BREAKING: Pompeo participated in Ukraine call (Updated)

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

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[volstork]

1. Stick a fork in him.

[maxsolomon]

17. TBD

Whether he directed State Dept resources to be at Asshole's or Guiliani's disposal is the question. Or whether his recall of Yovanovitch crossed lines.

Is that how "Special Envoy" Volker came to be involved? Let's find out.

[Nevermypresident]

28. +1

[trueblue2007]

23. Will POM GO TO JAIL FOR DONALD RUMP ???

[maxsolomon]

37. there's almost no chance anyone involved would do time.

Manafort and Cohen are extreme outliers.

[trueblue2007]

48. how do you know? You on any house committees?

[maxsolomon]

49. Yes, I am Jerry Nadler.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/5-people-who-lied-congress-what-happened-them-n941936

In Watergate, Ehrlichman and Mitchell did time. That is an anomaly. More typical is what happened to John Poindexter - pardons, fines, probation, suspended sentences.

[trueblue2007]

50. this might be WORSE that Watergate. Just my opinion.

[maxsolomon]

52. I'd be happy to be wrong, but I've become jaded.

We rarely "Lock Them Up" unless they're poor and POC.

[Arazi]

57. Nothing will happen to him. Who will actually "stick a fork in him"?

He's impervious to shame, ridicule, and most importantly oversight.

He's the SoS. Nobody's going to take him down

[hlthe2b]

2. When you get a chance, pls. post as much as possible from WSJ article--worst paywall out there

[Roland99]

11. Try this....

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was among administration officials who listened in on the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a senior State Department official said Monday, a disclosure that ties the State Department more closely to the House impeachment inquiry.

Mr. Pompeo’s participation on the call hasn’t been previously reported. Last week, a State Department official disputed the contention in a complaint filed under federal whistleblower laws by a Central Intelligence Agency officer that another top State Department official, counselor Ulrich Brechbuhl, listened in on the call.

House Democrats have opened an impeachment inquiry focused on Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, and lawmakers are focusing on the whistleblower complaint and a record of the call released by the administration.

...

Three House committees on Friday subpoenaed Mr. Pompeo for documents related to the inquiry; the secretary has until Oct. 4 to produce them. Separately, the committees plan to depose five current or former State Department officials regarding Ukraine.

[hlthe2b]

20. Thanks!

[calguy]

3. This shit just gets better and better all the time.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. But doesn't it keep media focus away from Trump crimes;

and doesn't it keep news from focusing on Teflon Don's lie to publicly reveal his income tax returns? He promised his constituents his tax returns would be revealed, before he became president.

[at140]

31. Don't believe anything from a con man! eom

[mcar]

4. ...

[Garrett78]

5. Listened or actually took part?

[OnDoutside]

22. Listened apparently...but this is getting ahead of the story by one of his aides.

[grantcart]

25. Listening is participating. Basic co conspiracy

[Garrett78]

30. Numerous people listen to every call a president makes to foreign leaders.

It seems a given that the Secretary of State would be one of them. My only point being that I don't see why this is breaking news.

When calls are made, people are gathered in the situation room or elsewhere. With Trump, the difference is that those individuals then have to hide the records due to politically-sensitive content instead of security-sensitive content.

Get the contents of that server, Schiff.

[grantcart]

53. Pompeo was asked last week if he was familiar with the subject matter

of the call. He said that he wasn't as he hadn't seen the transcripts of the call.

That kind of misleading comment demonstrates consciousness of guilt, if there was nothing wrong with the call why feign ignorance.

Giuliani is pulling him into the lines of communication which exposes Pompeo is walking into a conspiracy cave.

[Garrett78]

54. That's certainly a good point. If Pompeo lied about being familiar with the call...

...then, as you say, that demonstrates consciousness of guilt.

What would be surprising is if he wasn't listening when the call was made. Then again, given that Trump has apparently invited foreign leaders to call him on his cell phone, there's no telling how many conversations with foreign leaders that asshole has had without anyone even knowing about it.

[grantcart]

55. O'Donnell just ran the clip of Pompeo pretending he was Sgt. Schultz

O'Donnell advised Pompeo to get an attorney.

[Garrett78]

56. And a couple of his guests said it's unusual for a SoS to listen to such a call.

So, I guess I was wrong. I figured that with numerous people listening to such calls, the SoS would likely be one of them. But I guess not. Lower level State Dept. people, I suppose.

[grantcart]

59. Both right.

This was a congratulatory call which normally would be short, friendly and only superficially touch on subjects that would be followed up on at the ambassador level.

If they knew it was going to be substantive the SOS would want to sit with the President.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

6. Watching msnbc waiting for this to break

I'm curious to see how long it takes.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. 20 minutes

[C_U_L8R]

7. The Trump Tower is collapsing

It was inevitable

[BigmanPigman]

35. That's the card we use to perform our monthly binding spells for him.

The spell is to keep him and his pals from harming others. The Tower card is really the best one in the deck since it represents total destruction followed by building a new, better one to replace the it. Sort of like Phoenix rising.

https://extranewsfeed.com/a-spell-to-bind-donald-trump-and-all-those-who-abet-him-february-24th-mass-ritual-51f3d94f62f4

Barr, Pompeo and Ghouliani are all going down with that tower.

[C_U_L8R]

38. Indeed it is :-)

[Capperdan]

43. Please take Pence too

President Pelosi

[BigmanPigman]

44. His is what the spell says about that...

"Bind all those who enable his wickedness and those whose mouths speak his poisonous lies. Bind all of them..."

They are all covered in the spell. It is helpful to burn a photo of them too.

[triron]

9. From Natasha Bertrand.s twitter feed:

Link to tweet

[RandySF]

10. Kicked for update

[spanone]

12. Pompeo is DIRTY.

[dalton99a]

14. Kick

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was among administration officials who listened in on the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a senior State Department official said Monday, a disclosure that ties the State Department more closely to the House impeachment inquiry.

Mr. Pompeo’s participation on the call hasn’t been previously reported. Last week, a State Department official disputed the contention in a complaint filed under federal whistleblower laws by a Central Intelligence Agency officer that another top State Department official, counselor Ulrich Brechbuhl, listened in on the call.

House Democrats have opened an impeachment inquiry focused on Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, and lawmakers are focusing on the whistleblower complaint and a record of the call released by the administration.

On Monday, House committees subpoenaed Mr Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, for documents related to Ukraine.

Three House committees on Friday subpoenaed Mr. Pompeo for documents related to the inquiry; the secretary has until Oct. 4 to produce them. Separately, the committees plan to depose five current or former State Department officials regarding Ukraine.

[Thekaspervote]

15. He needs to go as well!!

[me_not_you]

16. Stratification of the GOP

Wasn't this clear when Giuliani said as much on national TV? Wouldn't be shocked if (Giuliani) has the receipts on all the skulduggery.

It's clear the GOP stepped in a pile when Mr. Trump won the primary. The GOP quickly realized he was now their problem. Enter stage right: William "nothing to see here" Barr.

It's always been clear to me, Barr was there to contain and clean. Sent by the power elite in the GOP. Guys like Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, etc are just B-list & C-list stars.

The real A-listers have been trying their hardest to keep the circus within the tent. That's why we have Justice Kavanaugh too. He was a famous A-listers legal counsel and knows where every single body is buried. That's the real reason the GOP wanted him. Look at Justice Kavanaugh record during his time at the White House....

[ffr]

18. Does this mean he has to cancel his European vacation that starts tomorrow

I mean, his European tour?

[hlthe2b]

19. There go the floodgates!

[lanlady]

21. I hope Pompous goes down HARD

With what he put HRC through in the Benghazi hearings (trying to build himself up by tearing her down), his completely inappropriate take-downs of Obama before foreign audiences, his non-stop sucking up to Trump, and his overall incompetence and lack of achievements - he deserves to see his career end in disgrace.

[peggysue2]

24. The rats are beginning to turn on one another

Whistleblowers are cloning themselves in a last chance effort to save what can be saved of their reputations and possibly their skins.

I predict we'll see more of this 'outing' over the near-future from insiders now in full panic. This truly is the dam breaking.

[OliverQ]

26. Explains why he just decided to open another investigation into Hillary's emails.

[Claritie Pixie]

27. LIAR LIAR 🤥

[C_U_L8R]

29. Impeach or Indict

What's the procedure for removing a Secretary of State for criminal acts?

[me_not_you]

32. same as any other impeachment

Same impeachment process:
https://ballotpedia.org/Impeachments_of_federal_officials

But it's kinda been the job of the president, to handle that kinda stuff:
https://www.quora.com/Can-the-president-fire-members-of-his-cabinet

It's not in our interest that we turn removal of cabinet members into a political game. As it could come back to haunt ya. So it's not done often.

[oasis]

33. Haul his ass into a congressional hearing with the rest of the thugs.

[dalton99a]

36. +1

[klook]

34. And this is MONDAY, y'all.

Looking forward to the rest of the week!

[me_not_you]

39. Not sure this president can survive 4 more days.

[DesertRat]

40. k&r

[cvoogt]

41. Oh.my.Darwin.

Wow.

[Mad_Mongol]

42. HAYZEUS CHISTOS!

Pompeo needs to RESIGN like yesterday.

Damn at this rate Bolton might be the closest to an honest cretin in this swamp!

[OxQQme]

45. Nicolle Wallace MSNBC NEWS Today Sep 30, 2019

[demigoddess]

46. Karma is coming to town!!!!!!

[SunSeeker]

47. K & R for exposure.

[gibraltar72]

51. Smocking cannon.

[MerryBlooms]

58. Of course he did. This administration and upper repub is filthy in treason and money laundering. n/t