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NEW: Encrypted text messages show Volker and US Officials Gordon Sondland and Bill Taylor arguing last month over whether Trump was engaged in a quid pro quo as he pressed Ukraine to investigate the Bidens while withholding US aid.
HT @riotwomennn fxn.ws/32Xs63O #FoxNews
@riotwomennn "As I said on the phone, I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign," Bill Taylor [US Embassy in Ukraine] said in a text to US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland [who donated $1M to Trump's inaugural].
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@riotwomennn .@ChrisMurphyCT: "Bill Taylor is a West Point grad, Vietnam vet, career public servant, and our chief diplomat in Ukraine and an expert on the country.

If Taylor believes the aid [to Ukraine] was withheld to get the interference, that’s big news."
#Maddow
@riotwomennn @ChrisMurphyCT "It's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign," Bill Taylor, top US diplomat to Ukraine argued last month in a text to Gordon Sondland [who donated $1M to Trump's inaugural before Trump nominated him to an ambassadorship].
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When people asked why Gordon Sondland, who had no qualifications as a diplomat beyond the $1M he’d given to Trump’s inaugural, was charge of Ukraine relations, he answered with two words:

“The president.
@gregpmiller @PaulSonne @GregJaffe @michaelbirnbaum wapo.st/2LLqhkE?tid=ss…
@gregpmiller @PaulSonne @GregJaffe @michaelbirnbaum This is a long piece bit so worth the read. Gordon Sondland is real piece of work – in the worst way possible.
@gregpmiller @PaulSonne @GregJaffe @michaelbirnbaum On July 21, Taylor voiced concerns about Ukraine being treated as a pawn in US “reelection politics.”

Sondland said that Taylor was failing to recognize how bending to Trump’s demands was the only path to improving the countries’ fraught relationship. Wow.
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NEW: Weeks before the complaint became public, CIA's top lawyer made criminal referral to DOJ on the whistleblower's allegations about Trump's abuse of power, raising questions about why DOJ didn't open an inquiry.
by @KenDilanianNBC @JuliaEAinsley #Maddow nbcnews.to/2Io2o0A
@KenDilanianNBC @JuliaEAinsley The move by CIA's general counsel, a Trump appointee, meant she and other senior officials concluded a potential crime had been committed by Trump, raising questions about why DOJ closed the case without conducting an investigation.

Because, Barr.
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@KenDilanianNBC @JuliaEAinsley NSC lawyers [whose chief legal adviser is John Eisenberg] directed WH officials to move Trump's Ukraine call transcript to the high security server.

It was also Eisenberg who alerted the DOJ about the whistleblower complaint [in which he was implicated].
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Polly Sigh
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NEW!! GOP Sen Ron Johnson said Trump ambassador Gordon Sondland told him in Aug that the status of the aid to Ukraine was tied to Trump's desire to have Kyiv investigate matters related to the 2016 US elections.
by @rebeccaballhaus @siobhanehughes #Maddow wsj.com/articles/trump…
@rebeccaballhaus @siobhanehughes 9 days later, Sondland denies any quid pro quo.

Taylor: “It’s crazy to withhold security aid for help with a political campaign.”

Sondland: “[Trump] has been crystal clear no quid pro quo’s of any kind. … I suggest we stop the back and forth by text."
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Assume this is a response to texts, probably provided by Volker, that show US ambassador raised concerns of a quid pro quo in September — a big boost for Democrats’ case. (abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-d…) Curious to find out why they think Volker’s testimony helps Trump.
This from NYT probably explains why GOP wants Kurt Volker's transcript released: nytimes.com/2019/10/03/us/…
Bill Taylor is the US diplomat whose texts raised concerns of a quid pro quo over US aid. According to Volker, Taylor "concluded that the assistance was linked to Mr. Trump’s desire for new investigations in Ukraine based on news reports" -- not presumably, based on secret info.
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NEW: A letter sent to Ukraine's president, signed by three GOP senators, in February 2016 urged changes in the prosecutor general's office.

The letter shows there was bi-partisan support for it at the time, undermining Trump's claims of a quid pro quo.
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Viktor Shokin, who Trump and his allies have claimed was pressured to be fired by Biden to protect his son, was the prosecutor general at the time.

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The letter as signed by members of the bi-partisan Ukraine Caucus, including three Republicans and five Democrats. It read, "We similarly urge you to press ahead with urgent reforms to the Prosecutor General's Office and judiciary."

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