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AP source: 2nd US official heard Trump call with Sondland
apnews.com ^ | November 14, 2019 | DESMOND BUTLER, MICHAEL BIESECKER and MATTHEW LEE

Posted on 11/14/2019 11:32:28 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

A second U.S. Embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing a need for Ukrainian officials to pursue “investigations,” The Associated Press has learned.

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To: Berlin_Freeper

If Sondland is putting a call with the President from a restaurant on speaker phone, he just ain’t right.


81 posted on 11/14/2019 12:36:00 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I read it in its entirety, do I qualify to being a witness?


82 posted on 11/14/2019 12:37:44 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

More hearsay. If this is the best AP can uncover, no wonder the Democrats are desperate.

Not a bombshell that’s going to sway people’s minds.


83 posted on 11/14/2019 12:40:42 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The second diplomatic staffer also at the table was Suriya Jayanti, a foreign service officer based in Kyiv. A person briefed on what Jayanti overheard spoke to AP on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter currently under investigation.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Why not ask Suriya Jayanti what he heard instead of hearing about what he is supposed to have heard from somebody else?

Can you say...HEARSAY...boys and girls?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

84 posted on 11/14/2019 12:42:41 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Zelensky's campaign was all about corruption. I might be bothered if none of this corruption was mentioned in the phone call and was only occurring behind the scenes.

And Biden....hey you had the gall to brag about the billion....and then deny you knew anything about what your son was doing. Can't have it both ways.

85 posted on 11/14/2019 12:43:13 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
That makes a total of zero.

86 posted on 11/14/2019 12:45:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Michael Avenetti heard the call and he is willing to make a deal !!!


87 posted on 11/14/2019 12:46:37 PM PST by XRdsRev (You can't spell HILLARY without the letters LIAR.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

So what....Kent said we should be pursuing these investigations because it involves our money.


88 posted on 11/14/2019 12:48:27 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Its all over, now they got hom for sure..next it’ll be the janitor’s neighbor’s second cousin told some guy at the icecream shop that he heard someone say trump while they were at a table playing with cards in a building that is 175 miles away from the embassy.


89 posted on 11/14/2019 12:49:07 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Rumor is that Joe Isuzu is the surprise witness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn1ya_qTGZY&list=PLCRkFWhvWGbwC8KyTL8ZgmEMnAcPQmQP5&index=5&t=4s


90 posted on 11/14/2019 12:50:54 PM PST by reagandemocrat (Make California Great Again)
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To: pnut22
The waitress picked up the plates and noticed the mini tape recorder. Mr. X grabbed her wrist and told her he wasn't finished.

She immediately called her friend Nancy and told her what she had heard.

Just a little parody for a slow day. ;-)

91 posted on 11/14/2019 12:53:53 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Can I quote you on that?


92 posted on 11/14/2019 12:54:36 PM PST by pnut22
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To: Berlin_Freeper

According to the left,the Republican President has zero power to be President but the Democrat President has FULL and EXCLUSIVE Executive power that shall NEVER be questioned. I f-ing hate the left.


93 posted on 11/14/2019 12:57:58 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Only if you pass it on.


94 posted on 11/14/2019 12:59:07 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“A second U.S. Embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing a need for Ukrainian officials to pursue “investigations,” The Associated Press has learned.”

Truly ludicrous.

The premise that’s there’s something wrong with such a call, if it occurred is flawed. And the idea that people in proximity of another person on a phone call would know what the caller not present was saying is absurd.

But let’s set those things aside.

The EU Ambassador surely would be the person to testify.

What does the EU Ambassador say?

These Dems make no sense.


95 posted on 11/14/2019 1:00:32 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

Apparently, if you are Democrat running for President you have carte blanche immunity to break any and all laws at will. Hillary and Biden are the rules not the exceptions.


96 posted on 11/14/2019 1:21:55 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Beagle8U

I inherited a cabin and some property in a rural area. It has:

- No phone
- No internet
- No cable TV
- I think 2 over-the-air TV channels (post-digital)

I like it just fine. Great place to go and unplug. It has electricity, well and septic. I do get cell signal there for emergencies. The local AM radio station dumped Rush though and went back to playing country music.


97 posted on 11/14/2019 1:27:24 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Bozo the Klown thought there was a need for an investigation of the gas Co. in 2014 then Biden’s son signed on to Burisma and Bozo then stopped seeing a need for the investigation and it was called off.


98 posted on 11/14/2019 1:41:49 PM PST by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitc)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Does the President use a party line or something?

“Um Hello. Oh sorry Mr President I didn’t realize you were on the phone”


99 posted on 11/14/2019 2:17:16 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: pnut22

I have problems with this story.

Who made the call, PDJT or Sondland? If PDJT, I would suspect that an aide or staff actually made the call and then would have handed the phone to PDJT. The call would be on a secure, encrypted phone. Sondland would have been aware that discussions in a public location, (a restaurant), do not provide a setting for confidential or sensitive discussions, and I can’t see Sondland taking a phone call from POTUS in a public place.

It would be more likely that he would explain where he was at the time and arrange for a call back when he was in a more private location. It is also highly unlikely that he would have made a call to PDJT until he was in a secure, private location.

The next issue is the alleged fact that the aide who was with Sondland could hear what PDJT said. That would mean that the phone, (cell phone), was on speaker. That scenario is almost too ridicules to even entertain. So I can’t buy the conversation of PDJT being able to be heard by the aide.

Now, it appears that this aide was siting at a table with Ukrainian diplomats/officials and Sondland when the alleged call occurred and that Sondland was so “negligent”that he had the phone on speaker in a public restaurant while in the company of foreign diplomats/officials.

Taylor made the revelation of the aide in his testimony Wednesday, stating that last Friday he was told about this incident. However, from the article we have this;

“Jayanti was in Washington last month and scheduled for a closed-door interview with impeachment investigators. But the deposition was canceled because of the funeral for former House Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings and has not yet been rescheduled.”

That says that the aide/staff member and Schiff’s committee staff had orchestrated this BS way earlier. And they have to drop it now since Taylor has been shot down because of hearsay. So, they need someone to testify to firsthand knowledge, but are making sure that it is a conversation that there will be no records of so that it can’t be easily refuted an becomes a he said, he said situation.


100 posted on 11/14/2019 2:22:17 PM PST by usnavy_cop_retired (Retiree in the P.I. living as a legal immigrant)
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