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riversedge's JournalPelosi is so good!!!!!! She really threw some shade at stupid Trump today..........
short and sweet video..........
Holy crap.
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Nancy Pelosi stopping her statement to the press and taking a moment to explain what the word "exculpatory" means to Trump is a whooooooleass mood.
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#Thursdaythoughts
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The US Bureaucracy Lives In Fear Of Trump's Twitter Account; Call it by its name!!#Cyberbullying!!
I hope she hold up tomorrow. 
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The US Bureaucracy Lives In Fear Of Trump’s Twitter Account
New testimony from the impeachment inquiry shows what top government officials will do to guard against a presidential tweet.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamelder/donald-trump-ukraine-ambassador-impeachment-twitter
Miriam Elder BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on November 4, 2019, at 6:26 p.m. ET
Several hours into her testimony to impeachment investigators, Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, breaks down. She asks to take a minute, and once she’s collected herself, an aide to the House committee says, “We understand this is a difficult and emotional topic.”
Minutes earlier, Yovanovitch, had recounted the rush with which she was recalled from her post by President Donald Trump — the calls from senior State Department staff in the middle of the night telling her she’d “need to come home on the next plane,” that they were concerned for her safety. She repeats, as she does over and over again, in her more than 300 pages of testimony released Monday, that it all left her “shocked.”
Days after leaving Kyiv, following a public vilification campaign led by former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko and Rudy Giuliani (and amplified by Donald Trump Jr.), she finally makes it to the State Department offices in DC, where she meets Assistant Secretary Phil Reeker and then–deputy secretary John Sullivan, who apologizes for what is happening to her. “What have I done wrong?” she asks. “He repeated what Phil had already told me, which is that this was coming from President Trump, this was, you know, final, and that I — that the reason they pulled me back is that they were worried that if I wasn't, you know, physically out of Ukraine, that there would be, you know, some sort of public either tweet or something else from the White House,” Yovanovitch tells the room. “And so this was to make sure that I would be treated with as much respect as possible.” Minutes later, she falls apart.
Yovanovitch’s testimony is many things: a roadmap to Giuliani’s parallel diplomacy, an inside look at how Republican members of Congress are treating the inquiry, a crash course in Ukrainian politics. But more than anything, it is a revelation of how at least one entire section of the US government — in this case, the State Department — has come to live in total fear of the Presidential Tweet. Yovanovitch was initially told, by Carol Perez, the head of the foreign service, that she was being abruptly pulled from Kyiv for her safety. Sullivan revealed the real reason: They were worried she would be fired by tweet.
Earlier in her testimony, Yovanovitch revealed how she pleaded for public State Department support as the campaign against her quickly spiraled. She had already been warned by Ukraine’s powerful interior minister, Arsen Avakov, that she “needed to watch her back” as Giuliani’s associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, in concert with Lutsenko, pushed for her removal. She turned to Under Secretary David Hale, seeking a statement from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, something public to bolster her. “What I wanted was the Secretary of State to issue a statement that said that, you know, I have his full confidence or something like that, to indicate that I, in fact, am the ambassador in Ukraine, and that I speak for the President, for the Secretary of State, for our country,” Yovanovitch told investigators. She says she never heard anything back, and no statement was ever issued.
Reeker later provides her with an explanation. “I was told there was caution about any kind of a statement, because it could be undermined,” she tells investigators. They ask: by whom? “The president.” In what way? “Well, a tweet or something.” 
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As Yovanovitch saw the campaign against her grow to unimaginable heights, she turned to Gordon Sondland, a Trump donor who was made ambassador to the EU, for advice. “He said, you know, you need to go big or go home. You need to, you know, tweet out there that you support the President, and that all these are lies and everything else.” She…didn’t take the advice.
Oh Thank You Rain Goddess.............#TrumpRally
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Chris Wallace: Taylor testimony 'very damaging to President Trump'
I can only hope Wallace is right!!
Chris Wallace: Taylor testimony 'very damaging to President Trump'
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/470296-chris-wallace-taylor-testimony-very-damaging-to-president-trump
By Joe Concha - 11/13/19 01:45 PM EST
"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace called the testimony to the House Intelligence Committee of William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine, "very damaging to President Trump" during impeachment hearings analysis early Wednesday afternoon.
Taylor testified around Trump's urging of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden as the first witness chosen by House Democrats to testify.
"I think that William Taylor was a very impressive witness and was very damaging to the president," Wallace said, while cautioning that questioning by GOP House members may change his initial perspective.
"He took very copious notes at almost every conversation — when he put quotes in his opening statement, he said those were direct quotes from what was said. It also doesn’t hurt that he has a voice like Edward R. Murrow," Wallace added.
"He is a pretty impressive presence up there. And, I think, very nonpolitical," Wallace noted. "He went out of his way to talk about what he knew, what he was specifically testament to. The only thing he talked about was a strong feeling that it was in the U.S. national security interest to support Ukraine in the fight against Russia. But he certainly wasn’t taking any partisan position."
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Ahead of Trump meeting, Erdogan threatens to buy Russian jets
Source: nbcnews
The Turkish president spoke to Russia's Vladimir Putin about the purchase at a recent meeting if the U.S. keeps its ban on selling U.S.-made fighter jets.
Nov. 13, 2019, 4:00 AM CST / Updated Nov. 13, 2019, 11:29 AM CST
WASHINGTON — As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prepares for Wednesday's White House meeting with President Donald Trump, he's threatening to further inflame tensions between Washington and Ankara by purchasing Russian military fighter jets, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions.
Discussions about Turkey purchasing the fighter jets were advanced during a meeting between Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin two weeks ago in Sochi, these people said. The Trump administration banned the sale of U.S.-made F-35 jets to Turkey in response to Erdogan’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system.
The possibility of Turkey, a NATO ally, acquiring more military equipment from Putin adds a new dimension to the controversy around Trump's decision to give Erdogan the prestigious platform of a White House meeting. The president is already facing push back from lawmakers who are opposed to the meeting due to the recent Turkish offensive in Syria and Erdogan's purchase of the S-400 Russian missile defense system, for which they have unsuccessfully pressured Trump to sanction Turkey.
Trump tried to appease one of those critics, Sen. Lindsey Graham, by telling the South Carolina Republican that he could sit in on Erdogan's White House meeting if he was worried about it, according to people familiar with their phone call last Wednesday.
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/ahead-trump-meeting-erdogan-threatens-buy-russian-jets-n1080721
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands following talks in Sochi on Oct. 22, 2019.Alexei Druzhinin / Kremlin via Reuters file
State Department staffer got job with embellished resume, fake Time magazine cover
lordy lordy. Don't they check out these resume's????
[bSenior Trump official embellished résumé, had face on fake Time cover
State Dept. official Mina Chang claimed to be a Harvard Business School "alumna" who ran a nonprofit that worked in 40 countries.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/senior-trump-official-embellished-resume-had-face-fake-time-cover-n1080356?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
State Department staffer got job with embellished resume, fake Time magazine cover
Nov. 12, 2019, 10:58 AM CST / Updated Nov. 12, 2019, 1:45 PM CST
By Dan De Luce, Laura Strickler and Ari Sen
WASHINGTON — A senior Trump administration official has embellished her résumé with misleading claims about her professional background — even creating a fake Time magazine cover with her face on it — raising questions about her qualifications to hold a top position at the State Department.
An NBC News investigation found that Mina Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, has inflated her educational achievements and exaggerated the scope of her nonprofit's work.
Whatever her qualifications, Chang had a key connection in the Trump administration. Brian Bulatao, a top figure in the State Department and longtime friend of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, attended a fundraiser for her nonprofit in Dallas and once donated $5,500 to her charity, according to a former colleague of Chang's.
Chang, who assumed her post in April, also invented a role on a U.N. panel, claimed she had addressed both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and implied she had testified before Congress.
She was being considered for an even bigger government job, one with a budget of more than $1 billion, until Congress started asking questions about her résumé....................................
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Mina Chang inflated her resume and peddled a fake Time cover. Trump appointed her to the State Department.
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Rep Welch won the day. Responding to Jerk Jordan who had referenced the whistleblower, he said we'd
I had to go out to work for awhile but just logged on and saw this.
Rep Welch won the day. Responding to Jerk Jordan who had referenced the whistleblower, he said we'd be happy to have the person who started it all. trump is welcome to sit right there as he points to the witness table.
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He's a keeper!
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It was the statement of the day!
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Taylor testifying..that Trump ordered the Pres of Ukraine to go to a microphone and announce an
Pretty damning IMHO
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Taylor testifies Trump and Sondland were in direct coordination on insistence of Ukraine investigation into Bidens.
Pat Fuller is a Democrat #Antiracist #GutsyWoman
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Done. Over. This presidency is finished.
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Taylor testifies Trump and Sondland were in direct coordination on insistence of Ukraine investigation into Bidens.
Pat Fuller is a Democrat #Antiracist #GutsyWoman
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Done. Over. This presidency is finished.
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Taylor testifying that the President of the United States ordered the President of Ukraine to go to a microphone and announce an investigation into Joe Biden.
I mean what else do we need here?
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Taylor just delivered a complicated but devastating testimony for President Trump.
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I took a look around at what's trending and it looks like the right is freaking out. Good.
May all the rocks you hurled for years come right back at you and land on your face.
that the President of the United States ordered the President of Ukraine to go to a microphone and announce an investigation into Joe Biden.
I mean what else do we need here?
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Taylor just delivered a complicated but devastating testimony for President Trump.
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I took a look around at what's trending and it looks like the right is freaking out. Good.
May all the rocks you hurled for years come right back at you and land on your face.
Graham: I won't watch this hearing. It's 'un-American'
any Senator who is purposefully Uninformed should NOT be allowed to vote on Impeachment!
IMO it’s un-American for a senator to state this
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Graham: I won't watch this hearing. It's 'un-American'
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Nunes Insults Impeachment Witnesses: Congrats on Passing Democrats' 'Star Chamber Auditions'
Source: dailybeast
Justin Baragona
Updated 11.13.19 10:45AM ET / Published 11.13.19 10:42AM ET
At the start of Wednesday’s public impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives, House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) pointedly insulted the two witnesses: top Ukrainian diplomat Bill Taylor and senior State Department official George Kent.
“Ambassador Taylor and Mr. Kent, I’d like to welcome you here,” Nunes snarked. “I would like to congratulate you for passing the Democrats’ star chamber auditions held for the last weeks in the basement of the capitol. It seems you agreed witting or unwittingly to participate in a drama. But the main performance, a Russia hoax, has ended, and you’ve been cast in the low-rent Ukrainian sequel.”..................................................
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/nunes-insults-impeachment-witnesses-congrats-on-passing-democrats-star-chamber-auditions
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I really wanted to bop Nunes smarty pants mouth
Keep It Real!
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Mr. Nunes stayed far away from facts, and resort to name calling. He sounded more like Trump than a Respected Congressman.
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Nunes is literally describing himself in real time! This entire Impeachment show is going to be a giant CONFESSION session by #TrumpMob!
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