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Yamiche Alcindor ✔ @Yamiche
Confirmed: Lev Parnas attorney, Joseph Bondy, tells me he has turned over to the House Intel Committee an hour long recording of President Trump talking about firing former US Amb to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Bondy said Parnas found the recording in his iCloud account.
6:56 PM - Jan 24, 2020
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Yamiche Alcindor ✔ @Yamiche
NEW: Joseph Bondy, Lev Parnas attorney, tells me he turned over an hour long iPhone VIDEO recording to House Intel Committee of Pres Trump saying he wants to get rid of former Amb. Yovanovitch. Bondy says he hopes this will lead to a tipping point & Parnas will get to testify.
7:03 PM - Jan 24, 2020
Lordy!
Bondy's booked for TRMS tonight:
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Jesse Rodriguez ✔@JesseRodriguez
TONIGHT: Lev Parnas' attorney Joe Bondy joins @maddow for an exclusive interview during special impeachment coverage on @MSNBC
6:43 PM - Jan 24, 2020
democrank
(11,100 posts)This might make that POS Trump squirm a little.
This bombshell could be its own article of impeachment!
TruckFump
(5,812 posts)...see the former hit the latter!
tblue37
(65,483 posts)ChazInAz
(2,572 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)democrank
(11,100 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)democrank
(11,100 posts)Trump spews crap 24/7 so it takes time to figure out which lie is which lie, if its a new threat, an old threat.... brand new BS, yesterdays BS. My head hurts.
BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)many years from now, there will be enough info to fill several volumes. And that is just for 3+ years. There is enough BS in his first year to fill a couple of books with all the crazy characters and plots going on. Can you imagine what is locked up in the W House triple secret vault, where the supposed Perfect Phone Call transcripts are and hand written notes from a translator during 1:1 Putin meetings and phone calls.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)appears to have come from Igor Fruman.
The one that this thread's about is from the same event, but is from Lev Parnas. And a later tweet from Yamiche Alcindor says this one's a video tape. (I posted the tweet later in this thread.)
BigmanPigman
(51,626 posts)Love it! I hope Lev keeps "finding" more info.
democrank
(11,100 posts)I appreciate it.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...I mean, this can't be true. Stephen King and Quentin Tarantino have to be making this all up, somehow...
calimary
(81,450 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,413 posts)What matters is how he was talking. He could fire her at any time.
writes3000
(4,734 posts)dpibel
(2,852 posts)"the pleasure of the president" is tempered by the fact that permissible power exercised for impermissible reasons is impermissible.
dawnie51
(959 posts)to fire anyone. So what exactly did "take her out, do it now" mean? I know what it meant in "The Sopranos". No wonder the lady was getting phone calls in the middle of the night to flee.
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)says this one's a video tape.
Link to tweet
Text for the twitter-deprived:
NEW: Joseph Bondy, Lev Parnas attorney, tells me he turned over an hour long iPhone VIDEO recording to House Intel Committee of Pres Trump saying he wants to get rid of former Amb. Yovanovitch. Bondy says he hopes this will lead to a tipping point & Parnas will get to testify.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Thanks for the heads up
blogslut
(38,014 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Trump pretends to be smart & screws up everything he tries to do, while Lev & Igor pretend to be stupid and end up owning Trump and all of his inner circle.
bucolic_frolic
(43,270 posts)and send to the Senate in a month or two. Just keep building the case. Everyone in America knows, deep in their heart, in their mind's eye, the truth. It's just the GOP53 who won't act on it.
iluvtennis
(19,870 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)Should be....
tinrobot
(10,914 posts)It just shows how utterly careless they are with information and security.
The conversation was bad enough, but... what else is out there on video? And more importantly, who's using those videos to blackmail him?
Mr.Bill
(24,318 posts)if you just release the video without demanding something to not release it.
tinrobot
(10,914 posts)But if someone can video this conversation so easily, there's bound to be others.
Mr.Bill
(24,318 posts)calimary
(81,450 posts)And if they do get caught, they won't have to pay for it ('cuz trump is gonna fix it or bail them out or cover all their legal fees - like he said on the campaign trail in 2016, 'eh?
H2O Man
(73,600 posts)This is great news!
Recommended.
Hekate
(90,784 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)Not sourced yet, but his reasons for wanting to fire her are spoke of in detail. Basically an energy deal and to help Russia.
I hope this gets released to the public straight away.
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)Was Lev telling Trump that Ukraine wouldn't last very long without American aid. So he knew in April 2018 that the effect of witholding aid would be catastrophic for Ukraine. He knew. He knew.
MoonlitKnight
(1,584 posts)Then so does Putin.
And Saudi.
And China.
And North Korea.
And...on and on.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)how long Ukraine would last without US military and other aid and was told essentially "not long". This was,
according to Bondy, just after Ukraine got the Javelin missiles he'd approved for sale to them. Since this dinner took place in April 2018, Trump knew well-before the call with Zelensky just how vital US military aid was to them.