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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJesus Christ!! To recap what's happened in just the last few hours... !!!!!
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2) The key to the big WaPo scoop breaking now isn't just that Trump told Russians that he was unconcerned about them interfering in the election.
It's also that White House officials manipulated the classification system to bury it:
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3) NEW: "A U.S. Army officer formerly in charge of all White House communications at Mar-a-Lago" uploaded child pornography to a Russian website in 2017 and 2018, making him a target for blackmail.
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4) Trump says he raised Hunter Biden allegations with his China go-between via @PostKranish
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5) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump May Have Agreed to Impeachable Bribery (Policy-for-Cash) With NRA Just Hours Ago in Meeting with NRA's Wayne LaPierre to Discuss Impeachment Threat .
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6) #Whistleblower, Tammy McFadden, former Deutsche Bank anti-money laundering expert in Jacksonville, FL, flagged suspicious transactions from Trump & Kushner going directly to Russian individuals‼️Deutsche ignored it, Tammy was fired, Trump & Kushner sued. ...
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7) Three White House officials tied to files shared with House intelligence chairman - The Washington Post 🔥🔥🔥John Eisenberg NSC WH counsel ordered Ukraine Transcripts to be placed in classified system, also involved in giving Nunes classified documents
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(FYI...oops...#7 was from 2017)
superpatriotman
(6,249 posts)Go! Go! Go!
Hard to catch a breath
live love laugh
(13,104 posts)The Ukraine issue is clear cut. The rest arent. The media latching on to all of them deflects from the most obvious issue.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Nice.
nmgaucho
(527 posts)nm
UTUSN
(70,691 posts)dchill
(38,489 posts)ms liberty
(8,574 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)This stuff is coming at a whirlwind pace.
I don't think Republican Senators are going to "find their courage"...I think they will cover their asses, eventually, by not having their legacies tied to this moron. I believe it's going to get one HELL of a lot worse before the House wraps it up. By the time it gets to the Senate, sure...some of them will sign off on "full exoneration." I just don't think it will be a unanimous Republican vote.
We COULD see a "Nixon" here...McConnell COULD go to Trump and say "you're screwed." Maybe not. But is seeming like less of an "impossibility."
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)Moscow Mitch is more likely to just stand aside while trying to cover his own (possibly treasonous) ass.
lastlib
(23,226 posts)I could see a Cruz or Tillis or Cotton doing it out of partisan interest, maybe. But I think you're right--it WILL get a HELLUVA LOT worse before sh*t goes down for the count. And I'm not sure he'll go, even if the repigs BEG him to. Not without giving himself a big fat pardon, or at least getting it from Pence-il-neck.
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)He has logged a lot of miles to Moscow. He might be a courier.
PatrickforO
(14,573 posts)not go down with the USS Traitor Tot.
Yep, struck a big Ukraine-shaped iceberg...
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)have strong ties to China and to Russia. Mitch is in up to his eyeballs.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)on him. Everywhere. All the time.
Hes so screwed.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)I'm still trying to finish Season 4
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)scrabblequeen40
(334 posts)Congress critters are going to have so much shit to shovel when they get back to work on Monday. Moscow Mitch and GOP enablers need to revise talking points ASAP at minimum, and call lawyers at worst. This is going getting bigger by the minute.
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)the impeachment committee members' heads all explode?
greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)Who knows how much catching up I'll have to do in the morning.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!! or
Elizabeth & Bernie 2020!!
Either way, welcome to the revolution!!!
Doodley
(9,088 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)Trump has been President for almost 3 years now. Imagine all the criminal activity he has done in three years we don't know about. But we will. Because there's a lot of people trying to figure out how to stay out of jail right now. And nobody is truly loyal to Trump.
Baltimike
(4,143 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)These people have careers ahead of them and mortgages to pay. They're not both feet in, do or die, like their mob bosses above them. They seem to want them gone and are willing to cut deals.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)employees, not serfs who pledge fealty to trump? I guess he believes our economy is a feudal system.
brush
(53,776 posts)transcripts. They should've resigned if they had any integrity, and even if trump is gone they won't stay. Whoever comes in will want their own staff.
happybird
(4,606 posts)Just got off work, trying to catch up. Thank you for the round up of todays events. Holy crap!!
Edit: just looked at the time stamps. Omg, I think its fair to say the shit has *finally* hit the fan!
IronLionZion
(45,440 posts)The history books written about this era will be epic. There will be movies. People will study this for generations.
Lock him up.
(6,928 posts)at least about what is included in the Constitution of the United States and what the founding fathers put in it to protect the nation against any mad king... bits and bites of it in that movie... the most important ones...
Paging Michael Moore (???)
onetexan
(13,041 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Pluvious
(4,310 posts)Disaffected
(4,554 posts)but who on earth would play Mushroom Dick??
Pluvious
(4,310 posts)dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Keg Stand
(64 posts)Anything that makes Trump miserable just tickles my pink.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,903 posts)The whistleblower has proved Donald J Trump is a traitor beholden to Vladimir Putin.
volstork
(5,400 posts)Had to go to a family event tonight, just got home, and HOLY CRAP!
The dam has officially burst!
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)after missing a full day of news.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)onetexan
(13,041 posts)not just pence , some of the suprimes , including thomas but not rgb , moscow mitch and the upper r crust of the senate too.
SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)was photographed in a room - with the door closed - in the presence of a woman who was not his wife! This might not be impeachable, but "mother" will tear him a new asshole, and he probably won't be allowed to set foot in Washington again.
On a serious note, I wonder how "mother" is taking all of this? Their decision to ignore Trump's sordid past and lay down with him isn't paying off as they'd liked. The good name of 'Pence' (vomit, vomit) is forever to be connected with the most sleazy, immoral criminal to ever come down the pike. Maybe Dog is sending you a message, family Pence. Better pray on it for a decade or so.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)"unless they decided to play ball". Perry was sent instead as consolation prize. Pence has got the nasty Trump Stank if not much more!
pangaia
(24,324 posts)"everybody" will be so glad to get rid of dumpster that pence will seem like a relief and all will go back to sleep... maybe...
in one way, he is even more dangerous because this guy is a "true believer"
StarryNite
(9,444 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)WaPo is gonna have to hire some interns to handle all these leakers!
sweetloukillbot
(11,017 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,017 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)ITTMF should change from Impeach to Imprison The Treasonous MF
Let him turn 74 in prison doing life without parole. Claw back every penny of our tax dollars he has re-routed to his pockets.
BumRushDaShow
(128,958 posts)after the dam broke!
(and I am WAY WAY past bedtime! )
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Sogo
(4,986 posts)Attorney@Law
@TheGlare_TM
Heres a hint for all future Presidents: dont say you want to execute a CIA Officer
788
7:30 PM - Sep 27, 2019
Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)... that liddle threat might backfire on his orange ass.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Thanks for the post!
PNW-Dem
(244 posts)About money laundering. BTW, nice post.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)PNW-Dem
(244 posts)Hard to imagine that some Republican senators won't turn on him...
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)the tables have turned
yonder
(9,664 posts)Marcuse
(7,480 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,903 posts)NBC News, Sept. 27, 2019, 9:16 PM ET / Updated Sept. 27, 2019, 10:22 PM ET
By Josh Lederman and Dennis Romero
The U.S. special envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, resigned Friday amid a formal impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump and his dealings with the Ukraine government, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, said Thursday that Volker had encouraged him to speak to Ukranian officials regarding former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
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The complaint alleges that Volker went to Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, to help guide Ukraine officials on how to handle Trumpss demands to look into Hunter Biden's nearly five years as a member of the board that manages Ukraine's Burisma, a natural gas producer.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1059871
brush
(53,776 posts)And the bank analyst who discovered it got fired.
Guess the Russians demanded money for helping with the election, and since it was Russia it had to be personal money because Congress would never apprppriate money to Russia like it did to Ukraine.
The dirt keeps coming out. I suspect more resignations soon.
avebury
(10,952 posts)to testify before all applicable committees in Congress.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)BlueWI
(1,736 posts)David Cay Johnston has reported on Trump's criminal actions and associations for decades. Why did it take do long and expose security apparatus to so much damage?
And it's not over yet. But hopefully it will be soon.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,343 posts)Just curious if The Dumbest Don is sleeping or talking to the walls.
Mersky
(4,981 posts)Thank you, Roland, for pulling together the eye-popping barrage of late news on a Friday evening.
G_j
(40,367 posts)Jesus wont save THEM now
Crunchy Frog
(26,582 posts)And the more panicked and enraged he gets, the worse things he'll do, and no one will be able to restrain him.
I don't think he even knows the difference between legal and illegal. Maybe he can't even conceptualize it.
Should be quite a show.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)A madman is in the WH and fuck knows what he may do.
Hekate
(90,680 posts)livetohike
(22,142 posts)Election Day. Also add Jared, Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric. Why have they been so involved in this administration? Cover up? This is just getting started. Pence cant hide either as he is Trumps messenger.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)underpants
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Family TV night.
WOW.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)underpants
(182,800 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)mahina
(17,652 posts)Thats whats worth protecting. The news will be here. Hug em tight.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,468 posts)"A week in Review" will be a great feature you should consider publishing here.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)And they've been doing it for years. The Ukrainian stuff will end his presidency but these money laundering crimes....That's why he is up at all hours. When you go all in with the devil, eventually you're going to have to give him a kiss in public. Then the cat is out of the bag.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)It will freeze their assets, there will be $ millions in fines and penalties, and probably send several of them to jail. Chump's kids (3 out of 5, plus Jared) are all involved in this.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)I think Trump would gladly give up the presidency tomorrow if he and his family could get a free pass on the money laundering.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Just anger.
mudstump
(342 posts)Putin pulling out all the stops to get Trump re-elected. I don't doubt they will do everything they can to make sure the vote is in his favor....including hacking voting machines.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Link to tweet
@ImmaculateLoo
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Replying to @ImmaculateLoo
He also traveled with the president and vice president to maintain their communications.
THE FINEST PEOPLE.
✨Immaculate🕯LooLoo😈✨
@ImmaculateLoo
So this guy was in charge of arranging the Christmas Eve phone calls, WITH KIDS. If you were a parent that supported Santa Spoiler Trump, youd give any and all info to this perv. How creative.
Chemisse
(30,811 posts)He just has no clue, and all this new pressure is making it worse.