Schiff: Cmte Investigating If Pressure Campaign Predated Zelensky

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said shortly after the release of the report into President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign that his committee is still investigating whether the situation predated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1266228

Your OneWordAnswer™: Yes.

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Worth a read. They just had to shift gears with Zelensky.

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It has seemed to me that, from the moment Mueller’s report printed and was simultaneously touted by Barr falsely as an exoneration of the Dipshit in Chief, said Dipshit said “let’s lean on Ukraine cuz I can do whatever I want”. That would have been March. Since he is both stupid and illiterate Dipshit believed the Barr spin permitted him to do precisely what he then believed Mueller exonerated him of having done vis a vis Russia. Of course Mueller only came up short on conspiracy, so Dipshit and his crack team of wise guys decided they could now actively conspire. Hilarious.

This has become obvious…after Poroshenko lost there was a definite shift, where it looked like the efforts of Giuliani and Solomon were stopped until they could clear out Yovanovitch and start a new chapter of pressure on Zelensky. They really did seem to have all the ducks in a row, and the election tossed out their ability to generate the fake investigation. There’s a scramble that then happens, including Giuliani’s attempted travel in May, to try to get in with the new administration.

I think this preliminary effort to get an announcement is evidence of a far bigger plot that was going on, one that had to adapt quickly so that the “investigation” of Biden could be announced soon enough to torpedo his campaign. They had plenty of time to arrange it with the Poroshenko people, then had to rush (and use pressure) to get it with the new president. Following this thread is going to bring out a new element, one that fits with what happened later…and, with the courts giving the House its subpoena power we’ll see a deeper investigation, one that also fills out the impeachment information (likely during the trial). Press reports of the House’s investigation will affect the Senate trial, especially if something really bad comes out.

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I think all these fake witch hunt hoax investigations are going to grow geometrically, as more and more Trump Crime Family hijinks are revealed.

More please…

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So many witches, so little time.

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Seems like pressure on Ukraine began at the convention in '16 w/ Manafort pushing to remove aid to Ukraine from the GOP platform