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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Bill Taylor is a CIA operative. My guess he is the whistle blower.
You post a lot of “concerning” material, from places like CNN. I see a very clear pattern. Why don’t you take off the mask?
Fake news; go away.
On the record testimony shows this whole story to be nothing but one big fat whopping lie.
What happened in 2016?? See the problem here?
Did you even bother to ready the text? The text has NOTHING AT ALL TO DO with the imaginary “quid pro quo”. Condition for a meeting with the President are a normal part of any Presidency. In fact, this same clown posse of Fake News hysteric were all bent out of shape when President Trump met with little Rocket man without a demanding an unconditional surrender from his 1st.
Again a ginormous fail by the Fake Media and their mindless bot enablers.
CNN always the good lying SOBs of the media. The text of the message says nothing about the Bidens. It referred to the 2016 elections.
Start calling them the Psycho News Network. Much closer to the truth.
I’ve never seen anything like this media corruption and I’ve been a newsman/researcher/investigator for 50 years. The Democrats and their media toadies make Stalin/Beria and Tass seem like amateurs.
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