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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 9:02:18 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/14/dem-rep-rouda-some-impeachment-evidence-will-be-released-to-public/Representative Harley Rouda (D-CA) stated that once the impeachment inquiry process progresses a little further, “you will start to see some of this evidence coming out to the general public.” Rouda said, “As to whether the testimony that was provided today, as well as future and past witnesses, whether that’s going to be released in its entirety or partial parts thereof will be determined by Chairman Schiff and the other chairmen of the committee. But I would suffice it to say that once we get through this process a little bit further, you will start to see some of this evidence coming out to the general public.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 11:51:46 GMT -6
Democrats change the rules again.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 13:20:40 GMT -6
www.foxnews.com/politics/125-house-republicans-co-sponsor-resolution-to-censure-schiff-over-parody-reading-of-trump-zelensky-callA motion to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for his “parody” reading of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky during a hearing last month is gaining steam with House Republicans, as Fox News has learned 125 lawmakers have now signed on as co-sponsors. The resolution to censure Schiff -- who has become a favorite target of Republicans for his role in the Trump impeachment inquiry -- was first introduced late last month by Rep. Andy Biggs, the Arizona Republican who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and has the support of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., among other ranking Republicans in the lower chamber of Congress. Democrats have the majority and control the floor in the House, but Republicans could still attempt to force a vote on the matter. “Schiff simply does not have the gravitas that a weighty procedure such as impeachment requires,” Biggs wrote in an opinion piece for Fox News. “He has repeatedly shown incredibly poor judgment. He has persistently and consistently demonstrated that he has such a tremendous bias and animus against Trump that he will say anything and accept any proffer of even bogus evidence to try to remove the president from office.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 13:23:00 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 13:29:12 GMT -6
More Biden corruption. In June 2006 Hunter Biden was also put on the Amtrak Board. In the first half of 2006 Hunter Biden’s lobbyist firm made $1.76 million in lobbying revenue in the first half of 2006. www.politico.com/story/2007/02/a-younger-biden-goes-the-extra-miles-for-amtrak-002672Democrat Carper argued on Hunter’s behalf. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109shrg65181/html/CHRG-109shrg65181.htmHunter Biden is a native Delawarian and I would go on to say that he’s also been nominated to serve on the Amtrak Board of Directors. When Hunter was unable to get into the University of Delaware, he instead went on to Georgetown and then to Yale Law School and managed to get through those OK. He’s ended up being Senior Vice President at MBNA one of the largest financial institutions in the country. He served as Executive Director of Economy Policy Coordination at the U.S. Department of Commerce. About 5 years ago he went off and formed a law firm here in Washington, D.C., and now they represent over 100 clients including a bunch of non-profit organizations and educational institutions. More specifically, though, and for our purposes and for the purpose of this nomination, Hunter Biden has spent a lot of time on Amtrak trains. Like his father, like our Congressman, Mike Castle and myself, Hunter Biden has lived in Delaware while using Amtrak to commute to his job as we commute to our job in Washington almost every day of the week. You know, you learn a lot about what could work and what would work better at Amtrak by riding trains and talking to the passengers, the commuters, the passengers, the folks who work on the trains and make them work every day. You also have a chance to see the huge economic benefit the region receives from having a strong passenger rail corridor, something that should be available in a lot of other parts of our country. ......... So, riding on a train qualifies one to sit on their board as a member.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 13:38:29 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/10/15/cbs-panel-hunter-biden-interview‘You Look Guilty’: CBS Panelist Says Hunter Biden Interview Looks ‘Kind Of Awful’ Hosts and political contributors on “CBS This Morning” Tuesday noted that Hunter Biden’s interview with ABC News was a bad look for his father’s campaign and said it made Hunter “look guilty.” Hunter Biden spoke to ABC’s Amy Robach in an interview that aired partially Tuesday on “Good Morning America.” The interview delved into Hunter’s business dealings in Ukraine and how it could hurt former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign. Co-host Anthony Mason wondered aloud on CBS if Joe Biden will have to answer questions about his son’s Ukraine dealings during Tuesday’s Democratic debate, and co-host Tony Dokoupil noted that Hunter “may have handed some spears to the opposition with an interview today.” “Look, he did profit off of his father’s name,” Terry Sullivan, a CBS News political contributor and Marco Rubio’s former campaign adviser said. “You know, at least he’s taking responsibility for it, but it does look kind of awful — if I was sitting next to Hunter Biden, what I’d say is, ‘Don’t ever go on TV again, ever. You look awful. You look guilty.’ You know?” Sullivan’s comments came after Robby Mook, a Democratic strategist and Hillary Clinton’s former campaign strategist for her 2016 presidential campaign, suggested Hunter Biden’s actions are “nothing compared to” what President Donald Trump and his family has done. Mook suggested Hunter Biden needs to “buck up” and deal with the repercussions of the accusations. “Sadly, look, these things are really hard. I don’t think this is going away,” Mook said. “And there’s no perfect solution. The campaign’s just got to manage through it. Look, if I were sitting next to Hunter Biden right now, I’d say, ‘Buck up, my friend.’ I mean, what — what happened here is nothing compared to what the Trump family has done.” Hunter Biden admitted Tuesday morning to Robach that perhaps he did make a mistake in serving on the Ukrainian gas company’s board. However, he said the mistake was not due to “some unethical lapse.” (RELATED: Hunter Biden Speaks Amid Ukraine Scrutiny In Exclusive ABC News Interview) Trump has hit back at Joe Biden and accused him of using his position as vice president to pressure Ukrainian officials into firing its top prosecutor who was investigating the gas company that Hunter sat on the board of. The claim has not been substantiated. This comes after an August whistleblower complaint, largely based on a July 25 phone call, stated the president asked Ukrainian officials to look into Joe Biden and his son.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 16:14:48 GMT -6
So, Nixon got a House vote, ditto with Clinton too, but Trump won’t? www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/15/adam-schiff-house-may-not-vote-on-impeachment-inquiry/House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Monday that the House “may not” vote to authorize the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Schiff argued that voting on the investigation would not stop Republican criticism of the process. His comments came during an interview at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, moderated by New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof. Democrats are reportedly lobbying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to hold a vote. Pelosi, however, has stressed that she does not intend to hold a floor vote on the impeachment probe. During the event in New York City Monday, Schiff noted that the U.S. Constitution does not require House lawmakers to vote on the impeachment inquiry, adding: We may have a vote on an impeachment proceeding, or we may not have a vote. Ultimately that will be the decision that we make together with our leadership. But no one should be under the apprehension or misapprehension that were we to vote and authorize, by the full vote of the House, an impeachment inquiry that that will in any way stop the White House complaints, attacks, etc. They will just move on to the next hurdle they want to put in the way. So, we should be clear about what is happening here. This is merely an effort to delay, distract, deter. And we will not be delayed, and we won’t be distracted, and we will not be deterred. The White House and its Republican congressional allies argue that the vote on the impeachment probe is necessary to legitimize the inquiry per the recognized standards of previous impeachment efforts. Members of the House voted to allow an investigation into whether to impeach President Bill Clinton and President Richard Nixon. GOP lawmakers have pointed to those votes as evidence that Democrats are acting unfairly and illegitimately.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 18:42:01 GMT -6
Swalwell defends impeachment scam:
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 18:44:52 GMT -6
So, it's a scam then.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 15, 2019 18:48:59 GMT -6
Adam Schiff tells reporters that President Trump coerced the Ukranian President.
Unfortunately for Schiff, this was debunked weeks ago when the phone transcript was released. The final nail in the coffin was the Ukranian President coming out twice and saying he was never coerced.
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 15, 2019 23:38:52 GMT -6
Swalwell defends impeachment scam: What do you expect him to say? Hasn't he already called Trump a traitor?
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 15, 2019 23:42:16 GMT -6
Was fortunate enough to tune in to MSNBC and found my favorite bigot, Joy Reid, interviewing my favorite liar, Susan Rice. Susan let us know that there is a copy of the "real" transcript. Ukraine and the US have one as do....wait for it....the Russians!! That's all I could take.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2019 8:37:05 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2019 11:24:03 GMT -6
President Trump’s tax documents were released to ProPublica using New York’s FOIA law and ‘experts’ are already claiming there is evidence of potential fraud. www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistenciesDocuments obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax. For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street. Lenders like to see a rising occupancy level as a sign of what they call “leasing momentum.” Sure enough, the company told a lender that 40 Wall Street had been 58.9% leased on Dec. 31, 2012, and then rose to 95% a few years later. The company told tax officials the building was 81% rented as of Jan. 5, 2013. ......... Several things: #1: The lender only requires casualty loss insurance, sometimes known as "fire" insurance. Trump's business requires loss of income(rental) insurance, directors insurance, management insurance, management bonds, and insurance management and consultant fees. Why is this not known to these "experts"? #2: Not to mention that people that deal in the amount of money that Trump does are under constant audit by the IRS. If he were to sneeze in the wrong direction they would know about it and be there to collect their fine for any infraction. #3: Obama's weaponized IRS would have been on President Trump like a pit bull on Granny, if there had been "improprieties" or any crimes, no matter what they were. #4: Most businesses that I am aware of file quarterly taxes, etc. Any discrepancies would have been found,(especially given a weaponized IRS).
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 16, 2019 15:08:25 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Oct 16, 2019 18:55:07 GMT -6
President Trump’s tax documents were released to ProPublica using New York’s FOIA law and ‘experts’ are already claiming there is evidence of potential fraud. www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-never-before-seen-trump-tax-documents-show-major-inconsistenciesDocuments obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax. For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street. Lenders like to see a rising occupancy level as a sign of what they call “leasing momentum.” Sure enough, the company told a lender that 40 Wall Street had been 58.9% leased on Dec. 31, 2012, and then rose to 95% a few years later. The company told tax officials the building was 81% rented as of Jan. 5, 2013. ......... Several things: #1: The lender only requires casualty loss insurance, sometimes known as "fire" insurance. Trump's business requires loss of income(rental) insurance, directors insurance, management insurance, management bonds, and insurance management and consultant fees. Why is this not known to these "experts"? #2: Not to mention that people that deal in the amount of money that Trump does are under constant audit by the IRS. If he were to sneeze in the wrong direction they would know about it and be there to collect their fine for any infraction. #3: Obama's weaponized IRS would have been on President Trump like a pit bull on Granny, if there had been "improprieties" or any crimes, no matter what they were. #4: Most businesses that I am aware of file quarterly taxes, etc. Any discrepancies would have been found,(especially given a weaponized IRS). Of course. Expect snippets and sentences to be released. They'll chew on this bone forever. And if this was 2017 Trump wasn't running his company, right?
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 8:56:31 GMT -6
So, Schiff is threatening/intimidating witnesses to get the "correct" answers. Stalin, Mao, etc would approve: www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trumpIn a secret interview, Rep. Adam Schiff, leader of the House Democratic effort to impeach President Trump, pressed former United States special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker to testify that Ukrainian officials felt pressured to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as a result of Trump withholding U.S. military aid to Ukraine. Volker denied that was the case, noting that Ukrainian leaders did not even know the aid was being withheld and that they believed their relationship with the U.S. was moving along satisfactorily, without them having done anything Trump mentioned in his notorious July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. When Volker repeatedly declined to agree to Schiff’s characterization of events, Schiff said, “Ambassador, you’re making this much more complicated than it has to be.”The interview took place Oct. 3 in a secure room in the U.S. Capitol. While the session covered several topics, the issue of an alleged quid pro quo — U.S. military aid in exchange for a Ukrainian investigation of the Bidens and a public announcement that such an investigation was underway — was a significant part of the discussion.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 13:19:59 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/17/pelosi-the-voters-are-not-going-to-decide-impeachment-issue/amp/On Thursday at her weekly press briefing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the American people were “not going to decide” if President Donald Trump should be impeached. When asked about the impeachment timeline, Pelosi said, “I keep saying to people, impeachment is about the truth and the Constitution of the United States. Any other issues that you have, disapproving of the way the president has dealt with Syria, whatever the subject is, reluctance, the cowardice to do something about gun violence, the cruelty of not wanting to help our Dreamers and transgender people, the denial about the climate crisis that we face, the list goes on, that’s about the election. That has nothing to do with what is happening in terms of our oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution and the facts that might support. And we don’t know where this path will take us, it could take us down further path but the two are completely separate.” A reporter asked, “At what point might you say let’s just let the voters decide.” Pelosi said, “The voters are not going to decide whether we honor our oath of office. They already decided that in the last election.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 14:38:37 GMT -6
www.google.com/url?q=https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/document-adam-schiff-staffer-met-impeachment-witness-ukraine-trip/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiulcPMkqTlAhWJJTQIHaHzAXwQqUMwBXoECAkQAg&usg=AOvVaw0A6Qo49jQr-XfO5mdEI8b_Itinerary for a trip to Ukraine in August organized by the Atlantic Council think tank reveals that a staffer on Rep. Adam Schiff’s House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a meeting during the trip with acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, now a key witness for Democrats pursuing impeachment. The Atlantic Council is funded by and works in partnership with Burisma, the natural gas company at the center of allegations regarding Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Taylor has been called by House Democrats to appear next week to provide a deposition as part of the investigation being led by Schiff into President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Taylor himself has evidenced a close relationship with the Burisma-funded Atlantic Council, writing analysis pieces published on the Council’s website and serving as a featured speaker for the organization’s events. He also served for nine years as senior advisor to the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, which has co-hosted scores of events with the Atlantic Council. As Breitbart News reported, Thomas Eager, a staffer on Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee, took a trip to Ukraine in August billed as a bipartisan “Ukraine Study Trip” in which ten Congressional staffers participated. Eager is also currently a fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Congressional Fellowship, a bipartisan program that says it “educates congressional staff on current events in the Eurasia region.” The pre-planned Ukraine trip was part of the fellowship program. Burisma in January 2017 signed a “cooperative agreement” with the Council to specifically sponsor the organization’s Eurasia Center, the same center that sponsored Eager’s Ukraine trip. A closer look at the itinerary for the August 24 to August 31 trip shows that the delegation’s first meeting upon arrival in Ukraine was with Taylor. Spokespeople for Schiff’s office did not reply to multiple Breitbart News requests sent over the course of the last three days for comment on Eager’s meeting with Taylor. When Breitbart News first reported on Eager’s visit to Ukraine two weeks ago, Schiff’s office quickly replied to several comment requests, denying any impropriety related to Eager’s association with the Atlantic Council or the trip. The unanswered Breitbart email requests to Schiff’s office from the past three days posed the following question: While in Ukraine, did Mr. Eager speak to Mr. Taylor about the issue of reports about any representatives of President Trump looking into alleged Biden corruption in Ukraine? The dates of the pre-planned trip are instructive. Eager’s visit to Ukraine sponsored by the Burisma-funded Atlantic Council began 12 days after the so-called “whistleblower” officially filed his August 12 complaint. Schiff and his office have offered seemingly conflicting statements on the timeline of the California Congressman’s initial contact with the so-called “whistleblower.” Speaking on September 17, Schiff told MSNBC, “We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to.” Schiff’s spokesperson, Patrick Boland, was quoted on October 2 saying, “At no point did the committee review or receive the complaint in advance.” Boland said Schiff’s committee received the complaint the night before it publicly released the document. On Oct 2, however, the New York Times reported that Schiff received some of the contents of the complaint through an unnamed House Intelligence Committee aide initially contacted by the so-called “whistleblower,” described as a CIA officer. The Times reported the aide “shared some of what the officer conveyed to Mr. Schiff.” The referenced officer refers to the so-called “whistleblower.” The newspaper also reported: By the time the whistle-blower filed his complaint, Mr. Schiff and his staff knew at least vaguely what it contained Speaking to CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Schiff conceded that he was not clear enough about his contact with the so-called “whistleblower.” “I should have been much more clear,” Schiff said. Taylor, who emerged from government retirement in June to serve as charge d’affaires in Kyiv, is being deposed by House Democrats after text messages provided to Democrats showed him expressing concern about Trump’s requests for Ukraine to investigate the Bidens over issues related to Burisma. NBC News quoted sources saying Taylor will be represented during the deposition by attorney John Bellinger, who served at the National Security Council and as the State Department’s lead lawyer under President George W. Bush’s administration. Bellinger was a prominent “Never Trump” Republican, drafting an August 2016 letter with dozens of other senior Republican national security officials warning Trump would be the “most reckless President in American history.” Taylor and Atlantic Council Taylor has authored numerous analysis pieces published by the Atlantic Council. In March, three months before he became Trump’s ambassador to Ukraine, the Atlantic Council featured an oped co-authored by Taylor in which the diplomat argued Ukraine “has further to travel toward its self-proclaimed European goal” of reformation. In 2017, Taylor wrote a piece for the Council about a Ukrainian parliament vote on health care reform. In November 2011, the Atlantic Council hosted Taylor as the featured speaker at a discussion event when he was appointed that year as Special Coordinator for Middle East Transitions at the State Department. When he deployed to Ukraine as Trump’s ambassador in June, the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), which has co-hosted events with the Atlantic Council, authored a piece in the Kyiv Post welcoming him. Taylor for the last nine years served as a senior adviser to the USUBC. The USUBC’s piece noted that the “USUBC has worked closely with Ambassador Taylor for many years,” touting his role as the business group’s senior adviser. On June 26, just nine days after arriving in Ukraine as ambassador, the USUBC already hosted Taylor for a roundtable discussion about his new position. Vadym Pozharskyi, adviser to the board of directors at Burisma Holdings, was also previously hosted as a USUBC featured speaker. A USUBC senior adviser is David J. Kramer, a long-time adviser to late Senator John McCain, who served at the McCain Institute for International Leadership as senior director for human rights and democracy. Kramer played a central role in disseminating the anti-Trump dossier. In the USUBC piece welcoming Taylor to Ukraine, Kramer himself commented about Taylor’s ambassador position. “He’s a great choice for now,” Kramer gushed. Geysha Gonzalez is the sponsoring Atlantic Council officer listed on the Congressional disclosure form for Schiff staffer Eager’s trip to Ukraine. She is deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. Gonzalez is also one of eleven members of the rapid response team for the Ukrainian Election Task Force, which says it is working to expose “foreign interference in Ukraine’s democracy.” Another member of the team is Kramer. Kramer revealed in testimony that he held a meeting about the anti-Trump dossier with a reporter from BuzzFeed News, who he says snapped photos of the controversial document without Kramer’s permission when he left the room to go to the bathroom. That meeting was held at the McCain Institute office in Washington, Kramer stated. BuzzFeed infamously published the Christopher Steele dossier on January 10, 2017, setting off a firestorm of news media coverage about the document. The Washington Post reported last February that Kramer received the dossier directly from Fusion GPS after McCain expressed interest in it. In a deposition taken on December 13, 2017, and posted online earlier this year, Kramer revealed that he met with two Obama administration officials to inquire about whether the anti-Trump dossier was being taken seriously. In one case, Kramer said that he personally provided a copy of the dossier to Obama National Security Council official Celeste Wallander. In the deposition, Kramer said that McCain specifically asked him in early December 2016 to meet about the dossier with Wallander and Victoria Nuland, a senior official in John Kerry’s State Department. Schiff signed form Schiff’s signature appears on the required post-travel disclosure form filed with the House Committee on Ethics documenting the visit to Ukraine. The form signed by Schiff says that Eager’s trip to Ukraine was paid for by the “Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 14:40:43 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/ex-ukraine-envoy-testifies-i-was-never-asked-to-do-anything-wrong/Former U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker on Wednesday reportedly told impeachment investigators that he was “never asked to do anything” wrong, including by President Donald Trump. Democrats and the mainstream media had argued that Volker was a major player in Trump’s efforts to push Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son in exchange for aid even after the former envoy defended the former vice president from the corruption allegations levied against him. Volker made an unexpected return to the Capitol on Wednesday after testifying behind closed doors in the House Democrats’ impeachment probe on October 3. So far, House Democrats have received all depositions from impeachment probe witnesses in private. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, indicated that Volker went back to the Capitol Wednesday to “review” his October 3 testimony. “I was never asked to do anything that I thought was wrong, including by the [U.S.] president,” Volker testified on Wednesday, CBS News learned from unnamed sources. Volker, however, expressed concerns the U.S. relationship with Ukraine was “getting sucked into a domestic political debate.” Jordan and other GOP lawmakers have said Volker’s October 3 testimony obliterates the accusation at the center of the impeachment investigation. A “whistleblower’s” claim that Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter in exchange for aid during a July 25 call is at the heart of the probe. Trump and Zelensky have denied the allegation. Details behind Volker’s private testimony on October 3 are still pouring out. On Wednesday, the Washington Examiner reported that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who is leading the Democrat’s effort to impeach Trump, pushed Volker to testify on October 3 that Ukraine felt pressured to launch a probe into the Bidens as a result of the U.S. President withholding aid. Echoing other Republicans, the Ohio Republican, who witnessed Volkers’ deposition on October 3, has demanded that House Democrats release the transcripts of the former envoy’s testimony. So far, Democrats have refused. “There is no wrongdoing. Ambassador Volker was clear. Why not release the transcript so you can all see what Ambassador Volker told us? There is no wrongdoing he was completely as clear as could be: no quid pro quo,” Jordan told reporters on October 8. Schiff this week said he would eventually release “all” the transcripts of testimony provided by impeachment probe witnesses, but refused to say when. Releasing the transcripts would have already “exonerated” Trump, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, told reporters on October 8. During his October 3 deposition, Volker acknowledged that State Department officials were concerned about efforts in Ukraine by Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s private lawyer. Giuliani traveled to Ukraine to convince the Eastern European country’s government to investigate its role in the 2016 elections and corruption allegations against Biden and his son, Volker conceded. Volker told congressional investigators that it is “plausible” that “some individual Ukrainians may have attempted to influence the 2016 election or thought they could buy influence.” Citing an unnamed source, NBC News reported that the top State Department official George Kent testified Tuesday that he warned the Obama administration that the Ukrainian company that hired Biden’s son was corrupt. Kent’s comments came during his deposition in the ongoing impeachment probe. Based on the NBC News report, he warned that the energy company Burisma was corrupt before or during the time that Hunter Biden served on its board. The Obama administration cleared Hunter to work for Burisma. Volker, nevertheless, testified on October 3 that corruption allegations against former Vice President Biden “have no credibility to me.” The former envoy provided evidence on October 3 in the form of texts to show he was not trying to push Ukraine into investigating the Bidens. He did concede that he was trying to convince Ukraine to investigate Burisma, noting that combatting corruption is a component of U.S. policy. Volker explicitly told lawmakers in written testimony that he wanted “Ukraine [to] do nothing that could be seen as interfering in the 2020 elections.” House Democrats, however, cherry-picked and mischaracterized what they described as a “subset” of the texts released to the media to fuel their impeachment agenda. The Democrats argued the complete opposite of what Volker testified. They said the texts were evidence that Volker was a major player in pushing Ukraine to investigate the Bidens even after he defended the former vice president. The Democrat-led House Committees on Oversight and Reform, Intelligence, and Foreign Affairs are conducting the impeachment investigation.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 14:46:41 GMT -6
amgreatness.com/2019/10/16/another-pivot-on-impeachment/Excerpt: In reality, the whole episode is nonsense, a farce. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) won’t hold a vote on a formal impeachment inquiry because she couldn’t win the vote. If there were such an inquiry, where the Republicans called and examined witnesses and subpoenaed documents, it would collapse as quickly as the Russian collusion fraud did when former special counsel Robert Mueller stumbled through his congressional inquiry. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)—who is usually lying when his lips aren’t moving and always is when they are—says we will not be hearing from a non-whistleblowing leaker, to give his hearsay evidence of a conversation that any person in the world can read and see has no legal implications whatever. But the investigation indomitably continues. It is like the last government of the German Third Reich, meeting in the week following the death of Hitler on the few thousand acres they still governed on the Danish border, discussing agriculture and immigration. With no evidence of wrongdoing by the president, the Trump-hating media is now scrambling after Rudolph Giuliani, formerly one of the nation’s toughest prosecutors, as if they can pin something on him while he acted as the president’s private attorney. With Hunter Biden in hiding, this ludicrous mockery must end. Pompous commentators who don’t like Trump but have learned to live with their underestimation of him cannot go on indefinitely with wagging heads and furrowed foreheads, discussing the president’s “crisis.”
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 16:16:31 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 17, 2019 22:43:10 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/17/democrat-controlled-house-passed-bill-with-quid-pro-quo-on-election-interference/amp/Democrats and the media cried foul Thursday when acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney argued that it was “appropriate” for the president to withhold funds from Ukraine until it investigated possible interference in the 2016 presidential election. But the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in September that imposes restrictions on transactions with Russia until it had been cleared of election interference. The House bill amended an earlier Senate bill — S. 1790, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020” — that required the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to investigate possible Russian interference in elections. In the House version, all “United States persons” are prohibited “from engaging in transactions with, providing financing for, or in any other way dealing in Russian sovereign debt” after a certain date. That prohibition is lifted after the DNI can certify, within a certain timeframe, that “neither the Government of Russia, nor any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of that government, has knowingly engaged in interference in the most recent election for Federal office”; and after “Congress has passed a joint resolution certifying the determination” of the DNI. In other words, the Democrat-controlled House would suspend transactions — both public and private — with Russia’s government until the U.S. can be satisfied that Russia had not interfered with the most recent federal election.
That is exactly what Mulvaney said Trump had wanted Ukraine to show, as part of its commitment to fighting corruption — namely, that it was not involved in documented efforts by the Democratic National Committee to use Ukraine to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Mulvaney said: “The look back to what happened in 2016 certainly was part of the things [President Trump] was worried about in corruption with that nation. That is absolutely appropriate.”
To Democrats and the media, it was a “quid pro quo” — and grounds for impeachment.Update: Mulvaney clarified Thursday evening that there was never any “quid pro quo” with Ukraine, adding that no funding had been withheld for reasons related to a suspected Democratic National Committee communications server (that was said, at the time, to have been hacked by Russians, but was never handed to the FBI). ....... Let’s not forget this: www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire Kiev officials are scrambling to make amends with the president-elect after quietly working to boost Clinton. ............. Donald Trump wasn’t the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted by officials of a former Soviet bloc country. Ukrainian government officials tried to help Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump by publicly questioning his fitness for office. They also disseminated documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter, only to back away after the election. And they helped Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers, a Politico investigation found. A Ukrainian-American operative who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation. The Ukrainian efforts had an impact in the race, helping to force Manafort’s resignation and advancing the narrative that Trump’s campaign was deeply connected to Ukraine’s foe to the east, Russia. But they were far less concerted or centrally directed than Russia’s alleged hacking and dissemination of Democratic emails. Russia’s effort was personally directed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, involved the country’s military and foreign intelligence services, according to U.S. intelligence officials. They reportedly briefed Trump last week on the possibility that Russian operatives might have compromising information on the president-elect. And at a Senate hearing last week on the hacking, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said “I don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we've seen in this case.” There’s little evidence of such a top-down effort by Ukraine. Longtime observers suggest that the rampant corruption, factionalism and economic struggles plaguing the country — not to mention its ongoing strife with Russia — would render it unable to pull off an ambitious covert interference campaign in another country’s election. And President Petro Poroshenko’s administration, along with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, insists that Ukraine stayed neutral in the race.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 18, 2019 12:13:04 GMT -6
A State Department official testified to investigators on Tuesday that he raised alarms about Hunter Biden’s shady business dealings with Ukraine back in 2015, but he was rejected by a Biden staffer. The Washington Post reported that George Kent, a career diplomat told investigators that he was worried Hunter Biden’s seat on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company would complicate relationships with other diplomats and their ability to convey to Ukrainian counterparts the virtues of avoiding conflicts of interest. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/diplomat-tells-investigators-he-raised-alarms-in-2015-about-hunter-bidens-ukraine-work-but-was-rebuffed/2019/10/18/81e35be9-4f5a-4048-8520-0baabb18ab63_story.htmlA career State Department official overseeing Ukraine policy told congressional investigators this week that he had raised concerns in early 2015 about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company but was turned away by a Biden staffer, according to three people familiar with the testimony. George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, testified Tuesday that he worried that Hunter Biden’s position at the firm Burisma Holdings would complicate efforts by U.S. diplomats to convey to Ukrainian officials the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality rules surrounding the deposition. Kent said he had concerns that Ukrainian officials would view Hunter Biden as a conduit for currying influence with his father, said the people. But when Kent raised the issue with Biden’s office, he was told the then-vice president didn’t have the “bandwidth” to deal with the issue involving his son as his other son, Beau, was battling cancer, said the people familiar with his testimony.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 18, 2019 12:21:33 GMT -6
Another page from the book of Stalin/Mao/etc. thefederalist.com/2019/10/18/gop-members-of-intel-committee-lambast-adam-schiff-for-hiding-documents/GOP Members Of Intel Committee Lambast Adam Schiff For Hiding Documents OCTOBER 18, 2019 By Chrissy Clark All nine GOP members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) penned a letter to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., lambasting him for hiding documents related to Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. “We are concerned that the Majority is knowingly withholding Committee documents related to your so-called ‘impeachment inquiry’ from the Minority,” the letter reads. “…it has come to our attention that the Majority is not uploading (or providing physical copies of) certain Committee documents related to your ‘impeachment inquiry’ to its document repository, thus withholding the existence of such documents from the Minority.” GOP HPSCI members counted 20 documents that have yet to be shared with the Minority. In the letter, the Minority requests the Majority release all documents to all committee members regardless of party identification. GOP HPSCI members call this move unprecedented. We expect that the Majority adhere to the Committee’s past precedents and that appropriately cleared staff have immediate access to all documents generated or received by the Committee related to your impeachment inquiry. We see no reason for your withholding of these documents except as a deliberate attempt to hinder the Minority’s participation. Republican HPSCI members conclude by asking Schiff why the Intelligence Committee is investigating impeachment given the about-face he’s taken on the importance of a whistleblower complaint. Schiff abruptly moved from demanding the anti-Trump complainant testify to preventing the testimony, following reports that the complainant and Schiff’s staff had worked with each other prior to the complaint being lodged. The result of the flip-flop, Republicans say, is that the inquiry no longer has jurisdiction within the important Intelligence Committee: Further, given that you have recently acknowledged that the Committee no longer needs to receive testimony from the whistleblower, your ‘impeachment inquiry’ lacks any relationship with the jurisdiction of this Committee. As you are aware, the Committee was established to conduct crucial oversight of the Intelligence Community, and we are increasingly concerned our normal work is being overlooked in favor of partisan activities best suited for another Committee. Schiff has previously been criticized for falsely claiming to have evidence that Trump had treasonously colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 18, 2019 18:10:01 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 18, 2019 20:20:13 GMT -6
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/17/john-durham-ag-barrs-special-russia-investigator-o/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert&bt_ee=E1KAlF%2BvxzwU%2B1M4%2BbZWimLrATZYFM6Q%2BiohIsdoIF6Lcrec5Upkn9y4XxSgGI1E&bt_ts=1571414693199It was special investigator John Durham who acquired two BlackBerrys used by Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor who jumped-started the FBI’s long Russia probe into President Trump’s campaign. Sidney Powell, attorney for retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, filed a court motion on Monday disclosing the phones’ existence while tying them to Western intelligence. She told The Washington Times on Thursday that she has confirmed that it was Mr. Durham’s office who obtained them. Attorney General William P. Barr assigned Mr. Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, the mission of finding out the origins of the FBI’s counter-intelligence investigation known as Crossfire Hurricane. She told The Times that a “source,” whom she declined to identify, told her about the BlackBerrys. Mr. Mifsud, a university professor and well-traveled lecturer, told George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, in London in April 2016 that Moscow owned thousands of Hillary Clinton emails. When the news reached the FBI in July, agent Peter Strzok initiated the probe.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 22, 2019 5:38:27 GMT -6
www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ag-barr-expands-controversial-review-origin-russia-investigation-n1068971The prosecutor conducting the review, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, has expressed his intent to interview a number of current and former intelligence officials involved in examining Russia’s effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former director of national intelligence James Clapper, Brennan told NBC News. Durham has also requested to talk to CIA analysts involved in the intelligence assessment of Russia’s activities, prompting some of them to hire lawyers, according to three former CIA officials familiar with the matter. And there is tension between the CIA and the Justice Department over what classified documents Durham can examine, two people familiar with the matter said. With Barr’s approval, Durham has expanded his staff and the timeframe under scrutiny, according to a law enforcement official directly familiar with the matter. And he is now looking into conduct past Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, a Trump administration official said.
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 22, 2019 5:42:14 GMT -6
So, now Democrats are refusing to give Republican lawmakers transcripts from their sham impeachment investigation:
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ): The reality is when you close the doors, you’re saying we don’t trust anybody but us to get to the truth. And they’re actually, the word came out tonight, they’re not even going to let these guys, members of the committee, get access to the transcripts anymore.
Laura Ingraham: What? What? Whoa-woah-woah… What is the, what are they doing that for? Why are they doing that?
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY): they want to be able to prepare their report. And they don’t want to let us to get the rest of the information out. So this is not a level playing field…
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Post by soonernvolved on Oct 23, 2019 5:11:38 GMT -6
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) described the current proceedings this way to Sean Hannity, “It’s like watching a slow motion crazy train that’s going into impeachment fantasy land looking for the Loch Ness monster.”
Nunes then said he was concerned about Democrats destroying evidence, “One of my concerns now is that I want to make sure that we preserve the actual audio recordings of these witnesses. “
Sean Hannity: Are they trying to get rid of them?
Rep. Nunes: We don’t know… Tradition has been Republicans and Democrats get the tapes and get the transcripts. Given that they are not giving us the transcripts for fear of leaking! Are you kidding me these guys are the king of leaks! It’s absolutely incredible. The leaks come out all day long every day to all the mainstream media.
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