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NEW: There's a missing piece in the puzzle of Trump's decision to freeze military aid to Ukraine

Only Mulvaney and a tiny cadre of allies can fill in the blank. They're fighting like hell not to testify

A look at the missing link w/ @AndrewDesiderio

politico.com/news/2019/11/0…
@AndrewDesiderio The missing piece became clear across five witness transcripts:

The senior-most levels of the State Dept, Pentagon and NSC were never given any explanation for the hold on military aid.

And desperate efforts to get an explanation hit a wall at OMB. politico.com/news/2019/11/0…
@AndrewDesiderio Mulvaney, top adviser Rob Blair and four senior OMB aides — Russ Vought, Michael Duffey, Brian McCormack and Mark Sandy — refused to appear for depositions.

OMB is the only agency involved in these events where not a single official has talked. politico.com/news/2019/11/0…
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Kyle Cheney
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???: This is wild.

As many have pointed out, the first letter in each of the top 23 tweets on @RepGosar's account spell "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself."
@RepGosar The 23 tweets were about today's impeachment hearing. But that's beside the point.
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Kyle Cheney
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WOW: Mid-hearing impeachment inquiry officials announce two new closed depositions.

Friday: David Holmes
Saturday: Mark Sandy, an OMB official who refused to appear last week.
Sandy would the first of 5 OMB officials sought by Democrats to testify and could provide the first crack in their effort to digure out how the hold on military aid was handled at the highest levels of the WH budget office.
HOLMES, who now works for Bill Taylor, may be the aide Taylor just described who overheard Trump call w/ Sondland on July 26, when Sondland indicated Ukraine was ready to move forward with Biden/2016 investigations.
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Kyle Cheney
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PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT begins today. Check here and with @AndrewDesiderio for updates.
To start, an official working on the impeachment inquiry confirms that Daniel Goldman, Senior Advisor and Director of Investigations for House Intelligence Committee will be handling questioning during the extended rounds.
Heavy media presence outside the hearing room, where security is currently conducting a sweep.
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Paula Chertok🗽
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Please understand: Trump's #Ukraine scandal is about #Russia. Russia's been trying to keep its former colony under its thumb—thru propaganda, corruption, even war. Aid to Ukraine is by definition fighting Russian aggression, which has spread to US elections. So it's OUR fight too
What makes Trump's scheme so egregious isn't just trading aid for political favors—which he scandalously did. The impeachable scandal is a US pres undermining US efforts to counter a foe actively harming US; telling Putin his int'l lawlessness spree can stand in Ukraine & here.
US military aid to Ukraine isn't altruism. Russia attacked US. Keeping Russia at bay is OUR fight. Trump undermined that. If undermining US security isn't an impeachable offense—nothing is. And we can kiss our constitution & democracy g'bye. That's what defending Trump now means.
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💣B O O M💣

The same prosecutor Trump & Giuliani pressured Zelensky to hire (Lutsenko) to go after Biden’s son engineered Konstin Klimnik’s escape to RU to avoid Mueller’s charges.

And Pompeo’s DOS knew all about it; did TeamTrump facilitate the escape?

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Marshall Cohen
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President Trump now says his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden were apolitical and solely motivated by his good-faith desire to root out foreign "corruption." This hardly holds up to even light scrutiny. Here is my latest analysis: cnn.com/2019/10/06/pol…
(1) Government records undermine Trump's claims. He never mentioned the word "corruption" in his phone call with Zelensky. Plus, House Democrats released a series of texts from State Dept. officials describing the fallout from Trump's decision to block military aid to Ukraine.
(2) Trump hasn't publicly raised these issues before with Ukraine. Trump met twice in 2017 with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, and never mentioned anything about "fighting corruption" during their two public appearances together. cnn.com/2019/10/06/pol…
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Trump may be at the center of the Ukraine controversy, but the alleged extortion scheme likely implicates a whole host of top administration officials and advisers. Here are just a few of the others swept up in the scandal:
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Paula Chertok🗽
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💥Trump ordered hold on $400 military aid for Ukraine days before phone call pressuring President Zelensky to investigate Biden’s son. washingtonpost.com/national-secur… #Whistleblower #WhistleblowerComplaint #UkraineExtortion
OMB relayed Trump’s order to hold Ukraine’s military aid to State Dept & Pentagon in mid-July. Officials were instructed to tell lawmakers delays were part of “interagency process” & to give no additional info. Pattern continued for nearly 2 months, until the night of Sept. 11.
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