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@4st8 We need to contrast the #impeachment response between *centrist* PA Congressmen Conor Lamb (D-#PA17) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-#PA01), here together recently burnishing their independent, bipartisan cred during #OnePA district swaps
@4st8 Both are lawyers (Lamb former Assistant US Atty & Fitzpatrick former Special Assistant US Atty), highly capable of evaluating the emerging evidence in the #TrumpUkraineScandal...
@4st8 But @RepBrianFitz has an additional unique area of expertise in his backbround which should bring his opinion into sharp focus: he was there. #Kyiv 2015
@4st8 @RepBrianFitz Being a former FBI national supervisor for their Political Corruption Unit is a big part of Fitzpatrick's biography, & is the reason why he was tasked with assisting Ukraine's govt anticorruption work in 2015-- he could speak loudly about what he saw 1st person there in Kyiv...
@4st8 @RepBrianFitz But he isn't. 🤔 This could give him extra impetus to scrutinize the necessity for #ImpeachmentHearings, but it isn't.
@4st8 @RepBrianFitz The reporter for @TheIntellNews/@CourierTimes could not get direct quotes from Fitzpatrick on this astonishing 1st hand knowledge the Congressman had as an observer and player in #Kyiv on US govt service. It only came from his staff, by email.
@4st8 @RepBrianFitz @TheIntellNews @CourierTimes The reporter also found, independently, another person who was there with Fitzpatrick in Kyiv 2015 to corroborate what they observed, and to fill in some of the blanks left open by the Congressman & his staff.
@4st8 @RepBrianFitz @TheIntellNews @CourierTimes Congressman Fitzpatrick is a very reluctant witness to what he saw in Kyiv 2015; there is nothing yet on his twitter page regarding this major local reporting, indicating Trump and his personal lawyer Giuliani are manufacturing lies concerning events in Ukraine.
@4st8 @RepBrianFitz @TheIntellNews @CourierTimes And unlike with @RepConorLamb, for @RepBrianFitz there is still not a reason or enough evidence to pursue impeachment.
