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“Trudeau & Macron sign bilateral agreement to only gossip about Trump in French.”

Nadler: "The patriots who founded our country were not fearful men," the chairman noted. "Those patriots still feared one thing above all: foreign interference in our elections."
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Nadler: "It does not matter that Trump got caught, & ultimately released the funds that Ukraine so desperately needed.

It matters that he enlisted a foreign gov’t to intervene in our elections in the first place."

Ds & Rs clashed as the HJC formally begins.
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"On the basis of the evidence submitted, Trump has committed impeachable high crimes & misdemeanors by corruptly abusing the office of POTUS,"

“We cannot wait for the election to address the present crisis. The integrity of that election is what is at stake."
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Karlan: “Most chilling line of this for me: “Amb. Sondland said Trump/Giuliani said Zelensky had to announce the investigations, he didn’t actually have to do a real investigation.

They just had to announce Biden “is under investigation’.” #Propaganda
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Gerhardt: “No MOC should ever want his or her legacy to be having left unchecked a president’s assaults on our Constitution.”

Trump likes to call his opponents traitors — but if he’s looking for treasonous behavior, he should look within his own party
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“The traitors are the ones who, when this is all done & dusted, will sit in the dock at some new Nuremberg trial & claim their innocence of the worst charges & penalties not by claiming their actions were “just following orders” but that they were “just following Trump.”
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Karlan: when you took private benefits or asked for private benefits in return for an official act, or someone gave private benefits to you to influence an official act, that was bribery

“If Congress fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has...
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Lost all meaning, &, along with that, our Constitution’s carefully crafted safeguards against the establishment of a king on American soil.”
Not clear enough? “I want to stress that if what we’re talking about is not impeachable, then nothing is impeachable.”
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If Trump is not impeached, the Constitutional boundaries that limit a president’s power “will just evaporate.

And those boundaries are set up by the Constitution and we may be witnessing, unfortunately, their erosion.

And that is a danger to all of us.”
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Nadler slams the "process complaints" of his GOP colleagues, saying the strategy is because "There is no factual defense" for Trump.

The IG concludes that the FBI had adequate cause to launch its Russia investigation. Its public release is set for Monday.
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DEMs accuse Trump of abusing power, obstructing Congress' impeachment probe

A Mysterious ‘-1’ & Other Call Records Show How Giuliani Pressured UKR

House DEMs’ impeachment report showed the president’s personal lawyer executing an irregular foreign policy.
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Giuliani, Facing Scrutiny, Travels to Europe to Interview Ukrainians

Trump’s personal lawyer has been in Budapest & Kyiv this week to talk with shady former Ukrainian prosecutors for a documentary series intended to debunk the impeachment case. #PropagandaOp
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In Kiev, Giuliani met with Shokin & Kulyk, who have both faced allegations of corruption, & all played some role in promoting claims about Biden & Yovanovitch & Ukrainians who disseminated damaging information about Manafort, in 2016.
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Those claims — some baseless and others with key disputed elements — have been the foundations of the effort by Trump/Giuliani to pressure the Ukrainian gov’t to commit itself to investigations that would benefit Trump heading into his re-election campaign.
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Federal prosecutors interview Ukraine oil and gas company (Naftogaz) CEO

Mueller Doc Drop v2: Notes of Investigators Fill In Details of Key Events Examined by Mueller
include summaries of interviews with Michael Cohen, Hope Hicks and Rod Rosenstein.
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Lawmakers press Pentagon on oversight of ‘slumlord’ housing contractors

GOP tries to connect dots on Biden & UKR, but comes up short

Graham & Nunes earn Four Pinocchios.

Republicans have gone soft on Russia to protect Trump. So much for Reagan's legacy
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“Reagan would cringe if he had heard some GOP/HIC embrace the disinfo promoted by the heirs of Stalin.

The narrative about UKR interference in the 2016 elex that GOP tout carries w/ it the stench of the dungeons at KGB prison & the dreariness of the gulags.”
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All roads lead to Russia: In 2019 we're still dealing with Putin's 2016 chaos bomb

GOP are desperation to protect Trump from a plausible case for impeachment, based upon his efforts to use the tools of our gov’t to intimidate UKR into inv’g the Bidens.
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GOP are embracing the disinfo of the RU secret police and one of its former minions, Putin.

Barr’s handpicked prosecutor tells iG he can’t back right-wing conspiracy theory that Russia inv’n case was U.S. intelligence setup to ‘spy’ on the Trump campaign.
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Trudeau says 'jaws drop to the floor' during Trump remarks

The world is laughing at Donald Trump

Biden to Target Tax-Avoiding Companies Like Amazon With Minimum Federal Levy

Trump Moves Toward Labeling Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Groups
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HS Pelosi is push­ing to strip out sweep­ing le­gal pro­tec­tions for on­line con­tent in the new trade pact with Mex­ico and Canada, in what would be a blow for big tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies.

Germany expels 2 Russian diplomats after linking Moscow to murder
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There are "enough indications" killing was "contracted by government offices of the Russian Federation or the autonomous Chechen republic," prosecutors say.

Iran Says U.S. Must Pay $130 Billion in Damages After World Court Rules Against Trump Administration
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Swastikas sprayed on more than 100 graves in Jewish cemetery in France😱

Trump Adm Considers 14,000 More Troops for Mideast
—a significant expansion of the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East to counter the threat from Iran
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Biden plans to raise taxes on wealthy, corporations & plan sanctions on countries that help companies avoid taxes

Amazon paid no federal taxes on profit of $11.2 B last year

NATO must recognize Russia as political, economic threat
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Former U.S. Navy Contractor and its President Sentenced for Scheme Related to Transfer of U.S. Navy Submarine Rescue Technology

House committee chair calls for inv’n into $400M border wall contract

PG&E nearing $13.5 billion deal with wildfire victims
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DEMS consider whether to make "bribery" one of the formal charges or to use broader wording such as "abuse of power."

A brief history of world leaders laughing at Trump

US Navy seizes suspected Iranian missile parts set for Yemen
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Biden says he would consider Harris for vice presidential slot

McConnell suggested he's prepared to let his slim GOP majority take the reins on setting the rules.

RT reports Pompeo met with Bibi in Lisbon “to Decry Iranian Aggression”
Iran = RU.
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Alex Azar and Seema Verma spar over Obamacare replacement plan,

NK warned the UN Security Council on Wednesday that any discussion by the body of the country's human rights situation would be a "serious provocation" and Pyongyang would "respond strongly."
Scholars Call Trump’s Actions on Ukraine an Impeachable Abuse of Power

Democrats and Republicans clashed over the Constitution and Trump’s conduct as the House Judiciary Committee formally began its impeachment proceedings. nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/… via @NYTimes
Democrats accuse Trump of abusing power, obstructing Congress' impeachment probe

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
A Mysterious ‘-1’ and Other Call Records Show How Giuliani Pressured Ukraine
House Democrats’ impeachment report showed the president’s personal lawyer executing an irregular foreign policy.

nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/…
Giuliani and Parnas exchanged a flurry of phone calls with Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the top Republican on Congress’ impeachment investigation panel, amid a Giuliani-led effort to dig up dirt on Trump’s political opponents in Ukraine.

thedailybeast.com/impeachment-in…
Giuliani, Facing Scrutiny, Travels to Europe to Interview Ukrainians

Trump’s personal lawyer has been in Budapest and Kyiv this week to talk with former Ukrainian prosecutors for a documentary series intended to debunk the impeachment case. nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/… via @NYTimes
The Traitors Among Us

Donald Trump likes to call his opponents traitors — but if he’s looking for treasonous behavior, he should look within his own party

By: @TheRickWilson

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Barr’s handpicked prosecutor tells inspector general he can’t back right-wing conspiracy theory that Russia investigation case was U.S. intelligence setup to ‘spy’ on the Trump campaign.

Well, duh! 😂😂😂

washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
If Trump is not impeached, the Constitutional boundaries that limit a president’s power “will just evaporate. And those boundaries are set up by the Constitution and we may be witnessing, unfortunately, their erosion. And that is a danger to all of us.”

presswatchers.org/2019/12/after-…
Federal prosecutors interview Ukraine oil and gas company (Naftogaz) CEO

cnn.com/2019/12/04/pol…
Trump’s GOP Sheds Its Dignity, and Chugs His Kool-Aid

thedailybeast.com/trumps-gop-she…
GOP tries to connect dots on Biden and Ukraine, but comes up short

@LindseyGrahamSC and @DevinNunes earn Four Pinocchios.

washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
The liquefied natural gas market is booming, but a massive glut is testing all the utilities and trading companies that have set up desks in the past decade.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Pelosi Statement on Victory in Deutsche Bank Case

speaker.gov/newsroom/12319…
Trudeau says 'jaws drop to the floor' during Trump remarks

PM Trudeau was filmed at a Buckingham Palace reception on Tuesday evening describing how surprised Trump's team appeared to be by his performance at a press conference.

reuters.com/article/us-nat…
Analysis: A brief history of world leaders laughing at Trump

msn.com/en-us/news/wor…
The House impeachment report offers a fuller understanding of how the effort to pressure Ukraine unfolded

washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…
What is bribery?

The back-and-forth highlights a dilemma faced by Democrats seeking to remove Republican Trump from office - whether to make "bribery" one of the formal charges or to use broader wording such as "abuse of power."

reuters.com/article/us-usa…
A Berlin bicycle assassination suggests Russia is repurposing mob hitmen into killers who can be sent to the West

businessinsider.com/vadim-sokolov-…
NATO must recognize Russia as political, economic threat

upi.com/Top_News/Voice…
The Republicans have become the party of Russia.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
Who is Burr?

Burr had been fully briefed in secret by the U.S. IC a few weeks earlier. Senior U.S. officials told Burr that Russia’s interference was designed to support Trump’s electoral chances.

Burr decided to team up with the Trump campaign anyway.

justsecurity.org/62573/richard-…
US Navy seizes suspected Iranian missile parts set for Yemen

apnews.com/8c96dd8291fb93…
Notes of Investigators Fill In Details of Key Events Examined by Mueller
Documents released by the Justice Department in response to a lawsuit by the news media include summaries of interviews with Michael Cohen, Hope Hicks and Rod Rosenstein.

nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/…
Mueller Witness Charged in $5.3 Million Campaign Finance Scheme

George Nader among eight indicted for illegal 2016 donations

Nader is also facing separate child pornography charges

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Biden to Target Tax-Avoiding Companies Like Amazon With Minimum Federal Levy

Amazon paid no federal taxes on profit of $11.2 B last year

Biden plans to raise taxes on wealthy, corporations & plan sanctions on countries that help companies avoid taxes

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Kremlin says NATO's spending plans confirm its fears about the alliance

"We see that NATO carries out actions aimed at containment and expansion with regards our country. This can only prompt our concern," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

reuters.com/article/us-nat…
William Barr suggests ‘communities’ that protest police could lose ‘police protection’

#Mob

washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12…
🌳Breathe🌳

Epic day for #TeamPatriot—not so good day for #TeamTreason!

We are rocking and rolling now, thank god.

GOP are on the ropes sttackjng the process & nor the facts.

Their hero Trump made a fool of himself on the world stage. #Losers

#Indictmrnts pretty please!
@threadreaderapp unroll please and TY!

#NutShellReport
#ThePatriotTimes

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December 4, 2019

Rest well #TeamPatriot #USVIA
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