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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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Ryan Goodman
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GOP Staff Memo, Nov. 12, 2019: Ukraine did not know of aid suspension on the July 25 call

Lev Parnas: At the direction of Giuliani, I told Ukrainians in May 2019 if they did not investigate Biden, Trump would freeze military aid

nytimes.com/2019/11/10/nyr…
2. "Mr. Parnas’s lawyer, Joseph A. Bondy, said the message to the Ukrainians was given at the direction of Mr. Giuliani, whom Mr. Parnas believed was acting under Mr. Trump’s instruction."
3. I never understood how these two lines work together in NYT:

Ukrainian “Shefir…said they had not raised the issue of military aid”

“The statement from Mr. Shefir...did not directly address Mr. Parnas’s claims that he had delivered an ultimatum about American aid in general”
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This report is bit confusing to me.

Bolton would testify if district court holds against McGahn?

What if McGahn appeals (up to Supreme Court)?

If Supreme Court rules against McGahn, that’s not ‘defying White House’ to wait until then to testify.

cc: @jonathanvswan
WaPo also says if House were to subpoena Bolton, he’d go to court. Wouldn’t he then appeal if district court ruled he should/could testify?

Post also says: “the court battle over congressional subpoenas will probably go to the Supreme Court and spill into next year.”

So...
So ... I don’t get how this supports opening paragraph saying:

“Bolton is willing to defy the White House and testify in the House impeachment inquiry about his alarm at the Ukraine pressure campaign if A FEDERAL COURT clears the way.”

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Ryan Goodman
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Patriot

“A decorated Iraq war veteran plans to tell House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he heard President Trump appeal to Ukraine’s president to investigate one of his leading political rival...so damaging to American interests that he reported it to a superior” NYT
1. Lieutenant Colonel Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, TWICE registered internal objections

2. Sounds like Vindman has documents to back up his claims:

“According to documents reviewed by The Times on the eve of his congressional testimony...”
3. Sondland is dead in the water.

Vindman’s prepared testimony:

“Ambassador Sondland emphasized the importance that Ukraine deliver the investigations into the 2016 election, the Bidens and Burisma.”

Corroborates Fiona Hill and Bill Taylor testimony.
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House Dems are really scraping bottom with this latest release.

Bill Taylor who never ever spoke with Trump, or Rudy, or Mulvaney but met with Schiff staffers & then testified he based his opinion of Trump's intentions based on an article in the NY Times. What a load of crap.
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Don't forget Taylor met with Schiff's staff in August after the whistleleaker met with Schiff's staff. His "I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance or help with a political campaign" text to Sondland was September 9th, after he met with Schiff's staff.
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New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

"No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”

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NYT - Hunter Biden was warned by associates who had experience in Ukraine to stay away from Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings, who had worked in the government of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/…
Zlochevsky faced multiple internal/external investigations for money laundering, Yanukovych-era corruption, tax evasion and the granting of gas licenses.

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