Posted on 10/23/2019 7:10:43 AM PDT by Taipei
Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, told House investigators on Tuesday that President Trump conditioned the release of military aid on the Ukrainian president's willingness to promise to investigate natural gas company Burisma and alleged interference in the 2016 election, according to a copy of Taylor's opening statement obtained by Axios.
Key excerpts:
"[On Sept. 1], Ambassador Sondland also told me that he now recognized that he had made a mistake by earlier telling the Ukrainian officials to whom he spoke that a White House meeting with President Zelenskyy was dependent on a public announcement of investigationsin fact, Ambassador Sondland said, 'everything' was dependent on such an announcement, including security assistance. He said that President Trump wanted President Zelenskyy 'in a public box' by making a public statement about ordering such investigations."
"[O]n September 8, Ambassador Sondland ... said he had talked to President Trump as I had suggested a week earlier, but that President Trump was adamant that President Zelenskyy, himself, had to 'clear things up and do it in public.' President Trump said it was not a 'quid pro quo.'"
The entirety of the statement is available at the link
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
ONE---More HEARSAY.
TWO---Fiona Hill is a Soros operative.
Fiona Hill is George Soros' mole in Trump's White House
https://brassballs.blog/home/fiona-hill-is-george-soros-mole-in-trump-white-house-and-she-was-catalyst-to-mcmasters-firing-yesterday
SOROS MOLE FIONA HILL IS SECOND WHITE HOUSE WHISTLEBLOWER
http://www.oldthinkernews.com/2019/10/13/soros-mole-fiona-hill-is-second-white-house-whistleblower/
And some blankets. Don't forget about the blankets.
Certainly we let other countries know what we care about when we agree to give foreign aid. However, I think it is a bit unusual for a president to make that aid conditional on help making a case against electoral opponents. To the newly elected Ukranian president, it might have seemed even stranger. He might have seen this as the way Russia would behave and been surprised.
It is only a coincidence that the miscreants in this case include one of Trump’s opponents.
In fact, Creepy Joe Biden, who can’t even remember where he is half the time, is arguably among the easiest candidates for Trump to defeat.
So why should he want to knock him out of the race?
I believe that Trump’s motivation is to get to the bottom of the tampering with the 2016 election and the amassing of false documentation cobbled together by foreign powers to cripple his campaign and his administration.
Grand standing , self serving conspiratorial evidence.
Zero credibility.
President Trump’s activity was well within his Constitutional authority.
God bless and protect President Trump!
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