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🔥BREAKING: Bill Taylor, the senior US diplomat in #Ukraine, gave “damning” testimony before @HouseDemocrats about @realDonaldTrump's quid pro quo when he held up military aid to #Ukraine in exchange for help investigating political rivals.🤬

#Ukrainegate
washingtonpost.com/powerpost/dipl…
@HouseDemocrats @realDonaldTrump Taylor exchanged texts with Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker in which he called it “crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign” and a “nightmare scenario.”🔥

Taylor wisely left an electronic trail.😎

#Ukrainegate #QuidProQuo #ImpeachTrump
“His (Taylor’s) memory and recollection seem to be a lot better than Ambassador Sondland’s,” said @RepBera.

That’s the difference between telling the WHOLE TRUTH versus trying to taking part in a #coverup.🤬

#Ukrainegate #ImpeachTrump
🚨Taylor told @HouseDemocrats that @realDonaldTrump held up security aid & refused a WH meeting with #Ukraine’s leader until he agreed to investigate Trump’s political rivals, *drawing a DIRECT LINE* between US foreign policy and Trump’s political goals.🔥
nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/…
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🔥QUID PRO QUO🔥

At least 3 officials—Bill Taylor, Fiona Hill, Gordon Sondland—told @HouseDemocrats: a WH visit for #Ukraine’s president was explicitly conditioned on his agreeing to investigations that could help Trump’s re-election.

#Ukrainegate
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🚨When Trump sycophant Gordon Sondland was asked point blank, under oath, whether that constituted a "quid pro quo," even he did not dispute it.

👋🏼Hello, @GOP. Got your #QuidProQuo right here!

#Ukrainegate @SpeakerPelosi @RepAdamSchiff @tedlieu
After ~65 hours of testimony — along with public comments from Trump and his cronies — a “portrait is emerging of a #QuidProQuo that evolved over time, with Trump **progressively upping the ante when his demands were not met**.”

What a baby.🙄

#Ukrainegate
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Dr. Dena Grayson
@DrDenaGrayson
🚨BREAKING: in late August, the WH trade rep withdrew a recommendation to restore some trade privileges to #Ukraine after John Bolton warned that Trump likely would oppose any act that benefited #Ukraine.

BOLTON must testify‼️

#Ukrainegate @RepAdamSchiff
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🔥This abrupt reversal on #Ukraine trade occurred in the SAME time frame that Trump and his cronies withheld $391,000,000 of aid to #Ukraine to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.

It is not clear if Trump directed Bolton to intervene or was even aware.🧐
Bolton’s intervention came as ”Trump was telling WH aides that any assistance for #Ukraine depended upon (its president) publicly stating that his government would investigate Hunter Biden’s role as a board member of...Burisma,” according to Ambassador Bill Taylor’s testimony.🔥
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Dr. Dena Grayson
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🚨BREAKING: @HouseDemocrats are investigating @DevinNunes’ lackey—Kash Patel—a former @GOP staffer on @HouseIntel who now works on the National Security Council. Kash is suspected of back channeling #Ukraine documents to @realDonaldTrump.🤬

#Ukrainegate
nytimes.com/2019/10/23/us/…
Fiona Hill—NSC’s former top expert on #Russian🇷🇺affairs—testified to @HouseDemocrats last week that she believed Nunes’ lackey Patel was improperly getting involved in #Ukraine policy and was back channeling information to Trump.🧐

#Ukrainegate #Coverup @thespybrief
Hill “grew alarmed” when the WH executive secretary’s office told her that Trump wanted to talk to Patel & identified him as the NSC’s “#Ukraine director,” a position held by one of Hill’s deputies. Trump wanted to meet with Patel “about documents he had received on Ukraine.”🔥
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Manu Raju
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#BREAKING: In opening statement we obtained, Gordon Sondland will testify that Trump put on hold effort to strengthen relations with Ukraine until top US officials were in contact with Giuliani, who had been pursuing investigation into the Bidens and 2016 elections. On @CNN now
“Based on the President's direction ... We could abandon the goal of a White House meeting for President Zelensky, which we all believed was crucial .. or we could do as President Trump directed and talk to Mr. Giuliani to address the President's concerns” cnn.com/2019/10/17/pol…
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Gayle J. Greenlea
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The #Ukraine call is enough to impeach Trump. His refusal to respond to House subpoenas makes #impeachment even more likely. Despite Democrats’ strategy to keep the impeachment inquiry simple, the House should subpoena the transcript of Trump’s call w/ #Erdogan.
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Evan McMurry
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BREAKING: Bill Taylor, top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, wrote that he thought it’s “crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign” in newly disclosed text messages shared with lawmakers. abcn.ws/2Mh4aSu via @KFaulders @cjf39
@KFaulders @cjf39 MORE: The text messages, which were obtained by @ABC News, were shared by Volker during a closed door deposition before multiple House committees this morning. abcn.ws/34Y91jX
MORE: The U.S. Ambassador to the E.U. responded that the charge is "incorrect," insisting Pres. Trump has been “crystal clear no quid pro quo of any kind.” abcn.ws/34Y91jX
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David Pepper
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1/30

THREAD

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.
@senrobportman 2/30

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.
@senrobportman 3/30

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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Jim Hanson
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The wrong answers about the impeachment insanity are in the article. Worth reading to know the false premises & arguments
BUT
The reasons none of them stand up to reality are in this thread

politico.com/news/2019/09/2…
1. Trump asked #Ukraine to dig up dirt on political rivals

Reality- As evidenced in the transcript Trump asked them to investigate election interference & potential corruption by #BidenCorruption
&
We have a treaty for such requests
Which he followed
congress.gov/treaty-documen…
Bill Clinton signed this agreement and it calls for the US to ask Ukraine to work with our Attorney General when issues of potential criminality are identified.

The fact that some of those identified as potential criminals are political rivals of Trump is not relevant
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