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Confronted with a mountain of damaging facts heading into tomorrow's opening of the public phase of impeachment, House Republicans plan to argue that "the President's state of mind" was exculpatory. axios.com/donald-trump-i…
Trumps intent is spelled out in the 2016 Republican platform change:
7/11/16: The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian & rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.

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Karol Cummins
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🍑Impeachment🍑

Kent: "You can't take on a system of corruption without pissing off corrupt people."

Kent said Giuliani’s efforts "undermined" U.S. national security

Taylor testifies of a "highly irregular" channel of policymaking on Ukraine

“I and others sat in astonishment”
🍑Impeachment2🍑

The Ukrainians were fighting the Russians & counted on not only the training & weapons, but also the assurance of U.S. support,” Taylor said

The “irregular, informal channel” for U.S. policy regarding Ukraine included Mulvaney, Rudy Giuliani & Sondland.
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Have you ever seen another example of foreign aid conditioned on the personal or political interests of the POTUS?

TAYLOR: No Mr. Goldman, I have not.

Taylor described his shock when he was informed that the president through Mulvaney had ordered a
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Karol Cummins
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💣Conspiracy💣

Gates confirmed Trump, Manafort, Bannon had advance knowledge of wikileaks (GRU) releases in 2016

Trump mentioned WL (GRU) over 160 times in Oct 2016.

Stone sought to ‘debrief’ Kushner on DNC email hack (GRU)

Superseding indictment expected
US co-conspirators?
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Gates said the campaign was “in a state of happiness” after WL released its 1st trove of stolen emails in summer 2016. Afterward, he overhead a phone convo btwn Manafort & Stone & listened as Stone said that “additional info would be coming out down the road.”
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“Manafort thought that was great,” & said he would brief others, “including the candidate.”

Gates also testified to a phone conversation he witnessed between Trump and Stone while Gates was in a car with the candidate driving to La Guardia.
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Karol Cummins
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💣Treason💣

Mulvaney’s OMB Held Up Critical Ukraine Aid for Fear of Russian Reaction, which conflicts with US Nat Sec interests & established US Foreign policy.

“In a briefing w/ Mulvaney, the question centered around the Russian reaction,” said Croft in the transcript.
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When pressed, Croft added the fear was specifically “that RU would react negatively to the provision of javelins to Ukraine.”

Laura Cooper testified that Trump through the OMB, directed the freeze on hundreds of millions of dollars of critical military aid to UKR.
💣Treason3💣

This against the judgement of career officials from the DOD, the DOS & other relevant agencies.

Cooper also said she raised concerns, as did others on several occasions to senior gov’t officials about the legality of withholding the congressional authorized money,
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THREAD: DEBUNKING ANTI-IMPEACHMENT ARGUMENTS

I wrote a piece taking apart the specious arguments against #impeachment

You know, things like "the Senate won't convict..." "It's too divisive..." "Trump is goading Dems..." and so on.

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FACT: It doesn't matter what the Senate does. The Constitution demands impeachment.
SPIN: Democrats need to gather more evidence to make an airtight case for impeachment.

FACT: We don't need more evidence.
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OK, HERE'S HOW YOU DO #IMPEACHMENT:

Call only Republicans to testify.

Use only Republican quotes from the Clinton impeachment.

Start with #MitchMcConnell:

"Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness."
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“[Clinton] doesn’t have to say, ‘Go lie for me,’ to be a crime. You don’t have to say, ‘Let’s obstruct justice’ for it to be a crime. You judge people on their conduct, not magic phrases.”
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Even the president and House #Republicans have called for the full release of #Mueller’s findings.
Now, Barr ought to make good on the commitments to transparency he made to us over the course of his confirmation.
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