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Paula Chertok🗽
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💯@JeffreyToobin: Beyond legal issues, Trump/Giuliani are using #Ukraine for an election #disinformation campaign against Biden. ⚠️ If journalists feel compelled to investigate him even tho all allegations have been proven false, it’s Clinton emails all over again. #Whistleblower
FYI #Whistleblower story also reminds us that the Biden-Ukraine conspiracy theory has origins in Russian #propaganda. It may be the first clear #Kremlin-based #disinformation campaign of the 2020 election to help Trump (as I note in a THREAD from May)
🤯And like clockwork—journalists fly to Kremlin bullsh!t like flies. Whistleblower exposes collusion recidivist Trump abusing power to extort vulnerable ally Ukraine to boost his failing re-election campaign. But Ken Vogel will chase the disinformation. Clinton Emails 2.0 #Maddow
Hard to believe we're still talking about a conspiracy theory debunked several times over. That's what happens when propagandists run your govt. Below is a great deep dive debunking of the Biden/Ukraine propaganda, by @RobertMackey, w/ usual suspects Giuliani, Sputnik, even Vogel
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Paula Chertok🗽
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The language & structure of the July 25 call shows Trump didn't just solicit Zelensky's election help. They made an agreement & had a classic meeting of the minds. Trump pressed for a favor. Z (had to) say Yes. Trump said, Good I appreciate it. Giuliani & Barr would carry it out.
You could argue Trump solicited Zelensky to enter an election conspiracy. That's damning even w/o the context of a vulnerable country at war with Russia and Trump holding up desperately needed military aid. Adding that context, the pressure, the dirt, and it's a cesspool of abuse
Language & structure of the call show how Trump pressed Zelensky:
1) 4x US is good to Ukraine—"a lot," "very very" 2x each
2) US does MORE than Europe
3) Relations were NOT "reciprocal"
4) Whatever you can do, it's VERY IMPORTANT that you do it
5) I'm sure you'll figure it out
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Paula Chertok🗽
@PaulaChertok
I warned the #Ukraine call transcript would unleash a torrent of gaslighting. It has.

Trump just claimed Zelensky said "NO PRESSURE." That's false. Z finessed it. But Trump has now put those words in Z's mouth. And pro-Trump media & propagandists will repeat the lie as truth.🙃
🙄Trump's now saying *Democrats* threatened & pressured #Ukraine. He has one playbook: Gaslighting, flipping narrative, whataboutism, lies, conspiracy theories. That's IT. He's deflated b/c his propaganda fails when ppl understand it. He's just a pathetic emperor w/ no clothes.🤡
Trump sounds like he's already singing his swan song. He's so deflated. His linguistic patterns have betrayed him.

Like this "Sir" story, which @ddale8 has identified as introducing a lie. This one claims foreign leaders came up to him at UN saying what he's gone thru is so bad.
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Paula Chertok🗽
@PaulaChertok
😳One of the first things Trump says sitting with #Ukraine’s President Zelensky: “He’s very very strongly looking at all sorts of corruption.”

Then Trump says Crimea was lost under Obama. “But it was a long time ago. It’s just one of those things”😱

#WhistleblowerComplaint
#Ukraine’s Zelensky finesses question about pressure from Trump on call. He says, you saw it, and I don’t want to get involved. But TRUMP adds

NOW TRUMP IS RANTING CONSPIRACY THEORIES CONFIRMING EVERY ABUSE IN THE TRANSCRIPT/SUMMARY NOTES OF THE CALL. Biden, Clinton’s emails!
SCOOP >> Acting DNI Maguire threatened to resign if he can’t speak freely to Congress. So he seems to be fighting back against the extraordinary and lawless pressure from Trump White House. Wow! #WhistleblowerComplaint #UkraineExtortion #Ukraine
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Julie Laumann🆘
@Otpor17
As @RitaKonaev notes, "Mattis had no problem disagreeing w/Obama about transgender people in the military or women in combat but won’t criticize Trump for asking foreign powers for dirt about political opponents.

This isn’t about him being above politics. This is his politics."
Excellent point here, and makes you wonder why Mattis' deference to the commander-in-chief is selectively applied in this manner 🤔
7 freshman House Ds, all with natsec experience: "If true, we believe these actions represent an impeachable offense ...

We call on our colleagues in Congress to consider the use of all congressional authorities available, including inherent contempt."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
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Julie Laumann🆘
@Otpor17
"By repeating this lie, Giuliani is not only deceiving American citizens. He is not only intervening in Ukrainian politics, smearing parliamentarians & officials of the presidential administration.

He is also trying to drag the new president of Ukraine into an American election"
"My desire to expose Manafort’s doings was motivated by the desire for justice. Neither Clinton, nor Biden, nor Podesta nor Soros asked me to publish the black ledger.

I wanted accountability for the lobbyist whose client immersed Ukraine in a blood bath"
.@Leshchenkos: "As a person who has had direct experience of many of these events, I express my readiness to testify to the US Congress."

The American people deserve to hear from this Ukrainian journalist, @RepAdamSchiff @RepJerryNadler @RepCummings.
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Teresa Parrish
@SLObot60
WE HEAR via @abcnews ..after #Pence #Trump and #Giuliani LIE about Trump #THUG #BRIBING #Zelensky #Ukraine's president: US will give bigger bribe eg $140 MILLION. Which doesn’t look suspicious at all. WHADDYA think @SethAbramson @maddow @CNN @lauferlaw tinyurl.com/yxj9vbq5
@abcnews @SethAbramson @maddow @CNN @lauferlaw WAIT WHY ARE WE PAYING #Trump2020 #BloodMoneyParty CAMPAIGN Bribes?! TO #Ukraine's president for Dirt on Biden son? NOW US (eg our treasury) will give extra $140 MILLION in #aid Which as @abcnews says doesn’t look suspicious at all. HE got plenty from #Saudis #NeverForget911
WHY are we paying for #Trump2020 CAMPAIGN bribes? @dscc @dccc #LameduckGOP @TrueFactsStated @lauferlaw @JoeBiden @SenWarren @SenKamalaHarris @PeteButtigieg @votevets @IndivisibleTeam @MoveOn @PolitiZoom @MSNBC @maddow @CNNPolitics @abcnews @emilyslist @VictoryFund @TomSteyer
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Karol Cummins
@karolcummins
‼️WHISTLEBLOWER THEORY‼️

Let’s take the Biden ’dirt’ hunt aspect out of the story & set it aside as a horrific diversion for now.

The truth is much worse.

Remember the Cohen, Sater, Flynn, Manafort & Artemenko “Ukrainian Peace Plan” circa Feb 2017?

Putin quid pro quo?
2/19/17
A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates
nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/…
2/19/17

📌Michael Cohen, presented a sealed envelope to then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn containing a secret peace plan to resolve the three-year conflict in Ukraine.
amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/51…
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Anders Åslund
@anders_aslund
"Ukraine’s prosecutor general [Lutsenko] said in an interview that he had no evidence of wrongdoing by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden or his son, despite a swirl of allegations by President Donald Trump’s lawyer."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"Yuriy Lutsenko, the current prosecutor general, said that neither Hunter Biden nor Burisma were now the focus of an investigation."
If #Giuliani had any decency, he should apologize for having lied his head off:
to NABU
to @Leshchenkos
to @JoeBiden
to @HillaryClinton
to @ANTAC_ua
We have no reason to believe that he has any decency, given all his organized crime connections - Kernes & Regnea...
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MissMAGA2016
@MissMaga2016
#Trump said his Russian business efforts, including during the campaign were "Very legal" and "VERY COOL."

HAHAHAH....yep, I sure do agree with that. Very cool, indeed.

Of course, most of the media have no clue, though some of them do, b/c some have reported the truth.
Well, sommanab*tch! The link I saved from one of the media outlets that knew ...now seems to be gone. Of course I couldn't archive it because it was WaPo. They wouldn't let me archive it.
Well, here's another one, by Buzzfeed, no less. They KNEW that Trump worked WITH the FBI, yet they participated in the conspiracy against him to frame him as the guilty one.

buzzfeednews.com/article/jasona…
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