New Conservative Darling Elise Stefanik!
“President Obama’s own State Department was so concerned about potential conflicts of interest from Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma that they raised it themselves while prepping this wonderful Ambassador nominee before her confirmation. And yet our Democratic colleagues and the Chairman of this Committee cry foul when we dare ask that same question that the Obama State Department was so concerned about.”
Stefanik was so dangerously good today that Adam Schiff had to go out of his way to shut her down and not allow her to ruin any more of their silly hearing testimony. Yesterday it was George Kent and today it was Marie Yovanovitch who suggested that Burisma was a problem and that Hunter Biden being on that board was a problem. Both suggested that Burisma was worth investigating, and Kent actually agreed that Ukraine should reopen that investigation even today.
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| Sources close to the committee say Democrats are besides themselves with anger! |
The problem for Democrats is that two of their star witnesses are actually completely undercutting the basis of their impeachment. The ONLY way that you can demand the President's actions were somehow diplomatically inappropriate is to prove that there was no good reason to call for investigations into Burisma OTHER than to harm Joe Biden. If there is any legitimate reason to call for this investigation, then the fact that it may or may not hurt Joe Biden becomes completely irrelevant under all constitutional law and diplomatic precedent.
Now we have had two different witnesses called by the Democrats who have provided their personal insight that Burisma was corrupt and that Hunter Biden sitting on the board was a serious problem that required attention from even the Obama Administration. Just imagine how many witnesses that the Republicans will be able to call during the Senate trial who will go on record in saying that they agree 100% with the decisions to call on Ukraine to reopen that particular investigation!
Every time someone agrees to legitimize the basic concept that Ukraine should reopen the investigations into Burisma, it hammers another nail into the Democrat's impeachment coffin. The two biggest nails have been brought forward by their own witnesses and the Republicans haven't even started their defense yet!
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IF THIS IS TRUE...
Giuliani Associate Was on ‘Secret Mission’ for Trump
November 15, 2019 at 9:10 pm EST
“Among the many guests who had their pictures taken with President Trump at the White House’s annual Hanukkah party last year were two Soviet-born businessmen from Florida, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman,” CNN reports.
“At one point during the party that night, Parnas and Fruman slipped out of a large reception room packed with hundreds of Trump donors to have a private meeting with THE PRESIDENT AND GIULIANI.
“Parnas said that ‘the big guy,’ as he sometimes referred to the President in conversation, talked about tasking him and Fruman with what Parnas described as ‘a secret mission’ to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.”
OH BOY! SOMEBODY WHO CAN TELL US SOMETHING THE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY SAID.
A PRIVATE MEETING? BUT I THOUGHT PRESIDENT DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THESE GUYS.
CH ERRONEOUSLY SAYS
Stefanik was so dangerously good today that Adam Schiff had to go out of his way to shut her down and not allow her to ruin any more of their silly hearing testimony.
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NOPE. Schiff was only enforcing the rule all had agreed on.
At the very beginning of the 45 minutes, only the two leaders and their counsels can speak.
WHEN YOU HAVE TO LIE SO MUCH, CH, YOU'RE IN TROUBLE
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How a bad-faith attack on Schiff made its way from Twitter to Trump’s lips
Rep. Elise Stefanik is accusing the House intel chair of treating Republicans unfairly, but all he did was try to enforce the rules.
At one point during Friday’s impeachment hearing with former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) shut down Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY). He did so not to silence her, but because she was violating the rules the House approved to guide the impeachment hearing.
Nonetheless, within a matter of minutes, right-wing media, with an assist from Stefanik, spun the incident into a story about Schiff wronging the only Republican woman partaking in the impeachment hearing — a narrative that quickly made its way to President Donald Trump.
The impeachment inquiry rules specify that both Democrats and Republicans have 45-minute blocks of time during which the chair or ranking member and their counsels can ask witnesses questions. Other members are not allowed to ask questions during that time, but do have individual five-minute questioning periods afterward.
Nonetheless, when the Republican 45-minute block began, intelligence committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) almost immediately tried to delegate his time to Stefanik. Schiff quickly stepped in to point out that Republicans were violating the rules.
“Under the House Resolution 660, you’re not allowed to yield time except to minority counsel,” Schiff said.
“You’re gagging the young lady from New York?” Nunes replied, indignantly.
“This is the fifth time you have interrupted a duly-elected members of Congress,” Stefanik interjected, before the hearing proceeded with Republican counsel Steve Castor asking questions.
(In case you’re interested, Schiff was right about the rules — members can defer their five-minute questioning block to another lawmaker, but the 45-minute blocks are only for the two parties’ ranking members and their staff. Stefanik had her chance to ask Yovanovitch questions later.)
This might not seem like a big deal in a vacuum. But within minutes, Stefanik posted a tweet characterizing a situation in which Schiff was merely trying to enforce the rules as one where Republicans were being singled out.
Elise Stefanik
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@EliseStefanik
Once again, Adam Schiff flat out REFUSES to let duly elected Members of Congress ask questions to the witness, simply because we are Republicans. His behavior is unacceptable and he continues to abuse his Chairmanship. Watch ����
Minutes later, Daily Wire staffer Ryan Saavedra posted a tweet framing the incident as one in which “Schiff’s behavior toward Elise Stefanik is appalling.”
“If a Republican did this the media and the Democrat Party would instantly accuse them of being sexist,” he wrote, above video of the exchange.
(Republicans have been criticized for interrupting Democratic congresswomen in recent years, but typically in cases when they interrupt during a congresswoman’s allotted questioning time.)
A short time later, the Schiff-Stefanik exchange was the top story on Fox News’s webpage, with framing not dissimilar from Saavedra’s tweet.
The story soon found its way onto TV when Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy criticized Schiff’s move to enforce the rules as “a tactical error.”
Later, Trump himself got in on the act, retweeting a post from House Republicans that asked, “Why is Chairman Schiff afraid of @RepStefanik?” And during a media availability a short time later, Trump lamented that “they’ve taken away the Republicans’ rights” because “they weren’t able to ask questions.”
Aaron Rupar
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Replying to @atrupar
Asked to respond to ppl who say his tweets this morning attacking Yovanovitch constituted witness tampering, Trump attacks process as "a disgrace."
"I'm allowed to speak up," he says. "In the history of our country, there has never been a disgrace like what's going on right now"
The episode illustrates how bad-faith attacks can quickly make their way from Twitter to Fox News to the president’s lips. But it also illustrates how Republicans are struggling to defend Trump’s conduct on the merits.
Instead of making a case that Trump was right to oust Yovanovitch earlier this year from her post as US ambassador to Ukraine during a time in which he tried to leverage diplomacy into political favors, they’re attacking the process and suggesting that Schiff is simply a bad dude with partisan motives.
It’s misleading — but it provides a useful way for Republicans to cry foul about impeachment without having to actually defend Trump. For instance, during a media availability after the hearing concluded, Stefanik again characterized Republicans getting called out for running afoul of the rules as “just more of the ridiculous abuse of power that we see from Adam Schiff.”
KEEP UP THE LYING.
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