Transcript of diplomat Bill Taylor’s testimony to impeachment panel released

He does not mean "staged" as in "fabricated," he means it in the "set up" sense of the definition. As in, multiple individuals worked for weeks to set the stage for that phone call.

 

Here are some more key takeaways from this testimony.

• He said the investigations President Trump wanted into his rival Joe Biden would have equaled election meddling — and that Ukraine announcing them was his nightmare.
• He squarely blamed the Ukraine controversy on Giuliani and Trump
• He was OK with Giuliani's role at first
• It took time for him to understand that "investigations" meant probes into the Bidens and the DNC hacks
• He said Trump held up Ukraine aid for "domestic political gain" to cast Biden in "bad light"
• He testified he didn't feel the same pressure as Yovanovitch
• He felt Giuliani wanted Ukraine to meddle in US election
• He said Volker supported the US officially asking Ukraine to investigate Burisma

 

You do realize that the trump was engaged in a much broader pressure campaign than a single phone call, right?

 

And much earlier...

SNIP
More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine’s newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy gathered a small group of advisers on May 7 in Kyiv for a meeting that was supposed to be about his nation’s energy needs. Instead, the group spent most of the three-hour discussion talking about how to navigate the insistence from Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for a probe and how to avoid becoming entangled in the American elections
ENDSNIP

https://apnews.com/b048901b635f423db49a10046daaf8a8

May 7th... 2.5 months before the phone call...

I wonder what Zelensky might end up saying about his first 3 months in office once Trump is out of office.....

 

You mean the ones involved in crafting the dossier during the 2016 election.

Good.

All foreign aid is conditional on compliance with US requirements to receive aid.

Duh.

 

No, we know about it because Democrats leaked it, and trying to stop the investigation into what really happened in 2016.

MAGA country *bleach squirt*

 

OH: Testimony Transcript Shows William Taylor Never Talked To Trump, Wasn’t Even On July 25 Phone Call.

“A top anti-Trump witness for House Democrats admitted he wasn’t on the July 25 phone call and had never even spoken with Trump about Ukraine military aid.”​

What in the hell do Democrats think they are accomplishing with this failed lynching of Trump?

 

Of course I will, because you don't have any obvious wrongdoing.

 

Yea, he wasn't even there. His testimony is just worthless tripe.

 

Bleach squirt, wtf?

What do you think Democrats "leaked?"

 

Impeaching Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of justice, at a minimum.

 

Trump sought campaign assistance from a foreign government in the form of an investigation against his domestic political rivals while he simultaneously and unilaterally held up hundreds of millions in military aid, a requested meeting, and a restoration of trade rights. He then obstructed justice by trying to hide, lie about, and actively obstruct the investigation by ordering all current and former employees to not cooperate.

 

Oh Jussie, how quickly they have abandoned you.

Everything they can get their hands on.

Specifically in this case, the existence of the phone call and all things Ukraine.

Until the WB complaint, nobody knew much of anything about Burisma.....other than prior MSM articles pointing to the Biden's corruption that were promptly shushed.

 

So nothing then.

 

Dude, he was the US Diplomat to Ukraine. Even if he was "not there" on the phone call (even though he was involved at multiple other points during which Trump had launched an entire campaign of pressure against Ukraine), then the real question you should be asking is why didn't Trump want the US AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE involved in that phone call?

 

The phone call was made public because a whistleblower launched an official complaint and the Trump appointed ICIG found the complaint credible and urgent and thus was required by law to report the complaint to Congress. And you want to bitch and moan about Democrats in Congress holding Trump accountable? Too ****ing bad.

 

I don't care. He wasn't on the call and therefore cannot comment on the call or be a witness as to what happened on the call, period. You know this.

 

And yet the Impeachment Inquiry continues! Enjoy Day 4 of the public phase of the impeachment inquiry. Will you be watching the public testimonies next week?

 

So he opened an investigation into a corrupt company and then used his executive privilege.

Knock yourselves out with this argument while I laugh.

 

The phone call was made public specifically because there was nothing done in that call that would warrant any investigation, period. The biggest issue we have is that Joe Biden used his political position to put money in his sons pocket. Millions of dollars.

From China and from Ukraine. These countries were paying Joe Biden's family because he was VP and they could exert pressure on Biden and gain favor.

This is what should really be investigated.

 

Sure. It continues to make Democrats look stupid.

Oh you bet. I can't wait. That's always worked out so well for you guys before.

 

That's why he isn't commenting on the ****ing phone call. We have multiple other witnesses who can testify about the phone call. Instead, he is testifying about the broader shadow campaign to pressure Ukraine into investigating Trump's domestic political opponents.

 

That is nonsensical especially in light of the fact that the Trump appointed ICIG had ALREADY INVESTIGATED the WB complaint about that phone call and found it both "credible" and "urgent."

 

Do you consider "All things Ukraine" to be the rough transcript?? Don't believe Dems leaked that one...

 

You laugh at Trump's abuse of power and illegal behavior.

Meanwhile the impeachment inquiry continues! Enjoy.