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nitpicker

(7,153 posts) Sun Nov 24, 2019, 05:09 AM Nov 2019

Trump impeachment: Pompeo, Giuliani and Parnas at heart of new revelations

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/23/trump-impeachment-released-documents-reveal-giuliani-pompeo-links

Trump impeachment: Pompeo, Giuliani and Parnas at heart of new revelations

Martin Pengelly in New York and agencies

Sat 23 Nov 2019 14.21 GMT First published on Sat 23 Nov 2019 07.09 GMT

A cache of state department documents and a CNN report dealt twin blows to Republicans defending Donald Trump late on Friday, until then a relatively quiet day in the impeachment inquiry after a week of dramatic public hearings.

Documents released by the state department in response to a freedom of information lawsuit showed secretary of state Mike Pompeo talked with former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, commonly described as Trump’s personal lawyer, on 26 March and 29 March this year, months before the US ambassador to Ukraine was abruptly recalled.

Pompeo, widely reported to be considering leaving the Trump administration to run for Senate in Kansas, has been repeatedly linked to Giuliani’s apparently extra-governmental work in Ukraine, work which sits at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.

CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, meanwhile, reported that a lawyer for Lev Parnas, one of two Soviet-born American associates of Giuliani indicted on campaign finance charges, said his client was willing to tell Congress about meetings between Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House intelligence committee, and a former Ukrainian prosecutor general in Vienna in 2018, allegedly held to discuss digging up dirt on Joe Biden.
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The documents released late on Friday included a report, apparently on Trump hotel stationery, that appears to summarise an interview on 23 January 2019 with Ukraine’s former prosecutor general, Victor Shokin. The summary says Giuliani, Parnas and Igor Fruman were present.
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A second memo appears to be a summary of an interview with Yuri Lutsenko, also a former prosecutor general of Ukraine, conducted in the presence of Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman. Lutsenko is quoted raising questions about compensation that Hunter Biden received from the Ukrainian oil company Burisma.
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The CNN report about Nunes quoted the attorney Joseph A Bondy as saying Parnas was told directly by Shokin that he met Nunes, intelligence committee chair until the Democrats retook the House in the 2018 midterms, in Vienna last December.

It followed a report by the Daily Beast on Thursday which said Parnas helped arrange meetings and calls for Nunes in Europe in late 2018. Citing congressional records, the Beast said Nunes traveled to Europe from 30 November to 3 December with three aides, at a cost of $63,000.
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Trump impeachment: Pompeo, Giuliani and Parnas at heart of new revelations (Original Post) nitpicker Nov 2019 OP

No wonder the national debt has soared. Scarsdale Nov 2019 #1

Biggest deficit ever, gab13by13 Nov 2019 #2

The gap between the Scarsdale Nov 2019 #4

Shokin was a crook planted by Putin Major Nikon Nov 2019 #3

Not so surprising. Scarsdale Nov 2019 #5

And don't forget 2naSalit Nov 2019 #6

Is he still willing to talk to Congress? BigmanPigman Nov 2019 #7

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

1. No wonder the national debt has soared.

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 06:04 AM

Nov 2019

Between tax cuts for the wealthy, and trips for gop members to travel worldwide. How much did taxpayers pay for Rand Paul and the other gop members to travel to Russia for the 4th of July?? Then the entire tRump clan and hangers on went for the trip to the UK and Ireland. Money is no object when it is not theirs. They treat the Treasury like their personal piggy bank. Who authorizes these payments?? Sickening, grifting scum suckers the entire group.

gab13by13

(21,359 posts)

2. Biggest deficit ever,

Reply to Scarsdale (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 07:30 AM

Nov 2019

Yuuge, 1 trillion dollars a year, Trump and his gang are #1.
Meanwhile in 2018 billionaires are paying 23% federal, state and local taxes, while the average American is paying 28%.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

4. The gap between the

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 09:20 AM

Nov 2019

"haves" and the "have nots" is wider than it has EVER been. No wonder the gop is plotting to dismiss the impeachment of their orange asshole.

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)

3. Shokin was a crook planted by Putin

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 08:25 AM

Nov 2019

His job was to do nothing and let corruption run rampant. Biden along with many other western countries demanded his removal because he refused to investigate numerous companies, including Burisma. After he was removed, he offered dirt on the Bidens in the way of the conspiracy theory that suggested exactly the opposite of what really happened. A mountain of evidence debunks it.

The fact that Nunes and by extension Trump could be so easily manipulated is astonishing.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

5. Not so surprising.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 09:24 AM

Nov 2019

The gop is hardly the intelligent party. Look at who they chose as their leader, plus the representatives such as Gym Jordan, Rand Paul, Nunes, other not too bright members. Name one single gop rep. with intelligence, or even RESPECT. They are all cut from the same cloth. Overdue time for the electorate to wake up and smell the coffee, or at least the odor of treason.

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

6. And don't forget

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 11:50 AM

Nov 2019

Hannity's involvement here. Haven't heard his name come up too many ties but he's mixed up in this. He travels with MF45. And didn't someone allegedly call him for some reason in some deposition? They are busy manufacturing info and or obtaining it from Moscow through this channel.

This needs to be exposed completely.

BigmanPigman

(51,608 posts)

7. Is he still willing to talk to Congress?

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 04:33 PM

Nov 2019

This says he "was" willing to do so.

I guess that when Rudy was ranting on Fux News showing his cell phone that had evidence that the State Dept was involved was correct. Someone needs to get Rudy's phones.

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