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🔥Yet another quid pro quo & foreign interference >> #Firtash associates were working to dig up dirt on Biden in an effort to get Rudy #Giuliani’s help in the oligarch’s legal case fighting extradition to US on bribery charges. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… #UkraineGate #Impeachment
Around the time #Firtash hired Joe diGenova & Victoria Toensing—vocal Trump supporters, FoxNews regulars & #Giuliani cohorts—Firtash’s associates began to use his broad network of Ukraine contacts to get damaging information on Biden. #UkraineGate #ImpeachmentInquiry
If Firtash’s legal maneuvering—hiring pro-Trump FoxNews lawyers & working with Giuliani’s guys to help Trump—actually gets him off federal racketeering charges, we’ll know criminal mobsters really do own our Justice Dept. Barr’s stain on DOJ may be even greater than Trump’s on WH
How easy it is to grease Trumpworld: Firtash paid DiGenova & Toensing $1 million for their work–which only started in July! That includes paying Giuliani pal Parnas as “a translator (like Firtash needed a translator??) and important contact.” Important b/c Rudy/Trump/Barr nexus.
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Gaslighting & Theater. That's the Republicans. Today's stunt: Trump propagandists stormed the impeachment inquiry. Just like w/ Russia investigation, they can’t dispute damning facts. So they reframe them, play language games, act outraged, as they smear investigators & process.
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💥Top Diplomat in Ukraine Testifies to Direct Link Between Military Aid & Investigations. Amb Taylor described the quid pro quo “in excruciating detail”—Trump held aid & refused WH meeting til Zelensky opened investigations into Dem rivals. #Impeachment nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/…
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1. Ukraine is a strategic partner of the US, important for our national security & Europe's.
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#Russia is about to carve up #Syria. Watch an almost giddy #Putin welcome #Erdogan to Moscow today. He does that hand hug thing, putting his other hand on their very warm handshake, and says what I think is “you bring good weather.” They chuckle.
What a difference a few days make when America is compromised by a corrupt & incompetent dictator wannabe POTUS. Compare Putin-Erdogan handshake in Russia to Pence-Erdogan handshake in Turkey. It's hard to even grasp what hell Trump has unleashed on the Kurds, Syria, & the world.
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