So Trump gets impeached like Clinton and the Senate forgives Trump for eating a baby in Times Square. Pretty much politics as usual in the Trump/DC swamp. Time for some new political parties in Washington.
This is more than a stretch. Trump himself clarified his stance. All Sondland has is presumptions. There has to be an actual request. The DOJ has already established that in their analysis of the situation.
Does the current Republican Senate look to the 1996 Democrats for guidance now? It sounds like you're admitting there's a crime that was committed. Trump's obstruction and attempted bribery are as obvious to me as Clinton's perjury was, which is to say: totally obvious. Do you really think Rudy Giuliani was working on his own on this? Of course you don't think that.
Uh, you guys have to deal with the facts now. Fourth, as I testified previously, Mr. Giuliani’s requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for President Zelensky. Mr. Giuliani demanded that Ukraine make a public statement announcing investigations of the 2016 election/DNC server and Burisma. Mr. Giuliani was expressing the desires of the President of the United States, and we knew that these investigations were important to the President.
This is the narrative in English: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopoliti...eveals-hunter-biden-group-made-165-million-mp
And now we find out that Hunter Biden is the father of the woman he cheated on his actual wife and his dead brother's wife with. You can't make this **** up. https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/nov/20/dna-test-shows-hunter-biden-father-arkansas-womans/
Trump did not make the statement and Giulianai may say something completely different. Pence has already claimed that Sondland perjured himself today by claiming that a conversation happened that Pence says never happened. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pe...dland-claim-on-ukraine-warning-never-happened
"Derkach then demanded "President Zelensky must pick up the phone, dial Trump, ask for help and cooperation in the fight against corruption and fly to Washington. The issue of combating international corruption in Ukraine with the participation of citizens, businessmen and U.S. officials should become a key during the meeting of the two presidents." Isn't that what Trump tried to do?
Fair enough. Then explain how the "quid pro quo" has anything to do with Trumps motivation for asking for the investigations. Democrats can't read his mind. Nothing criminal about Biden's actions. Corruption, on the other hand is pretty obvious.
Obama allowed Koch-Glitsch to sell pipeline equipment to Russia for the Crimea, through a Burisma holding company, by way of a backdoor deal involving the Koch-Glitsch Italia branch. And while sanctions were in place !! Eric Ciaramella interfaced with Italia, in particular with Natalia (Natasha) Cherenkova who ran the branch and Elena Romanova, the CFO, who ran the money through the Cyprus/Burisma banking network. (They all speak Russian and that is also why Joe Biden personally introduced Ciaramella to Rienzi) Plenty of folks got a cut. Obama had to visit with Rienz in October to compare notes because of the Misfud technology. Biden's money did not come from Burisma profits in the Ukraine. It came by way of this Russian deal. Giuliani found part of the laundering trail through Cyprus. This actually does have criminal aspects.
What statement? I'm talking about Trump's own ambassador, who is a big-time GOP donor, saying there was a quid-pro-quo being directed by Trump through his lawyer. That's what Sondland said. How is that not devastating? Of course it is. Sondland directly stated Trump was behind dangling a White House invitation to Ukraine in exchange for an investigation into the Crowdstrike conspiracy and Burisma. That's already bribery. He also claimed he was repeatedly obstructed by the State Dept. So there's obstruction. Sondland later went on to presume Trump was behind the withholding of military aid also. Which is bribery of a much more serious sort. AND, in hindsight, investigating Burisma meant investigating the Bidens. And this is a guy who donated a million to Trump saying this! You really think we're going to see Rudy testify under oath about all this? We may if he gets in indicted, but he's certainly not going to voluntarily appear before Congress. Yes, this is interesting, we have a big-time Trump donor and the Republican VP calling each other liars. One of them has testified under oath so far. The other has not. And won't.
Well it was him and his 'associates' or whatever that means. I guess he only earned 3m. And likely none. From the sounds of it, They were looking for people with international connections such as an Ex President of Poland, the Ex CIA Counter Terrorism Unit, and the son of a VP. All who have (he said, sarcastically) extensive knowledge in the liquid natural gas industry. My question is: is it illegal for a company to appoint people to the board without experience in the industry? Or is just a bad idea? (unless if your goal is international networking, then wouldn't it be a good idea?) Is there a law in the Ukraine that says only experience individuals can be appointed to such a board?
yeah, I'd like to see Pence or his aid say that this meeting didn't happen under oath. Though, if they believe there wouldnt' be any records, it would stand to be a he-said/she-said situation
THat would be using the announcement of an investigation into a political candidate. Candidacies can fall on the most legal of things that look bad. Which would have been the goal from Trumps perspective, if there was a QPQ.
A process crime on a dubious impeachment isn't a high crime or misdemeanor. New party or not, the LW will always attack conservatives in a disgusting and unethical manner.
Consulting, presumably. It's no secret businesses like to have connected people on the payroll. There are good reasons for that and not-so-good reasons. For example, if I think company X is bribing Ukrainian govt. officials to steal business from me, it's useful to have someone like Joe Biden on hand so I can get the right people to put a stop to it, instead of wading through the beauracracy.
