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Greg Sargent ✔ @ThePlumLineGS
Multiple reporters are saying that Dems emerging from William Taylor's testimony are describing it as a sea change and a bombshell and a real blow to Trump.
Just a reminder...
Greg Sargent ✔ @ThePlumLineGS
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As Bill Taylor testifies today, let's remember:
Taylor *twice* objected in those texts to a quid pro quo which froze military aid to leverage Ukraine into helping Trump corrupt our democracy.
Taylor had a *reason* for thinking this quid pro quo existed:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/22/trump-embraces-fellow-autocrats-abroad-he-corrupts-democracy-home/
1:20 PM - Oct 22, 2019
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)live love laugh
(13,141 posts)only harps on the Impeachment Showdown.
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/impeachment-inquiry-10-22-2019/index.html
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)THANK YOU
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Link to tweet
Ben Siegel ✔ @benyc
Rep. Lynch on Taylor: This testimony is a sea change, adding that it could accelerate impeachment timeline in the House.
1:07 PM - Oct 22, 2019 · Washington, DC
One hopes!!
Botany
(70,589 posts)calimary
(81,510 posts)I made a quick list, from what quite a few talking heads said:
Tipping point
A sea change
Smoking gun
An inflection point
Radical change
Somethings changed/is different/has shifted
Theyre feelin it, from the strength and weight of even just the little we know of Ambassador Taylors presentation yesterday. And all theyve seen as outsiders is Taylors 15-page opening statement.
Botany
(70,589 posts)Trump/Pompeo/Rudy/Barr's dealings with various Ukrainian entities had to do with trying to
cast doubt on the Mueller report and Trump/Russia 2016.
Just remember you can't be pro American and pro Trump @ the same time. Treasonous bastards.
triron
(22,023 posts)Is that enough to remove or not Repukes?
stopdiggin
(11,372 posts)then, yes .. this IS a big deal.
(A lot of Rs are having, and are going to have, a real hard time choking this down)
RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)that she couldn't choke on anything. Similarly, the GOP will not have any trouble, umm, swallowing whatever the unelected failed real estate mogul in the White House shoves . . .OK, OK, I think you get the point.
(And, yes, serious apologies to Ms Lovelace who, it turns out, was not an altogether willing participant in what she referred to as her "rape on film." The same cannot be said for the GOP, for any of its pols, voters, or officials, however.)
greatauntoftriplets
(175,752 posts)He has the look of an honest man.
deminks
(11,017 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Impeach him and I think it will knock Team Trump out of whack
shanti
(21,675 posts)Cut him out of the picture, and there would be mad flailing.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He said he does quid pro quo "all the time." Really? Details, please, Mickey!
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Saudis - "we'll look the other way on Khashoggi if you give money to Jared and me"
Russia - "we'll lift sanctions if you help us win in 2020"
Turkey - "we'll stop protecting the Kurds if you promise me 90% occupancy at Trump Tower Istanbul"
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)Trump sucks out your soul and you go to jail.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)I know, I know. The senate will never convict. Still......
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)They may very well jump ship if the political tides turn. It can happen very quickly. Then again, it may not. Keep up the pressure, and we will see what we shall see.
calimary
(81,510 posts)Keep up the pressure.
Keep up the pressure!
There! I completed the repeat-three-times strategy. Very important! (Very important. Very important!)
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)as they should for a once-in-a-lifetime CROOK like tRump! #ItsAboutTime
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Some people ain't no damned good...
robbob
(3,538 posts)Kaiserguy
(740 posts)is that Trump want them to make something up about Biden since there was nothing to see.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)mucifer
(23,572 posts)couldn't find anything so they had to threaten other countries to make stuff up so they could get what congress had allocated to them legally.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)...for the knuckleheads.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Nothing is going to get me excited until it's a done deal. Until he is actually behind bars, stripped of all his assets and/or dead.
robbob
(3,538 posts)I'm hoping there will be other even more damaging revelations about the dumps abuse of power. While I realize blackmailing Ukraine to manufacture dirt on Biden is an impeachable event, its something we already know (yesterdays news?), and tRump and his minions have already done their best to normalize it.
Again, I realize that just what we KNOW, just what has already been admitted and revealed through the transcripts is criminal and impeachable, but in order to really swing anybody still sitting on the fence (hard to believe there could be at this point), I want to hear and see evidence of even more criminality...
Botany
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Ingredients
3 medium oranges
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 turkey (14 to 16 pounds)
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 small onion, cut into wedges
4 fresh rosemary sprigs
2 fresh thyme sprigs
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Turkey-size oven roasting bag
1-1/2 cups Champagne
1/2 cup orange juice
durablend
(7,465 posts)"DEMS WANNA THROW ME INTO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR RIGHT NOW!!!!!"
NBachers
(17,146 posts)klook
(12,170 posts)NBachers
(17,146 posts)RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)or the earnestness of the desire!
UTUSN
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H2O Man
(73,623 posts)NCDEM4EVR
(34 posts)That's it nothing more to add at this time
calimary
(81,510 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)patphil
(6,217 posts)He may be singing a different song then, based on Taylor's testimony.
RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)Kind of contradictory -- but I guess it depends on how you look at it. I favor explosions over the gradual encrustation that transforms a thing in a sea change. But on the other hand, gradual encrustation has a certain appeal to it as well.
Festina lente, perhaps?