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In reply to the discussion: ***IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY HEARING NOV 15 THREAD 5*** [View all]Duppers
(28,473 posts)142. There was this on CNN 5 days ago
"Trump impeachment inquiry: What 2,677 pages of testimony reveal about Trump's Ukraine scandal"
"It's based on a single phone call of congratulations to the President of Ukraine, which they fraudulently mischaracterized to sound absolutely horrible," Trump said a few weeks ago of his July 25 call with the Ukrainian President cited by a whistleblower complaint.
But a review of more than 2,600 pages of transcripts released this week from eight witnesses who have testified in the House impeachment inquiry over the past six weeks shows how controversy over Trump's Ukraine policy had been brewing inside the US government for months. It roiled efforts to bolster a key strategic alliance after Trump enlisted his own personal attorney to work outside normal diplomatic channels in an apparent effort to bolster his reelection chances.
The testimony details how top US officials were alarmed that Trump had outsourced Ukraine policy to his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who had pushed top Ukraine officials to publicly announce an investigation into the Bidens and to pursue a conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 elections to help Democrats. Giuliani's efforts, with support from the President, led to the ouster of America's top diplomat in Ukraine, who stood in his way, while enlisting emissaries who have since been indicted.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/09/politics/impeachment-transcript-takeaways/index.html
So, it seems as if some level of treason is provable, according to the transcript(s).![]()
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Was a surgeon in Iraq during bloodiest time. So qualifies him in the Ukrainian-Trump matter.
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#13
So, Mr. Stewart, if Ambassador Yovanovitch was so complimentary to trump, why was he slamming her?
catbyte
Nov 2019
#7
"I'm getting to that, actually..." All they have is smearing Democrats, apparently.
nolabear
Nov 2019
#10
The GOP argument seems to be "Trump can do whatever he wants, because he's POTUS"
TwilightZone
Nov 2019
#25
Well, I just checked on all the over-air TV stations - No coverage of the impeachment inquiry.
icymist
Nov 2019
#122
Schiff got remainder of Quigley's time and asks about how she feels about
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2019
#36
Epic fail on her part. She forgot to mention her MF45 threatened whistleblower's life aftter that!
MFGsunny
Nov 2019
#125
That money was illegally held and was about to be lost at the end of the FY
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2019
#52
I love how Swalwell also slams Giuliani with his own quotes from news articles. nt
crickets
Nov 2019
#67
They probably will since there are hearings next week for at least 3 days
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2019
#96
They have to push their phony CT to not talk about the criminality that was going on by them.
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2019
#75
ratcliffe - a wealthy rep so insulated from the plight of the far reaches of his district
Mersky
Nov 2019
#99
They may be repeating this over and over because they have little else, or because they
wiggs
Nov 2019
#119
So many stars connecting dots: Heck, Speier, Swallwell, Castro, others. . . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#104
After Jordan tried to indict the witness for not policing diplomats and Ukraine officials, not
emmaverybo
Nov 2019
#140