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Published: 2019-09-30 18:10:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 3468; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 1
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Seems that T ump is constantly betraying people and doing nothing else than that. Wasn't a good choice in the case of Wikileaks, I would say, he can't expect much support now.
Read Trump's phone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky
Updated 0841 GMT (1641 HKT) September 26, 2019
President Donald Trump repeatedly pushed for Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son, Hunter, during a July 25 phone call, according to a transcript of the conversation released by the White House.
Read the transcript:
UNCLASSIFIED
Declassified by order of the President
September 24, 2019
MEMORANDUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
SUBJECT: Telephone Conversation with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine
Participants: President Zelenskyy of Ukraine
Notetakers: The White House Situation Room
Date, Time July 25, 2019, 9:03-9:33 am EDT
and Place: Residence
The President: Congratulations on a great victory. We all watched from the United States and you did a terrific job. The way you came from behind, somebody who wasn't given much of a chance, and you ended up winning easily. It's a fantastic achievement. Congratulations.
President Zelenskyy: You are absolutely right Mr. President...
I also plan to surround myself with great people and in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly.. That I can assure you.
The President: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what's happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me.
The President: Okay, we can work that out. I look forward to seeing you in Washington and maybe in Poland because I think we are going to be there at that time.
President Zelenskyy: Thank you very much Mr. President.
The President: Congratulations on a fantastic job you've done. The whole world was watching. I'm not sure it was so much of an upset but congratulations.
President Zelenskyy: Thank you Mr. President bye-bye.
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Trump 'betrayed his oath of office', Nancy Pelosi claims
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Democrats take up impeachment drive, saying Trump betrayed oath
Questions swirl around Trump-Ukraine call, whistleblower complaintThe probe focuses partly on whether Trump abused his presidential powers and sought help from a foreign government to undermine Democratic foe Joe Biden and help his own re-election. Pelosi said Tuesday such actions would mark a "betrayal of his oath of office" and declared, "No one is above the law."
"Now is the time to act," said Lewis, in an address to the House. "To delay or to do otherwise would betray the foundation of our democracy."
Demands for access to whistleblower complaint
However, the complaint was being reviewed for classified material and could go to Congress by Thursday, according to a person familiar with the issue who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Four U.S. House of Representatives committees have been involved in the impeachment investigation. On Wednesday, the four committee leaders, all Democrats, repeated that Congress needs full, unredacted access to the whistleblower complaint that fuelled calls for the impeachment inquiry.
The four threatened to subpoena the U.S. State Department and White House if they do not turn over related records for a Thursday deadline.
'Mafia-like shakedown'On Wednesday, the chair of the House Intelligence committee, Democrat Adam Schiff of California, compared Trump's call with the Ukrainian president, in which Biden and his son are mentioned, to a "classic Mafia-like shakedown of a foreign leader."
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The acting Director of National Intelligence, Joseph Maguire, and the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Michael Atkinson, referred the whistle-blower complaint to the Department of Justice
Clinton weighs in on impeachment
But Hillary Clinton, Trump's opponent in 2016, tweeted her endorsement of America's harshest political penalty.
'The president of the United States has betrayed our country. That’s not a political statement—it’s a harsh reality, and we must act,' she said. 'He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free. I support impeachment.'
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”People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.” Watch Greta Thunberg speak at the UN.
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Trump compares whistleblower's source to a 'spy', audio reveals – as it happened
- The whistleblower complaint that kicked off Trump’s Ukraine controversy was released this morning. In it, the whistleblower alleges that Trump abused his office to solicit assistance from a foreign country in the 2020 election and that White House officials participated in a cover-up to keep the Ukraine call from being made public.
- Audio was released of Trump expressing a wish to know the identity of the whistleblower’s sources and alluding to retaliation against those officials. Trump said: “I want to know who’s the person, who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy. You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart?”
- The acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, testified before the House intelligence committee. Democrats on the panel accused Maguire of mishandling the whistleblower complaint by conferring with the White House about potential claims of executive privilege, a charge that Maguire strongly pushed back against.
- Nancy Pelosi said the Ukraine call would be the “focus” of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry moving forward. The House speaker said of the allegations in the whistleblower complaint: “This is a cover-up.”
Trump Attacks Whistle-Blower’s Sources and Alludes to Punishment for Spies
Trump says those who gave info to the whistleblower are like spies, reports say
The identity of the whistleblower remains publicly unknown, but his or her safety was raised at Maguire's testimony.
"And of course, you will do anything you can to protect the whistleblower from any attempts to retaliate against him or her, correct?" Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois asked.
"I will not permit the whistleblower to be subject to any retaliation or adverse consequences for going to the IG. I am absolutely committed to that," Maguire replied.
Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who is now a CNN contributor, told CNN's Brianna Keilar following the Times' report that Trump's implicit threat is "exactly what government officials are not supposed to do."
"He's clearly targeting the person who's filed this complaint that affects him seriously and is kind of laying the marker down that he wants this person's identity and he wants to be able to follow-up on this. So absolutely a total contravention of all the protections for whistleblowers," said McCabe, who added that Trump's comments in front of US government employees suggests a message to others who might come forward with damaging information in the future.
"So you have to ask, was this some sort of a message to all of those folks and indeed a message to all people serving in the government that if they step forward with complaints, they can expect the President to come after them?"
Whistleblower's bombshell allegation
Several White House officials were "deeply disturbed" by Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and tried to "lock down" all records of the phone call...
“You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right?” Trump said, according to published reports. “We used to handle it a little differently than we do now.”
Bruce Udolf, a former federal prosecutor who served as an associate independent counsel during the Whitewater investigation involving President Bill Clinton, said Trump’s remarks could expose him to potential obstruction of justice or witness tampering charges.
“It’s not clear to me if Trump is more stupid than he is arrogant,” Udolf said, adding that a summary the White House released of the president's conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart also demonstrated that Trump “hasn’t been terribly loyal to his country, either.”
On Capitol Hill, congressional Democrats expressed outrage at Trump’s comments.
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., called them “reprehensible.”
Rep. dam Schiff, the California Democrat who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, wrote on Twitter that Trump's remarks are "a reprehensible invitation to violence" against witnesses in the committee's investigation.
"The spies and treason, we used to handle it a little differently than we do now," the president said, according to the LA Times.
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Too bad there wasn't a Jesus to send his sorry ass to the fires of hell where I'm sure they don't even want him.
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Fuck Traitor Trump and all his enablers
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Thank you for including my picture here!
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Every time he opens his mouth, I can feel my brain cells committing suicide. I once got into a fight with a guy from Japan who downplayed the Autistic community and is a Trump supporter. It's easy for people in far away countries to support him, he's not in their country and running it into the ground. Honestly, how can any human being support this cheese puff: he's a liar, an unfaithful adulterer, a failed businessman, and rude.
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Yes, she is on the Spectrum, though some are using her condition to dismiss her arguments all together. That's the problem that many of us face: some people think that because we're Autistic, we're not capable of much.
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I agree my son is on the spectrum, he has Asperger's Syndrome and he is just as capable of giving his opinion as anyone else so to dismiss someones opinions because they are on the spectrum is very insulting
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His policies and beliefs have made it very easy for me to be against him.
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It's what he does.
He just knows a lot of his supporters lack the mental capacity to know that they're being used!
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Trump is corrupt and only supports transparency whens it comes to those he doesn't like, when it comes to his friends like the Saudi Crown Prince then suddenly the truth becomes an enemy of the state
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