovitch gave him a “do not prosecute” list during their first meeting.
The president ordered her removal from her post in Ukraine in May 2019. She was openly anti-Trump.
Starting in 2018 Yovanovich denied Ukrainian officials visas to enter the United States to hand over evidence of Obama administration misconduct to Trump administration officials.
Wednesday night on Hannity John Solomon announced that the former Ambassador Yovanovich was monitoring the reporters digging into Ukrainian lawlessness.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 10, 2019 7:25:50 GMT -6
Ukrainian President DOUBLES DOWN on the fact there was no blackmail/quid pro quo news.yahoo.com/ukraine-president-zelensky-says-no-112440723.htmlUkraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted he was unaware of Donald Trump’s decision to withhold military aid before their now infamous 25 July phone call. “There was no blackmail,” Mr Zelensky said during a press conference on Thursday. “I had no idea the military aid was held up.” The issue of whether Mr Trump offered Mr Zelensky a quid pro quo — US military support in exchange for an investigation into former vice-president Joe Biden in Ukraine — is one of the main focuses of an impeachment inquiry underway in Washington.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 10, 2019 7:31:57 GMT -6
Former US Attorney Brett Tolman joined FOX and Friends on Thursday to discuss the Democrat Party’s atypical impeachment investigation. Tolman says the whistleblower historically is revealed after they file their complaint.
And typically the whistleblower is interviewed and interrogated by both sides.
Democrats do not want the leaker to be revealed because of his far left politics and associations. And Democrats know the “whistleblower’s” information is highly flawed. There was no blackmail or threats as the partisan whistleblower suggested.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 10, 2019 9:26:30 GMT -6
Joe Biden is changing his story.
Back in September Joe Biden told reporters he never discussed his son Hunter Biden’s lucrative business dealing with the Ukrainian regime. Hunter was making $50,000 to $150,000 for sitting on the board of Ukrainian Burisma holdings despite having no knowledge of Ukraine or the oil and gas industry.
Joe Biden told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
But on Wednesday Joe Biden changed up his story telling reporters, “He did say at one point that it came out that he was on the board. I said, “I sure hope the hell you know what you’re doing.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 10, 2019 9:35:21 GMT -6
Buzzfeed,(same group who released the Steele Dossier, so hardly pro Trump): www.buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/ukraine-unaware-aid-holdup-month-after-trump-call“The Ukrainian government didn’t know it was being held up in Washington by Trump, according to the two Ukrainian officials,” Miller reported. “Nearly a month after the call — which Zelensky has since described as ‘good’ and Trump has called ‘perfect’ — the Ukrainian government was left stumped when they received word that the aid had in fact been suspended.” “Ukraine finally learned about the holdup in late August, nearly a month after the call, according to Olena Zerkal, the deputy foreign minister who was acting minister at the time of the call,” Miller explained. “And they only found out from a ‘letter sent to us from our Washington Embassy’ that provided no explanation for the move, she said. Zerkal said she couldn’t remember the exact date of the letter, but it was before Politico broke the news of the holdup on Aug. 28.” A U.S. official confirmed the timeline to BuzzFeed and noted that Ukraine wasn’t informed about the delay in aid because the administration expected to resolve the issue quickly.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 10, 2019 11:47:08 GMT -6
Fox News released a poll that showed that 51% favored impeaching & removing President Trump from office. Looks bad correct? Well, there is a caveat to the poll. Fox oversampled Democrat voters by 14 points.
It would seem that new Fox board member & outspoken never Trumper Paul Ryan is already having an influence at Fox.
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