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🚨John Bolton told Fiona Hill to alert the National Security Council’s top lawyer about a rogue effort by Gordon Sondland, Rudy Giuliani & Mick Mulvaney to pressure #Ukraine.

“I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland & Mulvaney are cooking up.”
nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/…
Hill testified that Bolton previously expressed grave concerns about the rogue effort to pressure #Ukraine being run by Giuliani: “Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.”🔥
🔥At a July 10 meeting w/Sondland, Volker, Rick Perry, and 2 Ukrainians, Bolton tried not to commit to a Trump/Zelensky meeting. Sondland got agitated b/c there was an agreement w/Mulvaney that there would be a meeting if #Ukraine opened up the investigations the WH was seeking.
(Zelensky is #Ukraine’s newly elected president.)
Something tells me that @realDonaldTrump is going to regret ever hiring John Bolton....quite the plot twist!😎

#Ukrainegate

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Dr. Dena Grayson
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⁉️WHAT⁉️

@SenatorWicker’s office says after 18 mo it has gotten NO answer from DOJ on why Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash—who bankrolled Paul Manafort & Giuliani’s #Ukrainegate henchmen—has not been extradited to the US to face federal #bribery charges.
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In June, #Austria approved the extradition of Firtash, who has been living there since his 2014 arrest.

Wicker wrote then-AG Sessions in Apr’2018 about Firtash, alleging that Firtash—ties to the #Russian🇷🇺mob—had made "hundreds of millions" in "illicit profits.”

#Ukrainegate
What does @SenatorWicker think about Firtash—whom Wicker correctly noted has close ties with the #Russian🇷🇺mob—bankrolling @realDonaldTrump’s and Giuliani’s #Ukrainegate henchmen⁉️

#ComplicitGOP

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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🚨BREAKING: @RudyGiuliani is in a world of hurt. Federal prosecutors are probing Rudy’s business dealings in #Ukraine, including his finances, meetings and work for a city mayor, and have examined his bank records.😎

👋🏼Bye, Rudy.

#Ukrainegate #Corruption
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🔥Witnesses have been questioned by investigators about Rudy *since at least August*, who also are probing Rudy's role in an alleged #conspiracy involving his 2 #Ukrainegate henchmen, who were charged with funneling ILLEGAL #Russian🇷🇺money into Trump and @GOP coffers.🤬
The #MuellerReport—released publicly in mid-April—noted that 14 criminal cases were farmed out to other DOJ groups.

12 of these 14 cases were redacted (only Cohen and Greg Craig were disclosed).

Was Rudy one of the 12 REDACTED cases?🤔

#Ukrainegate
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🚨BREAKING: Gordon Sondland intends to testify that the text he wrote denying a quid pro quo with #Ukraine was relayed to him directly by @realDonaldTrump in a call: “It’s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth.”🔥

#Ukrainegate
washingtonpost.com/world/national…
After acting ambassador to #Ukraine Bill Taylor texted Sondland/ “I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign,” Sondland called @realDonaldTrump, who told Sondland he didn’t “want a quid pro quo…didn’t want anything from #Ukraine.”🔥
Sondland appears to be throwing TRUMP under the bus, basically saying that he took Trump at his word that there wasn’t a quid pro quo with #Ukraine.🧐

#Ukrainegate #Corruption #ImpeachTrump

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Ryan Goodman
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What #Sondland OMITS from Opening Statement shows how extra-damning this is likely to get

Omissions:

1. Major media (including two NYT blockbusters) in May reported Giuliani pressure on Ukraine for Burisma-BIDEN probe

(Sondland can't credibly claim not knowing)

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2. Sondland opening remarks omits:

Content of July 10 meeting: Sondland personally pressed Ukrainians to investigate past cases, understood by US officials at Burisma-Biden (freaked out Bolton and Fiona Hill)

(Advice: believe Fiona Hill's testimony on this)
3. Sondland omits:

July 25: Mulvaney arranged for Sondland to prep Trump behind Bolton's back before call with Zelensky.

Note: prior version of WaPo story "indicated otherwise based on info provided by a person familiar with Sondland’s planned testimony"

Did he plan to lie?
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ProfHelen
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Yesterday’s’ testimony was explosive.

Many of you no longer read The NY Times, so I’ll make a thread for the most explosive part

July 10 meeting in Mr. Bolton’s office included Sondland; Volker, the special envoy for Ukraine; Rick Perry, & two
Ukrainian officials.

#Fiona
The purpose of the meeting was to talk about technical assistance to Ukraine’s national security council. The Ukrainians were eager to set up a meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Zelensky,

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#Fiona
Bolton was trying to not commit to a meeting, according to Ms. Hill’s testimony. Mr. Sondland got agitated, & let out that there was an agreement with Mr. Mulvaney that there would be a meeting if Ukraine opened up the investigations the White House was seeking.
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Alice Stollmeyer
@StollmeyerEU
Based on docs & interviews with over 24 (!) US officials:

How @USAmbEU #Sondland seized control of Ukraine portfolio to help Trump:

Force Ukraine to forge kompromat on Biden.

Crimes: extortion, abuse of power & election interference

msn.com/en-us/news/pol… #Giuliani #Manafort
@USAmbEU Ambassador #Sondland’s predecessor, @TonyLGardner:

[Sondland's] special assignment to Ukraine is “extremely unusual,’’ since it has little to do with the EU. 🤔

And Sondland's own colleagues are 'not aware' of the scope of his activities in Ukraine. 🤔

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About the #QuidProQuo:

$400 million in aid

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Windthin ~ Savage Rebel Scum & Snark Jedi🇵🇷🌊
@windthin
1/16 It has begun. The GOP is spinning that the sole transcript Trump says he will release is more important than the #WhistleblowerComplaint as a tactic to insist everything should ride on this one supposed piece of evidence.

#ImpeachTrump #ImpeachmentParty #UkraineTranscript
2/16 All reports indicate this was a months-long conspiracy Trump and Giuliani were engaged in, subverting & bypassing officials who tried to stop them.

A single call does not BEGIN to give an accurate depiction of the events that lead up to this. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
3/16 And Trump already has a shady history with releasing information.

Forget the obvious like his tax returns, school grades, and secret meetings with Putin.

Actually, a reminder of those secret meetings:
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