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{ wethepeopledaily.com } ~ Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Thursday that the United States Ambassador Gordon Sondland did not link financial military assistance to a request for Ukraine to open up an investigation... into former vice president and current Democratic presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. “Ambassador Sondland did not tell us, and certainly did not tell me, about a connection between the assistance and the investigations,” Prystaiko said, according to Reuters. “You should ask him.” “I have never seen a direct relationship between investigations and security assistance,” Prystaiko continued. “Yes, the investigations were mentioned, you know, in the conversation of the presidents. But there was no clear connection between these events.”  Prystaiko’s comments came after House Democrats launched their public impeachment inquiry hearings on Wednesday on the House In

{ redstate.com } ~ Leader of the farce scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA) gave in to Republican pressure and released the transcript of Tim Morrison’s testimony on Saturday... Morrison is the outgoing National Security Council’s (NSC) Senior Director for European Affairs. scumbag/liar-Schiff’s star witness, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, reports to Morrison. They also released the transcript of Jennifer Williams’ testimony. She is Vice President Mike Pence’s special adviser on Europe and Russia. In a statement issued when these transcripts were released, the chairs of the House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees wrote,  “The testimony released today shows that President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky immediately set off alarm bells throughout the White House.” And if you happened to read the Huffington Post’s version of Morrison’s transcript, you would have heard that “the testimony appears to suggest that Trump used the full weight of his office to pressure Zelensky.” Both Morrison and Williams had listened in on the call and will be testifying publicly in the coming week. The House Intelligence Committee Republicans, however, saw Morrison’s testimony quite a bit differently and consider it to be favorable to the President, which may be the reason why scumbag/liar-Schiff was reluctant to release it. In summary, Morrison did not believe President Trump said anything improper on the July 25th call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He also painted an unflattering picture of his subordinate, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the director of European Affairs at the NSC...   https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/11/17/schiff-releases-tim-morrison-transcript-destroys-testimony-lt.-col.-vindman-considers-unreliable-questions-judgement?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=7220442bc3498cb5e2d68f3cb4d11680   

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{ thehill.com } ~ Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), an adviser to Senate Republican leadership, says there are not enough votes in the Senate to immediately dismiss any articles of impeachment... passed by the House against President Trump. Republicans have discussed the possibility of quickly dismissing charges against Trump, which would just require 51 votes. But Cornyn said that would be a difficult hurdle for the GOP, which holds 53 seats in the Senate. “There’s some people talking about trying to stop the bill, dismiss charges basically as soon as they get over here. I think that’s not going to happen. That would require 51 votes,” Cornyn told reporters Wednesday.“I think it would be hard to find 51 votes to cut the case off before the evidence is presented,” he added. Cornyn also said it would be better to have a trial in the Senate if the House impeaches Trump. The veteran GOP senator said “the better course would be to let each side have their say and then have the Senate vote and see if they can meet the two-thirds threshold” to convict the president on impeachment articles. Convicting Trump would require 67 votes in the Senate or a two-thirds majority of those present, something that would require the votes of as many as 20 GOP senators. Cornyn said it’s very unlikely that enough Republicans will vote to remove Trump from office. But he said GOP colleagues will want the issue vetted on the Senate floor with a trial...   https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/470301-gop-senator-republicans-dont-have-votes-to-dismiss-impeachment-articles   

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{ americanthinker.com } ~ Recently Bret Baier commented that some of loose lips liar-Joe Biden's answers at the last Democrat debate were "word salad." Sleepy loose lips liar-Joe's malapropisms have been well known for some time, and probably suggest on-going mental difficulty... None of us would readily suggest that his slips represent a more serious problem, such as schizophrenia, which is known for word salad.  But that brings to mind a key element of schizophrenia, and for that matter, many psychoses. We know someone is psychotic when they have a serious defect in reality testing. And while we do not expect careful scientific accuracy from politicians, who are, after all, non-player characters, their failure to demonstrate any connection between their verbal assaults and verifiable fact is telling. At the Democrat freak-out – oops, debate – we heard from lowlife-Kamala Harris that President Trump "committed crimes in plain sight." This recitation borrowed from scumbag/liar-Adam Full-of Schiff is telling. He kept that lie up as his talking point for two years, not even relinquishing it when the Mueller Report failed to identify a single crime. If there were actually crimes, why is no lefty politician listing them? Is this comment simply a sound bite echoing in a brain that is empty of original thoughts? Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren declared that Robert Mueller found Donald Trump guilty of obstructing justice. Granted, this is the now discarded impeachment "foundation," but that has always been a verbalization without cognition. Mueller's report explicitly stated that they did not find the President had obstructed, and the Attorney General issued the final finding of "no crime." Julian Castro gladly charged the President with "caging kids." Of course, all he had were the photos of a program begun under President scumbag/liar-nObama. Since that was in his back yard, one might hope that he was aware of the facts, but apparently not. And Mayor Pete announced that Trump has made our soldiers "ashamed" by taking away their honor. While one spec-ops soldier has made a comment after the Syrian repositioning that might support that position, most have been profoundly in support of our President. What does this word salad add up to? The casual observer might suggest that this is politics as usual. Politicians make up whatever they want, throw it against the wall, and see if anything sticks. Then they pile on to declare that whatever their audience found satisfying is what they've believed all along. At worst, they have neither true beliefs nor reality testing abilities. They are mindless echo chambers spewing word salad in the hope that it will yield votes, and thereby power. The Democrats’ favorite word list includes “Nazi.” This epithet carries huge emotional baggage. After all, Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist Party in Germany. As he became a de facto dictator, he ordered the mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others. His evil was only ended at the cost of many thousands of US military lives. But is Trump a new Hitler? The facts are the exact opposite. Every step of Trump’s tenure has led to reduction of central government power as all sorts of regulations are wiped away. Not one racial group has been lined up for extinction, Democrat protestations about “Muslim bans” to the contrary notwithstanding. And the Nazis were socialists, the favored ideology of the Democrat Party. Of course, that’s not the only similarity... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/democrats_are_serving_word_salad_as_their_main_course.html  

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{ westernjournal.com } ~ The establishment media’s ability to either ignore huge news or focus on the least important part of a huge story never ceases to amaze... On Thursday, reporting on a July 26 call placed from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland to President Donald Trump, The Associated Press waited 13 paragraphs to drop the real bombshell portion of the story — that Sondland called Trump from a Ukraine cafe using an apparently unsecure cellphone. That doesn’t sound like much of a bombshell — at first. But both the AP and The Washington Post noted in their coverage that placing a sensitive call, in public, in Ukraine almost certainly set up the conversation to be monitored by the GRU and SVR — Russian military and civilian intelligence agencies. That would be the same GRU from whom 12 members were indicted  during former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. And the same GRU that would jump at the chance to record damaging audio of a U.S. president and then leak it when the time is right. “The security ramifications are insane — using an open cellphone to communicate with the president of the United States… In a country that is so wired with Russian intelligence, you can almost take it to the bank that the Russians were listening in on the call,” Larry Pfeiffer, former chief of staff to the CIA director, told The Post. Pfeiffer wasn’t the only one to sound a warning. According to tweets from former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, ambassadors don’t usually grab cellphones and call presidents, and they “never do so to discuss Ukraine policy.” “Doing so on a cellphone from Kyiv means the whole world was listening in,” he said. “Russia already has shown its ability to monitor U.S. diplomats’ calls in Kyiv,” The Post’s Ellen Nakashima wrote, “and the Kremlin has no hesitation in leaking them when it suits its interests.” So egregious was Sondland’s breach of protocol, that even CNN — remarkably — ran a story on it.“If true, the cell phone call between Ambassador Sondland and President Trump is an egregious violation of traditional counterintelligence practices that all national security officials — to include political appointee ambassadors such as Sondland — are repeatedly made aware of,” CNN reported, quoting Marc Polymeropoulos, a former CIA officer who oversaw operations in Europe and Russia before retiring this summer. “I cannot remember in my career any time where an ambassador in a high counterintelligence environment like Kyiv would have such an unsecure conversation with a sitting president. This just should not happen,” Polymeropoulos said...  https://www.westernjournal.com/schiff-witness-sondland-believed-let-russians-listen-trump-call-ignoring-training/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=weeklyam&utm_content=libertyalliance   

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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ After the first two public impeachment hearings, House Democrats say they are at peace with poll numbers showing their efforts haven't won over large swaths over voters... “I think people would be very poorly served if they're counting on polls today," Virginia Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott told the Washington Examiner. "They'll change. You have to take a very deliberate approach. Do what you think is the right thing. And then whatever the polls say later on, they'll say, 'I don't think you can count on polls to be at all reliable.' More information is going to come out.” Since the House Democratic majority formalized impeachment proceedings, polls measuring the public’s support have shown a slight uptick in backing, but not significantly so. And a Nov. 8-9 Hill-HarrisX poll shows most Democrats believe that Trump will finish his term, ending Jan. 20, 2021. That marked a 7-point spike compared to the numbers of an identical poll in October. House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi, who initially did not support going down an impeachment investigation path, told reporters at her weekly press briefing Thursday that the impeachment of Trump by Democrats isn't a done deal. “We haven’t even made a decision to impeach," said the California lawmaker. "That’s what the inquiry is about. The committees will decide that. They will decide what the articles are.” Republicans are now targeting first-term House Democrats in swing districts who supported the impeachment investigation. “It will have a direct impact on 31 Democrats that won in Trump districts," North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows told the Washington Examiner. For example, four Republicans are running for the right to challenge first-term Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin in a Lansing-based district. GOP candidates have gone after Slotkin's support of the impeachment proceedings in a district that before her Slotkin's 2018 win had been held by Republicans for 18 years. And in Maine, Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, another freshman member, is facing attacks due to his support for impeachment from the anti-tax group Club for Growth.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-democrats-move-ahead-with-impeachment-proceedings-despite-static-poll-numbers?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_11/17/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   

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