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Sondland: Followed Trump’s Orders to Pressure Ukraine

“The Trump adm knew what we were doing & why.”

“Everyone was in the loop.

It was no secret."

He implicates Pompeo & John Bolton by saying they were fully aware in real time of what he & others did re UKR.
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There was quid pro quo in Trump's UKR scheme

Giuliani’s ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Was Ordered by Trump

WH meeting was tied to probe demand & Pence aware of effort

Cooper: UKR inquired about hold on security assistance on 7/25, the same day as Trump's call with Zelinsky
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Sondland: Zelensky would need to announce inv’n that would benefit Trump politically in order to lift the "logjam" of aid and a WH meeting.

As a matter of fact: Oct 4, 2019: Ukraine Conducts Probe Sought By Trump Regarding Hunter Biden's Former Employer
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Sondland testifies that he pressured Ukraine for inv’ns at Trump’s “express direction,” & with signoff from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Sondland says he raised concerns with Mike Pence about an apparent linkage between Ukraine’s military aid & the inv’ns.
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"Sec Perry, Amb Volker and I worked w/ Giuliani on UKR matters at the express direction of the POTUS … we followed the president’s orders."

On Aug. 11, Sondland emailed Pompeo aide Lisa Kenna that he & Volker "negotiated a stmt" for Zelenskiy, to deliver.
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Kenna responds saying she's passing the msg along to Pompeo.

Sondland wrote Pompeo directly, suggesting Zelenskiy meet Trump in Warsaw "to look him in the eye" & say he should proceed on issues important to Trump "once UKR's new justice folks are in place."
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"Yes," Pompeo responded three minutes later. Kenna followed up saying she would try to arrange the meeting. Ultimately, Trump sent Pence to Warsaw instead.

Earlier, in a July 25 pone call, Zelenskiy had told Trump that installing his own prosecutors
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To remove an obstacle to opening the inv’ns of the Bidens & the 2016 election

"Hopefully, that will break the logjam," Sondland wrote.

Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018
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Nunes aide Derek Harvey (FlynnStone) participated in the meetings, arranged to help Nunes’ unspecified investigative work.

Prosecutors Subpoena Parnas & Fruman, Trump Fund-Raisers & Giuliani Assoc’s seeking more info about campaign finance violations.
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The subpoenas went to a lobbying firm run by mega lobbyist & top Trump fund-raiser Brian Ballard, & to two people who have helped raise money for America First Action,

Pompeo planning to resign because Trump ‘hurting his reputation’,
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Nikki Haley Used System for Unclassified Material to Send ‘Confidential’ Information

Schiff: "Their objection is he got caught!

Their objection is that someone blew the whistle…Not that the president engaged in this conduct but that he got caught."
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FBI seeks interview with CIA whistleblower

Pompeo Stays Silent on Sondland’s Testimony: Impeachment Update

Israel appears headed toward a third parliamentary election in the space of a year

Duke of York is to step back from public duties
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The Cost of Trump’s Aid Freeze in the Trenches of Ukraine’s War

The Trump adm provided the javelin missiles (2018) on the condition that they not be used in the war, lest they provoke Russia to slip more powerful weaponry to the separatists.
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Parkland parents have raised nearly $50K to get rid of Florida's NRA-backed Rep. Matt Gaetz

Oil prices will have a major impact on the direction that the Russian economy will take, according to the chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).
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U.S. to no longer waive sanctions on Iranian nuclear site

Russia will cut U.S. dollar's share in National Wealth Fund: finance minister

Vindman’s Lawyer Asks Fox News to Retract Espionage Allegation

Can he 'ride it out'? Pompeo future uncertain
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Swedbank May Have Breached US Sanctions Against Russia, SVT Reports

Stockholm-based lender may have facilitated a payment to the U.S. subsidiary of a Russian gun maker, according to the Swedish state broadcaster
Sondland, Defiant, Says He Followed Trump’s Orders to Pressure Ukraine

The US ambassador to the EU told the impeachment inquiry his efforts to press Ukraine to announce investigations were ordered by Trump, and top officials knew.

nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/…?
Readable Opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee from, Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union - The Washington Post

washingtonpost.com/context/openin…
U.S. military aid bolsters Ukraine’s front lines, but the Trump drama makes Kyiv nervous

washingtonpost.com/world/europe/u…
Ukraine officials may have been aware that security aid was cut off by July 25 — much earlier than previously known and the same day that President Trump talked on the phone with the president of Ukraine.
nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/… via @NYTimes
Read Gordon Sondland's explosive opening statement at the impeachment hearing

He implicates Mike Pompeo and John Bolton by saying they were fully aware in real time of what he and other Trump administration officials were doing.

nbcnews.com/politics/trump…
Rep. Carolyn Maloney wins election to chair House Oversight Committee

nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Read Adam Schiff's opening statement in the Volker-Morrison hearing

axios.com/adam-schiff-op…
Sondland Says Giuliani’s ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Was Ordered by Trump
Envoy says White House meeting was tied to probe demand
Impeachment witness says Pence, Pompeo aware of effort

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Swedbank May Have Breached US Sanctions Against Russia, SVT Reports

Stockholm-based lender may have facilitated a payment to the U.S. subsidiary of a Russian gun maker, according to the Swedish state broadcaster

wsj.com/articles/swedb…
Prosecutors Subpoena Trump Fund-Raisers Linked to Associates of Giuliani

The authorities are seeking more information about Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who worked with Rudy Giuliani in Ukraine and have been charged with campaign finance violations.

nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/…
Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018

Nunes aide Derek Harvey participated in the meetings, which were arranged to help Nunes’ unspecified investigative work.

thedailybeast.com/lev-parnas-hel…
Gordon Sondland tells impeachment investigators Wednesday that he pursued those probes “at the express direction” of President Trump

EU Ambassador says he pushed Ukraine to announce probes ‘at the express direction’ of President Trump

apnews.com/6486944b076b4d…
FBI seeks interview with CIA whistleblower

news.yahoo.com/fbi-seeks-inte…
Sondland is set to throw Rudy Giuliani under the bus when he testifies to Congress this morning.

He did not want to work with Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and that he only did so because it was the only way to improve U.S.-Ukraine relations.

thedailybeast.com/gordon-sondlan…
@GOP is spinning a lot of disinformation about this, please read.

Summary of European Military and Development Assistance to Ukraine Since 2014

H/T @AlanVRK

csis.org/analysis/not-c…
‼️Resource‼️

Public Document Clearinghouse: Congressional Russia Investigations

justsecurity.org/62240/congress…
Pompeo Stays Silent on Sondland’s Testimony: Impeachment Update

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Can he 'ride it out'? Pompeo future uncertain after impeachment testimony

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
Daphne murder: 17 Black owner Yorgen Fenech arrested on yacht
Prime Minister describes businessman as 'person of interest' in case

H/T @file411

timesofmalta.com/articles/view/…
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo headed into meetings at NATO on Wednesday amid questions about U.S. leadership in the military alliance and whether it will even continue to be a member.

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Police investigating Caruana Galizia murder arrest businessman on yacht

Maltese journalist was killed by car bomb on Mediterranean island in 2017

theguardian.com/world/2019/nov…
Sondland Kept Pompeo Informed on Ukraine Pressure Campaign
The diplomat at the center of the impeachment inquiry looped in the secretary of state at key moments as American officials pushed for investigations sought by President Trump.

nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/…
Birth of a nation? Bougainville’s independence referendum explained
It is a vote that has been 20 years in the making. On Saturday, residents of the remote archipelago in the Solomon Sea will start to decide their future

H/T @mopeng

theguardian.com/world/2019/nov…
Oct 4, 2019

Ukraine Conducts Probe Sought By Trump Regarding Hunter Biden's Former Employer

H/T @MariaKChicka

npr.org/2019/10/04/767…
As Sondland testified, a misleading Ukraine story spread among conservatives on social media
The article offered conservatives and Trump loyalists a welcome alternative to the day’s news.

H/T @MariaKChicka

nbcnews.com/tech/internet/…
A former EE of Britain’s HK consulate said he was tortured by Chinese secret police seeking info about the city’s pro-democracy protests

He was beaten, deprived of sleep and interrogated for days in an effort to prove Britain was behind demonstrations

wsj.com/articles/forme…
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.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/globa…
The Queen has given permission for the Duke of York to 'step back from public duties for the foreseeable future' amid criticism over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the duke said in a statement. 

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
The Cost of Trump’s Aid Freeze in the Trenches of Ukraine’s War

However, the Trump adm provided the missiles on the condition that they not be used in the war, lest they provoke Russia to slip more powerful weaponry to the separatists.

nytimes.com/2019/10/24/wor…
Oil prices will have a major impact on the direction that the Russian economy will take, according to the chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

cnbc.com/2019/11/20/oil…
Russia plans to reduce the U.S. dollar's share in its National Wealth Fund, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Rossiya-24 state television on Wednesday.

reuters.com/article/us-rus…
Nikki Haley Used System for Unclassified Material to Send ‘Confidential’ Information

thedailybeast.com/nikki-haley-us…
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Landmark day! Whew! I am exhausted, so I can only imagine how tired our warriors in Congress must be!

Schiff is doing an amazing job managing the GOP clown show brilliantly. His opening & closing statements are stellar. Bravo!

Sleep well Patriots! xoxo K
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