Public Trump Impeachment Hearing Mega Thread

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that first sentence should say:

The White House has no record of a call.

Saying it has not located a record of the call makes it sound like someone lost the information.

But isn't he always making calls on that unsecured phone? The same one he uses to call his buddies after he eats his cheeseburger in bed? With this guy, how could there ever be a conclusive record of any of his phone calls?

That's a great point. Isn't that why Lily Tomlin made Bartlett route all his calls through her? To ensure there was an accurate log?

There has to be some record of his cell phone calls.

Heck the police could get records of MY cell phone calls with a subpoena.

There's a record of that phone call. Sondland got the date wrong. Because he doesn't take notes, has a bad memory, and wasn't allowed to get any of his notes or emails or anything from State.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think that first sentence should say:

The White House has no record of a call.

Saying it has not located a record of the call makes it sound like someone lost the information.

But isn't he always making calls on that unsecured phone? The same one he uses to call his buddies after he eats his cheeseburger in bed? With this guy, how could there ever be a conclusive record of any of his phone calls?

That's a great point. Isn't that why Lily Tomlin made Bartlett route all his calls through her? To ensure there was an accurate log?

There has to be some record of his cell phone calls.

Heck the police could get records of MY cell phone calls with a subpoena.

There's a record of that phone call. Sondland got the date wrong. Because he doesn't take notes, has a bad memory, and wasn't allowed to get any of his notes or emails or anything from State.

The problem with Sondland though is the earlier phone call didn't have the contents that he testified to. There is no record or corroboration of a phone call where Trump said what Sondland claims.

[Anonymous]

The GOP-controlled Senate Intel Committee investigated & cleared Ukraine of an election interference campaign in 2016. Testimony from Alexadra Chalupa was useless, sources said, and Republicans didn’t follow up or request more witnesses related to the issue.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/02/senate-panel-ukraine-election-interference-074796

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The GOP-controlled Senate Intel Committee investigated & cleared Ukraine of an election interference campaign in 2016. Testimony from Alexadra Chalupa was useless, sources said, and Republicans didn’t follow up or request more witnesses related to the issue.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/02/senate-panel-ukraine-election-interference-074796

Sen. Angus King said that as a member of the Senate Intel Committee, he's “probably been to between 20-30 briefings and hearings on the subject of election interference in 2016, and I have never heard one word about any culpability on the part of Ukraine.”

[Anonymous]

From Andrew Desiderio who covers Congress for Politico: “House Intel official says the committee’s report is now available for members to view in the SCIF, 24 hours ahead of a scheduled vote to transmit it to the Judiciary Committee.”

[Anonymous]

A federal judge today paved the way on Monday for Rudy Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas to comply with a House subpoena for information relevant to the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

“I certainly expect to grant that request,” U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken told Parnas’ attorney Joseph Brody, adding that he hoped prosecutors would turn over the evidence as soon as possible.
https://www.courthousenews.com/giuliani-associate-lev-parnas-cleared-to-comply-with-impeachment-subpoena/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I did not have a chance to watch Hill and Holm testifying until today. I know the GOP members are singing "lalalalala" inside their heads so they won't have to actually hear anything, but I like how good she is at slapping Nunes down. Still have a couple of hours to watch, but I had to stop to watch Madame Secretary!

She has about 10 times the intelligence Nunes has. It's really incredible.

My favorite was when she pretended not to know anything about Fusion GPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did not have a chance to watch Hill and Holm testifying until today. I know the GOP members are singing "lalalalala" inside their heads so they won't have to actually hear anything, but I like how good she is at slapping Nunes down. Still have a couple of hours to watch, but I had to stop to watch Madame Secretary!

She has about 10 times the intelligence Nunes has. It's really incredible.

My favorite was when she pretended not to know anything about Fusion GPS

I bet she knows all about the ping pong thing too.

[Anonymous]

One of the core GOP arguments against the impeachment is the idea that the money was released, so there was no foul and thus no harm and further, the Ukrainians didn't know money was being withheld.

Sadly, for the GOP, the facts don't support either contention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/world/europe/ukraine-impeachment-military-aid.html

[Anonymous]

Trump's State Department seems to disagree with members of the House, Senate and White House who "blame" Ukraine:

No. 3 State Department official testifies that Ukraine did not interfere in 2016 election

David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs, contradicted two common Trump talking points, telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was not a “hoax,” and that he has seen no evidence to suggest that Ukraine was guilty of interference in that election.

Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.), the top Democrat on the panel, asked Hale whether he had any reason to disagree with testimony former White House national security expert Fiona Hill gave the House that the conspiracy theory about Ukraine’s interference “is a fictional narrative that is being perpetrated and propagated by the Russian Security Services themselves.”

Hale, the third-ranking State Department official, said he did not.

Menendez went on to point out that Trump has continued to press the Ukraine story line even though it was disputed by career diplomats and intelligence officials.

“Is our national security made stronger or weaker when members of the administration or members of Congress insist on repeating debunked Russian lies?” Menendez asked.

“That does not serve our interest,” Hale said.

- Washington Post

[Anonymous]

The GOP members of Intel, Oversight and Foreign Affairs are out with their bizarro interpretation of the evidence:
https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/release/house-intelligence-oversight-and-foreign-affairs-republicans-release-report-of-evidence-in-the-democrats-impeachment-inquiry/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The GOP members of Intel, Oversight and Foreign Affairs are out with their bizarro interpretation of the evidence:
https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/release/house-intelligence-oversight-and-foreign-affairs-republicans-release-report-of-evidence-in-the-democrats-impeachment-inquiry/

They have some real chutzpah to call the impeachment process "abusive". I still remember all of the hearings they conducted where they literally did nothing but yell at the witnesses.

[Anonymous]

Two weeks of Testimony, One story of Betrayal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The GOP members of Intel, Oversight and Foreign Affairs are out with their bizarro interpretation of the evidence:
https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/release/house-intelligence-oversight-and-foreign-affairs-republicans-release-report-of-evidence-in-the-democrats-impeachment-inquiry/

They have some real chutzpah to call the impeachment process "abusive". I still remember all of the hearings they conducted where they literally did nothing but yell at the witnesses.

Why do they even bother to write this at anything higher than a 4th grade reading level? Don’t they know their base?

[Anonymous]

I hope the dems can be a little pre-emptive in their document negating the horsesh*t the GOP is trying to spread. They aren't even being factual in their defense.