COMMITTEES RELEASE TESTIMONY OF YOVANOVITCH AND McKINLEY

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[janetjanet998]

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the transcripts of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch and former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State Ambassador P. Michael McKinley.

[janetjanet998]

Where’s the crime?

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Remember the media reports when this all started? “Trump mentions Biden 8 times in phone call” and “He told them he was going to hold up aid”

Then Trump released the phone call....

Now back to “Orange man bad”

[Zathras]

That is nonsense.
The President can fire any diplomat he whats.
Its an appointed position.

[thinden]

And why should we believe these transcripts when the democrats dont believe the transcript from Trumps call?

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brilliant!

[centurion316]

Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the President. He may dismiss them for any reason or for no reason. Likewise, he may conduct foreign policy as he sees fit including using back channels. Almost all Presidents have done this at some point. This is designed to deceive ignorant Democrat constituents, and stir them up into a rage.

[Sacajaweau]

The testimony was a nothing.

Ukraine kicked her out. She was due to leave in 2 weeks anyways....so being upset by her dismissal makes little sense..

She knew cr** about a lot of things.

What did come to light, was that the Javelin purchase had "0", nada, nothing to do with the pending monies. I had assumed it deed...until I read this.

And Taylor replaced her....This is who I think is WB No. 1.

[Wuli]

Selective releases for their Dim talking points value for the media - period.

As I keep saying the whole purpose of the “impeachment” exercise, that it exists and how it is being conducted is 100% for using the continued and constant dribs and drabs of selective information to impeach Trump in the media, by the media, for the sheeple. They have now and will have nothing else to sell for the next year.

[know.your.why]

And when do we get the Republicans report of the cross examination of Yovanovitch and McKinley?

[janetjanet998]

House Intel CMTE chairman Rep. Adam Schiff says transcripts will be released Tuesday of private depositions with ambassadors Kurt Volker & Gordon Sondland, both of which are central to the impeachment inquiry into Pres. Trump.
https://twitter.com/jennfranconews/status/1191432257916915714

[Brown Deer]

The Committee will release individual transcripts on a rolling basis as this process is completed. The Committees plan to release the testimony of Ambassadors Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland next, provided that counsel for the witnesses clear those transcripts in a timely manner.

Rolling basis? Yokanovitch wasn't deposed until October 11 and McKinley on October 16. Why did they skip the transcript of Michael Atkinson?

Where are the transcripts of George Kent, Fiona Hill, Bill Taylor, Laura Cooper, Philip Reeker, Alexander Vindman, Catherine Croft and Tim Morrison?

The testimony of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch from October 11, 2019 can be found here. Key excerpts from Yovanovitch’s testimony can be found here.

The testimony of former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State Ambassador P. Michael McKinley from October 16, 2019 can be found here. Key excerpts from McKinley’s testimony can be found here.

As part of this process, the Committee is redacting (1) personally identifiable information; (2) the names of non-senior Executive Branch personnel and Intelligence Community employees; (3) the names of committee staff who did not ask questions or make on-the-record statements; and (4) classified or potentially classified information or other sensitive information not pertinent to the subject of the impeachment inquiry.

In addition, consistent with the Committee’s rules, each transcript has been made available to the witness for inspection, including to identify technical, grammatical, and typographical corrections. The Committee has also taken into consideration requested redactions from witnesses...

[Karliner]

This is so far in to Banana Republics-ville I’m still wondering whether to cry or be po’ed or both

[matt04]

Trump release a full transcript of the call, completely un-redacted and left screams how it is fake. Now the Dems admit their transcript is redacted and allowed to be edited by the lawyers. I’m sure the left will complain about that, right?

[blondiegoodbadugly]

[lodi90]

Ukraine begged Obama for Javelin missiles. GOP Congress passed a bill to do it. Obama said no and sent them blankets instead. On Putin’s orders, presumably.

[Jim Noble]

long-held U.S. foreign policy...the contamination of U.S. foreign policy...efforts to secure public support for Ambassador Yovanovitch from the senior-most levels of the State Department were never realized...

Who makes U.S. foreign policy? And who appoints ambassadors?

I forgot.

[Jim Noble]

This is designed to deceive ignorant Democrat constituents, and stir them up into a rage

That is completely wrong.

They are already deceived, and since impeachment and removal will have 100% Democrat support, they don't need to be stirred up.

What this is designed to do is to build pressure on weak REPUBLICAN Senators, and to initiate a logrolling process so that, JUST LIKE WATERGATE, the defenses slowly crumble as weakling after weakling gives in and makes it harder for the others to refuse.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Obama’s appointees in the State Dept. were part of the later “Deep State” coup attempt against Pres. Trump.

Anyone who worked with Soros/fronts is dirty and that included one shitload of Obama people.

[Swordmaker]

Who makes U.S. foreign policy? And who appoints ambassadors?

I forgot.

So has she and Schifty.

In the “highlights” of her testimony the Ambassador and Schiftt both seem to be shocked that the representative of the president, Rudy Giuliani, is in favor of overriding the decision of local bureaucrats to deny a Visa to the USA for the previous Ukrainian State’s Prosecutor. She seems to think that the decision of the local people is the be-all-and-end-all and no one can override that decision, not even the President of the US. She’s shocked that he could do such a thing. Shocked she tells you. How dare he. She’s also shocked that he would consider replacing her! So is Schiftty. How dare he have a different view of things that the bureaucrats who’ve been running Foreign Policy for the Ukraine? In both the Ambassador’s and Schiffty’s view, THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO SET POLICY, not the President!

[miserare]

I will wait until Sunday and let Chris Wallace tell me what it all means.

/sarc