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The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry on Monday released the testimony of the State Department official who claimed to overhear an explosive phone call between President Trump and the U.S. ambassador leading the Ukraine pressure campaign.


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Rimshot…

The gags write themselves…

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This is the guy Taylor was referring to in terms of the new information he provided last Wednesday. This can be corroborated by, I believe, at least two other people.

The phone call was also overheard by two waiters, the maitre d’, a busboy, a busker playing the mandolin, and a half dozen Uber drivers idling on the street…and that’s from Trump’s end of the phone call.

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…an explosive phone call between… Trump and the U.S. ambassador leading the Ukraine pressure campaign.

The President of the United States has no right to engage in crime.

Not against Hispanic children, not against hot looking beauty contestants, not against allies fighting evil, and never against his own people.

Fire Trump!

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Are you saying it was the Chicken Kyiv?

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It’s Trump’s wholly shit.

“Well, Chauncy, that’s something you don’t see every day.”

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It’s one thing to want to use the powers of the President to throw an election (which only goes to show how much confidence team Trump has in his natural ability), but it’s evidently something really flabbergasting to be so fucking idiotic about it.

But, hey, there’s people who supposedly still want to vote for him because he’s a conduit through which to get their goals met…?

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Yes.

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Pubbies like Jim “Lucha Libre” Jordan have been trying to convince us that Schiff and the Dems were not releasing testimony transcripts that would support Trump, but alas, now that they are being released, for example, Tim Morrison’s, and now Hale’s, they add to the case against Trump. Either the Goopers are not listening, or they are listening and are employing a “happy hopey filter”.

ETA. When will Hannity be subpoenaed? Why hasn’t he already? His name keeps coming up in the proceedings and also the Mueller 302s.

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So they are surely left with only “We did the crime, so what ya gonna do about it, punk?” as the legal foundation of their defense.

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More on Hale testimony:

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Dept. SoS Hannity

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Republicans in a state of panic? Stay tuned for Thursday.

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Yes, not because of what they’re learning, but because their lies are increasingly indefensible.

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So what’s left now? Trump’s really a Democrat?

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Not to be outdone, RoJo extrudes his MoJo.

But, after the huffing, puffing and extruding …

These people give ordinary miscreants a bad name.

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"Holmes told the story of the call to ‘to almost anyone I encountered’…”

So did the guys in the unmarked GRU van, parked just outside the cafe, who recorded it.

And the FSB agent who took Sondland’s order.

And both tables of plainclothes SVR on either side of him.

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And the rent boy that night, who had such a winning smile.

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On loan from Jerry Falwell Jr. and Becki Falwell.

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Not to mention Nikita Krushchev Jr.

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That’s been Joe Scarborough’s argument all along.

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