The tape of Trump saying he wanted Marie Yovanovitch 'out'.
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1221170338849075200
https://buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/trump-tape-yovanovitch-take-her-out-parnas-fruman-giuliani
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-full-video-of-trump-appearing-to-say-ukraine-ambassador-should-be-removed
https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2020/01/the-video-of-donald-trump-telling-associates-to-get-rid-of-ambassador-marie-yovanovitch-has-been-released/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P28atO6i--8
A nearly 90-minute recording of Trump at a 2018 donor dinner with indicted businessmen he has claimed he doesn't know includes Trump speaking animatedly about removing the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine – at one point saying, "Get rid of her!"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/25/politics/recording-trump-lev-parnas-igor-fruman-ukraine-ambassador/index.html
In recording Trump asks how long Ukraine can resist Russians
https://apnews.com/b8f3620a62c633658199f1fe85fe4647
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-nyt-trump-recording-yovanovitch-20200125-wdavwpxmdjeedei72yz6vxjige-story.html
MSNBC has a tape from Lev Parnas of Trump asking "How long will they last without our help" and Lev says "Not long"
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/recording-appears-to-show-trump-interest-in-value-of-ukraine-aid-77515845565
It's one thing for Joe Rogan to endorse a candidate. It's another for @BernieSanders’ campaign to produce a video bolstering the endorsement of someone known for promoting transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, racism and misogyny. (and antisemitism, as the antisemitic moveon refuse to acknowledge)
https://twitter.com/moveon/status/1221125550309285888?s=21
Just a proof from web archive that Joe Rogan actually tweeted with article from breitbart that he believed Obama was born in Kenya, since he just deleted that tweet
https://web.archive.org/web/20150421005018/https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/203229861966381056
People seem to have forgotten that just four years ago Black Lives Matter was disrupting Sanders events to force him to talk explicitly about race.
https://twitter.com/jelani9/status/1220999626259648518?s=21
Largest Veterans organization demands apology after Trump said traumatic brain injuries from Iranian attack are 'not very serious'
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/25/politics/trump-vfw-traumatic-brain-injuries/index.html
Donald Trump Defense Team Argues That Impeachment Process, Set out in Constitution, is Unconstitutional
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-defense-team-argues-that-impeachment-process-set-out-in-constitution-is-unconstitutional
Mike Pompeo accused a veteran NPR reporter of 'lying,' being 'unhinged,' and misidentifying Bangladesh for Ukraine on a map DESPITE VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING OF INTERVIEW PROVING Mary Louise Kelly teran-npr-reporter-lying-and-being-unhinged-2020-1
Trump moves to gut Obama housing discrimination rules: New rules may make it easier to deny loans to people of color.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/25/trump-discrimination-rules-obama-104035
Tennessee governor signs illegal bill illegally allowing state adoption agencies to illegally reject gay couples
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/479889-tennessee-governor-signs-bill-allowing-state-adoption-agencies-to-reject
Panama Papers and Swiss Leaks tax investigations yield €10.6 million in fines
https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/99921/panama_papers_and_swiss_leaks_tax_in
vestigations_yield_106_million_in_fines
Former Amb. to the UN Nikki Haley joined Boeing’s board of directors. Sine the aerospace company fulfills billions of dollars worth of federal contracts, we want to know if Haley has contacted high ranking government officials since starting at Boeing:
https://twitter.com/weareoversight/status/1221162573304946688
https://www.americanoversight.org/documents?fwp_document_keyword=with%20former%20ambassador
Friendly reminder that Zelensky canceled his CNN interview where he was set to announce an investigation into the Bidens because the aid was released and there was no more need for a TV interview. Not the actions of someone under no pressure.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/politics/volodymyr-zelensky-fareed-zakaria-ukraine-aid/index.html
It's truly amazing seeing the contortions Republicans are putting themselves in to justify Trump's behavior. Joni Ernst was whining about how the Democrats presented no real evidence of Trump's criminal conduct, and yet she voted 11 times to block all documents and witnesses. Lankford, Collins, and Murkowski are all upset that Adam Schiff cited the CBS article that a Trump aide said Trump was threatening to put their heads on pikes if they voted to remove him. They were outraged that Dems would imply they're being threatened by Trump to protect him. But they're never outraged or offended by Trump's treasonous conduct. It is just mind-blowing at how immoral, dishonest, hypocritical, and corrupt the entire Republican party is.
Accomplice 1: POTUS told me to do it.
Accomplice 2: I was under strict orders by POTUS to do it.
Accomplice 3: POTUS told me not to tell anyone what he ordered me to do.
Accomplice 4: POTUS ordered me to hide evidence.
Accomplice 5: POTUS ordered me not to talk to investigators
Witness 1: I heard accomplices talking about POTUS ordering them to commit these crimes.
Witness 2: I have first-hand knowledge of the evidence POTUS is intentionally and illegally hiding.
Witness 3: It was well understood by everyone involved that this was illegal and shady and coming directly from POTUS.
The Republican defense:
ThErE ArE No wItNesSes oR aUDiO oR vIDeO oF POTUS eXpLICiTlY cOMmItTiNg AnY CriMeS.
Philbin: House Managers asserted a number of times that the Trump administration never asserted executive privilege. And I explained at the time that's technically true but misleading. Misleading because the rationale on which the subpoenas were resisted never depended on an assertion of executive privilege... The house subpoenas weren't authorized cause there was no vote; or the subpoenas were to senior advisers to the president who are immune from congressional compulsion; or the subpoenas were forcing executive branch officials to testify without the presence of agency counsel which is a separate legal infirmity, again supported by an opinion from OLC at the DOJ.
^Great! So we're done with the executive privilege lie. They can no longer bring this up as a defense. They just admitted it's never been asserted. Their actual defense for unprecedented obstruction is a lie about House process, a lie about senior advisers being immune from congress, and a lie about witnesses needing government minders while they testify to ensure they are properly intimidated. But wait, some of these lies are supported by Trump's own legal opinion generator, so we can be assured of their validity.
Ukraine by default needs to be on the good graces of the US, so their public statements of their opinion of quid pro quo is inherently unreliable
The argument they are making is changing in real time. First, ukrainians had no idea there was a hold. Oh wait, yes they did know it but it wasn't til Aug 29. So he just acknowledged there was a hold.
Trump lawyers referring to Mueller report: "This cost 32 million dollars." But what they won't tell you is that it made even more money due to seizure of illicit assets. To take a page from their playbook, why did't they tell you that?
Their arguments really support the need for allowing documents and witnesses in the trial.
Huge cheers for Mike Fiers at A’s FanFest
https://twitter.com/martinjgallegos/status/1221132901225385986?s=21
Russian comedian who made jokes about President Vladimir Putin and Christianity says he has fled the country over fears for his safety after learning that police were investigating footage from his stand-up performances.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51222812
The Dodgers don’t play the Astros this season. So the Angels invited the Dodgers loud fan club @Pantone294 to come down to Anaheim to boo Houston at their home opener. Pantone bought a block of 800 tickets.
https://twitter.com/molly_knight/status/1221202128493928448
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