Why is Chairman Schiff afraid of @RepStefanik?— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) November 15, 2019
Why doesn’t he want Republican members to ask questions?
Why is he conducting more secret hearings after promising the American people an open process? pic.twitter.com/sxFftZs1BX
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Yeah he sure shoved it up the R's asses today.....kept his cool and kept the R attempts at yelling at bay.....What a great day for the D's!!!!! Keep slurping Lil Scotty....trumps intimidation tweet today will be echoing across the land today and create a new view into what a fucking dope trump is!@!!!!!!!!
Yesterday was good but today was even better.
Next week will be better still.
Shortly after Yovanovitch gave her opening remarks, Trump took to Twitter to attack the former ambassador, saying that everywhere she “went turned bad,” including her prior postings in Somalia.
Minutes later, the tweet was read aloud to Yovanovitch on Capitol Hill.
"It's very intimidating," she said.
Trump pushed back a few hours later, after House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff characterized the missive as "witness intimidation."
"You know what? I have the right to speak," Trump told reporters. "I have freedom of speech just as other people do, but they’ve taken away the Republicans’ rights."
When asked if he believed his statements can be intimidating, Trump replied simply: "I don't think so at all."
The daylong exchange pulled attention away from the release of the initial call between Trump and Zelensky.
Schiff isn't going to let the Republicans handle the proceedings any old way they want to. Rep. Stefanick had time to state her inane outdated remarks at the end of today's proceedings.
Scott A**hole won't post this
https://youtu.be/B06Vlnw4PY8
The standing applause!
Stefanick had time to state her inane outdated remarks at the end of today's proceedings.
you stupid fucking child rapist fuck.
how was she supposed to question a "witness" at the END of the proceeding?
christ, that's ALKY-STOOPID.
here comes the alky-lanche of C & P's.
not an original thought in the fucking bunch, and all of it shit we read before lunch today.
go down to the tv lounge alky. maybe there's 'price is right' re-runs playing on the game show network.
During the break, the Republicans saw the President had attacked Yovanovitch, so they didn't attack her.
Jordan made a fool of himself again.
how was she supposed to question a "witness" at the END of the proceeding?
You flaming dumb fuck....she got her allotment of time, and so did all the R's.....Nunes tried to give her ALL the time which is against the rules your side WROTE!!!! God you need more than help.....a new brain might help since you are always wrong when you follow the bs talking points!!!!!
LOL She wans't intending to question, only to read into the record a list of earlier promises by Schiff to let the whistleblower testify which, however, ended rather in the decision to allow the Republicans to put written questions to the whistleblower only.
Big deal. What the whistleblower said is mild compared to what's coming out day after day.
Donald Trump as his own worst enemy
House Republicans had a clear plan coming into these impeachment hearings: Make their arguments not about the witnesses, but rather about the process put in place by Democrats. "Secret" hearings. "Cult"-like atmosphere. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (Calif.) is making the rules up as he goes and not being fair to Republicans.
And then here comes Trump!
Donald J. Trump
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Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
Within minutes of the tweet, Schiff was reading it to Yovanovitch in the hearing -- and Republicans, who had started on a unified note by attacking the process, were suddenly scrambling to get away from the President's decision to tweet.
"I disagree with the tweet," New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican member of the Intelligence Committee, said in a break in the hearings. "I think Ambassador Yovanovitch is a public servant, like many of our public servants in the foreign service."
Added former independent counsel Ken Starr on Fox News of the tweet: "Extraordinarily poor judgment. ... I think this was quite injurious."
Yes, yes it was.
To Trump and the Ever Trumpers.
https://twitter.com/TPMLiveWire/status/1195411615547580416?s=09
She was given 5 minutes to spout nonsense
stefanik fucking destroyed the 0linsky lackey...
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/11/15/this-is-some-savagery-gop-rep-elise-stefanik-relishes-her-opportunity-to-question-marie-yovanovitch-video/
there's your fucking "BOOM" alky.
LOL.
Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, interrupted his counsel’s questioning to read the president’s words aloud to Ms. Yovanovitch. There were audible gasps in the stately hearing room as he did so, and asked Ms. Yovanovitch for her reaction.
“It’s very intimidating,” she replied, taken aback.
To that, Mr. Schiff replied gravely, “Some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously.”
Democrats said the president’s comments were clear attempts by Mr. Trump to intimidate a crucial witness in the impeachment inquiry and do the same to others who might yet come forward, arguing that they could constitute grounds for an article of impeachment against Mr. Trump.
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Daniel Goldman, left, the lawyer for the Democrats, and Representative Adam B. Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee.
At the White House, Mr. Trump angrily denied the charge.
“I want freedom of speech,” he told reporters, lashing out at Democrats!!!
Schiff Warns Against Efforts to Deter Impeachment Witnesses https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/marie-yovanovitch-testimony.html
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Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad. She started off in Somalia, how did that go? Then fast forward to Ukraine, where the new Ukrainian President spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.
Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
....They call it “serving at the pleasure of the President.” The U.S. now has a very strong and powerful foreign policy, much different than proceeding administrations. It is called, quite simply, America First! With all of that, however, I have done FAR more for Ukraine than O.
During the hearing!
Witness tampering is a high crime or a misdemeanor or a hoax? If you actually believe the President is above the law
TRUMP INDULGED IN REAL TIME WITNESSES TAMPERING AND ATTEMPTED WITNESS INTIMIDATION RIGHT WHILE SHE WAS TESTIFYING.
STUPID, STUPID, MOVE.
Trump's tweets even led Fox News anchor Bret Baier to call it "a turning point in this hearing."
https://www.axios.com/fox-news-yovanovitch-impeachment-chris-wallace-bret-baier-935cf86b-6786-44dc-932c-1238643de38f.html
And as for not allowing them to interrrupt whenever they wanted to, that had been decided ahead of time.
SEE THIS
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/-there-were-some-lies-fact-checking-the-gop-s-impeachment-hearing-response-73551429728
Paul Butler, law professor, Georgetown University.
Trump’s tweet is a stone cold thug move. Let’s say I am federal prosecutor investigating a mob boss. A witness testifies that she felt intimidated by the mob boss. As she speaks, the mob boss denigrates the witness in a tweet.
I would halt the proceeding — for the safety of the witness — and ask the judge for a warrant for the arrest of the mob boss. The United States Criminal Code makes witness intimidation a felony. The fact that a mob boss lives in the White House should not excuse him from being brought to justice.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/11/15/impeachment-hearing-witness-intimidation-tampering-trump-tweet-orig-nws.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/
rump Again Asks Justices to Shield Tax Returns
November 15, 2019 at 2:48 pm EST
“For the second day in a row, President Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to protect his personal and business financial records from disclosure, this time to a congressional committee,” the Washington Post reports.
HE SURE DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO SEE THOSE TAX RETURNS.
Boioioiooim
By Nicholas Fandos
Nov. 15, 2019
Updated 6:28 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — An official from the United States Embassy in Kiev confirmed to House impeachment investigators on Friday that he overheard a call between President Trump and a top American diplomat in July in which the president inquired about investigations he wanted from Ukraine, according to three people familiar with the testimony.
The official, David Holmes, testified privately that he was at a restaurant in Ukraine’s capital when he heard Mr. Trump during a cellphone call loudly asking Gordon D. Sondland, the American ambassador to the European Union, if Ukraine’s president had agreed to conduct investigations into his political rivals. Mr. Sondland, who was in Kiev for meetings with top Ukrainian officials at the time, replied in the affirmative.
Mr. Sondland told Mr. Trump that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine “loves your ass,” and would conduct the investigations and “anything you ask him to,” according to two of the people, who described his testimony on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss it.
After the call ended, Mr. Holmes asked it if was true that the president did not care about Ukraine, the people said. The ambassador replied that Mr. Trump cared only about the “big stuff,” like investigations that his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was pushing for, because they affected him personally
Boom.
"Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the President of the United States has been involved with at all?” asked Rep. Stewart.
“No,” answered Yovanovitch."
Boom boom boom boom
The call took place on July 26, one day after Mr. Trump personally pressed Mr. Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter, as well as unproven allegations that Ukraine conspired with Democrats to interfere in the 2016 election.
The existence of call between Mr. Trump and Mr. Sondland was first revealed on Wednesday during public testimony from Mr. Holmes’s boss, William B. Taylor Jr., the top American envoy in Ukraine. Mr. Taylor said then that he had only learned of the episode recently.
Mr. Sondland did not mention the episode to investigators last month when he answered their questions in private. He will almost certainly be asked about it next week when he appears for public testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. He has already revised his initial testimony once, admitting to the panel last week that he told a top Ukrainian official that the country would probably not receive a package of nearly $400 million in security assistance unless it committed publicly to the investigations Mr. Trump sought.
On Thursday, two people familiar with the matter said that a second embassy official, Suriya Jayanti, also overheard the call and could corroborate Mr. Holmes’s account. It is unclear if investigators will also call her to testify. On Friday, Mr. Holmes indicated there was a third person present who would have overheard it, as well.
Mr. Holmes told investigators that he did not take notes during the conversation, but said he informed another embassy official about it shortly after.
Mr. Holmes described sitting at a table in the restaurant with Mr. Sondland when the president called. The president was speaking so loudly, he said, that Mr. Sondland held the phone away from his ear and Mr. Holmes and others could hear Mr. Trump’s voice.
so far Three op to bat and all Three Struck out.
Rumor is Palsy may pull the plug this weekend.
Holmes also confirmed Taylor's testimony about the President's thoughts on Ukraine, saying he had asked Sondland "if it was true that the President did not 'give a s--- about Ukraine."
Today, Trump's longest serving political adviser, Republican operative, and proud "dirty trickster", Roger Stone, was found guilty of all seven charges brought as a result of the Mueller investigation into the 2016 election!
I can't wait for the sentencing phase, to see how many years he won't have to serve when Trump pardons him!
State Department official: Sondland told Trump that Ukrainian President would do 'anything you ask him to'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/politics/holmes-testimony-sondland-call/index.html
It's not in her place to make that judgment kput'z shut up
A mid-morning break allowed Republicans to regroup, and when it came their turn to question Yovanovitch, it was with a markedly more gentle tone. Nearly every GOP member thanked her for her service, sometimes quite effusively. “You’re tough as nails, and you’re smart as hell,” said Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas.
History unfolded this week.
President Donald Trump's week was filled with equal parts history and bad news.
And the start of televised impeachment inquiry hearings -- alleging Trump's abuse of power -- were not the only headache for the chief executive this week. His longtime political adviser Roger Stone was found guilty on five counts of lying to Congress, one of witness tampering and one of obstructing a congressional committee proceeding.
The President was also handed another loss when an appeals court ruled Congress can seek his tax returns. And another court ruled he cannot sue New York state in DC's federal court to stop the release of his tax returns. The tax return issue has now been elevated to the nation's highest court: On Wednesday, Trump asked the Supreme Court to block a subpoena for his tax returns.
Meanwhile, Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani faces mounting questions about his role in the conversations and actions that led to the impeachment probe. This week's first two rounds of public testimony highlighted Giuliani's central role -- which Giuliani says was done as part of his legal defense of Trump. Giuliani has been largely silent about the situation, though he is apparently planning to release a podcast with his thoughts on the impeachment process as things continue to heat up.
The more he talks the worst things get worse.
Sondland Call With Trump Overheard by Officials
November 15, 2019 at 7:04 pm EST
“US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland told President Donald Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ‘loves your ass’ and that Ukraine was going to move forward with the investigation Trump had asked Zelensky for a day earlier, according to new testimony from a US official in Kiev who overheard the phone conversation,” CNN reports.
“David Holmes told lawmakers in a closed-door impeachment inquiry Friday that Sondland had told Trump the Ukrainian President would do ‘anything you ask him to’ and that Sondland had confirmed the Ukrainians were going to ‘do the investigation,’ one day after Trump has asked Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.”
What is the over and under Palsy pulls the cord on The steaming pile of Schiff this weekend.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/key-takeaways-testimony-ukraine-ambassador-marie-yovanovitch/story?id=67044743&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_hero_image
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.
This Key Star bombshell witness said what:
“Do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the President of the United States has been involved with at all?” asked Rep. Stewart.
“No,” answered Yovanovitch.
The former ambassador to Ukraine admitted this on Friday during the second day of the public impeachment hearings.
Palsy to pull plug on the Steaming Pile of Schiff.
The 26 Dwarfs can't hide from the American People behind this scam for much longer.
2020 Socialist Democrats plan to run on how corrupt Trump is while actually proving nothing.
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