Ayam not understanding the Republicans again. Do they want to impeach Hunter or Joe Biden? What concerns and alleged wrong wrong doing of Hunter Biden in 2014, with allegations that Trump's tried to blackmail a new Ukrainian president to announce a criminal investigation on Hunter Biden, and then tie it somehow to Joe Biden. What exactly is the alleged crime of Hunter Biden, that he sat on the board of a company that was alleged to be corrupt? Was he the one that carried out the corrupt act?
Then what is the crime of Joe Biden? That he called for the firing of a prosecutor because he was accused of shielding corrupt officials by UK and the EU? If Joe Biden had carried out a rogue operation like the one trump did, don't you think many officers in the state department and the whole Ukraine diplomatic corps would have cried foul.
What u don't understand about the accusations, is that was it Burisma that is accused of crime, the owner, Hunter Biden or all the board members of Burisma that is accused by the Republicans.
According to Republicans, Burisma is the only and most corrupt company in Ukraine and Ukraine is the only and most corrupt country in the whole world. Russia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and even Nigeria is corrupt free. Trump and Republicans are only interested in Ukraine
During an interview on “Fox & Friends” on Friday, President Donald Trump tried to paint himself as a noble fighter of corruption in government — except he horribly botched it.
Trump’s flub came after co-host Steve Doocy said that European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland testified that there was a quid-pro-quo arrangement in which the president would only agree to a face-to-face meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky if he agreed to launch investigations into purported “corruption” that just happened to involve his political opponents.
While insisting that he’s sincerely working to fight corruption at home and abroad, Trump said, “I do want, always, corruption — I say that to anybody!”
President Trump is just an absolute disgrace to himself and the office of the United States President. He is suppose to be a leader but behaves like 'a third rate mobster'. Even a third rate mobster knows when to keep his mouth shut, but not the 'stable genius'. His only good points are being spiteful, vicious and vindictive.
Did your visa get denied? Are you on a 10yr ban? Sorry but where I the anger from
Hey you shitty one, he does not need a visa to be in America. He and many of us here are tax paying Americans that have skin in the fight, unlike y'all far flung miles away.
Hey you shitty one, he does not need a visa to be in America. He and many of us here are tax paying Americans that have skin in the fight, unlike y'all far flung miles away.
You minding that brainstem. That's a typical Taliban Trump ass licker. You wonder why these foools keep on hyping about the whistler blower. You don't expect any rationality from the supporters of the Racist Pig.
Sit down and watch what? You guys are worse than ISIS. You have lost all sense of reasoning. It just worship Trump like the way ISIS members worship al baghdadi.
Joe Biden cannot be impeached by congress. Yes he can be indicted or found culpable of a crime (but that means nothing ), it is only the FBI and the justice department that can prosecute him, and only a competent court that can convict him. Even if Trump is impeached and removed, it is still only a court that can convict him of any crime.
The Republicans house and senate carried out investigations of alleged Hillary Clinton's crimes for over 2 years and came out empty.
I still don't get how an alleged crime (only in the mind of Gulianni, Trump and his supporters can exonerate Trump from blackmail of Ukrainian president. If Trump actually wants to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden, Rudy Gulianni is not the person to do it, it's is in the purview of FBI and the justice department to investigate crimes perpetuated by Americans. They will use official and legal channels, not rogue and illegal channels (including blackmailing another country’s president) as employed by Gulianni.
Hillary was questioned by the Republican led Congress for 11 hours during the Benghazi investigations and she was found to be innocent. I wish the lying scum Trump sit before the House Judiciary to answer their questions but he won't because he can't open his mouth without telling lies. The worst president in American history.
Sit down and watch what? You guys are worse than ISIS. You have lost all sense of reasoning. It just worship Trump like the way ISIS members worship al baghdadi.
Joe Biden cannot be impeached by congress. Yes he can be indicted or found culpable of a crime (but that means nothing ), it is only the FBI and the justice department that can prosecute him, and only a competent court that can convict him. Even if Trump is impeached and removed, it is still only a court that can convict him of any crime.
The Republicans house and senate carried out investigations of alleged Hillary Clinton's crimes for over 2 years and came out empty.
I still don't get how an alleged crime (only in the mind of Gulianni, Trump and his supporters can exonerate Trump from blackmail of Ukrainian president. If Trump actually wants to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden, Rudy Gulianni is not the person to do it, it's is in the purview of FBI and the justice department to investigate crimes perpetuated by Americans. They will use official and legal channels, not rogue and illegal channels (including blackmailing another country’s president) as employed by Gulianni.
Donald Trump has a terrible time getting good people to work for him. Just look at who is, and is not, giving testimony in his impeachment hearings, which increasingly suggests a contest between Super Bowl champions and backyard flag football players, most of whom ran away when they saw who was across the scrimmage line.
The impeachment inquiry, and Trump’s entire presidency, is a complete contradiction to his frequent campaign promise that as president he would “surround myself with only the best and most serious people.”
As time passes, Trump’s ability to attract the best and the brightest diminishes. For many jobs, he can’t get anyone to join his team.
For starters consider Gordon Sondland, the goofy Oregon hotel magnate who bought himself an ambassadorship with a $1 million gift to the Trump inaugural. Sondland is so naive that sitting in a Kyiv restaurant he rings up Trump on his cell phone, not giving a moment’s thought to Ukrainian and Russian intelligence services recording that call.
Here is a man with no diplomatic experience, no knowledge of America’s national security interests in the region of the old Soviet empire and a remarkable inability to get his story straight. Sondland is what the Soviet called “a useful idiot” only in this case he was Trump’s idiot, who in turn is at times Putin’s idiot.
Then there’s Tim Morrison, a nuclear weapons “super hawk” and Republican operative whose extreme partisanship, his Wednesday impeachment inquiry testimony shows, blinded him to a bribery-extortion plot unfolding all around him.
Worse, Morrison smeared Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, testifying he was warned by his predecessor at the National Security Council, Dr. Fiona Hill, about “judgment” issues. The White House, using its official Twitter account, then repeated this smear.
But on Thursday, Dr. Hill revealed that all she warned Morrison about was that Vindman is so much a model military officer that if he left the Army he might not flourish in a political environment. In her July performance evaluation of Lt. Col. Vindman, Dr. Hill described Vindman as “a top one percent military officer and the best army officer I have worked with in my 15 years of government service.”
Were Morrison a first-rate political operative he would have never given testimony that could be so easily knocked down and shown to be nothing but a smear. The stain on his reputation will be indelible. That’s what happens to anyone who devotes even 90 days of their career to Trump, as Morrison did in his short White House stint.
And what of the Trump appointees who won’t testify?
Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s acting chief of staff and budget chief; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; former National Security Adviser John Bolton; and Mike Pence, the small-town radio talk show host cum vice president? And where is Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s private lawyer who ran the whole Ukraine bribery-extortion scandal to advance the common interests of Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Pompeo is a West Point graduate, first in his class. But as Thomas Friedman pointed out, last in his class in ethics.
If these Trump acolytes have knowledge that would help Trump why aren’t they testifying? Why isn’t Trump turning over documents, even selectively? Why do they cower when reporters approach?
Indeed, where is Trump? Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited him to come testify and give all the exculpatory evidence he has. Trump, of course, because he doesn’t have helpful facts and, like Sondland, he can’t keep his story straight.
Compare these cowards and fabulists with Dr. Hill, career diplomat David Holmes, Ambassador William B. Taylor Jr. and George Kent, a senior state department executive, all gave crisp factual evidence. They didn’t smear anyone. They declined to take political positions. They stuck to the facts. They’re the Super Bowl team. The Republicans asked accusatory questions and called at least one of then a liar, but anyone reading the transcripts years from now will observe that the Republicans didn’t lay a glove on them.
For America, the problem is that as time passes Trump’s ability to attract the best and the brightest diminishes. For many jobs, he can’t get anyone to join his team and so he explains that he is just saving taxpayers money.
Who wants to work for a man who has no compunction about attacking valorous military officers, such as Lt. Col. Vindman?
Who wants to work for a man who will tell you on the way in that you are the greatest and on the way out either denounce you or say he hardly ever spoke to you.
Presidential Paranoia Trump has a paranoid fear of competent people who know what he does not, especially when he claims to be a top expert. His tweets show his belief in an imaginary “Deep State” that is out to get him.
His cabinet has been in constant turmoil. The Brookings Institution even runs a website that tracks the high-speed turnover of Trump appointees.
As we reported last week about the book “A Warning” by Anonymous, Trump blows off intelligence assessments because he lacks the intellectual capacity to understand them, even though he claims to be the world’s top expert on what, by my count, are 22 subjects.
Anonymous noted that behind closed doors when Trump tries to speak on many of these subjects he falls flat because, in reality, he knows nothing about Middle East politics, military strategy, taxes or law.
Trump, according to Anonymous, does whatever “he wants to do,” consequences be damned. And he behaves “like a 12-year-old in an air traffic control tower, pushing the buttons of government indiscriminately, indifferent to the planes skidding across the runway and the flights frantically diverted away.”
More troubling for Trump is his inability to keep secret his machinations to remain in office with help from foreign governments. Veteran public servants’ testimonies about what Trump did prompted attacks on everyone and anyone who questions what he has falsely asserted is a Constitutional “right to do whatever I want.”
And this week, Trump showed, yet again, that he believes the very existence of America depends on his being in office. In the latest twist in his declarations that he should be dictator-for-life, Trump tweeted the impeachment hearings will fail and thus “save our Country from certain destruction!”
Trump has always surrounded himself with people who will either tell him how great he is or carry out his orders without question. I watched while Trump fired competent executives, some of whom went on to superb careers managing much larger and more profitable properties. He then promoted men whose incompetence was whispered about by their peers in the Trump Organization and at competing casinos, one of them a falling down drunk known only for his fierce loyalty to Trump.
Unwelcome advice gets people fired, as the right-wing, military intervention advocate John Bolton discovered in August. Bolton saw Trump in the Oval Office after the president knew there was a whistleblower complaint about his July 25 attempt to extort the president of Ukraine. Shortly after Bolton was fired.
‘I make all the decisions’
Upon firing Bolton, the president declared that he would have no trouble filling the slot with someone even better.
“A lot of people want the job. And we—it’s a great job,” Trump told reporters on Sept. 12. “It’s great because it’s a lot of fun to work with Donald Trump, and it’s very easy, actually, to work with me. You know why it’s easy? Because I make all the decisions. They don’t have to work.”
A week later Trump named Bolton’s successor. His choice was not a seasoned expert on national security, but a hostage negotiator named Robert C. O’Brien.
O’Brien wrote a month later that he would cut the National Security Council staff from 174 to under 120. That means 54 fewer people who know more than Trump in a position to give advice he doesn’t care about and doesn’t understand.
Firing Dan Coats
Dan Coats discovered how anything short of obeisance is grounds for firing. In August the former senator from Indiana was dismissed as director of National Intelligence, whose duty is to oversee and coordinate the work and findings of America’s 17 intelligence agencies.
Coats declared in 2017 that every U.S. intelligence agency agreed that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. Coats also appointed a staffer to address expected Kremlin interference in the 2020 elections. Evidently Coats was kept on for more than two years kept his job because he doesn’t work right alongside Trump and he made his critical remarks in forums outside the Oval Office, in contrast to Bolton.
Anyone taking a top intelligence job under Trump has to know that they may not be trusted and that they will be expected to attack those under them.
Soon after taking office, Trump infamously declared his distrust of American intelligence agencies. Then in July 2018 in Helsinki he declared his faith in Putin citing the modern czar’s “extremely strong and powerful denial” that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
Trump said that “Putin, he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be.” This is the very definition of naivete, something that in a president risks our national security and helps enemies of freedom and democracy including Putin, Xi in China, Erdogan in Turkey and Duterte in The Philippines.
Empty Positions After Three Years
Nearly three years into Trump’s term he has not nominated anyone for about one in five important positions. Out of 741 key positions that require Senate confirmation, Trump has failed to nominate anyone for 139 positions.
Of 189 ambassador level posts, 54 are empty according to a running list maintained by the American Foreign Service Association. America has no ambassador to Belarus, Brazil, Japan, Pakistan or Russia, among other countries. Our ambassador to Ukraine is acting, not permanent.
The top three Homeland Security positions and four other management positions requiring Senate confirmation are vacant, Senators Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, and Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, noted in a Nov. 6 letter.
The senators, who lead the agency’s Senate oversight committee, wrote that Homeland Security “needs qualified principled leaders to successfully carry out its many vital national security functions.”
Homeland Security in Disarray
About a third of top Homeland Security positions are empty or held by people in an acting capacity, the agency’s Inspector General reported last week. The IG cited massive waste and inefficiency at the third-largest federal agency, focusing on turnover at the top.
The fact is that Trump cannot recruit top-notch people and in many cases anyone at all. Signing up to work for Trump runs the risk of huge legal bills not just for the current impeachment inquiry, but criminal investigations by the Manhattan district attorney and other prosecutors.
Visit the website of our diplomats, the American Foreign Service Association, and the first thing you see is a plea for money for the organization’s legal defense fund.
Trump is a master of reducing complex and nuanced ideas to slogans that benefit him. But he also can’t tolerate people who understand messaging in a professional way.
There have been seven communications directors announced for the Trump White House: Jason Miller (2 days in December 2016 before Trump took office), Sean Spicer (55 days), Mike Dubke (90 days), Anthony Scaramucci (10 days but never formally appointed), Hope Hicks (225 days), Bill Shine 246 (days) and Stephanie Grisham (124 days as of Wednesday, Nov. 20).
That’s an average of 147 days each. Compare this with presidents who served eight full years, more than twice Trump’s time in office to date. Obama and George W. Bush each had four. Clinton had five. Reagan seven.
The White House told Forbes that it has saved taxpayers $20 million by trimming down the size of the White House staff, including halving the first lady’s staff from 24 under Michelle Obama to 12 today.
The same magazine, Forbes, estimated last July that Trump’s golf outings have cost taxpayers between $105 million and $108 million. Should Trump serves two terms that would cost taxpayers $340 million.
Obviously, it’s not about saving money. It’s about Trump not wanting advice because, as he told us during the campaign, his best advisers reside in his own head. If the person next to you on an airplane or at a bar said that you’d likely think they were crazy. Should we think any differently that this is what the president of the United States says?
Donald Trump has a terrible time getting good people to work for him. Just look at who is, and is not, giving testimony in his impeachment hearings, which increasingly suggests a contest between Super Bowl champions and backyard flag football players, most of whom ran away when they saw who was across the scrimmage line.
The impeachment inquiry, and Trump’s entire presidency, is a complete contradiction to his frequent campaign promise that as president he would “surround myself with only the best and most serious people.”
As time passes, Trump’s ability to attract the best and the brightest diminishes. For many jobs, he can’t get anyone to join his team.
For starters consider Gordon Sondland, the goofy Oregon hotel magnate who bought himself an ambassadorship with a $1 million gift to the Trump inaugural. Sondland is so naive that sitting in a Kyiv restaurant he rings up Trump on his cell phone, not giving a moment’s thought to Ukrainian and Russian intelligence services recording that call.
Here is a man with no diplomatic experience, no knowledge of America’s national security interests in the region of the old Soviet empire and a remarkable inability to get his story straight. Sondland is what the Soviet called “a useful idiot” only in this case he was Trump’s idiot, who in turn is at times Putin’s idiot.
Then there’s Tim Morrison, a nuclear weapons “super hawk” and Republican operative whose extreme partisanship, his Wednesday impeachment inquiry testimony shows, blinded him to a bribery-extortion plot unfolding all around him.
Worse, Morrison smeared Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, testifying he was warned by his predecessor at the National Security Council, Dr. Fiona Hill, about “judgment” issues. The White House, using its official Twitter account, then repeated this smear.
But on Thursday, Dr. Hill revealed that all she warned Morrison about was that Vindman is so much a model military officer that if he left the Army he might not flourish in a political environment. In her July performance evaluation of Lt. Col. Vindman, Dr. Hill described Vindman as “a top one percent military officer and the best army officer I have worked with in my 15 years of government service.”
Were Morrison a first-rate political operative he would have never given testimony that could be so easily knocked down and shown to be nothing but a smear. The stain on his reputation will be indelible. That’s what happens to anyone who devotes even 90 days of their career to Trump, as Morrison did in his short White House stint.
And what of the Trump appointees who won’t testify?
Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s acting chief of staff and budget chief; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; former National Security Adviser John Bolton; and Mike Pence, the small-town radio talk show host cum vice president? And where is Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s private lawyer who ran the whole Ukraine bribery-extortion scandal to advance the common interests of Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Pompeo is a West Point graduate, first in his class. But as Thomas Friedman pointed out, last in his class in ethics.
If these Trump acolytes have knowledge that would help Trump why aren’t they testifying? Why isn’t Trump turning over documents, even selectively? Why do they cower when reporters approach?
Indeed, where is Trump? Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited him to come testify and give all the exculpatory evidence he has. Trump, of course, because he doesn’t have helpful facts and, like Sondland, he can’t keep his story straight.
Compare these cowards and fabulists with Dr. Hill, career diplomat David Holmes, Ambassador William B. Taylor Jr. and George Kent, a senior state department executive, all gave crisp factual evidence. They didn’t smear anyone. They declined to take political positions. They stuck to the facts. They’re the Super Bowl team. The Republicans asked accusatory questions and called at least one of then a liar, but anyone reading the transcripts years from now will observe that the Republicans didn’t lay a glove on them.
For America, the problem is that as time passes Trump’s ability to attract the best and the brightest diminishes. For many jobs, he can’t get anyone to join his team and so he explains that he is just saving taxpayers money.
Who wants to work for a man who has no compunction about attacking valorous military officers, such as Lt. Col. Vindman?
Who wants to work for a man who will tell you on the way in that you are the greatest and on the way out either denounce you or say he hardly ever spoke to you.
Presidential Paranoia Trump has a paranoid fear of competent people who know what he does not, especially when he claims to be a top expert. His tweets show his belief in an imaginary “Deep State” that is out to get him.
His cabinet has been in constant turmoil. The Brookings Institution even runs a website that tracks the high-speed turnover of Trump appointees.
As we reported last week about the book “A Warning” by Anonymous, Trump blows off intelligence assessments because he lacks the intellectual capacity to understand them, even though he claims to be the world’s top expert on what, by my count, are 22 subjects.
Anonymous noted that behind closed doors when Trump tries to speak on many of these subjects he falls flat because, in reality, he knows nothing about Middle East politics, military strategy, taxes or law.
Trump, according to Anonymous, does whatever “he wants to do,” consequences be damned. And he behaves “like a 12-year-old in an air traffic control tower, pushing the buttons of government indiscriminately, indifferent to the planes skidding across the runway and the flights frantically diverted away.”
More troubling for Trump is his inability to keep secret his machinations to remain in office with help from foreign governments. Veteran public servants’ testimonies about what Trump did prompted attacks on everyone and anyone who questions what he has falsely asserted is a Constitutional “right to do whatever I want.”
And this week, Trump showed, yet again, that he believes the very existence of America depends on his being in office. In the latest twist in his declarations that he should be dictator-for-life, Trump tweeted the impeachment hearings will fail and thus “save our Country from certain destruction!”
Trump has always surrounded himself with people who will either tell him how great he is or carry out his orders without question. I watched while Trump fired competent executives, some of whom went on to superb careers managing much larger and more profitable properties. He then promoted men whose incompetence was whispered about by their peers in the Trump Organization and at competing casinos, one of them a falling down drunk known only for his fierce loyalty to Trump.
Unwelcome advice gets people fired, as the right-wing, military intervention advocate John Bolton discovered in August. Bolton saw Trump in the Oval Office after the president knew there was a whistleblower complaint about his July 25 attempt to extort the president of Ukraine. Shortly after Bolton was fired.
‘I make all the decisions’
Upon firing Bolton, the president declared that he would have no trouble filling the slot with someone even better.
“A lot of people want the job. And we—it’s a great job,” Trump told reporters on Sept. 12. “It’s great because it’s a lot of fun to work with Donald Trump, and it’s very easy, actually, to work with me. You know why it’s easy? Because I make all the decisions. They don’t have to work.”
A week later Trump named Bolton’s successor. His choice was not a seasoned expert on national security, but a hostage negotiator named Robert C. O’Brien.
O’Brien wrote a month later that he would cut the National Security Council staff from 174 to under 120. That means 54 fewer people who know more than Trump in a position to give advice he doesn’t care about and doesn’t understand.
Firing Dan Coats
Dan Coats discovered how anything short of obeisance is grounds for firing. In August the former senator from Indiana was dismissed as director of National Intelligence, whose duty is to oversee and coordinate the work and findings of America’s 17 intelligence agencies.
Coats declared in 2017 that every U.S. intelligence agency agreed that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump. Coats also appointed a staffer to address expected Kremlin interference in the 2020 elections. Evidently Coats was kept on for more than two years kept his job because he doesn’t work right alongside Trump and he made his critical remarks in forums outside the Oval Office, in contrast to Bolton.
Anyone taking a top intelligence job under Trump has to know that they may not be trusted and that they will be expected to attack those under them.
Soon after taking office, Trump infamously declared his distrust of American intelligence agencies. Then in July 2018 in Helsinki he declared his faith in Putin citing the modern czar’s “extremely strong and powerful denial” that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
Trump said that “Putin, he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this. I don’t see any reason why it would be.” This is the very definition of naivete, something that in a president risks our national security and helps enemies of freedom and democracy including Putin, Xi in China, Erdogan in Turkey and Duterte in The Philippines.
Empty Positions After Three Years
Nearly three years into Trump’s term he has not nominated anyone for about one in five important positions. Out of 741 key positions that require Senate confirmation, Trump has failed to nominate anyone for 139 positions.
Of 189 ambassador level posts, 54 are empty according to a running list maintained by the American Foreign Service Association. America has no ambassador to Belarus, Brazil, Japan, Pakistan or Russia, among other countries. Our ambassador to Ukraine is acting, not permanent.
The top three Homeland Security positions and four other management positions requiring Senate confirmation are vacant, Senators Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, and Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat, noted in a Nov. 6 letter.
The senators, who lead the agency’s Senate oversight committee, wrote that Homeland Security “needs qualified principled leaders to successfully carry out its many vital national security functions.”
Homeland Security in Disarray
About a third of top Homeland Security positions are empty or held by people in an acting capacity, the agency’s Inspector General reported last week. The IG cited massive waste and inefficiency at the third-largest federal agency, focusing on turnover at the top.
The fact is that Trump cannot recruit top-notch people and in many cases anyone at all. Signing up to work for Trump runs the risk of huge legal bills not just for the current impeachment inquiry, but criminal investigations by the Manhattan district attorney and other prosecutors.
Visit the website of our diplomats, the American Foreign Service Association, and the first thing you see is a plea for money for the organization’s legal defense fund.
Trump is a master of reducing complex and nuanced ideas to slogans that benefit him. But he also can’t tolerate people who understand messaging in a professional way.
There have been seven communications directors announced for the Trump White House: Jason Miller (2 days in December 2016 before Trump took office), Sean Spicer (55 days), Mike Dubke (90 days), Anthony Scaramucci (10 days but never formally appointed), Hope Hicks (225 days), Bill Shine 246 (days) and Stephanie Grisham (124 days as of Wednesday, Nov. 20).
That’s an average of 147 days each. Compare this with presidents who served eight full years, more than twice Trump’s time in office to date. Obama and George W. Bush each had four. Clinton had five. Reagan seven.
The White House told Forbes that it has saved taxpayers $20 million by trimming down the size of the White House staff, including halving the first lady’s staff from 24 under Michelle Obama to 12 today.
The same magazine, Forbes, estimated last July that Trump’s golf outings have cost taxpayers between $105 million and $108 million. Should Trump serves two terms that would cost taxpayers $340 million.
Obviously, it’s not about saving money. It’s about Trump not wanting advice because, as he told us during the campaign, his best advisers reside in his own head. If the person next to you on an airplane or at a bar said that you’d likely think they were crazy. Should we think any differently that this is what the president of the United States says?
Nooo,The DEEP STATE..The DEEP STATE..Yes,They are after him...They know Trump is a genius..A mighty one at that so they dont want him to be defeated by his state of mind that is why they cant work with the Genius useless Man..
Here is the complete story of the Burisma, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden issue.
Burisma was founded in 2002
In 2008, Obama and Biden ran and won. Hunter Biden took a job at a bank and filed to end all lobbying, to avoid conflicts.
In 2012, Viktor Shokin conducted an investigation of Burisma, for conduct between 2010 and 2012. Specifically, the Ministry of Ecology granting special permits. It ended with a fine paid to a Ukrainian lawmaker. In other words, the investigation was conducted and concluded, and seems kind of corrupt.
In 2013, Ukraine had a political revolution, followed by Russia invading Crimea in 2014.
2 years after the investigation concluded, Hunter Biden joined Burisma as a private citizen in 2014. Of course, it was questioned at the time as a potential conflict, but, nothing untoward was found. Do note: November 2014 elections gave Republicans control of House and Senate, including the committees that overlook things like this. They chose not to investigate or pursue.
In Feb 2015, Shokin is promoted to Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and gets more corrupt. The Anti-Corruption Action Center was exposing his corruption, so he had them raided... Stories of his prosecutors accepting bribes came out, and then he began firing anyone that investigated it.
Worldwide calls for his removal began. IMF, EU, EBRD, and of course, the Obama admin.
Feb 2016, his deputy resigned in protest, denouncing the corruption and lawlessness of the office.
The next day, Shokin submitted his resignation. Then, came back, and investigated the Anti-Corruption Action Center AGAIN. Protests occured, and he was officially dismissed by parliamentary votes.
In other words, for the entire time Biden was at Burisma, Shokin wasn't investigating them, and Biden was calling for an investigator that actually would investigate corruption.
This is the complete opposite of what the GOP claims, because they're spreading literal conspiracy theories.
Why was Trump so obsessed with Ukraine announcing the investigation of Joe Biden even though there is no report of a crime by anyone? Because it can then be used a political weapon. Trump saw how effective Comey's announcement of criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton was just one week to the elections. It did not matter that Comey later recanted that there was nothing found on Clinton, the mere announcement did the damage, and Hillary Clinton admitted that the announcement did serious damage to her campaign. So Trump wanted to reenact the same thing with Joe Biden. He feels a mere announcement by the Ukrainian president of a criminal investigation of Hunter Biden and by extension Joe Biden is enough to damage his campaign. Hence the obsession with Burisma and fighting corruption in Ukraine. Unfortunately for him, it backfired this time around.
wirinet: Here is the complete story of the Burisma, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden issue.
Burisma was founded in 2002
In 2008, Obama and Biden ran and won. Hunter Biden took a job at a bank and filed to end all lobbying, to avoid conflicts.
In 2012, Viktor Shokin conducted an investigation of Burisma, for conduct between 2010 and 2012. Specifically, the Ministry of Ecology granting special permits. It ended with a fine paid to a Ukrainian lawmaker. In other words, the investigation was conducted and concluded, and seems kind of corrupt.
In 2013, Ukraine had a political revolution, followed by Russia invading Crimea in 2014.
2 years after the investigation concluded, Hunter Biden joined Burisma as a private citizen in 2014. Of course, it was questioned at the time as a potential conflict, but, nothing untoward was found. Do note: November 2014 elections gave Republicans control of House and Senate, including the committees that overlook things like this. They chose not to investigate or pursue.
In Feb 2015, Shokin is promoted to Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and gets more corrupt. The Anti-Corruption Action Center was exposing his corruption, so he had them raided... Stories of his prosecutors accepting bribes came out, and then he began firing anyone that investigated it.
Worldwide calls for his removal began. IMF, EU, EBRD, and of course, the Obama admin.
Feb 2016, his deputy resigned in protest, denouncing the corruption and lawlessness of the office.
The next day, Shokin submitted his resignation. Then, came back, and investigated the Anti-Corruption Action Center AGAIN. Protests occured, and he was officially dismissed by parliamentary votes.
In other words, for the entire time Biden was at Burisma, Shokin wasn't investigating them, and Biden was calling for an investigator that actually would investigate corruption.
This is the complete opposite of what the GOP claims, because they're spreading literal conspiracy theories.
The Anti Corruption Action Center is CORRUPT. That is Soros trying to run USA foreign policy.
While the impeachment deals with Trump’s alleged interference in the Ukraine, the case of Trump enemies’ interference in the Ukraine is open and shut. They interfered so rudely in the dealings of the ostensibly sovereign state, that they had a joke among themselves: “The Vienna Convention is optional for our Kiev staff”. The Vienna Convention is the international agreement forbidding the diplomats to meddle in the internal affairs of the state they are posted at.
Some of this meddling had been done by and for Joe Biden, who robbed the Ukrainian state of ample funds; George Soros had been another beneficiary of the State Department activity.
He has a few NGOs there, and the US Embassy under the Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch (another accuser of Trump) actively shilled for them. John Solomon discovered that one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the impeachment hearings, then-embassy Charge d’ Affaires George Kent (now he has risen to the lofty position of the Assistant Secretary of State) demanded from the Ukrainian authorities to drop investigation of Soros’ own NGO, the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). Moreover, on March 5, 2019, Ambassador Yovanovitch had delivered a speech asking for “Ukraine’s special anticorruption prosecutor to be removed.” And this woman dares to speak of Trump’s interference!
George Soros had a regular access to the Ukrainian desk of the State Department, to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria (“F*ck EU”) Nuland. It is difficult to separate between the twain, for the AntAC had been jointly funded by the State Department and George Soros. But George Soros is untouchable, for the ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt already determined that “Invoking Soros … is trafficking in some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes.” http://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-impeach-trump-trump-woos-jews/
CTPlayer: The Anti Corruption Action Center is CORRUPT. That is Soros trying to run USA foreign policy.
While the impeachment deals with Trump’s alleged interference in the Ukraine, the case of Trump enemies’ interference in the Ukraine is open and shut. They interfered so rudely in the dealings of the ostensibly sovereign state, that they had a joke among themselves: “The Vienna Convention is optional for our Kiev staff”. The Vienna Convention is the international agreement forbidding the diplomats to meddle in the internal affairs of the state they are posted at.
Some of this meddling had been done by and for Joe Biden, who robbed the Ukrainian state of ample funds; George Soros had been another beneficiary of the State Department activity.
He has a few NGOs there, and the US Embassy under the Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch (another accuser of Trump) actively shilled for them. John Solomon discovered that one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the impeachment hearings, then-embassy Charge d’ Affaires George Kent (now he has risen to the lofty position of the Assistant Secretary of State) demanded from the Ukrainian authorities to drop investigation of Soros’ own NGO, the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). Moreover, on March 5, 2019, Ambassador Yovanovitch had delivered a speech asking for “Ukraine’s special anticorruption prosecutor to be removed.” And this woman dares to speak of Trump’s interference!
George Soros had a regular access to the Ukrainian desk of the State Department, to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria (“F*ck EU”) Nuland. It is difficult to separate between the twain, for the AntAC had been jointly funded by the State Department and George Soros. But George Soros is untouchable, for the ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt already determined that “Invoking Soros … is trafficking in some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes.” http://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-impeach-trump-trump-woos-jews/
Werey.... ..So Rudy Guilani is the Man that can tackle that corruption abi?Why did Trump not go through the justice department to prosecute and had to go through the backdoor?Ohh I forget..The Deep state
wirinet: Here is the complete story of the Burisma, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden issue.
Burisma was founded in 2002
In 2008, Obama and Biden ran and won. Hunter Biden took a job at a bank and filed to end all lobbying, to avoid conflicts.
In 2012, Viktor Shokin conducted an investigation of Burisma, for conduct between 2010 and 2012. Specifically, the Ministry of Ecology granting special permits. It ended with a fine paid to a Ukrainian lawmaker. In other words, the investigation was conducted and concluded, and seems kind of corrupt.
In 2013, Ukraine had a political revolution, followed by Russia invading Crimea in 2014.
2 years after the investigation concluded, Hunter Biden joined Burisma as a private citizen in 2014. Of course, it was questioned at the time as a potential conflict, but, nothing untoward was found. Do note: November 2014 elections gave Republicans control of House and Senate, including the committees that overlook things like this. They chose not to investigate or pursue.
In Feb 2015, Shokin is promoted to Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and gets more corrupt. The Anti-Corruption Action Center was exposing his corruption, so he had them raided... Stories of his prosecutors accepting bribes came out, and then he began firing anyone that investigated it.
Worldwide calls for his removal began. IMF, EU, EBRD, and of course, the Obama admin.
Feb 2016, his deputy resigned in protest, denouncing the corruption and lawlessness of the office.
The next day, Shokin submitted his resignation. Then, came back, and investigated the Anti-Corruption Action Center AGAIN. Protests occured, and he was officially dismissed by parliamentary votes.
In other words, for the entire time Biden was at Burisma, Shokin wasn't investigating them, and Biden was calling for an investigator that actually would investigate corruption.
This is the complete opposite of what the GOP claims, because they're spreading literal conspiracy theories.
Thank you for schooling those dumb people like a secondary school Kid..
CTPlayer: The Anti Corruption Action Center is CORRUPT. That is Soros trying to run USA foreign policy.
While the impeachment deals with Trump’s alleged interference in the Ukraine, the case of Trump enemies’ interference in the Ukraine is open and shut. They interfered so rudely in the dealings of the ostensibly sovereign state, that they had a joke among themselves: “The Vienna Convention is optional for our Kiev staff”. The Vienna Convention is the international agreement forbidding the diplomats to meddle in the internal affairs of the state they are posted at.
Some of this meddling had been done by and for Joe Biden, who robbed the Ukrainian state of ample funds; George Soros had been another beneficiary of the State Department activity.
He has a few NGOs there, and the US Embassy under the Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch (another accuser of Trump) actively shilled for them. John Solomon discovered that one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the impeachment hearings, then-embassy Charge d’ Affaires George Kent (now he has risen to the lofty position of the Assistant Secretary of State) demanded from the Ukrainian authorities to drop investigation of Soros’ own NGO, the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). Moreover, on March 5, 2019, Ambassador Yovanovitch had delivered a speech asking for “Ukraine’s special anticorruption prosecutor to be removed.” And this woman dares to speak of Trump’s interference!
George Soros had a regular access to the Ukrainian desk of the State Department, to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria (“F*ck EU”) Nuland. It is difficult to separate between the twain, for the AntAC had been jointly funded by the State Department and George Soros. But George Soros is untouchable, for the ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt already determined that “Invoking Soros … is trafficking in some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes.” http://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-impeach-trump-trump-woos-jews/
There is no doubt this POS is a white nationalist, he's posting from a white nationalist website famous for anti black and Semitic rhetoric. Do well to post your picture donning your Klan's attire.
CTPlayer: The Anti Corruption Action Center is CORRUPT. That is Soros trying to run USA foreign policy.
While the impeachment deals with Trump’s alleged interference in the Ukraine, the case of Trump enemies’ interference in the Ukraine is open and shut. They interfered so rudely in the dealings of the ostensibly sovereign state, that they had a joke among themselves: “The Vienna Convention is optional for our Kiev staff”. The Vienna Convention is the international agreement forbidding the diplomats to meddle in the internal affairs of the state they are posted at.
Some of this meddling had been done by and for Joe Biden, who robbed the Ukrainian state of ample funds; George Soros had been another beneficiary of the State Department activity.
He has a few NGOs there, and the US Embassy under the Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch (another accuser of Trump) actively shilled for them. John Solomon discovered that one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the impeachment hearings, then-embassy Charge d’ Affaires George Kent (now he has risen to the lofty position of the Assistant Secretary of State) demanded from the Ukrainian authorities to drop investigation of Soros’ own NGO, the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). Moreover, on March 5, 2019, Ambassador Yovanovitch had delivered a speech asking for “Ukraine’s special anticorruption prosecutor to be removed.” And this woman dares to speak of Trump’s interference!
George Soros had a regular access to the Ukrainian desk of the State Department, to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria (“F*ck EU”) Nuland. It is difficult to separate between the twain, for the AntAC had been jointly funded by the State Department and George Soros. But George Soros is untouchable, for the ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt already determined that “Invoking Soros … is trafficking in some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes.” http://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-impeach-trump-trump-woos-jews/
...Always blaming George Soros for everything...now he is being linked to Ukraine saga...
wirinet: Here is the complete story of the Burisma, Hunter Biden and Joe Biden issue.
Burisma was founded in 2002
In 2008, Obama and Biden ran and won. Hunter Biden took a job at a bank and filed to end all lobbying, to avoid conflicts.
In 2012, Viktor Shokin conducted an investigation of Burisma, for conduct between 2010 and 2012. Specifically, the Ministry of Ecology granting special permits. It ended with a fine paid to a Ukrainian lawmaker. In other words, the investigation was conducted and concluded, and seems kind of corrupt.
In 2013, Ukraine had a political revolution, followed by Russia invading Crimea in 2014.
2 years after the investigation concluded, Hunter Biden joined Burisma as a private citizen in 2014. Of course, it was questioned at the time as a potential conflict, but, nothing untoward was found. Do note: November 2014 elections gave Republicans control of House and Senate, including the committees that overlook things like this. They chose not to investigate or pursue.
In Feb 2015, Shokin is promoted to Prosecutor General of Ukraine, and gets more corrupt. The Anti-Corruption Action Center was exposing his corruption, so he had them raided... Stories of his prosecutors accepting bribes came out, and then he began firing anyone that investigated it.
Worldwide calls for his removal began. IMF, EU, EBRD, and of course, the Obama admin.
Feb 2016, his deputy resigned in protest, denouncing the corruption and lawlessness of the office.
The next day, Shokin submitted his resignation. Then, came back, and investigated the Anti-Corruption Action Center AGAIN. Protests occured, and he was officially dismissed by parliamentary votes.
In other words, for the entire time Biden was at Burisma, Shokin wasn't investigating them, and Biden was calling for an investigator that actually would investigate corruption.
This is the complete opposite of what the GOP claims, because they're spreading literal conspiracy theories.
...You are so on point...this was similar to what I wrote earlier...the Republicans prior to 2016 have every opportunity to investigate the Biden's as they control both Houses...but they didn't because Joe Biden wasn't on the ballot...but Hillary who was subjected to months of enquiries & senate hearings which produced nothing...
There is no doubt this POS is a white nationalist, he's posting from a white nationalist website famous for anti black and Semitic rhetoric. Do well to post your picture donning your Klan's attire.
I told you this guy (CTPlayer) is a Nazi and the gutless coward can't show his face. The mental midgets that gives him likes don't even know that he's a POS.
George Soro actually boasted of collapsing Ukraine economy in the 90's, so I don't understand how his policy was the one being run in Ukraine after he was banned from entering about 8 countries. Soro is powerful no doubt after all, he's the only nazi collaborator I know who explained how he helped the nazis captured so many Jews for the concentration camp and later became Jewish himself and then allowed to stay in America.
I also don't get why the Republicans in Congress didn't mention Yovanovitch as a mole planted by Soro, ask question about their dubious love for Ukraine when they didn't give Ukraine weapon and needed cash to protect itself against Russia, all Obama gave them was blankets. Though I give Republicans credit for standing up this time since they are not used to fighting back but they should have asked question about Ukraine being the single largest donor to Clinton foundation despite being a poor and corrupt country. the same Yovanovitch refused to hang Trump's picture in the embassy yet claimed to be bi-partisan. Maybe they are saving these questions for when the impeachment gets to the Senate, I think trial is what Trump wants from Santa but Pelosi doesn't want to go to court cos she knows what she and her Democrats Congress are doing is illegal.
My concern though is the low level FBI agent charged with falsification of documents when the top guys are the real criminals we already know their names.
Is the deepstate going to use a massshooting or a funeral to hold off December 9?
CTPlayer: The Anti Corruption Action Center is CORRUPT. That is Soros trying to run USA foreign policy.
While the impeachment deals with Trump’s alleged interference in the Ukraine, the case of Trump enemies’ interference in the Ukraine is open and shut. They interfered so rudely in the dealings of the ostensibly sovereign state, that they had a joke among themselves: “The Vienna Convention is optional for our Kiev staff”. The Vienna Convention is the international agreement forbidding the diplomats to meddle in the internal affairs of the state they are posted at.
Some of this meddling had been done by and for Joe Biden, who robbed the Ukrainian state of ample funds; George Soros had been another beneficiary of the State Department activity.
He has a few NGOs there, and the US Embassy under the Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch (another accuser of Trump) actively shilled for them. John Solomon discovered that one of the witnesses for the prosecution in the impeachment hearings, then-embassy Charge d’ Affaires George Kent (now he has risen to the lofty position of the Assistant Secretary of State) demanded from the Ukrainian authorities to drop investigation of Soros’ own NGO, the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). Moreover, on March 5, 2019, Ambassador Yovanovitch had delivered a speech asking for “Ukraine’s special anticorruption prosecutor to be removed.” And this woman dares to speak of Trump’s interference!
George Soros had a regular access to the Ukrainian desk of the State Department, to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria (“F*ck EU”) Nuland. It is difficult to separate between the twain, for the AntAC had been jointly funded by the State Department and George Soros. But George Soros is untouchable, for the ADL President Jonathan Greenblatt already determined that “Invoking Soros … is trafficking in some of the worst anti-Semitic tropes.” http://www.unz.com/ishamir/jews-impeach-trump-trump-woos-jews/
Sondland has been threatened together with his wife and his hotels. The nutjbobs Democrats blocked his hotels with protests and then turn around and complain about intimidation tactics. Saul's Alinsky tactics of accusing others of what they themselves are doing, is now part of the Democrats. If you want to know what the Democrats are doing, just pay attention to what they accuse other people of doing.
Simeone that admitted his opening statement was based on presumptions and was totally made up.
What were you dumbass democrats thinking would happen. That trump would be vamped out immediately after sondlands testimony. Well you all failed thanks to Mike Turner infactvhere we are.
Right now CNN has stopped covering the remaining half of the testimony and are wasting ppls time on Benjamin Netanyahu current indictment by the attorney General of Israel. What bullocks. just when the republicans would have start tearing the witnesses lol
Trump is well insulated with 3 layers of security not just the secret service, but we still have to pray, deepstate is giving a hell of a fight for the last time before their fall and they are doing everything.
We must pray that no event will be used by these satanists to change that date, we really need to get this over with. And then I don't know why I don't fully trust Lindsey Graham just because he was close friends with McCain, there'sno way he was that close to McCain and didn't get his own hands dirty. He probably cut a deal with Trump just as Pence and the Bushes did. There was a time immunity was handled out like chin chin to get people to oust and turn on each other.
Trump is also cleaning the house, Mike Pompeo should be the next to leave, well he's going to the Senate or so he thinks. The POTUS is finding out who loves America among the politicians and who don't.
And to those complaining about Guiliani being a wingman for Trump to Ukraine, sorry it's called an 'envoy ' and every president had at least one especially when it involves a shadowy govt like the deepstate. Clinton had Jesse Jackson and Loui Farrakhan. Obama had from Chalupa, Mifsuid, halper and all kind of shady characters.
The deepstate is very powerful with complete army and underground military bases and cities, the entire Arlington cemetery has a big city below it with the main entrance being tomb 60 which doesn't match the location on the map. Some of these were recently blown up.
basilico: There is a story spreading about the head of burisma being indicted on Nov 14th amid claims that Hunter Biden and associates took in 16m USD.
this impeachment will not only help Trump, but it will also ruin Biden and the Demonrats.
If the democrats impeach it goes to the senate where GOP has the majority . GOP will subpoena everyone that Schiff has refused to call in as a witness eg Ciaramella, Biden, Chalupa. In m opinion, this is just a dog and pony show. There will be no impeachment vote, probably just a censure to avoid going to the senate.
And Lindsey Graham confirmed that the IG report will be out on Dec 9th before his scheduled testimony on 11th. Dems have only about 17 days before tables are turned on them forever ruining them. I have a feeling they are playing hardball at this desperate time so that they can cut out a deal . Many Deep State leftist will go down, starting with Comey, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Strzyork , Bruce Ohr and even possibly Lorretta Lynch.
But the institution that I would celebrate if it went down completely would be the Main Stream Media. It lies, disinforms, distorts such that we have zombies here who only parrot what CNN ,MSNBC , NB etc tell them, The media is actually ruining peoples lives by being not being partisan but being part of the attempted coup.
At this time Trump needs to watch his security. These guys can do anything
wowcatty: Sondland has been threatened together with his wife and his hotels. The nutjbobs Democrats blocked his hotels with protests and then turn around and complain about intimidation tactics. Saul's Alinsky tactics of accusing others of what they themselves are doing, is now part of the Democrats. If you want to know what the Democrats are doing, just pay attention to what they accuse other people of doing.
They even asked Oregonians to boycott his business. What rubbish
I have never seen more dumbsters like this numbskull here. Wow, even Appalachian methylheads ain't that lost in there Trump worship. What the fuccck with all the shitt the wowkoolaidizioc is sprouting on this thread. Brain stuffed with wool for sure.
Anduku: Just Watching a Democrats and media conspiracy theory get totally destroyed by two of Adam Schiff's own witnesses.
Jennifer Williams says the call transcript is "substantively correct," and Alexander Vindman said it is "very accurate."
All those conspiracy theories about the implicating details not being included in the transcript and it being put on a secure server to avoid leaks is bullocks!
oh right! Because it is just about the transcripts
Anduku: Devin Nunes took the media apart, "The media, of course, are free to act as Democrat puppets, and they’re free to lurch from the Russia hoax to the Ukraine hoax at the direction of their puppet masters."
David nunes met wit Viktor schtokin or whatever his name was, the fired Ukraine prosecutor about how to cook up a case against the biden's last December, furthermore, his staffers met with gulliani and some of Trump's staffers about how to coopt schtokin into the hoax biden curroption scandal and what's more, nunes refuses to deny it when asked, he just says something to the effect of, he won't answer questions, is that the David nunes you're talking about?
