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The lawyer for the Republicans is a joke.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch let all that shit happen under her watch especially on social media.. all the while our voters were being influenced by that mess. She let it go and let it go to far.
#howdidyoureact
“Yovanovitch Admits She Knew About Biden & Burisma, Did Nothing – YouTube”
https://youtu.be/R4ZGReYPL_0
🌐 Breaking real news Not Bias daily impeachment fake news: Just an election reminder to all liberal bias fake news morons in bed with corrupt democrats at NBC/MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS Fake News.
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Bias Fake News folks now please tell me what have democrats done since President Trump was elected? Lie and conduct one witchhunt after another trying to divide the country and impeach our duly elected president. Sorry sore loser fake news folks and democrat snowflakes if the truth hurts. 😔
Deep state STATE DEPT of 33 years. Shokin was not corrupt. This woman gave a verbally dictated list of people not to go after…….on it was burisma and GEORGE SOROS of whom schiff is related to three marriage of his sister to soros nephew. This is a STINKY DEAD FISH!!!!
It's called freedom of speech dumbass rats
All I know, this woman needs to stand up. Support our democracy. Yeah SCI info won’t be publicized. Ok, I get it. But, dang. We won’t see that.
Please read to the end very interesting. "It would also be useful to know if any U.S. officials ever fielded phone calls from foreign counterparts asking how to respond to Hunter Biden’s sudden interest in their countries. During the last five years, if any U.S. officials not named Trump also advocated scrutiny of the Biden family business, should they have been removed from office?
President Barack Obama was certainly aware of the dangers of such familial enterprises. That’s why his administration demanded promises of compliance with specific rules on Clinton Foundation fundraising and disclosure of donations when he appointed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Not that the Clintons kept their promises, but at least Mr. Obama tried. Did he demand similar promises from his vice president? If not, Mrs. Clinton may have grounds for a discrimination claim.
As for the Bidens, the news of the week is that the Ukrainian company that paid so much to rent their name used it to lobby the U.S. Government. Also in 2016, Joe Biden successfully pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor investigating the company. And then the investigation was dropped.
The Bidens say that Joe Biden’s official actions had nothing to do with his son’s business."
Yea sure and I'm the king of England.
trump thinks he can pardon himself too.putin did good buying trump in the 80s .
Part 3 It’s not clear whether the Ukrainian company Burisma got its money’s worth when it paid handsomely to add Hunter Biden to its board. But the company’s representatives used the family name in attempting to influence the U.S. Government while Joe Biden was Vice President.
If an American business made a similar effort with the son of a government official overseas, it would likely attract a U.S. Department of Justice investigation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. So why shouldn’t the United States urge that other countries also examine such arrangements?
The Journal’s Jessica Donati reports that a consulting firm hired by Burisma mentioned that “Joe Biden’s son served on the Ukrainian gas company’s board so the firm could leverage a meeting with the State Department, according to documents and a former U.S. official.”
The documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of its client John Solomon. Ms. Donati adds:
The documents—email exchanges between State Department staff members made public this week—show that the consulting firm, Washington-based Blue Star Strategies, used Hunter Biden’s name in a request for a State Department meeting and then mentioned him again during the meeting as part of an effort to improve Burisma’s image in Washington.
Mr. Biden was appointed to the Burisma board in 2014, when the company and its owner faced allegations of corruption, and he remained there until April of this year… Hunter Biden served on Burisma’s board when his father, then the vice president, was overseeing U.S. efforts to get Ukraine to reduce corruption.
Ms. Donati reports that the 2016 Burisma meeting included a State Department undersecretary named Catherine Novelli.
I want correct a mistake. The article is from the wall street journal not the washington post. Part 2 What are the odds that, having learned that she was being lobbied by a foreign company which was under a corruption investigation and which happened to employ the son of the sitting Vice President of the United States, Ms. Novelli never mentioned this fact to anyone else?
Taxpayers being forced to fund an investigation focused on what President Donald Trump said about this Biden deal ought to know what other government officials said about it, too. Adam Entous of the New Yorker reported in July:
In December, 2015, as Joe Biden prepared to return to Ukraine, his aides braced for renewed scrutiny of Hunter’s relationship with Burisma. Amos Hochstein, the Obama Administration’s special envoy for energy policy, raised the matter with Biden, but did not go so far as to recommend that Hunter leave the board.
He should have. Last month John Hudson, Rachael Bade and Matt Viser reported in the Washington Post:
A career State Department official overseeing Ukraine policy told congressional investigators this week that he had raised concerns in early 2015 about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company but was turned away by a Biden staffer, according to three people familiar with the testimony.
George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, testified Tuesday that he worried that Hunter Biden’s position at the firm Burisma Holdings would complicate efforts by U.S. diplomats to convey to Ukrainian officials the importance of avoiding conflicts of interest, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality rules surrounding the deposition.
According to the Post, Mr. Kent did not name the Biden aide who scotched the discussion of improper family business. A complete record of Obama Administration discussions about Hunter Biden’s monetizing of his father’s position would add important context to evaluate Mr. Trump’s comments on the issue. To be continued.
hey speaking of “feelings” does anyone else remember when a supreme court nominee was acused of stuff he never did cuz of “feelings?”
Excuse me. Drumpf has nothing but nasty things to say.
Trump hurt her feeling!!!!!! we must impeach
Wow. We now are spending millions on discussing how people feel. Not about law or corruption but “how does it make you feel?”
Unbelievable. Horrible for our great country. Soft people need to leave. If you get your feelings hurt because you get fired…do your job.
She admits she has no info or facts about the investigation. She admits she was no knowledge or evidence of a crime. Fake impeachment and fake news. She is just butthurt that she got fired.
What we are seeing here is an entrenched, self-aggrandizing Washington bureaucrat. She's butthurt because she lost her lavish apartment, the dinner parties, travel and transportation allowance, clothing allowance, prestige, etc. She disagreed with the new administration's foreign policy, thought she knew better, started bad-mouthing the administration, and was asked to leave. Her bloated ego could not handle that. Good riddance. Bye-bye.
Hearsay is much better than direct evidence.
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I want to insert an article written by the Washington Post it's a 3 part article here is part 1 "It’s not clear whether the Ukrainian company Burisma got its money’s worth when it paid handsomely to add Hunter Biden to its board. But the company’s representatives used the family name in attempting to influence the U.S. Government while Joe Biden was Vice President.
If an American business made a similar effort with the son of a government official overseas, it would likely attract a U.S. Department of Justice investigation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. So why shouldn’t the United States urge that other countries also examine such arrangements?
The Journal’s Jessica Donati reports that a consulting firm hired by Burisma mentioned that “Joe Biden’s son served on the Ukrainian gas company’s board so the firm could leverage a meeting with the State Department, according to documents and a former U.S. official.”
The documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of its client John Solomon. Ms. Donati adds:
The documents—email exchanges between State Department staff members made public this week—show that the consulting firm, Washington-based Blue Star Strategies, used Hunter Biden’s name in a request for a State Department meeting and then mentioned him again during the meeting as part of an effort to improve Burisma’s image in Washington.
Mr. Biden was appointed to the Burisma board in 2014, when the company and its owner faced allegations of corruption, and he remained there until April of this year… Hunter Biden served on Burisma’s board when his father, then the vice president, was overseeing U.S. efforts to get Ukraine to reduce corruption.
Ms. Donati reports that the 2016 Burisma meeting included a State Department undersecretary named Catherine Novelli." to be continued
https://youtu.be/duiw4CdeVXI … Something smells very fishy!!
IF foreigner aid creates this much trouble ,
WE SHOULD STOP ALL FOREIGN AID TO ALL PROBLEMATIC COUNTRIES.
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Why is she even on the stand? She was not Ambassador when all this went down. Never met the President. Never met the new Ukrainian President. Has no first hand knowledge about anything to do with why the inquiry is happening. Just another useless "star witness". Correction. Just another Trump hating "star witness". The American People demand our tax dollars back for this and the Meuller investigation.
This needs to stop, Democrats are going to destroy our country.
More Schiff kangaroo court
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJEEwoPt6oE
Trump and trumptards are maggot shit of the earth!
Replace a well known highly regarded Ambassador that has a real history of seeking out corruption for a warm body that did literally nothing but donate a million dollars to Trump and his campaign. Sounds corrupt especially since in the grand scheme of things this ultimately helps Putin.
I see the Troll Farm is busy
Waste of time and money
True Americans have had enough of this corrupt President. This denial is starting to turn some Republicans mental. Let's save our country people and lock Trump up!
No wonder LIBERAL SOCIALIST are mad , TRUMP has kicked liberal ass every day FOR his WHOLE TERM.
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AMERICAN CITIZENS WIN WITH TRUMP.
2020 and beyond….😅