The House impeachment inquiry on Wednesday released the transcript of acting Ukraine ambassador Bill Taylor’s testimony, which was taken behind closed doors two weeks ago.
ALL the blaCk ouT is “no quid Pro quo.fake witch-hunt. SHaM impeaChment. You’re thE impeaChment!”
Matt…are you going to report on this or are you just going to point us to pile of paper?
I think people with bullhorns should read this transcript around the clock outside Lindsey Graham’s office, home, car, gym, and Motel 6 liaison site.
Well, as it was just released he’ll probably need to have a couple minutes to read the 300+ pages before summarizing it. Now we have the ability to read it ourselves if we want, instead of waiting for someone else to tell us what it says.
Trump just added ultra-maroon Pam Bondi to his “impeachment team.”
I’m still laughing.
And laughing.
Heh.
Are these transcripts what TL:DR was invented for? (Sigh)
“Before she became the Republican nominee for Florida attorney general, Pam Bondi was a familiar face as a legal analyst on CNN and the Fox News Channel. But Bondi may be best known for a custody battle over a St. Bernard.”
The bit about not being able to sort out the effort to bribe Ukraine because Trump was all about buying Greenland shows that this simulation was originally based on a Marx brothers movie.
Barr is having advanced meetings—including one on Wednesday with Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham—so that talking points and presentations can be ready in advance of an official release.
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Barr is directly attempting to put some proof behind the claims that Donald Trump was trying to extort out of Ukraine — that there was never any real contact between Russia and the Trump campaign, that the DNC servers were not in fact hacked by Russia, that Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud was a CIA plant put in place to lure George Papadopoulos, that Australian official Andrew Downer was an instrument of U.S. intelligence, that Ukrainian hackers conspired with Hillary Clinton to make it seem as if Russia stole data from the DNC and presented it to WikiLeaks when all the while it was a scheme to justify launching an investigation into the Trump campaign.
Barr and his associates have been racing to complete this report so that it can be dropped on the impeachment inquiry before the holidays. Major parts of the report apparently remain unwritten, but the fact that the publicity campaign is getting underway in advance of the report’s completion is not exactly a sign that this is going to be a contrite “nothing major found” report. And Barr has been at the center of forwarding Trump’s conspiracy theories and supporting attacks on the intelligence community.
He’s probably eyeing her for his fourth wife. Mel’s getting a little long in the tooth and she won’t let him touch her.
I think she’s best known for dropping Florida’s suit against Trump U right after an astonishing coincidence, receiving a $25,000 campaign donation from one the Trump orgs.
Nice job burying the lede. They teach that in j-school?
Oh my. I had completely forgotten about buying Greenland! How did that become a part of this story? This is like something out of Theater of the Absurd.
The Tyranny of the Absurd.
Hail! Hail, Fredonia!
The House should seriously consider impeaching Barr.
Best line in this whole process so far:
“Okay. That’s disturbing for a whole different reason.”
This piece of understatement can be applied to most anything Trump and Co does, says, or thinks about.
