GalaticHorde:
what was his opening statement again.?

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

Thank God BBC are notdisgraceful

GalaticHorde:
how about pivotal to establishing the motive of a crime idiot! All you described above is a codefendant and foolish people were actually liking your post! SMH!

keep making a fool of yourself and parading your ignorance. anyone with access to a dictionary or Google can easily confirm who an accessory witness is. Maybe that's why they are liking my post, it's obvious to them that you are an ignoramus arguing blindly on things you know nothing about. FYI, you can't be an accessory If you were not involved at any stage in assisting or encouraging the commission of the crime. Accessory witnesses are also co-defendants because they assisted or encouraged the commission of the crime. I'll advise you to contact any lawyer or law student you know to educate you on this matter and save you from further embarrassing yourself here.

Your contemporaries in clownship and hero worshiping of a vile racist likes your post not for something worthwhile, but for the idiocy you all spout about a place that you know nothing about. Take your likes to the Bank and cash it.

coluka:

keep making a fool of yourself and parading your ignorance. anyone with access to a dictionary or Google can easily confirm who an accessory witness is. Maybe that's why they are liking my post, it's obvious to them that you are an ignoramus arguing blindly on things you know nothing about. FYI, you can't be an accessory If you were not involved at any stage in assisting or encouraging the commission of the crime. Accessory witnesses are also co-defendants because they assisted or encouraged the commission of the crime. I'll advise you to contact any lawyer or law student you know to educate you on this matter and save you from further embarrassing yourself here.

Lucasbalo:
Your contemporaries in clownship and hero worshiping of a vile racist likes your post not for something worthwhile, but for the idiocy you all spout about a place that you know nothing about. Take your likes to the Bank and cash it.

Pathetic Lucasbaloney to the rescue!!! perhaps you can help your ignoramus friend out by explaining to us how Marie yanovitch is an accessory witness in this matter?

coluka:

Pathetic Lucasbaloney to the rescue!!! perhaps you can help your ignoramus friend out by explaining to us how Marie yanovitch is an accessory witness in this matter?

Still did not take away the fact that you are parroting a dumb and brain dead talking point.

The Inside Story Of How America’s Intelligence Agencies Tried To Undo Trump’s Election
Journalist Lee Smith's new book, 'The Plot Against the President,' reads like a spy thriller, but it's really a warning about how Trump-era abuses by intelligence agencies threaten to undermine American self-government.

Lee Smith’s new book, The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, lays out a compelling case of abuse against the United States’ major intelligence agencies. In great detail, he explains how the FBI and the Department of Justice not only abused their power in going after Donald Trump, his campaign, and later his administration, but how they sought to cover it up.

Unlike some of the other recent books on this topic, Smith’s epic has a hero. Smith makes a compelling case that California Rep. Devin Nunes and his steadfast team stood up to an army of Goliaths. This small team of committed truth-seekers took on the most powerful intelligence apparatus in the world, a hostile media, and a dishonest opposition party to hold them accountable for violating American citizens’ constitutional rights.

Smith’s account of what Nunes, his family, and his team went through to expose the covert operation to destroy Trump’s presidency is an emotional roller coaster. Nunes and his team suffered smear campaigns, violent threats, and even a vindictive ethics investigation as a result of their battle to uncover the truth.

Nunes knew he was getting close to the truth when Democrats spent millions in an attempt to unseat him during the midterm elections. When asked whether he ever thought of walking away from the investigation, Nunes replies, “Never. Not once. I knew the more times they came after me, the more they hit me, I knew that I was right over the target.”..................................................much more,

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/19/the-inside-story-of-how-americas-intelligence-agencies-tried-to-undo-trumps-election/

Devin Nunes line of questioning is so unintelligent and cringe worthy.

coluka:

Pathetic Lucasbaloney to the rescue!!! perhaps you can help your ignoramus friend out by explaining to us how Marie yanovitch is an accessory witness in this matter?

Gala hawking delusional millionaire. The streets must be too hot today to hawk your stale gala. Your idol the famous vile racist will leave the Oval Office in shame .

Kopfschmerzens:
Devin Nunes line of questioning is so unintelligent and cringe worthy.

The Republicons have no defence for the Taliban man hence they muddle the water. It's very clear to every rational Americans that there's Quid pro quo and Bribery and intimidation of witnesses. Next move is to the Judiciary committee where the Articles of impeachment will be unfold to all Americans and that's when the Republicons will go full loco loco.

What's the problem with the sleazy Jordan that all he does is shout and rant.

Ex-NSC aide Fiona Hill clashes with GOP reps over Ukraine ‘fictions’ charge in testy hearing

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ex-nsc-aide-fiona-hill-david-holmes

Former National Security Council aide Fiona Hill clashed with Republicans during Thursday’s Trump impeachment inquiry hearings after accusing some lawmakers of embracing the “fictional narrative” that only Ukraine -- and not Russia -- interfered in the 2016 elections, igniting a fierce response.

The testy proceedings at the Capitol also included testimony from David Holmes, a U.S. State Department official in Ukraine, who described how he overheard a phone call this summer with President Trump about wanting Ukraine to conduct political investigations.

Holmes testified that he eventually understood that “demand” to be linked to delayed military aid. The White House countered, as it has in prior hearings, that the witnesses did not speak to any direct knowledge on the aid hold-up, while GOP lawmakers dismissed the alleged offense as nothing more than a “thought crime.”

But Hill irritated Republicans from the outset Thursday by saying in her opening statement, “Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our country—and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did.”

At least this is not CNN coverage

This photo sums up everything about the GOP today

...The Republicans are discounting all the witnesses so far as not having first hand contact with Trump...The question should be directed to the White House...why won't they release important documents...why won't they allow 'first hand witnesses' to testify either orally or written statements...when is Rudy Guilliani going to be called to testify...his name keeps coming up...

Why is everything about the Trumps' all about lie?

Lev Parnas Helped Rep. Devin Nunes’ Investigations
The indicted Giuliani associate helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for the Republican congressman in 2018.

Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018, Parnas’ lawyer Ed MacMahon told The Daily Beast.

Nunes aide Derek Harvey participated in the meetings, the lawyer said, which were arranged to help Nunes’ investigative work. MacMahon didn’t specify what those investigations entailed.

Nunes is the top Republican on the House committee handling the impeachment hearings—hearings where Parnas’ name has repeatedly come up.

Congressional records show Nunes traveled to Europe from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 2018. Three of his aides—Harvey, Scott Glabe, and George Pappas—traveled with him, per the records. U.S. government funds paid for the group’s four-day trip, which cost just over $63,000.

The travel came as Nunes, in his role on the House Intelligence Committee, was working to investigate the origins of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian election-meddling.

Parnas’ assistance to Nunes’ team has not been previously reported. A spokesperson for Nunes did not respond to requests for comment.

Nunes has been at the center of the broader story about foreign influence in President Donald Trump’s Washington. When congressional investigators began probing Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, Nunes made a late-night visit to the White House and announced the next day he’d found evidence of egregious wrongdoing by Intelligence Community officials. The move appeared to be an effort to corroborate a presidential tweet claiming that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. Nunes then stepped back from the committee’s work scrutinizing Russian efforts. Instead, he ran a parallel probe looking at the origins of Mueller’s Russia probe. The undertaking made him a hero to the president and Sean Hannity, and a bête noire of Democrats and Intelligence Community officials. That work was still underway when he traveled to Europe in 2018.

Last month, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged Parnas and Fruman with illegally moving money from foreign donors to American political campaigns. Both men maintain their innocence.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lev-parnas-helped-rep-devin-nunes-investigations?source=twitter&via=desktop

TheShopKeeper:
...The Republicans are discounting all the witnesses so far as not having first hand contact with Trump...The question should be directed to the White House...why won't they release important documents...why won't they allow 'first hand witnesses' to testify either orally or written statements...when is Rudy Guilliani going to be called to testify...his name keeps coming up...

Because the democrats don't want the whistleblower exposed

TheShopKeeper:
...The Republicans are discounting all the witnesses so far as not having first hand contact with Trump...The question should be directed to the White House...why won't they release important documents...why won't they allow 'first hand witnesses' to testify either orally or written statements...when is Rudy Guilliani going to be called to testify...his name keeps coming up...

The democrats still think dey can win without unveiling the whistleblower. Dey are running out of time.

Dey didn't count on none of the witnesses having 1st hand information lol.

Thegamingorca:



Because the democrats don't want the whistleblower exposed

It's against The law in America to disclose the identity of a whistle blower. Why is that difficult for you guys to
Comprehend that. This is a country of law not Banana Republic.

Garbage from the usual Right wing hateful Federalist Paper Junk.

CTPlayer:
The Inside Story Of How America’s Intelligence Agencies Tried To Undo Trump’s Election
Journalist Lee Smith's new book, 'The Plot Against the President,' reads like a spy thriller, but it's really a warning about how Trump-era abuses by intelligence agencies threaten to undermine American self-government.

Lee Smith’s new book, The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History, lays out a compelling case of abuse against the United States’ major intelligence agencies. In great detail, he explains how the FBI and the Department of Justice not only abused their power in going after Donald Trump, his campaign, and later his administration, but how they sought to cover it up.

Unlike some of the other recent books on this topic, Smith’s epic has a hero. Smith makes a compelling case that California Rep. Devin Nunes and his steadfast team stood up to an army of Goliaths. This small team of committed truth-seekers took on the most powerful intelligence apparatus in the world, a hostile media, and a dishonest opposition party to hold them accountable for violating American citizens’ constitutional rights.

Smith’s account of what Nunes, his family, and his team went through to expose the covert operation to destroy Trump’s presidency is an emotional roller coaster. Nunes and his team suffered smear campaigns, violent threats, and even a vindictive ethics investigation as a result of their battle to uncover the truth.

Nunes knew he was getting close to the truth when Democrats spent millions in an attempt to unseat him during the midterm elections. When asked whether he ever thought of walking away from the investigation, Nunes replies, “Never. Not once. I knew the more times they came after me, the more they hit me, I knew that I was right over the target.”..................................................much more,

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/19/the-inside-story-of-how-americas-intelligence-agencies-tried-to-undo-trumps-election/

...Lindsey Graham letter to Secretary Mike Pompeo requesting for documents to VP Biden, Hunter Biden and other Obama administration officials linked to Ukraine...

...Most people will find this letter interesting because the Republicans have known about Hunter Biden's Directorship at Burisma since 2014...but didn't make it a big issue then...They would have however used this against Joe Biden in 2016 if he had declared his intention for the presidency...that didn't happen...the unfortunate victim was Hillary Clinton whom the Republicans grilled over a period of time about her knowledge Benghazi attack in Libya...also issues about Hillary using a private server to send sensitive emails...were used against her...

...Now that Joe Biden is considered a a viable opponent to Trump...the Republicans are looking for ways to trash his electable credentials...(not that Biden is everybody's choice)...

A sham is a sham.

Trump lashes out at Fox News amid impeachment fight
The president also again pledges to release his "financial statement" sometime before the election.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/21/donald-trump-impeachment-072393

President Donald Trump on Thursday complained about his media coverage as the second week of public impeachment hearings drew to a close, even blasting his preferred cable news network for interviewing a Democratic congressman investigating his conduct.

In a morning tweet, Trump lashed out at Fox News host Shannon Bream for a Wednesday segment on her weeknight newscast featuring Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee and a frequent target of the president’s ire.

“Why do @ShannonBream & @FoxNews waste airtime on Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, who recently left the Presidential Primaries having attained a grand number of ZERO in the polls,” Trump wrote. “I don’t even know how that is possible. Fox should stay with the people that got them there, not losers!”

Story Continued Below
Trump has previously invoked Swalwell, a former Democratic presidential candidate, on social media at least four times this year, and similarly criticized Fox News’ coverage of the lawmaker in July.

The president in recent months has stepped up his attacks on the conservative-leaning network, whose opinion hosts consistently defend the White House in primetime programming.

8 Things the Media Don’t Want You to Know About Gordon Sondland’s Ridiculous Testimony
The fake news media are still trying to pretend Gordon Sondland’s train-wreck impeachment testimony Wednesday spells doom for President Trump.
1. Sondland Has LESS THAN ZERO Evidence of Any Wrongdoing
After using his swaggering opening statement to pretend he had the goods on Trump and the entire administration — which suckered the fake media into slobbering all over themselves with “game over” and “new John Dean” tweets — we learned that he has no evidence whatsoever and that his “bombshell” soundbite is based only on a — get this — “presumption.”

“Nobody else on this planet told you that Donald Trump was tying this aid to the investigation,” asked a Republican questioner. “You really have no evidence.”

“Other than my own presumption,” Sondland admitted, as the air seemed to leak out of him.

And then came this bombshell…

“That was the problem,” [/b]Sondland confessed. [b]“No one told me directly that the aid was tied to anything. I was presuming it was.”

Are you kidding me with this garbage?

It gets worse. Because even that was a lie because someone did tell Sondland something, which brings me to the next thing the media do not want you to know…

2. Sondland’s Only Actual Evidence Exonerates Trump
“President Trump never told me directly that the aid was conditioned on meetings,” Sondland admitted.

“The aid was my own personal guess,” he added.

“I never heard from President Trump that aid was conditioned on an announcement of investigations,” Sondland admitted later.

However…

Trump did tell Sondland one thing… Trump explicitly told Sondland he wanted “nothing” from Ukraine. “No quid pro quo.”

3. Investigating Biden *Is* Investigating Corruption
When he was president, Barack Obama put his vice president, Joe Biden, in charge of diplomatic relations with Ukraine. During this same time, the corrupt oligarch of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company paid Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, $50,000 a month — a month! — to sit on the board of this corrupt energy company, Burisma.

Fifty thousand a month — a month! — even though Hunter knows nothing about energy and doesn’t speak the local language.

Hunter made millions off this sweet deal.

And then, when a Ukrainian prosecutor decided to look into Burisma, Joe threatened to withhold U.S. aid if the prosecutor was not fired.

The prosecutor was fired.

That is a full-blown act of corruption, but still…

Our fake media are hoping to gaslight the American people into believing that Trump asking Ukraine to look into the Bidens’ looting of that country is different from asking Ukraine to look into corruption.

The reasons for the gas lighting campaign are obvious. The media are desperate to cover up the Bidens corruption while, at the same time, pulling off this coup with the false accusation that Trump was “digging up dirt on his opponent.”

No…

The fact is this: Trump asking Ukraine to look into Burisma and the Bidens *is* looking into corruption, which is what we expect our president to do when it comes to foreign aid.

Trump.

Did.

Nothing.

Wrong.

4. You Can’t Have a Quid Pro Quo if Ukraine Didn’t Know
Someone should put that on a T-shirt.

How can there be a quid pro quo if Ukraine didn’t know there was a quid to quo?

Over and over and over again, we are being told Ukraine did not feel pressure, never said to anyone that the promise of aid was tied to anything.

Sadly for our coup plotters, this is one of the media’s inconvenient truths Sondland testified to, and what the media don’t want you to know is that this is a massive piece of exculpatory evidence…

“And you understood the Ukrainians received no credible explanation [for the pause in receiving aid], is that right?” the Democrats’ counsel, Daniel Goldman, asked.

“I certainly couldn’t give them one,” Sondland replied.

And there you have it… If Ukraine didn’t know, there can be no quid pro quo.

5. The Resistance Tampered with Sondland’s Previous Testimony of No Quid Pro Quo
In October, Sondland testified at Schiff’s secret basement impeachment hearing that there was no quid pro quo. Afterwards, the anti-Trump Resistance bullied and threatened Sondland’s livelihood, his business, even his family.

Gee, you think that might have something to do with his offering up this “quid pro quo” soundbite that fell completely apart as soon as he was asked to back it up with something, anything…?

6. Sondland Is the Worst Impeachment Witness in a Long Line of Terrible Witnesses
Get this…

So far, Democrats have not presented even a single witness who witnessed anything.

It is either third- and fourth-hand hearsay coming from these crybaby bureaucrats, or it’s whining about their precious “regular channels,” or it’s some lame attempt to reheat the transcript of the call in question into something it’s not — as though we have not already read the transcript.

Sondland is even worse.

Sondland doesn’t even have third- or fourth-hand testimony; all he has are his stupid presumptions that directly contradict what he was declaratively told by Trump himself.

7. Suddenly Presidential Meetings with Preconditions Are a Bad Thing
This was not just goalpost moving on the part of the coup plotters… This was an on-the-spot crafting of a whole new goalpost using baby poop and fairy dust.

The Fart King Swalwell: A meeting at the White House. If someone really needs a meeting at the White House to show their legitimacy to their people, that leveraging that meeting and asking for an investigation would be wrong.

Sondland: To be candid, Congressman, every meeting at the White House has conditions placed on it. I have never worked on a meeting at the White House that doesn’t have a host of conditions placed on it.

Duh.

Fart King: If one of those conditions is to investigate a political opponent, you would agree that would be wrong.

Sondland: The political opponent, yes, but making announcements or investigations per se, no.

You see, I would have asked this question…

If one of the conditions of a White House visit is to open an investigation into the son of a powerful American politician who was paid $50,000 a month — a month! — by a corrupt Ukrainian energy company, even though the son had no energy experience and didn’t speak the language, and then this powerful American politician used U.S. aid to threaten Ukraine into firing a prosecutor investigating the corrupt energy company that hired his son — would that be appropriate?

But that’s just me… Silly me and my belief in truth.

8. Sondland Admits Information He Was Unaware of Might Have Changed His ‘Presumption’
This moment took my breath away.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) spoke at length about a witness deposed in secret over the weekend, a witness who actually knows what happened with the foreign aid to Ukraine because that was this person’s job.

Nunes accused Adam Schiff of withholding this testimony from Sondland (Schiff disputes this), but that doesn’t matter. Sondland did not read this testimony and admitted to Nunes that had he read it, this might have changed his mind about his presumption of a quid pro quo.

NUNES: We’re not going to hear about what the real reason the person who’s in charge of making sure that foreign aid is delivered, we’re not going to hear about what actually happened with the foreign aid. Wouldn’t that had made it a lot easier for you to testify, instead of guessing … wouldn’t it be easier if you just knew exactly why the foreign aid wasn’t given?

SONDLAND: It would have been easier to testify if I had a totality of the record.

NUNES: And would you trust the person who’s in charge of cutting the checks for foreign aid, a top career diplomat, or the top career official?

SONDLAND: I’d have no reason not to.

Bet CNN isn’t playing that clip!

Justice Department prosecutor U.S. Attorney John Durham is questioning personnel connected to the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, which awarded multiple contracts to FBI informant Stephan Halper. Halper, who was informing the bureau on Trump campaign advisors, is a central figure in the FBI’s original investigation into President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, SaraACarter.com has learned.
https://saraacarter.com/durham-probe-expands-to-pentagon-office-that-contracted-fbi-spy-stephan-halper/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

Lucasbalo:
Garbage from the usual Right wing hateful Federalist Paper Junk.

And you can't refute any of it. LOL.

CTPlayer:


And you can't refute any of it. LOL.

Nothing to refute in a garbage. Tell that to the foools who don't know Jack about America.

...The rabbling of a President on Fox & Friends...

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6107543440001/#sp=show-clips

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!”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNqKhRcpktU

Timbuktuo:
A sham is a sham.

Oshodi boy, you never ceases to amaze me with your idiocy. See the garbage from one Trump a$s licker you are posting like if it comes out of the bible. Go visit Trump tweeter page and see how much hatred Americans have for the human crap you people worship.

Lucasbalo:
Nothing to refute in a garbage. Tell that to the foools who don't know Jack about America.

Why are you bitter aren't you winning?

Isnt trump going to be impeached?

Lucasbalo:
Oshodi boy, you never ceases to amaze me with your idiocy. See the garbage from one Trump a$s licker you are posting like if it comes out of the bible. Go visit Trump tweeter page and see how much hatred Americans have for the human crap you people worship.

Did your visa get denied? Are you on a 10yr ban?
Sorry but where I the anger from

TheShopKeeper:
...Lindsey Graham letter to Secretary Mike Pompeo requesting for documents to VP Biden, Hunter Biden and other Obama administration officials linked to Ukraine...

...Most people will find this letter interesting because the Republicans have known about Hunter Biden's Directorship at Burisma since 2014...but didn't make it a big issue then...They would have however used this against Joe Biden in 2016 if he had declared his intention for the presidency...that didn't happen...the unfortunate victim was Hillary Clinton whom the Republicans grilled over a period of time about her knowledge Benghazi attack in Libya...also issues about Hillary using a private server to send sensitive emails...were used against her...

...Now that Joe Biden is considered a a viable opponent to Trump...the Republicans are looking for ways to trash his electable credentials...(not that Biden is everybody's choice)...

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 i 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