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Freeloading Rusty

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'Not even a little bit.' Donald Trump claims he has no memory of new bombshell claim that he told his EU ambassador he cared 'more about the investigations of Biden than Ukraine' which electrified first impeachment hearing
Trump claims he has no memory of new bombshell claim that he told his EU ambassador | Daily Mail Online
  • The first public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents began Wednesday morning
  • President Trump tweeted furiously ahead of the hearing: 'READ THE TRANSCRIPT'
  • Top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor and George Kent, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, gave their testimony on Capitol Hill before the House Intelligence Committee
  • They were questioned by Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican Devin Nunes, followed by members of three committees
  • Schiff began the hearing with an opening statement where he sketched out the Ukraine affair, and asked whether President Trump sought to exploit Ukraine's 'vulnerability'
  • Nunes bashed 'Democrats, the corrupt media, and partisan bureaucrats' he said were seeking to 'overturn the results of the 2016 election'
  • Taylor testified that he learned of a directive by President Trump not to let any U.S. aid flow to Ukraine during a video-conference
  • Kent testified he became aware of an effort by Giuliani and others 'to run a campaign to smear Ambassador Yovanovitch and other officials at the U.S. embassy in Kiev'
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Freeloading Rusty

Freeloading Rusty

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View: https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1195395144566083584


Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects
WSJ News Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects
Associates told others that Giuliani stood to profit from natural-gas project pitched alongside campaign for investigations of Joe Biden
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Trust seeks seizure of Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas's bail to repay $678K judgment
Trust seeks seizure of Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas's bail to repay $678K judgment
Could the legal situation possibly get any worse for Lev Parnas, the associate of President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who's under criminal indictment in a campaign finance case?

Short answer: Yes.

A frustrated creditor is trying to seize bail funds that Parnas — a potential witness in the ongoing impeachment proceedings against Trump — posted to stay out of jail while awaiting trial.

And a federal judge might authorize the seizure.

The development stems from the latest efforts of a family trust that since 2015 has tried to collect on a more than $500,000 judgment against Parnas from a movie-loan deal gone bad. The total has since risen to more than $678,000.

In a rare but not unprecedented action, the trust filed an Oct. 29 writ to garnish $200,000 that Parnas's family posted to secure his $1 million appearance bond in the criminal case. The bond keyed a judge's decision to order Parnas held under home detention, rather than jail, pending trial.

A federal attorney in Virginia, where the bond was initially posted, objected and filed a proposed motion to vacate the writ because a judge ordered the bail package to ensure Parnas shows up for court hearings and trial.
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Freeloading Rusty

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Twitter reportedly cracks down on users tweeting 'I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch'
Twitter reportedly cracks down on users tweeting 'I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch'
Twitter reportedly cracked down on users who shared a specific phrase during Friday's public impeachment inquiry hearing against President Trump.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was the sole witness to testify and commented on her recent recall, the culmination an effort that was led by Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

But according to BuzzFeed News, Twitter punished users who tweeted "I hired Donald Trump to fire people like Yovanovitch," a phrase that began trending on the platform, with "several" Twitter accounts suspended for sharing it.

BuzzFeed News reported that the rate at which the phrase began trending was "consistent with the coordinated inauthentic behavior expected from a network of bots or sock puppet accounts." Its analysis showed that "at least 7,320 tweets (including retweets) were posted that included the words posted in the first 45 minutes" and that 83 accounts "tweeted or retweeted the phrase over 10 times each." The phrase also appeared on other platforms like Facebook and Youtube.

One prominent user, Donald Trump Jr., tweeted a similar saying; "America hired @realDonaldTrump to fire people like the first three witnesses we’ve seen. Career government bureaucrats and nothing more."

BuzzFeed News' report pointed to several other Twitter accounts, including one that retweeted the phrase 136 times in 11 minutes. Multiple pro-Trump accounts who tweeted or retweeted the phrase denied to BuzzFeed News that they had any involvement with bots.

Twitter did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment but did tell BuzzFeed News that it was looking to the activity behind the trending phrase.
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Trump accused of ‘witness tampering’ as tweets target Marie Yovanovitch during impeachment hearing
Trump accused of ‘witness tampering’ as tweets target Marie Yovanovitch during impeachment hearing
The U.S. congressional impeachment inquiry took a dramatic turn during the testimony of former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch when Donald Trump lashed out publicly at the career diplomat, leading Democrats to say that the President was attempting to intimidate a witness.

“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter as Ms. Yovanovitch was in the middle of publicly testifying Friday before the House intelligence committee, which is looking into whether the President improperly pressed Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. “It is a U.S. President’s absolute right to appoint ambassadors.”

The tweet was “very intimidating,” Ms. Yovanovitch told the inquiry. Democrats immediately condemned Mr. Trump’s tirade as witness tampering, raising the possibility that they might add that charge to the list of offences that they may use to build an impeachment case against the President.

“This is a part of a pattern to intimidate witnesses,” intelligence committee chair Adam Schiff told reporters after the hearing. “It is also a part of a pattern to obstruct the investigation.”

In a meeting with reporters at the Oval Office on Friday afternoon, Mr. Trump denied he was trying to intimidate witnesses, saying he had the right to voice an opinion on the former ambassador. “I have the right to speak. I have freedom of speech.”


The exchange capped off a tumultuous first week of public testimony in the House of Representatives’ impeachment investigation. Democrats are examining whether Mr. Trump put pressure on Ukraine to investigate former vice-president Joe Biden and his family, along with a widely rejected theory that Ukraine had meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, in exchange for a White House meeting and nearly US$400-million in security assistance. Mr. Trump is only the fourth president to face formal impeachment proceedings.

In emotional testimony, Ms. Yovanovitch described how she was “shocked and devastated” that a smear campaign against her by Ukrainian officials attempting to thwart U.S. anti-corruption policy had found a willing partner in Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

Born in Canada and raised in the United States from the age of 3, Ms. Yovanovitch served as an ambassador under both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations. She was abruptly removed from her post in Ukraine in May after State Department officials told her the President had lost confidence in her, though she testified that she was never told why.

Ms. Yovanovitch warned Friday that her sudden firing was part of a broader problem plaguing the State Department during Mr. Trump’s presidency, and that it set a dangerous precedent for other foreign governments that American diplomats can be removed through political pressure campaigns. “Our Ukraine policy has been thrown into disarray, and shady interests the world over have learned how little it takes to remove an American ambassador who does not give them what they want,” she said.

She testified that she was stunned by the transcript of a July 25 call between Mr. Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which the U.S. President called her “bad news” and suggested she would “go through some things.” Someone watching her read the transcript “said the colour drained from my face,” she said, adding that Mr. Trump’s comments “sounded like a threat.”


Committee Republicans sought Friday to undercut the narrative that Mr. Trump had waged a sustained campaign to put pressure on Ukraine.

As the hearing opened, the White House released a reconstructed transcript of an April 21 call between Mr. Trump and Mr. Zelensky. In the 16-minute call, Mr. Trump congratulated the new Ukrainian President on his election and promised a future visit to the White House, but did not ask for any investigations.

California Congressman Devin Nunes described Ms. Yovanovitch’s firing as “employment disagreements” rather than grounds for impeachment. Several Republicans characterized the delay in military aid as a necessary pause to allow the White House to investigate whether the new Zelensky government was committed to reforms, and defended presidential powers to dismiss ambassadors.

“I obviously don’t dispute that the president has the right to withdraw an ambassador at any time, for any reason,” Ms. Yovanovitch said under questioning by Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup. “But what I do wonder is why it was necessary to smear my reputation, falsely?”

The President’s Twitter outburst Friday creates a dangerous situation for current foreign-service staff abroad, said Brett Bruen, a former diplomat who served as director of engagement in the Obama White House. It gives foreign leaders “carte blanche to go after … our most senior diplomats overseas, because the President did it.”

The impeachment inquiry will continue next week with public hearings involving eight new witnesses.
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White House blames NSC aide for discrepancy between readout and new transcript of Trump-Zelensky April call
The White House placed the responsibility on the top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council on Friday after being asked about the discrepancy between the April readout of President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian President and the transcript released Friday.
The President also ignored directives from his National Security Council staff to bring up corruption during his first call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, despite the White House's claim that fighting corruption was his primary reason for withholding the military aid, CNN has learned.
In that transcript, there is no mention of corruption despite a White House readout of the call that was released in April that stated the issue arose. A White House spokesperson put that discrepancy at the feet of a central witness to the House impeachment inquiry in a statement.
"The President continues to push for transparency in light of these baseless accusations and has taken the unprecedented steps to release the transcripts of both phone calls with President Zelensky so that every American can see he did nothing wrong," deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement on Friday.
"It is standard operating procedure for the National Security Council to provide readouts of the President's phone calls with foreign leaders. This one was prepared by the NSC's Ukraine expert."
That expert is Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who gave testimony to impeachment inquiry investigators earlier this month that was critical of Trump. For more than 10 hours, Vindman testified that he reported concerns about Trump's July 25 call with the leader of Ukraine to the top National Security Council lawyer within hours, and said some of the changes he tried to make to the since-published transcript were left out, though he didn't say why. Later, he was told not to discuss the call with anyone else.
Despite what Gidley said, a White House source told CNN the mistake was due to an error by the White House, a remarkable disagreement over the responsibility for an inaccurate press release within the West Wing.
According to that source, the national security adviser reviews and approves a draft press release prepared by the Directorate and reviewed by NSC Legal and NSC Press Office — which is based on prepared talking points for the call and done before it happens.
Typically, the country expert will update the press release to reflect the topics that are actually discussed.
"On April 21, 2019, President Trump did not raise the issue of corruption during the call with President-elect Zelensky, despite the NSC's recommendation that he do so and specific talking points included in briefing materials addressing that important topic," the White House source said.
"Given that the call occurred on Sunday, April 21, 2019, the White House may not have updated the press release to reflect the contents of the call before it was publicly released," the source explained.
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MC Gusto said:

View: https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1195395144566083584


Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects
WSJ News Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects


Trust seeks seizure of Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas's bail to repay $678K judgment
Trust seeks seizure of Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas's bail to repay $678K judgment



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Lets be real Trump is right about that Biden corruption shit.
 
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MC Gusto said:

View: https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris/status/1195395144566083584


Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects
WSJ News Exclusive | Federal Prosecutors Probe Giuliani’s Links to Ukrainian Energy Projects


Trust seeks seizure of Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas's bail to repay $678K judgment
Trust seeks seizure of Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas's bail to repay $678K judgment



View: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1194708164551364609
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Lol @ citing Bloomberg.
 
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