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Swath of Damning Text Messages Released in Impeachment Inquiry

Towleroad October 4, 2019 Leave a Comment

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A swath of damning text messages between State Department officials has been released related to the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate his political rival Joe Biden.

Read the text messages here.

The Daily Beast reports: ‘By September, that effort so alarmed the recently appointed chargé d’affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Bill Taylor, that he called it “crazy” and spiraling toward a “nightmare scenario.” Another Trump appointee, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, insisted Taylor was “incorrect” about Trump dangling a “quid pro quo” before Zelensky—the same quid pro quo that Sondland and his colleagues, from Trump on down, had spent months orchestrating.’

Text messages between US diplomats and a senior Ukrainian aide released by the House Intelligence Committee show how a potential Ukrainian investigation into the 2016 election was linked to a desired meeting between Ukrainian President and President Trumphttps://t.co/elrp4T82Fz pic.twitter.com/yCTRs5h0aW

— New Day (@NewDay) October 4, 2019

CNN adds: “On the morning of the call, in an exchange with a key adviser to the Ukrainian President, then-US Special Envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker made clear that it was important to the White House that Zelensky convince Trump that an investigation into the 2016 election would happen. … Volker provided Congress with the text messages ahead of his closed-door congressional testimony on Thursday before three committees leading the House’s impeachment inquiry into Trump and Ukraine. … That Trump wanted an investigation was a message that seemed to register with the Ukrainian administration. Volker and the Ukrainian adviser, Andrey Yermak, continued to text after the call about Zelensky making a public statement ahead of a meeting between the two leaders.”

THE TERMS OF THE DEAL, as understood by both sides:

ZELENSKY would publicly commit to investigating a BIDEN-linked company & claims about Ukrainian meddling to help @HillaryClinton in 2016.

— & in exchange —

TRUMP would give ZELENSKY the @WhiteHouse visit he coveted. pic.twitter.com/uJ2JHuD5Rh

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 4, 2019
https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1179952393489981446
https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1179953240974221312

These text messages are DEVESTATING. In a functional Democracy the vote to impeach would be unanimous. https://t.co/KVd3eeRog3

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 4, 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1180094411323117568

Topics: Daily Resist, Politics More Posts About: Daily Resist, Donald Trump, Impeachment, Ukraine

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