Meanwhile, top story in the Russian media

[CatWoman]

Link to tweet

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[blm]

1. Putin knew Trump could deliver the US Civil War of his KGB dreams.

Stoking the gun nutters and racists every step of the way.

Republicans were much cheaper to buy than he expected, though.

[ffr]

6. Absolutely. And republican voters across the country are probably up in arms

at Putin's bequest. I can only imagine the cra-cra being written for tomorrow's RW media talking heads.

[struggle4progress]

2. Former Ukraine prosecutor Lutsenko says no reason to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden

A former Ukrainian prosecutor whose name surfaced in the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump said there was no reason for his country to investigate the President's political rival Joe Biden, the BBC reported ...

Mr Trump's efforts to have Ukraine investigate the pair prompted an impeachment inquiry by the Democrats.

"I don't know any reason to investigate Joe Biden or Hunter Biden according to Ukrainian law," Mr Lutsenko told the BBC ...

"I told him the same I told you — it is not my jurisdiction," he told the BBC ...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-30/no-reason-to-probe-bidens:-former-ukraine-prosecutor/11559168

[NJCher]

7. not my job

"I told him the same I told you — it is not my jurisdiction," he told the BBC ...

Leave it to Trump to mess up his jurisdictions. If he didn't have lawyers, he'd show up for his impeachment trial at Small Claims Court.

[spanone]

3. OH MY!

[ecstatic]

4. wow... is putin already done with trump? nt

[struggle4progress]

5. How Ukraine Got Tangled Up In A Trump Impeachment Inquiry

September 27, 20197:01 PM ET
LUCIAN KIM

... Shokin's replacement as Ukraine's prosecutor general was Yuriy Lutsenko, who critics say also failed to win any high-level corruption convictions.

But Lutsenko did distinguish himself by reaching out to Giuliani earlier this year with the suggestion that the Bidens might have something to hide in Ukraine.

In the spring, Zelenskiy was rising in election polls against incumbent Petro Poroshenko, and Lutsenko faced the prospect of losing his job under a new president.

Ivan Yakovina, a Kyiv-based political commentator, says outreach to the Trump administration was one way for Lutsenko to secure his position in the future ...

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/765189552/how-ukraine-got-tangled-up-in-trumps-feud-with-the-bidens

[NCLefty]

8. I just wonder if and when Putin will burn Trump by leaking something damning.

He must have most than a few things. They would have worked particularly hard to make sure they owned him since he was so pliable and corrupt.