Posted on 10/12/2019 6:36:39 AM PDT by robowombat
White House accidentally sends Ukraine talking points to Democrats again BY MIKE LILLIS AND JULIEGRACE BRUFKE - 10/11/19 04:06 PM EDT
The White House accidentally sent Democrats a list of talking points related to ex-Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s Friday House deposition, two sources with knowledge of the email told The Hill, the second time in a month the administration has sent its Ukraine talking points to Democrats.
The email included guidance for Republicans seeking to defend the president from potentially damaging witness testimony from an ambassador who was removed from her post in May under controversial circumstances.
In copies of the guidance shared with The Hill, the White House encouraged Republicans to adopt a series of messages designed to turn the tables back on Democrats, including attacks on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) handling of the investigation.
Yovanovitch told House lawmakers that she was removed after “a concerted campaign" against her from President Trump and his allies.
She also said in her opening statement that the State Department had "been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018."
Yovanovitch’s ouster came two months before Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president — now at the center of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry — in which Trump asked Kiev to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading 2020 presidential candidate.
“We are not concerned with any information Yovanovitch might share, because the President did nothing wrong,” the White House email meant for Republicans said. “But we are concerned that Schiff is putting her a precarious position by having her testify in secret without State Department lawyers be present.”
"It raises serious questions about why Schiff is willing to put career officials in such risky situations while bullying them with legally unfounded threats of obstruction charges," the email continued.
It added that Schiff "is willing to ride roughshod over fair process and to use career officials to further a baseless political objective."
The email marks the second time the White House has unintentionally sent talking points to Democrats in recent weeks, after an administration official inadvertently emailed them suggested rhetoric defending the July 25 phone call.
The White House did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.
Or they sent them because they knew this was the only way to get them out there.
Anyone really believe it’s an accident?
Another spy in the White House? Is there anyone in the Oval Office this president can trust? The entire Deep State will go to any lengths to drive him out of office.
Bull. More backstabbers at work.
Exactly.
And why haven’t we heard much about what she supposedly said behind those closed doors, other than her “leaked” opening statement?
Hmmm....???
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Fire them!!!!!
Did you want a going away cake or something??
Twice is not an accident.
That should be easy. Who is in charge of that area? Which machine were they sent from? Who is in charge of it? Somebody’s @$$ should be in a sling.
NOPE! Either an anti -trumper leaked them or to catch leaker or 4Dchess?
Exactly. Trump still playing chess.
The Democrats have no right to open and read emails that the White House send by mistake.
That should be illegal!
The Democrats are cheating.
No, and the directive probably came from Donald J. Trump himself. This is exactly the kind of thing he would send out in a tweet to get them stirred up.
Mission accomplished.
Trump has destroyed Biden. Notice that Paulie Boy Pelosi, Nancy’s son, did essentially the same thing in the Ukraine that Hunter Biden did. Yet Trump did not specifically destroy Paulie Boy at the Minnesota or Louisiana rallies. He is letting Nancy stew for a few days and giving her a little more time to do the right thing. However suspect by Tuesday Trump will turn his guns on Paulie Boy. The talking points are meaningless memos written by staffers.
We are 3 yrs in...more if you count the planning and campaign.
Bake then, I could see someone leaking and PDJT not know it.
Not now. He is wiser.
This was purposeful. ..more kitty tease.
If that’s what’s in it, I think it might be less an accident and more rubbing the Dems noses in it.
What better way to get them to read them.
I don’t. Not given what was said in the mail.
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