Good read

Well I for one am Jonesing

Did we ever get confirmation on Red and Green castle?

CIA Circles Wagons – Dispatches Media Narrative Engineers to Defend Interests… https://t.co/Fj7PdU5LOb pic.twitter.com/Xkqaa1xeqH

TheLastRefuge  (@TheLastRefuge2) October 22, 2019

Nike CEO steps down. Under Armour CEO steps down. On the same day.

Hard not to wonder how much Hong Kong/NBA/China has to do with it.

The sportswear and athletic shoe companies are now the tail that wags the dog of professional sports. And all that stuff is made in China.

— Emerald Robinson ?? (@EmeraldRobinson) October 22, 2019

My thoughts exactly.

Clinton/Obama-Tied Campaign Fundraiser Imaad Zuberi Agrees To Plead Guilty To Falsifying Records to Conceal Work as Foreign Agent, Evading Taxes on Income Obtained by Lobbying on Behalf of Foreign Entities, and Illegal Campaign Contributions https://t.co/w6ziLE5iDg

BenTallmadge  (@BenKTallmadge) October 22, 2019

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/campaign-fundraiser-agrees-plead-guilty-falsifying-records-conceal-work-foreign-agent-evading

These shocking FBI reports evidence a corrupt collusion between DOJ and media, specifically The Associated Press, to target Paul Manafort-- are further reason for President @RealDonaldTrump to pardon Manafort and others caught up in Mueller’s abusive web. https://t.co/M4WvDSBBFq

Tom Fitton  (@TomFitton) October 22, 2019

Durham Looking At Brennan – A Reminder of “The Crown Material” Conflict… https://t.co/Ptp7nSsHmL pic.twitter.com/V9yvtY76Xj

TheLastRefuge  (@TheLastRefuge2) October 22, 2019

That was my take on it too

I listened to what he said and agree with that. If Trump did something illegal he needs to be impeached. If everyone played by the rules and laws correctly we wouldn't be here in the first place.

I still don't trust Lindsey Graham. Why hasn't he subpoenaed people and initiated hearings in the Senate to get to the bottom of this?

In my opinion Lindsay should use the full force of the law available to him and begin taking the steps to get to the bottom of the crimes case committed against trump.

The mass population who (wouldn't really) suddenly go crazy has been conditioned enough with all the hearings and bullshit the Dems have been doing to trump since he took office.

Lindsay looks pretty ineffective to me.

Can anyone tell me why they think Lindsey Graham is indeed taking the steps necessary to get to the bottom of what he said he would get to the bottom of?

Thanks

I misread that as “The clown material”
Still fitting.

He is a politician. Like most politicians I dont think or expect much of him. It seems like McCain yielded some sort of power or control over him. Once McCain was gone Graham was a new man. My thinking is maybe he was just trying to get on POTUS good graces now that he doesn't need to worry about McCain keeping him in check. There was a stretch there where I thought Lindsay Graham unleashed 2.0 would be something to behold but I’m not certain that is the case now. It doesn't appear that he is taking any steps. Just making appearances on TV

Today's Bongino show focuses on why this matters

Thanx.  I'll check it out.  

Sidney Powell just said on Lou Dobbs that the Ukraine is where the "crowd strike computer operation is based that was running the server that's implicated in all the spy gate mess"

I did not know this.

The home based threat of tyranny and those living among us whose views support these type of attitudes, here in America, must be defeated before we can ever consider defeating tyranny overseas. We are at an inflection point in our democracy and if the rule of law is undermined by

— Joseph J. Flynn ?????? (@JosephJFlynn1) October 22, 2019

inaction, incompetence or weakness in those responsible for standing up to the dangers we face both Democrats and Republicans, the experiment we call America will fail  @GenFlynn @BarbaraRedgate @flynn_neill @GoJackFlynn @SidneyPowell1

— Joseph J. Flynn ?????? (@JosephJFlynn1) October 22, 2019

heard this postulated on levin tonight

trump impeached and convicted  (kicked out of office) what then kind of question

levin-----he can still be elected and brought back in the election

hmmm

part of the plan?  make the total disgrace witch hunt drive trump base to massive highs and then totally expose obliterate the dems in the trial---like it doesn't matter even if he loses the trial because the people will see it was the swamp that got him out and be so pissed they vote him back in

in the meantime swamp is exposed so bad for what it is even normies that are dem leaning are pissed

What’s known about the Acting Ambassador Bill Taylor? He replaced Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch when she was shown the door. The article sure attempts to show a quid pro quo. What a mess...

Fox News Story

Diplomat Bill Taylor testifies Trump used Ukraine aid, White House meeting as leverage for probes

By Gregg Re | Fox News

Acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor testified unequivocally Tuesday that President Trump pushed Ukraine to investigate both election interference and a company linked to former Vice President Joe Biden's son -- and was willing to hold up military aid and a White House meeting to get a public announcement from the country that the probes were underway.

In his opening remarks to House lawmakers obtained by Fox News, Taylor voiced his apparent frustration that the Trump administration was undercutting his personal policy preference for providing robust aid to Ukraine.

Among Taylor's colorful claims were that then-national security adviser John Bolton furiously warned that a Trump phone call with Ukraine's leader would be a "disaster," and that Taylor nearly didn't take the job leading Ukraine's embassy out of concerns the U.S. wouldn't be sufficiently helpful to Ukraine.

Republicans, however, have countered that military aid to Ukraine was released in September, and that there has been no evidence Ukrainians were aware that the aid was being withheld as part of any implicit quid pro quo. Ukrainian officials have denied that there was any undue pressure from the White House.

But Taylor went on to describe the existence of an "irregular" communications channel with Ukraine led by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, and a "weird combination of encouraging, confusing, and ultimately alarming circumstances" once he arrived in Kiev. The statement confirmed previous reporting of Taylor's remarks by Fox News.

"During this same phone call I had with [National Security Council aide Tim] Morrison, he went on to describe a conversation [United States E.U.] Ambassador [Gordon] Sondland had with Mr. Yermak at Warsaw," Taylor testified, referring to a July 28 conversation. "Ambassador Sondland told [top Ukraine aide Andriy] Yermak that security assistance money would not come until President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy committed to pursue the Burisma investigation."

Burisma Holdings is the Ukrainian natural gas company where Biden’s son Hunter was employed in a lucrative role despite no relevant expertise.

Taylor continued: "I was alarmed by what Mr. Morrison told me about the Sondland-Yermak conversation. This was the first time I had heard that the security assistance not just the White House meeting — was conditioned on the investigations."

That same day, Taylor said, he sent Sondland a text message asking if security assistance and a White House meeting "are conditioned on investigations," prompting Sondland to request Taylor call him. Although those texts have previously been released, the contents of Taylor's call have been unclear.

FIGHT

"During that phone call, Ambassador Sondland told me that President Trump had told him that he wants President Zelenskyy to state publicly that Ukrain will investigate Burisma and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. election," Taylor testified.

“By mid-July it was becoming clear to me that the meeting President Zelenskyy wanted was conditioned on the investigations of Burisma and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections,” Taylor testified.

Also in his opening statement, Taylor described his commitment to providing support to Ukraine as so strong that he nearly threatened not to accept Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's offer for him to lead the U.S. Embassy in Kiev. Taylor, a retired diplomat, had been chosen to run the embassy after the administration abruptly ousted Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.

Taylor had served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009, but because he was not yet reconfirmed by the Senate, his official title was to be Chargé d 'Affaires ad interim. A former Army officer, Taylor had been serving as executive vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace — which has described itself as a nonpartisan think tank founded by Congress — when he was appointed to run the embassy.

"I could be effective only if the U.S. policy of strong support for Ukraine, strong diplomatic support along with robust security, economic, and technical assistance — were to continue and if I had the backing of the secretary of state to implement that policy," Taylor said.

"During my meeting with Secretary Pompeo on May 28, I made clear to him and the others present that if U.S. policy toward Ukraine changed, he would not want me posted there and I could not stay," Taylor continued. "He assured me that the policy of strong support for Ukraine would continue and that he would support me in defending that policy."

The White House, meanwhile, fired back Tuesday over Taylor's testimony: "President Trump has done nothing wrong — this is a coordinated smear campaign from far-left lawmakers and radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution. There was no quid pro quo," White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said.

Only Taylor's opening statement has been released at this point. However, lawmakers emerging after hours of the private deposition said Taylor relayed a "disturbing" account, including establishing a "direct line" to the quid pro quo at the center of Democrats' impeachment inquiry.

Lawmakers said Taylor recalled events that filled in gaps from the testimony of other witnesses, particularly Sondland, who testified last week and whose statements now are being called into question by Taylor's account. They said Taylor kept records of conversations and documents.

"The testimony is very disturbing," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., used the same word. Asked why, he said, "Because it's becoming more distinct."

Taylor's appearance was among the most-watched because of a text message, released by House investigators earlier in the probe, in which he called Trump's attempt to hold back military aid to Ukraine "crazy."

The account called into question the testimony from Sondland, a wealthy businessman who donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration, who told Congress last week he did not fully remember some details of the events. Sondland may be asked to return to Congress after he testified that, among other things, he was initially unaware that the gas company was tied to the Bidens.

Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., said Taylor, a career civil servant, had a better recall of details than Sondland.

Fox News has learned that House investigators have started to winnow the list of witnesses coming in for closed-door interviews or depositions and that the parade of witnesses expected for interviews could start to slow next week or the week after.

That’s because the "universe" of witnesses knowledgable about a possible quid pro quo was limited. Democrats also wanted to narrow their probe to Ukraine and not let it stray too far afield, Fox News learned.

Acting Assistant Secretary of European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker is scheduled for a closed-door interview Saturday morning. That has been delayed due to funeral services for the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. Fox News is told the odds of Reeker showing up are "50-50."

There also have been questions as to whether there will be more than a smattering of members coming to the Saturday meeting because of other commitments. Fox News is told members believed staff should be able to handle Reeker’s deposition because he's not a primary witness.

"There's a hierarchy," one source close to the interviews said. "Reeker's like the sprinkles on the cake."

When asked about the importance of Reeker, another source told Fox News, "There’s a reason [he's] scheduled for Saturday."

Fox News' Kellianne Jones, Chad Pergram, Mike Emanuel, Alex Pappas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Good old Justin Amash has more knives out...

Fox 17 News story

Amash: Republicans wish they weren’t ‘trapped’ into defending Trump

POSTED 11:05 PM, OCTOBER 21, 2019, BY CNN WIRE, UPDATED AT 11:15PM, OCTOBER 21, 2019

(CNN) — Rep. Justin Amash lamented administration and congressional Republicans as being caught in an untenable position trying to defend President Donald Trump as the controversy surrounding his dealings with Ukraine continues to grow.

Asked by CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday night whether those around the President were essentially forced to lie in order to defend Trump, Amash, a Michigan independent, replied, “Yeah, and it’s a shame.”

“I think they know better and I think, deep down, they wish they weren’t, you know, trapped in this position,” Amash said on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”

“And I hear that from my colleagues on the House floor. I hear them talk about how they wish they weren’t doing this.”

He linked that dynamic to many of the recent retirements in Congress, describing them as “people who are just trying to ride out this President, and they might think of coming back into public office later on, once this President is gone.”

Amash’s comments come as Trump moves to safeguard party support with impeachment proceedings charging forward, after some Republicans struggled to back the administration’s defense of his Ukraine dealings as well as other controversies that flared up over the weekend.

Amash on Monday also defended acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who drew Trump’s ire after he said — and then denied saying — that Trump had frozen nearly $400 million in US security aid to Ukraine in part to pressure that country into investigating Democrats.

“Anyone working in this administration is going to have a hard time explaining what’s going on,” Amash told Burnett. “You’re asking a lot from these officials to go out onstage and try to keep the story straight.”

Mulvaney “was telling the truth there, that there was a quid pro quo,” Amash added. “And then he went back and realized, oh, well that’s not what the President wants to hear.”

Amash, who became an independent this summer, was previously the sole Republican who publicly argued that Trump had engaged in impeachable conduct. Republican Rep. Francis Rooney of Florida suggested on Friday that he could be open to impeaching Trump — before announcing Saturday that he would not run for reelection.

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One way to make Q a common discussion item.

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Good job Lindsey.

burn baby burn

87D chess

Good job, everyone in the media, for spending the day hyperventilating over Trump’s use of “lynching” to describe impeachment.

A tiny bit of research would have led to this - Joe Biden saying the exact same thing on Clinton impeachment.

Nice work, all.
pic.twitter.com/FN30yhDQKt

Tim Murtaugh  (@TimMurtaugh) October 22, 2019

Brilliant! Lovely! Smashing!

Spent the commute listening to NPR hyperventilating over "lynching".

Lol.  

How can they keep falling for it?  

Yea, Brian Cates can:

Where is THIS Lindsey Graham?

Our president is under constant attack from all sides

It’s time for Republicans to ACT and fight back against Adam Schiff’s dangerous impeachment hoax@LindseyGrahamSC said he would get to the bottom of this

So do it.

RT pic.twitter.com/Qdwhj0IfS4

Charlie Kirk  (@charliekirk11) October 22, 2019

Brian Cates

Same old same old as the whistle blower:

I finally had to unfollow Brian Cates.  I couldn't take any more or his "I'm a genius and everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot....just you wait and see....I'm right and they are all wrong....." routine.

they will never learn

fun to watch

Devin Nunes - John Ratcliffe destroyed Bill Taylor in 2 minutes
"I defined it as a slow motion crazy train that's going into impeachment fantasy land looking for the Loch Ness monster. They get more and more upset with these witnesses-These are their witnesses."@RepDevinNunes pic.twitter.com/4qoMzf2VXe

TrumpSoldier  (@DaveNYviii) October 23, 2019

Getting impeached to stick it their faces with reelection doesn't sound like a good plan at all.

Declass would be a better plan.

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The difference being that Bill Clinton was the first black president.

Did Levon say that?! That’s just terrible...

Obama illegal campaign contributions issue leads to person being jailed.

Did we hear about this before?

Illegal Campaign Contribution Scandal:

On Sep 30, a man was sentenced to prison for giving $80K in foreign contribution to @BarackObama. Money came from @ediramaal #Socialist #PrimeMinister of #Albania, for this photo. @DNC don't want this reported https://t.co/APyjrMkYsR

Sara A. Carter  (@SaraCarterDC) October 22, 2019

.@SidneyPowell1 tells @LouDobbs she sees @JohnBrennan and James Clapper’s fingers on different things when it comes to wrong doings against @GenFlynn. She thinks John Durham will discover significant evidence of wrongdoing once he diggs into what the CIA was doing. pic.twitter.com/GuiEFjXVbS

— The “Dirty” Truth (@AKA_RealDirty) October 23, 2019

Speaking of lynching's....Hi CNN, you listening?

#benghazihearings: The high-tech lynching of Hillary Clinton, view by @IAmSophiaNelson https://t.co/rVbsNJ7auc pic.twitter.com/NFdUptL1G0

CNN Opinion  (@CNNOpinion) October 23, 2015

This looks interesting. Search Twitter:
And the 800 member "army of northern Virginia" ...very interesting, and another tweeter:

From wiki:

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https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-donetsk-region-ukraine-31st-dec-2016-us-ambassador-to-ukraine-marie-130069138.html

Does anyone know what Pompeo did to earn a mention of that nature?

Where’s the Whistleblower?

Donald J. Trump  (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2019

The guy in the middle circles in red with a “?” is the previous Ukrainian president Poroshenko

Louie Gohmert rocks and he had something in mind, for sure.

There was a very curious exchange between @replouiegohmert & Natalie Jaresko an American born Ukrainian banker, who was the Ukrainian Minister of Finance from December 2014 till April 2016.

The Judge was drilling down on a specific point and the Committee chair tries to distract pic.twitter.com/pTM8SZrzmz

— Roscoe B Davis\uD83C\uDF96?????? (@RoscoeBDavis1) October 23, 2019

After @RepRaulGrijalva interruption, the Judge gets back on track trying to get some straight answers. The Judge took advantage of the situation to ask her about  the whistleleaker Eric Ciaramella on the record. Jaresko played ignorant of anything. Hmmm @GregRubini very curious. pic.twitter.com/miKVrIiPLS

— Roscoe B Davis\uD83C\uDF96?????? (@RoscoeBDavis1) October 23, 2019

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1186840155732238336.html

"The Judge has a purpose for asking about Ciaramella, he knows something and is clearly fishing for answers. Curious to see where that develops. Jaresko is now on the Financial Oversight Board of Puerto Rico.

Jaresko has been a frequent member of conferences organized by Victor Pinchuk. With all the financial corruption in the Ukraine, they now have this woman on the financial oversight of Puerto Rico, which has its own embedded levels of corruption? WTF?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/meet-greet-natalie-jaresko-us-government-employee-ukraine-finance-minister.html?

Looks to me like they have the fox watching the hen house. Is there no end to the level of corruption. Jaresko was the Ukrainian Minister of Finance from December 2014 till April 2016, when billions of USAID was going into Ukraine banks and disappearing, with no accountability. ?

Does anyone see anything particularly wrong with this woman now being in charge of oversight in Puerto Rico, where again billions of dollars in USAID are going in and disappearing? @realDonaldTrump where is the accountability of our tax dollars in USAID going?" ?

Interesting, looks like the Euro YouTubers are suing YouTube:

The Whistle Blower is Bill Taylor, who Schitt has now had testify, without telling anyone he is the "whistle blower".

He just worked himself even farther into the corner.

The local ABC news affiliate is running a story this morning that the former Ukraine ambassador has testified that Trump *did* threaten to withhold aid unless Burisma was investigated.

First, from where did ABC get this information if the testimony is being held in secret?  Was it leaked, and if so, why would they hold it to be accurate given the proven fact that the committee chairman makes up testimony.

Second, doesn't the wording cement the connection between the Bidens and Burisma?  After all, the former ambassador testified Trump threatened to withhold aid unless Burisma was investigated, not unless the Bidens were investigated.  So why would the Dems care if the POTUS wants some Ukrainian gas company investigated?  How would that be an impeachable offense?  What is the high crime or misdemeanor that would justify impeachment?  Which leads to the third point...

Third, the MSM keeps reporting on the "impeachment" of the President.  What impeachment?  It isn't an impeachment unless the House votes to impeach, and they haven't.  The Dems are carefully parsing the wording by calling it an impeachment inquiry, and the MSM is lapping it up, altering the term, and reporting that the House is impeaching the President.

Secret hearings?  Secret hearings designed to remove an elected official?  The Legislative Branch of government is attempting to overthrow the Executive Branch by holding secret hearings.....

There's a word for that....

Seeing Graham in this photo made me wonder if he is dragging his feet as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee because he is covering for some of his own actions.