Bill Taylor (L) and George Kent (R) are sworn in to testify. Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via REUTERS
WNU Editor: This is it? I see policy differences, but where is the overwhelming impeachable evidence that was promised by the media and the Democrats for the past few days? I have been watching these hearings on my cell phone (I am on a train right now), and it is clear that there is no eye-witness first hand knowledge of any of these key-events from these witnesses. All I see are officials talking about their opinions, and doing it in a very arrogant and condescending manner. And after two hours all that I can say is that are these the star witnesses?!?!?!? All that this TV event has exposed so far is how a certain part of the deep state operates, that they are miffed at President Trump for being excluded from his inner circle, and definitely biter that someone like Rudy Giuliani has the President's ear. My prediction. The media is going to edit and package these hearings to talk about one block-buster revelation after another, and how super impressive these witnesses are. But these witnesses (who witnessed nothing) are not impressive. They were boring, gave nothing new, and more to the point, nothing impeachable. Here is an easy prediction. If the next few days are like this, no one is going to be watching these hearings by the end of the week, and these impeachment inquiry hearings will be ended very quickly.
Update: I can now understand why President Trump froze-out people like Mr. Kent and Ambassador Taylor from his circle. Their beliefs are completely contrary to what he wants to accomplish and focus on, and why he was elected in the first place.
Update #2: Regular blogging will return within an hour.
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Former Politician Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee has opined that, if the hearings produced nothing, Nancy Pelosi will end them at the end of the week.
"Harold Ford: Nancy Pelosi May Pull Impeachment If It Does Not Go Well This Week For Democrats"
Harold Ford is connected and he is also smart.
www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/11/12/harold_ford_nancy_pelosi_may_pull_impeachment_if_it_does_not_go_well_this_week_for_democrats.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ford_Jr.
WASHINGTON — A U.S. government employee overheard President Donald Trump ask Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland on the phone about "the investigations" and heard the ambassador reassure the president that the Ukrainians were "ready to move forward," a senior diplomat told Congress Wednesday in the first public impeachment hearing.
The revelation from William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, is a significant new development that emerged in a hearing that lawmakers had anticipated would largely reconstruct on television depositions that had taken place previously behind closed doors. But Taylor said he'd only learned from the staffer about the call last week — after he’d already been deposed privately.
Taylor, who served as the acting ambassador in Ukraine, said his staffer had informed him of events that transpired on July 26, while several senior Trump administration officials were visiting Ukraine.
President Trump withholding FA is allowed. Telling them to investigate their well documented interference in the US election is just fine. Mueller investigated so why shouldn't Trump ask for it from a player? A player bribing Joe Biden by the way while he was Vice President Joe Biden handling Ukrainian affairs.
This is pure farce.
Not so. Money authorized to an ally and then withdrawn till info sought and given on a political rival is called Bribery. Plain and simple.
your comment is pure farce.
A top diplomat on Wednesday tied President Trump more directly to the effort to pressure Ukraine to probe his political opponents, describing a phone call in which Trump sought information about the status of the investigations he had asked Ukraine to launch one day earlier.
William B. Taylor Jr., the acting ambassador to Ukraine, told lawmakers that the phone conversation between the president and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland in Kyiv was overheard by one of his aides. Afterward, Sondland told the aide that Trump cared more about investigations of former vice president Joe Biden than other issues in Ukraine, Taylor said.
The startling testimony revealed a new example of Trump’s personal involvement in the Ukraine pressure campaign that touched off the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Is that an AG Barr tsunami in the distance?
AG Barr's tsunami is surely arriving.
But what you might be seeing now is Pissy Myle.
He is a very big girl.
"This Sums Up Schiff’s Clown Show Impeachment Trials Perfectly: Drag Queen Sashays Into Hearings Donning Red Mini Dress"
www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/this-sums-up-schiffs-clown-show-impeachment-trials-perfectly-drag-queen-sashays-into-hearings-donning-red-mini-dress/
THIS IS WHAT THE UKRAINE CALLS ARE ALL ABOUT
“we always say that the Geneva Convention is optional for our Kiev staff.”
www.zerohedge.com/political/real-ukraine-controversy-john-solomon-exposes-how-rogue-us-embassy-conducted-foreign
Jay is spinning.
“do not prosecute list.”
Lutsenko alleged that in his first meeting in 2016 with Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador conveyed the names of several Ukrainians she did not want to see investigated and prosecuted. He called it, colloquially, a “do not prosecute list.”
LIBERALS are SHITS
HOW TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS
5:51
THAT TELLS US ALL WHAT CHUD TRUMPIANS ARE
CHUD = Democrat
C is for Cannibal and we all know liberals eat their own.
Shocking moment FIVE DEMOCRATS burst into a Nike store in California and steal dozens of sneakers in front of stunned customers
name calling liar!
they are listed as "brazen." Now show us that they are Democrats..prove what you say...I dare you.
In the end, what we really witnessed on Day One of the public impeachment inquiry was the spectacle of Republicans continuing to implement the scheme that President Trump has been implementing all along.
Again and again, one Republican after another used up their time returning to a suite of discredited conspiracy theories about supposed Ukrainian-Democratic collusion in 2016 and floating claims about the Bidens that have been completely debunked.
This created an amusing disconnect that in one sense actually served to undercut the defense of Trump — at least, in the real world outside the Fox News bubble in which those conspiracy theories and lies are taken as gospel truths.
Anon, name caller: TRY THIS LINK. IT WORKS JUST FOR YOU
The editor start this off with “my take on” and then gives his opinion on what he is hearing which he derides as just people giving their opinions and no facts. Ok. Here’s another option. https://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-takeaways-bill-taylor-george-kent-testimony-trump-impeachment-hearing-2019-11 Please be proactive and listen to the hearings if you can. If not read as many as opinions on the matter as you can.
"they are listed as "brazen." Now show us that they are Democrats..prove what you say...I dare you."
Democrats always crow that They get 89% tom 95% of the Black vote for presidential elections.
Democrats talk about Demographic doom for the Republicans.
Democrats crow that blacks vote Democrat except for a few stupid Uncle Toms.
So yeah, since the guys are not Uncle Toms that makes them Democrats. QED
We also know that Democrat District Attourneys are not prosecuting shoplifting. They do not want to be part of the prison pipeline that is all the rage among the chattering class in their salons.
So you own it Bub. Own up to it. Oh and you are just as brazen at being a liar as those 5 Democrats were at shop lifting.
If not read as many as opinions on the matter as you can.
When I have a math problem. I do not serially plug in every number is the domain to find a solution(s)
Similarly, I do not read every last pundit to form an opinion about a topic or policy. I look at track records of pundits and rely on personal experience, training, and stuff.
Good for you anon. You forgot to mention the part about please be proactive and listen to the hearings for yourself if you can. And I guess the point I’m trying to make is try not to just listen to just one type of opinion. Don’t put yourself in the echo box.
I heard part of the hearings. They were boring.
A bunch of self righteous Senior Executive Service (SES) types that want to be Lords and Ladies and rule.
At one time they were bright or close to it when they graduated, but they have since stupified themselves.
I found a ZeroHedge article to be more interesting
'The Real Ukraine Controversy': John Solomon Exposes How Rogue US Embassy Conducted Foreign Policy
www.zerohedge.com/political/real-ukraine-controversy-john-solomon-exposes-how-rogue-us-embassy-conducted-foreign
“we always say that the Geneva Convention is optional for our Kiev staff.”
I have more respect for former representative Wiener than Andy Schiff and Weiner is a very flawed man.
boring? like Trump too busy? fact: your guy will be impeached. Many are glued to the set. they will go on without you
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