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captkirk said:

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Did any of these losers kids not work in Ukraine?

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Secolobo said:

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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Secolobo said:

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I'm positive Ellen Weintraub will be weighing in on this any minute.

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aggiehawg said:

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Ellis Wyatt said:

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Secolobo said:

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I'm positive Ellen Weintraub will be weighing in on this any minute.

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That witch needs to be fired. She is obviously too partisan to be in a position of power at the FEC. Glad Trump has neutered her by not filling the vacancies on FEC. They can take no action without a quorum.

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Would Whitaker have enough info on her for FISA app?

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Secolobo said:

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It was filed by whitaker in 2017 before he became acting.

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Wary political commentators on the Right have noted that the ginned up outrage over President Trump's call with the Ukranian president serves two political purposes: One, to supply the impeachment goods that Special Counsel Robert Mueller could not deliver and two, to obfuscate the ongoing investigations led by Attorney General William Barr into how the Obama White House unleashed the country's most powerful government agencies against the Trump presidential campaign in 2016.

There is, however, a third motive behind the nonstop cacophony over Trump's call and subsequent "whistleblower" report: To anesthetize the American public when the verdicts of Barr's inquiries, currently underway by multiple authorities at the Justice Department, are rendered.

"Ukrainegate" is another way to numb the collective shock when Americans finally learn the details of the international sting operation concocted to sabotage Trump's presidential campaign and later, derail his presidency. The reaction from the Left and NeverTrump Right will be, "So what if President Obama's CIA, FBI and State Department prodded foreign governments to investigate his political foe and influence an election? Trump did the same thing! Who cares if Obama wanted to damage the Trump campaign? Trump is doing the same thing to the Biden campaign!"

The president's enemies hope that the latest manufactured scandal -- animated by anonymous operatives, Obama holdovers and, of course, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) -- will act as an epidural to the backbone of the body politic when evidence of legitimate federal corruption, strong-arming, and election interference finally is revealed.....

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drcrinum said:

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As you might expect, Schiff & the Dems only released selective parts/documents from Volker's testimony yesterday to buttress their narrative. Typical Dem tactic. I've seen multiple Rep tweets calling for release of the entire transcript.

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.....In the end, the whistleblower appears to have been animated by hearsay about a policy difference involving diplomatic relations. His anxiety did not relate to illegal activity within the ranks of the IC, ongoing intelligence activities, or financial corruption. He had a "difference of opinion" with the president. The whistleblower statute was not designed to give him a means to ventilate such differences through Congress.

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drcrinum said:

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Wow! And Sondland is scheduled to testify before Schiff & Co. on Tuesday, October 8. I wonder if Schiff will decide not to call him considering that text exchange.

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drcrinum said:

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https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/adam-schiff-tapped-former-msnbc-contributor-to-question-key-ukraine-envoy/


Interesting read on Schiff's chief inquisitor, a former assistant US attorney who worked for Preet Bharara.

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drcrinum said:

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https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/adam-schiff-tapped-former-msnbc-contributor-to-question-key-ukraine-envoy/


Interesting read on Schiff's chief inquisitor, a former assistant US attorney who worked for Preet Bharara.

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The former premier Matteo Renzi announces a lawsuit against George Papadopoulos who today accused him in an Italian newspaper of having plotted together with the former US president, Barack Obama, against the current head of the White House, Donald Trump.

Papadopoulos collaborated with Trump in the election campaign.

"A new fake news against me has been relaunched on social media for a few weeks now. But this time they cross national borders: I am accused of having participated in an international conspiracy hatched by Obama against Trump. I discovered at my expense that the extent of the hoaxes should never be underestimated. And having several titles relaunched this fake news I decided to proceed by legal means: the time for doing good is over ".

The senator of Italy Viva, Matteo Renzi, writes it on Facebook.

"The first person against whom I am acting is Mr. George Papadopoulos who calls himself" former collaborator of President Trump "who this morning has made false statements seriously damaging my reputation in the newspaper" The Truth ". Who makes a mistake, pays. Who slanders, as well. See you in court, "he concludes.

Interviewed by La Verit, Papadopoulos said: "I think that Matteo Renzi was used by Barack Obama to implement this low blow against Trump and that Renzi will now be exposed and because of this history his political career will be destroyed, as well as that of other members of the left in Italy ".

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MouthBQ98 said:

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This also means the "whistleblower" went outside the official process by going out of sequence, possibly. I have to think we were never supposed to discover the preliminary collusion between Schiff and the whistleblower to craft the narratives in the complaint.

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