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    Default Former Trump Russia Adviser Fiona Hill Testifies For 10 Hours In Impeachment Probe

    It's just hard to run a dirty administration when there are so many good people who are not willing to sacrifice their morals to blindly serve a crooked President!

    It's hard to find enough crooks to fill an entire administration.

    "After listing to Hill for hours behind closed doors, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said each of the officials being questioned by the panels are offering pieces of a wider picture that is helping put together different aspects of the impeachment inquiry.

    "All of these witnesses are filling in the picture of what was taking place because the famous — infamous July 25 telephone call was not some kind of one-off — it was the culmination of a continuing campaign by Rudy Giulian and his henchmen," he said, calling the Giuliani's work a "shadow" foreign policy campaign that aimed to "shakedown" the Ukrainian government.

    Before helping guide the Trump administration on Russia and Euroasia policy, Hill was a Brookings Institution scholar, a frequent Putin critic and authored multiple books on Russia and Vladimir Putin, including "Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin," which criticized the Russian president's ruling of the country. She holds master's degrees in Soviet studies, along with Russian and modern history, according to her Brookings Institution biography."

    Former Trump Russia adviser Fiona Hill testifies for 10 hours in impeachment probe

    "At least three other witnesses are expected to appear before the House Democrats' impeachment panel this week. Here's what you need to know about each:

    • George P. Kent is an expert on Ukraine and Russia who now serves as a deputy assistant secretary at the State Department. He is scheduled to be deposed on Tuesday.

    Kent landed in Giuliani’s crosshairs earlier this year, as the former New York mayor ramped up his pressure on the Ukrainian government to open investigations that could benefit Trump. In an interview with a Ukrainian news site in May, Giuliani alleged, without evidence, that Kent was working with George Soros, the liberal billionaire philanthropist, to find “dirty information” on Trump campaign officials.

    Before taking his current post, Kent served as the deputy chief of mission in Kiev, and he also spent years working on anti-corruption efforts across Europe. He joined the foreign service nearly 30 years ago, and speaks Ukrainian, Russian and Thai, among other languages.

    “He always struck me as a very professional person who was focused on trying to advance American interests,” said Michael McFaul, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Russia in the Obama administration.

    • Gordon Sondland, Trump ambassador to the European Union, will return to Capitol Hill this week. The State Department blocked him from testifying last week. Sondland, A wealthy former hotel magnate from Oregon, he has emerged as a central player in the Ukraine affair.

    Text messages released earlier this month show that he and Kurt Volker, Trump's former special envoy to Ukraine, orchestrated a months-long effort to push Ukraine's newly elected president, Zelensky, to make a public promise that he would order probes into Biden and Ukraine's alleged role in 2016 election meddling.

    • T. Ulrich Brechbuhl is the State Department’s top lawyer and a long-time friend of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo and Brechbuhl both graduated from West Point in 1986, and they served together in Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

    Brechbuhl – who was born in Switzerland and speaks French, German and Swiss-German – came to the State Department after a long private-sector career. Before either Pompeo or Brechbuhl came to Washington, they were business partners at Thayer Aerospace, a Kansas defense company.

    He joined the State Department in 2018 and has served as the agency’s counsel and senior adviser to Pompeo. Brechbuhl’s name first emerged in the Ukraine controversy last month, with the release of the explosive whistleblower complaint that alleged that Trump used the power of his office to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election.

    Brechbuhl was among those who listened to Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky."
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    I love how the state department employees are defying trumps orders not to cooperate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    I love how the state department employees are defying trumps orders not to cooperate.
    It is mindboggling the shear hubris of Trump, in the face of the blowback from Russian meddling in the US election that he would orchestrate
    an even more brazen operation for the next one. Dude needs counseling in jail. Does he think justice in the USA is that impotent?
    He got a pass from Meuller on the ultimate issue of his complicity and concerted action before, but this time he is caught on the phone
    making it happen. I know Trumfucks don't care cuz he is their criminal, but I would hope Congress could grow some stones and take this rotten bitch out.

    Trump is a disgrace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    I love how the state department employees are defying trumps orders not to cooperate.
    Except she wasn't working at the White House at the time of the phone call. So all she can really testify to is what somebody told her.

    Also we already have the transcript. Adam Schiff says so. That is why he isn't bring the whistleblower in.

    Disappointed?

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    Hello Jarod,

    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    I love how the state department employees are defying trumps orders not to cooperate.
    Aside from his installed henchmen, Trump has no friends in the State Department.

    It's a problem for Trump's nefarious endeavors. He cannot replace all who work for him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuidProJoe View Post
    Except she wasn't working at the White House at the time of the phone call. So all she can really testify to is what somebody told her.

    Also we already have the transcript. Adam Schiff says so. That is why he isn't bring the whistleblower in.

    Disappointed?
    Why would you be upset at Hunter Biden but not Rudy and Trumppy and Ivanka and Baby Don?
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello Jarod,



    Aside from his installed henchmen, Trump has no friends in the State Department.

    It's a problem for Trump's nefarious endeavors. He cannot replace all who work for him.
    Our government was designed such, to protect from madmen like Rump.
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    Hello Jarod,

    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    Our government was designed such, to protect from madmen like Rump.
    If only the mechanism would act with more swiftness!
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuidProJoe View Post
    Except she wasn't working at the White House at the time of the phone call. So all she can really testify to is what somebody told her.

    Also we already have the transcript. Adam Schiff says so. That is why he isn't bring the whistleblower in.

    Disappointed?
    This has grown way beyond just the phone call.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PoliTalker View Post
    Hello Jarod,



    If only the mechanism would act with more swiftness!
    It is painfully slow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by QuidProJoe View Post
    Except she wasn't working at the White House at the time of the phone call. So all she can really testify to is what somebody told her.

    Also we already have the transcript. Adam Schiff says so. That is why he isn't bring the whistleblower in.

    Disappointed?
    There is so much more on Trump than just a phone call. That was only the tip of his infinitely corrupt iceberg.

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    Here's an interesting little something from Slate:

    "Ten hours of testimony Monday by a former senior National Security Council official painted a picture of President Trump sitting atop a shadow foreign policy initiative to coerce Ukraine to do his political bidding, butting heads with a wider circle of White House officials that viewed the Rudy Giuliani-inspired freelancing as wrong and likely illegal. The testimony of Fiona Hill, senior director for European and Russian affairs, depicted advisers outside of the Giuliani vortex as alarmed by the undertaking, a group that included then-national security adviser John Bolton, who instructed her to inform the White House counsel’s office of the effort as early as July 10.

    “I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Hill testified Bolton told her, referencing Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the E.U. who said Trump had given him authority to oversee the off-book operation, and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. “Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up,” Bolton said of the shadow operation.

    The origins of the rift began over the summer, weeks before Trump’s July 25 phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
    ...

    “Bolton and Sondland met in early July with then-special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker, Hill and Energy Secretary Rick Perry,” the Washington Post reports. “During the meeting, Sondland’s agenda for Ukraine began to become clear, when he blurted out to the other officials present that there were ‘investigations that were dropped that need to be started up again,’ according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The officials understood him to be referring to Burisma, the energy company, and Biden—something that made Bolton go ‘ballistic’ after the meeting, the official said.”

    Hill testified that Bolton instructed her to report the issue to White House lawyers, specifically deputy White House counsel and National Security Council chief legal adviser John Eisenberg. Eisenberg said he would raise the issue with his superiors. Hill left the administration shortly after, before the July 25 call took place, and Bolton left two months later when Trump tweeted out that Bolton’s tenure was done. "

    Former Trump National Security Adviser Called Ukraine Pressure a “Drug Deal,” Giuliani a “Hand Grenade”
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    What is really sad is watching the board liberals who clamored for transparency and immediate release of the Mueller report are now content with the secrecy behind these proceedings. Why are the Dems hiding this from the public?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Superfreak View Post
    What is really sad is watching the board liberals who clamored for transparency and immediate release of the Mueller report are now content with the secrecy behind these proceedings. Why are the Dems hiding this from the public?
    There is a reason for it and if you left your bubble you would know. This is the taking of depositions stage and they do not want coordination of testimonies.

    Most of us cannot wait until it gets to the public testimony point so that the world can see what a criminal Trump is.
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    Schiff will tell us everything she says.......hopefully we'll be able to sift through the parody.......
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