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December 4, 2019

The legal way to do crime -by Matt Bors

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December 3, 2019

Trump-linked lawyers secretly represented Ukrainian officials.

Toensing and diGenova, Fox News fixtures who last year agreed to join Trump’s legal team but quickly stepped aside due to conflicts with other clients, represent Dmitry Firtash, a Ukrainian oligarch. Firtash, who is fighting extradition to the United States on bribery-related charges, recently told the New York Times that the duo offered to help him with his Justice Department case while pressing him to help provide negative information on Biden.

...........Toensing and diGenova also inked retainer agreements last April with three other Ukrainians: Viktor Shokin, Yuriy Lutsenko and Kostiantyn Kulyk. Shokin is the allegedly corrupt former prosecutor whose firing in 2016 came after pressure from Biden and European officials. (Shokin later claimed his ouster was related to Biden’s son Hunter sitting on the board of a Ukrainian gas company that Shokin was threatening to investigate, a debunked claim Trump repeatedly pushed.) Lutsenko and Kulyk, who were also senior Ukrainian prosecutors suspected of corruption, likewise pushed allegations that Trump’s backers wanted Ukraine to investigate.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/the-ukraine-scandal-is-bigger-than-we-realized-democrats-report-suggests/

December 3, 2019

KABOOM-Damning paragraph blows apart the GOP claim there was no "linkage" or quid pro quo.

This is a rather damning paragraph--and blows apart the GOP claim there was no "linkage" or quid pro quo.

“make the boss happy”




https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1201987848083251208

December 3, 2019

Side-by-side: Draft Zelensky aide wanted to release & one Giuliani-Volker-Sonlad wanted to release

The evidence is irrefutable. Every federal prosecutor I’ve ever known would try this case in a heartbeat.



https://twitter.com/ECMcLaughlin/status/1201966636644761602

December 3, 2019

The fact that Trump used an Orange for his analogy is too good.

The quote: Someday in the distant future, Trump said, "You'll have a Democrat president. You'll have a Republican House. They’ll do the same thing. Because somebody picked an orange out of a refrigerator and you don’t like it, so let’s go and impeach him.”

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1201907186508718081

December 3, 2019

Dem impeachment video opens with this: "Two weeks of testimony ... One story of betrayal."

House Democrats are out with an impeachment video that opens with this: "Two weeks of testimony ... One story of betrayal."

It then runs through most of the witnesses' most damning testimony, describing their role in the impeachment process.

VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1201910271633219589

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