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LAST UPDATE | 30 Sep 2019
HOUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE subpoenaed US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani for documents related to his interactions with Ukrainian officials.
The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight and Reform panels announced the subpoena this evening as they examine Trump’s efforts to have Ukraine investigate political rival Joe Biden and his family. Giuliani assisted in that effort.
The committees are investigating the matter, which was a subject of a whistleblower’s complaint, as part of an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
The whistleblower, reportedly a CIA officer, raised concerns in a report to his or her superiors about the 25 July phone call during which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden and his son, Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
Giuliani was at the centre of the effort to get Ukraine to conduct an investigation of the Bidens, who have not been officially accused of any wrongdoing.
The Democrats have also requested information from three of Giuliani’s associates.
“Pursuant to the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, we are hereby transmitting a subpoena that compels you to produce the documents set forth in the accompanying schedule by October 15, 2019,” wrote House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff and the chairs of two other panels conducting investigations.
“The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election,” the chairmen said in a letter to Giuliani.
Our inquiry includes an investigation of credible allegations that you acted as an agent of the President in a scheme to advance his personal political interests by abusing the power of the Office of the President.
Trump insisted to reporters today that the phone call with Zelensky was “perfect” and claimed that the “whistleblower reported a totally different statement.”
“When the whistleblower reported this, he made it sound terrible,” he said.
Includes reporting by AFP and Associated Press
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More good news. I’m gonna smile for the rest of the night.
@2thFairy: there’s going to be no impeachment.
@BOH®: agreed. Trump is like Teflon. Nothing sticks.
@BOH®: there may be no removal, because the Republicans have no backbone and care more about their job than their country. But there will be impeachment.
@Ger: anyone that votes no to an impeachment if the results are damming and clear can kiss their career goodbye. He will be hung out to dry.
@Ger: nope. There won’t be. Simply because he’s done nothing to warrant impeachment.
AFP and Associated press reporting anti trump for the last three years straight, he’s trumps attorney and he is investigating the 2016 campaign interference. He’s an investigating attorney not many of them left, unlike the journal reporters not investigating journalist
@John Meaney:
Exactly, At this stage he’s probably the most vetted POTUS in the history of the US.
Anyways, here’s Nancy Pelosi recently lying on US TV…
https://twitter.com/TheGray1776/status/1178780194833866758?s=09
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“It was in the public domain” – Pelosi
Why would it need to declassified then?….Nancy ;)
@➕The Gray➕: we need to drain the swamp here,
@➕The Gray➕: 9 seconds with no context, not like you. So, she was asked about Trump calling her after the story about the phone call broke. She says she knew what he told her wasn’t true as the whistle-blower complaint was in the public domain. Can’t decide if its dishonesty or stupidity on your part. Love how the clip cuts out before she finishes her answer as well. Sure why would anyone want to hear the full answer when you can lie about it based on a sentence fragment of it
@➕The Gray➕: and all that scrutiny is just those bold dems being mean, couldn’t be Trumpy actually did anything to warrant it??? Poor man is forever looking over his shoulder just like you advised me to keep doing. ‘Cept there’s actually something scary behind him. Got ur travel plans to Cork sorted yet hon? I’m gonna get a pain in my neck at this rate and you wouldn’t want that would u?
@Dave O’Keeffe:
Go watch the full interview and get back to us on that. I’ll accept your apology no bother.
Also just to add about another Dem liar, Did you know that Adam Schiff’s intel staffer held a secret meeting with the Biden-tied former President of Ukraine just 12 days after the whistleblower complaint.
This trip was sponsored by a group that is funded by Burisma Holdings .
No one was ever supposed to know.
Anyways, Here’s Schiff getting caught out by done prank callers…
https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/report-schiff-fell-for-russian-prank-call
Makes you wonder if a “Whistleblower” really exists.
@➕The Gray➕: so you now think the foreign intelligence committee shouldn’t be talking to people involved in the story? I notice you didn’t actually post a link to that claim at all either instead choosing to post something amusing but unrelated. On your 9 second, do you agree that the question she is answering is about a call between herself and the president about the Ukraine call? Only possible answer is yes. And that phone call couldn’t have happened unless the whistle-blower story was in the public domain.
@➕The Gray➕: that’s not lying, get a grip
Whatever your opinion of Trumpy Giuliani testifying is gonna be tv gold.
@GrahamMManning: Do you know if it’s an open or closed door session? Mueller was brilliant, but this would be top shelf by comparison.
@Burn_the_Witch: no idea but they surely can’t keep this hidden. U seeing swine aviators too?
@GrahamMManning: Swine aviators? You referring to flying pigs?
@Burn_the_Witch: Are you doubting he’ll show up? Nah he wouldn’t miss it for the world. He’s too in love with himself to miss the opportunity of a sit down with what I’m sure he sees as a bunch of clowns.
@Burn_the_Witch: yes just as a comment on us agreeing on something. Def think he’ll turn up
@GrahamMManning: He’ll definitely show up.
@Burn_the_Witch: agreed.
More bull …
@John Meaney: no it’s not
@Paul Furey: great argument as usual.
How this man was ever successful as a lawyer is beyond me. He’d defend you on a parking violation and you’d end up with the death sentence.
@Humphrey De Fluff: one of the funniest comments I’ve read in ages!
@Humphrey De Fluff: in his earlier days he appears to have been pretty clever. Now, not so much…..
When Trump begins to fall, watch the knives being sharpened. He forgot the golden rule, be nice to people on the way up, chances are that you will meet them on the way down.
This guy is going to spill the beans, without knowing it.
How does Donald Trump get into so much trouble and he dont even drink smoke or take drugs.
@Marty from Sligo: He just opens his gob
@Noel Ryan: I’d love to green thumb that twice. His rant against impeachment as broadcast earlier today made him sound like a genuine lunatic. Blame everybody else, etc, etc….
There will be an inflection point at some stage with the GOP and their support for Confefe. It’ll be brutally entertaining. Best ratings ever no doubt.
Me thinks he has one leg stuck and sinking in his own pond. or is it Fake?
He wipe the floor with the Democrats.
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