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.?@SpeakerPelosi? said on 60 Minutes last night she knew the details of the classified Ukraine call before White House released transcript. This is starting to seem like a political set up. So, Madame Speaker, “what did you know and when did you know it?” pic.twitter.com/g5tlL5hBsX

— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) September 30, 2019

Rep. Adam Schiff illegally made up a FAKE & terrible statement, pretended it to be mine as the most important part of my call to the Ukrainian President, and read it aloud to Congress and the American people. It bore NO relationship to what I said on the call. Arrest for Treason?

Donald J. Trump  (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2019

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As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the....

Donald J. Trump  (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2019

....People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!

Donald J. Trump  (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2019

Having speculated wildly about this very scenario yesterday, I feel obliged to pass along someone else’s slightly better informed wild speculation on the same topic.

This may not even count as “wild,” come to think of it. Cockburn makes it sound here like his source has reason to believe that *Trump* sees Bolton’s hand in all this.

One veteran political consultant in Washington tells Cockburn that Trump is afraid Bolton is the mastermind behind all the damaging leaks on his secret dealings with the Ukrainians; the whistleblower’s Deep Throat, if you will. This, he believes, is why Trump’s cheerleader in the Senate, Lindsay Graham, keeps asking who was feeding the CIA whistleblower who came forward with details of a call between Trump and the Ukrainian president (in which Trump asked for dirt on the Democratic frontrunner, Joe Biden). Graham tweeted: ‘It is imperative we find out which White House official talked to the whistleblower and why. Why didn’t they lodge the complaint?’ The price of Graham’s support, the political consultant thought, would be an eventual military strike on Iran.

He went on: ‘Watch Bolton’s role in all this. If he is in mix then Trump has real problems. I hear that Trump was obsessed with Bolton when he [Trump] was in New York. When Trump says the real whistleblower is a spy and should be treated as such, he’s threatening Bolton. Bolton would not play his game in Korea, Iran, Russia or Ukraine. This is Trump’s Achilles heel.’ All of this is pure speculation but interesting speculation nonetheless. The next time Bolton pops up to make a speech criticizing his old boss, perhaps someone should ask him if he was aware of contents of the call with the Ukrainian president back in July – and if he was, did he do anything about it?

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And now we have learned that the "whistleblower" was not only using second hand data, not only had contact with Schiff before the complaint was filed, filed it under amended paperwork that was very quietly done at the exact same time as the "whistleblower" was going to come forward, and that all this coincided with rules change in the house that happened at the exact same time as this "whistleblower" decided to come forward.

And we also learn that this "whistleblower" was involved in a 2020 Democratic contender's campaign.

Yes. It does.

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Folks, the people running this are not idiots.

They are interested primarily in preserving their power. As we have seen, the "intelligence community" and various parts of the federal law enforcement bureaucracy are involved in breathtaking malfeasance and abuse of power. And they are involved to great personal benefit. Remember how many DOJ personnel were accepting nice gifts from media figures? Ever noticed how many high level personnel from the DOJ and the "intelligence community" go on to extremely well-paying retirement careers after they've served a ridiculously low number of years in federal employ with a nice cushy retirement and benefits?

Remember Jamie Gorelick, one of the people most directly responsible for making 9/11 possible going on to work for Fannie May where she made more than 20 million dollars promoting housing policies that led directly to the economic crisis in 2008?

That's what is at stake here. And it's way more important than any single election...because the bottom line is that this group of people has a stranglehold on power. Just look at how they've deployed it against Trump. That structure is what is at stake here and with it intact they can do as they please...even against a president who is inclined to clean that shit up.

Remember how they neutered Sessions immediately and essentially ran the DOJ as a complete resistance campaign? It's only now starting to be addressed and it is anyone's guess how effective Barr can be in correcting that. Which is why the same cabal of people has been busily attacking Barr.

The power at stake here is not about the election. It's about the underbelly of Washington DC that makes elections irrelevant. This shit has been developing for decades and it is on the cusp of achieving absolute power in the country. Half the Republican party is effectively tamed or in on it. All the democrats are in on it. Anyone who steps out of line gets shoddy, politically motivated FBI investigations and prosecutions over nothing.

Remember Ted Stevens? Remember how the DOJ made up a bunch of bullshit and got rid of him with fake criminal charges that a federal judge later threw out and censured the prosecutors over? Remember how the people who did that were not fired or disciplined by DOJ in any way?

Congress is not the locus of their power. They kept Donald Trump on a leash  for two years while in the minority in Congress simply through maneuvering and manipulation of "intelligence community" and DOJ powers.

If Donald Trump succeeds at bringing sunlight to this and at actually fighting it, their base of power is gone, the flow of money stops, and some of them might even end up in prison.

That is what this is all about.

The short term electoral fate of the democratic party is irrelevant. The democratic party is merely a useful entity for helping promote and protect this system. Just look at Hillary's campaign. What in her campaign was in any way, shape, or form good for the long term of the Democratic Party? Absolutely nothing. Her campaign was entirely a campaign to promote and protect these cancers on the body politic. They are who she campaigned to and signaled her shared allegiance with. They didn't campaign to blue collar workers in swing states because those people are nothing more than useful dupes they need to fool every couple of years to help advance their power base further.

This is about stopping Trump's ability to damage this power structure that has been carefully constructed over decades.

They are well funded and far better organized than anyone who would like to see their system destroyed. They have agents everywhere and the sort of relentless appetite for power you see parodied in movies.

Impeachment is about stopping Trump and those he has recruited from being able to damage that. Nothing more. If the Democrats lose in 2020 but Trump is unable to make any headway in attacking that structure, it is a win for them. Because there will be other presidents and they will either play ball or get the Trump treatment. Only worse.

See the battle that's really being fought, here.

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And the Atlantic Council flew some of Adam Schiff's top aids to Ukraine in cooperation with the whistle blower. Member Evelyn Farkas ( Atlantic Council head, DOD head of ops in Ukraine under Obama) in March of 17?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCMF94FX530

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And then there is the fact that the CIA officer "whistle blower" had a close working relationship with one of the other democrat P candidates. lol

I'm not sure if this is to get Trump, or to get Biden out of the race. Also not sure if Pelosi and Schiff are in on it, or if the Atlantic Council is using them to clear the way for another HRC run.

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Bump.

Anti-Trump CIA leaker Eric Ciaramella filed a whistleblower complaint on August 12th over President Trump’s July 25th phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky where the two discussed ferreting out corruption. The president’s discussion included talk on investigating the Biden crime family. Ciaramella was not on the call. He just heard about it and his complaint was filled with numerous inaccuracies.

Ciaramella lied in his complaint saying had not met with Congress before filing his complaint.

On October 8th Ciaramella approached the intelligence community to correct his statement after news broke on October 2nd that he approached his close friends in Adam Schiff’s office before he turned their whistlblower report. Ciaramella lied about meeting with the Schiff team before he turned in his complaint.

On October 2nd news broke that Schiff and Ciarmella BOTH LIED about their communications before the complaint was filed.
So on October 8th Ciaramella contacted the ICIG to correct his lies on his complaint.

Eric Ciaramella worked with two of Schiff’s aides Abigail Grace and Sean Misko, in the White House.

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lol