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Bill Taylor tells the House committees investigating impeachment STRAIGHT TO THEIR FACES that...


A ) He was told by an official at the National Security Council that Trump had insisted the Ukrainian president himself publicly announce a probe into Joe Biden and his son.

The acting US ambassador to Ukraine said: “President Trump did insist that President Zelensky go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and 2016 election interference, and that President Zelensky should want to do this himself.”

B ) Gordon Sondland said that “everything,” including the release of military aid to Ukraine, was tied to the country’s president publicly announcing investigations into Joe Biden and the 2016 election.

“Ambassador Sondland also told me that he now recognized that he had made a mistake by earlier telling the Ukrainian officials to whom he spoke that a White House meeting with President Zelenskyy was dependent on a public announcement of investigations – in fact, Ambassador Sondland said, ‘everything’ was dependent on such an announcement, including security assistance.

“He said that President Trump wanted President Zelenskyy ‘in a public box’ by making a public statement about ordering such investigations.”

C ) He realized that Giuliani – along with Kurt Volker, Gordon Sondland and Rick Perry – controlled “an irregular, informal channel of U.S. policy-making with respect to Ukraine.”

Taylor said: “Although this irregular channel was well-connected in Washington, it operated mostly outside of official State Department channels.”

D ) He became “increasingly concerned” that the US-Ukraine relationship was being “fundamentally undermined” by withholding military aid for “domestic political reasons.”

Taylor added that he stood by his Sept. 9 text message to Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker, in which he said it would be “crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”

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Taylor reportedly admitted that he has no first hand knowledge that any demands were made of Ukraine in connection to the aid, or that Ukraine knew the aid had been suspended, meaning this is all just speculation and rumor mongering by anti-Trump bureaucrats.

Gee, maybe they'll bring in Rachel Maddow to testify next. You know she's heard some stuff, lol. You could have been spared your big Mueller-like deflation later if Democrats had established an honest, transparent process and we all could have seen these hearings for ourselves instead of selective Democrat spin and lies.

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Won't it be great if they bring in Mulvaney to testify?

Then again, they have the transcripts from his presser and the Wallace interview. They got all they need.

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If you say so:

“There is not a quid pro quo.” “I’ve never said there is a quid pro quo because there isn’t.” - Mulvaney, Wallace interview

Maybe you'd be better off having Rachel Maddow or Jussie Smollett testify.

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No one needs anyone else at this point - Mulvaney is the gift which keeps on giving. He's doing fine on his own. We could bring in Ghouliani at this point to testify - just for shits and giggles But Mulvaney has done fine. He's given the Dems everything they need.

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Better bring in Michael Moore to testify to be on the safe side. And maybe some characters from the tv show Newsroom. Not Jeff Daniels, but the character he played before the series was cancelled.

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Nah - as I said earlier, we're all set. We have Mick Mulvaney (apparently a rising star on the liberal left these days) and we're all set!

"You were asked specifically by Jonathan Karl, was investigating Democrats one of the conditions for holding up the aide? Was that part of the quid pro quo? And you said, it happens all the time," Wallace , The Wallace Interview.

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Like most speakers he didn't take time to correct every single bit of flawed wording in the loaded questions he was getting. So you don't have a single soundbite of Mulvaney using the words "quid pro quo" apart from the many times he denied there was one? That's seriously the best you've got, lol?

Then take a vote! Why wait?

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If he really acted the way you describe, he wouldn't be spending the following four days (and counting) trying to take back what he said. And he wouldn't need tools like you working over-time trying desperately to defend him, making a complete fool of yourself.

But please...continue...

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He didn't "take back" what he said, moron. We've established that he never say there was a "quid pro quo".

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OK, cupcake. You can have the last word. I had enough fun with you for one day (actually for the rest of the year! your responses made me laugh so hard) .

Besides, your ego can't take any more bruising. I'll give you some time to heal.

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Oh that's a great tactic. You get stomped and flee the thread, whimpering delusions about how well you did. Let me know if you ever come up with an actual counter argument. In the meantime try not to slip on your own urine.

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Trust me, you need more time to heal. Take a 'time out'. Try to pull yourself together before attempting to get back in the ring. You're bruised pretty bad.

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Whoops, you slipped on some of your own mess. Bad, Doggie! You should have been housebroken. As your new owner I'll try to fix that.

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Taylor was the acting ambassador to the Ukraine, and the right wingers here act like he was some outsider who's just speculating on these things. He was talking to Trump admin officials.

Clearly, these are threads worth following.

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I like how you brought it up to plural with officials to give it more weight.Like in the Easy A movie her friend saying she heard you did 3 guys.

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Its amazing. Taylor was in constant communication with Sondland. Not only did Sondland tell Taylor everything, but when Taylor asked for clarification of Trump's quid pro quo, Sondland panicked telling Taylor to stop texting and to take it to calls. Yesterday we found out what was in those calls.

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Taylor is a true patriot for coming forward and telling everyone what actually went down, unlike Sondland.

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The right wing loons are going to cancel him out and say T-rump never met him, and he was a coffee-boy.

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You enjoy yourself sooo much when you're belittling and insulting others don't you, Newfoundlandnookiegetter?

Ooh I like that one. Kinda rolls off the tongue,right? 😋

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'mornin', Bulldogbuttmuncher! ;)

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However, many Republicans remained unmoved, describing Taylor’s testimony as an official putting his “interpretation” on the administrations communications with Ukraine.

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I know. Can you believe how unpatriotic and un-American these Republicans are? This gentleman has had nothing but a distinguished, admirable career as a civil servant dating back five Presidents (since Reagan) , and today's current crop of asshole Republicans are trying to smear him and cast doubt on him. They should be ashamed of themselves - but they have no shame.

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Or nobody is perfect.Or even his admission is his testimony was from hearing from other peoples interpretation not the presidents on words. Like in the Easy A rumor movie it was I heard you did 3 guys in homeroom.

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You do realize this isn't a movie, correct ? So even slightly comparing a real American crisis - where a distinguished civil servant was almost a participant in the President's High Crimes and Misdemeanors - is ridiculous on every account. But you T-rumptards keep throwing every defense you can think of at the wall (including a movie comparison) and see what sticks.

So far, nothing has stuck at all.

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But his work in the past was with presidents who didn't care about who they gave money to. He comes to work for Donald and has no idea what to do.

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So why did Pompeo offer him the job, if he was so inexperienced in such a prestigious job ?

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He may not of known he was a guy that got his panties in a bunch when he didn't get his way. Unlikely Donald would have hired him himself. Donald knows like Puerto Rico if you keep giving them money they will always stay crooked. Ukraine is the same way.

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Republican senators will soon be receiving an invitation to tear apart the Republican Party ahead of the 2020 elections, and they are going to decline to accept it.

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