Posted on 10/04/2019 10:17:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Washington (CNN)Text messages released on Thursday between US diplomats and a senior Ukrainian aide show how a potential Ukrainian investigation into the 2016 election was linked to a desired meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump.
The text messages, which were released by the House Intelligence Committee, underscore how Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was closely connected to US policy on Ukraine and was involved in setting up the July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky, in which Trump also urged an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
They show how cognizant the Ukrainians were about the importance of the election investigation to Trump and Giuliani's role.
On the morning of the call, in an exchange with a key adviser to the Ukrainian President, then-US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker made clear that it was important to the White House that Zelensky convince Trump that an investigation into the 2016 election would happen.
"Heard from the White House -- assuming President Z convinces trump he will investigate/'get to the bottom of what happened' in 2016, we will nail down date for visit to Washington," Volker said via text to the Ukrainian adviser on the morning of July 25.
Volker provided Congress with the text messages ahead of his closed-door congressional testimony on Thursday before three committees leading the House's impeachment inquiry into Trump and Ukraine.
The messages released by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee add a new layer of detail to the whistleblower complaint that prompted the impeachment inquiry, which alleged that Trump had urged the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on his political rival, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
That Trump wanted an investigation was a message that seemed to register with the Ukrainian administration.
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Garbage..........................
Christine Ballsy-Ford had trouble with “exculpatory,” as I recall.
LOL, that is their problem, then...isn’t it?
I may think some pretty girl up the street is my wife with all that entails, but if I try and treat her as such, who in their right mind is going to accept my explanation?
We have an Attorney General. Giuliani is not the Attorney General. He isn’t the defacto Attorney General except in their unhealthy and sick minds bathed in irrationality and hate. If they assume Giuliani is an elected official, then that is on them.
Still not seeing any wrongdoing..
I know, big surprise
LOL. that is so cute..but for those that need a drink..this video of an asian guy blows my mind. even if this wasn’t really done in 49 seconds ...it’s still incredible
https://twitter.com/heibeipangzai/status/1180170615707164672
So drink up
And then read another Ukraine thread
The Democrats and the media are at war with President Trump.
With that, President Trump, and the country needs a wartime Attorney General and that’s why Giuliani is functioning as the defacto Attorney General.
the rats want to get to the bottom of election fraud- unless they are involved...
The President making sure of aide,tax payer dollars do not go missing like the billion and a half dollars that Obama sent to Ukraine and got put into an oligarchs bank,a guy who could not get a visa to come to the United States,gets 1.5 billion into his bank and it disappears!
The press does not care.
The podestas,the dnc,hillary,the Biden’s are all in up to their necks in this and President Trump knows the crooks because he wants to protect American money,because he KNOWS ABOUT OBAMA’S AIDE,THE 1.5 billion disappeared,how do I know,When Sarah Sanders in her first news gaggle in the White House,brought up the Ukranium corruption and not one reporters followed up on her statement,just brushed it off.
Folks I am convinced after watching Becks presentation of the entire scandal from the beginning,that this is one of those scandals that can’t or won’t be brought out into the public because the country would be torn apart,better to cover it up,President Trump knows all about it,but the media wants to protect the traitors responsible,Obama,the clintons,the Podestas and a host of others,Glen Becks preseNtation today is remmarkable,it is just viewing,regardless of what your feelings are about him are it is striking and maddening and must viewing
Pretty apparent that Sondland didn't trust Taylor and whatever he was up to.
Trump was trying to get the the bottom of Ukraine’s last time in the 2016 elections, and that’s “damning?”
“Washington (CNN)Text messages released on Thursday between US diplomats and a senior Ukrainian aide show how a potential Ukrainian investigation into the 2016 election was linked to a desired meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump.”
Ok... so what??
* last time = last regime’s role
If the President had credible intelligence of corruption on the part of Joe Biden, wasn’t he obligated to take action, either directly or indirectly? Imagine if he had credible intelligence and didn’t take action. Wouldn’t that be negligence? For example, if the President had thought, “hmm, Joe Biden will be easier to beat than Elizabeth Warren, so I’m not gonna pursue Joe Biden’s Ukraine violations, I don’t want to knock him out of the race.” If he had done that, and there was any evidence of it, then maybe it would be illegal, and Elizabeth Warren and the other candidates would have every right to complain that the President gave Biden an unfair advantage by not pursuing the Ukrainian corruption.
CNN’s texts would be much more interesting.
NOW YOU'RE TALKING !
More like:
PISS is.. CNN.
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