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riversedge's JournalTrump shouts at a reporter as she asks him about witness intimidation.
Trump shouts at a reporter as she asks him about witness intimidation.
https://twitter.com/politicususa/status/1195448771510976514?s=20
Marie Yovanovitch receives standing ovation after Trump attacks her during impeachment testimony
Source: independent
Career diplomat receives swift praise for withstanding attacks from president during contentious public impeachment testimony
44 minutes ago
Marie Yovanovitch received a standing ovation following her public testimony in Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, in which the ousted ambassador to Ukraine was attacked by the president in a series of controversial tweets.
The audience stood and cheered for the career diplomat as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff ordered the meeting to a close, marking a rare moment in American politics. Citizens who sit in on congressional hearings are typically instructed to remain silent and respect decorum by abstaining from any audible outbursts.
Ms Yovanovitch testified for about five hours on Friday, telling investigators about her ouster in May at Mr Trump’s direction and how she felt as she found out that he had criticised her in a July phone call with Ukraine’s president.
As she spoke, Mr Trump tweeted: “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.”
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marie-yovanovitch-trump-impeachment-hearing-standing-ovation-ukraine-a9205206.html
Lovely to hear this. Turn the volume up
But there was a Repug demanding to speak as Adam S. adjourned.
Keith Boykin
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Adam Schiff adjourns today’s #ImpeachmentHearing. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch receives a standing ovation as she leaves. And Republicans fume in failure.
https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1195438703189073920?s=20
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Thanks to Devin Nunes we've all..reminded that #Trumps sole foreign policy experience was owning the
Thanks to Devin Nunes we’ve all been reminded that the President’s sole foreign policy experience was owning the Miss Universe pageant
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Trump asks Supreme Court to block another subpoena for his tax returns -- this one is from Congress
Source: cnbc
Published Fri, Nov 15 20192:44 PM EST
Key Points
President Trump’s attorneys asked the Supreme Court to block a subpoena for his tax returns issued by a Democrat-led House committee.
Trump’s lawyers previously asked the high court to reverse rulings that would allow Manhattan prosecutors to get his tax records as part of a probe of payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels and another woman.
The legal fights come as the House is conducting an impeachment probe of Trump related to his pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.
Attorneys for President Donald Trump returned to the Supreme Court on Friday to ask the justices for the second day in a row to block a demand for his income tax returns — this one from House Democrats.
On Thursday, Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeal of a lower-court ruling that would allow the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to obtain eight years’ worth of Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns from his accountants as part of its criminal investigation....................................................
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-tax-return-subpoena-from-house.html
gawd. If trumps pals in the SC grant him this. --Oh, I do not even want to think about it. damn
WHY did Trump tell Pence NOT to attend New #Ukraine Pres inauguation when it was already PLANNED???
Bet Trump will NOT respond to this question!
New Trump-Ukraine Call Transcript Raises More Questions
https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2019/11/new-trump-ukraine-call-transcript-raises-more-questions/
Evan Vucci/AP
Minutes before the start of the House’s second public impeachment hearing, the White House released the rough transcript of President Donald Trump’s April phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the newly elected president of Ukraine. The release of that conversation—which took place three months before the now infamous July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Zelensky to do him a “favor” by investigating Trump’s political enemies—appears to be intended by the White House to help Trump’s case. Instead, it raises new questions about Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine into aiding his personal political fortunes.
According to the newly released document, which isn’t a verbatim transcription,
Trump used the April 21 call to congratulate Zelensky on his electoral victory. During the conversation, Zelensky repeatedly invited Trump to his to his inauguration—a key request from a US ally hoping to demonstrate that it had strong international support in its ongoing conflict with Russia. Trump responded that he would “look into it” but added that in any case, “we will have somebody, at a minimum, at a very, very high level, and they will be with you.”
But despite promising to send a “very high level” official, Trump reportedly blocked Vice President Mike Pence from attending the inauguration, sending Energy Secretary Rick Perry instead. Here’s how the Washington Post explained it in a story last month:
President Trump repeatedly involved Vice President Pence in efforts to exert pressure on the leader of Ukraine at a time when the president was using other channels to solicit information that he hoped would be damaging to a Democratic rival, current and former U.S. officials said.
Trump instructed Pence not to attend the inauguration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in May—an event White House officials had pushed to put on the vice president’s calendar—when Ukraine’s new leader was seeking recognition and support from Washington, the officials said.
[…]
Pence’s staff was weighing whether the vice president should lead a delegation to attend Zelensky’s inauguration in May, an important vote of confidence for the new Ukrainian president whose nation has come to view the United States as a bulwark against Russian aggression. Russia has annexed Crimea, a part of Ukraine, and continues to foment a separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The date of the inauguration had been in flux, the White House still had not dispatched advance staff and Secret Service to Ukraine, and no visit had been officially confirmed when the president instructed Pence not to attend, according to officials. A current and former official confirmed Trump’s instructions, which were also mentioned in the whistleblower report.
After the transcript’s release this morning, House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff addressed Trump directly during the hearing. “I hope you will explain to the country today why it was—after this call and while the vice president was making plans to attend the inauguration—that you instructed the vice president not to attend Zelensky’s inauguration,” said Schiff..................
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Evan Vucci/AP
@KamalaHarris TWEETING in real time-- Witness intimidation is a crime...
Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris
Witness intimidation is a crime.
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1195368978505510913?s=20
********KEN STARR TRIES TO DOWNPLAY TRUMP DOING THE WITNESS INTIMIDATION
Replying to
@KamalaHarris
Ken Starr on FoxNews right now.
He said Trump was definitely not advised by lawyers to send that tweet.
He went on to say, he didn’t think it rose to the level of witness tampering but it was no doubt injurious.
MarkD
@MarkDoldon
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"any attempt to change or prevent testimony" It is a crime, by any interpretation. Shall we ask the courts?
https://twitter.com/WWoodUK/status/1195370145302155264?s=20
@AmyKlobuchar: Memo to: Republican colleagues at hearing From: Everyone else........
Spot on Amy (but Repugs are cruel)
https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1195187849668235264?s=20
Hannity Predicts Marie Yovanovitch Will Cry 'on Cue' at Hearing-But was Silent when #Kavanaugh cried
HERE WE GO
Hannity Predicts Marie Yovanovitch Will Cry ‘on Cue’ at Hearing
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sean-hannity-predicts-marie-yovanovitch-will-cry-on-cue-at-hearing
“I would say apparently she cried and the Democrats are apparently hoping she will cry again tomorrow,” Hannity asserted on the eve of her testimony.
Updated Nov. 15, 2019 4:08AM ET / Published Nov. 14, 2019 10:49PM ET
On the eve of Friday’s open impeachment hearing featuring former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, Fox News host Sean Hannity suggested Yovanovitch may look to create more drama by crying “on cue” throughout the proceedings.
During his show-opening monologue on Thursday, Hannity once again took aim at Yovanovitch over her testimony last month that she was told someone at the State Department “would place a call to Mr. Hannity” to get to the bottom of media attacks against her last spring. ..................................
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#MoscowMitch, the self proclaimed Grim Reaper of the Senate bill burying heist, has @PressSec now
doing his lifting of the Repug talking point!!
https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1194659763965038592?s=20
https://twitter.com/by_rhonda/status/1194839182763577344?s=20
Trump's Push For 2020 Tax Cut Shows 'First Tax Cut Was Scam'
Source: crooksAndLiars
11/15/19 4:04am
"This is an acknowledgement that Republicans' original tax plan was heavily skewed to the wealthy, the middle got almost nothing, and people at the bottom got literally nothing."
Advisers to President Donald Trump are reportedly working on a plan to slash the "middle class" tax rate to 15 percent, a pre-election effort that tax experts and progressive critics slammed as an admission that the first round of Republican tax cuts did nothing for most Americans while further enriching the wealthiest.
"Here we go again," Americans for Tax Fairness executive director Frank Clemente said in a statement Tuesday, pointing out that the 2017 GOP tax law was also sold as a "middle class tax cut."
"Raising the idea of a new 'middle class tax cut' is an admission by the president that his first tax cut was a scam. It wasn't aimed at the middle class but aimed at his wealthy friends and big corporations."
—Frank Clemente, Americans for Tax Fairness
"What's the line, fool me once…? A vague, election-year promise of a huge tax cut for the middle-class should be viewed very skeptically," said Clemente. "Raising the idea of a new 'middle class tax cut' is an admission by the president that his first tax cut was a scam. It wasn't aimed at the middle class but aimed at his wealthy friends and big corporations. Why should we expect anything different now?"
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that a team of Trump aides led by National Economic Council director and Wall Street ally Larry Kudlow is exploring a number of proposals that would further cut taxes, including some that would disproportionately reward the rich.................................
Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2019/11/trumps-push-2020-tax-cut-shows-first-tax?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=23435
Our Treasury is already depleted. Trump is selling our Military for Protection. What next??
https://twitter.com/crooksandliars/status/1195313631933558784?s=20
Trump's Push For 2020 Tax Cut Shows 'First Tax Cut Was Scam' Image from: @DCCC
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