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🎯@MalcolmNance on Pompeo’s Meta Narrative Judo: He took the #whistleblower story, pretended it didn’t exist, then reframed it as a criminal conspiracy about Biden. Pompeo’s knee-deep in this. The State Dept reportedly facilitated or coordinated Giuliani’s #Ukraine mission.#AMJoy
Pompeo not only peddled Trump’s disinformation about Biden-Ukraine. He slipped in another false claim, connecting Biden to 2016 election interference. A kitchen-sink of propaganda tactics—obfuscation, conflation, gaslighting—on @ThisWeekABC @MarthaRaddatz
@ThisWeekABC @MarthaRaddatz See what Pompeo did there?
"If Biden intervened [in Ukraine] to protect his son in a corrupt way, we need to get to the bottom… AMERICANS CANNOT HAVE OUR ELECTIONS INTERFERED WITH…If that kind of activity was engaged in by VP Biden, we need to know."
#Disinformation #Propaganda
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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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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🚨BREAKING: #Whistleblower complaint is released, showing that @realDonaldTrump and his cronies–Rudy Giuliani and AG Bill Barr–abused the power of his office to EXTORT #Ukraine.

And then they tried to COVER IT UP.🤬

{THREAD}

#Ukrainegate
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@realDonaldTrump Here's a link to the FULL #whistleblower complaint.

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Greg Olear
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Impeachment Now! Yes, by all means. But the House IS impeaching now. What we really want is for Nancy Pelosi, in no uncertain terms, to stop dickering around and tell us so. Let’s take a closer look:

[THREAD]
1/ Pelosi, Nadler, and Schiff have all been dancing around the i-word for months. And while I wish they would have been more blunt, there have to be good reasons for the “soft opening” of the impeachment process.
2/ Maybe House Leadership feared that an older woman spearheading the process with Javert-like alacrity might not play well in the grotesquely misogynist media, which STILL gives cover to the obvious traitor & criminal in the White House. Can't be shrill, after all.
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Greg Olear
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The #Whistleblower could well blow the lid off three-plus years of Trump/Russia shenanigans and expose Trump as the traitor he is, for all the world to see.

Let’s break it down:

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1/ Per reports, the whistleblower reported on a “promise” Trump made to a “foreign leader” on the phone. The only foreign leader of consequence Trump spoke to on the phone in the relevant timeframe is—mirabile dictu—Vladimir Putin.
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Maya Wiley
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Congress & White House have a history of fighting abt what classified material Congress can have on demand. In this case, a fed’l law says that a #whistleblower complaint that the Inspector Gen’l finds “urgent” be sent to Congress Intel Committees. So what is “urgent”?
The federal law defines “urgent” as “A serious or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of law or Executive order,..., or operations of an intelligence activity involving #classified information...” among other things. This appears to be the relevant part of the #whistleblower story
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The prosecutor #Biden got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm #Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member. thehill.com/opinion/white-…
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