Volker did not witness the call between Trump and Zelenskyy. He has always been peripheral to this information. Opinion about Volker is that he did have to restate the facts of his testimony, he is a hostile witness given his past and dedication to the Republicans and what is his relationship with Russian Americans bribing Juliani? No one asked him that. Did Volker ever meet Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman socially or officially?
Regarding Ukrainians; the reason President Zelenskyy was elected is that Putin demanded a president he could work with and completely rejected the re-election of President Poroshenko. Putin not only tainted that election with the influence he blackmailed the Ukrainian people. Putin was anxious to reward the Ukrainian people and arranged for a prisoner exchange (click here), INCLUDING A WITNESS TO THE DOWNING OF MH17.
Are the Ukrainians inept? No, they are resigned to the fact Trump is president. You know, Trump, Putin's illegitimate brother.
Republicans are obtuse. I don't know how to put it. Donald J. Trump was on a timeline to end any possibility to Ukraine receiving aid, military or otherwise. Trump was not going to discuss the holding of aid to people that would otherwise advise him differently. He wanted to reach that endpoint and Ukraine would not receive the aid.
The Republicans are on a trajectory that is deceptive and cherry-picked. It is not a trajectory with the US Constitution at it's heart. For god sake, there were lawyers running around hiding the transcript of the conversation and telling members of the group listening to the call to keep it a secret.
I think it is a valid point that Trump was withholding the aid, PERIOD.
Holding the aid to Ukraine threw power to Russia. Trump didn't know that? Really? And he spoke to no one and held it anyway while the staff was trying to understand why the aid hadn't been distributed with a closing deadline on the horizon. Republicans are obtuse. Do they live in cloud city or do they know what reality is?
Donald J. Trump is as corrupt has his illegitimate brother Vladimir who instilled the corruption in Ukraine.
Take it one more step, just one more step with the questions; "If the USA needs to push back more against Russia, then why hold aid to Ukraine?" Just ask it.
Morrison didn't hear anything evil, didn't see anything evil and didn't speak anything thing evil, so why was he worried about the contents leaking out?
DEAR GOD DEVIN, YOU AREN'T A FOX NEWS COMMENTATOR, YET! This is the US Constitution you bozo. The insight Devin Nunes banks on, even about the Steele Dossier, comes from Soloman.
By John Solomon
Opinion Contributor
In February 2016, as Christopher Steele’s Russia-related contacts (click here) with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI were ramping up, the former British spy emailed some intelligence reports from his Orbis security company to a potential private-sector client.
The documents were labeled “Orbis Russian Leadership Reporting,” and the cover email made a most provocative claim: Russian leader Vladimir Putin might be losing his grip on power. (Devin you above everyone else should know that is a lie. Putin was elected for the third time. Now, when something is an obvious lie as this, it is the responsibility of the US House Ranking Member to question these dynamics. You didn't, Devin. You, when Chairman, ran to Trump for guidance. Very sad.)
“I also don’t believe any Russian client or associate will admit to a Western business contact that PUTIN has been weakened or is on the way out, as the intel suggests, out of fear of being branded an oppositionist,” Steele cautioned the recipient. “We shall see but I hope you find them informative/useful anyway.”...
