WATCH: Stephen Miller refuses to answer why Trump used private lawyers as his emissaries to the Ukrainian government?
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) September 29, 2019
Chris Wallace: "You have your non-answer at this point." pic.twitter.com/jAknD6gt4h
Category: Traitors
It’s all so crazy
The whistleblower says officials covered up Trump's call by moving it to an ultra-classified computer system.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 26, 2019
This is a *much* worse abuse than it seems.
I spoke to a former NSC staffer, who explained in detail how this really works and what it means:https://t.co/j3Y1XEiB1k
The beat goes on
Trump was trying to coerce Ukraine’s president into giving up Crimea to the Russians by withholding the weapons needed to defend themselves along the Russia border. Trump is and always was a tool of Putin. Also, in a footnote to the complaint, the whistleblower cites Giuliani saying Barr’s prosecutor is spending a lot of time in Europe “investigating Ukraine” i.e. Biden. The DoJ!
Russia is attacking Ukraine in Donetsk region today. To 19:00 on September 26th, Russian armed forces attacked Novoluhanske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Novotroitske, Novohnativka, and Vodyane. 1 Ukrainian serviceman was wounded by enemy shelling. #PutinAtWar https://t.co/X2kMSyia7U pic.twitter.com/PC4KOpjn0D
— Michael MacKay (@mhmck) September 26, 2019
The Kremlin clearly stood to benefit from the fulfillment of Trump's demands for Ukraine to "play ball":
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 26, 2019
✔️Clear Russia of election interference
✔️Smear Trump's political rival (Putin prefers Trump)
✔️Make a deal with Putin=surrender to Russia on its termshttps://t.co/COoQGhsclD
Woah. Read this, now. Russia knew back in May that Trump was canceling senior officials’ visits to the Ukrainian president’s inauguration. We thought Russia was lying. Now we know, via the whistleblower, that Russia was right. How did Russia know what Trump was doing? https://t.co/0CpzyeE4QD
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) September 26, 2019
Headlines from whistleblower complaint & Maguire:
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 26, 2019
– WH covered up Ukraine call
– WH did same for calls w/other leaders
– DNI believes call transcript is “in alignment with” complaint
– DNI asked WH first about releasing complaint
– Trump still doesn’t believe Russia hacked DNC
Trump’s remarks to our diplomats today are simply unacceptable. He has crossed another red line by describing a loyal and law-abiding public servant as a “spy”. This is not Russia but America. https://t.co/QYBTaG0Ker
— Nicholas Burns (@RNicholasBurns) September 26, 2019
Remember when Jared Kushner tried to arrange a private, back-channel communications system with Russia that nobody else in the US government would be able to monitor?
— Jay Bookman (@jaysbookman) September 26, 2019
This is why.
Surreal
This really is something. None of them stood up for democratic values, all of them knuckled under to Trump’s bully-boy tactics. I hope they all go down:
The Ukraine Scandal Is Not One Phone Call. It’s a Massive Plot. https://t.co/Zcu8jaxKKm
— Michael Nunziante (@m_nunziante) September 25, 2019
New: AG Barr was NOT recused from handling the Ukraine call issue. Despite the fact that Barr’s name comes up in the call, there was no consideration of a recusal – @evanperez @davidgshortell reporting
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 25, 2019
Senate GOP verdict is in before the inquiry starts, per Sen. Cornyn. Senate GOP will exonerate Trump, no facts needed. #tx2020 https://t.co/LOHWE6JnAz
— Kerry Eleveld (@kerryeleveld) September 25, 2019
Trump releases summary of phone call with Ukraine president
And yeah, it’s really, really bad. Which only makes me wonder what they left out!
"Transcript" released by Justice Department is not a verbatim transcript – but rather notes and recollections from staff who listened to the phone call https://t.co/SQqru1AVXu pic.twitter.com/jKnTIr0tOn
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 25, 2019
Another issue no one has raised: How could Barr decide DOJ, and not a Special Counsel, decides this? This is the paradigmatic case for it-involves possible wrongdoing by POTUS +now Barr himself mentioned in the "transcript." SC regs wouldnt say Barr can then take case&clear Pres https://t.co/Pf8C8X7zCG
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) September 25, 2019
This is May 1. NYT reported 8 days later that Giuliani was pressuring Ukraine to investigate Biden's son.
— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) September 25, 2019
It wouldn't be a surprise if Trump and Giuliani already got Barr on board with this Ukraine/Biden scheme to use a Ukraine investigation as a pretext for DOJ by this time. https://t.co/gNOaNVa7an
Zelensky brought up the Russian Sanctions – the days leading up to this call Trump instructed Mulvaney to freeze the aid package.
— File411 (@File511) September 25, 2019
And Zelensky “thanked the president” to wit Trump says
“I’d like to ask a favor”… pic.twitter.com/bMPxn9yRfD
Adam explains it all
An explicit quid pro quo isn’t required to betray your country.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) September 22, 2019
It’s enough to abuse power for personal gain.
Giuliani doing it is bad enough. Trump is a different matter.
It’s one thing when it’s done by the court jester, and another when done by the man who would be King. pic.twitter.com/DC4LfA0sGw
Traitor
We could take a wild guess as to which “foreign leader” it was:
NEW: The anonymous intelligence official's whistleblower complaint centers on Trump's communications with a foreign leader and a "promise" he made. https://t.co/yAlWbbxVgH By @gregpmiller, @nakashimae, and me.
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) September 19, 2019
The whistleblower could have information that is related to Trump betraying America according to @nedprice pic.twitter.com/3NQ50cELfG
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 19, 2019
No shame
This is incredible:
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) September 16, 2019
1. North Carolina GOP Sen. Alexander walks into the redistricting room and discovers that his district has been made competitive.
2. He quietly slices up the district to cut out Democratic voters.
3. He gets caught.
4. He announces his retirement. https://t.co/dJRfuLhxGY
The version of the map in place when Senator Alexander sits down… pic.twitter.com/VqSivamD3z
— John Bisognano (@johnbisognano) September 12, 2019
Senator Alexander gets up and cuts ✂️ a massive slice in the map to save his own district… #Gerrymander
— John Bisognano (@johnbisognano) September 12, 2019
[Well done, Senator?] 🙃 pic.twitter.com/MjIHhHn5H8
Senator Alexander heading out after a gerrymander well done… 🥴 pic.twitter.com/Y5XibnqEtb
— John Bisognano (@johnbisognano) September 12, 2019
A ‘higher authority’ squashed this?
No Director of National Intelligence has ever refused to turn over a whistleblower complaint the IG determined to be urgent and credible.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) September 15, 2019
There is no privilege to engage in misconduct; not under this president, or any other.
That’s why I issued a subpoena and will enforce it. pic.twitter.com/pWg4MsOlwD
House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff has subpoenaed Acting DNI Maguire, alleging Maguire is unlawfully withholding a whistleblower disclosure involving an “urgent concern.”
— Olivia Gazis (@Olivia_Gazis) September 14, 2019
Below/here the letter accompanying Schiff’s subpoena: https://t.co/Wa1wnXwxXm pic.twitter.com/KiJCPOtRJx
This is really something.@RepAdamSchiff said on CBS today that the Director of National Intelligence has told the Intel Committee that he was instructed not to turn over the whistleblower's complaint by a "higher authority": pic.twitter.com/sBmlHUsu39
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 15, 2019
Two things I have reason to be confident about:
— David Priess (@DavidPriess) September 14, 2019
1. @RepAdamSchiff would not take this action, in such a public-facing way, with this much energy, absent legitimate concern.
2. Schiff and his staff will pursue this relentlessly.
This is not a false alarm. This is not a test. https://t.co/ir3UhZLkmX
Traitor Trump
Pretty incredible, if true, that the CIA had to pull an asset out of Russia at least in part because of the President’s lax approach to classified information and the fear that he might have crossed a line during unmonitored conversations with Putin. https://t.co/5zyS3DEjYw
— Michael Carpenter (@mikercarpenter) September 9, 2019
Just for some context, recruiting a source with key access is extremely hard. A source in a key position may happen once a generation, if ever. Keeping him or her safe is daunting work (See "The Billion Dollar Spy"). It is a big deal to lose these kind of sources. https://t.co/yHVY2kK6y5
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) September 9, 2019
WOW.
— blmohr (@blmohr) September 10, 2019
“The Moscow informant was instrumental to the C.I.A.’s most explosive conclusion about Russia’s interference campaign: that Putin ordered and orchestrated it himself.” https://t.co/vjFTdp0Fgw
After the decision to extract the spy, Trump met privately with Putin and took the unusual step of confiscating the interpreter's notes. Intel officials again expressed concern that the President may have improperly discussed classified intel w/ Russia.https://t.co/OykStpTYeW
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) September 9, 2019
New tonight: Given NYT has now made details on Russian spy public, I can now report additional info we had withheld. Asset had direct access to Vladimir Putin, including the remarkable ability to take photos of presidential documents, and had served US for more than a decade. 1/ https://t.co/gyk8hA79k1
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 10, 2019