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September 24, 2019

Earlier this month Pence flew to Poland and on 9/1 he met in Warsaw with the Ukrainian President

Earlier this month Pence flew to Poland to fill in for President Trump in meetings with European leaders on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. On September 1st, he met in Warsaw with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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(Josh Marshall) But in the context of what we know was happening and especially the call we know took place a month earlier, these repeated references to progress on corruption and holding up military aid until Zelensky acted could scarcely be more clear.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pence-gave-ukraine-the-message-too

September 22, 2019

Trump is losing it right now.

Can he say the word great one more time? And now he is blaming his phone
call to the President of Ukraine on Joe Biden and his son too. So now it
was Germany & France's fault that Trump called the Ukraine too? Something
to do with payments. (I couldn't follow Trump's thinking or comments on how
and or why his phone call was linked to France and Germany.)

BTW who really believes that this was Trump's 1st rodeo as per talking to foreign
leaders and asking them to interfere in our elections?


Can he say the word perfect one more time?

The man is out and out batshit crazy .... how much longer will this shit show go on?








September 22, 2019

@ my local bar today* ... they serve beer buckets of 5 or 6 beers on ice and they have buckets that

.... say Trump 45 on them. And some people are so damn proud to have those buckets on their tables too.
I don't say a thing.

* watch some football, eat a really good Italian sub, and drink 2 to 3 beers.




September 20, 2019

Greg Olear, "Trump's presidency is over."

If it is on the internet then it must be true.


Greg Olear
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Verified account

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3/ I have been screaming about Trump/Russia since January 2016. To me, and to followers of this feed, the seditious phone call does not come as a surprise. But IF it was Putin on the line, and IF promises were made that compromise national security, Trump's presidency is over.


https://twitter.com/gregolear/status/1174633350075691009

September 19, 2019

Was it Putin that Trump talked to? The timeline works out.


NPR: Russia Says Trump Offered To Help Putin Fight Forest Fires In Siberia

August 1, 201910:14 AM ET

President Trump spoke with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday and offered U.S. help in fighting widespread forest fires raging in parts of Siberia, according to a Kremlin account of the call.

Putin, in response, expressed his "sincere gratitude" to Trump and said that if necessary, he will accept the offer, the Kremlin said on its website.

"The President of Russia regards the US President's offer as a sign that it is possible that full-scale bilateral relations will be restored in the future," the statement from the Kremlin read.

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The call between Trump and Putin comes just days before Friday's expected U.S. withdrawal from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia.
September 18, 2019

Now on MSNBC & Natasha Bertrand in the last year the US Air Force could have been Trump's ....

.... Turnberry resort #1 customer.

But really what about HRC's emails?

September 17, 2019

House Judiciary Committee to hold 1st impeachment hearing

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — As they investigate President Donald Trump, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee will hold their first official hearing in what they are calling an impeachment investigation.

Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s outspoken, loyal former campaign manager, is scheduled to appear Tuesday to discuss the report by former special counsel Robert Mueller. But it’s unlikely that Democrats will get much new information as they decide whether to draft articles of impeachment against the president.

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Still, the Judiciary panel is moving ahead, approving rules for impeachment hearings last week. Among those guidelines is allowing staff to question witnesses, as will happen for the first time with Lewandowski.

Lewandowski was a central figure in Mueller’s report. Mueller’s investigators detailed two episodes in which Trump asked Lewandowski to direct then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to limit Mueller’s investigation. Trump said that if Sessions would not meet with Lewandowski, then Lewandowski should tell Sessions he was fired.

Read more: https://www.apnews.com/04ac3771d88a47a1b10e4081646e871c



September 17, 2019

NYT/Kavanaugh: How many times do we have to see the same M.O. to recognize it and call it out?

George W Bush went AWOL for the TANG (Texas air national guard) to avoid a piss test
but "they" changed the subject to Dan Rather and the phony memo.

Trump got large sums of Russian money from Deutcshe's Bank when nobody else would
lend him a dime but "they" changed the subject to Lawrence O'Donnell's source.

Many many credible cases have come out about Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulting
women and heavy drinking but now "they" have changed the story to the NYT.

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