A National Security Council official who could confirm that President Trump was withholding Ukraine military assistance for investigations into his political rivals plans to testify in the House impeachment inquiry next week. And it looks like the White House will be unable to block him.
The smell of impeachment. What a great start to the weekend!
The dam has broken. They can’t stonewall anymore, and they must be panicking. Good.
Big f’n deal.
Will confirm what ambassador tayler said, and further box in Bolton. Bolton can then deliver the knife deep into trump’s back. Bolton has the benefit of being a star of the right wing whack-a-doodle set, making his testimony more impactful on the right than any other possible witness.
Plus as testimony builds, it makes the case for getting quick action on subpoenas for documents better, as it shows crimes were committed.
adding a P.S. Their is now for Trump a major “first mover” problem. The first witnesses to defy Trump’s order’s to obstruct and suffer no consequences (Yanakovitch, Hill, Volker), made the decision to cooperate much easier. You go testify, you (a) get to shape the narrative to make yourself look better, (b) you get props for cooperating which will be helpful re future employement when Trump is gone, © you reduce your legal bills to more like $15-20K. OTOH, if you refuse to testify, you will likely (hopefully) have Congress immediately move to compel your testimony. Why? Well that will cost another $20-30K in legal fees. And when indictments come down after 2020 your name may be listed on the indictment for obstruction of justice, etc. And I can’t stress this enough, those people who refuse to testimony should be immediately be subject to legal process to compel, which drives up their personal costs. I’ve not seen this yet, which seems really odd to me.
I expect military action any time now
You know, I think we’re going to impeach the motherfucker.
It’s a long ways to next Thursday, I hope Mr. Morrison is staying in a hotel somewhere under an assumed name and left all of his electronics at home.
With the mobsters in charge, all bets are off the table as to just how far they’ll go to protect themselves.
OK everyone, same page here, get with the program!!
“Tim Morrison is a Deep State unelected bureaucrat, a tool of the vicious Democrat witch hunt out to get President Trump! The phone call was perfect! No quid pro quo!”
Let’s all thank Maria Yovanovich for taking the first step. None of them are afraid of him anymore. He’ll be ballistic.
More receipts.
The problem is, the witnesses are giving their notes to the State Dept. or whatever agency they work for, which refuse to release them to Congress. So it may take time to get them, but I have confidence the courts will order them to be produced.
By next Thursday the descendents of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg will agree their parents had it easy in their press coverage.
Already???
Possibly, I also can see that this would happen with WH approval knowing that the fool will follow the WH line.
Yeah, yeah. Yawn.
At some point even the koolaid-heads might realize that it’s the same mantra every time.
Soon. Soon enough anyway. I’m not in a hurry.
Oh, I think impeachment is 100% – removal/resignation is another story.
But is the House gonna impeach him? Absofuckinglutely.
Sondland’s attorney told the Post that the ambassador did not recall that conversation.
It’s funny how certain lapses in memory tend to align with one’s personal loyalties. Quite convenient, actually.
I hope you’re right about Bolton. As much as I’ve despised him over the years, there’s little doubt he is a true conservative ideologue. If he has a nasty streak that makes him happy to shiv Trump and Pompeo, all the better.
Regardless, Morrison may be able to help House investigators clear up the inconsistencies between Taylor’s and Sondland’s versions of events.
Inconsistencies? Is that another euphemism for “Sondland is a lying, evasive, non-responsive weasel?”
And, of course, “You’re the quid pro quo!”