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On Thursday the House will vote to to formalize the procedures of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump and Ukraine. Today the resolution was released by the House Rules Committee.
Read: House impeachment resolution
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/29/polit...doc/index.html
Donald Trump bribed a doctor to diagnose him with bone spurs so he could avoid being drafted. Trump cozies up to dictators, alienates our allies, attacks the news media, vilifies Mexicans and Muslims, slanders war heroes, hinders investigations, obstructs Congress and seeks election help from foreign governments. Alexander Vindman is a decorated lieutenant colonel who served in the Iraq war, the holder of a Master's degree and the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council. So who are Republican Congressmen and right-wing newscasters attacking? Vindman. Of course. Anyone who dares to speak out against Emperor Trump is regarded by Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Trump's blindly loyal lackeys in Congress as a traitor. How dare anyone criticize the Emperor!
Opinion: Trump team's disgusting smear of Alexander Vindman
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/29/opi...vic/index.html
Trump lapdog Mitch McConnell is parroting Trump's complaint about being denied "due process" and not being allowed to cross-examine witnesses. In an impeachment investigation, "due process" is not a factor. After articles of impeachment are filed, then Trump will be given due process. Even in a Grand Jury investigation, the target is not allowed to cross-examine witnesses. Trump, McConnell and Congressional Republicans know they can't defend the indefensible, i.e., the quid-pro-quo offer to Ukraine. Instead, they attack the impeachment inquiry process and all the government officials who are testifying. How dare anyone investigate the Emperor! He's above the law!
Mitch McConnell: Impeachment measure denies Trump 'basic rights'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ts/ar-AAJA1NV?
Emperor Trump continues to attack the impeachment inquiry as a "witch hunt," a "scam" and an attempt by Democrats to overturn the results of the 2016 election. Yeah, Donald, you're right. That's why they waited until you were in the 33rd month of your Presidency. And it certainly couldn't have anything to do with your abuse of power, contempt of Congress, obstruction of investigations and quid-pro-quo offer to Ukraine.
Bill Taylor, top US diplomat in Ukraine, is willing to testify publicly in impeachment probe
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/30/pol...cly/index.html
What Vindman's testimony shows us about Trump's idea of loyalty
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/30/pol...lty/index.html
Croft served as a deputy to Kurt Volker, US envoy to Ukraine, and knew about Trump's quid-pro-quo offer to Ukraine. Anderson has been a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department since 2005 and for two years served as a Ukraine adviser to Volker. Croft and Anderson are testifying today. Trump defended his phone call to Zelensky by saying he wanted to "root out corruption" – and yet he wasn't concerned about corruption anywhere except Ukraine and he wasn't concerned about any corruption unless it involved the Bidens and the Democrats. How about that!
Read Catherine Croft's full prepared remarks in Trump impeachment inquiry
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politic...chment-inquiry
Read Christopher Anderson's full prepared remarks in Trump impeachment inquiry
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politic...chment-inquiry
Thirteen government officials (so far) have testified about the Trump-Ukraine quid-pro-quo offer. Trump's only defense tactic (so far) is to call the impeachment inquiry a "witch hunt" and to attack the credibility of every witness. The noose is tightening.
Top Ukraine expert was convinced aid was tied to Biden probe
Alexander Vindman told lawmakers Trump blocked $400 million in military aid
to force Ukraine to publicly announce a probe into the Bidens, sources say.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/polit...ons/index.html
Impeachment investigators invite John Bolton to testify
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/polit...ent/index.html
Emperor Trump continues to insist the transcript of his phone call with Zelensky is a "complete word-for-word transcript." It isn't. It even says so on the very first page – and the transcript contains three sets of ellipses (...). Trump lapdog Stephanie Grisham said today the ellipses don't mean anything was left out. No, they mean somebody's voice just trailed off. She's lying – and not very convincingly, either. According to Alexander Vindman, Trump was discussing Joe and Hunter Biden and those parts of the conversation were omitted from the transcript. Somewhere there is a recording of the phone call. Will we ever get to hear it?
New testimony raises questions about White House 'transcript' of Trump's phone call with Ukraine's President
Alexander Vindman testified that two bits of the conversation didn't make it into the record.
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/30/20939...chment-inquiry
Well, here is another person who can expect to be attacked by the President as a "Never Trumper" and "human scum." Morrison, a Republican, was a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the National Security Council and was outraged by Trump and Giuliani pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Morrison is expected to testify tomorrow before House impeachment investigators. He will be the first White House political appointee to do so.
Top Trump adviser Tim Morrison steps down ahead of impeachment testimony
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ony/ar-AAJBDKC
Trump keeps calling the impeachment inquiry "illegitimate," a "scam," a "hoax," a "lynching" and a "witch hunt." It is none of those things. Many Republican Congressmen are also denouncing the investigation as "illegitimate" and Trump is now ordering them to defend him on not just the process but on substance. Yes, he wants them to defend what is indefensible. Good luck with that.
Trump badly needs Republicans to defend him. New revelations will make that harder.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...e-that-harder/
Trump keeps saying his phone call with Zelensky was "perfect." Is that why a White House lawyer moved the transcript to a classified server where almost nobody would be able to see it?
White House lawyer moved transcript of Trump call to classified server after Ukraine adviser raised alarms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...e01_story.html