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Post by Grossefavourite » Oct Tue 15, 2019 3:45 pm

Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’

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WASHINGTON — The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday.

Mr. Bolton got into a tense exchange on July 10 with Gordon D. Sondland, the Trump donor turned ambassador to the European Union, who was working with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, to press Ukraine to investigate Democrats, according to three people who heard the testimony.

The aide, Fiona Hill, testified that Mr. Bolton told her to notify the chief lawyer for the National Security Council about a rogue effort by Mr. Sondland, Mr. Giuliani and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the people familiar with the testimony.

“I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers, according to two people at the deposition. (Another person in the room initially said Mr. Bolton referred to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Mulvaney, but two others said he cited Mr. Sondland.)

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Post by Grossefavourite » Oct Wed 16, 2019 11:30 am

Mulvaney emerges as a key facilitator of the campaign to pressure Ukraine

In late May, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney organized a meeting that stripped control of the country’s relationship with Ukraine from those who had the most expertise at the National Security Council and the State Department.

Instead, Mulvaney put an unlikely trio in charge of managing the U.S.-Ukraine account amid worrisome signs of a new priority, congressional officials said Tuesday: pressuring the fledgling government in Kiev to deliver material that would be politically valuable to President Trump.

The work of those “three amigos,” as they came to call themselves — diplomats Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker, plus Energy Secretary Rick Perry — has come to light in recent days through newly disclosed text messages and the testimony of government witnesses appearing before an impeachment inquiry in Congress.

But Mulvaney’s connections to the administration’s troubled interactions with Ukraine are also beginning to surface. Mulvaney’s role in enlisting Sondland and the others to take over relations with Ukraine was revealed Tuesday in testimony by George Kent, the State Department’s Ukraine expert, according to Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), who participated in the closed-door hearing before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees.

Mulvaney declined requests for comment. Some of his defenders have said he knew very little about the details of the trio’s efforts in Ukraine and was mainly orchestrating meetings for the president.

“I don’t remember any substantive conversation with Mick. I don’t remember him approving, disapproving, getting involved, having an interest,” said Rudolph W. Giuliani, who, as Trump’s personal lawyer, also served as the president’s emissary to Ukraine. “Mulvaney was not a big player in this. I dealt with Volker and Sondland.”

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Post by Grossefavourite » Oct Wed 16, 2019 3:44 pm

Fourth defendant in Giuliani associates’ case arrested at New York airport

David Correia, the fourth defendant in a campaign finance case involving business associates of President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, was arrested Wednesday morning at a New York City airport, officials said.

Correia has been charged with participating in a scheme to use foreign money to build political support for a fledgling recreational marijuana business in Nevada and other states, according to an indictment unsealed last week that also charged Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman with conspiracy and making false statements to campaign finance regulators.

The other three defendants were quickly arrested by the FBI, but Correia’s whereabouts have been unclear until Wednesday morning. Correia is expected to make a brief court appearance Wednesday, and all four defendants are due to appear before a judge Thursday.

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Post by djmm1962 » Oct Thu 17, 2019 6:40 am

LOL!!

Trump really went off the deep end yesterday!! He said the brave Kurdish fighters, of which 11,000 have died for US, "not angels" and they have plenty of sand to play with. He seems to be getting his world pov directly from Putin and other autocrats, like he's brainwashed!! Then he said he asked the Italian government to open an investigation as well.

The House voted in a huge bipartisan majority to Condemn Trump's Turkey policy. Then of course he calls a meeting, then tells The Speaker she called the meeting, just to go off on her saying she's just third rated (or third grader)!! The man is UNHINGED!! And like the child he is he played the "I know I am but what are you" spin by releasing a photo of her standing up in the meeting (note all the bended heads of the men surrounding him). Just shameful!!

Impeach and Remove Immediately!!

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Post by Ace2Ace » Oct Thu 17, 2019 9:09 am

Obama and Hillary had no business starting a war in Syria. They both sold their soul to the Israeli lobby.
It's that same lobby that own the Congress that is standing up to Trump when he wants to cut his losses and leave that messed up area of the world.
I agree with Trump on this one. Get the hell out of the Middle East wars that's been going on since Moses was leaving Egypt.
If peace has to come in the Middle East, it will come from within.
Get out of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuweit, Qatar, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey etc, etc, etc...

And get out of Germany and Japan too. Close all those stupid military bases.
Who are we defending the Germans against? Russia that is building a gas link to keep the Germans warm?
That military base in Germany seems like a nice permanent vacation for lots of soldiers. Same as the one in Japan.
This country could use all that money to provide Universal Healthcare.

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Post by djmm1962 » Oct Thu 17, 2019 9:28 am

I thought Syria exploded into civil war because of the Arab Spring and its fight for democracy?!?

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Post by Grossefavourite » Oct Thu 17, 2019 9:29 am

Ambassador says Trump directed diplomats to work with Giuliani on Ukraine

(CNN) US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was directed by President Donald Trump to work with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine, he plans to tell Congress Thursday, and was left with a choice: Abandon efforts to bolster a key strategic alliance or work to satisfy the demands of the President's personal lawyer.

Sondland plans to say he wasn't aware until "much later" that Giuliani's agenda might have included an effort to "prompt the Ukrainians" to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter and to involve the Ukrainians in the President's campaign, according to his opening statement, which was obtained by CNN.

The revealing testimony of the President's top diplomat showcases how Trump put on hold an effort to strengthen relations with the country until top US officials were in contact with Giuliani, who was pursuing an investigation into the Bidens, a potential political rival in Trump's reelection campaign. And Sondland said he was "disappointed" that Trump wouldn't commit to a meeting sought by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky until they spoke with Giuliani.

"Based on the President's direction, we were faced with a choice: We could abandon the goal of a White House meeting for President Zelensky, which we all believed was crucial to strengthening U.S.-Ukrainian ties and furthering long-held U.S. foreign policy goals in the region; or we could do as President Trump directed and talk to Mr. Giuliani to address the President's concerns," Sondland will testify.

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Post by Ace2Ace » Oct Thu 17, 2019 9:46 am

djmm1962 wrote:
Oct Thu 17, 2019 9:28 am
I thought Syria exploded into civil war because of the Arab Spring and its fight for democracy?!?
No.. Obama and Hillary decided to kick Assad out. "Assad Must Go!!!"
They organized a covert operation, hired bunch of extremist religious thugs, poured money into the civil opposition ... all that to create a chaos to drag Assad out. They were succeeding until Putin stepped in and put an end to the whole thing.
Jonn McCain cried bloody murder, saying Putin is killing the people we hired to do the dirty job... Remember?
That's how people found out what Obama and Hillary started in Syria. Over 400,000 Syrians killed for no reason.

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Post by Ace2Ace » Oct Thu 17, 2019 9:54 am

See all this waste? That's our money burning
US Launched Airstrikes On Its Abandoned Ammo Storage & Command Center In Syria
In what appears a final major parting shot as the United States continues its rapid draw down from Syria, the Pentagon has revealed it conducted an airstrike on a munitions storage bunker at a US base on Wednesday to "reduce the facility's military usefulness" after invading Turkish forces threatened it.
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The military described that a pair of F-15 jets "successfully" conducted the targeting of the ammo storage site, destroying what the Pentagon wanted to ensure didn't get left behind, calling it a “pre-planned precision airstrike” before Turkish-backed fighters could take control.
This also included HQ facilities such as "latrines, tents and other parts of the Syria headquarters" which the US didn't want utilized by hostile forces.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ ... hind-syria

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