Pelosi Impeachment Inquiry

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Big AAPL, Sep 24, 2019.

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    #791     Oct 18, 2019
  2. piezoe

    piezoe

    "The other thing, There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me. "
    Did anyone besides me notice that ellipsis in the last line. Does '...' translate in this specific case as "[see the secure server]" ? Or perhaps it translates as "[here Bolton had a meltdown and started screaming 'IDIOT' ]" ?
     
    #792     Oct 18, 2019
  3. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    The ellipsis mean we never got the unredacted transcript.
     
    #793     Oct 18, 2019
  4. UsualName

    UsualName

    The press: what’s going on here?

    Mulvaney: quid pro quo for political reasons!

    The press: oh, ok.

    Right wingers: Fake News!
     
    #794     Oct 18, 2019
  5. UsualName

    UsualName

    I mentioned a while back that the most damning part of the Zelensky call transcript was the reference to Crowdstrike. As the inquiry moves forward it’s going to become more and more clear Trump was leveraging US foreign aid for his political purposes, not the country’s best interest.

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    #795     Oct 18, 2019
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  7. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

    To me it was clear the moment the democrats won the House that they would use every means available despite saying they would not. Its like giving a monkey an AK-47, they are gonna do some shooting.

     
    #797     Oct 18, 2019
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  8. I am crying I am laughing so hard.
     
    #798     Oct 18, 2019
  9. piezoe

    piezoe

    Instead of thinking what comes naturally to you, why not pay attention to what's going on?
     
    #799     Oct 18, 2019
  10. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    oh lawd...inb4 no quid pro quo:
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/giuliani-shokin-state-visa-george-kent/index.html
    Exclusive: Giuliani pushed Trump administration to grant a visa to a Ukrainian official promising dirt on Democrats

    Washington (CNN)Career diplomat George Kent told congressional investigators in his closed-door testimony this week that Rudy Giuliani asked the State Department and the White House to grant a visa to the former Ukrainian official who Joe Biden had pushed to have removed when he was vice president, according to four people familiar with Kent's testimony.

    Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, testified that around January 2019 Giuliani requested a visa for former Ukrainian prosecutor-general Viktor Shokin to travel to the United States. Shokin had been pushed out of his position as Ukraine's top prosecutor in 2016 after pressure from Western leaders, including Biden, over concerns that he was not pursuing corruption cases.
    Giuliani has previously told CNN he wanted to interview Shokin in person because the Ukrainian promised to reveal dirt on Democrats.

    Kent told congressional investigators the State Department had objected to the request, and State did not grant the visa. Giuliani, Kent said, then appealed to the White House to have State reverse its decision. Shokin's visa was never granted, although Giuliani eventually spoke with Shokin over Skype.

    Details from those interviews were included in a cache of documents Giuliani delivered to the State Department earlier this year, in hopes that the administration would investigate those claims. The State Department inspector general eventually turned the documents over to congressional investigators.

    According to a write-up of his interview with Shokin included in the documents, Giuliani claimed that Shokin "believes the current Ambassador Marie L.
    Yovanovitch denied his visa" and noted that Yovanovitch was "close to Mr. Biden." In her recent testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, Yovanovitch said she has met Biden "several times over the course of our many years in government, neither he nor the previous Administration ever, directly or directly, raised the issue of either Burisma or Hunter Biden with me."

    Giuliani's efforts to push a smear campaign against Yovanovitch ultimately led to her removal from her post in May.
     
    #800     Oct 18, 2019