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House Democrats Release Impeachment Testimony of Top State Dept. Official
Breitbart ^ | November 7, 2019 | JOSHUA CAPLAN

Posted on 11/07/2019 2:02:26 PM PST by maggief

EXCERPT

According to (State Department official George) Kent’s newly-released transcript, the State Department official told congressional investigators that, akin to former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Maria Yovanovitch, he was worried that “the U.S. Government chose to move an ambassador based, as best she [can] tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives, at an especially challenging time in our bilateral [relations] with a newly elected Ukrainian President.”

“Potus wanted nothing less than President Zelenskiy to go to the microphone and say investigations, Biden and Clinton,” Kent testified.

“That was the message. … Zelenskiy needed to go to a microphone and basically there needed to be three words in the message, and that was the shorthand,” he said.

Kent told investigators that that was his understanding of what Trump wanted Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to say in public, based on conversations relayed to him by others in the administration who were in contact with Ambassador Gordon Sondland.

Clinton, he clarified, was “shorthand” for the 2016 election. It was a reference to Trump’s view, pushed by his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani but outside of mainstream U.S. intelligence, that Ukraine played a role interfering in the U.S. presidential election.

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https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/CPRT-116-IG00-D009.pdf.

INTERVIEW OF: GEORGE KENT

1 posted on 11/07/2019 2:02:26 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief
Kent told investigators that that was his understanding of what Trump wanted Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to say in public, based on conversations relayed to him by others in the administration who were in contact with Ambassador Gordon Sondland.

But I thought Sondland got his info from the NY Times??

GET THE FRIKKIN ROPE ALREADY!!
2 posted on 11/07/2019 2:05:29 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: maggief
... the U.S. Government chose to move an ambassador based, as best she [can] tell ...

So let me get this straight: This guy is assuming a motive for the termination of former ambassador, who serves at the discretion of the President and can be fired for any reason, based on what SHE thought was the motivation for her removal?

I'm almost at the point where I feel embarrassed for Adam Schiff, if this is all he's got. Almost.

3 posted on 11/07/2019 2:06:10 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: maggief
RE> based on conversations relayed to him by others

I heard it from a friend who heard from a friend who (this song keeps playing and playing)

4 posted on 11/07/2019 2:06:32 PM PST by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: maggief

If I was on a jury, and a witness made statements like this guy made, according to this article, I would be daydreaming about why I was wasting my time on jury duty, when I could be more productive at home organizing my sock drawer.


5 posted on 11/07/2019 2:06:47 PM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: maggief

So it now an “Impeachable offense” for the President run foreign policy over the objections of the bureaucracy?

Are the Democrat Fascists actually this stupid?


6 posted on 11/07/2019 2:06:54 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: maggief
Another words more BS gossip , hearsay ,and rumor mongering by Dem operatives at the Dem State Dept . Aka the Swamp .
7 posted on 11/07/2019 2:07:03 PM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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To: maggief

So...essentially more second, third and fourth hand info?


8 posted on 11/07/2019 2:10:34 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: maggief

Classic game of telephone:

Person A listens to phone call and tells person B what he heard and what he thinks it means.

Person B listens to personality and tells person C what he heard and what he thinks it means.

Etc. etc. until we get to person F or G and what they say has no bearing to what was actually said on the call.

So unless someone heard from Trump himself that he meant anything other than exactly what he said, none of this testimony has any meaning at all.


9 posted on 11/07/2019 2:11:00 PM PST by zencycler
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To: Alberta's Child

That’s what he UNDERSTOOD it to mean?

I understand your post to mean you want me to get run over by a car tomorrow.

That’s MY understanding.

Who’s to question it?

So ridiculous.


10 posted on 11/07/2019 2:11:10 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: ncalburt

This loser bureaucrat should be flogged. What a self-preening nitwit of the first order.


11 posted on 11/07/2019 2:11:16 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: MNJohnnie
Are the Democrat Fascists actually this stupid?

Yes. Yes they are.

12 posted on 11/07/2019 2:13:40 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: dp0622
I understand your post to mean you want me to get run over by a car tomorrow.

And I understand your post to mean you want me to eat a bulldozer for lunch tomorrow.

:-P

13 posted on 11/07/2019 2:14:39 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: maggief

Absolute NOTHINGBURGER!!!!!!


14 posted on 11/07/2019 2:16:56 PM PST by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: maggief

WWJJS?....What would Judge Judy Say?

Answer, irrelevant. Immaterial, heresay.


15 posted on 11/07/2019 2:17:34 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer)
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To: maggief

Was he under oath?

His “interview” reads like an op ed from a wacky conspiracy comic book. Fantasy...parallel universe...etc.


16 posted on 11/07/2019 2:19:03 PM PST by CDB
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To: dp0622

That’s what he UNDERSTOOD it to mean?

I understand your post to mean you want me to get run over by a car tomorrow.
= = =

He said “understood”, not under-hood.


17 posted on 11/07/2019 2:19:41 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: Alberta's Child

They can’t stop the insanity. Everything they have done from before Trump was even elected was designed to stop him. And it was all unconstitutional, where it was not plain illegal. And it availed them nothing. Now they must keep on with the charade because as soon as they stop it will all come crashing down on them. Sooner or later it is going to anyway. They know they are screwed and there is nothing they can do about it but delay the reckoning a few days or weeks or, if they are lucky, months.


18 posted on 11/07/2019 2:19:44 PM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Alberta's Child

Well that’s actually what I did mean to convey :)

This is INSANITY.

10 people can have a different understanding on what they THINK someone meant.


19 posted on 11/07/2019 2:21:36 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: maggief

I try very hard not to hate, but these people make it so difficult.


20 posted on 11/07/2019 2:22:32 PM PST by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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