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Anonymous wrote:“Call me”.

Now I have Debbie Harry stuck on my brain.

Anonymous wrote:“Call me”.

Anonymous wrote:Why was Gordon Sonderlund even sniffing Ukraine? It has NOTHING to do with this appointed role to the EU. None.

These text messages are damning. I seriously question the basic brain function of anyone who would read them and not see that.

Astonishing there are people who read this and come up with anything other than total quid pro quo smoking gun.

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Anonymous wrote:holy crap

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/_cache/files/a/4/a4a91fab-99cd-4eb9-9c6c-ec1c586494b9/621801458E982E9903839ABC7404A917.chairmen-letter-on-state-departmnent-texts-10-03-19.pdf

the text messages are attached.

Forgive me if this has already been posted.

Very interesting, thanks.

My question: did Volker hope to avoid jail by resigning and cooperating with the investigation?
All the participants in these texts are clearly implicated, even Bill Taylor who texted his misgivings and wrote that it was "crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign."

These texts are the smoking gun.

And what disgusting liars those GOP Congressmen are to come out after the hearing and say that it's a nothingburger.

They are truly destroying our country.

This is a smoking gun against Trump?

This combined with the rest of the string does seem to be a smoking gun. And that string isn't the whole thing - they are planning to release more.

The texts on July 25 before and after the call are the smoking guns IMO. The ones into August and September are CYA. Taylor was pretty naive with some of the stuff he put into text.

7/25 (before call):
Volker: Good lunch - thanks. Heard from White House - assuming President Z convinced trump he will investigate/"get to the bottom of what happened" in 2016, we ill nail down date for visit to Washington. Good luck! See you tomorrow - kurt

7/25 (after call)
Yermak: Phone call went well. President Trump proposed to choose any convenient dates. ...

9/1:
Taylor: Are we going to say that security assistance and WH meeting are conditioned on investigations?
Gordon: Call me

This stuff is just nuts.

Taylor was not naive. He was appalled and wanted his objections on the record. He knew that texting it that explicitly would rattle Sondland, who had no business being involved in Ukraine at all, but was included because he was the political appointee who spoke to Trump and Pompeo. Taylor came out of retirement to help Ukraine against Russia and was pissed that the military assistance was being held up for Trump's "deliverable" e.g., a public commitment from Zelensky for the "investigations". Taylor obviously objected in phone calls to Sondland, and put his position on the record in the texts.

I love Taylor. When is he coming before Congress?

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I love that he’s pretending to play stupid in that text to get it on record.

Anonymous wrote:What do you bet the next talking point is "Gordon stated in his text that there was no quid pro quo. Witch hunt!"

Anonymous wrote:I remember when Obama asked Netanyahu to find dirt on Romney, or else US was going to withhold funds from Israel. It was astonishing that Hillary Clinton and her staff executed the shakedown, that Joe Biden made a personal ask of Bibi and Eric Holders DOJ covered it up.

I am glad they are all in jail now.

Anonymous wrote:Geez, Giuliani, lay off the sauce.

Anonymous wrote:Rudy throwing the State Department under the bus

https://twitter.com/swin24/status/1180104238040600578