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Wow.

At same time Trump has been saying his efforts on Ukraine were to combat corruption...

The plot to oust US Ambassador Yovanovitch was led by the highly corrupt prosecutor Lutsenko—because she was stymying his corruption. And the President of the United States obliged him.
"[Lutsenko's] incentive to help was to take out the ambassador," said a former senior diplomat with experience in the region. "He was angry at criticism from the U.S. embassy over the slow pace of reform in the justice sector."

"There was this personal payback dimension."
One quibble/query. Story states:

“In his July call with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy, Trump praised Lutsenko and lamented that he was on his way out.”

Call transcript is ambiguous as to whether Trump is talking about Shokin/Lutsenko.

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Ryan Goodman
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Not only is Graham's watered-down resolution a sign of weakness for Trump (@GrahamDavidA's analysis👇)

I'm old enough to remember Graham saying he'd get Republicans to sign a letter to Pelosi saying call was not impeachable offense

Can't get signatories?
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@GrahamDavidA Oct 9: Graham on Fox News said he was going to ask Senate GOP to sign letter to Pelosi saying "do not believe the transcript of the phone call between the president and the Ukraine is an impeachable offense."

Then: GOP warned Graham it could backfire due to lack of GOP support.
@GrahamDavidA @politicalwire @joshtpm @ckmarie @shearm @AaronBlake Might be nice for reporters covering the Graham resolution to include this context.

His effort at statements directed at the House began with a promised letter on the substance of the impeachment allegations that melted away due to lack of Senate Republican support.
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Ryan Goodman
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Solomon publishes Biden-Ukraine hoax, diGenova&Toensing promote on Fox's Hannity

diGenova&Toensing represent Firtash, Solomon reports Firtash hoaxes

Now guess what Solomon, diGenova, Toensing failed to tell their audiences?👇

Fox News, The Hill also have some explaining to do
+ this from @NatashaBertrand @dsamuelsohn

"Solomon also wrote extensively about the Uranium One...
In October 2017, Solomon was the first to report on an informant who accused former secretary of state Hillary Clinton ... an informant being represented at the time by Toensing."
@NatashaBertrand @dsamuelsohn Sept 26 episode of Hannity.

First guest: Solomon discusses his report on Shokin affidavit (Firtash disinformation)

Hannity: "Here with reaction..."

Next guests: DiGenova and Toensing

DiGenova: "Unfortunately for [Democrats], John Solomon and the work that he's done..."
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Ryan Goodman
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Simply put, this👇blows a hole in the one remaining (and weak) defense by the White House.

"It means that the Ukrainian government was aware of the freeze during most of the period in August when [Giuliani, Sondland, Volker] were pressing" Zelensky on Biden investigation.
Plus of course the Ukrainians "WERE told in September that it [military aid] was linked to the demand for the investigations." (same NYT report)

Confirmed by Taylor's testimony that Sondland delivered this message to Zelensky and Yermak

Corroborated by WSJ's report on Sept 24👇
@rebeccaballhaus @AndrewRestuccia @siobhanehughes On significance of NYT report:

Taylor's testimony: Sondland's Warsaw meeting (no specific date) relayed the QPQ to Yermak

WSJ report: Ukrainian officials knew of QPQ in Sept

NYT @AndrewKramerNYT @kenvogel: Ukraine officials knew of aid suspension "by the first week in August"
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Dannielle Blumenthal PhD
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So are you sick of this fake Ukraine whistleblower story yet?

Don't worry!

There's more!
This person made a whole timeline. You can view it in Google Sheets format here. (I converted it and it's rough. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…)
Posting the link again. It should be working.
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David Pepper
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1/30

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Today, the Ohio Democratic Party released an updated timeline of @senrobportman 's intense involvement in the Ukraine crisis that is now the center of the impeachment inquiry.
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The bottom line is that as chair of the Ukraine Caucus, Portman didn’t only have a front row seat to the entire ordeal — it appears that he was directly engaged with all sides of what was a deeply problematic conversation as that conversation occurred.
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Portman owes Ohioans and all Americans a full and transparent account of what he knew, when he knew it and what steps he took once it became clear what Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani were up to.
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Why aren't Americans taking about the foreign influence in the US government that continues to send our men and woman to fight immoral wars?

#Trump when he campaigned for president, before he decided to let Adelson fund his campain!

Adelson was one of the biggest donors to Trumps presidential campain. Adelsons company saved 670 million dollars from the massive republican tax break. Adelson did not support the Iran deal & wanted the US embassy moved to Jerusalem.

Adelson has a direct line to #potus!

Adelson has private in-person meetings & phone conversations about once a month with #Trump!

Adelson used his access to move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and cut aid to Palestinians.

nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/…

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Paula Chertok🗽
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😨Ex CIA Bob Baer suggests the “urgent credible threat” in the whistleblower complaint (that DNI won’t give Congress) ”usually” has something to do w/ someone in White House setting up an illegal backchannel to a foreign govt, or some sort of corruption, discovered by CIA or NSA.
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In the weeks before the “urgent & credible” whistleblower complaint about Trump’s “promise” to a foreign leader, he had interactions with:
1) Russia’s Putin that WH initiated
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MissMAGA2016
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#Trump said his Russian business efforts, including during the campaign were "Very legal" and "VERY COOL."

HAHAHAH....yep, I sure do agree with that. Very cool, indeed.

Of course, most of the media have no clue, though some of them do, b/c some have reported the truth.
Well, sommanab*tch! The link I saved from one of the media outlets that knew ...now seems to be gone. Of course I couldn't archive it because it was WaPo. They wouldn't let me archive it.
Well, here's another one, by Buzzfeed, no less. They KNEW that Trump worked WITH the FBI, yet they participated in the conspiracy against him to frame him as the guilty one.

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