Posted on 11/13/2019 10:34:10 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
William Taylor, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, revealed new information about the president's interest in Ukraine and the "investigations of Biden" in his opening statement Wednesday at the first House impeachment inquiry hearing.
"I am not here to take one side or the other or to advocate for any particular outcome of these proceedings," he said.
"Last Friday, a member of my staff told me of events that occurred on July 26. While Ambassador Volker and I visited the front, this member of my staff accompanied Ambassador Sondland. Ambassador Sondland met with Mr. Yermak," Taylor claimed. "Following that meeting, in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, Ambassador Sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in Kyiv. The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone, asking Ambassador Sondland about the investigations. Ambassador Sondland told President Trump that the Ukrainians were ready to move forward."
"Following the call with President Trump, the member of my staff asked Ambassador Sondland what President Trump thought about Ukraine. Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for... At the time I gave my deposition on October 22, I was not aware of this information. I am including it here for completeness."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
After the impeachment process and the house is over President Trump should purge the entire state department and fire everyone he’s legally able to fire. The permanent bureaucracy needs to feel intense pain in order to remember that they carry out the orders of people we elect.
when are the investigaTIONS GOIGN TO TAKE PLACE ON THOSE TWO WHO ARE/WERE ACTIVELY TRYIGN TO UNDERMINE THIS PRESIDENT?
Dang cps lock-
I tuned in at 10:30 pst just as they were taking a break and saw Fox’s Chris Wallace so giddy over Bill Taylor’s “deep voice and impressive delivery” that he looked like he was playing with himself under his desk.
Maybe he was. I always thought he was a jack ***.
I really need to see mass firings, demotions, and prosecutions of these deep state operatatives once the impeachment campaign fizzles out. These last three years have confirmed my worst fears about what’s wrong with our government.
He’s following in the footsteps of his lying, fake news fabricating father.
get a visit from the Arkancide squad, special victims unit...............
Don’t you mean the Liberty Tree Gardening and Irrigation Society.
And reassign the ones he can’t to some remote place in the middle of the country, doing some sort of make-work job where they can’t stir up any trouble.
“fire everyone he is able to fire.”
Amen!
lol
The president is in charge and not William Taylor.
If William Taylor does not like he could have resigned. Instead he is a member of the coup.
WTF?
The "official foreign policy of the US" is set by the president. If a president wants Rudy Giuliani to do something, then that IS part of the official policy of the US.
Amb Taylor and his cohorts are the ones who are undercutting the "official foreign policy of the US".
This is what’s wrong with our govt. Too many know-it-alls in appointed positions believe their own press clippings. That’s when they start to determine what foreign policy OUGHT TO be, instead of what it is determined to be by the only person who counts under the Constitution: the sitting POTUS. Foreign policy, including discussions of aid [and quid pro quos that flow naturally from such aid] is ultimately the President’s decision - not ambassadors and intelligentsia that are unaccountable to the voter
The Official Foreign Policy of the US is determined by POTUS, exclusively, not the State Dept.
And it can be carried out by ANY agent of POTUS, public or private.
Only in the case of Treaty does any other element of government get a vote.
These pompous bastards don’t know they are on worldwide tv looking like pompous bastards.
Dear Neo Facist Democrat Party Morons.
The President of the USA sets Foreign Policy, not some self important narcissistic stooges in the State Department.
We elected Trump to do that job not you incoherent corrupt blowhard hacks.
Presidents have used personal unofficial emissaries outside the State Department for decades.
Probably the best know was Harry Hopkins who Democrat Fascist Party god FDR used to do all sort of personal diplomacy.
Here is the problem for the Democrat Fascists and their toadies in the Fake New Media.
We will let them assume EVERYTHING is true and accurate in the transcripts. We allow this nonsense of hearsay, feeling and assumptions to be allowed as evidence.
There is still no crime here.
If “Quid Pro Quo” or “bibery” or what ever they are lyinging call it today is a Crime, Joe Biden is guilty of one while VP.
Watch the video of him bragging about it.
The President would have a legal obligation to investigate this crime So if it is a crime, Trump was doing his duty, it is is NOT a crime what Biden did it would still need to be investigated to verify. In either case Trump is not guilty of anything.
It is either a crime or it is not. It cannot be a crime for Trump but not for Biden. If it is a crime, Trump is legally obligated to help investigate Bidens actions. .
Either way there is no legal standing to this continuing farce in the US House.
The Official Foreign Policy of the United States is, in the minds of the Establishment, Deep State, Whatever, the province of the permanent dinezens of the State Department and the intelligence agencies. Presidents are only hired to put a face on it. Presidents are not allowed to interfere with the Official Foreign Policy of the United States. A President who thinks he makes foreign policy and who interferes with the programs and goals of the Permanent Government is abusing his power and should be Removed by impeachment or some other method.
If this the best we have, we are screwed.
Thank him for his service, but here is his blanket.
Good God what an embarrassment.
This arrogant Taylor oaf is your typical state depth self-preening sh**-head loser.
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