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RandySF

(58,911 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:09 PM Oct 2019

White House Adviser Will Corroborate Quid Pro Quo

“Tim Morrison, a top Russia and Europe adviser on President Trump’s National Security Council, is expected to testify before House impeachment investigators next week and corroborate key elements of a top U.S. diplomat’s account that Trump was pressing for Ukraine to publicly announce investigations into the Bidens before he would greenlight US security assistance,” CNN reports.

“Morrison’s testimony is expected to be significant because he is a current White House official whose name was cited 15 times in Bill Taylor’s opening statement.”



https://politicalwire.com/2019/10/24/white-house-adviser-will-corroborate-quid-pro-quo/

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White House Adviser Will Corroborate Quid Pro Quo (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2019 OP
Another nail in the coffin. n/t cynatnite Oct 2019 #1
Death by a 1000 cuts. OAITW r.2.0 Oct 2019 #2
A little background (wiki) Leghorn21 Oct 2019 #3
I wonder if this means that Bolton won't be far behind. n/t cynatnite Oct 2019 #4
Wondering the same too Lithos Oct 2019 #8
Wow! It's amazing to me that trump people Cha Oct 2019 #5
He's a Bolton guy. RandySF Oct 2019 #6
Hmmmm! lol the guy who got Cha Oct 2019 #7
Members of a gang stick together.....until they don't! Doitnow Oct 2019 #9
Just wait until Bolton himself testifies publicly in the actual hearings. herding cats Oct 2019 #10
welcome anybody that"s sticking it to Trump stopdiggin Oct 2019 #11

OAITW r.2.0

(24,504 posts)
2. Death by a 1000 cuts.
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:18 PM
Oct 2019

Shoulda purged every US diplomat upon your "Inauguration" in 2016. But that would have been a problem then, right Don?

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
3. A little background (wiki)
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:25 PM
Oct 2019

Timothy "Tim" Morrison is the top U.S. presidential adviser on Russia and Europe, in which position he succeeded Fiona Hill in August 2019.[1] Before that, he served as senior director for countering weapons of mass destruction on the US National Security Council, a position he assumed on July 9, 2018.[2] Until then, he was policy director for the Republican staff on the House defense panel.[2] He holds a Juris Doctor from George Washington University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Minnesota.[3]

Morrison is known as a "Bolton loyalist"[4] and has been characterized as a "nuclear superhawk".[2]

Trump–Ukraine scandal

Morrison was implicated in the Trump–Ukraine scandal as being listed as one of the people "listening in" during the July 25, 2019, telephone conversation between President Trumpand Ukrainian President Zelensky.[5] He was a primary source of information regarding the matter to William B. Taylor, Jr., the acting US ambassador to Ukraine.[6]


Cha

(297,321 posts)
7. Hmmmm! lol the guy who got
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:48 PM
Oct 2019

fired because he didn't go along with inviting the Taliban to Camp David or some such stupidity?

herding cats

(19,565 posts)
10. Just wait until Bolton himself testifies publicly in the actual hearings.
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 12:59 AM
Oct 2019

That's gonna be an epic moment in history I'm predicting.

stopdiggin

(11,317 posts)
11. welcome anybody that"s sticking it to Trump
Fri Oct 25, 2019, 02:12 AM
Oct 2019

but these guys have extremist views and agenda. Let's not forget who Bolton is.

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