Today at 9:00am ET, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will hold the second day of open hearings for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Todays testimony will come from former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.
Marie Yovanovitch is a woman of dubious character who was removed from the administration prior to the July phone call between U.S. President Trump and Ukraine President Zelenskyy. Ms. Yovanovitch has coordinated both her deposition and public hearing comments with the Democrat staff of the committee.
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Please fellow treepers, we’re kidding ourselves if we think we’ve laid a glove on her. The Republican cross examination has been pathetic… I keep waiting for it to start. This is beyond frustrating… as much as I hate to say it, the DIMs are winning big time today, so far.
And PLEASE quit kissing her @ss with all the thanks for your outstanding service, etc. I can’t even tell a difference between the DIMs and the republicans!
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Oh, no! What are we gonna do!
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Oh, no! What are we gonna do!
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Oh, no! What are we gonna do!
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It was worth repeating.
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Don’t mess with Joey Knuckles.
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I agree, by thanking these deep state nuts, it gives them credibility and drives me insane.
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We don’t have to lay a glove on her. She has Not laid a glove on President.
Her entire testimony is irrelevant. It is an HUMAN RESOURCE issue. She has no first hand knowledge of anything.
What is the crime?
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The High crimes and misdemeanors of the twatter/s
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EXACTLY Raffaella…this is a “wrongful termination” claim…and HR issue..being brought before the American people…so silly.
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I Agree. The dems did some homework over the last couple days.
Shiff is blocking the GOP at every step.
The Minority council was terrible. I tried listening for any soundbite and I was lulled to sleep by his praise for her.
The Minority needs to step their game up and hammer her. She’s trying to give long winded answers to simple questions to waste time.
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Hammer her? Here’s one: She said she felt lime the “Benghazi Four”. Of course, Marie, your outcome was much, much better. You could have gotten the Amb. Stephens treatment but you didn’t. And BTW, are you saying that your former bosses, BHO and HRC did not act appropriately during the Benghazi Massacre? You obviously think the “Benghazi Four” got a bad deal, who do you think presided over what happened? Did it occur to you then to run to Adam Schiff and shed tears about hoe terrible the BHO Administration handled the Benghazi attack? Or, did you keep your trap shut because your purpose in life is to fulfill the BHO agenda?
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More importantly, she hasn’t laid a glove on Trump. She has been confirmed as being irrelevant.
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This witness is completely irrelevant. She has no first hand knowledge of anything in question with regard to the supposed accusations in the WB complaint
I don’t think the D’s are stupid enough to attempt to impeach POTUS for removing an ambassador appointed by the previous administration and replacing her. Doing so is clearly within his constitutional duties and responsibilities. I also don’t think the D’s are stupid enough to attempt to impeach POTUS for “mean” tweets.
So with that in mind, what difference does it make whether she was ripped to shreds by the R’s or not?
If the R’s were concerned about her they wouldn’t be spending their time getting WB statements made by Schiff into the record. At this point they’re ignoring the witness, she is THAT irrelevant
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No, she’s relevant. If the Republs ask the right questions. Her deputy and she BOTH told the Ukrainiains to lay off investigating people and entities that were in league with their globalist, Soros-driven agenda, in DIRECT OPPOSITION to Trump once he came in.
CDA Kent demanding the drop two investigations into NGOs working to undermine Trump’s candidacy using USG and Soros money. In black and white.
She proved the fact beyond dispute that Biden knew ALL ABOUT HIS SON’S shenanigans. She admitted to the Q&A prep.
Dragging up McCain and the “gold star” family that used their tragedy to try to interfere in politics, in great dishonor to heir son.
Pathetic
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Trump’s never going to be removed from office. This is all irrelevant.
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And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why the Republican counsel had to be boring – look at how Schitt swoops into stop any hard questioning!
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I don’t like the term “destroyed” It is overused. But she definitely illuminated effectively the heart of the issues!
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here’s a short clip –
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0:19, 0:20, look at her defeat lowering down her face, they know they are screwed up because of corruption and now they are trying to hide it from all American smart people who f care about this farce!
how long are the whitchunt hearings for? A WHOLE YEAR
maggots
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The republican male members of the committee did the right thing, allowing Stefanik to be the heavy. Keeps the “metoo” crowd out of play.
Yes it was cheesy and lame but this is ALL optics at this point because the democrat’s own witnesses have made the case for the defense.
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Thing is, Stephanik is damn good at this.
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Yeah, she is, but not good enough.
She’s helping us far more than she’s helping schiff.
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jeeeeze…..
Readers will please un-read and disregard my post above.
I was speaking of Yovanovitch, not the Honorable Ms. Stephanik, to whom I humbly apologize for my error.
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TH: please see my revised reply to your post.
duh.
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Got it. Thanks.
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Thank you.
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I doubt the President was clairvoyant enough to think that Schiff would stop the procedings and read his tweet for the love of Pete. People saying this is witness intimidation are showing their desperation.
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Yovanovitch’s current State Department duty is instructor at Georgetown Univ; where she teaches ONE class with 14 students. All while receiving full government salary.
Coming from one of the most corrupt countries, Ukraine; would like to have all her finances audited. Including her family, her friends and contacts she had over the last 5 years.
Yep,, she a model for bureaucratic “Tip of the Spear”. JOKE.
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The only “tip of the spear” she represents, is the one aimed for the President’s back.
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Yes. One class with 14 students at full taxpayer paid pay and benefits.
She hesitated big time before answering that question because she knew where it was going and what it meant. She wasn’t “wrongfully terminated” by the big bad orange man and wouldn’t be able to play the victim card with any credibility.
These do-nothing diplomats never get fired. They just get shuffled around at foggy bottom until its time to collect their pension.
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She has enough time in to retire, why is she hanging on? Secretary Pompeo should review that position and eliminate it. Between her salary, COLA for being in the swamp, and benefits; I guarantee we’re paying at least $14,000 per student for her to grace them with her “knowledge”.
If her position is eliminated and she is within 3 years of retiring (she’s 3 years beyond), she can retire. If she opts not to she can bump out someone using her seniority but only if there is an opening she qualifies for. It’d be a shame if the only open position at the time is in Antarctica
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Allot of the spears at the State Department have tips that pretty darn dull and blunted at this point in time.
Maybe time to reissue a version of Obama’s message firing most of the Ambassadors.
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she is being exposed as a liar. …as though that wasn’t obvious by her blasey ford performance
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She even made an attempt at up-talking. Using the little girl voice to end every statement as though it were a question.
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Other than her feelings were hurt by Trump criticizing her and firing her I’m not seeing what her testimony is supposed to show? The president has the right to remove and replace ambassadors…so what’s the problem?
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That’s ywhat I am seeing. As Nunez said, this should be directed to Human Resources 🙄
Truly sickening.
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President Zelenskyy said the following in the now infamous call:
“It was great that you were the first one. who told me that she was a bad ambassador because I agree·with you 100%.Her attitude to.wards me was far from the best as she admired the previous President and she was on his· side. She would not accept me as a new President· well enough.”
Seems like something some Republican might want to ask her about.
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Time to fight back, folks
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It is not a tank war anymore, because the anti-tank javelins are there.! duh
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Exactly. Taylor recounted the immense sadness that 14,000 Ukrainians died due to the Russian incursion. Obama sent no lethal aid. Taylor then responded to a question about whether lives were still being lost: (paraphrased) “yes, one or two a week”.
No tanks.
Isn’t deterrence a big factor in winning?
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Smear campaign? Oh, you mean the accurate characterization.
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Yovanovitch admits she has no information on bribery or no criminal activity by the president.
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Soooooo…. we’ve moved from “the call” to “smear campaign.”
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While Stefanik is being cloned, the same should be done of Turner. He is a pit bull. First he hauls out numerous MSM headlines from 9/29/19 trumpeting Schiff’s announcement and assurance that the “whistleblower” will testify before the Intelligence Committee hearing. Included in this parade of headlines was at least one where Schiff trumpeted that “the whistleblower” had agreed to testify. Camera flashes on Schiff showed stoniness. Dead still. But those eyes.
Later, questioning Stefanik, he managed to get in Kerry’s compaign operative’s having travelled to Ukraine in 2004 and having meetings with the Ambassador and Ukrainian officials as well. He pushed this to the max and barely got in a comparison to Rudy Giuliani before Schiffless angrily called “time”…
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The President has a subversive foreign policy diametrically opposed to his foreign policy… Wut?
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Speier SMEARING the President and his team.
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You mean Rep Jackie Smear?
It’s what she does
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Speier is a worn out old hasbeen local pol from California…Her protected district has carried her along for far too long…
(Someone ironed her face and gave her quite a makeover for her closeup…)
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She lost the paper clip!
LOL!
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the Presidents rights do not end where this womans feelings begin.
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So is “character assassination”an impeachable offense now? (Asking for a friend)
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This is nothing more than an “Employment Disagreement,” as stated by Nunes!
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As a retired female executive, I observe her lack of professionalism. She should not be dealing in her personal feelings, effects on her family, and all of that. Her record shows that she acted inappropriately in Ukraine, meddling in their local law enforcement and other issues. So much so that the remark was bandied about that the Geneva Convention rules applied to every place but Ukraine. (I think Kent even mentioned that.)
She has brought her own HR beef to a hearing on impeaching the President of the United States. I am appalled by her behavior. She has no business representing the United States in any capacity.
On another issue she was questioned about – is it appropriate for an ambassador to be partisan? Talk about a loaded question. If ambassadors are appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the duly-elected President in what is clearly a partisan election – we have two major parties – it is logical that ambassadors who agree with that President’s policies will be put in place.
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Joe Biden spearheaded the policy of the Obama administration to stand by and let the russians depopulate the Donbass area to enable energy companies a clearer path to explore for oil and gas. Burisma had the inside track despite being a bit player in Ukraine.
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And that’s why Victor Shokin should be called to testify.
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Okay, that’s what was meant when Obama was caught saying on open microphone to tell Putin he would have more flexibility after the 2012 election.
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The invasion began in Feb 2014. That was why Burisma added Hunter Biden to its board in April 2014, knowing Joe Biden was the point man for U.S. policy in Ukraine. And that he would not provide military assistance, the goal being to drive out residents.
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Read the transcript of her deposition. This is a replay.
The depositions of every one of Schiff’s “star witnesses” follows the exact same format, with a single exception (see item 2 below).
1. Lawfare and Schiff: You are protected.
2. Lawfare: Did you talk to anybody before testifying today? (they all lied, especially Ambassador Y)
3. Opening statement pounding chest and saying all the other star witnesses are nearly as smart. Its amazing we were not in charge and anybody questions our abilities.
4. Democrat Questions: Play REO Speed Wagon song.
5. Republican Questions: The Clinton defense.
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Rush is providing fabulous “coverage” for his audience…which may be larger than those watching this fiasco on television. He has just made a-point about what I call the “selective empathy” of the Left…they are so “concerned” and “moved” by this woman’s feelings…oh the pity! Yet the feelings of the men and women who REALLY put their lives on the line on our border, policing our cities are of no interest. They insult and demean these folks who just go to work to do their jobs FOR US every day of the week. They besmirch them, insult them, ridicule them…
But they are so terribly EMPATHETIC to this Deep State operative.
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I cannot help but think of Ambassador Chris Stevens. I wonder if he had time to have hurt feelings about being abandoned by his Secretary of State and President before he was tortured and murdered?
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Too bad Jackie Speier didn’t drink the Kool-aid.
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i guess Baier has been getting advice from dopey Judge Nappy -they are trying hard to make it a redux of Blaisey Ford (waw waw) sympathy /feelings “testimony” , remember quotes “oh so compelling ” etc . BTW someone should ask Baier how is ghost written high school book report of a book about WW2 is doing .
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I gave up Baier the night of the 2016 debate where he showed his true colors.
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Who gives a flying f@ck what teddy bear bier thinks!!
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Would she have known anything about the tweet, if Schiff had not read it out to her?
Soooo, Mr. Baier: Mr. Schiff is the one “witness tampering or intimidation”
By reading it to her, he was giving her heads-up, prepare yourself!
Like usual: “Accusing POTUS of doing, while in reality, it’s what they are doing”
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Yovanovitch admits she has no information on bribery or criminal activity by the president.
This hearing is THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN
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Republicans are praising a women that is actively participating in smearing our duly elected president. She is undermining our votes!
Boo-who, she was removed from a job. It happens all the time— elitist snob!
How horrible, she still works at the State Department and “teaches” 14 students at the “recruitment center”.
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She was pulled back for reassignment to a nice job. She said that salary was not impacted, so she was not demoted in rank. She had been set to return in a few months but agreed to stay on a bit longer.
Of course, nobody would want to be spoken of poorly but she has brought more attention to her removal from her post than almost anyone else could have.
A woman scorned. Bad divorce.
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Why the hell is every (R) wasting their first minute of only five, praising this traitor endlessly for her fabulous work record and thanking her over and over and over again for doing great work for the country, when she was in fact just another deep state puppet carrying out their orders faithfully, until President Trump put an end to that? It’s really getting sickening.
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it looks good for less
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Who wants the airwaves to be filled with “mean old Republicans”?
Elise Stefanik was all set to dig in. Girl vs girl is better than Republican man bully.
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Guffman, to disarm her? Cause her to drop her guard?
The iron hand in the velvet glove…
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Mark, you need to all that Taylor stated he believed the statements by the Ukrainian Government officials about no quid pro quo, Biden not being mentioned as a requirement for aid, etc..
The “star” witnesses have made the case for the defense that even Plan D, “the fake Bribery claim” does not exist.
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Even the so called whistle blowers were a bust, nobody was buying their BS.
I think Schiffty is going to have to show them how to blow all over again.
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And who is the idiot that just wasted his entire 5 minutes instead of yielding to Jim Jordan, like he promised he would???
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Rep Will Hurd (R) Texas, who is a rotten Republican and is retiring at the end of his term.
Why hasn’t Hurd been replaced here with Mark Meadows, Lee Zeldin, or Matt Gaetz???
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Hurd is too busy heaping praise on the decades long corrupt Yanovavich.
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“Present, not voting”
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Actually, he did make a couple of good points about Giuliani. When he asked her if he met with anyone else in the government, other than the former prosecutor, she could not come up with anyone other than an Oligarch who was not in government.. She was making a mountain out of a molehill.
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I never thought I would see the day (insert about a million things we’ve been seeing these past 3 years) but mine today is….members of our political body opening mocking for cheap laughs in judicial proceedings, amongst the arm of the DNC (MSMS), laughs, directed at a President of the U.S.A. This sham is nothing less than a partisan smear campaign.
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Campaign is the key word. It is all the have. The unfortunate part is that they (dems) are once again making a mockery of what used to be our judicial system.
It is nothing more than a hearing for disgruntled, incompetent employees with severe, terminal TDS.
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It wasn’t Trump’s preference to be smeared by her either.
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LOCK HER UP!
She lied about knowing about Hunter Biden corruption.
Perhaps they have a empty cell next to Roger Stone.
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That Elise Stefanik is a little spitfire!
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One of them should say this.
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A thousand likes!!!
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Thanks, I love this statement so I tweeted it.
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Yeah, that is how Obama and his Sec. State, Hillery, fire an ambassador.
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Ms. Bruce — you just lost your seat at the FOX table. Lucky for you. Keep on keepin’ on.a
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What?
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I love the close-up of Schiff on Fox as Stefanik read all his previous assurances that they’d get to question the “whistleblower.” He couldn’t stop blinking. God, did he look guilty!!!!!!!!!!!
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Stefanick should have ended her statement with a wink at Schiff … yes the all knowing wink of we know ya “whistleblower” Schiff.
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Poor poor whistleblower…
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Here we go with Swillwell moving the goal posts about the whisltleaker.
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Esh-I just started watching, what a pathetic person this woman is.
She starts almost every sentence with “I think” …NO ONE cares what she “thinks”!
In sufferable we are having a hearing listening to this pathetic rich POS now professor at Georgetown and supposed to feel sorry for her because she is a VICTIM?
Give me a freakin break.
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Yovanovitch is deemed so much not a threat it’s become a free day for repubs to squander their time and attack the real villain in all this – Schiff.
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Whistle Leaker!
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Because, NOT a “whistleblower”, a Brennan sent “MOLE” into the White House?
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FYI, according to the actual whistleblower statute, whistleblowers are not entitled to anonymity: they are protected from retribution for coming forth. They remain accountable for their (should be “first hand”) testimony and face “10 years in prison or a $10,000 fine or both” for lying. Apparently, “Shifty Schiff” never read the paragraph at the bottom of the form.
Not only are this person’s words not “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” they are deliberately-contrived falsehood! They are libel! 😲
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Waiting for Mr. Jordan.
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Yep I will probably turn this off once he gets his shot. Boring and GOP not putting any pressure on her.
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This twit smeared our President on foreign soil in a capacity wherein she was obligated to support his Administration yet his removal of her in response is a non-pardonable smear campaign?
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How come Dems are so concerned about an ambassador, Yovanovitch, being smeared; but not a President, Trump, being smeared?
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SO 2014 “Revolution of Dignity” this traitor has brought up all day was under OBAMA Administration!! Obama left them high and dry – yet this traitor doesn’t have a problem with that! Trump HELPS these people she is so concerned over, and here she is smearing him!
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Dems want you to believe this woman is a saint….and PT is a bad bad man….
I have not seen this much cover my ass since Uncle John was caught in the barn with the lady next door…..
they just hoping the MSM can get the pub lic to drink this rancid Kool-aid
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Hate to admit it, but Will Hurd knocked it out of the park. Rudy wasn’t talking to anybody that could influence the new Ukrainian pres or govt.
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will hurd also proved that she is not an expert on Ukraine. she was there to advance Deepstate corruption.
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The S & P just broke 3100!!!!!!!!
Right in the middle of the impeachment farce!!
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scary for dems
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Shows the S&P likes a dark comedy.
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Why the F Yova is there again if there is no crime committed by the president? She is a disaster for poligrip Piglosi. By golly another win for PDJT.
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Was it an “unlawful act” for Obama to drone an American citizen?
Bizarre yeah?
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I really really really despise this POS Castro!!
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