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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly Shit Sondland clarified his statement and said that Ukraine
was told no military aid unless you investigate corruption as in manufacture dirt on the Bidens - Oops!
Rats are jumping with tasteless haste
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)to Trump to buy an ambassadorship...
malaise
(269,086 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)by fleecing the taxpayers for $1 million to upgrade the EU ambassador's residence.
If I were the contractors, I'd hurry up and finish and make sure the checks clear because this guy might not be playing ambassador much longer.
MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)I like the way you speak!!!!
Imagine how the "professional" foreign service people with 20 to 40 years feel about all of this.............
lunatica
(53,410 posts)so I imagine theyre in a permanent cringe when around him and Trump.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)He bought an ambassadorship, as many people do. He's not going to let his privileged, white, ass go to jail for Trump though.
George II
(67,782 posts)Peacetrain
(22,877 posts)Shit hitting the fan about now
joost5
(421 posts)Feeling the schadenfreude right about now.
Horizens
(637 posts)Had to because others corroborated the truth.
He suddenly remembered after reading others' deposition.
Don the Con, Rudy, Pomoeo et al are fucked royally - that's as close to emperor as he is coming
Zoonart
(11,872 posts)They are so past fucked, that the light from fucked would take a thousand years to get here.
malaise
(269,086 posts)They say hang out with dogs and catch fleas but dogs are safer than associating with the Con.
Did you just hear the WH response. That press secretary must be drinking again
Zoonart
(11,872 posts)They are a mess.
coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)What did that loony lady say?
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Its a whole new concept on truth telling. I am officially stealing it. Thanks!
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)magicarpet
(14,157 posts).... he has a gin and soda uranium sippy cup cocktail in his right hand, was screaming please don't push me out the window Mr. trDump and Mr. Putin just before he fell, and finally he had three bullet holes in the back of his head when he hit the pavement.
The police have determined it was a suicide with no evidence of foul play.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)Your smart phone changed his name to Scotland, but I know who you mean.
Did the police base their conclusion on a suicide note, discovered next to the broken window?
Enquiring minds, and all that...
magicarpet
(14,157 posts)Sondland to...
Scotland and back to...
Sondland..
THX for alert.
Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)It could happen!
42bambi
(1,753 posts)Raftergirl
(1,287 posts)🙇
Chakaconcarne
(2,457 posts)progressoid
(49,992 posts)RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)malaise
(269,086 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,461 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 5, 2019, 05:49 PM - Edit history (1)
NBachers
(17,125 posts)malaise
(269,086 posts)luvallpeeps
(935 posts)malaise
(269,086 posts)Volaris
(10,272 posts)Extortion is the word
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Defense is that it's not impeachable. Definitely need to throw in a couple cases where he asked people to break law.
H2O Man
(73,567 posts)When an ignorant, petty mobster wanna-be is in the Oval Office, these things are bound to happen.
malaise
(269,086 posts)The WH response may be defiant but it makes no effin' sense.
ITTMF!
Latest:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/live-blog/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates-latest-news-n1065706/ncrd1076791#liveBlogHeader
"Both transcripts released today show there is even less evidence for this illegitimate impeachment sham than previously thought. Ambassador Sondland squarely states that he 'did not know, (and still does not know) when, why or by whom the aid was suspended.' He also said he 'presumed' there was a link to the aidbut cannot identify any solid source for that assumption. By contrast, Volkers testimony confirms there could not have been a quid pro quo because the Ukrainians did not know about the military aid hold at the time. No amount of salacious media-biased headlines, which are clearly designed to influence the narrative, change the fact that the President has done nothing wrong."
lunatica
(53,410 posts)H2O Man
(73,567 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Trumpian babble? MAGA babble? White noise babble?
malaise
(269,086 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,921 posts)An ambassador wholl live in infamy.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)An open-ended investigation could be used as long as needed, without anyone knowing it was set up by the one using it.
One thing not to overlook in understanding the significance of the texts is that in addition to soliciting section assistance and abusing his power, Trump was attempting to employ covert propaganda against the American public:
2. As I note in the clip above, one thing the texts make clear is that the administration wasn't just interested in Ukraine investigating Biden -- they were specifically interested in the *messaging* about the investigation. If what you care about is "corruption," you would
3. be satisfied with an assurance that Ukraine was going to investigate. Instead, the Trump admin doesn't care so much about the investigation itself, but making sure that the fact that it is being investigated is *being broadcast* to the audience they care about: American voters
[ more at link ]
-- Asha Rangappa
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1180201437856448534.html
malaise
(269,086 posts)NOT - daily I wonder how anyone could associate with this monster.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)the Trump admin doesn't care so much about the investigation itself, but making sure that the fact that it is being investigated is *being broadcast* to the audience they care about: American voters.
It only mattered that the smear was cast.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212656362
tymorial
(3,433 posts)It implicates the VP as well which means they BOTH need to be impeached. No way the Senate hands the presidency to Pelosi
malaise
(269,086 posts)And now they are going to replace Nunes with Jordan. This is clealry on the Con's orders
underpants
(182,843 posts)D'Oh is right :chueckle:
NoMoreRepugs
(9,436 posts)that can be found to lead the Dotard's defense in the committee?
I'm shaking in my boots cuz I'm laughing my ass off!!
malaise
(269,086 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,928 posts)Where have I heard THAT before?
malaise
(269,086 posts)Mopar151
(9,990 posts)Couch surfing with some of the other reactionaries?
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)For Nancy Pelosi to recuse herself. She obviously has a conflict of interest because if Pence is also impeached she will be president.
I give it two weeks until they start trying that one.
catbyte
(34,409 posts)PJMcK
(22,037 posts)He must be bouncing off of the walls!
Trump gets triggered if someone farts in his direction from 500 miles away. With all of the setbacks he's facing, he must be even more of a mess than ever before.
I'm loving it.
PS - "tasteless haste" est un tres bon mot!
malaise
(269,086 posts)The base is done with him - this fucking jig is up
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)Wouldn't you say?
Fuck you, Trump.
malaise
(269,086 posts)PHEW!
Marcuse
(7,493 posts)malaise
(269,086 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,206 posts)manufactured operations, 2016, 2020.
bucolic_frolic
(43,206 posts)malthaussen
(17,205 posts)That sounds like a good first line for a poem.
-- Mal
malaise
(269,086 posts)malthaussen
(17,205 posts)... I know, terrible rhyme.
-- Mal
Because Don the COn is beyond a disgrace