ANOTHER WHISTLE BLOWER: CROOKED TRIED TO FIX HIS IRS AUDIT

[Chevy1]

Thanks for posting this, the truth. The liberals on here probably don’t want to comment on the actual transcript , Do they?

It was a stupid, cheap lawyer trick by a stupid, cheap lawyer and preening a-hole.

Now, tell us how that changes what went down on the call....or Guiliani's involvement with the Ukraine mob who made illegal contributions to the Trump Campaign...the same mobsters that wanted a certain US Ambassador removed and Guiliani and Trump made it happen. Or Guiliani earning $$ from foreign govts while representing Trump as his "private lawyer"..Or Trump publicly asking China to research his political rivals...or foreign office personnel refuting the white house versions of what went down....or the President's Chief of Staff stating on national TV more than once that there was a "quid pro quo"....and the timeline of withheld military support in combination with the transcript certainly indicates that was the case.

Bill Maher: "the only time Trump is upset about corruption is when he's not in on it."

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

White House accidentally sends Ukraine talking points to Democrats again
The White House accidentally sent Democrats a list of talking points related to ex-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's Friday House deposition, two sources with knowledge of the email told The Hill, the second time in a month the administration has sent its Ukraine talking points to Democrats.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...to-democrats-again/ar-AAIE5lp?ocid=spartandhp

Heh. Twice is no mistake.

 

[dherd]

I PREDICT ROMNEY WILL BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IN '20 & ELECTED PRESIDENT

BOLD PREDICTION TO BE SURE BUT ROMNEY IS DEFINATELY MAKEING A POWER PLAY RIGHT NOW
AT THIS MOMENT - DAILY.

THERE IS SO MUCH CRAP COMING OUT ON CROOKED THAT THERE WILL BE A CHALLENGE
AT THE CONVENTION (IF HE MAKES IT THAT FAR) THE PARTY WILL DETERMINE HE IS TO CROOKED
EVEN FOR A REPUBLICAN AND NOMINATE ROMNEY.

ROMNEY WILL DEFEAT ANY OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.

SOUNDS FAR FETCHED BUT IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

YOU KNOW I AM ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!

 

[herdfan429]

I PREDICT ROMNEY WILL BE THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE IN '20 & ELECTED PRESIDENT

BOLD PREDICTION TO BE SURE BUT ROMNEY IS DEFINATELY MAKEING A POWER PLAY RIGHT NOW
AT THIS MOMENT - DAILY.

THERE IS SO MUCH CRAP COMING OUT ON CROOKED THAT THERE WILL BE A CHALLENGE
AT THE CONVENTION (IF HE MAKES IT THAT FAR) THE PARTY WILL DETERMINE HE IS TO CROOKED
EVEN FOR A REPUBLICAN AND NOMINATE ROMNEY.

ROMNEY WILL DEFEAT ANY OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.

SOUNDS FAR FETCHED BUT IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

YOU KNOW I AM ALWAYS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!

Pierre Delecto says NO

 

[Chevy1]

Pierre Delecto says NO

He had this Twitter ID in order to comment on his children and grand children's tweets. Some journalist for the Atlantic figured it out by going to his grandkids accounts

 

[dherd]

Facebook takedowns show new Russian activity targeted Biden, praised Trump

Facebook on Monday said it removed a network of Russian-backed accounts that posed as locals weighing in on political issues in swing states, praising President Trump and attacking former vice president Joe Biden — illustrating that the familiar threat of Russian interference looms over the next U.S. presidential race.

Facebook said the network bears the hallmark of the same Kremlin-backed group that interfered in the 2016 election by sowing social discord, seeking to boost Trump and attacking Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The new disinformation campaign appears to follow the same playbook.

This time, a coordinated group of Russian accounts that appears to show some links to the Internet Research Agency largely took to Facebook’s photo-sharing app, Instagram, to post content this year about U.S. politics and memes targeting Democratic presidential contenders.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech...aves-controversial-political-ad-rules-intact/

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Pierre Delecto

Almost as good an alias as Ron Mexico.

 

[dherd]

For Trump the Dealmaker, Troop Pullouts Without Much in Return

The Taliban have wanted the United States to pull troops out of Afghanistan, Turkey has wanted the Americans out of northern Syria and North Korea has wanted them to at least stop military exercises with South Korea.

President Trump has now to some extent at least obliged all three — but without getting much of anything in return. The self-styled dealmaker has given up the leverage of the United States’ military presence in multiple places around the world without negotiating concessions from those cheering for American forces to leave.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[herdfan429]

Almost as good an alias as Ron Mexico.

Carlos Danger disagrees

 

[dherd]

WASHINGTON —
the 71-minute affair that was part news conference, part stream-of-consciousness bragging and all about Trump.

President Trump, trying to dig out from political holes of his own making, held forth for 71 minutes Monday during what was ostensibly a Cabinet meeting, but ended up being a familiar torrent of grievance, defensiveness and expansive statements about his view of his own powers.

However familiar Trump’s brash hyperbole has become, his statements to a room filled with Cabinet members, aides and reporters were still eye-catching: Trump asserted his selective regard for the Constitution to which he’d sworn an oath and casually dismissed a clause he appeared to violate in trying to award next year’s Group of 7 summit to his own Doral, Fla., golf resort.

“You people with this phony Emoluments Clause,” Trump said, rhetorically dispatching the portion of the Constitution that bars federal officials from taking emoluments, or forms of payment or profit, from any “king, prince or foreign state.”

On Thursday, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced the decision to hold the G-7 summit at the Doral club. Late Saturday night, Trump reversed field in a tweet. On Monday, he dismissed the notion that he was profiting off his presidency

CANT BLAME CROOKED FOR BEING PISSED THIS COST HIM A NICE PAYDAY OFF TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR
HIS FAILING FLA RESORT. LOSE, LOSE.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/st...mpeachment-inquiry-cabinet-meeting-emoluments

 

[dherd]

THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!!
CROOKED CANNOT SURVIVE TAYLOR'S DEVASTATING TESTIMONY IT IS OVER AND WE STILL DONT KNOW ALL

https://www.washingtonpost.com/cont...-taylor/6b3a6edf-f976-4081-ba7f-bce45468a3ff/

The explosive, closed-door testimony from acting ambassador William B. Taylor Jr. undermined the repeated statements of the president and the depositions of other administration officials, with the potential to reset the House impeachment probe of Trump.

Taylor, a seasoned diplomat, Army veteran and meticulous note taker, provided an expansive description of a series of events at the heart of an investigation that poses the most serious threat to the Trump presidency. One Democrat described the testimony as “damning.”

Taylor testified that Trump told Sondland himself in a September 7 phone call that Zelensky must “go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and 2016 election interference, and that President Zelensky should want to do this himself.”

UPDATE
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[dherd]

Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing
SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” which could allow new kinds of computers to do calculations at speeds that are inconceivable with today’s technology.

In a paper published in the science journal Nature, Google said its research lab in Santa Barbara, Calif., had reached a milestone that scientists had been working toward since the 1980s: Its quantum computer performed a task that isn’t possible with current technology.

In this case, a mathematical calculation that the largest supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years was done in 3 minutes 20 seconds, Google said in its paper.

One day, researchers believe, these devices could power advances in artificial intelligence or easily overwhelm the encryption that protects computers vital to national security. Because of that, the governments of the United States and China consider quantum computing a national security priority.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[dherd]

Russia and Turkey reach deal to push Kurdish forces out of zone in northern Syria

“Good news seems to be happening with respect to Turkey, Syria and the Middle East,” President Trump tweeted Tuesday evening. “Further reports to come later!”

ISTANBUL — Russia and Turkey agreed Tuesday on a plan to push Syrian Kurdish fighters from a wide swath of territory just south of Turkey’s border, cementing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s preeminent role in Syria as U.S. troops depart and America’s influence wanes.

The agreement, reached after an hours-long meeting between Putin andTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoganin the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, will leave Turkey and Russia in control of territory formerly held by Kurdish forces once allied with the United States.

More important, though, the deal bolstered Russia’s preferred endgame in Syria’s civil war by allowing its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to regain control over more of his country’s territory. Russia is also prodding states in the region to recognize, either explicitly or tacitly, the Syrian government’s authority, analysts said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...4abcea-f43f-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html

 

[Marc22]

THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!!!
CROOKED CANNOT SURVIVE TAYLOR'S DEVASTATING TESTIMONY IT IS OVER AND WE STILL DONT KNOW ALL

https://www.washingtonpost.com/cont...-taylor/6b3a6edf-f976-4081-ba7f-bce45468a3ff/

The explosive, closed-door testimony from acting ambassador William B. Taylor Jr. undermined the repeated statements of the president and the depositions of other administration officials, with the potential to reset the House impeachment probe of Trump.

Taylor, a seasoned diplomat, Army veteran and meticulous note taker, provided an expansive description of a series of events at the heart of an investigation that poses the most serious threat to the Trump presidency. One Democrat described the testimony as “damning.”

Taylor testified that Trump told Sondland himself in a September 7 phone call that Zelensky must “go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and 2016 election interference, and that President Zelensky should want to do this himself.”

UPDATE
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/04/us/politics/president-trump-impeachment-inquiry.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

This is sounding a lot like the Mueller investigation that went nowhere.

 

[dherd]

JUST AS I PREDICTED .3 YEARS AGO - RUTHLESS CONS THROWING TRUMP OVERBOARD

Mitch McConnell Contradicts Trump’s Claim They Spoke About His Ukraine Call

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-denies-trump-ukraine-call_n_5daf6ee4e4b08cfcc323f559?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAF0ipXaHNf1erBZrZHznB5QvQ7B5K0L1_oORoV87FUvN4H725S7syd7H1CVAhd2IXUuokrRw2eDlYVgwWC_KVhroHHcSyC7YYzUQI2I8J3z2ZflguIWtWH98c7--uDxtXMGllcjHhnM-M1USBFlIMdnZxkTCuaoG3kMTrGJFWOoe

 

[dherd]

New testimony undercuts Trump’s claim of no quid pro quo on Ukraine. How will Washington respond?
Taylor will not be the last word in the investigation. Other witnesses will appear before the Intelligence Committee. The White House will have an opportunity to offer additional explanations or a counternarrative. The president’s allies will, too. But what was put into the record Tuesday, unless there is a powerful rebuttal that goes beyond simple denials, makes the debate of the words “quid pro quo” less relevant than the question of how lawmakers react to what happened.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...611646-f50a-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html+

READ THE TESTIMONY OF TAYLOR
https://www.washingtonpost.com/cont...-taylor/6b3a6edf-f976-4081-ba7f-bce45468a3ff/

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing
SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” which could allow new kinds of computers to do calculations at speeds that are inconceivable with today’s technology.

In a paper published in the science journal Nature, Google said its research lab in Santa Barbara, Calif., had reached a milestone that scientists had been working toward since the 1980s: Its quantum computer performed a task that isn’t possible with current technology.

In this case, a mathematical calculation that the largest supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years was done in 3 minutes 20 seconds, Google said in its paper.

One day, researchers believe, these devices could power advances in artificial intelligence or easily overwhelm the encryption that protects computers vital to national security. Because of that, the governments of the United States and China consider quantum computing a national security priority.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/technology/quantum-computing-google.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[dherd]

THEY'VE GOT HIM BY THE QUID PRO QUO Ukraine Knew of Aid Freeze by August, Undermining Trump Defense

the president and his allies have had a simple response: There could not have been any quid pro quo because the Ukrainians did not know the assistance had been blocked.

the president took to Twitter on Wednesday morning to approvingly quote a Republican member of Congress saying neither Mr. Taylor nor any other witness had “provided testimony that the Ukrainians were aware that military aid was being withheld.”

But in fact, word of the aid freeze had gotten to high-level Ukrainian officials by the first week in August, according to interviews and documents obtained by The New York Times.

The problem was not a bureaucratic glitch, the Ukrainians were told then. To address it, they were advised, they should reach out to Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the interviews and records.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[19MU88]

The DNC and media love stupid people.

You’ve got him now!!!

 

[dherd]

CROOKED TRIED TO CUT BILLIONS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN UKRAINE & ELSEWHERE

The Trump administration has sought repeatedly to cut foreign aid programs tasked with combating corruption in Ukraine and elsewhere overseas, White House budget documents show, despite recent claims from President Trump and his administration that they have been singularly concerned with fighting corruption in Ukraine.

Those claims have come as the president and his administration sought to explain away a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump pressured his counterpart to open investigations into Joe Biden and his son Hunter, and into a debunked conspiracy theory involving a hacked Democratic National Committee computer server.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-p...ams-aimed-fighting-corruption-ukraine-abroad/

 

[19MU88]

Oh no!!!

 

[dherd]

THEY'VE GOT HIM NOW!! DESPERATION HAS SET IN CROOKED & HIS MINIONS HAVE NO DEFENSE RESORT TO ANARCHY

On Wednesday, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio complained that Republicans were demonstrating out of frustration “at the idea that they can’t be a part of this.” Nonsense. Republicans are in every hearing room that Democrats are in and able to ask their own questions. During Mr. Taylor’s testimony Tuesday, Mr. Jordan had praised the Republican lawyers for their questioning of the witness.

Accusing Democrats of mishandling the process certainly fits with Mr. Trump’s enduring sense of victimhood. The strategy also works to inflame the party’s base against the opposing team, while allowing Republican lawmakers to avoid defending Mr. Trump’s behavior.

But, mostly, it’s about all they’ve got.

 

[dherd]

DESPERATE Republicans storm impeachment hearing as exploding Ukraine scandal closes in on Trump

Republicans’ defense of President Trump grew more frantic and disjointed Wednesday, with House members storming a closed-door meeting, delaying the testimony of an impeachment witness as the GOP grappled with a growing abuse-of-power scandal centered on the president.

A group of Trump’s congressional allies displayed their growing desperation by barging into a secure facility on Capitol Hill where a Pentagon official was to testify before the House Intelligence Committee.

Their intrusion, which caused the testimony to be delayed for about five hours over security concerns, came a day after the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine testified under oath that the White House had threatened to withhold military aid unless the Ukrainian government announced investigations for Trump’s political benefit.

After Taylor’s testimony, which included a 15-page opening statement obtained by The Washington Post, some Republicans appeared to abandon Trump’s forceful defense that there was no quid pro quo, opting for more-nuanced arguments.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...877c06-f5a5-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html

 

[dherd]

But the rules didn’t much matter, for they were acting less as lawmakers than hooligans. The evidence compiled by the inquiry looks increasingly damning as witnesses detail a clear dollars-for-dirt quid pro quo between Trump and Ukraine. Trump’s best defense may be to make the inquiry itself look like a circus. Luckily for him, Republicans have a bountiful supply of clowns.

his was an odd act of civil disobedience. Because the protesters are leaders of the civil authority they were protesting, it was more self-disobedience. These same lawmakers used the very procedure they now object to — closed-door depositions — in their Benghazi probe. Democrats have pledged that after the deposition phase — equivalent to a grand jury — they will air the allegations and defenses in public impeachment proceedings.

But that might be too late for Republicans. A Quinnipiac poll Wednesday found growing support for the inquiry — 55 percent overall, including a 50-45 advantage among independents — and the White House has been reduced to claiming that star witness Bill Taylor — West Point graduate, Vietnam infantry officer and Trump’s hand-picked acting ambassador to Ukraine — is a “radical unelected bureaucrat.”

he deposition finally began. And the Republicans could boast to Trump that, for a glorious five hours, they had delayed the inevitable.

 

[Chevy1]

Trey Gowdy operated in the same fashion for Bengazi.... don't recall Dems complaining about Gowdy conducting the investigation on this manner.

 

[dherd]

Inside Trump's First Pentagon Briefing What I saw there that foretold the coming CRISIS

he clash came in the middle of Trump’s first Pentagon briefing on America’s military and diplomatic “laydown”—a term of art used to describe all of the locations around the world with U.S. forces and embassies—on July 20, 2017. Mattis, for whom I was working as chief speechwriter, had hoped the briefing would educate Trump on the United States’ longstanding commitment to the rest of the world. That is not at all what happened.

Instead, the president burst out in the middle of the meeting.

“I just returned from France,” he said. “Did you see President Macron’s handshake?” he asked no one in particular. “He wouldn’t let go. He just kept holding on. I spent two hours at Bastille Day. Very impressive.”

A pause.

“I want a ‘Victory Day.’ Just like Veterans Day. The Fourth of July is too hot,” he said, apparently out of nowhere. “I want vehicles and tanks on Main Street. On Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Capitol to the White House. We need spirit! We should blow everybody away with this parade. The French had an amazing parade on Bastille Day with tanks and everything. Why can’t we do that?”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...agon-briefing-229865?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[i am herdman]

That means they were boring him with power points and mind numbing bull shit. In other words he was telling then politely move on with the meeting. Happens all the time in the real world. The govt lifers are not used to it.

 

[dherd]

SURE IVAN, 1ST MEETING WITH PENTAGON BRASS PURPOSE TO LAY OUT OVERALL DEFENSE STRATEGY AND DEPLOYMENT.

NO DOUBT CROOKED LEARNED ALL THERE WAS TO LEARN ABOUT THAT LOSING $1,000,000,000.00 IN REAL ESTATE, GAMING A SHUTTLE AND A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE HE ALSO BROKE.

BESIDES AS HE "THUNDERED" A FEW MINUTES INTO THE MEETING - HE WANTED A PARADE!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dherd]

The U.S. deficit hit $984 billion in 2019, soaring during Trump era
Spending increases, tax cuts, and political apathy fueled surge, and interest payments now near $400 billion
The U.S. government’s budget deficit ballooned to nearly $1 trillion in 2019, a $205 billion increase from a year earlier, as America’s fiscal imbalance widened for a fourth consecutive year despite a sustained run of economic growth.

The country’s worsening fiscal picture runs in sharp contrast to President Trump’s 2016 promise to eliminate the federal debt within eight years. Since taking office, Trump has endorsed big spending increases and steered most Republicans to abandon the deficit obsession they held during the Obama administration.

It is unusual for the government to run such a large budget deficit during a period of economic growth because spending on unemployment and other benefits tend to contract and tax revenue often grows. But the White House and Congress have contributed to the deficit’s surge by enacting large spending increases and passing the 2017 tax cut law. The budget deficit was $665 billion in 2017.

The Obama administration and Republicans in Congress enacted a series of measures to reduce the deficit starting in 2011, and those measures -- and a growing economy -- led the deficit to fall by almost 50 percent. But those gains have been lost by a recent apathy among policy makers about addressing the fiscal imbalance.

“There is very little discussion among Republicans about the deficit,
Budget experts also say that the 2017 tax cut law has weakened the typical levels of higher tax revenue that come in during economic expansion. The legislation is projected to increase the annual deficit by about $200 billion, or close to $2 trillion over 10 years

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...ing-nearly-percent-increase-during-trump-era/

 

[dherd]

Why Does Only One Party Play by the Rules?
Thanks to Trump’s deepening dependence on “alternative facts,” the assertion of reality is now a viable campaign strategy for 2020 Democrats.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/...l?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

 

[Raoul Duke MU]

The U.S. government’s budget deficit ballooned to nearly $1 trillion in 2019, a $205 billion increase from a year earlier, as America’s fiscal imbalance widened for a fourth consecutive year despite a sustained run of economic growth.

That's the kicker....

 

[Chevy1]

That's the kicker....

Yep....if you're not paying down the bills during the good times, then when will you?

 

[dherd]

Giuliani butt-dials NBC reporter, heard discussing need for cash and trashing Bidens
RUSSIA IS SO LUCKY TO HAVE THESE GUYS IN CHARGE OF AMERICA.
AMERICA - NOT SO MUCH.
GREAT JOB HERDMAN - GREAT JOB BANKER - GREAT JOB DITTO HEADS!!
PUTIN AND ALL OUR ENEMIES LOVE YOU FOR YOUR DITTOACITY.
(I INVENTED THAT WORD MYSELF - ROCKY BALBOA - ROCKY 1)

WONDER HOW MANY TIMES HE'S BUTT DIALED PUTIN AND HIS RUSSIAN HANDLERS.

In the recording, the words tumbling out of Giuliani’s mouth were not directed at the reporter. He was speaking to someone else, someone in the same room.

Giuliani can be heard discussing overseas dealings and lamenting the need for cash, though it's difficult to discern the full context of the conversation.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...nd-trashing-bidens/ar-AAJmKVC?ocid=spartandhp

 

[dherd]

WE WIN AGAIN - JUDGE GIVE MUELLER GRAND JURY TESTIMONY TO HOUSE!!! SAYS INQUIRY PERFECT CONS BOGUS

A federal judge Friday ordered the Justice Department to release certaingrand jury materialsfrom former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation to the House Judiciary Committee amid its impeachment inquiry. The materials must be disclosed by Wednesday.

In a75-page opinion, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington handed a victory to House Democrats, saying the House was legally engaged in a judicial process that exempts Congress from normal grand jury secrecy rules.

Howell dismissed arguments by committee Republicans that the House must first vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry, calling the notion politically “appealing” but legally “fatally flawed.”


“Even in cases of presidential impeachment, a House resolution has never, in fact, been required to begin an impeachment inquiry,” Howell said. In the cases of all three presidents who faced such an action — Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton — the House Judiciary Committee had begun investigating or received grand jury materials before a full House vote, the judge said.

“No governing law requires this test — not the Constitution, not House Rules, and not [the grand jury secrecy rule], and so imposing this test would be an impermissible intrusion on the House’s constitutional authority,” Howell wrote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...e60278-f75d-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

 

[Marc22]

WE WIN AGAIN - JUDGE GIVE MUELLER GRAND JURY TESTIMONY TO HOUSE!!! SAYS INQUIRY PERFECT CONS BOGUS

A federal judge Friday ordered the Justice Department to release certaingrand jury materialsfrom former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation to the House Judiciary Committee amid its impeachment inquiry. The materials must be disclosed by Wednesday.

In a75-page opinion, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington handed a victory to House Democrats, saying the House was legally engaged in a judicial process that exempts Congress from normal grand jury secrecy rules.

Howell dismissed arguments by committee Republicans that the House must first vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry, calling the notion politically “appealing” but legally “fatally flawed.”


“Even in cases of presidential impeachment, a House resolution has never, in fact, been required to begin an impeachment inquiry,” Howell said. In the cases of all three presidents who faced such an action — Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton — the House Judiciary Committee had begun investigating or received grand jury materials before a full House vote, the judge said.

“No governing law requires this test — not the Constitution, not House Rules, and not [the grand jury secrecy rule], and so imposing this test would be an impermissible intrusion on the House’s constitutional authority,” Howell wrote.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...e60278-f75d-11e9-a285-882a8e386a96_story.html

The walls are closing in, the noose is tightening, the pressure is getting to him, yes we’ve heard it all before. But the IG report and DOD investigations are proceeding. What will you do then?

 

[dherd]

THE FUTURE CONSERVATIVES WANT FOR THE WORLD

WHILE TELLING US CLIMATE CHANGE ISNT REAL GROWING NUMBERS OF RICH ARE HIRING PRIVATE FIREFIGHTERS:

As climate change makes wildfires more dangerous, and often understaffed fire crews are exhausted by the increasing frequency of blazes, Mr. Holter said he expects more companies like his will pop up.

“It’s coming,” he said. “It’s a good old boys’ system, but it’s going to change.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/26/...tion=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

 

[dherd]

WE'VE GOT HIM NOW!!!! Trump frightened as WH cant stop witnesses testimony

After weeks of dismissing the impeachment inquiry as a hollow partisan attack, President Trump and his closest advisers now recognize that the snowballing probe poses a serious threat to the president — and that they have little power to block it, according to multiple aides and advisers.

The dawning realization comes as Democrats rapidly gather evidence from witness after witness testifying about the pressure put on Ukraine to investigate Trump’s political rivals. The president is increasingly frustrated that his efforts to stop people from cooperating with the probe have so far collapsed under the weight of legally powerful congressional subpoenas, advisers said.

The Democratic strategy got a boost Friday from a federal judge, whoruledthat the House impeachment inquiry is legal. In the coming week, House investigators arescheduledto hear testimony from five more witnesses, including on Saturday from an acting assistant secretary of state for Europe, who is expected to testify about the efforts to oust the previous U.S. ambassador.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...2e94b6-f5b0-11e9-8cf0-4cc99f74d127_story.html

 

[dherd]

WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official was set to tell House impeachment investigators Saturday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other top officials stymied a show of solidarity for the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine after President Trump had her removed, according to a person familiar with his planned closed-door testimony.

Mr. Reeker became concerned when, during a July 31 policy coordination committee meeting at the White House, Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, raised concern over a hold on Ukraine aid by the White House and emphasized that the Pentagon was running out of time to release the funds before the end of the fiscal year.

Mr. Trump, in a July 25 call, repeatedly asked his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelensky, to “look into” Mr. Biden and his son and said he would direct Mr. Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to contact Mr. Zelensky to help him in a possible investigation, according to a rough transcript released by the White House.

Before asking Ukraine to examine actions by Mr. Biden’s son, Mr. Trump reminded Mr. Zelensky that the U.S. sends security aid to Ukraine, according to the transcript, which was released in late September.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...-for-ex-ambassador/ar-AAJpcyi?ocid=spartanntp

 

[dherd]

WE'VE GOT HIM NOW!!!! Company with ties to Trump’s brother Robert awarded $33 million govt contract+

“The circumstances of this contract award, and efforts to obscure Mr. Robert Trump’s financial interest in the company even as it trades on the Trump name, present the appearance of preferential treatment for those who are close to the President,” said the complaint,a Washington law firm, on behalf of the client.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...overnment-contract/ar-AAJpmRB?ocid=spartandhp

ANY OTHER TIME THIS WOULD BE A MAJOR SCANDAL, BUT WITH CROOKED THIS SEEMS LIKE JAYWALKING.

 

[herdfan429]

WE'VE GOT HIM NOW!!!! Company with ties to Trump’s brother Robert awarded $33 million govt contract+

“The circumstances of this contract award, and efforts to obscure Mr. Robert Trump’s financial interest in the company even as it trades on the Trump name, present the appearance of preferential treatment for those who are close to the President,” said the complaint,a Washington law firm, on behalf of the client.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...overnment-contract/ar-AAJpmRB?ocid=spartandhp

ANY OTHER TIME THIS WOULD BE A MAJOR SCANDAL, BUT WITH CROOKED THIS SEEMS LIKE JAYWALKING.

Just following in the Bidens footsteps