October 15, 2019

Fiona Hill Confirms The Quid Pro Quo

🚨Fiona Hill describes this scene:

In a White House meeting, Sondland tells Ukrainians they will get a Trump meeting if they open the investigations Trump wants. Then, Sondland follows the Ukrainians out of the meeting to privately make clear he's talking about Hunter Biden.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1184113896371699712

October 15, 2019

Memo to Trump staff: If your lucky - This could be your future.

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1183939764891901952/dssnS8ek?format=jpg&name=600x314


https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1184092004239761408

October 15, 2019

Trump Thinks Bolton Is Behind Ukraine Leaks

Daily Beast: “In the course of casual conversations with advisers and friends, President Trump has privately raised suspicions that a spiteful John Bolton, his notoriously hawkish former national security adviser, could be one of the sources behind the flood of leaks against him… At one point, Trump guessed that Bolton was behind one of the anonymous accounts that listed the former national security adviser as one of the top officials most disturbed by the Ukraine-related efforts of Trump and Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney who remains at the center of activities that spurred the impeachment inquiry.”

“The former national security adviser—who departed the administration last month on awful, mutually bitter terms—is working on a book about his time serving Trump, and has ‘a lot to dish,’ one knowledgeable source noted. “


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-suspects-a-spiteful-john-bolton-is-behind-ukraine-leaks
https://politicalwire.com/2019/10/15/trump-thinks-bolton-is-behind-ukraine-leaks/

October 15, 2019

Bolton & Giuliani comparing each other to escalating series of weapons is unexpected but xlnt turn

.@RudyGiuliani on Bolton calling him a “hand grenade.” RG: “I’m very disappointed that his bitterness drives him to attack a friend falsely...It’s really ironic that John Bolton is calling anyone else a hand grenade. When John is described by many as an atomic bomb . “


https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc/status/1184045842984030208

October 15, 2019

The US that has switched sides. We are now an active part of the Axis of Evil.

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...........I look at what is going on in Syria today and I see a US that has switched sides. We are now an active part of the Axis of Evil. We are aligned with dictators and murderers and thieves and enemies of our own country.

We have a president who defends those who attack us–like Russia–and goes further, he serves them. He defends murderers like Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia and sends him troops–or rents our military out to the highest bidder.

He talks of love letters with brutal autocrats like Kim Jong Un. He embraces neo-fascists from Bolsonaro to Duterte. He joins with men like Putin in attacks on our Intelligence Community and our FBI. He and those close to him are so corrupt that the vast army of people in the civil service, the Foreign Service, and others who have devoted their lives to serving our country feel compelled to put their careers at risk to help protect us from our own leaders.

Trump and Pence and Pompeo and Barr and McConnell and McCarthy and Graham and Rubio and the rest piously speak of their devotion to the Bible and God and then spend each and every day revealing that they have a Bible-shaped hole in their characters.


The rest:
https://thedsrnetwork.com/this-time-its-different-trumps-america-is-now-part-of-the-axis-of-evil/
https://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1183989968345206784
https://twitter.com/NicolaCareem/status/1183986344151920642
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1184077618028666882

October 15, 2019

***This is important bc Eisenberg is the guy who moved the Trump transcript to the TS server

DOJ decision not to investigate after whistleblower complaint referred more alarming

NEW: Fiona Hill told House impeachment investigators that John Bolton ordered her to notify a WH lawyer that Giuliani was working with Mick Mulvaney on a rogue operation with legal implications

(Also was key behind Section 702 stuff just ruled a 4A violation.)

Hill said Bolton instructed her to talk to NSC lawyer John Eisenberg. A spox for Bolton didn’t immediately respond to request for comment

so nsc lawyer john eisenberg knew everything when cia general counsel brought him whistleblower notification, before complaint

And Eisenberg has very quietly been the key person in this cover-up (and a key player in the cover-up of Russia). He's the guy who decided to place the transcript onto the TS server to hide the crimes.

Also, Hill focused attention on Mulvaney. I'll get into why that's so important. But it's the detail that will lead Republicans to vote to convict.




https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1183937768969424896
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1183947661910728705

https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1183939482204155904


Hill also said Bolton made the following statements to her



https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1183939546720980994
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1183940026498977794

October 15, 2019

Fiona Hill: Giuliani ran a shadow foreign policy that circumvented US Officials to benefit Trump

wow sounds sorta bad

Laura Rozen
@lrozen
Hill told impeachment investigators Giuliani ran a shadow foreign policy that circumvented U.S. officials to personally benefit Pres. Trump



https://twitter.com/Atrios/status/1183926573952581633
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1183934049498349568

...Sondland probably wishes he testified when he was supposed to last week. now committees will know

'Hill told lawmakers that she confronted Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, about Giuliani’s activities which, she testified, were not coordinated with the officials responsible for carrying out U.S. foreign policy'

https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1183930108886814722

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1183925690686693377
https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1183927816729042946
https://twitter.com/npfandos/status/1183936599672999937
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212583598

October 15, 2019

Trump declares that situation & actions he personally greenlighted now constitute a nat'l emergenxy

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1183872756519243783

October 15, 2019

Yesterdays letter from Fiona Hill To WH Lawyers May Reveal Tenor of Her Testimony Today

Yesterday’s letter from Fiona Hill’s lawyer to WH lawyers, pushing back on their executive privilege claims, may reveal the tenor of her testimony today: “The deliberative process privilege disappears altogether when there is any reason to believe government misconduct occurred.”






https://twitter.com/EricColumbus/status/1183914129880473600

October 15, 2019

Sondland's wife "fears an economic backlash" against his hotel company.

seems like a pretty reasonable fear if you help Trump commit crimes

Here’s an idea: tell the truth, stop helping Trump deny voters a free and fair election, stop covering it up, and nobody will have much interest in boycotting your fucking hotels.


https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1183909660631412736