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Pelosi Pushes Back On GOP’s Talking Point On Delay Of Ukraine Aid

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Monday that addressed President Donald Trump and his allies' argument that Trump did nothing wrong because Ukraine…
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Pelosi Pushes Back On GOP’s Talking Point On Delay Of Ukraine Aid


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent a letter to her Democratic colleagues on Monday that addressed President Donald Trump and his allies’ argument that Trump did nothing wrong because Ukraine eventually received the aid that the administration had frozen.

Pelosi argued against the “dangerous position” that the election ought to decide Trump’s fate rather than the House impeachment investigation, saying that Trump “is jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections.”

“There are also some who say that no serious wrongdoing was committed, because the military assistance to Ukraine was eventually released,” she continued. “The fact is, the aid was only released after the whistleblower exposed the truth of the President’s extortion and bribery, and the House launched a formal investigation.”

On September 9, Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson sent the House Intelligence Committee the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s infamous call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Trump administration unfroze the congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine two days later on September 11.

Multiple State Department and White House officials testified that prior to the aid’s release, Trump and several diplomats had been pushing Zelensky to announce an investigation into 2020 candidate Joe Biden while the administration withheld both the aid and a White House meeting.
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Republicans Will Attempt To Poke Holes In Vindman’s Credibility During Testimony

Republican lawmakers hope to paint Vindman has a low-level aide who went rogue when he told White House lawyers he was alarmed by the call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president.
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Republicans Will Attempt To Poke Holes In Vindman’s Credibility During Testimony


As conservative media, the President and some top Republicans have signaled in recent days, Republicans on the impeachment committees plan to try to poke holes in Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s credibility and patriotism during his public testimony Tuesday.

According to the Washington Post, Republican lawmakers hope to paint Vindman has a low-level aide who went rogue and used an improper channel to raise alarm to White House lawyers about the call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president. The line of attack is rich, given Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s backchannel mission in Ukraine that’s formed, in part, the basis of the impeachment probe.

As some top Republicans have already hinted, Republicans plan to cast Vindman as a “never Trumper” who leaked information and worked outside proper channels. On Monday, both Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-GA) expressed in letters that they had concerns about Vindman’s judgment.

Republican leadership had a strong hand in developing the GOP’s strategy for questioning Vindman, according to the Post.

Republican investigators will reportedly frame their questioning around who Vindman discussed the now-infamous July 25 call with, an attempt to suggest that Vindman was a source for the whistleblower, whose complaint was the catalyst of the impeachment inquiry. Vindman has said in previous testimony that he doesn’t know the identity of the whistleblower.

The GOPers also plan to home in on how Vindman’s assessment and reaction to the call was different than the other two witnesses set to take the stand on Tuesday — Jennifer Williams, a top aide to the vice president and Tim Morrison, the senior director for Russian affairs at the National Security Council. Both witnesses were on the call, but didn’t raise concerns as Vindman did.

Vindman has reportedly prepped himself for the attacks and has read through Morrison’s testimony, which was in part critical of Vindman’s decision to go straight to White House lawyers to complain. The Purple Heart recipient also plans to highlight his patriotism and service to the country, a person familiar with Vindman’s thinking told the Post.
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Vindman Blows Hole In Trump Reason For Holding Back Military Aid

Vindman testified that for all of Trump’s professed concern about rooting out Ukrainian corruption, he didn’t bring it up on his two calls with Zelensky.
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Vindman Blows Hole In Trump’s Professed Reason For Holding Back Military Aid



Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, testified Tuesday that for all of President Donald Trump’s professed concern about rooting out Ukrainian corruption, he didn’t bring it up on his two calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Faced with accusations of leveraging a quid pro quo — military aid in exchange for investigations into the Bidens and the 2016 election — Trump and his allies have fallen back on the excuse that the money was withheld due to concerns about widespread corruption in Ukraine.

Daniel Goldman, staff counsel for the House Intelligence Committee Democrats, asked Vindman if Trump brought up corruption in his April 21 call with Zelensky, a congratulatory call shortly after the latter’s election.

The White House readout of that conversation included that the men discussed reforms to address the country’s endemic corruption. When the White House’s rough transcript of the call was released soon after the readout, devoid of any mention of corruption, administration officials laid the blame at Vindman’s feet.

Vindman testified on Tuesday that the White House description of the call was “not entirely accurate,” since Trump did not mention corruption at all. He also confirmed that Trump didn’t bring up Ukrainian corruption during the July 25 call with Zelensky either.

“So when the President says now that he held up security assistance because he was concerned about rooting out corruption in Ukraine, that concern was not expressed in the two phone conversations that he had with President Zelensky earlier this year. Is that right?” Goldman asked.

“Correct,” Vindman responded.
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Vindman Puts Nunes In His Place With Reminder Of Military Rank

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was mildly put in his place while questioning Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman on Tuesday.
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Vindman Puts Nunes In His Place With Reminder Of Military Rank

That’s Lt. Col. Vindman to you, Rep. Nunes.

While asking Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman Tuesday whether he knew the whistleblower, which the Purple Heart recipient has previously testified he does not, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) referred to the witness as “Mr. Vindman.”

“Ranking member, it’s Lt. Col. Vindman, please,” Vindman corrected the lawmaker, who’s spent the majority of the public proceedings on Tuesday raising conspiracy theories about the Burisma gas company and the Biden family as well as denigrating the media.

“Lt. Col. Vindman, you testified in the deposition that you did not know who the whistleblower was or is?” Nunes clarified.

“I do not know who the whistleblower is, that is correct,” Vindman said.
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WH Attacks Vindman Amid Testimony

Although President Trump has yet to tweet his own takes on Tuesday’s public impeachment hearings, the White House hasn’t exactly kept its impeachment-related tweets to itself.
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WH’s Official Twitter Takes Aim At Vindman During His Testimony


Here we go again.

Although President Trump has yet to tweet his own thoughts on Tuesday’s public impeachment hearings, the White House attacked one of its own officials — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who still works for the White House on the National Security Council.

During the public impeachment testimonies of Vindman and Vice President Mike Pence aide Jennifer Williams, the official White House Twitter account sent out graphic of a quote from last month’s closed-door testimony of Tim Morrison, the senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council, aimed at Vindman.

In his closed-door testimony last month, Morrison confirmed that there was a quid pro quo associated with Trump’s decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine, but that he “was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed” during the now-infamous Juyl 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.



Trump, on the other hand, had a more muted response to Vindman’s testimony while speaking to reporters during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

“I watched him for a little while this morning and I think he…I’m going to let people make their own determination,” Trump said. “But I don’t know Vindman. I never heard of him.”

Shortly after his Cabinet meeting remarks, the President also retweeted a video of Vindman’s testimony posted by White House social media director Dan Scavino, which seemed to suggest that Vindman has dual loyalty to Ukraine. The video showed Vindman saying that he was offered a defense minister position with Ukraine three times.

The White House’s Tuesday tweet aimed at Vindman comes just four days after Trump personally attacked ousted Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch during her public testimony, drawing immediate backlash and accusations of witness tampering.

Vindman asserted his credibility following a tense exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) during the hearing Tuesday. Morrison is set to testify later Tuesday alongside former Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker as a witness who Republicans called to testify in the impeachment inquiry.

While Trump himself hasn’t yet gone after Vindman Tuesday, the President himself previously railed against Vindman, Williams and top Ukraine diplomat Bill Taylor in his tweets by baselessly accusing them of being “Never Trumpers” in an effort to discredit their testimonies on the Ukraine pressure campaign.

On Monday night and earlier Tuesday, Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Brian Kilmeade advised Trump to refrain from tweeting during the public impeachment testimonies.
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i dont know how yall can legit watch this shit.


all these names and people talking about shit that seems inconsequential at the end of the day.


what happens when this shit is over
 
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