General Trump Administration F**kery Thread

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@ZoeTillman

We also got a little emoluments-related action in the Trump-Zelensky call — Zelensky made a point of telling Trump that he'd stayed at one of Trump's properties during his last visit to NY. Perhaps we might see that brought up as those cases proceed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-ukraine-call-transcript-biden-impeachment …

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@kylegriffin1
Nadler calls for Barr to recuse himself.

(((Rep. Nadler)))
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@RepJerryNadler
The President dragged the Attorney General into this mess. At a minimum, AG Barr must recuse himself until we get to the bottom of this matter. #UkraineTranscript

11:05 - 25 Sep 2019

 

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@GeoffRBennett
!!! Rep. Matt Gaetz tells @HallieJackson Trump called Republican members of Congress to the White House this morning to give them a look at the Ukraine call memo and get them assembled on talking points

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10:51 - 25 Sep 2019

 

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[Blackgate]

goofballs...all that over a "nothing call"?...

 

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@RepAdamSchiff
The transcript of the call reads like a classic mob shakedown:

– We do a lot for Ukraine
– There’s not much reciprocity
– I have a favor to ask
– Investigate my opponent
– My people will be in touch

Nice country you got there.

It would be a shame if something happened to her.
11:03 - 25 Sep 2019

 

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@AshleyRParker
Among the invited Republican lawmakers: Representatives Liz Cheney, Doug Collins, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Kevin McCarthy, Mark Meadows, Devin Nunes + Steve Scalise. And Senators Capito, Cramer, Johnson, Perdue + Risch

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@AshleyRParker
This morning, the White House invited a dozen Republican lawmakers to the White House to review the transcript before it was released to the public -- and to discuss among themselves and ask questions of White house officials. At one point, Trump called in from New York. (1/2)

11:42 - 25 Sep 2019

 

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Fox's Napolitano: Trump already confessed to a crime

Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News's senior judicial analyst, told Fox News host Shepard Smith Tuesday night that President Trump committed a crime when he admitted pushing Ukrainian government leaders to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden.

"It is a crime for the president to solicit aid for his campaign from a foreign government," Napolitano told Smith.

Napolitano continued by saying that the crime is the same form of crime that former special counsel Robert Mueller examined in his Russia investigation.

 

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@MSNBC
LATEST: 211 of 235 House Democrats now support some type of action on impeachment.

Rep. Amash, an independent, also supports action on impeachment.

218 House votes are needed to impeach the president.

The full list:

 

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✔@AndrewDesiderio
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Hmmm… The White House just sent its talking points on Ukraine to House Democrats.

Here are some screenshots, per source.

Andrew Desiderio

✔@AndrewDesiderioSource says the White House just sent a follow-up to “recall” the email to House Democrats containing talking points...
12:04 - 25 Sep 2019

 

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@adamcbest
Let’s travel back in time to see how Lindsey Graham felt when it was a Democratic president facing impeachment...

 

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@RyanLizza
This is being overlooked by many commenters defending the call as short of a quid pro quo: The president of Ukraine reportedly told a US Senator that *he* believed Trump was tying US aid to the Biden investigation.

Ryan Lizza
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@RyanLizza
“[Sen.] Murphy...said Monday that the Ukrainian president ‘directly’ expressed concerns at their meeting that ‘the aid that was being cut off to Ukraine by the president was a consequence’ of his unwillingness to launch an investigation into the Bidens.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...93a6ca-de38-11e9-8dc8-498eabc129a0_story.html

12:25 - 25 Sep 2019

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Yeah, the Senate is dumping this dude