Posted on 11/08/2019 12:28:12 PM PST by Mariner
Former National Security Council staffer Fiona Hill has testified that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney approved a quid-pro-quo in which President Trump would meet with his Ukranian counterpart if he first agreed to open investigations that would benefit Trump politically.
Hills testimony before the House Intelligence Committee was released on Friday along with the testimony of NSC official Alexander Vindman.
Ambassador [to the European Union Gordon] Sondland, in front of the Ukrainians was talking about how he had an agreement with Chief of Staff Mulvaney for a meeting with the Ukrainians if they were going to go forward with investigations, Hill told investigators.
House Democrats initiated their impeachment inquiry based on suspicions Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to pressure the country to investigate Biden. In a July 25 phone conversation, Trump repeatedly urged Zelensky to investigate Biden, a little over a week after the White House withheld a military aid package marked for Ukraine.
However, Vindman, in his testimony, said Ukraine had no idea that military aid was being withheld at the time of the call. In his view, Ukrainian officials understood that they would have to open investigation into Biden in order to obtain a meeting between Zelensky and Trump.
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No. These seditious traitors will only stop when their extreme sentences are carried out...after arrest, fair trial and conviction, of course. It would Free America good to see all of hanging on the WDC Amall.
It's telling that every single lib news broadcast interchanges one with the other. Why is that, what do they know that they don't want the people to know?
Trump may be the only anti swamper in his administration.
Negative thinkers are always right........... or pleasantly surprised.
Now, now some of them had to listen to Barr play bagpipes.
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