Posted on 11/14/2019 1:53:19 PM PST by Bratch
There’s an important revelation from the first day of impeachment hearings that I haven’t heard discussed. It has to do with the witnesses’ strange notion of how foreign policy works.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent and Acting Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor both accused President Trump of interfering with U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine. They indicated they differed with Trump’s skepticism of Ukraine’s newest leadership, and they disagreed with Trump’s apparent decision to keep Ukraine at a measured distance while he assessed the situation.
They further said that Trump gave approval for his attorney and adviser, Rudy Giuliani, to develop a communications channel on Ukraine diplomacy that was outside the “regular” diplomatic chain. Some in the media have dubbed that a “shadow campaign.”
Kent and Taylor strongly disapproved.
“Kent and Taylor … gave compelling testimony about why [President Trump’s] ‘shadow campaign’ was so at odds with America’s official foreign policy,” wrote Rolling Stone.
The Huffington Post wrote, “State Department officials say Rudy Giuliani’s foreign policy backchannel ‘undercut’ U.S. policy on Ukraine.”
And Ambassador Taylor testified, “The official foreign policy of the United States was undercut by the irregular efforts led by Rudy Giuliani.”
There must be some confusion.
Under the U.S. Constitution, it is the president of the United States who determines foreign policy. How can President Trump be “at odds with foreign policy” when he’s the one who determines it?
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Don't confuse them with facts.
She knocks it out of the park!
Yeah, but the diplomats launder the money for their sphere of influence of beltway parasites.
She’s right. And it’s a bit surprising that no one else is attempting to make this case.
Taylor should have been asked if he ever had conversations with Joe Biden regarding Ukraine.
Somebody made it worth the diplomat’s time to see things a certain way.
Brit Hume was all over this angle weeks ago.
More people—particularly from the Left—need to be exposed to these truths, so we can all welcome it getting more exposure! Thank you, Sharyl!
irregular channels??
Mr taylor, you earlier admitted to being a co-conspirator in a seditious plot to undermine the Foreign Policy set forth by the President’s in direct violation of the President’s Powers granted him under the Constitution, Is there any reason you shouldn’t be Arrested and Prosecuted for this Illegal Act of Subverting Foreign Policy for your own Benefit????
Qaz123———opening statements should be something like this, if they were honest...
“I’m a career radical Leftist that hates the United States, who has never done one thing to advance the interests of the United States and as someone that has used my position to enrich my liberal friends, receive kickbacks and given away US taxpayer money to despots, tyrants and corrupt foreign governments without any accountability.
I have spent my professional career working overseas on the taxpayer dime, spending most of it getting drunk. I, nor any of my colleagues have ever cared about what any administration has wanted, except the Democratic Presidents, because ultimately we, the unelected and anonymous bureaucrats at State, control American Foreign policy. We know it all and do it all. We do not care what anyone else thinks except Democrat Presidents and liberal foreign policy think tanks because that’s how we all skim money.
Anything I say here today is my liberal biased opinion and interpretation of the situation even though I was not privy to the call, nor did I speak with anyone that was. Everything I will share with you today is based on a conversation I had with someone in the lunchroom, who heard it from someone else, so I cannot actually attest to any facts. I can only attest to the many dog whistles I think I heard and my current emotional state.”
.......cough cough cough.....excuse me....wrong script.....
What I meant to say is.....
“As a career Foreign Service Officer/Diplomat for the US Dept of State, although I do not agree with the foreign policy set forth by the current administration, I am here to testify to the committee on what I know. Even though everything I know is hearsay and from open source news outlets.”
There’s a whole training program they go through taught by the swamp lawyers after they pass the Hillary is god test.
Thank you for posting Bratch.
One only need remember when Slick sent his wholly unqualified brother Roger Klinton to North Korea as an envoy and representative.
Again Sharyl is dead on.
Finally a President that knows his job.
“Again Sharyl is dead on.”
I hope that she does not wind up dead on the floor. 0bama’s thugs have gone after her in the past.
Doing the job the GOP-e refuses to do....for the last 5 years
Next come the psychiatrists saying that he's schizophrenic.
I sure wish Fox would pick her up and put her in a high profile slot.
Maybe they’ve tried but I doubt it.
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