Impeachment hearings

[_subgenius]

I, for one, hate having to wait to get Washington Post articles laundered through CNN, then the Times, then NPR, then MSNBC, before hearing about them from the CIA.

CNN legit still relues on Debbie WS and Donna B as if they still had integrity...like people still listening to Dan Rather.
Fabricate a story? cheat on debate? fix nomination? no problem! Democrats have a place for you.

[_Smokey]

The squiggly lines indicate that sometimes the CIA feeds the information directly to the Washington Post and CNN.

The position of the CIA in the chain of intentional bad information information graphic indicates that all official news and information is ultimately filtered and delivered to you by the CIA.

It is in reference to Operation Mockingbird.

[_canpakes]

Look, subs. You found a friend!

[_aussieguy55]

Rachel Maddow does a good job covering the story. Will Rudy end up in jail.He needs to stop sitting on his phone. It seems one of his overseas friends is going to sing. why couldn't Trump just go to the election in 2020 on his record? Trump done himself in by shouting in that phone if the restaurant in Kiev.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... es/601990/


The first day of public hearings into the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump included an explosive revelation. William B. Taylor Jr., the senior American diplomat in Ukraine, tied Trump even more directly than we previously knew to the effort to pressure Ukraine to probe his political opponent.

But as damaging as Taylor’s testimony proved, it was merely another massive boulder in the avalanche of evidence against the president. We are well beyond the point that any disinterested person can deny that the president abused his power and acted in a corrupt manner, in ways the American founders explicitly warned against.


That the president acted the way he did should surprise exactly no one, given his disordered personality and Nietzschean ethic, his pathological lying and brutishness and bullying, and his history of personal and professional depravity. The president is a deeply damaged human being—and therefore a deeply dangerous president.

Peter Wehner: The presidency deserves respect—even when the president does not

But what was on display on Capitol Hill on Wednesday was not simply an impeachment inquiry into an unscrupulous president; it was the ongoing, deepening complicity and corruption of the party he leads.

What makes the Trump era so unusual isn’t partisanship and political tribalism, which have been around for much of human existence. It is the degree to which the transgressive nature of Trump—his willingness to go places no other president has gone, to say and do things that no president before him has done—has exposed the Republican Party. There is hardly a pretense anymore regarding what the party, and the right-wing media complex, are doing. They are driven by a single, all-consuming commitment: Defend Donald Trump at all costs. That is the end they seek, and they will pursue virtually any means necessary to achieve it. This from the party that once said it stood for objective truth, for honor and integrity, and against moral relativism.

We are facing a profound political crisis. What the Republican Party is saying and signaling isn’t simply that rationality and truth are subordinate to partisanship; it is that they have to be obliterated for the sake of partisanship and the survival of the Trump presidency. As best I can tell, based on some fairly intense interactions with Trump supporters, there is no limiting principle—almost nothing he can do—that will forfeit their support. Members of Congress clearly believe Trump is all that stands between them and the loss of power, while many Trump voters believe the president is all that stands between them and national ruin. In either case, it has led them into the shadowlands.

For those of us who are still conservative and have devoted a large part of our lives to the Republican Party, it is quite painful to watch all of this unfold. Perhaps too many of us were blind to things we should have seen, or perhaps the GOP is significantly different now than it was in the past, when it was led by estimable (if imperfect) individuals such as Ronald Reagan. Whatever the case, we are where we are—in a very precarious and worrisome place."

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[_MeDotOrg]

Oh Maria, why are you wearing a $600 Hermes scarf to a sideshow about you...getting fired?

Perhaps spend that kind of money on food or save it? Dunno, but ok.

So your argument with the Ambassador was with her scarf?

Perhaps you could fill me in on how she lost Somalia.

[_Smokey]

Oh Maria, why are you wearing a $600 Hermes scarf to a sideshow about you...getting fired?

Perhaps spend that kind of money on food or save it? Dunno, but ok.

So your argument with the Ambassador was with her [$600] scarf?

Tone deaf ruling class. We are tired of it.

Perhaps you could fill me in on how she lost Somalia.

Maybe she lost her hair moisturizer in Somalia!

Seriously though, the White House visitor logs revealed the following individuals met with Eric Ciaramella while he was detailed to the Obama White House:

Daria Kaleniuk: Co-founder and executive director of the Soros-funded Anticorruption Action Center (AntAC) in Ukraine. She visited on December 9, 2015

The Hill reported that in April 2016, during the U.S. presidential race, the U.S. Embassy under Obama in Kiev, “took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and (AntAC).”


Gina Lentine: Now a senior program officer at Freedom House, she was formerly the Eurasia program coordinator at Soros funded Open Society Foundations. She visited on March 16, 2016.

Rachel Goldbrenner: Now an NYU law professor, she was at that time an advisor to then-Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. She visited on both January 15, 2016 and August 8, 2016.

Orly Keiner: A foreign affairs officer at the State Department who is a Russia specialist. She is also the wife of State Department Legal Advisor James P. Bair. She visited on both March 4, 2016 and June 20, 2015.
Nazar Kholodnitzky: The lead anti-corruption prosecutor in Ukraine. He visited on January 19, 2016.

On March 7, 2019, The Associated Press reported that the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch called for him to be fired.

Michael Kimmage: Professor of History at Catholic University of America, at the time was with the State Department’s policy planning staff where specialized in Russia and Ukraine issues. He is a fellow at the German Marshall Fund. He was also one of the signatories to the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group Statement of Principles. He visited on October 26, 2015.

James Melville: Then-recently confirmed as Obama’s Ambassador to Estonia, visited on September 9, 2015.
On June 29, 2018, Foreign Policy reported that Melville resigned in protest of Trump.

Victoria Nuland: who at the time was assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs met with Ciaramella on June 17, 2016.
(Judicial Watch has previously uncovered documents revealing Nuland had an extensive involvement with Clinton-funded dossier. Judicial Watch also released documents revealing that Nuland was involved in the Obama State Department’s “urgent” gathering of classified Russia investigation information and disseminating it to members of Congress within hours of Trump taking office.)

Artem Sytnyk: the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau director visited on January 19, 2016.

On October 7, 2019, the Daily Wire reported leaked tapes show Sytnyk confirming that the Ukrainians helped the Clinton campaign.

[_canpakes]

"I heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy who heard it from a guy..!!1!"

[_MeDotOrg]

Oh Maria, why are you wearing a $600 Hermes scarf to a sideshow about you...getting fired?

Perhaps spend that kind of money on food or save it? Dunno, but ok.

So your argument with the Ambassador was with her scarf?

Tone deaf ruling class. We are tired of it.

So indeed, the argument with the Ambassador IS with her scarf.

Perhaps you could fill me in on how she lost Somalia.

Maybe she lost her hair moisturizer in Somalia!

Frizzy hair and an Hermes scarf. Got it.

[_Kittens_and_Jesus]

Oh Maria, why are you wearing a $600 Hermes scarf to a sideshow about you...getting fired?

Perhaps spend that kind of money on food or save it? Dunno, but ok.

There is not one single straight conservative male that knows off hand (or cares about) the brand and cost of any scarf on this planet.