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MadLinguist

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31. Still the need to smear beyond the 30 day gap

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #30)

Sat Nov 16, 2019, 04:06 PM

Nov 2019

is only explicable as a message of intimidation. It seems to me that is the trail Schiff and Goldman were on when they questioned Yovanovitch about the effect of the smear when she raised the why-smear question herself. I really believe this issue is going to end up supporting an article of impeachment.

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Still the need to smear beyond the 30 day gap MadLinguist Nov 2019 #31

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