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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums**Carol Leonnig tweet: Trump asked Ukraine pres *8 times* to work w/ Guiliani about Biden**
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Carol Leonnig
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@CarolLeonnig
President asked Ukraine president -- eight times -- to work with his personal lawyer to investigate Biden's son
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Vivian Salama
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President Trump in a July phone call repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidens son, urging Volodymyr Zelensky about 8x to work with Rudy Giuliani, his personal lawyer https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-leader-11568993176
3:43 PM - Sep 20, 2019
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Nevilledog
(51,201 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)you got that right!!
Funtatlaguy
(10,887 posts)berksdem
(595 posts)Thanks for the laugh.
The negative part of me thinks all of this will get swept under the rug like everything else... but this made me chuckle!!!
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)elleng
(131,140 posts)Vivian Salama White House reporter for @WSJ. Formerly AP Baghdad bureau chief. Previous posts include Iraq, UAE, Egypt, Pakistan, IsPal, NYC & RI.
Carol Leonnig
Washington Post reporter, MSNBC contributor, finder of fact. If you have a story tip, email me at carol.leonnig@washpost.com
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)INCREDIBLE reporting on so many fronts!!
coti
(4,612 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... they could give a shit about his treason.
lanlady
(7,135 posts)Initial reports said that Trump promised the foreign leader something. What was the tit for tat here?
tblue37
(65,490 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)klook
(12,170 posts)or months or....
Saint PeLSU
(24 posts)Never too much, never too much.
I've had zero confidence in NP since she said she wasn't worried about impeachment right after the dems took the house. The problem with money in politics is that they all have the same donors. I often wonder if it's them telling her not to
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)H2O Man
(73,622 posts)She is outstanding! I have the greatest respect for her. And you have provided a prime example of why. Thank you!
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)H2O Man
(73,622 posts)I just e-mailed my older son at his work about this. He thinks it is cool, because (among other things) last night I told him that she would break the story sometime this weekend. She has solid connections in this area -- obviously!
Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)EPSTEIN DEATH: DEEP DIGGING NOT WELCOME IN CORPORATE MEDIA
by Russ Baker
WhoWhatWhy.org , Aug. 26, 2019
Excerpt...
Although establishment media usually ignore or ridicule non-traditional media when the latter ask questions that dont conform to a pro-system bias, they have a tougher time when it is one of their own breaking ranks.
Thats what the Washington Post did. It began with a tweet from reporter Carol Leonnig:
People close to Epstein fear he was murdered as Epstein told authorities someone tried to kill him in a previous incident weeks earlier. He was described as being in good spirits in recent days https://t.co/J9QNSo1N2v
Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) August 10, 2019
In a follow-up tweet the same day, Leonnig reminded readers:
Remember previous incident July 23: it was never cleared up whether Epstein had been attacked, as he said, or if he was covering up his own suicide attempt https://t.co/G7smVLAZqc
Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) August 10, 2019
In a rare display, we saw other major news organizations take the Post to task. For instance, Rolling Stone. This progressive journal quoted Tim Gleason a professor of journalism and director of the Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism at the University of Oregon who said I dont know why she would have tweeted this what was she thinking? Its hard not to read that and think she is suggesting something else happened.
Something else. As if something else was clearly out of the question.
Continues...
https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/08/26/epstein-death-deep-digging-not-welcome-in-corporate-media/
So, did we ever learn what was on the video cameras?
H2O Man
(73,622 posts)If I remember correctly, those pesky cameras were experiencing technical difficulties at the time. Mere coincidence, right?
Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)The story Epsteins cameras could tell might remind the public of AG Barrs family connection to Epstein.
Vital history that is little known:
The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump
Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019
During Attorney General, William Barrs confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasses (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.
This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barrs father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattans Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.
While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New Yorks prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.
Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, he was something of a Robin WilliamsinDead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs. Epsteins mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns chairman, Alan Ace Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.
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https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107
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Barr Sr OSS veteran mustve seen a potential, uh, asset. Otherwise, theres no logical rationale for the hire.
ETA: I have yet to hear a major media outlet print or broadcast bring Barr Sr hiring Epstein to the nations attention.
H2O Man
(73,622 posts)I posted an essay here that documented in detail Epstein's connections with intelligence. It started, exactly as you note, with Barr Sr. And it went on for decades.
Kid Berwyn
(14,971 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212318324
Honey Pot Byrned
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212411055
Outstanding work, H2O Man!
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Sounds like they were gonna tell some fibs.
elleng
(131,140 posts)joost5
(421 posts)TL;DR; Rudy was sent as a back channel to negotiate the extortion and bribery schemes.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)whistle blower to show to the corporate media what has been in their face for some time.
RG and shithole has been doing this for sometime.
joost5
(421 posts)berksdem
(595 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)I worry about getting my hopes up that the orange piece of shit will have any consequences, for any crimes he commits, at any time.
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)spanone
(135,884 posts)triron
(22,023 posts)orangecrush
(19,624 posts)Much appreciated!
yardwork
(61,712 posts)blue-wave
(4,365 posts)it seems, that tRump won't sell for profit. My resolve to help elect Joe just became stronger.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)the Journal is a Republican newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch
moondust
(20,006 posts)When you're a corrupt, racist, unqualified sleazebag pretending to be God Almighty and trying to avoid being humiliated in an election--you'll collude, cheat, rig, threaten, intimidate, or anything else to try to save yourself.
Make it an addendum adding more evidence to the Mueller report.
jayschool2013
(2,313 posts)wiggs
(7,819 posts)straw for many, and that his protection, support, believers, enablers, complicit criminals start giving up so that ALL the rest of it becomes public. In time for impeachment and criminal referral.
Sure...this should be immediate impeachment for his Ukraine pressure. Does that mean the inquiries about emoluments, collusion, conspriacy, treachery, money laundering, kompromat, refusal to defend the US against attack...should end and NOT be part of impeachment?
There's a LONG list of reasons why he should be removed and prosecuted...I hope TPTB have the courage and perseverance to continue.
wiggs
(7,819 posts)Link to tweet
whole thread, including responses are worthwhile
What Trump did with Ukraine was very bad but is absolutely nowhere close to the worst thing he's done