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Barr has prompted backlash in Australia, Italy, and the UK [our allies!] by meeting directly with foreign leaders and personally asking for help with his 'review' of Russia-probe origins—rather than relying on investigator-to-investigator channels.
#Maddow on.wsj.com/2pSkPnN
Barr’s personal requests have irked counterintelligence officials and foreign intelligence officials expressed annoyance that the US Justice Dept was going around them to talk to political leaders.

“This could put the Five Eyes relationship in jeopardy.”
Barr is a "one-man wrecking ball to our allies."
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Polly Sigh
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BREAKING: As Trump bullied Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden, Trump donors Parnas, Fruman, and Sargeant – associates of Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani – were hatching a plan to profit from Ukraine’s state-run natural gas company. apnews.com/d7440cffba4940…
Sargeant, who donated $100K in Jun to the Trump Victory Fund, told a senior exec at Ukraine’s state-run gas company that he regularly meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and that the gas-sales plan had Trump’s full support [because he's getting a cut?].
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A former business partner of Favorov [senior exec at Ukraine’s state-run gas company, Naftogaz] said that Favorov described his meeting with Sargeant, Fruman, and Parnas to him soon after it happened and that Favorov perceived it to be a shakedown.
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Polly Sigh
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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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Polly Sigh
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BREAKING: 2nd intelligence official – with more direct information about the events than the first whistleblower – was also alarmed by Trump’s dealings with Ukraine and is weighing whether to file his own formal complaint and testify to Congress.
#Maddow nyti.ms/2Ioax5e
The second official is among those interviewed by the intelligence community IG to corroborate the allegations of the 1st whistleblower and is closer to the events which ultimately touched off an impeachment inquiry.
by @nytmike @adamgoldmanNYT #Maddow
@nytmike @adamgoldmanNYT BREAKING: @MarkSZaidEsq, who represents the whistleblower who sounded the alarm on Trump's dealings with Ukraine and triggered an impeachment inquiry, is now representing a second whistleblower who has *first-hand* knowledge of events and has spoken the IG.abcn.ws/2p1weRx
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💣 Naftogaz💣

Their aims were profit, not politics.

This circle of businessmen & GOP touted connex to Giuliani & Trump while trying to install new mgmt at the top of Naftogaz.

Their plan was to then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies.
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