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Pompeo calling the House requests for Ukraine docs 'intimidation' isn't just a stall tactic, his arrogance I think, insinuates something more. They're into something deep & bad, & we may be in over our heads. Another BIG story here.. #TuesdayTruths nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/…
2-And this, Grassley's remarks are really important, he contradicts himself here..don't think that the moderate GOP are just going along with this, they also don't comp understand what's actually happening. "The president’s remarks appeared to prompt a forceful, if not explicit,
3-"warning on Tuesday from a senior member of his own party. Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior-most Senate Republican and a longtime champion of whistle-blower laws, said the government and the media “should always work to respect whistle-blowers’ requests for
4-"confidentiality.” He did not explicitly mention Mr. Trump. “No one should be making judgments or pronouncements without hearing from the whistle-blower first and carefully following up on the facts,” Mr. Grassley said in a written statement from Iowa." ~NYT
5-And this statement shows us that while Grassley is a huge proponent of WB laws, he's also telling Trump to STOP: "“Complaints based on secondhand information should not be rejected out of hand, but they do require additional leg work to get at the facts
6-"and evaluate the claim’s credibility,” Mr. Grassley said."
Grassley, like McConnell with the unanimous Sen res to release the complaint, is sending Trump a POWERFUL message. The moderate GOP can not stand for this & get reelected. Period.
Grassley, like McConnell with the unanimous Sen res to release the complaint, is sending Trump a POWERFUL message. The moderate GOP can not stand for this & get reelected. Period.
