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As per my practice, the full testimony is too large to place here, so you get the key excerpts: The full testimony is here. As you may recall, Taylor’s testimony, along with Vindman, really cracked the whole thing wide open. We’re just like a couple pages in and already Taylor is contradicting the picture Sondland laid out. Says Sondland said … Read More

In the past two days, there has been a lot of threats to reveal the name of the whistleblower who got the ball rolling in the Trump Impeachment Inquiry. There is, of course, no reason to out him. The whistleblower complaint has been superseded by firsthand testimony, and the phone call transcript summary, which corroborate, if not go futher than, … Read More

Trump pledged “unwavering” support to Ukraine in a May 29 letter congratulating its new president on his election victory and invited Zelensky to the White House, as evidence of the United States’ “commitment” to the young democracy, it was reported yesterday. “Trump’s letter … points to a sharp contrast between Trump’s official, warm communications with Zelensky and the moves he actually … Read More

And he knows because he is the one who laid it out. As I posted earlier, Sondland, through his attorney, filed an addendum with the House Impeachment Committee yesterday, which is below. His testimony now, as he calls it, is “Oh. Yeah. There was a quid pro quo. I know because I told the Ukrainian officials about it.” Sondland’s full … Read More

Key excerpts from Ambassador Sondland’s testimony: The full testimony is here. Notably, the full testimony contains an addendum that Sondland filed after his testimony in which he recounted how he told Ukrainian officials military aid was tied to their commitment to investigations President Trump wanted. QUID PRO QUO. I will likely take this up in a subsequent post. Key excerpts … Read More

It is too much to claim the Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has “flipped” against the Trump Team, but the current news can’t be good for that team. People following this inquiry are aware of the John Dowd letter mapping out what amounted to a Joint Defense Agreement between the President, Rudy Giuliani, Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, and Dmitry Firtash (with … Read More

Key Points of Testimony of Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch, Former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, conducted on October 11, 2019. Full testimony is here. Key excerpts from the testimony of former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State Ambassador P. Michael McKinley from October 16, 2019: Full testimony is here. Democrats will release transcripts from Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland tomorrow

All four White House officials scheduled to give closed-door testimony today in the House impeachment inquiry will not appear, multiple news outlets report. They include National Security Council lawyers John Eisenberg and Michael Ellis as well Brian McCormack of the office of management and budget, and Robert Blair, a top aide to chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Eisenberg and McCormack … Read More

NEWS: President Trump has filed a declaration of domicile in Florida, declaring himself a former resident of Trump Tower https://t.co/i1IT3OAmVn — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 31, 2019 Cuomo statement on Trump becoming a Florida resident: pic.twitter.com/FgGnKa6PJB — Tom Namako (@TomNamako) November 1, 2019 He’s going because NY State is trying to get his personal tax records and business tax records. … Read More

Live: The vote is on a resolution that would set rules for the public phase of an impeachment inquiry that has so far been conducted exclusively behind closed doors. It would authorize the House Intelligence Committee — the panel that has been leading the investigation and conducting private depositions — to convene public hearings and produce a report that will guide the … Read More

When I saw last night that Vickman was in there testifying for nine hours behind closed doors, I knew something big was happening. Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who heard President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s president and was alarmed, revealed more than his opening statement suggested. He testified that he tried and failed to add key details to … Read More

Title 18, United States Code, Section 610, known as the Hatch Act, makes it a crime — indeed, a felony, punishable by up to three years in prison — for “any person to intimidate, threaten, command, or coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, command, or coerce, any employee of the Federal Government … to engage in … any political activity.” Congress … Read More