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House Dems are set to demand that the State Department account for Yovanovitch's safety during her stalking, in light of explosive Lev Parnas documents, aide tells me.

Pompeo's stonewalling suddenly looks much worse.

That and more in my new piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
More NEWS:

@RepEliotEngel, chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee, tells us Yovanovitch texts are "profoundly alarming."

"This unprecedented threat to our diplomats must be investigated and if warranted prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@RepEliotEngel Crucial point here, from @RepEliotEngel:

Texts between Parnas and Hyde "occurred at the same time that the two men were also discussing Trump’s efforts, through Giuliani, to smear the ambassador’s reputation.”

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@RepEliotEngel Pelosi was right: Time is working against Trump.

Senators preparing to vote No on witnesses and evidence suddenly should be very queasy. Future revelations will get hung around their necks, as examples of what they tried to cover up on Trump’s behalf.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent
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I'm not sure the magnitude of this has sunken in.

To be clear, Lev Parnas just implicated Rudy Giuliani, and possibly Trump, in a criminal conspiracy to solicit a bribe from Ukraine.

I spoke to legal experts who confirmed this. New piece: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
One of Lev Parnas' most explosive claims is that Giuliani told him to convey the extortion demand to Ukraine, after discussing it with Trump.

Legal experts tell me Parnas actually accused Giuliani and Trump of a criminal conspiracy:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Now that Lev Parnas alleges Rudy spoke directly to him about using military aid to extort Ukraine after discussing it with Trump, GOP Senators have zero excuse for not hearing from Bolton and Mulvaney, who have direct knowledge of the freezing of the aid:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
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Greg Sargent
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NPR ran a report on Trump's rally that sanitized away all the hate and depravity. If such media failure is widespread in 2020, it could have consequences, enabling Trump to supercharge Trump country under the radar, while minimizing backlash. New piece: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Trump's route to victory lies in supercharging his parts of the country with these rally performances. But he can't stir too much of a backlash among young and nonwhite voters and suburban whites.

Media sanitization of The Trump Show risks enabling that:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
In response to @NPRinskeep's objections to this piece, I added this update:
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Greg Sargent
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Notorious NeoMcCarthyite @BernieSanders just released a strong statement condemning Russia over the news that Russian hackers targeted Burisma to smear @JoeBiden.

Sanders explains well why progressives should care about Russian sabotage of our elections: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@BernieSanders @JoeBiden By the way, perhaps we should be making more of the fact that Trump, Giuliani, and Russian hackers targeting Burisma are all working to validate the same made up narrative about the Bidens:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
@BernieSanders @JoeBiden .@BernieSanders situates Russian sabotage of our elections in a broad narrative in which plutocrats at home and illiberal authoritarians abroad are allied against liberal democracy and international institutions, all to enable their continuing plunder:

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Emma Loop
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NEW: The Lev Parnas documents released this week paint a fuller picture of the behind-the-scenes campaign to get Amb. Yovanovitch removed than we've ever seen before. We've pieced it all together here to show how the effort unfolded:
buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo…
Hundreds of pages of texts and WhatsApp messages released by the House show the effort was more widespread within powerful Republican circles than previously known and raise questions about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s involvement as well.

buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo…
The first instance that we know of where Parnas & Fruman advocated against Yovanovitch was May 2018, when they criticized her to Rep. Pete Sessions. He then wrote a letter to Secretary Pompeo urging him to remove her, as @MikeSallah7 first reported. buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo…
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Paula Chertok🗽
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🔥#Parnas just corroborated David Holmes’ #impeachment testimony, saying #Trump talked so loudly, Parnas could hear him on calls w/ Rudy #Giuliani. Parnas tells #Maddow he was present “lots of times” when Rudy spoke by phone w/Trump—who “knew everything” about their #Ukraine work
#Parnas says #Pence had to know of #Ukraine pressure campaign. He says Trump sent Pence to meet Zelensky in Poland, using a hurricane as an excuse not to go himself, mad that Zelensky still hadn’t given in to his pressure. So Trump bailed on WW2 ceremony to further the pressure‼️
#Parnas tells #Maddow that Attorney General #BARR was "basically on the team" with #Giuliani and Victoria #Toensing & Joe #DiGenova (lawyers for #Firtash, indicted Ukrainian oligarch linked to #Russian organized crime).
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Ukraine Anti-Corruption
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I read the deposition of M. #Yovanovitch. There are deliberate material omissions (perjury). I can write it up, if there is interest.

The people questioning her are not informed enough to catch it. A 2-headed-debacle: Very sloppy.
@Jim_Jordan @realDonaldTrump @RudyGiuliani
@Jim_Jordan @realDonaldTrump @RudyGiuliani 1/ Here #Yovanovitch is truthful:

She says prosecutions in #Ukraine are used to extort money & Ukraine is "not a rule of law country." (That's polite-speak for 'Ukraine is a corrupt mafia crap pile.') 30 years we've been pouring money into Ukraine. THAT is a reason to cut aid.
@Jim_Jordan @realDonaldTrump @RudyGiuliani 2/ Here #Yovanovitch admits she intervened to protect the head of Ukraine's so-called National Anti Corruption Bureau (NABU) from prosecution.

One problem, is the NABU chief can be heard on tape admitting to trying to help @HillaryClinton win the 2016 election.
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Michael O'Grady
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#Pompeo gets roasted alive for inventing ‘internal deliberations’ rule to STAY MUM on #Giuliani

Rudy has admitted having a role in talks with Ukraine

“And we do know that so much — and this is by his own admission... “

#TrumpBriberyForDIRT

#MOG

rawstory.com/2019/10/mike-p…
#Stephanopoulos pointed out that #Giuliani is ‘not a member of the administration.”

“This is the president’s personal lawyer who was pursuing this at the president’s direction and going around the normal State Department procedures”

BLAMING #TRUMP?

#MOG
“They generally have formal appointments,” #Stephanopoulos observed. “They generally go through REVIEWS for CONFLICTS OF INTEREST”

We now know that #Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, WAS PURSUING BUSINESS INTERESTS in the Ukraine

#TrumpBriberyForDIRT

#MOG
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WaterBluSky
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We should do a whole thread of all the photos. We can call it the “I never knew the guy, I was dead at the time!” thread. 🙄 #Parnas #Fruman #LevAndIgor #Correia #Kukushkin
#Parnas
#Parnas #Desantis #FLGov
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JM Rieger
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New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

"No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”

nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/…
NYT - Hunter Biden was warned by associates who had experience in Ukraine to stay away from Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Burisma Holdings, who had worked in the government of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.

nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/…
Zlochevsky faced multiple internal/external investigations for money laundering, Yanukovych-era corruption, tax evasion and the granting of gas licenses.

It is unclear if/how seriously Ukraine’s fmr. prosecutor general Viktor Shokin investigated Burisma.

nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/…
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