WSJ: Pompeo Listened In On Trump’s Notorious Ukraine Call | Talking Points Memo

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was dialed into President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.


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Time for an old classic

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The FBI reports to him what a conundrum did he report the law being broken to himself? Lock him up but give him a fair trial first

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Get in the pod, Mike. Save yourself, before it’s too late, Mike.

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Well, so much for him running for Senate in Kansas…when he gets up there and says it was just fine for Trump to pressure a foreign leader to investigate an election rival it’s going to go over very badly, especially if he tries to defend it. And, I’m not sure Pompeo would, for being a Republican he seems like someone that wouldn’t go along with something like this…maybe he will be the first big Republican to turn on Trump, just by trying to save his own skin and tell the truth (a novelty for today’s Republicans).

It really is an avalanche, and it’s too late for the pebbles to keep from getting clobbered.

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Is it me, or can we look forward to the below this week?

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John Bolton revenge saga continues…

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Pompeii was destroyed by a volcano from lava escaping from fissure vents.

Pompeo was destroyed by an orange anal fissure venting…

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And in other news: Trump tried to get Australia involved in Barr’s witch-hunt into the origins of the Mueller probe.

Dear god. Even the koalas aren’t safe.

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Judge: “Sec. Pompeo, In your role as Secretary of State, did it not for a minute occur to you to advise the Current Occupant that the substance of this phone conversation was improper on its face, and possibly illegal as well?”
Pompeo: “No, sir.”
Judge: “Lock him up!”

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Only a corrupt swamp thing would consent to serve in this cabinet, so it is no surprise that they are, to a man, criminals.

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Do we mention that it’s only Monday? :joy:

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Funny thing about stories and phone calls…

More than one person can hear them
More than one meaning can accrue to different people
More than one felony rap can be involved with one call

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So, can the congressman from Koch be charged with misprision of a felony?
If not, it’d seem to be grounds for removal: party over country is a breach of his oath of office.

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I don’t think they’re worried. According to the sanctuary I visited in Australia in August, koala sleep more than 20 hours a day.

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Anyone know how the prison expansion is coming along at Guantanamo?

They’d better speed things up and expand the expansion.

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Pompeo: But there was no “quid pro quo” , not even the “though” word! All legal!

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But he seems so innocent!:astonished:

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Not surprised. Still waiting to find out what the other calls (that are hidden) are about. That should be fun.

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Now tell me that Pence was listening in, too, and my day will be complete. Hell, my week will be complete!

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