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Mulvaney and Blair's exchange on June 27 makes clear they saw the freeze of the Ukraine military aid as a potential political problem. With the whistleblower complaint, it moved to a question of whether it was a legal problem. nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/…
DoJ's OLC deemed the complaint as not having an "urgent" concern. When Barr and the WH counsel's office advocated releasing the transcript, they were looking at it from a legal standpoint. Mulvaney has told associates...
...he didn't know the specifics of the Trump/Zelensky call on July 25 - the words Biden and server, for instance - until he was at UNGA while the reconstructed transcript was about to be released nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/…
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Key takeaways from our reconstruction of the effort by Trump to freeze aid approved by Congress for Ukraine: nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/…
Rob Blair, a top aide to Mulvaney, said in a June 27 email exchange not previously reported on that it could be held but that Congress would become "unhinged." nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/…
Some top aides are offering the defense that they didn't connect the aid freeze to the Giuliani-Biden investigations track. Mulvaney has told associates he stepped away when Trump would talk to Giuliani to protect his atty-client privilege nytimes.com/2019/12/29/us/…
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The booklet of Bloombergisms that ABC reported on the other day was what Bloomberg was answering questions about on Sept. 10, 2001. Those issues became small and unimportant after the terrorist attacks, and his message about leadership had resonance nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
Mark Green, his rival, meanwhile, self-destructed. The Ferrer campaign and several black and Latino leaders blamed him for the presence of anonymous fliers; Green told them he didn't "need them to win," but needed them to govern. nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
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"a review of the 2001 race, drawn from dozens of interviews with aides, advisers and adversaries, makes plain that Mr. Bloomberg’s political origin story owes to almost supernaturally improbable conditions " nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
Bloomberg himself has told people he won not because of Rudy and not because of 9/11, but because the public wanted anyone other than Mark Green. That is not how it went down... nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/…
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2014 post....I've been following the Ukraine and Obama administration corruption for years....Ukraine is my baby as far as me researching and knowing
Still 2014 im telling ppl to pay attention to ukraine
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The focus is to distract American's from what Obama's administration did in February 2014 when Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych's government was overthrown for....Corruption. There were consequences for Obama's failure to deal with Russia's invasion of Crimea
Of course there was no pressure Mr President. They can't allow you to investigate the corruption, because American's will learn the extent of global money laundering. The democrats (some GOPe too) used USAID and CFPB as personal piggy banks.

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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
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‼️WHISTLEBLOWER THEORY‼️

Let’s take the Biden ’dirt’ hunt aspect out of the story & set it aside as a horrific diversion for now.

The truth is much worse.

Remember the Cohen, Sater, Flynn, Manafort & Artemenko “Ukrainian Peace Plan” circa Feb 2017?

Putin quid pro quo?
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A Back-Channel Plan for Ukraine and Russia, Courtesy of Trump Associates
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📌Michael Cohen, presented a sealed envelope to then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn containing a secret peace plan to resolve the three-year conflict in Ukraine.
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A senior adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister said the country is prepared to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter, but only if there is a formal request from President Trump. washingtonexaminer.com/news/ukraine-r…
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LOL well that might backfire, eh?

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