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"[Taylor] told House impeachment investigators ... of intense efforts by administration officials to secure investigations of Trump’s political rivals (QUID) in exchange for a White House meeting with Ukraine’s president and critical military aid. (QUO)"

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"Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.), a senior member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, characterized the testimony as a 'sea change' that 'could accelerate' the impeachment inquiry."
"Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski of New Jersey, said it was 'the most thorough accounting we’ve had of the timeline.' "
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Tami Burages
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Do you want to have an impact on the votes of Senators Mitt Romney, Mike Lee and/or Mike Crapo after Trump's Senate trial?

Place the below image on their timelines. Send it to them as postcards en masse.

(No attribution to me is required/wanted) 1/2
President Oaks is a constitutional scholar and the 2nd highest ranking individual in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the "Mormons"). These senators probably have a picture of him on a wall in their homes.

This statement will mean a great deal to them. 2/2
It doesn't matter what you think of the LDS church. But please understand that the three Mormon senators will hold this statement in high regard.
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Tami Burages
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Some hope. Maybe.

@carloslcurbelo to @AriMelber about what he has personally heard Republican senators are saying in private about Trump's abuses of power:

"There's a lot of introspection going on in the Senate right now, specifically in the Senate Republican Caucus." 1/4
"There's a significant group of Republican senators who understand the gravity of this. They understand that this isn't just about one man, Donald Trump. This is about the institutions that keep people free and safe and gave us the greatest country in the world." 2/4
"My family fled a country where the institutions broke down and they lost everything, so I'm particularly sensitive to this, and thankfully, there are many Republicans who are as well. They're not yet speaking out. Some are. Very few." 3/4
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Tami Burages
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This seems problematic for Gordon Sondland.

Bill Taylor said Sondland told him security assistance was dependent on Zelenskyy making an announcement about "investigations." 1/4
Notice Sondland's couched, careful phrasing in his testimony, which could have been technically correct, but was meant to deceive Congress into believing he didn't have these conversations with the White House about withholding security assistance. 2/4
Bill Taylor stated that Trump and Sondland had a phone call specifically about investigating the BIDENS and that Tim Morrison (Fiona Hill's replacement) told him about it. 3/4
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Polly Sigh
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FYI, Bill TAYLOR, who texted Sondland: "Are we now saying security aid and WH meetings are conditioned on investigations?"

––> Is the same then-Amb to Ukraine Bill TAYLOR who in 2008 uncovered Dmytro Firtash's ties to Russian mob boss Semyon Mogilevich.
“In my 10 short months in Congress—it’s not even noon—and this is my most disturbing day in Congress so far. Very troubling.” -Rep Andy Levin, as he left Bill Taylor’s "alarming" deposition this morning.
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Dr. Jennifer Mercieca
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Me, just now to a reporter: "The news cycle yesterday was grim for Trump: 129 Republicans in Congress joined the Democrats in condemning Trump's policy on Syria; Americans learned that there are 50 nuclear weapons in Turkey; Trump's personal lawyer is under investigation;"
"and former administration officials are testifying in Congress. Trump tried to provide a positive news distraction by arranging a meeting between grieving British parents and American diplomat's wife who is accused of vehicular manslaughter--that failed miserably."
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Let’s do a rundown of the indictment of Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, which stemmed from our July 2018 FEC complaint.

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DOJ is charging Fruman and Parnas with conspiring to violate campaign finance law’s straw donor ban and foreign national contribution ban.

And they were charged with two counts of lying to the FEC when responding to the allegations in our complaint.
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Let's break it down.

Count one: conspiracy to violate the "straw donor" ban, 52 USC 30122, which bars a person from making contributions in the name of another person.
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Here’s a timeline of Trump’s Ukraine scandal. It’s damning.

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Susan Simpson
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What Giuliani and the State Department are now doing in advance of the 2020 election is worse than the made-up stuff Trump falsely claimed was done by the DNC and the "deep state" during the 2016 election.
Trump's personal attorney is telling foreign governments that if they don't launch investigations into Trump's political rivals, they will "piss off" the U.S. president, so they better "make the right decision."
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