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 investigations—in 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 ...
Traitorous piece of fecal matter.
These are some really secret hearings, huh?
Absent cross-examination — which the Democrats aren’t permitting — all this stuff is meaningless.
Hearsay?
Obvious coup attempt by House Dems and their Deep State allies. Continued Senate GOP inaction makes them complicit.
Tell us what was going on when Obama was President
I and many others have read the actual transcript, not what you're telling us the transcript supposedly was.
Tell us what was going on when Obama was President
What was going on was the Ukrainians were begging for weapons while being invaded by Russian army tanks. And the kenyan gave them nothing.
There are better records of the Salem Witch Trials thanks, in large part, to Rev. Samuel Hale, great grandfather of the Revolutionary War hero of the same surname, who judiciously recorded them as a witness to those sorry proceedings.
His records became the basis for our constitutional protections against many of the abuses so chronicled.
That’s because they wouldn’t play ball with Obama ,LOL
Axios——
The lefty’s “go to” media site
Axios..............
Will Nancy and Schiff For Brains continue their World Tour to try to find Dirt on Trump ?
I’ve been asking this for WEEKS!
WHEN did it become criminal, let alone unusual, for an American Administration to hold foreign aid as an inducement for assistance in ANY area from a foreign government?
Unless the 'rats are claiming the transcript is fraudulent, I don't see why anybody's recollection of it has any bearing on anything.
Also, in the future, Trump nees to operate in some sort of soundproofed hermetically sealed room since he is surrounded by enemies.
And you’re being kind.
AND, the Ukrainian government itself said that no such inducement was make, neither does the transcript from the call reveal any such thing.
That makes this, at best, a he-said/she-said impasse based upon HEARSAY.
Isn’t this alleged wrongdoing by Trump completely ineffective unless it is done IN SECRET?
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